Entone Secures $16 Million for its Video Servers

Entone Technologies, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, secured $16 million in second round funding for its video on demand (VOD) infrastructure solutions. Entone provides software for video servers and home entertainment gateways used in VOD and PVR applications. The funding round was co-led by Menlo Ventures, Palomar Ventures, and BA Venture Partners.


Entone said one of its strategic advantages is that it partners with leading server vendors, such as IBM and HP, allowing it to ride the innovation and price curves of off-the-shelf components. A single Entone StreamLiner Video Server can deliver 500 Mbps to 1 Gbps of video and contain over 800 hours of MPEG2 content.
http://www.entone.com

• Entone Technologies was co-founded by Mark Evensen (current Chairman), who previously was General Manager of Technology Development at PCCW HKTelecom and lead architect for their interactive television and Internet services, and by Tim Warren (current CTO), who previously developed a modernized betting system based on UNIX and TCP/IP for a large, Asian gaming concern.

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SEI, NEC and NTT-BB Test Forward Error Correction for Video Delivery

Sumitomo Electric Industries, SEI Networks, NEC and NTT-BB will launch a field trial to measure the effectiveness of forward error correction (FEC) in improving the delivery of video content over residential connections. Currently, broadband content providers use packet re-transmission techniques to recover from packet loss.


The FEC technology used for this trial was developed by SEI Networks based on the "Raptor" technology of Digital Fountain, a start-up located in San Francisco. Forward error correction provides a means for receivers to repair lost packets. Users participating in the trial will be provided an IP set top box developed by SEI Networks. The trial gets underway in December and is expected to run through the end of January 2004.
http://www.sei-networks.com/index_E.htmlhttp://www.nec.com/

• Digital Fountain's Meta-Content technology analyzes and then represents each content file as a series of unique mathematical equations. The equations are transmitted instead of the original content bits, enabling the receiving computer to reconstruct a perfect copy of the original content. Digital Fountain said the unique advantage of its technology is that all users can be treated as a single group, meaning that server capacity is no longer a strict function of the number of users. The company claims that in multicast environments, a single Fountain Server could provide unscheduled access to a virtually unlimited number of users. In a unicast network, Streaming Fountain supports up to 4,000 video streams at 700 kbps quality , 10,000 video streams at 300 kbps quality, or up to 60,000 narrow-band streams.


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  Digital Fountain is led by Cliff Meltzer, who previously served as Senior Vice President of Cisco Systems' IOS Technologies Division, where he oversaw development and marketing of IOS. The company was co-founded by Dr. Michael Luby, previously a computer science professor at both the University of Toronto and University of California at Berkeley, and Jay Goldin, formerly a management consultant with the Pacific Rim Consulting Group in Hong Kong and China.

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Equinix Takes Over Sprint Data Center in Santa Clara

Equinix agreed to sublease Sprint's E|Solutions Internet Center in Santa Clara, California and acquire certain related assets. The 160,000 square foot data center, where Sprint currently hosts the web operations of some of the top names in the Internet, will become Equinix's 15th Internet Business Exchange.


In addition to operating two IBX centers in the Silicon Valley area, Equinix also operates centers in the New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Honolulu, Singapore, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo areas. Its facilities will now encompass over 1.2 million square feet.
http://www.equinix.com

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MobileAccess Networks Secures $10M for Converged Wireless Networking

MobileAccess Networks, a start-up based in Vienna, Virginia, raised $10 million in venture funding for its work in converged wireless enterprise networking. The company's products leverage patented techniques for the transmission of Radio Frequency (RF) signals over optical fibers. The MobileAccess product line includes a modular, chassis-based solution that supports multiple wireless data and voice services within the same building or campus on a single broadband infrastructure. The MobileAccess infrastructure simultaneously supports multiple wireless services including public safety, cellular, paging, PCS and WLAN. For instance, The American Red Cross has deployed the platform at its headquarters in Washington D.C. in order to extend cellular, paging and PCS services for three major wireless service providers throughout the facility. Additional wireless services could also be supported.


