Russia's Rostelecom Deploys Long-haul Optical Backbone with Huawei

Rostelecom, Russia's largest national long-haul carrier, has deployed Huawei Technologies' 320G and 10G optical transmission equipment and T2000 network management system along a network route that stretches from Moscow to Samara, a transmission distance of 1,021 km. The project marks Huawei's first high-end optical contract in Russia. http://www.huawei....

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Cisco Opens Networking Academy in Afghanistan

Cisco Systems has partnered with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to open the first Cisco Networking Academy at the University of Kabul in Afghanistan. Cisco will help train the Afghan teachers and provide the web-based curriculum and networking equipment for the Academy. The UNDP plans to use $500,000 provided by the European Commission to set up five new training centers; three in Kabul, one in Mazar-e-Sharif and one in Kandahar. http://www.cisco....

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Acterna Securities Trading Moves to OTC Board

Following its delisting by Nasdaq, Acterna's common stock will begin trading on the OTC Bulletin Board on 03-February-2003 under the symbol ACTR. http://www.acterna....

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Atheros Enables Multimode Wi-Fi in Top Notebook Brands

Atheros Communications said its multi-mode (2.4 and 5 GHz) WLAN solutions are now being built into new notebooks from HP, IBM, NEC and Toshiba - four of the world's top five PC vendors. Multimode supports both 802.11a and 802.11b wireless connectivity. http://www.atheros....

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Polycom Sells Network Access Product Line to Verilink

Polycom has sold its line of "NetEngine" integrated access devices (IADs) to Verlink for up to $3 million. The deal provides for $1 million in upfront cash an additional $250,000 upon the one-year anniversary of the closing and up to $1.75 million to be paid quarterly based upon 10% of the sales of NetEngine products. In addition, Verilink has agreed to purchase Polycom's NetEngine related inventories on an as-needed basis. The value of such inventory as of the closing date is approximately $1.9 million. Verilink said the newly acquired NetEngine...

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Foundry Networks Reports Revenue of $86.7 Million, Increased Profitability

Foundry Networks reported Q4 revenue of $86.7 million, compared to $76.6 million in the third quarter, and to $65.4 million in the same period last year. Foundry earned net income of $10.5 million or $0.08 per diluted share in the December 2002 quarter, compared with net income of $7.0 million or $0.06 per diluted share in the prior quarter, and a net loss of $10.7 million or ($0.09) per diluted share for the same period in 2001. Foundry Networks ended 2002 with net income of $22.5 million for the year -- its fourth consecutive year of profitability....

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BellSouth Files Lawsuits over “One Number�? Service Offering

BellSouth filed a lawsuit against Glenayre Technologies and Call Sciences alleging patent infringement of its call routing technology, commonly used for "one number service" offerings. The patent was granted to BellSouth in June 1998. http://www.bellsouth....

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Looking Glass Adds NetCracker Outside Plant Inventory to its OSS

Looking Glass Networks will use an outside plant inventory management system from Netcracker to track physical assets, such as fiber routes, conductor loops, cable bundles, slack loops, test taps, buffers, strands, splice units, splices, manholes, conduits and ducts. The system stores geospatial references for all locations and paths. It also integrates as a module into the existing NetCracker OSS solution. http://www.netcracker.com http://www.lglass....

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OPNET Models Cisco Mobile IP Networks for Defense Networks

OPNET Technologies and Cisco Systems have developed a mobile IP model to enhance the military's communications and operations infrastructure. The mobile IP model predicts the scalability and performance of specific Cisco Mobile IP deployments in brigade, battalion, and division scenarios. Cisco Systems recently introduced the Cisco 3200 Series Mobile Access Router to support seamless connectivity for networks in motion. The software is available to OPNET's customers as part of OPNET's IT Guru, Modeler, and SP Guru products. http://www.opnet...

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Riverstone Introduces Loop Protection System

Riverstone introduced a Loop Protection System (LPS) designed to safeguard carrier networks from customer premise generated failures by creating a virtual demarcation point for the carrier. Riverstone's Loop Protection System inspects packets entering the carrier network to determine if they have already been sent to the corporate network. If the system finds that the same packets are being sent, rather than exposing the carrier network to a slowdown, the Loop Protection System isolates the interface to the corporate network. The system then...

