TIA Predicts Turnaround in 2004 for U.S. Telecom Spending

A turnaround is in sight for U.S. telecommunications equipment spending, according to The Telecommunications Industry Association's (TIA) newly issued 2004 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast. The industry association believes the network equipment market bottomed out in 2003 at $14 billion and is predicting a 2.3% increase to $14.4 billion for 2004. The new spending is attributed to new carrier offerings, such as VoIP, bundled services, data transport and TV -- all of which will require new investment in equipment. Some key findings...

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net.com and BT Develop Broadband Hotbed for Tiered DSL

BT Exact, in conjunction with net.com, has developed the Broadband Hotbed, a testing solution that allows the simultaneous trial of the functionality of multiple broadband services and platforms. The test bed allows BT to simulate the impact on the access network of high priority voice or video traffic with lower priority e-mail access, all for unique ISPs and customer types. net.com's SCREAM (Service Creation Manager) Broadband Remote Access Server is being used in Broadband Hotbed can replicate all types of access. BT currently provides broadband...

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Half of Internet Households Interested in VoIP

One-half of all Internet households are interested in VoIP, according to new research from Parks Associates. Interest in these services is disproportionately among subscribers with high monthly phone bills, and cost savings is the primary driver. Furthermore, interest in VoIP service is consistent among both broadband (52%) and narrowband (48%) households. The Residential Voice-over-IP: Analysis & Forecasts survey sampled 3,300 households about their views on prospective services. http://www.parksassociates....

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XO Completes LMDS Access Trial

XO Communications announced successful trials of its fixed wireless broadband access to dozens of customers in San Diego and Irvine, California. Using LMDS technology, XO successfully tested fixed wireless access with burstable bandwidth capabilities from one Mbps up to 20-plus Mbps. XO is the licensee of the largest U.S footprint of fixed wireless spectrum, covering 95% of the population in the top 30 U.S. cities. http://www.xo....

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Optical Solutions Names New CEO

Optical Solutions named Mike Dagenais as its new president and CEO, replacing Darryl Ponder who is leaving to pursue other opportunities. Dagenais, who joined Optical Solutions last month as chief operating officer, most recently served as president and COO of Convergent Networks. http://www.opticalsolutions....

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BT Wholesale Awards New Support Contract to Marconi

BT Wholesale has awarded a new support contract to Marconi for its UK national network. Marconi said the agreement is based on managing support and repair transaction volumes and extends the scope and duration of an existing support agreement. It includes support for Marconi equipment in BT's PSTN, transmission and DSL network, as well as its core intelligent network platform. http://www.marconi....

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Ceterus Networks Names New President and CEO

Ceterus Networks, a start-up developing a "single virtual pipe" for transport of Metro Ethernet services, named David Stehlin as is new president and CEO. Ceterus Networks' founder, current President and CEO, William Szeto, will assume the title of CTO. Stehlin has served as president and CEO of several telecom start-ups and run divisions of public companies including OnePath Networks (fiber access systems), Valo (access systems) and Antec's (now Arris Group) Keptel division (passive components). Stehlin was active in the early leadership of...

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Interest Builds in the WiMAX Forum

The WiMAX Forum has more than doubled its membership from 28 to 67 members over the past five months. in a matter of five months. Among the new members are carriers such as AT&T, Covad, and Hong Kong-based PCCW; infrastructure providers such as Siemens mobile and China-based ZTE Corporation; and a number of established broadband wireless access suppliers such as Axxcelera Broadband Wireless, Beamreach Networks, Intracom, KarlNet, NextNet Wireless, REMEC and Vyyo. http://www.WiMAXForum....

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Dyband Supplies Traffic Mgt Software to Bell Canada

Dyband, a privately-held company based in Ottawa, is supplying traffic management software for resale exclusively to Bell Canada's wholesale ISP customers. The Dynamic Traffic Shaping (DTS) enables Bell Canada to provide value-added services for its wholesale ISP customers, including the ability to control their bandwidth right down to the individual subscriber. http://www.dyband....

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Sony Rolls Out IP-based Video Monitoring Network

Sony Electronics has begun shipping a network-based IP monitoring package that combines four Sony network-ready cameras with a Sony Vaio desktop PC equipped with a Network Video Recorder and video management software. Up to 32 video cameras could be connected to the monitoring network. Wireless capabilities are also offered for the cameras. The PC comes with a 500 GB hard disk for the network video recorder. http://www.sony....

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VoEx Selects Global Crossing for New VoIP Service Launch

VoEx, a start-up network integrator and VoIP services provider for large enterprises, selected Global Crossing as its preferred provider of wholesale voice, data and IP services. VoEx's outsourced VoIP integration, network services are aimed at helping large enterprises to rapidly migrate towards a fully converged voice/data network without capital expenditure or changes to business processes or systems. Global Crossing's VoIP Service, introduced in September 2003, provides wholesale IP interconnection, transport and call completion of packet-based...

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VocalData and Convedia Team on IP Centrex Solutions

Interoperability testing has been completed between VocalData's application server and Convedia's IP media servers. VocalData offers a standards-based voice application server that enables service providers to supply business and residential users with IP Centrex, hosted PBX, VoIP VPN, and enhanced services such as conferencing and unified messaging. Convedia's media servers support carrier-class media processing for enhanced services and applications. VocalData application server uses a SIP interface to control Convedia's media processing features,...

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Sorrento Obtains Commitment for $10 Million in Private Placement

Sorrento Networks will raise approximately $10 million in gross proceeds from a private placement of its common stock and warrants to institutional and accredited investors. This commitment is in addition to the $6.35 million raised in the private placement that closed on 31-Dec-2003. http://www.sorrentonet....

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EarthLink Offers Free Spyware Audit

EarthLink announced a free-of-charge spyware detection program, SpyAudit, that is available to all Internet users. SpyAudit, powered by Webroot software, is a 300 KB software program that Web surfers can download to run an analysis of the user's personal computer and provide an analyzed audit report that shows all spyware programs residing on the machine. If spyware is detected, the program suggests that you join Earthlink's access service, where the removal tools are available. http://www.earthlink.nethttp://www.webroot....

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CoManage Builds Momentum with Verizon, Sprint, AT&T Wireless and BT

CoManage Corporation announced landmark deployments of its network-driven data integrity management solution AT&T Wireless, British Telecom, Sprint and Verizon. Each of the carriers has selected CoManage's TrueSource platform to help manage the accuracy, consistency and relevancy of data used to drive critical service management functions. Financial terms were not disclosed. CoManage said poor data integrity in carrier Operations Support Systems is a leading cause of service provisioning failures, slow troubleshooting, lost assets and capacity,...

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