Veraz Networks Gains NextGen Telephony Certification for Indian Market

Veraz Networks, the new venture formed through the merger of ECI Telecom's NGTS division and NexVerse, announced that its carrier-grade packet telephony platforms have been awarded certification by the Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC), the standards-setting agency of the Indian government's Department of Telecommunications. Veraz won interface approval for its ControlSwitch softswitch and I-Gate 4000 media gateway platforms.
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Peribit Networks Tunes its Bandwidth Management Solution

Peribit Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, released the third generation of its Molecular Sequence Reduction (MSR) software and introduced two new products that leverage the technology for managing the WAN capacity of enterprise networks. MSR is Peribit's packet sequencing technology that eliminates the transmission of repeated data patterns over the WAN. Peribit claims that eliminating the repeated data sequences provides up to ten times the WAN capacity. Peribit's new SR-20 is a one rack-unit hardware that uses the MSR software for managing sub-512 Kbps WAN links. Pricing for the SR-20 starts at $2,900, with availability in March 2003. Peribit's third generation MSR software introduces bandwidth allocation to specific applications, more powerful reporting, and monitoring and dynamic resource allocation.
http://www.peribit.com

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Laurel Offers Business Case Analysis for Migrating to Multiservice Edge

Laurel Networks announced a Strategic Technology Evolution Program to provide carriers with financial analysis, OSS integration and device and network-level technology validation tools for migrating to a multiservice edge network. The program includes a financial modeler for custom business case analysis, a portable test bed for evaluating Laurel's ST200 Service Edge Routers with multiple services enabled under intense load, an integration to validate operation of the ST200 in a replication of the carrier's infrastructure, and the Laurel Provisioning System (LPS) AnyOSS Integration Toolkit to enable integration with an existing network management infrastructure.
http://www.laurelnetworks.com

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China's Anhui Province Deploys Riverstone Routers

Anhui, a province in southeastern China, will deploy Riverstone's RS 38000 and RS 8000 routers and ES 500 switches to build an educational network. The Anhui education network will provide access to a variety of distance learning and scientific resource sharing applications, including public multimedia communication networks, computer technology for continuing education, short-term training programs, instructional materials and academic teleconferences. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.riverstonenet.com

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Orange UK Boosts ATM Access Network with Lucent

Lucent Technologies was awarded a multi-million dollar contract with Orange in the UK to boost the capacity of the ATM access network supporting its forthcoming 3G service. Lucent is providing Orange UK with PacketStar (PSAX) 2300, and 4500 Multiservice Media Gateway systems to provision the aggregation and management of all 3G interface traffic (voice, data and video). The new platforms will also consolidate traffic management for existing 2G services within the same infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.lucent.com

• Lucent's PacketStar (PSAX) 4500 Multiservice Media Gateway is a compact ATM, Frame Relay, IP, TDM edge access switch designed for wireline and mobile operators. The PacketStar 4500, which offers up to 10 Gbps of switching capacity, delivers circuit-to-packet, voice over digital subscriber line (VoDSL), packet trunking and Internet PRI (primary rate interface) offload applications. The channel capacities of the PSAX 4500 range from 24 ports of OC12C to 120, CES DS-0s per rack. The product also integrates a new DSP2D voice server module and supports standards-based voice over multimedia over ATM.



• Lucent's PacketStar (PSAX) 2300 Multiservice Media Gateway is an edge device with 2.3 Gbps of ATM switching capacity.

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NuVox Communications Selects Sonus Networks

NuVox Communications, an integrated communications provider with operations in 13 southeastern and mid-West states, selected Sonus Neworks' Open Service Architecture and packet voice infrastructure for a VoIP network to carry its long-distance traffic. NuVox will deploy a full set of Sonus solutions, including the GSX9000 Open Services Switch, the Insignus Softswitch and the Sonus Insight Management System. Installation will begin this quarter in five cities. NuVox expects to expand the network to include approximately ten additional sites. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.nuvox.com
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Vitesse Introduces Advanced Serial ATA Products

Vitesse Semiconductor introduced a new family of Serial ATA products aimed at storage OEMs. The products include: host bus controllers for use in applications ranging from PCs to Servers to Network Attached Storage systems; Serial ATA "Tailgate" devices that provide multiple levels of redundancy in the drive channel that achieve reliability metrics of traditional enterprise class storage; Serial ATA Enclosure Management Controllers for delivery of robust OA&M functions; and Serial ATA Fabric Switches for building very high-density, small-footprint storage facilities.
http://www.vitesse.com

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LSI Logic Delivers PCI Express Link and Physical Layer Cores

LSI Logic introduced its PCI Express Link and Physical Layer (PHY) Interface ASIC cores targeted for the next generation server, storage and communications markets. LSI Logic offers customers three options in support of the emerging PCI Express interface standard -- PHY electrical, PHY electrical & PHY logical, and the Link and PHY option. At the heart of LSI Logic's PCI Express interface cores is the company's GigaBlaze transceiver, which provides full-duplex, point-to-point communication channels with serial data rates of up to 4.25 Gbps.
http://www.lsilogic.com

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LSI Logic Introduces its RapidChip Configurable Silicon Slice Strategy

LSI Logic introduced StreamSlice, the first offering in its RapidChip configurable product family aimed at lowering design and manufacturing risk for high-performance, high-density custom chips. The StreamSlice device, which targets high-end switches, routers and other communications system applications, provides 20 Gbps full-duplex throughput. LSI Logic defines a "slice" as a pre-manufactured chip in which all silicon layers have been built, leaving the top five metal layers to be completed with the customer's unique intellectual property. The new StreamSlice device is customizable by building upon the features already present in the slice, then adding blocks of intellectual property from the LSI Logic CoreWare library along with the customer's unique logic.http://rapidchip.lsilogic.com

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