Adelphia Selects Internet Photonics for VOD

Adelphia Communications is deploying Internet Photonics' LightStack platforms to support video-on-demand (VOD) services. The network uses Internet Photonics' LightStack GSLAM to aggregate GbE streams from a bank of centralized VOD servers in the headend onto a 10G wavelength for transport across the network. In the hubs on the other end, a LightStack MX separates the GbE streams and sends them to the edge QAMs for delivery to the customer.


Adelphia will begin offering its VOD service by the end of November to digital cable customers in select locations in Southern California. Most of Adelphia's remaining Los Angeles service areas will introduce VOD over the next 12 months.
http://www.internetphotonics.com

• In March 2003, Internet Photonics introduced a new LightStack Gigabit Services Line Access Multiplexer (GSLAM) designed to aggregate, switch and multiplex multiple services (including managed services) in major cable headends or service provider POPs. The new GLSAM platform, which complements existing LightStack products for remote hub sites or premises, scales to handle 64 Gigabit Ethernet connections. The platform uses Internet Photonics' “SONET WrapAround�? capability in order to preserve existing traffic on a ring without interrupting the service. Optical Ethernet services are inserted onto the fiber using different wavelengths so as not to disrupt the existing traffic. The LightStack also features a VirtualWire capability by which eight GbE services, each with its own circuit-like sub-channel, are multiplexed onto a single 10 Gbps wavelength.

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Marconi Ships Metro 16-64 Platform

Marconi announced the general availability of its optical multiservice, metro 16-64 platform, which is designed to serve as both a high-density service delivery platform as well as a compact, high-capacity traffic aggregation and switching device. The platform combines multiple line rate, Ethernet transport/switching and scalable, fully non-blocking cross-connect capability. The Marconi multiservice metro 16-64 leverages a dual data and TDM bus architecture that supports Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) and Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) solutions. Multiple traffic types are supported from STM-1 through STM-64, PDH interfaces at 1.5 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 34 Mbps, 45 Mbps, as well as support for 10/100 Mbps and GigE Ethernet services with L2 switching.
http://www.marconi.com

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Alcatel Supplies DSL Network for Macedonia

Makedonski Telekomunkacii, a subsidiary of the Hungarian Matav Group, selected the Alcatel 7300 Advanced Services Access Manager (ASAM) with the IP Services Module (ISM) for its DSL network in Macedonia. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.alcatel.com

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BroadLight Releases FTTP Transceiver -- 622/155 Mbps

BroadLight introduced a three wavelength burst mode ONT transceiver with an embedded analog video receiver that supports 622 Mbps on the downstream and 155 Mbps on the upstream. The new device , which complies with ITU-T G.983.3 and meets the requirements set by the FTTP RFP, completes the offering of BroadLight that includes burst mode transceivers, PON controllers and software stacks for both Central Office (CO) and Customer Premises Equipment (CPE).


BroadLight is currently shipping the device to systems vendors involved in FTTP projects. The company said it is ramping up production to fulfill large quantity orders.
http://www.broadlight.com

• A technical overview of FTTP components for customer premise equipment http://www.convergedigest.com/blueprints/ttp03/z2broadlight1.asp?ID=18&ctgy=Loop

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Hurricane Electric Expands in London

Hurricane Electric, a colocation provider based in Fremont, California, has expanded to London. Hurricane Electric is connected to Telehouse London with an OC48, which connects the UK to the rest of Hurricane Electric's global OC48 backbone. The Hurricane Electric facility employs two Gigabit Ethernet ports to the LINX exchange.
http://www.he.net

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The Home Multimedia Experience: Content Anywhere, Anytime

Consumers want electronic devices that work together and share content seamlessly, said Bob Gregory, Director of Initiatives Planning, Desktop Platforms Group at Intel, speaking at Parks Associates' Home Multimedia Experience event in San Jose. Today, technology in the home is isolated in islands. The PC is in the den, stereo equipment and the TV is in the family room. Products are only just starting to bridge the gaps and Intel is betting that there is a great opportunity in home networking. Intel envisions an ecosystem of solutions and choices from a variety of companies. Gregory said that vendor specific solutions are unwise and will stall development of the market. Gregory predicts four waves of innovation:

• Digital devices and content (cameras, mp3 players)
  