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CommWorks and Kagoor Partner on VoIP Security

CommWorks and Kagoor Networks completed interoperability testing between the CommWorks IP telephony system and Kagoor's VoiceFlow VoIP border control platform. The testing involved Kagoor's VoiceFlow 1000 VoIP demarcation functionality in both enterprise CPE and carrier network-hosted configurations and CommWorks equipment for IP telephony applications, including the Total Control 1000 Media Gateway and elements of the CommWorks Softswitch. Products were tested using both the H.323 communications protocol and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)....

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Sheppard Air Force Base to Deploy New Network with Avaya

Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, the largest training facility for the U.S. Air Force, awarded a multi-million dollar contract to Avaya covering a new communications infrastructure for the facility, a four-year service and support agreement, and a three-year agreement that gives the base a technology migration plan. The Sheppard network uses the Avaya DEFINITY Enterprise Communications Server to serve more than 12,500 users. The system offers the Air Force MultiLevel Precedence and Preemption (MLPP) -- a feature that allows key personnel to...

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BELNET Selects Alcatel 7770 for IP/MPLS Core

BELNET, the Belgian national research network for education, research and public communications services, will deploy the Alcatel 7770 Optical Broadband Exchange for its IP/MPLS core. The Alcatel 7770 OBX will also serve as the international gateway for BELNET'S nationwide network and will perform the peering to GÉANT, the European-wide research network sponsored by the EC. BELNET is currently supporting 340,000 users at 150 sites. http://www.alcatel.comThe Alcatel 7770 Optical Broadband Exchange (OBX), which replaces the existing 7770 Routing...

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Movaz Lands $14 Million Contract from Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom

Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent carrier in Taiwan, awarded a $14 million contract to Movaz Networks for equipment to build a nationwide optical infrastructure consisting of 21 metropolitan DWDM rings. Movaz was awarded the multi-phase project with deployments of several hundred RAYexpress OADMs and RAYextender line amplifiers in interconnected optical rings to transport Gigabit Ethernet and storage area networking services over DWDM wavelengths. Movaz is working on the project with Comtrend, a systems integrator in Taiwan, and Capahill Technologies,...

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UTStarcom Announces $45 Million in New Contracts with Shaanxi China Telecom

UTStarcom signed an expansion contract valued in excess of $45 million with Shaanxi China Telecom covering the expansion and upgrade of existing IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) platforms in several cities in Shaanxi province. As of the end of 2002, the Shaanxi China Telecom network in the provincial capital of Xi'an had more than 400,000 subscribers on the PAS platform. UTStarcom said its PAS technology had gained more than seven and a half million Chinese customers as of December 2002, and now represents more than 60% of the country's...

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France Telecom Revenues increase 8.4% in 2002, 531K ADSL Lines Added in Q4

France Telecom revenues increased 8.4% in 2002 to EUR 46.6 billion. The company cited strong revenue growth from its international operations (up 24.9%) and its Wanadoo Internet and broadband operations (up 30.4%), but declines from its fixed-line, voice and data services. Some highlights:Wanadoo's active customer base reached 8.5 million at December 31, 2002, compared with 6 million a year earlier. Wanadoo tripled the number of broadband customers in Europe in one year, exceeding 1 million customers in France. In Q4, Wanadoo added 300,000 ADSL...

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Verizon Reports Revenue Growth, Profitability and Wireless Strength

Citing continued strong sales of wireless, long-distance, DSL and bundled product offerings, Verizon Communications reported Q4 operating revenues of $17.2 billion, a 1.5% increase year-over-year. Reported earnings were $2.3 billion, or $0.83 per share. Nearly $1.2 billion in gains, primarily associated with $1.1 billion in tax benefits, were largely offset by after-tax charges totaling $1.1 billion, including $604 million primarily for pension and benefit costs related to prior force reductions, $292 million for costs related to the bankruptcy...

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MPLS and Frame Relay Forums to Merge

The Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Forum and the Frame Relay Forum (FRF) will merge. The combined organization will be known initially as the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance. Andrew G. Malis, chairman and president of the MPLS Forum, said Frame Relay has enjoyed enormous success as an access protocol, and with the growth of MPLS in service provider core networks, the two have already demonstrated a natural synergy. http://www.mplsforum.orghttp://www.frforum.comThe MPLS Forum was formed in March 2000. The Frame Relay Forum was incorporated...

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