Cable & Wireless Names New CEO and COO

Cable & Wireless appointed Francesco Caio as its new CEO, replacing Graham Wallace. Caio formerly served as CEO and founder of Netscalibur and previously CEO of Omnitel and Merloni. Caio will be paid a base salary of £700,000 per annum, with a maximum annual bonus of up to 150% of salary, subject to meeting performance targets. In the first year he will be guaranteed a minimum bonus payment of £375,000 (54%), plus he will also receive a one-off payment of £375,000 that must be invested in Cable & Wireless shares, to be held for a minimum...

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ADC Expands Software Operations in India

ADC is expanding its billing and customer care operations in Bangalore, India. ADC noted prominent customers in India and Asia-Pacific for its Singl.eView convergent billing platform, including Reliance Infocomm in India, Hutchison 3G, PLDT Philippines, TOT Thailand, Optus, and Virgin Mobile Australia. http://www.adc....

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Scotland's University of Strathclyde Deploys Foundry's 10 GigE

The University of Strathclyde will install a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet backbone from Foundry Networks to serve its 50,000 students and faculty. Founded in 1796, the university is the third largest in Scotland. Installation of nine Foundry Networks Layer 3 BigIron 8000 and 15000 switches make up the first phase of the University's new network backbone, and they concurrently access all of the main data centers across the 67 building, 500-acre site. A 10 Gbps link is provisioned using two Layer 3 BigIron 15000 switches between the University's two main...

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USAF Readies for Launch of Milstar Communications Satellite

The U.S. Air Force is preparing to launch the last Milstar II communications satellite aboard a Titan IVB rocket from Cape Canaveral on 06-April-2003. Lockheed Martin Space Systems built the satellite and the launch vehicle. Milstar provides a "switchboard-in-space," enabling a network of satellites to replace ground relay stations. Four Milstar satellites are currently in orbit. This last Milstar satellite is the fourth to carry the Boeing Medium Data Rate (MDR) payload, which provides 32 channels for processing data at speeds up to 1.5 Mbps....

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ITXC Surpasses 6.5 Billion Minutes of Service

ITXC has delivered a cumulative 6.5 billion minutes of Internet telephony traffic in the five years since the launch of its network service. ITXC estimates that it carries nearly 20% of the world's international VoIP minutes, according to figures from TeleGeography. The company said it is carrying an additional billion minutes of traffic approximately every 100 days. ITXC passed its first minute of traffic from Moscow to the Bronx in April of 1998. http://www.itxc....

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Xilinx Offers DSP Cores for Software Defined Radios

Xilinx announced commercial availability of digital signal processing (DSP) intellectual property for software defined radios. The release includes a new parameterizable, high-performance Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) solution for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) systems. http://www.xilinx....

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CIENA Supplies Metro Optical to Daegu Bank and Busan Bank Korea

Daegu Bank and Busan Bank, which are among the largest regional financial institutions in Korea, have jointly developed a back-up data center utilizing CIENA's ONLINE Metro Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform. Both banks' primary data centers are interconnected with protected full-rate native Fibre Channel links to a back-up data center in Milyang city, 90 km away. http://www.ciena....

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McLeodUSA Expands Residential Services into 8 More States

McLeodUSA expanded its residential local, long distance and Internet services into eight additional states, bringing to 20 the total number of states where it offers such service. In addition to local service, McLeodUSA is offering calling plans with fixed buckets of minutes at flat rates. Internet access may also be bundled for an additional charge. http://www.mcleodusa.comAs of December 31, 2002, McLeodUSA operated 38 ATM switches, 50 voice switches, 562 collocations, 430 DSLAMs and had 3,719 employees. Forstmann Little & Co. is a 58% shareholder...

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Epana Leverages SIP for Pre-paid Calling Card Services

Epana Networks, a New York-based CLEC which offers integrated voice and data services, has deployed Convedia's CMS-6000 and CMS-1000 Media Servers along with Pactolus software for delivering SIP based pre-paid calling card and ANI based phone services. Convedia's Media Servers have been commercially operational in Epana's network since September 2002. Epana's prepaid calling card services enable calling card users to place domestic long distance and international calls to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. http://www.epana.com ht...

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Cairo's Heliopolis Complex Adopts Cisco's VoIP Architecture

The Citystars Heliopolis Complex, a new commercial development underway in Cairo, Egypt, is using Cisco's Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (AVVID) in what is described as one of the largest IP telephony deployments in the Middle East. Heliopolis features three huge pyramids in its commercial center, including a 170,000 square meter retail and leisure complex, 75,000 square meters of purpose-built office space, 450 premium residential units, a 20,000 square meter international exhibition center and four hotels. The network design,...

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BT Awards 3-Year Contract to ADVA for Optical LAN Extensions

ADVA Optical Networking was awarded an additional three-year contract from BT for its Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 500 systems. This adds to a previous four-year deal, during which time BT standardized the FSP 500 as its multi-protocol platform for deployment of all LAN extension services. ADVA's FSP 500 supports managed circuits and provides fiber extension for protocols including STM-1, STM-4, Fibre Channel, and 10/100 and Gigabit Ethernet, and at speeds ranging from 10 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps. The platform recently added 8-channel CWDM capabilities....

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Data Connection Enhances its SIP Stack

Data Connection Limited (DCL) released an upgrade to its SIP toolkit, DC-SIP v2.0, which adds support for the latest IETF standards including RFC 3261 and related RFCs. The company said its SIP toolkit has undergone extensive unit and system testing, including complete automated regression test suites and successful interoperation with a wide range of RFC 2543 and RFC 3261 compliant SIP devices at SIPit. http://www.dataconnection.comFifty companies participated in the 12th SIP Interoperability Test event held from 24-28 February 2003 in Stockholm,...

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Internet Initiative Japan Launches Enterprise VoIP Service

Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) launched a new IP telephony service for enterprises. The VoIP service includes consulting, equipment selection, system construction and implementation, supervision, operation, and maintenance. http://www.iij.ad...

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Fujitsu's iPAD for Retailers Adds Wireless VoIP and Video Capabilities

Fujitsu Transaction Solutions' iPAD handheld retail computer is adding mobile VoIP and video capabilities. The handheld computer is designed for use by clerks in large stores, providing scanner, magnetic- and smart-card reader capabilities for inventory management, debit transactions, price verifications, line busting, mobile POS, gift registry, loss prevention and other retail applications. The new mobile video over IP capabilities enables retailers to monitor security cameras over sensitive areas such as check-out lanes. VoIP capability, which...

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CERN Selects IBM to help Build Massive Data Grid

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) selected IBM to help build a massive data-management system built on Grid computing. IBM's "Storage Tank" virtualization technology will be used to manage huge amounts of data using a single file namespace regardless of where or on what operating system the data reside. IBM and CERN will work together to extend Storage Tank's capabilities so it can manage and provide access from any location worldwide to the torrent of data -- billions of gigabytes a year -- that CERN's Large Hadron Collider...

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Microsoft Enhances Windows CE .NET for VoIP Client Devices

Microsoft announced a Windows CE .NET-based VoIP solution for client devices such as PDAs, notebooks and desktops. The new enhancements to Windows CE .NET include a sample Telephony User Interface (TUI), a comprehensive VoIP Application Interface Layer (VAIL) and Enterprise Infrastructure Integration services. Key elements include:a customizable, graphical telephony user interfacean extensible VoIP application suite and API layer, based on real-time communication and SIPEnterprise Infrastructure Integration services provide new support for the...

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