SingTel Launches Islandwide Metro Ethernet Service

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) introduced an island wide Metro Ethernet service provides for point-to-point as well as point-to-multipoint connectivity at dedicated and granular speeds of up to 100 Mbps. Speed upgrades are available in incremental steps of 2 Mbps or 10 Mbps depending on the range. The Layer 2 service allows customers to retain full control of their IP layer while ensuring protocol transparency.SingTel has been offering Ethernet-based services since 2000 as part of its Meg@POP IP VPN solution. http://www.singtel....

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Broadcom's 7th Generation GigE Controllers Add PCI Express

Broadcom introduced its seventh generation NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet controllers featuring an advanced PCI Express host interface -- an industry first. Broadcom is offering three models of its new Gigabit Ethernet controller designed specifically for use in server, desktop and mobile PCs. The devices provide an integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet MAC, PCI Express bus interface, on-chip buffer memory, and integrated PHY in a single-chip solution for LAN on motherboard (LOM) and network interface card (NIC) applications.The PCI bus architecture...

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T-Com Launches Ethernet over SDH with Lucent

Deutsche Telekom's T-Com division launched its new "DDV-M Ethernet100" service, offering speeds of 10, 50 or 100 Mbps for connecting corporate LANs across its national SDH network. The new service, which is transported on T-Com´s SDH2000+ backbone, is based on Lucent Technologies' Metropolis AM multiplexer fitted with TransLAN technology for Ethernet over SDH. Quality assurance for T-Com's new service is provided by Lucent's OSS software. Lucent is also the main supplier for the core optical transport network of Deutsche Telekom. http://www.lucent.comT-Com's...

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China Netcom Selects Alvarion's 3.5GHz Broadband Wireless

China Netcom has selected Alvarion's 3.5GHz Broadband Wireless solution for deployment in 8 cities in Sichuan province, as well as the city of Wuxi, the industrial center of Jiangsu province, and in the city of Ningpo of Zhejiang province. Alvarion is working in partnership with Beijing International Switching System Corporation Ltd. (BISC), a joint venture between Siemens AG and Chinese enterprises. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alvarion.com http://www.bisc.com...

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Foundry Supplies 10GigE for Sandia Lab's Red Storm Supercomputer

Foundry Networks is supplying its 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) switches to provide the core networking fabric for the Advanced Strategic Computing Initiative's (ASCI) Red Storm supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories. The project will provide 3D, full-physics simulations in support of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. Red Storm is a highly balanced Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) supercomputer with about 10,000 processors, a peak performance of 40 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), and 10 terabytes of memory. The machine...

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EarthLink Reaches 953,000 Broadband Customers

EarthLink added 71,000 net subscribers this past quarter (excluding the previously announced removal of 152,000 wholesale Charter cable modem customers due to the restructuring of that relationship in July 2003). The company ended the third quarter with approximately 5.0 million paying subscribers, up 128,000, or 2.7% from a year ago. During the quarter, Earthlink achieved growth of 112,000 net broadband subscribers, excluding the adjustment (for removing the Charter subscribers). The companyended the quarter with 953,000 broadband customers,...

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C-COR to Resell Alloptic's FTTP Solutions to MSOs

C-COR.net announced an exclusive deal under which it will market FTTP solutions that incorporate Alloptic's PON technology to cable television MSOs in the U.S. and certain other countries, as well as other selected domestic and international market segments. C-COR is a supplier of optical, digital video transport, and RF telecommunication products for MSOs. http://www.alloptic.com http://www.c-cor.netIn September, OFS and Alloptic demonstrated a Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) solution with a reach of 16 km,...

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Telcordia and CIENA Partner on OSS for Automated Optical Networks

Telcordia Technologies and CIENA announced a partnership to develop Next Generation operating system solutions for automated optical networks. The companies recently completed interoperability testing between the Telcordia Activator and CIENA's CoreDirector for compliance to the TMF 814 standard specifications. The integration is aimed at providing a migration to dynamic, self-aware carrier networks featuring automated provisioning, protection and bandwidth management. The companies intend to extend this collaboration to include joint customer...

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Poland's Border Guards Deploy Cisco IP Telephony net

The Polish Border Guard is deploying a Cisco based IP telephony network that is described as one of the largest IP telephony deployments in Europe. The network, which connects some 300 border passes, checkpoints and posts along Poland's 3,449 km-long state border, will consist of more than 6,500 Cisco IP phones. The network will also use Cisco CallManager IP PBXs, Cisco IP Interactive Voice Response systems and other technologies such as PIX Firewalls and Cisco VPN 3015 Concentrators. Routing is via Cisco 3600 and 3700 Series Multiservice Platforms...

