Virginia's Citizens Telephone Coop Deploys Occam BLC

Citizens Telephone Cooperative, a Virginia-based independent operating company, has selected Occam Networks' BLC 6000 System to provide voice and data services to subscribers. Citizens Telephone initially is using the Occam platform for voice and high-speed Internet and also plans to eventually provide video services as well. The carrier is using Rural Utilities Service funds to purchase the BLC 6000 system.
http://www.occamnetworks.com

• In May 2003, Occam Networks introduced its new BLC 6000 Broadband Loop Carrier System for delivery of voice, data and video services using Gigabit Ethernet transport. Occam's BLC 6000 is a modular loop carrier system designed to eliminate the need for additional pieces of access equipment such as a DSLAM, Ethernet switch, Optical Add Drop multiplexor and VoIP gateway. The platform supports TDM services, such as lifeline POTS and T1s, as well as an IP Service Delivery model for the delivery of video and softswitch-controlled voice services. IP support includes Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP) and Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP). The BLC 6000 System can scale from 24 to thousands of subscribers, sharing blades across a variety of chassis sizes.

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Transcom Enhanced Services Chooses Veraz to Replace Cisco Gateways

Transcom Enhanced Services, a wholesale provider of domestic and international IP communications, purchased 87,000 ports of Veraz' I-Gate 4000 and I-Gate 4000 Pro media gateways to replace its installed base of Cisco System's media gateways across the US. Transcom is also increasing the softswitch capacity of its previously deployed Veraz ControlSwitch to 87,000 ports. Transcom is rolling out a Global Carrier Peering (GCP) architecture that effectively doubles its VoIP capacity. The GCP solution enables Transcom to support traffic processing and delivery using any combination of signaling: H.323-H.323, H.323-SS7, H.323-PRI, SIP-SIP, SIP-H.323, SIP-PRI, SIP-SS7, SS7-PRI, SS7-SS7, PRI-PRI, and others. All of these types of calls are managed using a common routing, call control, billing and management framework from a central location and eliminates the limitations of H.323 Gatekeeper-centric H.323-H.323 peering. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.veraznetworks.com

• In June 2003, Veraz Networks announced customer deployments with vNet Source Inc., a provider of next-generation telephony services in the U.S., and BtNAccess, a wholly owned subsidiary of PCCW. vNet Source has deployed Veraz Networks' ControlSwitch softswitch platform and I-Gate 4000 media gateways for its greenfield VoIP network. The BtNAccess distributed voice over IP network spans the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific with the ControlSwitch positioned in the U.S. to manage I-Gate 4000 media gateways located in their POPs around the world.


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  Veraz Networks was formed through the merger of ECI Telecom's NGTS division and NexVerse.

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Vonage Activates 40,000th Broadband Phone Line

Vonage has now activated 40,000 total broadband phone lines on its network, effectively doubling its installed line base over the past 90 days. Vonage is adding about 1,500 lines per week. More than 40 million calls have now been completed over the company's SIP network.
http://www.vonage.com

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Xignal Offers CMOS-Based VDSL Analog Front End

Xignal Technologies introduced a CMOS-based mixed signal, analog front end (AFE) chip design that it claims could reduce VDSL equipment costs by 25%. Xignal's VDSL core family has two products: a dual AFE with line driver (XT20502) intended for DSL access multiplexers (DSLAMs) and a single AFE with line driver (XT20501) for customer premises equipment (CPE). The company is based in Munich, Germany.
http://www.xignal.com

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Alcatel 5070 Signaling Server Debuts in Sprint Network

Sprint completed the deployment of eight Alcatel 5070 SSG next generation communication signaling servers in its mobile and long distance network. The new Alcatel 5070 SSG are capable of processing more than twice the Signaling System 7 (SS7) traffic as the previous generation of Alcatel signal transfer points (STPs). The Alcatel 5070 SSG is a high-speed packet switch that receives, routes, and transmits signaling messages for call processing, wireless network services, and intelligent networking services. It supports 1.536 Mbps ATM over T1 links, and SS7 over IP. Specific capabilities also include local number portability and wireless number portability.
http://www.alcatel.com

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SAVVIS Launches Multicast Service Via Private IP VPN

SAVVIS began offering private multicast services via private IP VPNs as a means of delivering streaming applications to corporate end-users. For example, in the financial services industry, financial market data is collected and consolidated in real-time from trading venues around the world and distributed to brokers and dealers. One customer, Moneyline Telerate, is using SAVVIS to distribute real-time financial market data worldwide. Private Multicast is integrated with SAVVIS' global private network, which spans 45 countries, and with its data centers in the US, Europe, and Asia.
http://www.savvis.net

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Postini Now Processing 100 Million Corporate Emails Daily

