Indonesia's Telkomsel Deploys Nuera's VoIP

Telkomsel, the leading mobile operator in Indonesia, has deployed Nuera Communications' ORCA GX-8 VoIP media gateways to interconnect the mobile switching centers (MSC) within its GSM network. Telkomsel has quickly grown to provide cellular services in Indonesia to more than 9.5 million subscribers. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.nuera.com

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Global Crossing Selects BayPackets to Enhance VoIP Services

Global Crossing has chosen BayPackets' Agility Network Services Platform (NSP) to enable the migration of its Account Code products and services from an existing circuit-switched network to a VoIP network. As part of this migration, Global Crossing expects to deploy BayPackets' Agility Authorization Codes application in early 2004. This will enable Global Crossing's enterprise customers to control service access and/or third-party billing.


BayPackets' Agility NSP is an enhanced services platform that can be deployed as a next-generation Service Control Point (SCP) or as an application server in a carrier's network. The Agility NSP simultaneously enables PSTN connectivity through an SS7 interface and through a SIP interface. The platform's service creation environment enables carriers to develop and deploy their own advanced services. Additionally, because it is an open standards-based platform, the Agility NSP supports deployments of third-party applications. http://www.baypackets.com

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Phonom Enters Market for Residential VoIP

Phonom, a new privately held telecommunications company, announced its entrance into the market for residential digital IP telephony services in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. Phonom is using Lucent Technologies' "Accelerate" VoIP portfolio and IP network services from Cavalier Telephone. Cavalier Telephone also serves as PHONOM's wholesale DSL provider, although its VoIP services will be available over any broadband connection.


Pricing starts at $34.99 per month for one telephone account with unlimited local/LD calling in the U.S. and Canada with 12 call management features.


The Lucent solutions currently being deployed by Phonom include the Accelerate portfolio's VoIP switching platforms, web-enabled voice mail and a unifying web portal that enables consumers to manage phone calls, e-mails, voice mail, calendars, address books and more from any computer or personal digital assistant.


Phonom was founded in 2003 by Brad Evans, who is also the founder of Cavalier Telephone, the Richmond-based local and long distance service provider. Cavalier currently serves over 260,000 telephone lines with annualized revenues of over $192 million.


Equity backers for Phonom include MC Venture Partners, Bank of America Capital Investors, and BB&T Capital Partners. http://www.phonom.com

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China Unicom Deploys Vyyo's BWA Systems in Two Provinces

China Unicom, the second largest cellular operator in China, has deployed Vyyo's E1 circuit switched products to drive its broadband wireless access (BWA) in two provinces. Wuhan Research Institute (WRI) served as the system integrator in Changchun, Jilin and Datang Mobile in Guiyang, Guizhou. Financial terms were not disclosed.


Vyyo has now supplied its BWA systems to China Unicom, China Netcom, China Mobile, ChinaComm for use in 11 provinces with 3.5Ghz frequency licenses. http://www.vyyo.com

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Level 3 Announces International Voice Service

Level 3 Communications has begun offering its (3)Voice Termination services internationally. Level 3 originally launched its (3)Voice Termination service in December 1999 and for more than four years has been terminating calls in the U.S. for PTTs, inter-exchange carriers, cable operators and other companies. In December 2003, Level 3 significantly expanded its softswitch-based (3)Voice Termination service by enabling customers to hand off traffic directly to Level 3 using an IP interface.


The current announcement builds on the company's recent introduction of (3)Tone, an enhanced business voice service that Level 3 markets to local telephone companies, systems integrators, CLECs, and value-added resellers.


Also, in September 2003, Level 3 introduced (3)VoIP MARKETPLACE, a service targeted at call center operators, voice portals, and conferencing providers. This service allows customers to establish a local presence on the PSTN and receive locally dialed calls. Calls can be placed into the network via Level 3-assigned or customer-ported local telephone numbers. Level 3's softswitch platform converts the calls to IP and routes them to Level 3's MPLS-enabled backbone for delivery to the customer's own IP voice application. Local VoIP-PSTN presence is provided in 73 markets across the U.S. http://www.Level3.com/voice

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Narad Secures $17.5 Million for Broadband Access

Narad Networks, a start-up based in Westford, Massachusetts, secured $17.5 million in financing from new and existing investors for its broadband access solutions. The equity financing was led by new investor Argo Global Capital and included support from existing investors Polaris Venture Partners, Sofinnova Venture Partners, Vertical Group, and General Catalyst.