• Content on extended home networks (music to stereo, photos to TV)
  


• Broadband broadcast content (premium content and services)
  


• Interoperable networks (to any home device, with multiple media streams)

However, Gregory conceded that for the home networking market to really take-off, much more work needs to be done. Today's home networks are still difficult to set up and operate. System vendors should assume that consumers will return networking products if they do not work when they are plugged in. Networking systems will be used in a myriad of home environments, and must work in them all, which will require more design and testing work. In addition, typical consumers still don't have a good sense of what can be done in a home multimedia network. The industry needs to educate consumers about what is possible, which will help the adoption of home multimedia networks.
http://www.convergedigest.com

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Airspan to Acquire Nortel Networks' Fixed Wireless Access Business

Airspan Networks agreed to acquire Nortel Networks Fixed Wireless Access business for approximately $12.9 million in cash. The deal includes a number of customer prepaid deposits (which at closing are expected to exceed $11 million), and Airspan will assume the obligation to supply these prepaid orders. Airspan expects the transaction to have an immediate positive earnings and cash impact, and to add substantially to Airspan's revenues going forward.


The Nortel Networks Fixed Wireless Access business is a supplier of fixed wireless access using 3.5 GHz spectrum. The products are sold under the Proximity brand name. Installations have included a major deployment in Mexico, described as one of the largest single 3.5GHz fixed wireless access networks in the world. Since Proximity was first deployed in 1996, Nortel Networks has installed almost 500,000 million lines with 15 operators in 14 countrieshttp://www.airspan.com

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Speedera to Support CDN for Softbank's "BB Cable TV" in Japan

Speedera Networks announced a partnership with Club iT Corporation and its parent company, Softbank Broadmedia Corporation, to provide content and application delivery services for the broadband market in Japan. Club iT has already been focusing on broadband content distribution through "BB Cable TV," operated by BB Cable Corporation, a fully owned subsidiary of Softbank Broadmedia. Speedera will help improve the network infrastructure for broadband content delivery. Club iT will provide sales and marketing for the service, under the brand name "Broadmedia CDN." Multiple enterprises have already agreed to evaluate the BroadmediaCDN service, including Yahoo! Japan, SOFTBANK ZDNet, and E*TRADE Securities Co.
http://www.speedera.com

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Terayon Announces Secondary Common Stock Offering

Terayon Communication Systems intends to offer a number of shares of its common stock that will result in gross proceeds of $75.0 million.
http://www.terayon.com

• Last week, Terayon reported Q3 revenue of $37.6 million, an increase of 54% compared to $24.5 million for Q3 2002, and an increase of 23% from $30.6 million for Q2 2003.

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IBM and NTT Com Partner on Enterprise Hosting

IBM Japan and NTT Communications announced an alliance to provide enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for mid-sized businesses in Japan. The service will combine IBM Japan's ERP solutions for medium-sized businesses with NTT Com's NTT/VERIO PowerPlatform Hosting Services.
http://www.ntt.com/NEWS_RELEASE_E/news03/0011/1106.html

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Korea's Dacom Selects Nortel Networks for VoIP

Dacom, a leading Korean service provider, will base its next generation voice network on Nortel Networks Succession Communication Server (CS) 2000-Compact superclass softswitch and Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) 5200. The Dacom contract was awarded to Nortel Networks through its Korea channel distributor, ITIAN Corporation. Financial terms were not disclosed. Nortel Networks has previously supplied Dacom with an advanced ring-topology optical fiber SONET backbone as well as a DWDM optical metro network.


The Succession CS 2000 is a superclass softswitch that provides circuit-to-packet migration, including local, tandem and long distance capability. It provides business and residential telephony service sets, and supports regulatory features such as lawful intercept and number portability. Nortel Networks MCS 5200 is a carrier-grade, SIP-based media and applications server.
http://www.nortelnetworks.com

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ECI Reports Q3 Revenue of $105 Million, an Increase over Q2

ECI Telecom reported Q3 revenue of $105 million, compared to $102 million in Q2 2003 and $147 million in Q3 2002. Gross profit increased to $40.0 million (38.3% of revenues) compared to gross profit of $37.3 million (36.7% of revenues) in Q2 and $52.4 million (35.6%) in Q3 2002. The operating loss for Q3 2003 was $19.1 million compared to $34.3 million in Q2 and an operating loss of $42.0 million in Q3 2002. The net loss for the third quarter of 2003 was $14.7 million, or $0.14 per share.


