Z-Tel Reports Improved Financials, Growing UNE-P Line Counts

Z-Tel Technologies, a CLEC based in Tampa, Florida, reported substantially improved financial performance over the second half of 2002, which it attributed to operating improvements, improving margins, growing active line counts and lower bad debt expense. For Q4, Z-Tel reported revenues of $57.0 million, compared to $59.1 million for the prior year period, and EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of $2.2 million, compared to negative $3.9 million for the same period in 2001. Net loss for the fourth quarter...

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Broadcom Ships 10 Millionth Gigabit Ethernet Over Copper PHY Port

Broadcom has shipped its 10 millionth Gigabit Ethernet over copper port. The company said it has announced almost 200 design wins since introducing the technology in May 1999. Broadcom has delivered 13 different Gigabit PHY chips to the networking market, as well as five integrated MAC/PHY chips for Network Interface Card (NIC) applications and two custom ASICs with integrated Gigabit PHYs. http://www.broadcom....

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Intersil Passes 30 Million DSL Port Milestone

Intersil has shipped over 30 million DSL ports since introducing its first DSL line driver in 1995. The company said it is planning to expand its Elantec DSL line driver portfolio, particularly with products tailored for the central office. http://www.intersil....

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Zia Laser Raises $5.4 Million for its Quantum Dot Lasers

Zia Laser, a start-up based in Albuquerque, New Mexico received $5.4 million in Series B equity financing for its Quantum Dot (QD) laser technology. Zia specializes in 1310nm GaAs-based and 1550nm InP-based QD semiconductor lasers for metro, access, test and measurement communication systems as well as medical optical applications. The company said the new funding would enable it to launch commercial volume QD manufacturing and sales. The Series B equity financing was co-led by Prism Venture Partners and the RWI Group. http://www.zialaser....

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Agility Announces 10Gbps DWDM Universal Transponder

Agility Communications introduced a 10Gbps DWDM Universal Transponder that offers fast tuning across 200 channels with 100 kilometer reach. The MSA-compliant, Agility 7100 Universal Transponder integrates a transmitter and a receiver in the same physical package. The device has a built-in optical blanking shutter used during wavelength tuning; a built-in variable optical attenuator (VOA) for automatic transmitter output power control; and modulator pre-chirp of 0 or -0.7. http://www.agility....

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NeoPhotonics Acquires Lightwave Microsystems

NeoPhotonics has acquired Lightwave Microsystems Corporation, a privately-held developer of standard and specialized integrated circuits for optical communications. Lightwave Microsystems, which is based in San Jose, California, offers a passive integration platform, recorded sales nearing $10 million in 2002. Financial terms were not disclosed. Neophotonics said its vision is to combine active functions, such as amplifiers and lasers, with passive functions, such as AWG filters, in a single device. The company also noted that many of Lightwave's...

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Sunrise Telecom Acquires GIE GmbH for Wireless Testing

Sunrise Telecom acquired substantially all of the assets of GIE GmbH, a German developer of wireless and RF measurement instrumentation. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sunrise Telecom said the acquisition adds wireless expertise to its portfolio of test solutions for the network edge, which already encompassed DSL, cable modem and fiber optics. Additionally, the company plans to leverage GIE's 10-year reputation in TV Tuner Alignment systems and further invest in this area. http://www.sunrisetelecom....

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iPass and Cometa to Work Together on Wi-Fi Network Plans

Cometa Networks agreed to include its planned Wi-Fi (802.11) hotspots into the iPass Global Broadband Roaming Service for enterprise users. Cometa expects to begin rolling out its Wi-Fi network access in top U.S. urban markets during the Q4 2003. http://www.ipass.com http://www.cometanetworks.comCometa Networks was created in December 2002 by AT&T, Intel, IBM and global investment concerns Apax Partners and 3i. It plans to provide wholesale access to some 20,000 hotspots located in major retail centers in major urban are...

