Cable & Wireless Exits its US Business

Cable and Wireless plc will exit its US businesses by filing a Chapter 11 process for its Cable & Wireless America (CWA) operations and selling the assets for $125 million to Gores Technology Group. CWA is a provider of complex hosting and IP solutions for global enterprises. The companies said the Chapter 11 process would facilitate the sale by creating a substantially lower cost base, primarily through the elimination and renegotiation of certain lease and other contractual commitments.Cable and Wireless plc, which said its intention was...

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Former U.S. Defense Officials Named to Global Crossing's New Board

Global Crossing and Singapore Technologies Telemedia (ST Telemedia) named Global Crossing's new Board of Directors:Chairman -- Lodewijk Christiaan van Wachem, former chairman of the supervisory board of Royal Dutch PetroleumVice chairman -- Peter Seah, president and CEO of Singapore Technologies GroupDirectors -- E.C. "Pete" Aldridge, Jr. (former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics), Archie Clemins (owner and president of Caribou Technologies), Donald L. Cromer (former president of the Hughes Space and Communications),...

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Earthlink Increases Q4 Subscriber Expectations

Earthlink expects to add approximately 225,000 net subscribers in Q4, including organic growth of approximately 175,000 subscribers plus the acquisition of approximately 50,000 subscribers. Previously issued guidance called for 100,000 to 175,000 net new subscribers. Earthlink said the increase reflects the completion of the acquisition of subscribers from Stargate.net, as well as solid subscriber growth from EarthLink's value and broadband service tiers. http://www.earthlink....

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China Telecom Selects Alvarion for Broadband Wireless

China Telecom has selected Alvarion as one of its suppliers of broadband wireless access equipment for four provinces. China Telecom was awarded licenses to operate 3.5 GHz BWA networks in the second round of China's frequency licensing process. After intensive evaluation, China Telecom decided on four recommended vendors, two of which are Alvarion's OEM partners in China, BISC and Datang Telecom. To date, four of China Telecom's northern provinces have placed initial orders for Alvarion solutions: Liaoning, Shandong, Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang....

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Azanda Raises $10 Million for its Traffic Mgt Silicon

Azanda Network Devices, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, closed $10 million in a Series C funding round for its advanced traffic management silicon. Azanda's traffic management products integrate three critical functions into a single-chip: 1) simultaneous packet and ATM switching; 2) hierarchical shaping and scheduling; and 3) IP-to-ATM, or Frame Relay-to-ATM interworking via an integrated, wire-speed Segmentation and Re-assembly (SAR) engine. The chips concurrently perform these functions for as many as one million Virtual Circuits...

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Atrica Selected by Deutsche Telekom for Next-Gen Test Net

Deutsche Telekom is testing Atrica's Optical Ethernet equipment as part of its Global Seamless Network (GSN) Project. Deutsche Telekom Innovation has developed the GSN as a multivendor project to test an Automatic Switched Transport Network (ASTN) architecture for delivering advanced broadband business services and applications such as high speed Internet access, Transparent LAN Service (TLS), point-to-point Ethernet, and video over Ethernet.Two Atrica-based Metro Ethernet networks in in Berlin and Darmstadt have been connected across an SDH long...

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Beijing Unicom Deploys ECI Telecom's XDM Optical Platform

China United Telecommunications (China Unicom) has deployed ECI Telecom's XDM MultiService Provisioning Platform (MSPP) within its Beijing network to build and extend the downtown and suburban rings in the access and consolidation layers. Further network development is expected to continue throughout 2004 and beyond. The XDM MSPP converges intelligent optical networking capabilities with advanced data functionality including ATM and Ethernet Layer 2 over SDH/SONET, CWDM and DWDM. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ecitele....

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Avaya Enhances IP Telephony Security

Avaya announced new products for increasing the security of IP communications. The rollout includes a new generation of software applications, media servers and gateways for small, medium and large enterprises, and a full range of desktop and wireless IP telephones. The new products are powered by an updated version of the company's Communication Manager 2.0 IP telephony software.The latest release of Avaya's Communication Manager adds support for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), protecting voice conversations carried on converged networks....

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Xilinx Unveils New FPGA Architecture

Xilinx unveiled a new architecture aimed at enabling the rapid deployment of multiple domain-specific FPGA platforms. At the heart of the "ASMBL" architecture is a modular framework of silicon subsystems, enabling a new FPGA development methodology. It makes use of advanced flip-chip packaging technology and eliminates geometric layout constraints associated with traditional chip design such as hard dependencies between I/O count and fabric array size. The ASMBL architecture also addresses the increasingly more stringent requirements for on-chip...

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Extreme Launches its BlackDiamond 10K Switch

Extreme Networks launched its new BlackDiamond 10K switch based on its fourth generation 4GNSS ASICs and a modular operating system designed for new levels of scalability, resiliency, security and extensibility. Unlike the first wave of 10 Gigabit platforms to hit the market, Extreme said its new switch not only delivers 10 Gbps line rate performance, but is built to handle vast increases in the number of flows traversing the core of a network. Six new, programmable ASICs provide 1.6 Tbps of processing capacity for hardware-based routing of 10...

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IDT Introduces Processor for Digital Home Nets

IDT (Integrated Device Technology) introduced a communications processor targeting digital home networks, including devices such as media servers, media adapters and IP-based network appliances. Delivering frequencies up to 400 MHz, the new IDT processor includes a PCI interface, providing connectivity to off-the-shelf peripherals such as 802.11a/b/g and serial ATA. The processor also integrates a 16-bit wide DDR memory controller that delivers performance usually achieved with a larger memory subsystem footprint. An integrated non-volatile random...