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Asia Netcom Expands to Equinix Centers in the U.S. and Japan

Asia Netcom will begin offering its IP and connectivity services within Equinix's neutral Internet hubs in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Tokyo, Japan. Services include IP Transit, IP VPN, ATM/Frame Relay, International Private Line and co-location services to all major Asia markets including China. http://www.equinix.com http://www.asianetcom.comIn August 2003, Asia Netcom and China Netcom agreed to interconnect their IP VPN infrastructure to enable seamless services across their networks. China Netcom is the largest shareholder in Asia Netcom,...

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LVL7 Systems Raises $15.8 Million for IP Source Code

LVL7 Systems, a start-up based in Morrisville, North Carolina, secured $15.8 million in second round funding. The company develops merchant IP software for Layer 2, 3 and 4 enterprise, access, wireless and metro Ethernet products. The funding was led by Carlyle Venture Partners and included previous investors Gabriel Ventures Partners, H.I.G. Ventures and Research Triangle Ventures. http://www.LVL7....

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Saudi Aramco to Deploy Alcatel 7670 RSP

Saudi Aramco, the world leader in crude oil production, will deploy the Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP) for its backbone network. The equipment will be used to provide Saudi Aramco data centers with the enhanced performance needed to preserve existing data, video and voice services, while introducing new IP services. Saudi Aramco's data network serves more than 35,000 corporate users both in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and internationally. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel.comEarlier this month, Alcatel announced...

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Best Buy to Offer Monet's 3G Data Service

Best Buy will be the first national electronics retailer to offer Monet Broadband's CDMA2000 1xEV-DO wireless broadband service as a consumer offering. Best Buy will sell a Monet Broadband PC card modem for $29.95 after a $40.00 mail-in rebate. The 3G data service will have a flat rate of $19.95 per month for unlimited service in the first two months and $39.95 for subsequent months service. Download speeds are generally ten times faster than dial-up with multi-megabit peaks. Monet uses licensed spectrum in the PCS band (1.9 GHz). The company...

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Avaya Reports Financial Turn Around, Revenue up 4.3% Sequentially

Avaya reported quarterly revenue of $1.1 billion, up 4.3% sequentially. Net income was $66 million or earnings of 15 cents per diluted share. Avaya noted its cash balance increased for the fifth straight quarter to $1.192 billion, giving the company a positive net cash position, for the first time since its inception, of $239 million.Don Peterson, chairman and CEO of Avaya, said the company in a substantially different position from where it was 12 months ago. He said the company is now profitable, has a strengthened financial position, and is...

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SureWest Reaches 10,000 Subscriber Milestone for Sacramento Triple-play

SureWest Communications has reached the 10,000 subscriber milestone for its triple-play bundling of digital television, high-speed Internet and telephony service over fiberoptics in the Sacramento, California region. The company is adding about 200 subscribers a week. SureWest launched triple-play service in July of 2002 by acquiring FTTH assets in a bankruptcy acquisition. The company's Sacramento service packages over 260 channels of digital television (featuring video-on-demand and pay-per-view), 10 Mbps high-speed Internet, and local and...

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AFC Reports Revenue of $85.2 Million, Looks to FTTP

AFC reported Q3 revenue of $85.2 million compared with $83.0 million in the preceding quarter and $91.8 for the same period last year. Net income for the third quarter of 2003 was $9.3 million, or $0.11 per share.AFC reported a record for DSL shipments during the quarter, with some 50,000 ports shipped. The company expects that access networks will be a key focus for carrier investment in the future as service providers continue to roll out DSL and begin the migration to Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP). http://www.afc....

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SBC Says Service Bundling Reverses UNE-p Loss

SBC Communications attributed its service bundling strategy with reversing the loss in UNE-p access lines in its western territory, however the UNE-p losses continue in the Midwest, where the company has just gained approval to offer long distance service. Growth for DSL remained strong in Q3, with a record 365,000 net adds during the quarter. Overall, SBC's quarterly revenue declined to $10.2 billion, compared to $10.6 billion in the year-ago period. Operating expenses totaled $8.6 billion for the third quarter, compared with $8.5 billion in...

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AT&T Cites 280 Swift IP VPN Contracts with Financial Firms

AT&T has been awarded over 280 contracts to date by SWIFT (Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) members for managed IP VPN service. SWIFT is the industry-owned cooperative that supplies secure messaging services to 7,500 financial institutions in nearly 200 countries. Financial institutions are using AT&T's managed network IP VPN network as the transport layer for the SWIFTNet messaging platform and to support SWIFTNet FIN and other applications. Additionally, remote access services enable connection to the network...

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AT&T Sees Decline in LD and Data, Growth in Local Access and Wholesale

AT&T reported Q3 revenue of $6.3 billion, a decline of 6.2% from the same period last year, due to pricing pressure, weakness in retail long distance (LD) and data demand, and weak overall telecommunications spending. The declines were partially offset by growth in wholesale volumes, local voice and IP&E-services revenue. In its quarterly report, AT&T also noted that the liability on its balance sheet relating to costs incurred in 2001 and 2002 pertaining to access and other connection expenses was understated by $125 million. The...

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