CIENA Reports Revenue of $70.5 million, up 14% Sequentially

CIENA reported revenue of $70.5 million for the quarter ended January 31, up 14% over the previous period. There was a GAAP net loss for the period of $107.1 million, or $0.25 per share. The company said it made good progress during the quarter toward profitability. It was the second sequential quarter in which revenues increased and margins improved. CIENA ended the quarter with cash and securities valued at $1.9 billion. Regarding its business outlook for the current quarter, CIENA expects revenues to be flat or up slightly. http://www....

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Force10 Networks Closes $41 Million for its 10GigE

Force10 Networks, a start-up based in Milpitas, California, closed $41 million in new funding to support its line of 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch/routers. The company has raised $209 million to date. Investors in this financing round include New Enterprise Associates (NEA), U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Worldview Technology Partners, Amerindo Investment Advisors, and Pacesetter Capital Group, among others. http://www.force10networks.comIn January, Force10 Networks announced a 44% price cut on its 10-Gigabit Ethernet line cards, reducing the per-port...

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Verizon Certifies Independent Labs to Evaluate New Central Office Equipment

Verizon has certified eight independent laboratories to test vendors' equipment for use in its telecommunications network. Under the new program, Verizon will accept Network Equipment Building System, or NEBS, testing reports only from these eight certified labs:Curtis-Straus LLC, Littleton, MA Intertek Testing Services, Lexington, KY Met Laboratories, Baltimore, MD National Technical Systems, Acton, MA Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX Telcordia Technologies, Chester, NJ Underwriters Laboratories, Northbrook, IL Wyle Laboratories,...

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mPhase and Lucent Partner on TV over DSL

mPhase Technologies is teaming with Lucent Technologies to deliver a TV-over DSL solution. mPhase offers a digital set top box and a Broadcast Television Switch (BTS) that provides video networking intelligence to effectively enable video services over a DSL infrastructure. Bell Labs was contracted to design the mPhase BTS. The platforms are matched to Lucent's Stinger DSL Access Concentrator as the transport mechanism. mPhase intends to market this hybrid solution to telephone companies around the globe. There are currently 4 million ports...

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Hollywood.com and Wavexpress Launch Broadband PC Channel

Wavexpress and Hollywood.com launched a broadband PC channel delivering high-resolution, full-screen Hollywood-related programming. The MoviePick service uses a proprietary player that downloads and stores encrypted video using Wavexpress digital right management and cache control tools. The MoviePick channel is encoded at 1500 Kbps, five times higher than most broadband streaming media feeds, enabling a higher quality picture. http://www.tvtonic....

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ITXC Opens Internet Telephony SuperPoP in Frankfurt

ITXC opened a new switchless carrier class telecommunication facility at Ancotel's co-location center, in Frankfurt, Germany. By interconnecting standard fractional E3s or E1s with C7 or EUR ISDN signaling directly into ITXC's facility in Frankfurt, carriers gain access to ITXC.net for delivering fixed line, mobile and prepaid calling voice traffic in 175 countries. The company said many Eastern and Western European carriers already have a presence at the Ancotel facility. http://www.itxc....

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Sunrise Telecom Adds STM-16 Testing Capabilities to SDH Product

Sunrise Telecom added STM-16 support to its SunSet SDH, a field instrument for the installation, commissioning, and maintenance of global metro access networks. The handheld unit now supports ten different electrical and optical rates, making it suited for the metro's STM-16 ring network and its tributaries. The unit contains a comprehensive suite of optical network tests including optical power measurement, SDH performance analysis, overhead and alarm monitoring, APS (Automatic Protection Switch) testing, and SDH pointer testing. It also offers...

