Cramer Announces Wins with KPN, Japan Telecom

Cramer announced a three-year contract to supply its inventory management solution to KPN Telecom's fixed wireline division. KPN Telecom will use Cramer to replace legacy inventory systems currently in place for its fixed wireline network, which serves 7.8 million customers nationwide and handles some 40 billion call-minutes per year. Three legacy network systems in the transmission domain will be replaced by the Cramer platform. KPN Telecom is Cramer's fourth Tier 1 win this year, following similar strategic accords with BT, Bell Canada and...

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Finnet Selects Ericsson/Juniper for Backbone Expansion

Finland's Finnet has expanded its IP backbone network with Ericsson's Packet Backbone Network (PBN) solution, equipped with Juniper Networks' routers. The upgrade enables 10 Gbps speed across the backbone. Construction began last spring, and the network has been in commercial service since summer 2003. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ericsson.com http://www.juniper....

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Net2Phone Raises $63 million in Secondary Offering

Net2Phone raised $63 million through a secondary public offering. In addition to the public offering of 10.5 million shares, the underwriters exercised their option to purchase an additional 1 million shares of Net2Phone's common stock at $4.50 per share. Net2Phone intends to use the proceeds from the offerings for general corporate purposes, capital expenditures, and working capital, including funding its cable telephony business. http://www.net2phone....

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AT&T Supplies Integrated Network for Enterprise Rent-A-Car

AT&T was awarded a three-year, $10.5 million contract from Enterprise Rent-A-Car to implement an integrated networking platform that will support advanced e-business applications for Enterprise's operations in Europe. The network will connect Enterprise's 300 locations in Germany, Ireland and the UK, with an initial rollout to 40 sites this year and the remainder migrating to AT&T from other suppliers in 2004 and 2005. http://www.att....

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Acterna Expands its Optical Tester Line

Acterna introduced a new version of its MTS optical tester line designed for field use in both outside plant and central office applications. The new MTS-8000 serves as a fiber characterization and WDM analyzer with a full range of test capabilities, including optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR), polarization mode dispersion (PMD), spectral attenuation (SA), wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), optical spectrum analyzer (OSA), and channel isolation up to 10.7 Gbps. http://www.acterna....

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FCC Sets Agenda for VoIP Proceedings Next Week

The FCC announced the agenda for its VoIP Forum, which will be held on 01-December-2003, beginning at 10:30 a.m. EST. After briefly discussing FCC precedents regarding VoIP, a number of industry insiders will have the chance to present their view. Invited speakers include:Charles H. Giancarlo, SVP & General Manager, Cisco SystemsJeff Pulver, President & CEO, Pulver.comJohn Hodulik, Managing Director, Communications Group, UBSJohn Billock, COO, Time Warner CableMichael Gallagher, Acting Assistant Secretary, Department of CommerceCommissioner...

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FCC's Wireless Bureau Announces Reorganization

The FCC has reorganized its Wireless Telecommunications Bureau into six divisions:Auctions and Spectrum Access Division -- Promotes transparent, efficient and effective access to spectrum, through the development of policy initiatives and legal analysis, as well as procedures and administrative capability, to implement the FCC's competitive bidding authority and the transition of spectrum to new and innovative uses. Addresses issues relating to statutory authority and objectives, Commission rules and policies, and the planning, design, and conduct...

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Russia's Combellga Selects the Alcatel 5020 Softswitch

Combellga, a Russian service provider, selected the Alcatel 5020 Softswitch for its next generation network interconnecting its local services areas. Combellga will also use the platform to initiate IP telephony and a range of multimedia services for home and business. The contract also covers the Alcatel Media and Signaling Gateways, which provide seamless interworking between the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and IP networks. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel.com http://www.combellga...

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Build "UltraNet"

The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) $4.5 million to design a high-speed, experimental network to be call the "Science UltraNet." The three-year project will support high-performance computing and other large facilities at the Department of Energy and at universities. The plan is to set up a testbed network operating at 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps and connecting ORNL to facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Sunnyvale, California. http://www.ornl....

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SeaChange Ships 123,000 VOD Streams in Q3

SeaChange International reported record quarterly revenues of $37.6 million, up 11% compared to revenues of $33.9 million in the same period last year. Video-on-Demand (VOD) system revenues for the quarter were $22.5 million, up 47% compared to $15.3 million in the comparable period last year. During the quarter, SeaChange shipped its highest number of streams ever -- over 123,000 residential VOD streams - bringing its total shipped to date to over 750,000. http://www.schange.c...

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