F5 Networks Acquires uRoam for SSL Remote Access

F5 Networks acquired the assets of privately-held uRoam, a developer of SSL-based remote access solutions, for $25 million in cash. uRoam's line of "FirePass" servers enable secure web-based access to any network application from any remote client-including wireless devices-with no client set-up and no additions or modifications to the back-end resources being accessed. uRoam's largest customer is SAP America. F5 has hired substantially all of uRoam's employees, including core founders, key development and sales personnel. uRoam is based in...

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BellSouth Sees Continued Line Loss, Growth in DSL

Major trends at BellSouth continued during Q2 2003: the company added DSL and long distance subscribers, lost local access line to UNE-P competitors and technology substitution, continued to cut its capital expenditures, held its operational costs steady, and further reduced its debt. Service bundling is leading to better retention and reacquisition of residential and small business customers. Some specifics of the quarterly report include the followingQ2 revenue was $5.6 billion, compared to $5.8 billion in Q2 2002.BellSouth added 103,000 net...

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RedClover Achieves 10Gbps NRZ Transmission

RedClover Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California with a subsidiary in Ottawa, Canada, announced a new performance benchmark for 10 Gbps NRZ optical data transmission. RedClover has pushed the reach of its Transdaptor interface sub-systems beyond 240 km over SMF-28 fiber, without the need for any additional NRZ data encoding, spectral shaping, forward-error-correction (FEC), or dispersion-compensating fiber (DCF) modules. In addition, RedClover has demonstrated that, when used in conjunction with the company's Transdaptor products,...

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HP Acquires PipeBeach for VoiceXML System

HP has acquired PipeBeach AB, a Stockholm, Sweden-based provider of speech-based products and technology that enable the delivery of interactive voice solutions. PipeBeach offers a VoiceXML system that lets users speak into their mobile phones and devices to obtain Web-based information such as news, stock prices and e-mail, as well as conduct transactions, such as online banking. The information and options are conveyed to the user through speech -- instead of text or images. HP said it intends to integrate PipeBeach's VoiceXML-based products...

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Lucent Posts Q2 Revenues of $1.96 B, Down 18% Sequentially

Lucent Technologies reported Q2 revenues of $1.96 billion, down 18% compared to the previous quarter and down from $2.95 billion in revenues in the year-ago quarter. The net loss for the quarter was $254 million or $0.07 per share. The loss included charges associated with an impairment of goodwill related to certain multiservice switching products and the revaluation of warrants that are expected to be issued as part of Lucent's global settlement of shareowner litigation. Lucent cited a decline in revenues for its Mobility business but said...

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China Unicom to Deploy Alvarion Broadband Wireless

China Unicom, the second largest cellular communications operator in China, selected Alvarion's wireless broadband solutions for deployment in seven cities: Tianjin, Xining, Huhehaote, Nanning, Dalian, Changsha, and Zhengzhou. China Unicom has licenses to operate 3.5GHz networks across the country. The deployments will use Alvarion's WALKair 1000 Broadband Multiservice Platform to support TDM legacy voice, data and multimedia services, including videoconferencing. Alvarion's local partners include Datang and BISC. Financial terms were not disclosed....

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Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) Advances Closer to Standardization

The IEEE 802.17 Working Group approved the latest Working Ballot of the Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) standard (draft 2.3) at its meeting this week in San Francisco, moving RPR one step closer to standardization. The Resilient Packet Ring Alliance, an industry advocacy group promoting RPR technology, said more and more vendors are developing standards-compliant silicon, systems, and test equipment. http://www.RPRAlliance....

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Telstra Deploys Juniper Edge Routers in Wi-Fi Hotspot Rollout

Siemens is supplying Juniper Networks' E-series platform and the SDX-300 Service Deployment System to Telstra to support new Wi-Fi hotspot services. The Telstra Wireless Hotspots initially are being deployed in selected Qantas Club Lounges and Rydges Hotels in Australia. http://www.juniper.nethttp://telstra....

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AT&T Wireless Selects Nortel Networks, Ericsson for W-CDMA

AT&T Wireless selected Nortel Networks and Ericsson for what is expected to be the first commercial W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple band Access) wireless network in North America. AT&T Wireless and DoCoMo plan to launch W-CDMA in four U.S. markets by the end of 2004. The W-CDMA radio equipment will operate on the 1900 MHz spectrum and use the same core equipment AT&T Wireless currently employs to support advanced voice and data services through GPRS and EDGE radio technologies. The deployments will also support an all IP-based...

