D-Link Introduces its Latest Web-Based Internet Camera

D-Link introduced its latest Video Monitoring Internet Camera for streaming video at 320 x 480 pixel resolution at up to 20 frames a second. The D-Link internet camera includes a built-in web-server that contains its own IP address and acts as an independent device that doesn't require a PC to operate. When the Ethernet-connected camera detects motion, it can begin to record the video feed with date and time stamps, while sending an email to an office, a pager, or a cell phone. MSRP is $130.
http://www.dlink.com

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Net Insight Adds STM-1/OC-3 Interface for Transporting Video

Net Insight released a 4-port STM-1/OC-3 access module for its Nimbra media networking platform. The Net Insight platform serves as a video transport solution for professional media customers. The new module provides a migration path for media operators that presently run an SDH/SONET based network, to lay over their STM-1/OC-3 based services to the Nimbra powered media network. This permits operators to deliver the professional grade video service together with ATM or POTS based services over their Nimbra network. It could also be used by broadcasters to interface with cable networks that are now offering Internet and voice.


The new module transports any STM-1/OC-3 framed payload over the Nimbra network. This typically includes video encoded for SDH/SONET or ATM and Packet-over-SONET and TDM services. The board also features 4 small formfactor pluggable optics ports that can be fitted with opto modules for both short and long haul traffic. Net Insight's Nimbra platform already offered 10/100/1000 Ethernet, ASI, SDI and E1/T1 interfaces.
http://www.netinsight.net

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Atheros's 4th Gen Chips Double Range of Wi-Fi

Atheros Communications introduced its fourth generation WLAN chipset featuring new technologies for extending the range and reducing the power consumption of 802.11 wireless networks. Atheros said its eXtended Range (XR) technology gives Wi-Fi products twice the range of existing designs, while offering power-saving design improvements that reduce 802.11a/g power consumption by 60% over 802.11b solutions.


Atheros' new chipsets feature a signal processing architecture that embeds separate optimized designs for high performance, high signal-to-noise and long range, low signal-to-noise ratio environments. The architecture delivers receive sensitivities of up to --105dBm, over 20 dB better than the 802.11 specification. The new chipsets also feature the company's Super G and Super A/G technology, which delivers 108Mbps data links with actual end user TCP/IP throughput of up to 90Mbps in 802.11a/b/g, 802.11b/g and 802.11a wireless networks. Super G and Super A/G are backward compatible with conventional 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11a products, and also support mixed-mode operation with Atheros and third-party solutions in the same network.


The company said a single access point using its chipset would be able to cover multi-story brick or masonry homes. Atheros also claims the new chipset enables Wireless Internet Service Providers to deploy public hot spots with coverage cells up to a kilometer wide.
http://www.atheros.com

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Sprint Enhances Managed Services Portfolio

Sprint is enhancing its managed services portfolio to give enterprise customers full access to Web-based reporting, monitoring and diagnostic tools in real time. Sprint's Managed CSU/DSU services now provide these added capabilities:

• reporting, capacity and diagnostic tools for Frame Relay, ATM, IP and "mixed" networks;


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  real-time and historical Web-based reports for network performance and SLA verification;


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  reporting solutions that enable customers to manage the capacity and performance of their network, and improve network performance and availability through faster problem isolation;


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  automated upgrades to CSU/DSU devices via software downloads, providing a migration path to IP without unnecessary "truck rolls";


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  proactive "up/down monitoring" and "performance reporting and SLA verification" service level options, including customer notification and verification of lost network connectivity.

Sprint Managed CSU/DSU services now incorporate Paradyne iMarc devices in addition to the currently supported Visual Networks UpTime product line. This addition expands the types of services that can be supported by intelligent endpoint devices, and adds new diagnostic capabilities to Sprint Managed Service offers.
http://www.sprint.com

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AT&T Warns Against "Reverse Policy Engineering'

Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., AT&T chairman and CEO David Dorman, warned the nation's telecom regulators against "continually rehashing issues previously legislated and litigated." Dorman hopes federal and state policymakers will give up on "re-fighting the battles of the past" and reject calls for protection of monopolies. He pointed to AT&T's $3 billion capital expenditures budget and ongoing investments to further enhance its communications network. He also discussed AT&T's commitment to pressing the limits of new technologies, such as VoIP, WiFi and the use of the electric grid as alternatives to the Bells' "last mile."http://www.att.com

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Yipes Adds $9.5 Million in New Series A Funding

