Redback to Open Broadband Services Development Center

Redback Networks is creating Broadband Services Development Center at its corporate headquarters in San Jose, California to help service providers and content providers to create, evaluate and deploy value-added subscriber services. The center will help create pre-tested, pre-packaged services and provide a test bed for Redback's customers and partners.Some of the pre-packaged services Redback has developed or is developing include Application Specific Bandwidth (ASB), turbo button, service guarantees for online gaming, dependable voice services,...

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Qwest Places $1.775 Billion in Senior Notes

Qwest Communications placed an offering of $1.775 billion aggregate principal amount of senior debt securities. http://www.qwest....

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Cisco and ADP Team on IP Telephony

Cisco Systems and The Dealer Services Group of Automatic Data Processing are collaborating on IP telephony solutions for automotive dealerships. The companies are offering a "Network Phone" that combines Cisco's IP phone system with ADP's business computer system. Automobile dealership employees can listen to their e-mail on a Cisco IP phone, check voice mail via the Internet, forward faxes to any local fax machine, and view faxes on their computer. http://www.cisco....

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Vivato Appoints Donald Stalter as New CEO

Vivato, a WLAN start-up whose technology is based upon an innovative signal processing and antenna design, named Donald Stalter as its new CEO. Previously, Stalter served as the chief operating officer for Terawave Communications. Earlier in his career, Stalter held the position of vice...

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Time Warner Telecom Launches Extended Metro Ethernet Services

Time Warner Telecom launched a new, inter-city Ethernet service, called Extended Native LAN, in 44 U.S. metropolitan areas. The new service connects the local capabilities of Time Warner Telecom's Native LAN services to other cities across the country. The Extended Native LAN service is a managed end-to-end customer solution delivered over Time Warner Telecom's IP fiber backbone.Among the first customers for Time Warner Telecom's new Extended Native LAN service is Tucson, Arizona-based First Magnus Financial Corporation, a mortgage bank that is...

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3.5GHZ Broadband Wireless Net Deployed on Isle on Man

Domicilium, a leading ISP on the Isle of Man, has deployed Cambridge Broadband's VectaStar fixed wireless access solution, making it the first commercial 3.5GHz fixed wireless network in the UK, according to the company. Domicilium is offering a variety of high-speed Internet services to banks, trading houses, multi-tenant buildings and schools throughout the island. http://www.cambridgebroadband.c...

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Verio Appoints Former IBM Exec as CEO

Verio, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications, named Gregory A. Conley as chief executive officer, replacing Justin Jaschke, who founded the company in 1996. Conley was most recently president and chief executive officer of Tanning Technology Corporation, a global systems integrator and IT solutions provider that was acquired by Platinum Equity in June 2003. Prior to Tanning, Conley served as global general manager of e-Markets at IBM and also a member of IBM's Senior Leadership Group. http://www.verio....

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Alcatel Acquires WaterCove Networks

Alcatel agreed to acquire WaterCove Networks, a start-up developing next generation mobile networking equipment called GGSN (GPRS Gateway Support Node) for an undisclosed sum. Key elements of the WaterCove architecture include an intelligent server that creates and manages subscriber profiles and network policies. It provides streamlined provisioning for subscriber data profiles by leveraging existing systems that contain this information, as well as open systems interfaces to third party and/or internally developed applications and services....

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Alcatel Selected for EU's Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcast Project

Alcatel Space will lead a consortium of 20 companies developing Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcast (SDMB) technology to complement 3G mobile networks. The European Union MAESTRO Research and Development project (Mobile Applications & sErvices based on Satellite & Terrestrial inteRwOrking) will specify, implement and validate the critical features of SDMB system architecture. Studies conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the French CNES have contributed to the emergence of the SDMB concept in Europe....

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RealNetworks Reaches 1.3M Subscriptions for Consumer Digital Media

In 2003 consumer digital media services became RealNetworks' primary revenue driver, largely through the growth of subscription services. By year's end, the company grew its subscriber base to more than 1.3 million paying subscribers, up 44% from the end of 2002 and up 13% from the third quarter of 2003. In 2003, RealNetworks focused its consumer investments most deeply on the two digital media businesses that were poised for adoption by mainstream users: music and downloadable games. http://www.realnetworks....

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