Gómez Receives $5 Million for Web Performance Monitoring

Gómez, a start-up based in Waltham, Massachusetts, recently received a capital infusion of $5 million for its Web performance monitoring services. Gómez offers a unique website performance measurement methodology to gauge Internet customer experiences. The new funding came from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and DB Capital Venture Partners, both of which were backers of WebPerform. Gómez acquired WebPerform, a privately held UK-based company, in February. Existing Gómez investors -- Dolphin Equity Partners and Harbinger/Aurora Funds -- also participated in this funding round.
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Top Layer Networks Introduces Multigigabit Intrusion Detection Balancer

Top Layer Networks introduced a multigigabit intrusion detection system (IDS) balancer designed to optimize existing investments in network Intrusion Detection Systems (nIDS) by combining multiple nIDS for load-sharing. The IDS Balancer 4500 provides increased security by assigning nIDS into monitor groups, which can collectively support gigabit traffic loads and redundancy requirements. It collects traffic from multiple gigabit network segments or Virtual LANS (VLANs), and mirrors and balances that traffic across one or more groups of installed nIDS systems.
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Tellabs Reorganizes Its North American Business

Tellabs announced a reorganization of its business operations in North America, including the appointment of Edward Kennedy as president-Tellabs Operations Inc. Kennedy previously served as Tellabs' senior vice president-metro networking group and before that was founder and chief executive officer of Ocular Networks, which Tellabs acquired in 2002. Kennedy will lead all aspects of North American operations, including sales, marketing, engineering, strategic planning, product planning and manufacturing.
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Nokia and Huawei Reach Agreement on 3G Patent Cross-License

Nokia and Huawei Technologies signed an agreement on cross-licensing of WCDMA related patents covering the manufacturing and sales of WCDMA infrastructure equipment globally. Nokia said the deal demonstrates its commitment to partnering with local vendors in promoting WCDMA technology in China. It is also an important milestone for Chinese vendors to enter into international cross-license practices and the global WCDMA market.
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Bell Labs Receives Its 30,000th Patent

Bell Labs has been granted its 30,000th U.S. patent since 1925. Bell Labs was granted nearly 700 patents last year, an average of two patents each work day. The latest patent covers mechanisms for guaranteeing QoS in IP networks. Specifically, this is achieved by establishing a virtual channel in which information flows uninterrupted between a sender and receiver. The mechanism uses a connection resource manager (CRM) application to check whether there are enough spare resources in the virtual channel to accommodate a new request, such as for a voice call. If there are, then the new connection is allowed and uninterrupted communication with limited loss and delay is guaranteed. If the path does not have enough spare resources, the new request is denied, thus preventing the new connection from adversely impacting ongoing conversations. Bell Labs said that since filing for this patent in September 1998, its researchers have leveraged the capabilities of Internet standards including RSVP, MPLS and DiffServ to evolve this patented technique.
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Intel Invests in rovingIP.net, Broadreach Networks, Pronto Networks

In addition to Vivato, Intel announced investments in three more Wi-Fi companies: rovingIP.net, a clearinghouse for Wi-Fi service providers; Broadreach Networks Limited, a broadband Internet access provider; and Pronto Networks, a provider of carrier-class OSS solutions for large hot spot networks. Financial terms of the investments were not disclosed. The Intel Communications Fund now has completed seven investments in Wi-Fi companies since October when Intel announced plans to invest $150 million in companies pursuing Wi-Fi technology.
http://www.intel.com
http://www.rovingip.netOther Wi-Fi companies that Intel has funded include:

• STSN, a provider of wired and wireless high-speed data communications to hotels and conference centers worldwide. The Salt Lake City-based company currently provides services to some 120,000 guestrooms and 4,000 hotel meeting rooms worldwide. Intel Capital first invested in STSN in 1999.
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  TeleSym, a start-up developing software that delivers high-quality voice over wireless enterprise networks. The software runs on mobile PCs and PDAs. TeleSym is based in Bellevue, Washington.
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  Cometa, which plans to provide broadband, wholesale, wireless Internet access based on 802.11 technology nationwide. Cometa Networks will offer its wholesale services to other telecom service providers, ISPs, cable companies and wireless carriers.
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  In February 2003, Vivato introduced a 2.4 GHz Indoor Wi-Fi Switch that provides an indoor range of up to 300 meters with standard Wi-Fi clients. The Vivato switch is a flat panel unit, which resembles a plasma television screen, operates in the 2.4 GHz frequency band and delivers three simultaneous beams of Wi-Fi. Designed to be wall-mounted, the panel employs Vivato's PacketSteering technology to dynamically shape very narrow beams, about nine degrees each, which transmit and receive Wi-Fi on a packet-by-packet basis to maximize capacity and minimize interference. A single switch can support about 150 enterprise users and tracks active users as they move about the office within its 100-degree field of view.
  