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Yahoo! Offers Access-Independent Premium Packages

Yahoo! will launch a premium Web service targeted at consumers and households transitioning from dial-up to broadband. Yahoo! Plus, which will be priced starting at $5.95 per month, offers a customizable browser and home page with streaming content, up to ten family accounts, a pop-up blocker, enhanced parental controls, anti-virus software, a personal firewall, anti-spam tools, enhanced Webcam functionality for Yahoo! Messenger and additional online storage for email and photos. It will also include Yahoo! by Phone, a service that allows consumers...

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Spirent Creates "Virtual Super-Testers" for GigE

Spirent Communications announced a new service assurance solution for metro Ethernet networks. Spirent's new 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet solution, which has already been purchased by a major North American ILEC, delivers three essential benefits to service providers: Multi-layer correlation on a single platform and process to centrally determine the root cause of a problem;Reductions in field dispatches to support provisioning and maintenance; andAutomation and expert analysis to empower lower-tier technicians with "virtual super-tester" abilities.The...

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Motorola Named as Exclusive VTA Supplier for Vonage

Motorola Broadband Communications Sector, the leading supplier of cable modems purchased at retail, announced a partnership with Vonage to simplify telephony for consumers and small businesses. Going forward, Motorola will serve as the exclusive provider of voice terminal adapters to be used with Vonage's Internet-based telephone service. http://www.motorola.com http://www.vonage....

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Proxim Brings Enhanced Security and Scalability to Enterprise Wi-Fi

Proxim announced new security and scalability enhancements for its ORiNOCO Access Point family, including advanced rogue access point (AP) detection, SNMPv3 and SSL secure management interfaces, and automatic network-based re-configuration of the AP to foil unauthorized attempts to locally disable security settings. Also, ORiNOCO access points now offer wireless repeating on all 802.11 standards. Additionally, for customers who need to deploy access points more densely, the new ORiNOCO release delivers adaptive transmit power control to allow adjustment...

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NEC America Shows IPv6 Routers and Switches

NEC America is demonstrating its suite of IPv6-capable "BlueFire" routers and switches at the U.S. IPv6 Summit 2003 this week in Arlington, Virginia. NEC also recently joined several other companies to participate in the national MOONv6 project, which aims to test IPv6 under real-world conditions. MOONv6 is a collaborative effort between the North American IPv6 Task Force (NAv6TF), the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), Internet2 (I2), and the Joint Interoperability Testing Command (JITC) along with other Department...

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Network Processing Forum Expands Interface Mgt IA

The Network Processing Forum (NPF) has expanded its Interface Management API specification to include support for tunneling and IPv6. The Interface Management Application Programming Interface (API) Implementation Agreement (IA), originally released in September of 2002, provides a uniform programming interface to configure, manage and administer the external network ports of a networking system such as a router or a switch. The API was expanded to include support for additional interfaces including IPv6 logical interface, IPv6 in IPv4 tunnels,...

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Time Warner Cable Partners with MCI and Sprint for Nationwide VoIP

Time Warner Cable, the second- largest cable operator in the U.S., announced strategic partnerships with MCI and Sprint for the nationwide deployment of Digital Phone residential VoIP service. Specifically, MCI and Sprint will assist Time Warner Cable in the provisioning of Digital Phone service to customers, termination of IP voice traffic to the public switched telephone network (PSTN), delivery of enhanced 9-1-1 service, local number portability and carrying long distance traffic.Time Warner said the multiple-year deals with MCI and Sprint will...

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Vonage Plans International Expansion in Q1

"We have no intention of recreating the PSTN," said John Rego, CFO of Vonage, speaking at the Lehman Brothers' Fifth Annual T3 Conference in New York. Rego said Vonage's network is based on SIP, which is "robust, scalable and agnostic to voice, video or data... giving you a good idea of where we intend to go in the future." The business model is truly disruptive, he said, because it is broadband agnostic and is oblivious to physical location.Vonage currently claims 70% of the broadband telephony market in the U.S., which he observed is still...

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Allied Telesyn Appoints Senior VP of Marketing

Allied Telesyn named Todd Chipman as senior vice president of marketing. Chipman previously served as chief marketing officer at Tiqit, vice president of product management at CenterBeam, and director of marketing at Novell for the network/system management product lines. http://www.alliedtelesyn....

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Bridgewater Offers Prepaid Solution for CDMA2000 1X Services

Bridgewater Systems introduced a prepaid solution for CDMA2000 1X data services. Bridgewater's software, which integrates with prepaid voice or data billing system and network equipment, provides real-time counting and rating of data traffic (real-time metering). It supports both time-based and byte-based prepaid quotas, provides low balance notification with configurable thresholds, and automatic session redirection to credit recharge facilities. In addition, the offering integrates with applications, such as multimedia messaging services (MMS)....

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NTELOS Deploys Catena's Broadband Loop Carrier

NTELOS, an integrated communications provider serving a five-state area in the mid-Atlantic region, is using Catena Networks' CN1000 Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC) to deliver DSL to business and residential subscribers. NTELOS has deployed the CN1000 BLC in both central office and outside plant environments. Catena's platform enables NTELOS to support advanced video-delivery services. The platform also allows NTELOS' customers to transition from TDM to packet-basedfeatures. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.catena.com http://www...

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