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Alcatel to Resell RADVISION's Video Gateway to Mobile Operators

Alcatel will add RADVISION's new viaIP gw-P20/M Gateway into its portfolio of solutions for the 3G/UMTS marketplace. The RADVISION gateway supports real time video telephony sessions between 3G-324M enabled cell phones/PDAs and multiple IP and ISDN-based videoconferencing systems. The system is based on the 3G-324M standard for real-time multimedia communications over WCDMA and CDMA2000 3G/UMTS networks. The RADVISION product will be matched with the Alcatel 5020 Softswitch acting as an H.323 gatekeeper, which manages the fixed IP videophones...

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Cinergy Communications Deploys SanteraOne

Cinergy Communications, which offers local telephone service, long distance calling, Internet access/solutions and web hosting service in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, will deploy the SanteraOne switching platform, replacing equipment made by Nortel and CopperComm. Cinergy, which is in the process of migrating its network from TDM to packet, plans to use the SanteraOne platform in both its local and long-distance networks to route tandem traffic and deliver both traditional and new IP-based Class 5 services. The first SanteraOne, under the...

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Santera Provides IXC Tandem Replacement and Wireless Gateway Functionality

Santera Systems announced that the SanteraOne platform has complete IXC Tandem replacement functionality and is commercially available for installation in networks. In addition, Santera has added wireless functionality to its media gateway, allowing it to operate in a wireless network. Santera said the increased functionality provides carriers that have both long distance and wireless networks the ability to collapse their network architecture. http://www.santera....

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Wind River Extends Support to Intel's Latest Network Processors

Wind River Systems will extend support to the new Intel IXP4XX product line of network processors, including support for future product roadmaps. The combined solution can be used for SOHO and SME communications applications such as residential broadband gateways, enterprise wireless access points and integrated access devices. http://www.windriver....

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Intel Unveils Network Processors for CPE Applications

Intel introduced three new network processors designed for the small office/home office (SOHO) and small- to medium-enterprise (SME) market segments. The new devices, which are based on the Intel XScale core, include:the IXP422 network processor, designed for residential gateways, wireless access points and SME routers and switches, including support for cryptography. the IXP421 network processor, which enables data plus VoIP applications the IXP420 network processor, which is optimized for broadband access applications such as home gateways and...

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Alliance Urges Royalty-Free H.264 Video Standard

A group of over 20 companies, including Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Polycom, Sun Microsystems and others, have formed an alliance to advocate the final approval of a royalty-free baseline profile for the upcoming H.264 Advanced Video Coding (H.264/AVC) standard. The alliance, which is working in conjunction with the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC), said a royalty-free profile would enable industry to bring an open, internationally standardized video codec to market quickly, without time-consuming and fractious...

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MPLS Forum Tackles Layer 2 Service Interworking and MPLS UNI Enhancements

The MPLS Forum has adopted two new work items: Service Interworking of Frame Relay, ATM, Ethernet over MPLS, and enhancements to the MPLS User-to-Network Interface (UNI). The Service Interworking work item will permit service providers to interconnect customers that use FR, Ethernet or ATM interfaces on their network over an MPLS core. The goal of the MPLS UNI Enhancements work item is to simplify the allocation of bandwidth on MPLS networks and improve the support of voice calls now carried by the circuit-switched telephone network. In September...

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Reactions to the FCC Decision

Following today's decision by the FCC, numerous companies released statements. These include: AT&T described the decision as "a difficult compromise", hailing the prospect of continued local telephone competition, but saying the FCC's order grants the Bell companies vastly more deregulation than justified. In particular, AT&T expressed concern that "the Bells will be permitted to deny competitors access to hybrid fiber-copper loops, even for existing fiber and even in markets where customers have no alternatives to the Bell companies'...

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FCC Adopts New Rules for Unbundling and Broadband Facilities

In a landmark ruling, the FCC voted 3-to-2 to adopt a new set of network unbundling rules for incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs), largely favoring recommendations advocated by Commissioner Kevin J. Martin and defeating proposals supported by Chairman Michael K. Powell. The new framework clarifies a number of local phone and broadband competition issues, including previous Unbundled Network Elements (UNE) rules that had been overturned last year by the U.S. Court of Appeals. Key elements of the order are: Impairment Standard: Under the...

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