HarbourVest Partners, LLC and Pitango Venture Capital co-led this financing round. Also invested in this round are Poalim Ventures and current investors.
http://www.mobileaccess.com

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First Avenue Networks Enters Market for 39 GHz Spectrum Leasing

First Avenue Networks, which holds extensive 39 GHz spectrum licenses across the U.S., introduced a new flexible, spectrum leasing service aimed at telecommunication operators and enterprise customers. First Avenue Networks said it aims to provide a very low-cost and capital-efficient way for telecommunication providers to obtain and utilize spectrum. Operators can lease 39 GHz spectrum for as little as $500 per link, per year.


First Avenue Networks holds over 750 FCC-issued licenses for the 39 GHz spectrum band, covering approximately 950 million channel POPs. Each 39 GHz spectrum channel has 100 MHz available and can carry up to OC-12 (622 Mbps). Most applications utilize 45 Mbps (DS-3) to 155 Mbps (OC-3).
http://www.firstavenet.com

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Tellabs Demos IP-Optical Integration

Tellabs has demonstrated the dynamic delivery of IP services over an optical core using a GMPLS control plane with routing. The test, which was conducted at the Isocore Internetworking Lab, used the new Tellabs 8820 multi-service switch router, the Tellabs 5500 NGX-S transport switch and the Tellabs MetroWatch element manager's GMPLS software. During the Isocore testing, the Tellabs 8820 multi-service switch router combined the functionality of an edge router, ATM multi-service switch, Frame Relay switch and Ethernet edge switch into one platform. The Tellabs 8820 multi-service switch router interoperated and enabled three MPLS-based applications during the Isocore multi-vendor testing:

• Layer 2 VPNs using the IETF Martini draft, which defines point-to-point MPLS connections that support virtual local networks or Frame Relay/ATM;



• Layer 3 VPNs using the IETF's RFC-2547bis specification, which enables IP/MPLS-based IP VPNs



• Virtual Private LAN services (VPLS) using the IETF's VPLS-over-MPLS draft, which enables carriers to offer point-to-point or point-to-multi-point WAN extensions of customers' LAN-based Ethernet networks

Tellabs said its MetroWatch element manager's GMPLS software enabled the first- ever interworking between the IETF's GMPLS and ITU's OIF-UNI specifications for signaling between the IP routing network and optical transport network.
http://www.tellabs.com

• In September 2003, Tellabs introduced a new carrier-class, medium capacity (42 Gbps) "managed edge" platform designed to extend IP/MPLS from the edge of the core network to the local exchange or even to the customer premises. The new Tellabs 8600 system could be used by service providers to implement MPLS VPNs and Ethernet over MPLS, delivering application aware services such as intranet interconnectivity, extranet, business Internet access and corporate voice with QoS.

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Level 3 to Provide AOL with 10 Gbps Wavelengths, Collocation

America Online will expand its use of Level 3's colocation services in the U.S. and Europe. Under new agreements, Level 3 is now providing America Online with 10 Gbps wavelength circuits in the U.S. and Europe, which will be integrated into AOL's IP network, which is named ATDN. In addition, America Online purchased metropolitan dark fiber in the U.S. earlier this year.


Level 3 said the new contracts are incremental to the managed modem and other America Online customer agreements previously disclosed by Level 3, and the America Online contracts that Level 3 assumed as a result of the Genuity acquisition.
http://www.Level3.com
http://www.atdn.net

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CommScope to Acquire Avaya's Structured Cabling Business

Avaya agreed to sell its Connectivity Solutions business to CommScope for approximately $263 million. Avaya's Connectivity Solutions group provides structured cabling for businesses and telecommunications service providers. Its products include SYSTIMAX structured cabling solutions for enterprises, ExchangeMAX structured cable and apparatus for telecommunications service providers and integrated cabinet solutions. Structured cabling connects voice, data and video equipment in office buildings and in telephone central offices. Integrated cabinets house cable terminations, wiring and connection devices for voice, data and wireless equipment. Avaya said Connectivity Solutions had fiscal 2003 sales of approximately $542 million and operating income of approximately $3 million. The group has about 2,000 employees primarily in manufacturing facilities in Omaha, Nebraska, Bray, Ireland and Brisbane, Australia. The business has administrative offices in Richardson, Texas. As part of the deal, CommScope will assume Connectivity Solutions' leases and purchase its facilities, as well as up to $75 million of certain specified liabilities primarily related to employee matters.