Yipes Enterprise Services raised an additional $9.5 million to close its Series A equity investment, totaling $63.5 million. The additional capital will be used to serve new and current customers as well as for further expansion into Yipes' existing markets. Yipes expects to reach profitability in 2004. Current markets include: New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego. Yipes reported it also added 90 buildings to its national network footprint over the past year, bringing the total to 474 buildings in service. Yipes Series A investors include: Norwest Venture Partners, Sprout Group/CFSB, New Enterprise Associates, JP Morgan/Chase, Soros Private Equity Partners, Focus Ventures and Glynn Ventures.
http://www.yipes.com

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Lumeta Secures $3.5 Million for its IP Net Discovery Software

Lumeta, a supplier of enterprise network management and security solutions, secured $3.5 million in new funding. Lumeta's IPsonar software discovers, analyzes and reports on the operational state of IP networks. New investor RBC Technology Ventures Inc. joins existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Gotham, meVC, New Venture Partners and Wachovia Strategic Ventures in the round. Lumeta is based in Somerset, New Jersey.
http://www.lumeta.com

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Broadvox Deploys Kagoor for Hosted IP Telephony

Kagoor's VoiceFlow remote NAT traversal solution is being deployed by Broadvox to assist with the expansion of their hosted IP telephony services to business customers. Broadvox is focusing its IP Centrex offering in the Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles markets. Kagoor said its network-hosted NAT traversal application allows VoIP traffic to traverse data firewalls with no configuration changes. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.kagoor.com

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NASA/Ames Internet exchange Joins Bay Area MetroPAIX

The NASA/Ames Internet exchange has joined Switch and Data's San Francisco Bay Area MetroPAIX peering and Internet exchange network. The NASA/Ames facility provides a peering point for some 30 networks. Switch and Data's Palo Alto PAIX is already the largest West Coast exchange with over 130 networks exchanging traffic there. MetroPAIX allows these customers to exchange Internet traffic, through a layer 2 switching fabric, with networks in five other locations throughout the Bay area. A dark fiber connection between NASA Ames and PAIX is being provided via IP Networks.
http://www.switchanddata.com

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Canoga Perkins Introduces OC-48c CWDM System

Canoga Perkins introduced OC-48c Coarse Wave Division Multiplexers (CWDM) systems specifically designed for the SAN and metro networks. Th system uses CWDM wavelengths compliant with ITU-T standards and integrates a CWDM loopback function, which assists in troubleshooting of the link and pinpointing problems. The CWDM's transponder complies with all SONET, SAN and Ethernet specifications with complete protocol independence. Any data rate from 100 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps is supported on a single module. The solution is NEBS Level 3 tested and certified.
http://www.canoga.com

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Netrake Introduces VoIP VPN Interconnection Service

Netrake, a start-up based in Plano, Texas, introduced a secure VoIP VPN interconnection service for carriers that offer multimedia services to their enterprise customers. Netrake has developed a Session Controller that addresses several crucial functions for VoIP, such as firewall traversal, network translation, media anchoring, quality of service mediation, session detail records, and session admission control.


Netrake said today's MPLS VPN infrastructure requires all inter-enterprise VoIP calls to traverse the PSTN for origination and termination. Netrake's nCite Session Controller eliminates the need for inter-enterprise VoIP traffic to traverse the PSTN, enabling all intra- and inter-enterprise IP traffic to stay on the IP network. In this way, carriers require fewer costly media gateway ports, while at the same time realizing the efficiencies inherent to IP traffic.


Netrake's nCite Session Controller connects to the provider edge MPLS router via gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The provider edge router sets an 802.1q VLAN tag, which correlates to an enterprise VPN within the MPLS network, on all packets routed to the nCite. The nCite then performs several critical tasks, such as: address translation, security, call routing, billing, call admission control and QoS mediation.
http://www.netrake.com

• In August 2003, Netrake added H.323 and SIP-T support to its line of VoIP session controllers. Currently in trial deployments, Netrake is delivering H.323 to H.323 and H.323 to SIP inter-working as well as SIP-T mediation for a number of tier one carriers. Netrake supports all H.323 versions (v1, v2, and v3) as well as inter-working between them. Netrake also interoperates with the following vendor products: Avaya Definity, Nortel Meridian, Cisco CM, BTS, 2500, 2600, 3600, and AS5300 series.

