iBasis Carries Five Billionth Minute of VoIP Traffic

iBasis recently carried its five billionth minute of VoIP traffic. The iBasis network first entered service in 1998. In 2002, iBasis completed deployment of a "switchless" architecture, leveraging its existing Cisco AS5000 gateways and SC 2200 SS7 technology as well as proprietary technology for quality management and advanced routing. http://www.ibasis....

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Andrew to Acquire Allen Telecom in $500 Million Stock Swap

Andrew Corporation agreed to acquire Allen Telecom in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $500 million. Both companies are suppliers of wireless infrastructure subsystems. Andrew said the acquisition will make it the number one global supplier of coaxial cables, RF power amplifiers, terrestrial microwave antennas, network geolocation solutions, repeaters and in-building systems; and the number two global merchant provider of filters and base station antennas. Furthermore, the combined company can deliver an integrated offering...

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D-Link Offers $99 WLAN Repeater

D-Link introduced an 802.11b+ 22Mbps Wireless Range Extender and Access Point with an MSRP of $99. The device provides a repeater function to increase the wireless range in large homes and buildings by up to 50%. http://www.dlink....

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Network Instruments Ships Wireless Analyzer With Dual 802.11a/b

Network Instruments introduced a wireless analyzer with dual 802.11a/b connectivity. The dual a/b support is provided through a partnership with Atheros. http://www.networkinstruments....

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Spirent Tunes its Avalanche Line for Microsoft Media Stream Testing

Spirent Communications released new software for its Avalanche/2200 and Avalanche/SmartBits systems that enables Microsoft streaming media testing, in addition to existing support for QuickTime and Real Streaming testing. The 5.0 software release adds support for Microsoft Windows Media 8 Series and 9 Series over multiple transports: HTTP, TCP and UDP. The Avalanche system enables users to analyze their network streaming infrastructures including devices such as streaming servers, caches, and content-sensitive switches. http://www.spirentcom....

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Verizon Purchases Spirent's Broadband Test Solution to Support DSL Rollout

Verizon will use Spirent's PPP over Ethernet over ATM (PPPoEoA) test application for the AX/4000 Broadband Test System to verify performance, reliability and scalability of the carrier's broadband access routers before they are deployed into a live network. PPPoEoA and PPPoA are common forms of the PPP implemented in broadband networks that leverage ATM as their underlying transport. Over the past year, network equipment manufacturers have been developing access routers that boast improved feature sets, including increased reliability and scalability,...

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Alloptic Enhances Element Management System to Gigabit PON

Alloptic introduced a new element management system for its Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (ePON) platform. In addition to fault management functions, the Alloptic EMS provides flow-through provisioning and line test facilities. http://www.alloptic....

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Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center Deploys Extreme Networks

Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC), which provides a test bed for Microsoft's next-generation of IT software, is deploying Extreme Networks' multi-layer Ethernet switching solutions. The EEC provides a setting where Microsoft's platforms are validated with large enterprise customer environments. Customers hosted in the EEC meet directly with developers and program managers, as well as provide direct feedback on pre-release versions of Microsoft products. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.extremenetworks....

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T-Systems Leases Additional Wavelengths from 360networks

360networks signed a multi-year contract extension with T-Systems Inc., the North American subsidiary of T- Systems International, Deutsche Telekom's global IT and network services division. T-Systems will initially lease additional 2.5 Gbps optical wavelengths and protected OC-n services, as well as collocation capacity and has the option to upgrade to 10 Gbps wavelengths. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.360....

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Korea's LG Selects Equant to Link 84 Offices Worldwide

Equant was awarded a new three-year contract to continue providing Frame Relay and Private IP dial services to LG, the third-largest Korean conglomerate, consisting of 50 affiliated companies. The new contract covers 84 key business centers in Asia, Europe and the Americas. http://www.equant....

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Tellabs Ships Dense SDH 4/4/1 Cross-Connect

Tellabs began shipping a next-generation SDH switch node that it describes as the world's most dense 4/4/1 digital cross-connect. The Tellabs 6350 switch node is a scalable, high-density multiservice platform that handles voice traffic from 2 Mbps, higher speed leased line services and data services, including high-speed Ethernet. It has 138 Gbps of switch capacity and interfaces for direct integration with Ethernet, SDH and DWDM networks. When deployed in distributed network architectures, the Tellabs 6350 switch node provides efficient grooming...

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Magis Awarded US Patent for 5 GHz Antenna Design, WLAN Security

Magis Networks, a start-up based in San Diego developing WLAN chipsets, was awarded several patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the areas of 5 GHz antenna design and 5 GHz wireless local area network security. Three of the patents cover the use of multiple antennas to overcome multipath issues in an indoor WLAN. Multipath issues occur when a radio frequency (RF) signal travels over multiple propagation paths from a transmitter to a receiver. These signals are reflected by various objects in the home or office causing them to arrive...

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SMC Launches 802.11g Products

SMC Networks introduced its new family of draft 802.11g-compliant high-speed wireless networking products, including a 2.4GHz 54Mbps Wireless Cable/DSL Broadband Router and access point (MSRP of $139.99), a PCI card adapter (MSRP of $79.99) and Wireless CardBus Adapter (MSRP is $89.99). http://www.smc....

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NTT/VERIO Deploys Juniper's T-Series Routers

NTT Communications has deployed Juniper Networks T-series platform in its NTT/VERIO Global IP Network covering Asia, Japan, North America, and Europe. The installation uses JUNOS IP/MPLS service capabilities, enabling NTT to provide its Global IP Transit Service, co-location connectivity service, smart content delivery, a global IP security gateway service, and an IPv6 gateway service. The network currently has 13 Gbps of bandwidth capacity between Japan and the US and 5 Gbps in Asia. http://www.ntt.nethttp://www.juniper.netIn September 2002,...