CommScope provides broadband coaxial cable for Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) applications, as well as fiber optic and twisted pair cables for LAN, wireless and other communications networks.
http://www.commscope.com
http://www.avaya.com

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NTT, Motorola Team on Multicast MPLS for Broadcast Applications

NTT Network Service Systems Laboratory and Motorola Computer Group have collaborated on the development of Multicast Multiprotocol Label Switching (M-MPLS) technology designed to serve as a broadband transport mechanism for access networks. The draft specification enables the simultaneous distribution of large volumes of data, such as streaming video, and real-time interactive multimedia communication for millions of users. The two companies are developing a number of new service applications, the first of which are video distribution over DSL and FTTH networks. A demonstration of the technology is being presented at the MPLS 2003 International Conference in Washington, D.C. this week.


Motorola and NTT said they plan to move M-MPLS into the IETF standardization process. Motorola intends to offer functionality such as M-MPLS in a new range of application-enabling platforms based on the AdvancedTCA specification. Motorola will also offer this draft specification M-MPLS software through its NetPlane software product line.
http://www.motorola.com/computer

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Motorola Offers Volume Pricing of $310/Unit for Canopy Broadband Wireless

Motorola announced new volume pricing plans for its 5.7GHz Canopy wireless broadband customer premise equipment (CPE). The 5.2 gigahertz (GHz) subscriber module currently lists for $515 per unit. Purchased in a 100-pack, the new price lists for $380 per unit. A 500-pack lists for $340 per unit. For larger service providers, there is a new 2,500-pack plan listing for $310 per unit. The lower pricing enables wireless service providers to more effectively compete with DSL and cable modem services.
http://www.motorola.com

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Netgear Offers 802.11g Gateway for ADSL 2 and ADSL 2+

Netgear introduced a 802.11g wireless gateway supporting ADSL 2 and ADSL 2+ standards, which support downstream speeds up to 12 Mbps and 24 Mbps respectively. The device combines five functions in a single box -- ADSL modem, router, switch, firewall, and 802.11g wireless access point. It has a North American list price of $155. Netgear is also launching a companion wired gateway and firewall router supporting ADSL 2 and ADSL 2+http://www.netgear.com

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TAZZ Networks Raises $10.5 Million for Subscriber Systems

TAZZ Networks, a start-up based in Providence, Rhode Island, closed a $10.5 million investment round for its subscriber and service enablement solutions. The new funding round was led by BlueStream Ventures, and included first round investors, Lazard Technology Partners, Pilot House Ventures Group, Zero Stage Capital and Point Judith Capital.
http://www.tazznetworks.com

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Visual Networks Tunes its Visual UpTime Management Suite

Visual Networks introduced a modular version of its performance management platform enabling companies to purchase UpTime Select capabilities all at once, or one module at a time. Visual UpTime Select includes new core capabilities, the unbundling of proven UpTime functionality into modular software components, and flexible purchasing options, including "Pay Per View" pricing. New core capabilities include a Service Summary application, Web-based management capabilities, active troubleshooting views, auto discovery of protocols, an enhanced reporting module and an integration module providing interfaces to third-party reporting packages and manager of manager platforms such as HP OpenView and Aprisma SPECTRUM.