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Eclipse Selects Redback SMS for DSL Launch in the UK

Eclipse, one of the UK's broadband ISPs, has selected the Redback SMS 10000 platform of subscriber management systems to launch its new national DSL service. Eclipse is using BT's wholesale DSL service. The SMS platform will terminate, authenticate and provision DSL subscriber traffic delivered from BT's broadband network. Eclipse plans to leverage the extensive and unique service insertion capabilities of the SMS platform to deliver a suite of advanced IP services as the service rolls out. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.re...

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Juniper Networks Builds Base with European Research Networks

Juniper Networks said an additional 17 European Research and Education (R&E) networks are deploying its equipment, bringing its total number of customers in this segment to more than 40 European R&E networks. European R&E organizations with Juniper Networks solutions include: GEANT (Dante), the pan-European network connecting over 30 national networks; R&E national networks such as RedIRIS in Spain, ARNES in Slovenia, Funet in Finland, HEAnet in Ireland, and VTHD in France; MANs and regional networks such as CYFRONET in Poland,...

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Sockeye Maps ISP Billing Terms into GlobalRoute Service

Sockeye Networks released a new version of its GlobalRoute service that lets companies map Internet service provider (ISP) contract terms directly into the route decision making platform. The GlobalRoute 3.0 lets companies automatically manage multiple ISPs for performance and cost. EBSCO Publishing is using the service to manage the distribution of terabytes of periodical data to its customers through four different ISPs with a total of 18 different billing tiers. http://www.sockeye....

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Marvell Further Expands 10 Gigabit Ethernet Portfolio

Marvell expanded its portfolio of 10 Gigabit PHY offerings with the addition of two new devices for LAN and WAN applications. The Marvell Alaska X 88X2010 serial 10 GigE transceiver is a dedicated LAN PHY device designed to optimize next-generation Gigabit physical layer implementations. The device enables highly compact XAUI-based modules by integrating a limiting amplifier and the latest digital optical monitoring (DOM) functions as specified by XENPAK, XPAK and X2 multi-source agreements. The Marvell device also features advanced clocking...

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Broadcom Acquires Gadzoox Networks for its SAN Technology

Broadcom acquired a substantial portion of the assets of Gadzoox Networks, a provider of storage networking systems, for approximately $5.8 million, subject to a post-closing adjustment. Gadzoox Networks developed standards-based 1-, 2- and 10-Gigabit Fibre Channel technology that is also interoperable with legacy networks. Broadcom said the acquisition of Gadzoox technology and the Gadzoox engineering team would enable it to "change the economic dynamics of storage networking." Gadzoox Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. http://www.broadcom.comBroadcom's...

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Agere Enters Wireless Power Amplifier Market with 21 Products

Agere Systems introduced 21 transistors targeting the wireless base station power amplifier market. The entrance into power amplifiers substantially broadens Agere's portfolio of base station components, which also includes digital signal processors and network processors. Agere plans to sell these transistors both in tandem with and separate from all the other components it sells for wireless base stations. Agere said its power amplifier transistors would enable much cooler, smaller, and less expensive wire less base stations. The new product...

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Equant Signs Bergesen for Global IP VPN

Equant completed the initial implementation phase of a five-year, multimillion dollar contract to provide Bergesen with a global IP VPN. Bergesen is world's largest owner and operator of gas tankers and also is a significant transporter of oil and iron ore. Bergesen is using Equant IP VPN to provide any-to-any connectivity for users at its headquarters in Oslo, as well as those in Manila, Mumbai, Paris and Riga. Sites in the United States and Japan may be added in the future. http://www.equant....

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Navy-Marine Corps Internet Deploys Cisco Info Center

EDS is deploying Cisco Info Center on the Navy-Marine Corps Internet (NMCI). The Cisco Info Center, which was developed jointly with Micromuse, provides service-level alarm monitoring and diagnostics capabilities. The product also interacts with other management tools to provide network partitioning for VPN and customer network management services. http://www.cisco....