Narad said its business broadband technology leverages the cable operators' existing hybrid fiber coax (HFC) networks to deliver competitively priced data and voice services to commercial customers including small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), enterprise customers, WiFi network operators, schools, and municipalities. http://www.naradnetworks.com

• Narad Networks is developing a "virtual fiber" architecture for delivering symmetrical, 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps Ethernet services over HFC networks. The architecture places Gigabit Ethernet switches at strategic points in the network. An Optical Network Distribution Switch (ONDS) located immediately next to a conventional optical node combines the signals below 860 MHz from the headend with Gigabit Ethernet signals from a headend router. The ONDS performs an optical-to-electrical conversion of Ethernet traffic selectively at 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps. A Network Distribution Switch (NDS) provides the functions of a distribution amplifier for signals below 860 MHz as well as trunk-to-trunk switching functions between the 1 Gbps Ethernet channels. Narad will also provide a subscriber access switch and a customer premise unit with Ethernet ports and a single coaxial interface for existing TV and cable modem services operating below 860 MHz.

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Internet Photonics Announces 40 DWDM Wavelength Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer

Internet Photonics unveiled a new 40 Wavelength modular LightHandler optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) designed for metro-regional optical transport networks. The 40 wavelength LightHandler platform, which has already been deployed by one major cable operator, provides video on demand (VOD) scalability as well as other service requirements in major metropolitan cable headends.
Operators can start with a single four channel module and flexibly add modules to boost capacity to 40 channels at 10 Gbps. The company said the large number of wavelengths available means that cable operators and service providers can transport voice, data and video services on separate wavelengths of the same platform rather than purchasing separate equipment for each service. High margin services, such as VOD and business services, which require dedicated QoS can be run over their own wavelength.


The 40 wavelength LightHandler metro-regional OADM includes filters, amplifiers and slope-matched dispersion compensating units. It is fully compliant with the ITU standards and backward compatible with previous LightHandler products. http://www.internetphotonics.com

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AirFlow Leverages Hardware-based Processing for WLANs

AirFlow Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California announced a hardware-based implementation of wireless traffic processing that delivers significant improvements in WLAN performance and scalability. The design provides that all traffic throughout an entire WLAN is processed in silicon enabling QoS for specific real-time applications, such as voice and video of the WLAN. The company said that a single of its switches can now support over 100 of its AirHub access points at line-rate capacity without degradation. The packet processing provides deterministic per-packet processing latency below 10 microseconds -- without degradation even as the number of wireless clients scales to 10,000 -- with full packet lookup, inspection, classification, rewrite/transformation and forwarding. AirFlow Networks also announced additional security and fault tolerance features as well as a new AirHub access point model. http://www.airflownetworks.com

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Internet Photonics Enhances its Platforms for VOD

Internet Photonics announced significant enhancements to its LightStack MX optical multiplexing and transport platform aimed at operators who are deploying on-demand services and converged multi-service networks. The company said cable operators using its latest LightStack MX can cut their VOD transport costs per stream in half, enabling them to use 10 Gbps optics to build out service to smaller hubs. Additionally, the LightStack MX has been enhanced with protection switching, which enables cable operators to leverage the LightStack MX and its "VirtualWire" technology to deploy video on one "channel" and HSD, VoIP or commercial services on others. The protection switching allows the services to survive line outages without losing calls or dropping sessions. Finally, the LightStack MX now supports uni-directional optics for applications that only require one-way transmission, allowing transmission of VOD over a single fiber strand. http://www.internetphotonics.com

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Kabel Deutschland Selects Pace Set-Top Boxes

Deutsche Kabel, Germany's largest cable network operator, selected Pace Micro Technology as its set-top box partner as it prepares to roll-out digital cable TV services. Deutsche Kabel will use Pace's DC210 with Nagravision Conditional Access (CA) and HTML browser to provide pay-TV programmes and enhanced digital TV services for the first time. Deutsche Kabel, which currently has over 10 Million analog subscribers will launch its first digital TV services in spring 2004. http://www.pace.co.uk

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EMCORE Announces 10 GigE Transceiver (10gbase-Lx4)

EMCORE introduced a XENPAK transceiver that is compliant with 10GBASE-LX4, a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) format within the IEEE 802.3ae standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The transceiver provides a reach of 300 meters over standard multimode fiber, including the widely deployed "FDDI grade" legacy multimode fibers, and 10 km over singlemode fiber. In addition, an extended- reach version of the ELX-7100 will reach 40 km over singlemode fiber. http://www.emcore.com

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SingTel Expands Consumer Broadband with Siemens and Juniper

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) selected Siemens and Juniper Networks to supply advanced routing solutions for its consumer broadband network. Specifically, Siemens ICN Singapore will supply the carrier with Juniper Networks E-series routing platforms deployed in multiple points of presence to aggregate bandwidth. The expansion is scheduled for completion this month. http://www.juniper.nethttp://www.siemens.com

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VocalData Supplies VoIP Application Server for Telus