Postini, a provider of corporate email security and spam filtering services, is now handling 100 million corporate emails per day, representing a 100% increase in traffic volume in six months. The company has 1,400 corporate clients. Postini said its systems are able to identify and protect against Directory Harvest Attacks, a new attack technique by which spammers quickly gain access to an enterprise's entire corporate email directory. Postini said it now ranks as the 5th largest processor of email of any kind in the United States, behind AOL, Earthlink, MSN, and Yahoo.
http://www.postini.com

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D-Link Uses Atheros Chips for 802.11a/b/g and 802.11b/g Products

D-Link is using Atheros' 802.11b/g and 802.11a/b/g chipsets in its wireless routers and access points, CardBus adapters, PCI adapters and a range of OEM products. Under a newly extended partnership between the firms, D-Link will be first-to-market at the end of Q3 with higher performance WLAN products based on Atheros' Super G and Super A/G standards-plus performance enhancements.
http://www.atheros.com

• In June 2003, Atheros Communications broke the 1-million unit mark in monthly shipments of its 802.11b/g and 802.11a/b/g WLAN chips, indicating the rapid adoption of its third generation WLAN silicon.

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Proficient Networks Offers Enterprise IP-VPN Solution

Proficient Networks, a start-up based in San Francisco, released an enterprise IP-VPN solution featuring performance management functionality that measures latency, jitter, and packet loss for ensuring end-to-end application performance. Proficient's Pathfinder moves traffic to the path with the most appropriate characteristics for each application. Proficient's Network Policy Engine (NPE) appliance directs routers to avoid end-to-end network congestion, while controlling inbound traffic based on lowest cost per bit from multiple service providers. The new enterprise version of the Proficient platform is priced at $9,000.


Separately, Proficient Networks announced that the Network Policy Engine (NPE) appliance has achieved OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) certification from Check Point Software Technologieshttp://www.proficient.net

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Adelphia Selects ADC's FastFlow for Cable Modem Provisioning

Adelphia Communications will use ADC's FastFlow Broadband Provisioning Manager (BPM) as its exclusive provisioning solution for its nationwide high-speed data network. Specifically, Adelphia will use ADC's FastFlow BPM to automate cable modem registration and upgrades for its approximately 800,000 broadband data subscribers. Financial terms were not disclosed. ADC's platform is currently in use by Cox Communications, where it has provisioned cable modems for more than 1.7 million subscribers.
http://www.adc.com

• In February 2001, ADC agreed to acquire CommTech Corporation, a provider of end-to-end service order management, provisioning and activation software, for approximately $185 million in stock (13.25 million ADC shares). CommTech had developed a FastFlow software suite for order management, flow-through provisioning and service activation components. The FastFlow capabilities were seen as complementary to ADC's own Singularit.e OSS suite.

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Iridium Launches Global Satellite SMS

Iridium Satellite launched Short Messaging Services (SMS) allowing subscribers to send and receive up to 160 characters per message to and from other subscribers anywhere around the globe. Subscribers will also be able to send and receive messages via e-mail addresses. Iridium operates a constellation of 66 low-earth orbiting (LEO) satellites plus 14 additional in- orbit spares. An additional service, Short Burst Data, was launched at the beginning of June, 2003 and enables the transfer of compressed data files of up to 1,960 bytes, well suited for applications such as asset tracking and pipeline monitoring.
http://www.iridium.com

• In December 2002, the U.S. Department of Defense renewed an existing airtime contract with Iridium Satellite that gives unlimited airtime to 20,000 government workers who use the Iridium satellite network for mobile voice, data and paging capabilities. Boeing operates the satellite constellation system under contract to Iridium.

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MCI Counters AT&T Objection to Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan

MCI described the latest charges of fraud regarding its call termination practices as "baseless" and accused AT&T of attempting to "delay and derail" its Chapter 11 reorganization efforts. MCI said its own analysis and a preliminary review conducted by the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP indicate that its call routing practices are legal and comply with regulatory requirements. In a court filing seeking to dismiss AT&T's objections, MCI countered a number of AT&T's specific legal claims. Specifically:

• MCI stated that its contract with Onvoy -- a provider of "least-cost routing" services was "completely legal and commonplace" and that there is nothing even remotely illegal about Onvoy's routing of domestic traffic via Canada. MCI noted that AT&T engages in the same types of arrangements;


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  MCI claimed that it does not and has not itself routed traffic through Canada (though there would be nothing illegal about such a practice if it did) ;


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  MCI refuted claims by AT&T that MCI has avoided the costs of access charges and that AT&T is not fairly compensated for its role in terminating traffic;


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  MCI stated that it has certain government contracts that require it to carry classified traffic in a secure manner and none of that traffic is or was routed through Onvoy;


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  Finally, MCI described AT&T's invocation of the 'national interest' as a "transparent attempt to promote its corporate interest in shutting down one of its competitors by publishing malicious fabrications."

http://www.mci.com

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Wipro Licenses 802.11 MACs to STMicroelectronics

