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, seamless subscriber portability across home and wireless networks, etc.


Already Redback has worked jointly with IBM to create the Rapid IP Services (RISES) web portal facility to build and test new broadband services with self-subscription capabilities for the end-user. http://www/reback.com

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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.com

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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.com

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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 president and general manager of the digital transport division at ADC Telecommunications. http://www.vivato.net

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• In June 2003, Vivato, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $44.5 million in third round funding for its Wi-Fi switches. The new funding was led by Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), joined by all of Vivato's previous investors, including Leapfrog Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, Walden International and Intel Communications Fund.



• In March 2003, Vivato introduced its 2.4 GHz Outdoor Wi-Fi Switch capable of extending outdoor coverage for up to 4 km. The Vivato switch can penetrate exterior and interior walls to provide Wi-Fi coverage throughout an entire structure. Designed to support standard 802.11b Wi-Fi devices, the Vivato 2.4 GHz Outdoor Wi-Fi Switch provides three simultaneous beams of Wi-Fi throughout the coverage area. Its unique PacketSteering technology directs up to 33 Mbps of Wi-Fi capacity to active clients through an electronically controlled phased array antenna that creates high gain beams of Wi-Fi. The U.S. list price for the Vivato 2.4 GHz Outdoor Wi-Fi Switch is $13,995.



• In February 2003, Vivato introduced a 2.4 GHz Indoor Wi-Fi Switch that provides an indoor range of up to 300 meters with standard Wi-Fi clients. The Vivato switch is a flat panel unit, which resembles a plasma television screen, operates in the 2.4 GHz frequency band and delivers three simultaneous beams of Wi-Fi.

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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 embarking on a nationwide expansion. Time Warner Telecom has extended its SONET fiber-optic network to multiple First Magnus data centers including Tucson (AZ), Ontario, (CA), Austin (TX) and Honolulu (HI) to supplement numerous data, voice and Internet circuits already being provided throughout the country. A 45 Mbps Extended Native LAN in Ontario and a 30 Mbps Extended Native LAN in Austin connect the regional offices back to the Tucson headquarters using Time Warner Telecom's IP backbone. The LAN supports First Magnus' redundant data transfer requirements between these locations including VoIP, imaging and application data, with an Ethernet interface delivering bandwidth scalable to 1+ Gbps.


Time Warner Telecom noted that more than 680 customers are now using its Ethernet services. Its network has over 1,250 Ethernet ports in service. http://www.twtelecom.com

• In March 2003, Time Warner Telecom, a facilities-based carrier , unveiled its "Metro Ethernet Services -- Tomorrow's Network Today" strategy for business customers. Time Warner Telecom began offering native LAN services at rates from 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps, with plans to expand up to 10 Gbps. Time Warner Telecom said it has signed more than a hundred customers so far. The Ethernet service is delivered using Cisco Catalyst switches at the customer site, coupled with the Cisco 7600 platform to aggregate service delivery. At the time, the companies said Time Warner Telecom is one of Cisco's largest ONS customers.

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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.com/

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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.com

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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. WaterCove's Mobile Data Support Node performs switching, service delivery, subscriber aggregation and network resource management. Deep processing power enforces policies and for real-time metering.


The Watercove technology and Alcatel software can be used by mobile operators to charge their subscribers according to the type of content they wish to access or the way they prefer to access this content. For example, an operator can choose to charge a different price for sports-results multimedia messages than for traffic-warning multimedia messages, or different prices for instantaneous access versus delayed access to the results of a sports event. Watercove's GCSN is being used by Orange UK.


Watercove Networks is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. http://www.alcatel.com

• In August 2003, Alcatel signed a strategic OEM agreement to resell WaterCove Networks' Mobile Data Service System (MDSS) as part of its expanded packet data portfolio for 2.5G and 3G networks.



• In January 2003, WaterCove raised $20 million in third round financing. Charles River Ventures, Sprout Group, Orange Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners participated in this round. The company has raised a total of $70 million of equity financing to date.



• WaterCove Networks is led by Jayesh Patel, who prior to founding WaterCove was Vice President of Product Management and Business Development for Northchurch Communications. Northchurch was acquired by Newbridge Networks in 1999.

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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. Other projects such as MODIS, SATIN and RELY, in the scope of the European R&D program (EU IST FP5) have demonstrated the overall feasibility of the proposed innovations, the improvement of regulatory opportunities, and also the assessment of potential market benefits. http://www.alcatel.comhttp://ist-maestro.dyndns.org

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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.com

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