TELUS, the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada, is using VocalData's application server to support its recently launched IP-One hosted PBX service. It has already been running in production for more than a year and had handled more than 1 million calls as of mid-November. Features and capabilities offered by IP-One include on-demand conferencing, click-to-dial calling, find-me/follow-me calling and visual voice mail to business customers in Ontario and Quebechttp://www.vocaldata.com

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Sprint North Supply to sell White Rock Optical Gear

Sprint North Supply will sell White Rock Networks' metro optical equipment to network service providers including its VLX2020 OC48/OC192 SONET ADM. White Rock's modular product family also includes equipment for the photonic layer such as its VLX1010 WDM system, which provides both coarse and dense (CWDM/DWDM) wavelength solutions for metropolitan networks. http://www.sprint.comhttp://www.whiterocknetworks.com

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Marconi Supplies Optical Core for TeliaSonera

TeliaSonera is deploying Marconi's latest optical core networking solution, including its new family of Multihaul DWDM equipment, its Optical Core Switches and its Automatic Switched Transport Network control (ASTN) technology. Marconi said equipment delivered under the multi-million EUR frame contract will improve TeliaSonera's ability to handle increasing levels of network traffic and will reduce the cost of building and running the network. Financial terms were not disclosed.


At the heart of the Marconi solution is its SmartPhotoniX Multihaul DWDM platform. Marconi's new optical core switches, which scale from 80 Gbps up to multi-terabits, support an unrestricted mix of SDH and Optical Data Units (ODU) switching. The switching capability is complemented by a distributed ASTN control-plane capable of optimizing traffic flows automatically across the network and providing a self-healing capability in the event of failure or damage to multiple network nodes. http://www.marconi.com

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FLAG Shareholders Vote in Favor of Reliance Acquisition

Shareholders of FLAG Telecom voted to approve the company's acquisition by the Reliance group, India's largest business conglomerate. Reliance Infocomm is India's largest mobile service providers and operates a national, high-capacity network. http://www.flagtelecom.com

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Project Mutual Telephone Selects Minerva for IPTV

Project Mutual Telephone (PMT), an independent operating company (IOC) with over 11,000 access lines in Idaho, selected Minerva Networks' IP Television delivery platform for a triple play deployment. Beginning this summer, PMT will begin offering over 90 channels of live and pay-per-view television bundled with data and voice services over its ADSL network. The company also plans to make their headend available to Syringa Networks, a consortium of twelve rural telcos operating 1400 miles of fiber optics throughout Idaho. The PMT IP Television headend features Minerva iTVManager service management software and Minerva VC8000 video processing platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.minervanetworks.com

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Calient Networks Closes $20 Million in Fourth Funding Round

Calient Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California raised $20 million in fourth round funding for its photonic switching systems and software. In the past eighteen months, Calient has adapted its photonic switch to meet the needs of global telecom carriers, research and government networks. The company's DiamondWave switching system leverages a 3D MEMS fabric and GMPLS to provide a seamless, ‘opto-electronic-to-photonic' migration path. Calient's systems are currently carrying live traffic in two carrier networks and two educational/government networks. The company shipped a number of additional systems for revenue in late 2003.


New investor Sofinnova Ventures co-led the round with existing investors Enterprise Partners and TeleSoft Partners. Existing investors Storm Ventures and Van Wagoner Funds also participated, joined by new investor SDL Ventures. Due to continued interest, the company has scheduled a second closing in March 2004 to accommodate other interested investors, for up to $10 million. http://www.calient.net

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World Wide Packets Raises $15.7 Million for Access Solutions

World Wide Packets, a start-up based in Spokane, Washington raised $15.7 million in the first closing of its third round of funding for its Ethernet-based last mile access solutions. The company's "LightningEdge" access equipment is currently deployed in some 34 networks, including various municipalities, MSOs, CLECs and ILECs. The funding was led by new investors Madrona Venture Group and Northwest Venture Associates. Several existing investors also participated in the latest round, including Azure Capital Partners.


World Wide Packets features a Layer 2 Ethernet-to-the-Subscriber architecture that runs over either copper or active fiber connections. The company's product line spans central office aggregation boxes, neighborhood concentrators and customer premise equipment, supporting IP voice, video and data services. World Wide Packets also provides a network management system with extensive provisioning capabilities. Because it leverages a Layer 2 Ethernet network architecture, the company said its network architecture more easily accommodates wholesale service models whereby multiple ISPs, voice carriers or video providers share the same network.


World Wide Packets had raised $90 million in its prior rounds. http://www.worldwidepackets.com

• World Wide Packets is headed by David Curry, who previously led Architel Systems (acquired by Nortel Networks.



• World Wide Packets is based in Spokane, Washington and currently has 63 employees.

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