Separately, Visual Networks announced the availability of an integrated solution combining the Visual UpTime Select solution with the Aprisma SPECTRUM product. In addition, Visual Networks also announced that J.M. Huber Corporation is using its Visual UpTime performance management solution to optimize bandwidth for its migration to an IP-based MPLS network.
http://www.visualnetworks.com

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Time Warner Telecom Supplies Metro Ethernet for Denver Hospitals

Time Warner Telecom was awarded a five-year contract to deliver local metro Ethernet data services to HCA/HealthONE in Denver. The service will enable HealthONE to establish a virtual private network between six of its hospitals in the Denver metro area for data communications and dedicated Internet access. The health care provider's Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) uses large image files of up to 100 MB in size, such as a magnetic resonance L-Spine image. The new network increases capacity by 10-fold. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.twtelecom.com

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Ucentric Develops Whole House Software App

Ucentric Systems, a start-up based in Maynard, Massachusetts, is developing a "Whole Home Music" software application for integration into set-top boxes and consumer electronic devices. The music application automatically discovers and aggregates all the digital music files stored on networked appliances like media centers, set-top boxes and/or PCs.
http://www.ucentric.com

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Microsoft Promotes Portable Media Center Devices

Microsoft is seeking to establish a new category of mobile devices that allow people to take all their digital media content from their Windows XP computers, including digital videos, home movies, digital music, television shows, and digital photos, and play them on a variety of output devices. Portable Media Centers, which are expected to be commercially available in the second half of 2004, will support Windows Media 9 Series audio and video formats, as well as MP3. Users will be able to sync Windows XP-based digital media content to the device to listen to thousands of hours of music on the go, watch digitally recorded television shows, home movies, or digital videos, and store and view digital photo albums.


Device manufacturers such as Creative, iRiver International, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. and ViewSonic Corp. have announced they are developing Portable Media Center devices. Microsoft has also signed original design manufacturers (ODMs) Tatung Co. and AboCom Systems.
http://www.microsoft.com

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Lucent is chosen as one of Verizon's Next Gen SONET Suppliers

Verizon has chosen Lucent Technologies as one of several providers of next generation SONET equipment. Under the three-year agreement, Verizon will deploy the Lucent Metropolis DMX portfolio of metro optical networking products, and the LambdaUnite MultiService Switch (MSS), a high-capacity, multi-service switch which will manage traffic from many metro access networks. Financial terms were not disclosed.


Lucent's Metropolis product family includes the DMX Access Multiplexer for central office and large enterprise applications, the DMXpress for customer premises applications, and a new DMXtend box for enterprise and loop access applications. All three systems provide metro Ethernet over SONET (EoS) using Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) and Virtual Concatenation technology.


Lucent's LambdaUnite is designed to bridge traffic from metro networks onto optical core backbones. The single-shelf system was recently optimized for smaller metro applications, supporting in-service upgrades from 160G to 320G, as well as to 640G. Mesh restoration capabilities were also added to help carriers migrate to new mesh-based networks, while at the same time, leveraging traditional protection architectures.
http://www.lucent.com

• In September 2003, AT&T awarded a multi-year agreement to Lucent Technologies to supply its Metropolis DMX Access Multiplexer and Metropolis DMXtend Access Multiplexer for deployment in the AT&T intelligent optical network. The equipment enables AT&T to deliver a full range of SONET and Ethernet services, while leveraging their installed SONET infrastructure.



• In June 2003, Lucent announced a contract to supply its Metropolis DMX Access Multiplexer to BellSouth.

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AirMagnet Releases New Version of its WLAN Sniffer

AirMagnet, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, introduced the third generation of its laptop and handheld-based WLAN security products. The new release adds 22 features, including support for 802.11g, service level monitoring and assurance for Wi-Fi and VoIP, new denial-of-service protection and expanded signal quality and QoS assessment. The company also introduced "AirMagnet Reporter," a product that aggregates data captured by the mobile products in a variety of formats. The AirMagnet products perform WLAN troubleshooting, intrusion detection and security policy enforcement.
http://www.airmagnet.com

• AirMagnet is headed by Dean Au, who previously was senior vice president of the Sniffer Technology Division of Network Associates. Its technical team is led by Chia Chee Kuan, who previously was technical staff member at Packet Design. Prior to Packet Design, Mr. Kuan was the first software engineer at Precept Software (acquired by Cisco Systems). The company is based in Sunnyvale, California.