Revenues of the Optical Networks Division increased 19% sequentially to $47.0 million from $39.6 million in Q2 2003 and compared to $57.5 million in Q3 of last year. The Broadband Access Division recorded revenues of $40.3 million compared to $44.6 million in Q2 of 2003 and $49.6 million in Q3 of 2002.


Doron Inbar, ECI's President and CEO said, "After a period of essentially declining revenues, we are pleased to record a sequential increase in quarterly revenues... At this point, we feel that the restructuring efforts of the last few years are essentially behind us....The market remains challenging but we are encouraged by the sequential growth in revenues, our improved gross margins and reduced net loss. "http://www.ecitele.com

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Tellabs Reports Strong Initial Sales for its Tellabs 6350 Switch Node

The Tellabs 6350 switch node platform, which was introduced ten months ago, has become the fastest-selling new product in the company's history. Shipments of the digital crossconnect platform has exceeded 250 nodes so far. Customers for the Tellabs 6350 switch node include PGCIL in India, Tele2 in Sweden, Telenor in Norway, Nextel de Mexico S.A. de C.V. in Mexico and Sonofon in Denmark.


The Tellabs 6350 switch node is a scalable, high-density multiservice platform that handles voice traffic, higher speed leased line services and data services, including high-speed Ethernet. It has 138 Gbps of switch capacity and interfaces for direct integration with Ethernet, SDH and DWDM networks. When deployed in distributed network architectures, the Tellabs 6350 switch node provides efficient grooming with reduced back-hauling of network traffic, which leads to better network economics.
http://www.tellabs.com

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FCC to Open IP Telephony Proceedings on December 1

The FCC will hold a forum on Voice over IP issues on 01-December-2003 and shortly thereafter intends to initiate a Notice of Public Rule Making (NPRM) to inquire about the migration of voice services to IP-based networks.


The December hearing will invite industry and government leaders to discuss how digital technologies are being used to provide innovative and affordable voice services to consumers and stimulate economic growth. It will also explore regulatory classification issues and explore the best means to achieve important health, safety and welfare policy objectives such as E911, universal service and homeland security.


In a letter to Senator Wyden published on the FCC homepage, Michael Powell expressed his excitement about the potential of VoIP to revolutionize the way services are delivered to consumers and businesses. Powell noted that "the creative forces that have fueled the Internet growth for the last decade are doing the very thing government regulators have tried to accomplish since the 1996 Telecommunications Act -- bring competitive, cheaper and more innovative voice services to the public." As the U.S. Senate debates the issue of Internet Tax Moratoriums, Powell urged caution regarding the taxation of VoIP services -- "imposing regulatory burdens on the new and emerging Internet services, before the FCC fully engages the public and develops a comprehensive record, may have the unintended consequence of stifling its growth and denying the public benefits of that growth."http://www.fcc.gov

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Sprint to Deploy Wi-Fi at Truckstops Nationwide

Sprint announced a multimillion-dollar agreement with Truckstop.net to deploy Wi-Fi hotspots at truck stops and highway travel plazas across the U.S. Truckstop.net intends to bring the service to about 300 new locations every quarter. The first 25 sites are already active. The companies said there are more than 4.5 million truckers on the road in North America and 25% have laptops.
http://www.sprint.com/truckstophttp://www.truckstop.net

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MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance Service Provider Committee Sets Goals

The MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance's newly-created Service Provider Committee (SPC) met for the first time at the Alliance's recent quarterly meeting in London. The committee's mission is to guide the Alliance's Technical Committee's work plan from a carrier perspective.


The MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance is organizing an interoperability testing event that will occur at the MPLS World Congress in Paris in February 2004 and will focus on QoS elements of MPLS technology. A second interoperability demonstration will take place in Kobe, Japan, at the International Conference on Communication and Broadband Networking 2004 (ICBN'04) in April.
http://www.mplsforum.org/

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Hifn and Interphase Team on Network Security Acceleration

Hifn and Interphase announced a formal partnership to provide joint hardware security accelerator boards to network equipment manufacturers. The solutions accelerate basic security algorithms including DES, 3DES, MD5, SHA-1, RC4 and AES. The companies said recent performance testing on the Interphase security acceleration cards demonstrated a three times system improvement on TCP throughput rates and a 63% decrease in host CPU utilization when IPsec protocols are accelerated on a Linux platform using the FreeS/WAN IPsec stack software.
http://www.hifn.com
http://www.interphase.com

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Equinix Adds GigE Exchange Service to Singapore Center

Equinix began offering a GigE Exchange service in its Singapore Internet Business Exchange center. Microsoft is the first customer. The service, which facilitates ISP and content peering amongst Equinix customers via a Gigabit Ethernet central switching fabric, is also currently available in Equinix IBX centers located in the greater Washington, D.C., New York Metro, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Sydney and Tokyo areas. The service is used by such companies as Yahoo!, Google, SBC and Verio for network interconnection.
http://www.equinix.com

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Broadcom Supplies Bluetooth for Motorola Phones

Motorola has selected Broadcom's Blutonium single-chip Bluetooth transceiver solutions for several of its mobile phones. Bluetooth provides the ability to wirelessly connect to headsets, notebook PCs, PDAs and other devices. One of the first of Motorola's handsets using Broadcom's single-chip Bluetooth transceivers is a GSM/GPRS/UMTS phone that incorporates an MP3 player, and digital camera among other features.
http://www.broadcom.com

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Toshiba Bundles VoIP Software from VLI with its PDAs

Toshiba is bundling VoIP software from VLI, a start-up based in Mountain View, California with R&D in Shanghai, in its new PocketPC PDAs. VLI's PocketGphone software client uses SIP to place phone calls over IEEE 802.11 WLANs.
http://www.GphoneOnline.com

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Redback Partners with T S Telecom in China

Redback Networks signed T S Telecom Ltd as a strategic partner for value-added sales in China. The companies announced China Netcom Group Hebei Communications Corporation (CNC Hebei) as their first joint customer win. CNC Hebei will use Redback's SmartEdge Router family to provide high-speed, network edge routing as well as Redback's SMS platform of advanced subscriber management systems to offer DSL Internet access in major cities of the Hebei province.
http://www.redback.com
http://www.tstelecom.com

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XO Reports Revenue of $279 Million, Down 7.3%

XO Communications reported Q3 revenue of $279.4 million, down 7.3% compared to Q3 2002. Cost of service for the third quarter of 2003 improved to 38.3% of revenue versus 41.9% of revenue for the third quarter of 2002.


Carl Grivner, XO's Chief Executive Officer, said "the market for new telecom services remains weak and we face competitive pricing pressure. In addition, during the third quarter, XO invested in its business operations and expanded its direct sales force as well as its sales agent program in key markets. These initiatives are expected to have a negative impact on our short term financial results, however, we remain hopeful about the long term benefits of the actions we have undertaken."http://www.xo.com

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Tyco to Sell its Undersea Fiber Network

Tyco International announced a major restructuring that will include the sale of Tyco Global Network, its undersea fiber optic telecommunications network, and its exit from more than 50 other businesses.
TGN had a pre-tax operating loss of $117 million during the company's recently completed fiscal year 2003. The Tyco Global Network encompasses some of the world's largest undersea cable systems. The company provides bandwidth at all STM/OC levels, as well as clear-channel wavelengths and fiber pairs.
http://www.tycotelecom.com

• In December 2002, Tyco completed and commissioned its Transpacific network, consisting of a total cable length of approximately 18,000 km, including two direct trans-Pacific cables from Oregon to Japan, with extensions to California and Guam. The cable was designed to provide a total capacity in excess of 5 Tbps per cable across the ring when fully equipped. Tyco said the network marks the first application of a new ultra-wide band fiber that manages the dispersion slope across the entire usable transmission band. This new design uses two specially designed fiber types that are "matched" in properties within each 45-kilometer repeater span to create a transmission fiber optic path that has very wide-band operation.


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  The Tyco Global Network also includes two trans-Atlantic cables, each with 4 fiber pairs capable of carrying 64 10 Gbps wavelengths per fiber pair. The transatlantic segment of the TyCom Global Network began carrying commercial traffic in June 2001.


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  Tyco purchased the AT&T Submarine Systems group in 1997 and Telecommunications Marinas from Telefonica in 1999.

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