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.comIn May 2003, Occam Networks introduced its new BLC 6000 Broadband Loop Carrier System for delivery of voice, data...

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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,...

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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...

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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,...

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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.comIn 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...

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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....

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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.comIn February 2001, ADC agreed to acquire...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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....

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