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China Telecom Awards $40 Million Contract for UTStarcom's iPAS

China Telecom awarded a contract valued at approximately $40 million to UTStarcom to expand the deployments of its IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) (iPAS) system in 10 cities in Guangdong province. The new contract is in response to robust consumer demand for wireless local services supported over the UTStarcom iPAS platform. http://www.utstar....

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FairPoint Communications Selects Occam for Triple Play

FairPoint Communications, a rural telecommunications provider headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, selected Occam Networks' BLC 6000 System to provide voice, video and data services to subscribers. FairPoint maintains more than 250,000 access lines across 18 states. It owns and operates 29 rural local exchange companies. Occam's BLC initially is being deployed to deliver voice, video and DSL in Yelm, Washington. IP is being used to deliver all three services. FairPoint will also use the BLC 6000 in an edge out application, where it will...

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Netli Signs IIJ as First Partner for High Performance Service

Netli will offer its NetLightning Application Delivery Network (ADN) service in Japan through a partnership with Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ). NetLightning offers global sub-second response times for Web-based applications through Netli's service architecture and proprietary long-haul transport protocol. Under the agreement, IIJ will place Netli Application Access Points (AAPs) into its infrastructure to extend the Netli ADN. The AAPs hosted by IIJ will provide Web applications hosted in Japan an on ramp to Netli's global network. IIJ will...

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SingTel Offers 1.5 Mbps DSL Bandwidth-on-Demand Boost

SingTel began offering its DSL subscribers a 1.5 Mbps Bandwidth-On-Demand (BOD) bursting service that provides a faster, dedicated download speed whenever subscribers need it. In addition, customers pay only for bandwidth used, rather than a monthly flat rate. The service is available to SingTel subscribers with current bandwidth caps of either 256kbps or 512kbps. To use the service, SingNet BroadBand users log-on to a special domain and the faster speed will begin. Bandwidth is charged at an introductory price of 10 cents (Singapore) per MB....

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U.S. House Votes to Roll Back FCC's New Media Rules

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 400 - 21 in favor of an appropriations bill (H.R. 2799) for fiscal year 2004 covering the operations of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and other agencies, including the FCC. The bill contains language that rolls back the new media ownership rules recently approved by the FCC.FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell defended the broadcast media ownership rules, writing that democracy would not be threatened by allowing large media companies to exceed the previous 35% market penetration cap...

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Agere's Revenues Rise 3% Sequentially to $456 Million

Agere Systems reported quarterly revenue of $456 million, up 3% from the prior quarter but down from $498 million in the same period last year. Net loss on a reported or GAAP basis for the June quarter was $78 million or $0.05 per share. Agere said it was pleased with the continued improvements in its financial performance. The company expects revenues in the September quarter to be up approximately 5 to 8 percent from the June quarter. http://www.agere....

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Foundry Reports Revenue of $96 Million, up 5% Sequentially

Foundry Networks reported Q2 revenue of $95.7 million, compared to $91.1 million in the previous quarter, and $75.0 million in the same period last year, an increase of 5% and 28% respectively. Net income was $16.8 million, or $0.13 per diluted share in the second quarter. The company said it continues to reach its near-term milestones while positioning itself for long-term success. http://www.foundrynetworks....

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AOL Loses 846,000 Dial-up Members in the U.S. in Q2

America Online (AOL) lost 846,000 narrowband subscribers in Q2, ending the quarter with 25.3 million members in the U.S., down 1.2% from the same date last year. Approximately 45% of the sequential decline represents the removal of non-paying subscribers or those who violated the terms of service. Also as of June, the AOL service had 6.2 million members in Europe, a decline of 52,000 from three months earlier.Time Warner Cable added 136,000 net digital video subscribers to reach a total of 4.1 million, or 36% of basic cable subscribers.Time Warner...

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Caspian Names Former Cisco Exec as VP of Marketing/Sales

Caspian Networks named Brad Wurtz as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. Wurtz previously was co-founder and general partner of Ironweed Capital, a seed investment partnership based in Palo Alto. Before that, Wirtz is credited with establishing and running Cisco's carrier packet voice business unit as vice president and general manager in 2000. He had previously served as vice president and general manager of Cisco's multiservice switching business (formerly Stratacom), and led Cisco's acquisitions of Sentient and Transmedia....

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Alaska's Matanuska Telephone Deploys Net Insight for Triple Play

Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA), the largest telephone cooperative in Alaska, is using Net Insight's Ethernet-based transport platform to support is triple play DSL network. Matanuska is offering subscribers 120 TV channels to compete with the local cable company. By the end of 2003, MTA plans to roll out the video service to approximately 33,000 access lines. The Net Insight system is a transport switch used for carrying video from the satellite-fed headend to IGMP-enabled DSLAMs. Net Insight uses DTM (Dynamic synchronous Transfer Mode)...

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