Elematics Secures $10 Million for Its Multi-Carrier, Multi-Vendor Control Plane

Elematics, a start-up based in Beaverton, Oregon, secured $10 million in Series B financing for its multi-carrier, multi-vendor control plane software. The Elematic's platform is designed to provide a common signaling and control mechanism across multiple vendors' photonic, optical, transport, and legacy network equipment. The new funding will be used to extend the capabilities of the system, as well as for current and future customer trials with Tier 1 and Tier 2 telecommunication carriers. The round was led by Warburg Pincus, Elematics' largest...

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FCC Meets this Week to Decide Unbundling Obligations of Incumbent Carriers

The FCC is scheduled to meet on Thursday, 13-February-2003 to decide unbundling obligations of Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) and to set an appropriate framework for broadband access to the Internet over wireline facilities. FCC Commissioners are expected to vote on new rules that significantly alter the terms under which ILECs make elements of their networks available on an unbundled basis to their competitors. The Bell companies are urging the FCC to remove switching from the list of required unbundled elements and to transition...

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BellSouth - Sprint Case Heads to Arbitration

A judge let stand the temporary restraining order preventing Sprint from hiring Gary Forsee as its new CEO. Forsee is currently vice chairman -- domestic operations of BellSouth. In ruling, the judge agreed with BellSouth that Forsee has highly confidential proprietary and trade secret information. The case is headed to arbitration within the next 30 days. http://www.bellsouth....

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Ixia Integrates RadView's WebLOAD for e-Business Stress Testing

Ixia has integrated RadView's WebLOAD software into its traffic and transaction generation platform. The joint solution can be used to validate the behavior of high performing e-business applications in a realistic network environment. http://www.ixiacom....

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Agilent Debuts Network Troubleshooting Center Console

Agilent Technologies introduced a Network Troubleshooting Center (NTC) console designed to consolidate real-time, test data across all major applications (voice, mobile, and data) for all critical LAN and WAN technologies. Agilent's NTC provides a combination of tactical information, with expert-level, at-a-glance checks of the entire WAN/LAN for remote troubleshooting of data, voice and mobile problems. The consolidated data console would make it possible to correlate network health and troubleshooting information from multiple network analyzer...

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Internet Photonics and Aurora Partner on MSO Network Upgrades

Internet Photonics will resell Aurora Networks' complete line of transmission systems designed for advanced HFC, fiber deep and FTTH networks. Likewise, Aurora has been given rights to sell Internet Photonics family of Optical Ethernet and DWDM transport products. Internet Photonics, a start-up based in Shrewsbury, New Jersey and Marlborough, Massachusetts, offers an optical Ethernet transport architecture, as well as video multiplexing and conversion gateways for supporting Video On Demand (VOD) and High-Definition Television (HDTV) over an optical...

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Clarinet Offers Infrared-to-WLAN Switch for PDAs

Clarinet Systems introduced a switch that enables PDA users to uplink data from a Palm Handheld or Pocket PC to an 802.11 network using the device's built-in infrared port. The switch eliminates the need for end users to purchase expansive and power-hungry 802.11b add-on cards for their PDAs. Clarinet is initially targeting the medical field where doctors and nurses use PDAs for data input. Other applications could include public hot-spots or campus installations. http://www.clarinetsys....

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Ubicom Expands Line of 802.11a/b/g Processors

Ubicom introduced two new wireless network processors for 802.11a/b/g. The first device offers greater processing power (160 MHz) thanUbicom's existing IP2022 product (120 MHz), while the second device is a feature-specific low-cost variation of the processor. By increasing the clock speed of the IP2022 processor, Ubicom said it has advanced both TCP and UDP performance by as much as 33%. http://www.ubicom....

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TELOS, Colubris and Adjungo Collaborate on Coverged Cellular and WLAN

TELOS Technology, Colubris Networks and Adjungo Networks are collaborating on an IP system that integrates enterprise WLANs and cellular networks. Wireless enterprise subscribers use the same cellular handset (as in the public wireless networks) within their wireless enterprise network to access additional PBX/Centrex type voice features. Cellular radios are deployed in the enterprise IP network to provide radio coverage and capacity wherever required. The architecture is comprised of an IP-based cellular core and access network from TELOS Technology;...

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Riverstone Networks Announces City Contracts in China

Riverstone Networks announced contracts to supply its RS routers and MPLS technology to eight cities and districts in central China. The equipment will be used to provide the foundation for each city's network and enable the delivery of advanced video and data services as outlined by the Digital Broadcasting Expert Group of China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). Jingmen, located in Hubei Province, is deploying Riverstone's RS 8600 and RS 3000 routers in a metropolitan ring to bring public and private network access...

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Starent Raises $23 Million for its Mobile IP Gateway

Starent Networks, a start-up based in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, closed $23 million in third round financing for its intelligent mobile infrastructure solutions. Starent's ST16 Intelligent Mobile Gateway sits between a mobile network and a core IP network. The gateway can be used to provision data, voice and integrated voice and data services. Previous investors Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners and Highland Capital Partners participated in this round. In addition, Samsung Electronics joined as a strategic investor. http://www.starentnetworks.comIn...