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Marconi and Larscom Offer Multilink Frame Relay

Marconi and Larscom introduced a Multilink Frame Relay solution that bundles multiple T1 circuits into higher capacity links. The joint offering uses Marconi's ASX and TNX line of switch-routers equipped with channelized DS-3 Frame Relay line cards and the Larscom 6000, an IP- and Frame Relay-Aware Multilink Access device for the customer's premise. Marconi's channelized DS-3 Frame Relay cards allow service providers to provision the incremental bandwidth from their POPs. The solution is now available for testing and quick deployment by service...

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STMicroelectronics and Ikanos Achieve Chip-Level DMT-VDSL Interoperability

Ikanos Communications and STMicroelectronics have achieved chip-level interoperability based on Discrete Multi-Tone-Very-high-data rate Digital Subscriber Line (DMT-VDSL) technology. Their chips comply with the ITU-T, ETSI, and ANSI standard band plans, including Plan 997 and Plan 998, and operate at data rates of over 50 Mbps. The companies argue that since carriers have already standardized on DMT for their ADSL transmission, DMT-based VDSL offers backward compatibility with a large installed base. Alcatel is supportive of using DMT modulation...

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Cisco Debuts “Industrial Strength�? Catalyst Switches

Cisco Systems introduced a new ruggedized version of its Catalyst Ethernet switch designed for deployment in harsh environments. The Cisco Catalyst 2955 is a compact 12-port LAN switch that combines wire-speed Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity with intelligent switching services, including security, availability and QoS. The product features industrial-grade components, a compact size, passive cooling and relay output signaling. It is rated to operate at extreme temperatures (-40 to 140 degrees F), and designed to withstand extreme...

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Sprint Selects the Tellabs 7100 for Wavelength Services

Sprint selected the Tellabs 7100 optical transport system to deploy wavelength-based services to its local, long-distance and wireless customers. The Tellabs 7100 system is a DWDM platform that scales up to 64 wavelengths and offers the ability to carry private line, GigE, TDM and SAN services. The Tellabs 7100 system is being deployed in Sprint's North Carolina and Florida networks. Financial terms were not disclosed. Tellabs also supplies other equipment to Sprint, including its Tellabs 3000 voice-quality enhancement systems, Tellabs 5000...

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SBC Plans New Service Bundles for Small Business

SBC Communications announced new service bundles and lower pricing to retain and gain small business customers with 50 employees or fewer. The SBC Connections offerings encompass local service, long-distance where available, call management services, broadband options such as SBC Yahoo! DSL and Dedicated Internet Access, SBC Yahoo! Dial, Cingular Wireless plans and Web hosting options. SBC said smaller companies can save up to 25% on average compared with standard "a la carte" retail prices for telecommunications services, with discounts as high...

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IIJ to Launch IPv6 Gateway Service

Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) is preparing to launch an IPv6 Gateway Service for enterprise customers. The service will provide approximately 3 x 1026 IP addresses per contract, which enables customers to roll out their own IPv6 services by assigning an IP address to each of their products or services. IIJ expects the new service to spur the use of IPv6 in many industries, including home appliances, medicine, distribution, and hardware and software, driving the uptake of IPv6 in the retail market. Hitachi has already contracted for the service....

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Japan's Grid Research Center Deploy Force10's 10 GigE

The Grid Technology Research Center (GTRC) at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has deployed Force10 Networks' E-Series switch/routers as the central interconnection facility for a computing cluster designed for petascale, data-intensive computing. The 10-Gigabit Ethernet platform will be used for replicating large-scale databases. The Grid Datafarm project at GTRC provides a parallel cluster-to-cluster file system with online petascale storage, scalable I/O bandwidth, and scalable parallel processing...

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Cavium Announces Security Processors with 2 to 10 Gbps Performance

Cavium Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, introduced its NITROX II family of In-line Security Macro Processors featuring performance ranging from 2 Gbps to 10 Gbps of IPsec or SSL security protocol processing. The processors have the ability to handle 5,000 to 40,000 SSL session set-ups per second. The single chip processors are designed for multi-gigabit networking equipment such as routers, switches, web-servers, server load balancers, firewalls, SANs, and VPN gateways. Cavium said existing security processors typically...

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