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Vivato Receives Intel Investment for its Wi-Fi PacketSteering Switch

Vivato, a start-up based in San Francisco, is receiving an investment from the Intel Communications Fund to support its Wi-Fi switches for enterprises and service providers. The companies also plan to participate in joint marketing activities. The investment by Intel Communications Fund is part of its $150 million commitment to invest in companies whose technologies will accelerate the worldwide adoption of Wi-Fi. Vivato said the investment brings its total funding to $29 million.
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BayPackets Secures $21.7 Million for its OSS and Service Introduction Platforms

BayPackets, a start-up based in Fremont, California, raised $21.7 million in new funding for its voice and data solutions for wireless, wireline and cable operators. BayPackets' Rapid Service Introduction (RSI) software helps carriers deploy revenue-generating applications in circuit-switched and packet-based networks. Pre-packaged applications include Voice VPN, Advanced Toll Free, Unified Communications, Voicemail, Single Number Service and Internet Call Manager. Investcorp and TL Ventures co-led the round, which also included funding by new investor Intel Capital, and previous investors Blueprint Ventures, Diamondhead Ventures, INC3 Ventures, Lucent Venture Partners and TeleSoft Partners. BayPackets has raised $43.7 million to date.
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Agere and Infineon Develop 802.11a/b/g Chipset

Agere Systems announced a multimode, 802.11a/b/g WLAN chipset that it claims will provide the industry's lowest bill of materials and smallest footprint. The dual-band RF transceiver is coupled with a multimode media access controller (MAC), a multimode baseband processor and a dual-band power amplifier. The chipset was developed in partnership with Infineon Technologies. Each company is independently marketing its next-generation wireless LAN products. Agere and Infineon will offer the industry's first dual-source model, which gives equipment manufacturers greater flexibility to meet accelerating market demand.
http://www.agere.com
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Broadcom Ships 3 Million 802.11g Chipsets in 3 Months

Broadcom has shipped more than three million 54g wireless Local Area Network (LAN) chips since ramping to production in December 2002. Broadcom said the milestone indicates how quickly the industry is transitioning from the IEEE 802.11b standard to the forthcoming IEEE 802.11g standard.
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TI Introduces its Fastest DSPs

Texas Instruments (TI) announced three new DSPs with record-breaking performance of 720 MHz, exceeding its own current record of 600 MHz. The new DSPs are designed to boost multi-channel density, enhance multi-function flexibility and increase bandwidth for higher frame rates and better resolution. The devices are targeted at digital video, imaging and wireless/telecom infrastructure.
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CoSine Supplies Hanaro with IP Switch to Integrate IPSec, Firewall and VPNs

Hanaro Telecom has deployed CoSine Communications' IPSX 9500 service delivery platform to serve as the foundation of its advanced service offering integrating IPSec VPN and managed firewall service with its existing, Cisco-based MPLS infrastructure. The IPSX 9500 gives Hanaro the ability to provision, customize and manage unique service configurations for thousands of users from a single platform, regardless of an individual customer's access technology. Customers are able to integrate multiple remote services such as dial-up and site-to-site over a secure IPSec connection. Financial terms were not disclosed. CoSine said its IP service delivery platform is being used by the top three service providers in South Korea.
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University Of Texas Selects Force10 for 10GigE Grid

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has selected Force10 Networks' switch/routers to provide a next- generation, inter-campus grid computing infrastructure. The Force10 equipment will initially aggregate Gigabit Ethernet connections from TACC and connects at 10-Gigabit Ethernet speeds across the Greater Austin Area Telecommunications Network (GAATN) to resources located on the main UT campus. The University of Texas at Austin is building a high performance computing grid to connect a diverse set of geographically distributed workstations, computational research clusters and storage devices. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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net.com Supplies Promina Switches for BART's train control Network

The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), which serves the San Francisco region, will deploy net.com's Promina multiservice access platform to provide real-time, redundant station-to-station communications over its fiber network. BART's new network will leverage the intelligent management systems within the Promina platform to provide remote monitoring of the operation of the station-to-station communications equipment. The initial $600,000 order covers a 28-station network to be deployed over the next 18 months.
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UTStarcom Announces $50 Million in New China Netcom Contracts

UTStarcom has signed contracts valued at approximately $50 million with China Netcom Corporation for new and expansion deployments of its IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) in several northern cities in China. UTStarcom said it has seen "incredible demand" in recent months for its PAS systems in China. The platform is marketed as a low-cost investment option for wireless local telephone service with support for broadband expansion.
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THUS to Upgrade National Network with Nortel Networks' Optical Ethernet

THUS plc intends to upgrade its existing Nortel Networks OPTera Connect DX Optical Switches to directly carry high-density Gigabit Ethernet traffic over DWDM channels. The upgrade involves adding a network card to each OPTera Connect DX. In addition to OPTera Connect DX, the THUS national network also includes Nortel Networks OPTera Long Haul 1600 Optical Line System. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.nortelnetworks.com
http://www.thus.net

• THUS plc provides voice, data and Internet services in the United Kingdom. The company operates under the THUS and Demon brands.
  