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Saudi Telecom Expands Use of CSG's Customer Care and Billing

Saudi Telecom will expand its use of CSG Systems' customer care and billing solutions. Saudi Telecom currently uses CSG's ICMS platform to support its existing prepaid and post paid mobile, wireline and Internet businesses, which currently serve more than 8 million subscribers across Saudi Arabia and neighboring nations. The expansion agreement was solidified with the support of CSG's partner, IBM Middle East and Saudi Business Machines Ltd (General Marketing and Services Representative for IBM WTC). Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.csgsystems.com

• In September 2003, 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 targeting the convergent global telecommunications marketplace, including next generation mobile, wireline, broadband and IP service providers.

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Broadsoft Introduces Multimedia Conferencing Server With Hosted Voice Platform

Broadsoft introduced an integrated communications platform for hosted PBX, Voice VPN, unified messaging and conferencing functions. The new BroadWorks Conferencing Server software, which operates on standard hardware, provides business subscribers with an always-available meet-me conferencing account. Using a web interface subscribers can send out meeting notices in advance, and conference in as many as 96 attendees on the fly. Conference participants can also share Microsoft Office documents.


Separately, Broadsoft announced that eight new service provider customers have chosen its BroadWorks hosted communications platform: ACC Telecom, CyberSouth Networks, Fox Communications, MetTel, Reynwood Communications, Tiogan Networks, Virtual IP, and Who's Calling.


In addition, Onvoy, a service provider based in Minnesota, has deployed its BroadWorks platform for delivering hosted communications services to businesses.
http://www.broadsoft.com

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Entropic Raises $29 Million for Multimedia Distribution via Home Coax

Entropic Communications, a start-up based in San Diego, raised $29 million in series B funding for its communications chips for enabling broadband multimedia distribution in the home. Entropic's initial products will allow the existing cable coaxial cable inside a home to be used for HDTV, high speed data, Internet, voice, and multi-room gaming. Entropic's core technology, which is called c.LINK (CableLink), enables communications backwards through cable splitters. The company was incorporated in January 2001 and expects to ship its first products next year.


Investors in Entropic Communications include Anthem Venture Partners; China Development Industrial Bank; Cisco Systems; CMEA Ventures; Comcast Interactive Capital; The Dow Employees Pension Plan; Intel; Liberty Associated Partners, LP; Mission Ventures; Motorola; Panasonic; Redpoint Ventures; Revolution Ventures; Time Warner; and YAS Broadband Ventures.
http://www.entropic-communications.com

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AOL for Broadband Launches Daily Sports Show

America Online will begin offering its broadband users a new twice-daily program called AOL Sports: 180. The show is hosted by CNN Headline News sports anchors and features up to 180 seconds of the highlights from sporting events that day.
http://www.aol.com

• In October 2003, America Online announced plans to expand its usage of RealNetworks' media technologies in the latest release of its broadband service. In addition, AOL has begun to deploy RealNetworks' Helix Universal Servers as part of its streaming infrastructure. AOL said its members are currently streaming up to 3 million songs and videos per day.

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XM Satellite Radio Tops One Million Subscribers

XM Satellite Radio recently surpassed 1 million subscribers, reaching this major milestone in less than two years since its national debut in November 2001. The company noted that it took 12 years for satellite television to reach the one million customers mark.
http://www.xmradio.com

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Force10 Networks and IBM Sign Worldwide Partnership Deal

IBM will resell the Force10 Networks' E-Series E1200/600 high density Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet product family under a worldwide partnership agreement announced by the firms. In addition, IBM Global Services will provide end-to-end support for the E-Series switch/routers -- including consulting, implementation, and technical assistance center (TAC) support -- for enterprise customers worldwide.


Force10 Networks and IBM also entered a manufacturing partnership whereby IBM builds the EtherScale ASICs used within the E-Series platform. In addition, Force10 augments its E-Series system with IBM's PowerPC processors.