Wipro Technologies has licensed its multi-mode 802.11 MAC and BB intellectual property to STMicroelectronics. Wipro described the contract as a key win for its WLAN development program.
http://www.wipro.com

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China's MII Approves Luminous Networks' PacketWave Metro RPR

China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has certified Luminous Networks' PacketWave E-Series platform for metropolitan area networks. Luminous' PacketWave E-Series is a low-cost multiservice transport platform for 1 Gbps or 2.5 Gbps metro rings. Like Luminous Networks' existing M-series (metro core) and C-Series (metro access) platforms, the PacketWave E500 leverages RPR layer 2 technology to integrate Ethernet and TDM services using ring architectures that are cheaper and more bandwidth-efficient than SONET/SDH. RPR. The MII approval follows an extensive battery of voice and data tests performed by the MII in their Beijing lab. These included tests of PacketWave's throughput, latency, quality of service and network management. The PacketWave E-Series platform also successfully passed tests on the delivery of traditional Ethernet services; transparent Ethernet lease line services; TDM lease line services and MPLS services while experiencing heavy emulated Ethernet, TDM and PBX voice traffic. Luminous Networks said it is the first company with an entire product line based on Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) technology to receive MII approval.
http://www.luminous.com

• In July 2003, Luminous Networks appointed Yudan Jin as general manager and president of Luminous China. Jin previously served as president of Marconi, Asia Pacific. He has also held several senior level positions at 3Com, Beijing, China Hewlett-Packard and the Ministry of Electronic Industry (MEI). Luminous has its China headquarters in Shanghai and recently opened a new sales and support office in Beijing.


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  Luminous Networks has previously disclosed deployments with China Netcom among others. China Netcom is deploying Luminous' metro platform in nine cities, including Shanghai, Dalian, Guangzhou, Foshan, Shunde, Mianyang, Quanzhou, Shaoxing, and Jiaxing.

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Acterna's Chapter 11 Plan to Reduce Debt by $770 million, or 80%

Acterna filed a plan of reorganization with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York that would reduce its long term debt by $770 million, or 80%, and lower its annual cash interest expense by at least $45 million. Acterna said its plan is supported by the company's official committee of unsecured creditors. Assuming court approval of the plan, Acterna expects to emerge from Chapter 11 protection in early October. Upon emergence from Chapter 11, the company believes it will be sufficiently funded to execute on its business plan. As of 30-June-2003, Acterna had $53 million of cash on hand and access to a $30 million debtor-in-possession credit facility.
http://www.acterna.com

• On 06-May-2003, Acterna voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection after negotiating a term sheet with its key lenders.


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  In March 2003, Acterna named John R. Peeler as its new CEO, replacing Ned C. Lautenbach. Peeler maintains his position as president of Acterna Corporation and president and chief executive of Acterna's communications test business, the company's largest business unit. He has served with the company for 23 years, including as president and CEO of TTC, the company that merged with Wavetek Wandel Goltermann in 2000 to form Acterna.

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Excel Switching Partners with IntelliNet Technologies

Excel Switching Corporation announced a strategic partnership with IntelliNet Technologies to develop wireless and Intelligent Network (IN) for Excel's Converged Services Platform (CSP). Excel's Converged Services Platform is used to deliver carrier applications such as RBOC voice mail services, pre-paid calling cards, tandem/international gateway switching, multiparty audio conferencing, media server and advanced directory assistance services. The platform is designed to bridge traditional circuit switched networks with next-generation IP networks in either wireline or wireless environments. As part of the new strategic partnership, Excel will use IntelliNet's Accelero Application Software Protocols product.
http://www.xl.com
http://www.intellinet-tech.com

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Sprint Cites Success in its Enterprise Spam-blocking Service

In a single, recent weekend, Sprint blocked 28,000 spam emails directed at Bollinger Shipyards, the largest vessel repair/conversion company in the Gulf Coast, on a volume of 32,000 incoming emails. Sprint is now offering an enterprise Email Protection Service as part of its overall security portfolio.
http://www.sprint.com

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Adimos Raises $12 Million for Home Wireless Devices

Adimos, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, Israel, raised $12 million in series A funding for its work in developing wireless multimedia connectivity solutions for consumer appliances in the home. Product plans have not been disclosed. Investors include JVP, Benchmark Capital, Gemini Israel Venture Funds and Genesis Campus.
http://www.adimos.com

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Qwest to Resell Sprint PCS Vision Wireless Services

Qwest Communications and Sprint announced a wholesale agreement under which Qwest will provide nationwide wireless voice and data services to its new and existing consumers throughout its 14-state local service region. The deal also enables Qwest to resell Sprint's wireless business across the U.S. As part of the agreement, Qwest and Sprint will jointly work on a plan to transition existing Qwest wireless customers to the enhanced Sprint Nationwide PCS Network.
http://www.qwest.com
http://www.sprint.com

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