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Lumentis Adds 10 Gbps Transponder to its Metro Optical System

Lumentis AB introduced a compact, single-slot 10 Gbps transponder for its metro optical networking platform. The 10 Gbps Transponder offers performance monitoring and Forward Error Correction (FEC) capabilities. It supports Gbps SDH/SONET and 10GbE traffic. The Lumentis metro optical platform functions without using line amplifiers, allowing all wavelengths and bit rates to be handled individually. Lumentis said that when adding 10 Gbps services, there is no need for the network to be retuned to ensure that all amplifiers have the correct characteristics to cope with the new services as well as to ensure that proper power balancing is maintained between all wavelengths.
http://www.lumentis.se

• Lumentis has developed an un-amplified, 40-wavelength capable DWDM system that is able to tolerate increased levels of optical loss. The Lumentis DWDM platform uses off-the-shelf components and could carry up to 40 wavelengths on a fiber pair without optical line amplifiers - at least twice the capacity of competitive systems. Lumentis estimates that amplifiers can represent up to half of the initial network investment needed to light up the first wavelength. The company also notes that optical loss is especially critical in metro area networks in which numerous fiber splices have occurred. Its platform supports SONET/SDH, IP and ATM traffic. Lumentis was founded in September 2000 by former engineers from Ericsson's optical networking unit. The company is funded by Deutsche Bank Industrial Holdings AG.
  

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Deutsche Telekom Sells Siris Network in France to LDCOM

Deutsche Telekom plans to sell its subsidiary Siris with its domestic fixed-network activities in France to LDCOM (Louis Dreyfus Communication) for EUR 25 million. In the future, LDCOM would act as T-Systems' sales partner in the French market.
http://www.ldcomnetworks.com
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Deutsche Telekom Reports Record Loss for 2002, Positive Trends in Q4

Deutsche Telekom posted a net loss for 2002 of EUR 24.6 billion. Much of the loss was attributed to the company's strategic review in Q3 2002, in which it reported write-downs of EUR 18 billion for T-Mobile USA, as well as additional charges for UMTS licenses in the UK and Holland. Some other highlights of the report:

• Group revenue increased 11% to EUR 53.7 billion for 2002. For Q4, group revenue was EUR 14.5 billion, up 9% compared to the same period a year earlier.
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  As of the end of 2002, Deutsche Telekom's net debt stood at EUR 61.1 billion, down by EUR 2.9 billion for the year.
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  So far, the company has sold off EUR 4.4 billion in assets. Its de-leveraging program targets EUR 6.2 to 8.5 billion in asset sales.
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  Staff reductions are underway with some 10,000 personnel reductions planned for 2003. These include 4,500 transfers in February to the new Personnel Services Agency.
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  The T-Com division had 3.3 million DSL contracts sold, as of 28-February-2003. Some 22.4 million ISDN channels remained in service as of the end of 2002, an increase from 20.4 million a year earlier. T-Com's domestic revenue for 2002 declined 1.3% for 2002, but appears to be stabilizing given the increase in access revenue and in calling revenue.
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  T-Mobile USA was the fastest growing wireless carrier in the US for 2002 with 2.9 million net additions, giving it a total of 9.9 million users. The company said ARPU levels are holding steady and customer churn and bad debt issue are under control.
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  For T-Mobile worldwide, the number of subscribers served by T-Mobile majority shareholdings increased from 46.7 million to 53.9 million in 2002.
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  T-Systems reported EUR 11.3 billion in revenue, a decline of 4.9% for the year.
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  T-Online now reaches 12.2 million subscribers, of which 10 million are in Germany. About 2.7 million T-Online subscribers are using DSL. The division posted EUR 1.8 billion in revenue for the year, a 26% increase.

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Sprint Expands Deployment of Metro Area Networks

Sprint announced plans to drive its fiber networks deeper into the metro areas of more than 30 U.S. cities before mid-2004. The MAN high-speed rings connect the Sprint fiber-optic backbone to local exchange carrier end offices, as well as to points of presence where long distance and ILECs typically exchange traffic. In many cases, Sprint also is connecting the MAN rings to PCS mobile switching centers, which route wireless calls to PCS customers of Sprint. The MAN ring architecture so far has been deployed in 17 cities.
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