Alcatel Selected for Municipal FTTH Network in Georgia

Dalton Utilities, a public utility serving small cities in the state of Georgia, has selected the Alcatel 7340 Fiber-to-the-User (FTTU) system to deliver triple play services to residences and businesses. The Alcatel 7340 FTTU system uses a Broadband Passive Optical Networking (BPON) architecture. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel.comDalton Utilities is using General Bandwidth's G6 platform to deliver full feature voice services over their new Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) network. Dalton Utilities' OptiLink service delivers...

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Fortinet Raises $30 Million for ASIC-powered Antivirus Firewalls

Fortinet, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, closed $30 million in fourth round funding for its ASIC-powered, network-based anti-virus firewall systems. The FortiGate systems deliver a full range of network-level services -- firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and traffic shaping -- as well as application-level services such as anti-virus and content filtering. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, who was a new investor along with Meritech Capital Partners. All existing institutional investors also participated in the financing. Fortinet...

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Riverstone Networks Updates its Financial Restatement

Riverstone Networks released results of its ongoing accounting review confirming that previously announced financial results were overstated. Based of the review, Riverstone has determined that it overstated its previously reported net revenues of $210.8 million for the fiscal year ended March 2, 2002 by as much as $85.5 million and its previously reported net revenues of $54.5 million for the nine months ended November 30, 2002 by as much as $12.7 million.In addition, the company has determined that previously announced net revenues of $69.6...

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AMCC Delivers 10 Gbps Transceivers With Electronic Compensation

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) introduced two 10 Gbps CMOS transceivers that could be used to deliver more integrated capabilities for line card and XFP modules. The transceivers interface with a variety of AMCC's OC-192 framers, mappers and Forward Error Correction (FEC) devices. Both transceivers support OC-192/STM-64, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel and G.709 OTU-2 rates. http://www.amcc.c...

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Flag Telecom's Outstanding Debt Reduced by 55%

FLAG Telecom completed the redemption of outstanding notes at a discounted rate, enabling the company to reduce its total outstanding debt by 55% to approximately $35 million. http://www.flagtelecom.com In May 2003, FLAG Telecom announced plans to enhance the reach of its European network through an agreement with Verizon Global Solutions. This agreement is a key element in FLAG's global network plan. FLAG said it would also open new POPs in Amsterdam and Frankfurt to provide seamless connectivity to its submarine cable systems: FLAG Atlantic-1...

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ADC Names New Officers

ADC named Gokul Hemmady as its new CFO. Hemmady joined ADC in 1997 as Assistant Treasurer and has served as ADC's Corporate Controller and Treasurer since 2002. ADC also announces the promotion of Mark Borman to the position of Treasurer, combined with his current position of Vice President of Investor Relations. http://www.adc....

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Boingo's Wi-Fi Network Reaches 2,600 Hotspots

Boingo Wireless now has over 2,600 unique hot spot locations either live or in the process of integration in its Wi-Fi roaming network. The company has added some 1,300 locations over the past 90 days. http://www.boingo.com Boingo Wireless was founded by Sky Dayton, founder and chairman of EarthLink. The company received venture funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sprint PCS and Evercore Ventur...

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BT Supplies MPLS VPN for the Financial Times

BT was awarded a GBP 3.5 million contract to supply an MPLS VPN for the Financial Times. Over the past nine months, the FT has been migrating all its print sites, currently connected via a BT Frame Relay network, to a consistent page distribution solution. The new MPLS VPN is expected to reduce FT's distribution costs by 20% over the first year. http://www.bt....

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Bob Annunziata Joins Tropic Networks' Board

Bob Annunziata, a former CEO of Global Crossing, has been named non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tropic Networks, a start-up developing metro-optical network equipment. Previously, Annunziata helped establish Teleport Communications Group (TCG), a CLEC that was acquired by AT&T. In 1999, Annunziata became CEO and a Director of Global Crossing. In May of 2000, he was appointed Chairman of the Board at Velocita Corporation. http://www.tropicnetworks....

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D-Link Launches Airspot Line of Combo Public/Private Internet Gateways

D-Link launched the first in its line of affordable Airspot Public/Private Gateways aimed at small to medium-sized business that wish to create a public hot spot to cater to Wi-Fi enabled mobile consumers and businesspeople while maintaining access to its own private LAN. The D-Link Airspot DSA-3100 is a complete hot spot gateway that provides a firewall, DHCP server and router functions for both public and private broadband Internet access. From the gateway's web-based configuration menu "command center," the administrator can limit user access...

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RCN Launches Cinemax On Demand

RCN began offering a Cinemax On Demand subscription video on demand (SVOD) in its Philadelphia, New York and Massachusetts markets. The service offers 50 hours of top Cinemax programming to digital subscribers for $4.95 per month. http://www.rcn....

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Cox Selects CIENA's ONLINE Multiservice Solutions for Nationwide Network

Cox, the fourth largest cable operator in the U.S., has selected CIENA's ONLINE Metro and ONLINE Edge platforms to support data services on its multiservice broadband communications network. CIENA's ONLINE platforms will be used to deliver video-on-demand, storage area networking and Gigabit Ethernet services. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ciena.com In June 2003, Cox began to move its long distance voice traffic onto its national IP backbone. Cox is using Nortel Networks' Succession cable VoIP solution and Nuera Communications'...

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General Bandwidth Completes IP Centrex Interoperability Testing With VocalData

General Bandwidth announced an interoperability alliance with VocalData, an application developer of hosted IP telephony services. General Bandwidth's G6 platform simultaneously supports SIP-based IP Centrex services with feature servers, as well as MGCP-based softswitches and Class 5 derived voice services. VocalData's flagship VOISS product is a feature-rich, standards-based voice application server that can be used to deliver IP Centrex, hosted PBX, VoIP VPN, and enhanced services such as conferencing and unified messaging. http://www.genba...

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Connexion by Boeing Selects Eutelsat for In-Flight Satellite Connectivity

Connexion by Boeing signed a contract with Eutelsat for satellite transponder capacity covering key areas or Europe and Asia. The deal covers leased capacity on Eutelsat's SESAT satellite, which is located at 36 degrees East and provides a footprint stretching from the eastern Atlantic Ocean across the European continent and as far east as Central Asia. The connectivity will provide in-flight, real-time access to email, company intranets, the World Wide Web and entertainment content. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.boeing.com/connexionhttp://www.eutelsat.comIn...

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DISH Network to Offer Free Digital Video Recorder

EchoStar Communications will begin offering a combination satellite TV receiver and digital video recorder (DVR) to new subscribers of its DISH Network service. The DISH Player - DVR 510 features a seven-day on-screen program guide, a 120-gigabyte hard drive capable of up to 100 hours of tapeless recording, parental locks and other features. The new DISH Video On Demand service allows viewers to skip commercials and other pre-recorded programming without videotape, as well as pause live TV, perform slow-motion instant replays, fast forward and...

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