Sun Microsystems to Acquire CenterRun for Data Center Mgt.

Sun Microsystems agreed to acquire CenterRun, a start-up based in Redwood City, California that specializes in software that enables customers to rapidly provision, track and update their networked application services across many network devices. The CenterRun software can be used for the distribution, configuration and setup of packaged and custom applications, patches and updates. CenterRun's technology also enables the simulation of application deployments before any changes are formally instituted. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.sun.com...

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Japan's Yahoo! BB Adds 157,000 VoIP Subscribers in July

Yahoo! BB, the Japanese broadband service provided by Softbank and Yahoo! Japan, issued its latest monthly progress report. Yahoo! BB Subscribers   Jul-03 Jun-03 May-03 Apr-03 Mar-03 ...

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ITU to Adopt TeleManagement Forum Standards

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the TeleManagement Forum reached an agreement that will allow TM Forum standards to be published by ITU as ITU-T Recommendations. The TM Forum's work has long been complementary to that of ITU-T's Study Group 4. The partnership means that the ITU and the TM Forum can avoid duplication of work and get standards to market in a far more efficient manner. Houlin Zhao, Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (secretariat for ITU-T), said "a policy of cooperation with other standards...

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Nortel Networks Extends Service Contracts with Chinese Carriers

Nortel Networks signed one-year extended warranty service agreements with subsidiaries of China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile. These extensions include remote technical support, hardware repair and return, field service engineering, and knowledge transfer services for the China Telecom Shanghai Branch ATM network and for the GSM networks of China Unicom Hunan Branch and China Mobile Xinjiang Branch. http://www.nortelnetworks....

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Israel's Ben Gurion Airport Deploys Nortel's Meridian PBX

Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport has deployed Nortel Networks' Meridian 1 PBX to provide IP communications for its newly-built Terminal Three. Network integrator Telindus also participated in the deployment. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.nortelnetworks....

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EchoStar IX/Telstar 13 Satellite Successfully Launched

The EchoStar IX/Telstar 13 satellite was successfully launched from a platform in the equatorial Pacific by Sea Launch. The satellite has Ku-band capacity that will be used to enhance EchoStar's U.S. DISH Network, which is served by eight other satellites in orbit. The new satellite is also equipped with the first commercial Ka-band spot-beam directed at the U.S. EchoStar' plans to introduce future broadband initiatives use the Ka-band capabilities. EchoStar will operate the Ku- and Ka-band payloads as EchoStar IX; Loral Skynet, a subsidiary...

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Broadcom, Intel Settle All Litigation, Execute Patent Cross-License

Broadcom and Intel settled all outstanding litigation between the companies and announced a patent cross-licensing agreement. Under the settlement agreement, Broadcom will pay Intel $60 million in cash. All outstanding claims and counterclaims in those actions will be dismissed. The cross-license agreement covers patents owned or controlled by either party or its subsidiaries, and having a first effective filing date, at any time through 07-August-2008. Under the agreement, products of each party and its subsidiaries are licensed under the patents...

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BT Exact's Tests Confirm Performance of DCL's BGP Suite

BT Exact successfully completed evaluation of Data Connection Limited's (DCL's) BGP routing software. The DC-BGP software, which forms part of DCL's IP Routing Suite, supports advanced features including virtual routing and BGP/MPLS VPNs (RFC 2547). It also supports non-stop forwarding, distribution of routing tables to multiple locations with distributed processing and no single point of failure, and scaling to many thousands of independent routing tables, as required by Virtual Routers and BGP/MPLS VPNs. DCL's BGP software passed all of the tests...

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