SEC Reaches Proposed Settlement with WorldCom

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a proposed settlement requiring WorldCom to pay a civil penalty of $1.51 billion for its fraudulent conduct. As a result of the company's pending bankruptcy case, the proposed settlement provides for satisfaction of the Commission's judgment by WorldCom's payment, after review and approval of the terms of the settlement by the bankruptcy court, of $500 million. Under the terms of the proposed settlement, the funds paid by WorldCom in satisfaction of the Commission's judgment will be distributed...

Read More

Singapore's 2nd largest mobile carrier Selects Veraz

M1, Singapore's 2nd largest mobile carrier, selected Veraz Networks' I-Gate 4000 media gateway to support growing demand for international bilateral traffic exchange. The deployment of the I-Gate 4000 in the Static Trunking mode comes after many months of tests, including live traffic exchanges using G.729, that were concluded successfully. As part of this examination, the quality of the telephony calls was compared with those of TDM based DCME systems. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.veraznetworks.com http://www.m1.com...

Read More

Marconi Emerges from Restructuring, New Shares Begin Trading

Marking the successful completion of its financial restructuring, shares, new notes and warrants for Marconi began trading on the London Stock Exchange. Under the terms of the restructuring, £340 million in cash, an aggregate of £756 million (sterling equivalent) of senior and junior notes and £995 million shares in Marconi Corporation plc are being distributed to the company's creditors. http://www.marconi....

Read More

Alvarion Supplies its 3.5 GHz Wireless DSL to Telmex

TELMEX, the leading carrier in Mexico, has placed a new order for Alvarion's 3.5 GHz wireless platform. Under the contract, Alvarion will expand Telmex's wireless local loop network with both copper-like lines for voice, fax, and dial-up Internet access services, and wireless DSL lines for voice and broadband Internet access. Financial terms were not disclosed. TELMEX currently has more than 14.4 million telephone lines in service and more than 2 million line equivalents for data transmission. http://www.alvarion.com http://www.telmex.com...

Read More

Extreme Debuts New Modules Boosting Density of its Alpine Switches

Extreme Networks introduced third generation "Triumph" modules that provide scalable Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, advanced traffic management and integrated copper diagnostics for its Alpine modular switching platform. The new modules deliver a 400% increase in Gigabit port density compared to previous generation technology. Traffic management capabilities support eight ingress and eight egress queues, and one egress super-queue per port so that each port can be individually configured to accurately and flexibly rate shape traffic. Bandwidth...

Read More

LSI Logic Supplies ASICs for Extreme's Next Gen Switch

LSI Logic is supplying the ASIC chipset for Extreme Networks' Fourth Generation Silicon System (4GNSS) for Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet applications. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.lsilogic.com http://www.extremenetworks.comIn April 2003, Extreme Networks unveiled its fourth generation silicon, designed for scalable core networks with dense, wire-speed 10-Gigabit Ethernet performance. Extreme's 4GNSS silicon architecture promises wire-speed IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, HVPLS and NAT services for metro and regional networks. The new silicon...

Read More

Vitesse Offers Card for Migrating to XFP Modules

Vitesse Semiconductor announced the immediate availability of a 10 Gigabit small form-factor pluggable (XFP) interface card that allows for migration from 300-pin optical transponder modules to the emerging XFP optical transceiver module standard. The car plugs into a standard 300-pin connector and provides the electronics necessary to emulate a 300-pin MSA Transponder. The card is a stand-alone product containing five critical design elements: an industry standard XFP connector and cage, Vitesse's 10 Gbps serial to 16-bit transceiver integrated...

Read More

MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance Completes Interoperability Testing

Twelve companies participated in an MPLS interoperability test "hot stage event" conducted last week at the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). An MPLS core was created using RSVP-TE tunnels over a variety of transport technologies. The testing included the first proving of multi-vendor interoperability of Frame Relay, ATM and Ethernet encapsulation over an MPLS core using the IETF's PWE3 workgroup's latest drafts. The test also included the first-ever successful multi-vendor testing of Ethernet Virtual Private...

Read More

Texas Instruments Offers IP Phone Processor

Texas Instruments introduced a new IP phone processor that integrates a specialized dual-channel, 16-bit audio codec (including handset, headset and speaker drivers) and an Ethernet subsystem, which includes two Ethernet MACs and PHYs and a three-port line rate switch. TI's new TNETV1050 is based on an existing TI DSP and an enhanced high-speed MIPS 32 RISC core. It can also be used with TI's recently announced 802.3af-compliant power interface switch to support Power over Ethernet (PoE) phones. The solution incorporates TI's Telogy Software,...

Read More

Mindspeed Announces DS3/E3/STS-1 "Line Card on a Chip''

Mindspeed Technologies introduced a DS3/E3/STS-1 "line card on a chip," integrating a 12-port line interface unit (LIU) with framers, mappers, and telecom application package (TAP) driver software. The 12-port chip, which is aimed at multiservice switches, ADMs and optical edge devices, incorporates functions to address DS3/E3 needs for efficient aggregation and channelization for transport applications. Mindspeed provides a low-power digital jitter attenuation technology with the chip. http://www.mindspeed....

Read More

NetBotz Secures $7M for IP Physical Security Solutions

NetBotz, a start-up based in Austin, Texas, closed a $7 million mezzanine funding round for its IP-based intelligent physical security solutions. NetBotz monitoring appliances provide early warnings about physical conditions that threaten network gear. Rack mounted and wall-mounted models are also available featuring camera pods and various other sensor pods. Investors include Austin Ventures, CenterPoint Ventures, Hill Partners, Osprey Ventures, QuestMark Partners and SSM Venture Partners. http://www.netbotz....