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Azanda Teams with LG Electronics on Switch/Router Designs

Azanda Network Devices, a fabless semiconductor start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, has established a collaborative design partnership with LG Electronics. Specifically, LG Electronics has selected Azanda's Multi-Service Traffic Management technology for use in future releases of its family of multi-service switch routers. Designed for aggregation and offload of access network traffic, LG Electronics' switch routers provide ATM switching and routing to millions of Korean broadband subscribers. By incorporating Azanda's traffic management technology into its line of multi-service switch routers, LG Electronics will be able to support SLA and QoS requirements at OC-48 speeds.
http://www.azanda.com

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Global Crossing Carries ISDN Video Calls over IP Backbone

Global Crossing is now carrying ISDN calls directly on its private IP backbone rather than the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Calls are then provisioned into multi-point conferencing units (MCU's) that enable multiple sites to communicate simultaneously without additional routing. Global Crossing said videoconferencing calls placed over ISDN networks have traditionally been susceptible to problems such as freeze frames and temporary disconnects. Its newly enhanced videoconferencing service is aimed at multinational organizations. The company has already provisioned more than 406,000 network minutes of enhanced videoconferencing service, linking large multinational corporations with sites in Europe, the America's and Pacific Rim.


Separately, Global Crossing announced a contract to provide audio, video and Web-based conferencing services to the Zurich Financial Services Group.
http://www.globalcrossing.com

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Microsoft's X-box Live Reaches 500,000 Users

Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service now has 500,000 members. The company is preparing to launch new promotions for the holiday season combining new games and a two-month free trial membership.
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Cisco and Sony Launch IP Surveillance Solution

Cisco Systems and Sony Electronics unveiled an IP monitoring solution that combines Sony's IP video monitoring cameras, servers, and software with Cisco networking hardware. Embedded-web servers in the IP Surveillance cameras allow up to 50 simultaneous feeds using 25x optical zoom lenses and 12x digital zooms. Working through the Internet infrastructure, users can control the cameras or access information from PCs, laptops or even handheld PDAs. The companies are especially positioning the pre-integrated solution for school security.
http://www.sony.com/onsite

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TippingPoint Hires Former CEO of Efficient Networks

TippingPoint Technologies, a provider of high-speed intrusion prevention, named James A. Hamilton as its new president and COO. Most recently, Hamilton served as president and CEO of Efficient Networks Inc., a subsidiary of Siemens AG. Prior to the Efficient Networks acquisition by Siemens in April 2001, Hamilton served as executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing as well as general manager of the company's four product divisions from 1999 to 2001.
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CSG Systems Introduces Kenan Billing Framework

CSG Systems, which provides billing and customer care solutions for some 265 service providers, unveiled Kenan FX, a new offering that combines CSG's existing applications with an integrated customer care and billing framework for the telecommunications marketplace. The Kenan FX framework brings together the Kenan billing engine and revenue-enabling solutions with new ordering and customer management products that are pre-integrated, share a common look-and-feel for all customer-facing functions and use a common middle layer architecture. CSG Systems will offer Kenan FX through a variety of delivery models, including an in-house software solution, a service bureau or managed operations. The company is targetting the convergent global telecommunications marketplace, including next generation mobile, wireline, broadband and IP service providers.
http://www.csgsystems.com

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City of Windom to Deploy Optical Solutions' FTTP

The City of Windom, Minnesota, will rollout a municipal fiber to the premises (FTTP) network using Optical Solutions' FiberPath 500 platform. Windom's City Council initially appointed a Telecommunications Committee back in 2001, which conducted market research to investigate the benefits and costs associated with a municipally owned telecommunications system. Windom then rolled out a telecommunications feasibility survey to residents, which included telephone surveys, community focus groups and in-person interviews. The city has now selected Optical Solutions' recently introduced ITU standards-compliant FiberPath 500 FTTP system. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.opticalsolutions.com

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Extreme Networks Adds Management Module for BlackDiamond 6800

Extreme Networks enhanced its BlackDiamond 6800 switch platform with the introduction of a new management module featuring hitless failover and hitless software upgrade capabilities while offering complete backwards compatibility with existing I/O modules. The new management module also more than doubles the route table capacity, doubles the Access Control List (ACL) capacity to 10,000 entries, and provides a 200% to 400% improved performance for numerous functions such as Network Address Translation (NAT) and Server Load Balancing.
http://www.extremenetworks.com

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AT&T Increases its Quarterly Dividend

AT&T declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.2375 (23.75 cents) per share, payable 03-November-2003, to AT&T common shareowners of record at the close of business on 30-September-2003.
The company noted that the new dividend is an increase of 27%, or 5 cents per share, from the previous quarterly dividend.
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