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Cisco Offers Open-API for its MDS 9000 SAN Switches

Cisco Systems will offer an open API (application platform interface) program to allow independent software vendors with SAN management and storage resource management applications to integrate with the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches. This open-API includes a software developer's kit (SDK) that provides access to the SNMP management information base (MIBs), including SNMP v2 for discovery and monitoring and SNMP v3 for secured configuration and access control. http://www.cisco....

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Alcatel Partners with IPWireless for TD-CDMA (TDD) Mobile Access

Alcatel formed a strategic partnership with IP Wireless, a start-up specializing in TD-CDMA (TDD) mobile broadband technology. The TDD solution, which will support Alcatel's portfolio of UMTS/3G and WLAN networks and services, is aimed at mobile operators wishing to complement their GSM/GPRS and WCDMA services with enhanced TDD coverage in dense business areas. http://www.alcatel.com http://www.ipwireless.comIPWireless' non-line-of-sight technology uses signal processing techniques to support data rates of up to 3 Mbps (1.5Mbps in a 5MHz channel)...

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FlexLight Introduces Standards-based Gigabit PON

FlexLight Networks, a start-up based in Atlanta with R&D in Israel, released a gigabit PON product compliant with the ITU's recently approved standards for GPON (Recommendations G.984.1 and G.984.2). FlexLight's Optimate product accepts and carries Fast Ethernet (10/100 Mbps) and T1/E1 circuits from each customer location over the FlexLight PON access network in their native format. It also supports VLAN switching. Carrier trials are underway in Europe and Asia. http://www.flexlight-networks.comIn January, the ITU announced an agreement...

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ICG Deploys VoicePipe IP Telephony with VocalData

ICG Communications, a national, facilities-based service provider headquartered in Denver, is rolling out an IP voice and data service using VocalData's IP telephony platform. ICG's VoicePipe bundles business telephone service, long-distance and high-speed Internet access and features a web portal where users can configure dozens of call features. ICG offers its services in 30 major metro markets. http://www.icgcom.com http://www.vocaldata....

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Cisco and Yahoo! Team on Networking Solutions for Small Businesses

Cisco Systems is teaming with Yahoo! to offer industry-specific networking solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. The Cisco Solution Center on the Yahoo! Small Business site will offer industry specific content and solutions geared for the following types of businesses: financial services, healthcare, professional services, public sector, education, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, transportation and wholesale.http://smallbusiness.yahoo.comhttp://ciscosolutioncenter....

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Narus Launches Family of OSS/BSS Products

Narus introduced five new OSS products based on its IP network usage and mediation technology:Narus MobileSight, for wireless voice and data services including Wi-Fi. It is in production deployment with KDDI in Japan and T-Mobile; Narus Prepaid Data, for prepaid data services. It has been selected by a major pan-European mobile operator; Narus Broadband, for broadband, cable, and satellite services. It is in deployment at one of the largest US cable operators and one of Europe's largest cable operators, Narus Backbone, for Internet backbone service...

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Nortel Announces Advanced Business Connectivity Framework

Nortel Networks introduced an Advanced Business Connectivity framework aimed at moving networking beyond the conveyance of data. The framework would add a layer of application intelligence to drive a greater return on existing server and network investments. It would also advance the vision of increased productivity, options and convergence. The company said its Advanced Business Connectivity suite of products would be based on its "Security in the DNA" principles of built-in redundancy, automatic fail-over capabilities and commonality of platforms....

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Calient Networks Chosen for Optiputer Project

Calient Networks will supply an all-optical switching system for the "OptIPuter" research project underway by the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)2) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The Calient switches will be installed at the StarLight site in Chicago and the NetherLight site in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Calient's DiamondWave all-photonic platform scales to 256x256 ports in non-blocking fashion and supports advanced lambda control strategies. It will be used to prototype multi-Gigabit...

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Lucent Ships Ethernet-over-SONET Platforms

Lucent Technologies named three customers for its new Ethernet-over-SONET platform: Cavalier Telephone, Everest Connections and Toronto Hydro Telecom. Lucent's Metropolis product family includes the DMX Access Multiplexer for central office and large enterprise applications, the DMXpress for customer premises applications, and a new DMXtend box for enterprise and loop access applications. All three systems provide metro Ethernet over SONET (EoS) using Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) and Virtual Concatenation technology. Cavalier Telephone,...

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Tellabs 5500 NGX Integrates Cross-Connect, Transport and Data

Tellabs introduced its new 5500 NGX next-generation cross-connect featuring support for dense, high-speed optical transport and management of any traffic type, including wideband, broadband and data. The Tellabs 5500 NGX system combines the integrated optical and data bandwidth management features of the Tellabs 6400 transport switch with the Tellabs 5500 digital cross-connect system. More than 4,000 of the Tellabs 5500 system are installed worldwide. Tellabs said that by combining digital cross-connect, next-generation add-drop multiplexers...

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