Read More

Cox Deploys Juniper Networks T-Series Routing Platforms

Cox Communications, the fourth largest cable operator in the US, has deployed Juniper Networks T-series routing platforms in its national IP backbone. Juniper's T320 platforms serve as peering points in Cox's new IP backbone. The peering is used to manage bandwidth growth at regional data centers by re-directing IP traffic. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.juniper.nethttp://www.cox.comJuniper Networks' T320 Router is a 320 Gbps platform designed for high density OC-3 ATM and SONET/SDH aggregation, and for transporting ATM and Frame...

Read More

Chiaro Unveils its Core IP Router

Chiaro Networks, a start-up based in Richardson, Texas, introduced its network core, multi-chassis, IP routing platform. Chiaro's design leverages a gallium arsenide (GaAs) optical switch fabric for scalability from 10 slots to a multi-chassis with 315 slots. The company claims that the scalability and flexibility provided by its optical backplane, along with network-processor based line-cards, will lead to a 7 to 10 year lifecycle for the platform. Key features of the Chiaro platform include:an Optical Phased Array (OPA) switch fabric coupled...

Read More

Ikanos' VDSL Chipset Selected by Korea' Woojyun Systec

Woojyun Systec, a Korean telecom equipment supplier, is using Ikanos Communications' VDSL chipset for an IP-based concentrator. Woojyun Systec's equipment is the first to pass Hanaro Telecom's VDSL benchmark test for 50 Mbps. Ikanos said its use of DMT line coding in the VDSL chipset was a critical factor in reaching Hanaro's performance benchmark. http://www.ikanos.com http://www.woojyun.co...

Read More

ICG Completes National Rollout of Hosted IP PBX Service

ICG Communications announced availability of a hosted IP PBX service throughout California, Colorado, Texas, the Ohio Valley and the southeastern US. ICG's VoicePipe service has the feature functionality of a PBX, Key System or Centrex. Users of ICG's VoicePipe service can personalize dozens of call features via a Web portal and administrators can make adds/deletes/changes online. ICG is using VocalData's VOISS platform to support the service. http://www.voicepipe.com http://www.icgcom....

Read More

Metrobility Introduces Ethernet in the First Mile Device

Metrobility Optical Systems introduced an Optical Network Unit (ONU) designed for Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) services delivered over a point-to-point fiber-based network. Metrobility's RA21 ONU is a customer premise device that provides a 100Mbps fiber connection from the service provider's network to a 10/100Mbps auto-negotiating connection for the enterprise network. The device is described as "EFM OAM Feature Ready," meaning that it supports operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) recommendations outlined in the draft IEEE 802.3ah...

Read More

IP Unity Enhances its Media Server and Unified Messaging Suite

IP Unity, a provider of carrier grade media server platforms, announced general availability of its second-generation media server, featuring VoiceXML 2.0 and SIP capabilities. With the addition of VoiceXML 2.0 on the media server platform, developers can create voice and multimedia applications using standard development tools. The new IP Unity Harmony6000 media server adds speech recognition capabilities via software integrated onto a dedicated blade of the server. This enables service providers to offer speech applications that require intensive...

Read More

FutureSoft Offers Spanning Tree Protocol Enhancements for L2/3 Switches

FutureSoft announced support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) and Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) in its source code solution for network equipment manufacturers. With RSTP (based on the IEEE 802.1W standard), the time for convergence of the network after a change is reduced significantly -- providing rapid stabilization of the network after failure or reconfiguration. FutureSoft said the time taken for restoring the connectivity in a large network can be reduced from approximately 30 seconds to a couple of seconds using its software....

Read More

SBC Reports a 63% Increase in California Calls for American Idol

SBC processed close to 41.3 million phone calls in a span of just two hours by its California and Northern Nevada customers - many of whom were participating in the semi-finals voting for Fox's hit reality TV show, American Idol. SBC estimates that about 16 million of these calls were for voting on the TV show because on a typical weekday evening about 25.3 million calls are placed in that same two hour period from 9pm to 11pm. American Idol provides a toll-free number for viewers to vote on their favorite singer. Nationally, SBC processed close...

Read More

ClearPath Upgrades its MPLS-based VPN Service

ClearPath Networks, a provider of MPLS network-based VPN services, introduced the latest version of its fully integrated network management platform, giving customer the ability to monitor and configure key WAN parameters. The new version 4.0 of ClearPath's network management panel provides features such as jitter reporting,for measuring and monitoring QoS applications; queue monitoring and dynamic queue adjustment capabilities, for increased visibility into bandwidth utilization and control to make real-time adjustments; and customer device monitoring,...

Read More

Larscom Unveils SONET Access platform Supporting GFP-based EoS

Larscom introduced a next generation SONET multi-service access platform supporting the new Generic Framing Prcedure (GFP)-based Ethernet over SONET (EoS) standards -- including both Low- (VT 1.5) and High- (STS-1) order Virtual Concatenation (VCAT). Larscom's new Orion 7400 platform is designed to economize the extension of metro rings to customers located in lower density areas or multi-tenant buildings while remaining interoperable with the carrier's existing SONET infrastructure including optical add/drop multiplexers (OADM) and management...

Read More

Alcatel Introduces its Fifth Generation DSLAM

Alcatel introduced its fifth generation DSLAM targeting greater subscriber density, more bandwidth intensive DSL services, and greater backhaul efficiencies in the "second mile" of carrier networks. The Alcatel 7301 Advanced Services Access Manager (ASAM) will allow service providers to quadruple the number of users while supporting bandwidth-heavy applications, such as business access and residential video services. Key attributes of the 7301 ASAM include a 5 Gbps network processor, a 170 Gbps backplane, and 1.4 Gbps of capacity to each slot...

Read More