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Nortel Networks to Build Embedded Switches for IBM BladeCenter

Nortel Networks intends to build advanced LAN (local area network) switches for the IBM eServer BladeCenter chassis. The embedded LAN switch will consolidate numerous switches, routers and appliances that provide traffic management into a single blade. The IBM eServer BladeCenter is expected to be one of the first modular server platforms to offer an advanced LAN switch in the blade server chassis. The embedded LAN switch is also expected to provide security differentiation to the IBM eServer BladeCenter. http://www.nortelnetworks.com http:...

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Packet Design Spin-Offs Focus on Control Plane, High-Speed I/O

Packet Design, the Silicon Valley network incubator founded by Judy Estrin and Bill Carrico, has spun off two new companies to further develop and market its networking technologies. The first company, which will use the Packet Design name, will offer a family of network appliances that extends the routing control plane of IP networks. The company's initial product is the Route Explorer announced last year, which provides visibility, analysis and diagnosis of an enterprise or service provider's IP network. The company will be headed by CEO Douglas...

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ADC Selects Metalink Chipset for HDSLx Platforms

ADC will use chipsets developed by Metalink in its Soneplex/HiGain HDSL2 and HDSL4 products. The companies said all five RBOCs currently have ADC HDSLx offerings deployed in their networks and several are evaluating ADC's products using the new Metalink chipset. http://www.metalinkDSL....

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CoManage Launches Flow-through Reconciliation

CoManage has enhanced its advanced network service discovery and reconciliation system with new tools for synchronizing carrier inventory and asset management databases with the network. CoManage's TrueSource 3.5 features a multi-technology Discovery Engine and a flexible Reconciliation Engine that accelerate cleansing and updating of network resource management systems. A "Flow-Through Reconciliation" feature provides the ability to detect, analyze and reconcile discrepancies between the network and database with an automatic process. The system...

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Cisco Advances Its Integrated Security Portfolio

Cisco Systems announced several new intrusion protection and firewall extensions for its security portfolio. The product rollout includes release Version 4.0 of Cisco IDS Software, new Cisco Threat Response (CTR) technology, the Cisco IDS 4250-XL Sensor and a Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Intrusion Detection System services module. The new Cisco Threat Response Technology (CTR) automates the traditionally manual process of intrusion investigation and claims to reduce false alarms by up to 95%. http://www.cisco....

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Cisco Systems Kicks Off $150 Million Advertising Campaign

Cisco Systems launched a marketing and advertising campaign featuring special 8-page inserts in major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and others. The advertising centers on the theme of "The Power of a Network." The campaign, which is under the direction of advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, will be expanded over the coming months to France, Germany, UK, Italy, Canada, China and Japan. It will also include advertising on prime time programs on national TV such as 24, West Wing, Law...

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BCE Calls on Canadian Regulators to Lift Foreign Ownership Caps

Michael Sabia, CEO of BCE, Canada's largest communications company, called on Canadian regulatory authorities to raise foreign ownership restrictions from the current 33% to 49%. In a presentation to Canada's Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, Sabia said greater flow of capital is always a positive move and the complete removal of ownership restrictions is likely inevitable given the globalization of the world's economies. He noted the regulatory focus on facilities-based competition has been instrumental in making Canada...

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Zhone Acquires NEC Eluminant for its Optical Access Technology

Zhone Technologies acquired NEC Eluminant Technologies, a developer of optical access products, for an undisclosed sum. Products included in the acquisition include eLUMINANT's ISC-303 digital loop carrier, the VISTA Access SONET ADM, the RC-28D and RC-28E M13 multiplexers and the FD-6 fiber access multiplexer. NEC retains the rights to the FiberSLAM product and intellectual property associated with the passive optical networking (PON) system. Zhone said the deal expands its full-scale delivery of access solutions for voice, data, video and...

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Nortel Networks Introduces Succession VoIP VPN Service

Nortel Networks introduced its Succession VoIP VPNs for service providers wishing to offer outsourced, enterprise voice networks using their IP infrastructure. At the heart of the Succession VoIP VPN service offering are Nortel Networks' Succession Communication Server 2000 and Succession Communication Server 2000-Compact "superclass" softswitches. The company defines a "superclass softswitch" as one that provides local, tandem and long distance capability on a single platform; full business and residential telephony service sets; regulatory features...

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Ikanos Closes $30 Million, Expects 1 Million VDSL port Shipments by Mid-Year

Ikanos Communications, a start-up based in Fremont, California, closed $30 million in series D funding to support volume shipments of its programmable, integrated, broadband chipsets. Ikanos chipsets support multiple international standards of the Very High Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Line-Discrete Multi-Tone (VDSL-DMT) as well as ATM and Ethernet protocols, symmetric and asymmetric applications, and scalable speeds up to 100 Mbps over copper pairs. Ikanos said VDSL deployments were gathering steam, especially in Korea and Japan. The company...

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Albert Einstein Institute Chooses Force10 10 Gigabit Ethernet

The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, better known as the Albert Einstein Institute, will use Force10 Networks' E-Series switch/routers as the central interconnection facility for a new, high-performance computing cluster. The network will be used for on-going research on black holes, gravitational waves and other phenomena predicted by Einstein. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.force10networks.comSome other research center customers announced by Force10 Networks: The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which...

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