Ikanos Secures Additional Investment from TL Ventures

Ikanos Communications received new funding from TL Ventures to close its Series D round with $33 million. The company will use the additional capital to support volume shipments of its broadband chipsets in Korea, Japan, China, and Europe. Ikanos offers programmable, integrated, broadband chipsets that support multiple international standards of VDSL-DMT, as well as ATM and Ethernet protocols, symmetric and asymmetric applications, and scalable speeds up to 150 Mbps over copper pairs. http://www.ikanos....

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NexTone Reaches VoIP Milestone for its Session Controllers

NexTone Communications, a start-up based in Germantown, Maryland, announced that the global deployments of its session controllers, Multiprotocol Session Controller (MSC) and Multiprotocol Signaling Switch (MSW) are now carrying over one billion minutes of VoIP traffic per month. The platforms can by used to perform network address translation (NAT), to perform VoIP call routing, to mediate between Clarent H.323, other H.323 and SIP networks. NexTone also announced four new customers who have deployed a combination of its products: Terra Telecommunications,...

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Lucent Supplies Core DWDM to Korea Telecom

Lucent Technologies was awarded a contract to supply optical line systems to KT (formerly Korea Telecom). Specifically, KT will deploy Lucent's WaveStar OLS 1.6T systems with the capacity of 800 Gbps in the cities of Seoul, Busan and Suwon by the end of August. The KORNET backbone carries KT's broadband traffic and handles high-end data services. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.lucent.comLast month, Lucent Technologies announced a contract to supply its DWDM systems to Hanaro for a nationwide backbone upgrade. Specifically, Lucent...

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Pentagon Opposes Sale of Global Crossing to Singapore Telemedia

Due to national security concerns, the U.S. Department of Defense will oppose the sale of Global Crossing to Singapore Technologies Telemedia, according to an internal memo leaked to Reuters. Other reports said Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz had not yet made up his mind on the issue. Separately, Singapore Technologies Telemedia said it remained optimistic about completing the deal. http://www.defenselink.milhttp://www.globalcrossing.comIn March, The New York Times reported that Richard N. Perle, chairman of the influential Defense...

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Catalyst Keynote: Microsoft Says IPv6's Time Has Come

"The Dream Network of the future requires IPv6," said Christian Huitema, Architect of Networking and Communications for Microsoft, in a keynote address delivered at the Burton Group's Catalyst conference in San Francisco. The vision calls for an easy-to-use, always available, secure, scalable and manageable and tightly integrated into all versions of the next generation of Windows. As a first point, Huitema acknowledged that IPv6 by itself does not solve all the security, reliability and availability problems in networking. It does, however,...

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Catalyst Keynote: New Enterprise Technologies and Services

"The pendulum has swung back from service provider networking to enterprise networking," said Dave Passmore, Research Director at the Burton Group, speaking at the opening of this year's Catalyst Conference in San Francisco. This shift follows the worst two years in the history of networking - it's now clear that the telecom bust was much bigger than the dot-com bust. Apart from the bankruptcies, indictments and scandals, Passmore noted that the industry is still reeling from declining prices for voice, declining numbers of phone lines due to...

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Catalyst Keynote: AT&T's Evolution Toward an Application Aware Network

"It's time to rethink the network," said Hossein Eslambolchi, President of AT&T Labs and CTO & CIO of AT&T, in a keynote address to the Burton Group's Catalyst Conference in San Francisco. Eslambolchi noted the huge investment of intellectual and financial capital over the decades to build a core network with the premise of selling ports on the switch. All this must change, he argues, as service providers evolve their business models from just selling bandwidth pipes to providing higher value customer applications. Eslambolchi said...

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America Online Enhances Premium Voice Services

America Online rolled out several enhancements to its AOL Call Alert and AOL Voicemail services, including the "telemarketing call reducer" feature that helps subscribers cut down on annoying telemarketing "phone spam" dialed by a computer. By selecting the "I Don't Know You" response, AOL Call Alert sends a special tone that will cause some telemarketing computers to think that the number dialed has been disconnected, making the computer drop the call and delete the number from its call list. If the caller is a person and not a computer, they...

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ZettaCom Secures $19.2 Million for Switch and Mgt Processors

ZettaCom, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, secured $19.2 million in its third round of funding. ZettaCom is currently shipping its Terabit Switch Fabric and OC-192 Advanced Traffic Manager chips to tier 1 networking OEMs. The round, jointly led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and Investcorp, includes both existing and new corporate and financial investors. ZettaCom has raised $77.7 million since its inception in 1999. http://www.zettacom....

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NTT-ME Selects NetScreen for Managed VPN and VoIP Services

NTT-ME, a subsidiary of Japan's NTT Group that provides business-to-business and business-to-consumer services, selected NetScreen's integrated firewall and VPN platform to provide secure access and connectivity functions for its nationwide VPN and VoIP managed services. NTT-ME's "Xephion Internet VPN" uses NetScreen-5XP appliances, which interoperate with other networking equipment in the Xephion network, such as ADSL routers, software applications and a centralized management tool at NTT-ME's service center. Financial terms were not disclosed....

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AT&T Signs GRIC for Next Phase of its WiFi Strategy

AT&T will begin offering remote wireless access to its VPN services from more than 2,000 access points in at least 20 countries in Q4 2003. To support the service, AT&T will adopt a new WiFi (802.11b) access service from GRIC Communications. The companies said that because there are no standard authorization protocols for the WiFi industry, each wireless service provider has needed to implement their own authorization methodology. GRIC's new service provides a customized integration and interoperability specification that will allow AT&T...

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Intel To Develop 802.16a Silicon For "Last Mile" Wireless

Intel announced its intention to develop silicon for WiMAX broadband wireless systems, which are based on the IEEE 802.16a standard. WiMAX is positioned as a wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) technology for connecting Wi-Fi hotspots. It is expected that networks based on the 802.16a standard will have a range up to 30 miles (48km) and the ability to support connections at up to 70 Mbps.Alvarion will incorporate Intel's 802.16a chips into its forthcoming line of next generation, interoperable Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) systems. http://www.intel.com...

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NEC Announces BlueFire 10 Gigabit Ethernet Card

NEC America introduced a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) card that matches its BlueFire 740 and 750 LAN backbone switches. NEC said an enterprise could use the 10 GbE solution to take advantage of existing dark fiber within metropolitan Ethernet environments for traffic aggregation and transport within a campus or metropolitan area. The BlueFire 740 and 750 are Layer 2/3 Ethernet switches with hardware-based QoS capability and support for IPv4 and IPv6 in hardware with two-way tunneling and translation. http://www.necam....

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