NTT DoCoMo's i-mode Subscribers Surpass 40 million

NTT DoCoMo reported that total subscribers to its 2G and 3G i-mode mobile-internet service in Japan surpassed 40 million. The i-mode was first launched in February 1999. http://www.nttdocomo....

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MCI Poised to Emerge from Chapter 11

A U.S. bankruptcy court approved MCI's plan of reorganization, setting the stage for the company's emergence from Chapter 11. Michael D. Capellas, MCI chairman and CEO, said "as we see the industry fundamentals continue to shift, the future will be about the convergence of computing and telecommunications. And where these two worlds meet is where MCI will be."http://www.mci.comWorldCom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 21-July-20...

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Bell Labs Builds Novel Semiconductor Laser Using Photonic Crystal

Researchers at Bell Labs have developed a novel semiconductor laser based on a photonic crystal that was made in collaboration with scientists from the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium, California Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Potential applications for the small, surface-emitting laser include advanced optical communications to sensitive chemical detectors. In particular, large arrays of devices might be produced on a single chip, each with its own designed emission properties. Bell Labs said the development leverages its...

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Edgewater Expands its VoIP Customer Premise Portfolio

Edgewater Networks introduced a VoIP customer premise device that combines T1 CSU/DSU or E1 and an 8-port 10/100 Ethernet switch. The company said its new EdgeMarc 38T resolves NAT/Firewall traversal problems by providing a "voice-aware" firewall that supports SIP, MGCP, H.323 or SCCP to protect the enterprise LAN. It also combines sophisticated traffic management mechanisms including classification, prioritization, queuing, rate limiting and call admission control to ensure toll quality voice when using the same WAN link for both voice and data...

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Arianespace Transfers DIRECTV 7S Satellite to Sea Launch

Arianespace secured a Q1 2004 launch slot with Sea Launch for the DIRECTV 7S satellite. Arianespace said it negotiated a seamless transfer of the satellite to Sea Launch because delays in the DIRECTV 7S satellite manufacturing process created a scheduling conflict with a dedicated scientific mission on the Arianespace launch manifest. The DIRECTV 7S satellite is a high priority launch for DIRECTV as the spot-beam spacecraft is slated to serve 60 local television markets across the U.S. http://www.arianespace....

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Level 3 Expands Customer Agreement With United Online

Level 3 Communications was awarded a multi-year, multi-million-dollar contract that extends and expands its relationship with United Online, a leading provider of value-priced Internet access services with 5.2 million active users, including 2.7 million paying subscribers. United Online operates the NetZero, Juno and BlueLight Internet consumer services . Under the deal, United Online will use Level 3's dial-up services in hundreds of U.S. cities. Financial terms were not disclosed. Level 3's (3)Connect Modem service is available on a per-port...

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Motorola Supplies 3G CDMA 2000 1X to Brazil's VIVO

Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions Sector (GTSS) has been chosen by VIVO, the largest cellular telephone carrier in South America, as its supplier of base stations and transmission equipment for its 3G CDMA 2000 1X network serving the north and center west regions of Brazil. The Motorola mobile infrastructure will service those regions in the VIVO coverage area, including the metropolitan regions of Brasilia, the capital city of Brazil; and Goiania, the cities of Anapolis and Caldas Novas, and the BR-060 highway that runs from Brasilia to Goiania....

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Airspan Introduces New 802.16 OFDM Platforms

Airspan Networks introduced two new broadband wireless products that operate at 3.5GHz and 5.8GHz. The new AS4030 is Airspan's high-end point to multipoint (P-MP) platform designed for operators wishing to offer service bundles to medium and large businesses, and to multi-tenant dwellings that require considerable bandwidth for their end users. It can also be configured for a wide range of backhaul applications, including the ability to backhaul traffic from the ever-increasing number of public Wi-Fi Hot Spots being deployed in markets globally....

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Siemens Invests in Singapore's PurpleACE for Mobile Storage

Siemens Mobile Acceleration has made an equity investment in Singapore-based PurpleACE, a start-up developing a platform that enables mobile subscribers to deal with content in an entirely new way by extending the limited storage capacity of the devices. Subscribers can backup data from their mobile phones onto a network-based repository and also share their content with other users. Furthermore, MobileBAG enables "super-distribution" of content in a copyright protected environment. Subscribers could choose a piece of content, for example a game,...

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NTT DoCoMo Develops FOMA Compact Flash Card

NTT DoCoMo has developed its first "FOMA" compact flash card, which will enable 3G videophone and other wireless data communication via PCs and PDAs. The card supports packet transmissions of up to 384 kbps for downlinks and 64 kbps for uplinks, as well as 64 kbps for circuit-switched data transmissio...

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Marconi and Appium Partner on Intelligent Network Services

Marconi is to integrate Appium software into its intelligent network (IN) platform allowing service providers to use industry-standard web development tools to create and deploy new Parlay-based services supporting the needs of teleworkers, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises. Appium's Parlay X Gateway (Appium-XWay) features industry-standard web development tools. Marconi's IN Service Control Point (SCP) is deployed on the narrowband switch or softswitch layer of some of the largest service provider networks worldwide....

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