Force10 Networks said its E-Series is purpose-built for high performance grid, clustering and utility computing applications. Grids allow geographically distributed organizations to share applications, data and high capacity computing resources. IBM is active in many of the largest grid computing projects worldwide.
http://www.force10networks.com

• In April 2003, The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) selected IBM to help build a massive data-management system built on Grid computing. IBM's “Storage Tank�? virtualization technology will be used to manage huge amounts of data using a single file namespace regardless of where or on what operating system the data reside. IBM and CERN will work together to extend Storage Tank's capabilities so it can manage and provide access from any location worldwide to the torrent of data -- billions of gigabytes a year -- that CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is expected to produce when it goes online in 2007. The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator that aims to recreate -- on a tiny scale -- conditions that existed shortly after the Big Bang.

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National Center for Supercomputing Selects Force10

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois has selected Force10 Networks' E-Series E1200 high-density Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch/routers. The equipment is being used in Phase II of NCSA's portion of the TeraGrid project. Force10's E-Series switch/routers have already been deployed in Phase I of the project at NCSA, as well as at the three other original TeraGrid sites: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) at the California Institute of Technology, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.force10networks.com

• Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), TeraGrid is a multi-institutional effort to build and deploy the world's most comprehensive computing infrastructure for open scientific research. IBM is providing integration services for the project. The NSF TeraGrid project will initially use a dedicated 40 Gbps wide area "backplane" to connect computers, storage facilities, visualization systems and applications at Argonne and other TeraGrid sites. Clusters connecting to the grid use 10-Gigabit Ethernet interconnections between Gigabit Ethernet-attached Linux servers.



• Force10 Networks' 10 Gbps Ethernet switch/router supports up to 336 ports of Gigabit Ethernet or 28 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) per chassis. Six custom ASICs deliver non-blocking, line-rate forwarding across all ports, even with access control lists (ACLs) or QoS applied. Force10's software delivers full functionality L2 switching and L3 routing. The company initially is offering two models: the full-size E1200 featuring 14 line-card slots, 1.2 Tbps non-blocking switch fabric, 40 Gbps bandwidth per line-card slot, redundant route processor modules (RPMs), redundant switch fabric modules (SFMs), redundant power and hot-swap of all key components; and the half-sized E600, which uses the same cards.

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iBasis Deploys NexTone's Multiprotocol Session Controllers

iBasis is deploying NexTone's Multiprotocol Session Controller in its global VoIP network to address interoperability and security issues in peering with its large number of carrier customers. The NexTone MSC provides iBasis with call admission control, route enforcement and the regulation of bandwidth consumption to manage multimedia flows across IP interconnects for both carrier and enterprise boundaries. Additionally the NexTone MSC provides stateful protocol interworking between SIP and H.323, different implementations of T.38 fax, as well as between multi-vendor VoIP networks. NexTone said its platform enables carriers to quickly adapt their peering points to the nuances of partners' VoIP networks. Typical areas of incompatibility include VoIP signaling, T.38 fax interconnection, and DTMF.


iBasis, which operates a Cisco-powered network, is one of the ten largest carriers of international phone calls. Its VoIP network has over 850 POPs in 90 countries and is currently carrying approximately 3.5 billion minutes per year. In addition to its wholesale international call completion service, iBasis provides retail international prepaid calling cards through major calling card distributors, and offers a hosted prepaid billing platform, as well as global access to providers of enhanced services such as prepaid calling cards and audioconferencing.


NexTone said its session controllers are now deployed in over 75 carrier networks.
http://www.nextone.com/

• In August 2003, NexTone announced that ITXC had deployed its Multiprotocol Session Controller in its global VoIP network. The Multiprotocol Session Controller on the border of ITXC.net serves as an intermediary to affiliate VoIP networks, providing dynamic call-admission control, SIP/H.323 signaling interworking and network address translation (NAT) capabilities. The NexTone solution also eliminates many of the T.38 fax interoperability issues that are common among different equipment vendors' VoIP gateways.



• NexTone Communications was founded in February 1998 by Raj Sharma and Sridhar Ramachandran. Sharma previously held a director's position with Newbridge Networks product marketing division. Ramachandran previously worked at GE Spacenet, Bay Networks and Hughes Network Systems. Nextone is based in Germantown, Maryland.

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