Yahoo! BB Reaches 3.6 Million VoIP Lines

Yahoo! BB, the Japanese broadband service provided by Softbank and Yahoo! Japan, issued its latest monthly progress report. Yahoo! BB Subscribers   Jan-04 Dec-03 ...

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France Telecom and Siemens Form NGN Partnership

France Telecom and Siemens signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop a New Generation Network Architecture for mobile/fixed networks. The partnership contemplates joint R&D efforts, a limited period of exclusivity to leverage usage through generalization, and the sharing of intellectual property resulting from the partnership. Precise terms and conditions of the partnership will be detailed at a later stagehttp://www.francetelecom.comhttp://www.siemens....

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ITXC Launches Interoperability Program

ITXC announced an equipment interoperability program aimed at making it easier for other carriers and service providers to access its VoIPLink Service for international call exchange. The VoIPLink Ready program includes a commitment from both ITXC and VoIP infrastructure vendors to develop and maintain pre-engineered configurations for off-the-shelf interoperability with ITXC.net. http://www.itxc....

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Texas Instruments Ships Over 50 Million VoIP Ports

Texas Instruments (TI) has reached the milestone of shipping over 50 million VoIP ports. TI holds roughly 80% of the total VoIP integrated circuit shipment volume for the IP phone, customer premises equipment (CPE) gateway and infrastructure gateway market segments, according to a report from In-Stat/MDR cited by the company. http://www.ti....

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Parama Closes $7 Million for its SONET-on-a-Chip

Parama Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California raised $7 million in a Series B round of funding for its SONET "ADM-on-a-Chip." The funding led by Menlo Ventures and completed by the other current investors: Azure Capital Partners, Cross Bridge Ventures, Network Angel Capital and Sprout Group. http://www.paramanetworks.comIn January 2004, Parama Networks introduced its "ADM-on-a-Chip," an integrated device for SONET/SDH transport equipment. Parama said ADM-on-a-Chip, which is designed for next generation network equipment, leverages...

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T-Mobile USA Awards $300 million Contract to Nokia

T-Mobile USA expanded an existing agreement with Nokia for network equipment, software and services valued at $300 million. Under the new agreement, Nokia will provide next generation radio equipment, an expanded GPRS Core network, and implementation and optimization services. Also, included in the agreement is Nokia's network and service management system, Nokia NetAct including NetAct Traffica which will enhance T-Mobile's real time network monitoring capabilities. http://www.t-mobile....

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Convedia Adapts Media Servers for 2.5G and 3G Mobile Markets

Convedia has adapted its Media Servers to provide the Multimedia Resource Function (MRF) for 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. Convedia said its media servers could be used by IP-based mobile application developers and service providers to deliver applications with intensive IP voice and video processing requirements, including push-to-talk, personalized ringback tones, unified messaging, speech-controlled services, and presence enabled conferencing. In Q2 2004, Convedia will introduce additional functionality including support for AMR and EVRC...

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Broadcom Acquires Storage Patents from Cirrus Logic

Broadcom has acquired a portfolio of storage technology patents from Cirrus Logic for $18 million in cash. The patents cover many fundamental innovations in the magnetic and optical storage areas, including read channel and hard disk controller technologies. http://www.broadcom....

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Sonus Networks Reports Financial Irregularities

Sonus Networks reported accounting irregularities concerning the timing of revenue recognized from certain customer transactions and other financial statements. The issue may affect the company's 2003 financial statements and possibly financial statements for prior periods. Sonus said certain employees associated with the transactions have been terminated. It is conducting an independent investigation, employing the services of Hale and Dorr LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The company said it is unable to provide at this time an anticipated date...

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Comcast Reaches 5.3 million Cable Modem Subscribers

Comcast exceeded the financial targets it set for itself in 2003, delivering $6.35 billion of operating cash flow for the year. For the year 2003, Comcast's cable operations generated revenue of $17.491 billion, a 9.1% pro forma increase from 2002. Pro forma video revenue increased 5.5% to $12.096 billion for the year 2003 compared with the prior year driven by additions in the number of basic subscribers of more than 140,000, increases in average monthly revenue per basic subscriber and growth in digital cable subscribers. High-Speed Internet...

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Comcast's Takeover Bid for Disney Renews Content + Network Ambition

In the latest bid to combine content ownership with network presence, Comcast made an unsolicited, $54 billion takeover bid for The Walt Disney Company. Comcast is the largest cable network operator in the U.S., with some 21 million customers. The bid represented a 10% premium over Disney's closing stock price the day earlier."Not only would this merger create significant shareholder value, but it would also position the combined company to compete vigorously with other entertainment and communications companies, including newly created integrated...

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American Fiber Systems Selects Nortel's Optical Ethernet

American Fiber Systems, a provider of metro optical networks with some 76,000 miles of deployed fiber, selected Nortel Networks' Optical Ethernet gear for several cities in the U.S. AFS will offer Ethernet point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and Internet access (EIA) services with bandwidth rates from 10 Mbps to Gigabit Ethernet. AFS customers will be able to choose specific, custom bandwidth rates. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.nortelnetworks.comhttp://www.americanfibersystems....

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AFC Builds Out its Circuit-to-Packet Migration Strategy

AFC is building out an "AdvancedVoice" strategy to help carriers migrate their legacy voice services onto a packetized broadband network. The strategy leverages AFC's AccessMAX platform, which is capable of being configured as a digital loop carrier, DSLAM, or optical line terminal. Packetization of legacy voice traffic could occur with the AccessMAX deployed...

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Z-Tel Deploys Acme Packet and Ubiquity for VoIP

Z-Tel Communications has selected Ubiquity and Acme Packet as strategic suppliers for its VoIP deployment.Ubiquity offers a carrier-class SIP Application Server that will enable Z-Tel to originate and terminate IP communications services. The Ubiquity server will also provide the call handling services that are a core capability of Z-Tel's second generation "Personal Voice Assistant," a voice-activated dialing and conference calling feature. The company anticipates that its relationship with Ubiquity will bolster its differentiation among US-based...

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Salira Expands EPON Access Portfolio

Salira Optical Network Systems has expanded its Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) access system with additional network interfaces, two new customer premises devices and a web-based management system. Salira's Release 2.2 includes:STM-1/OC-3 and T1/E1 network interfaces, complementing the existing DS-3 and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The STM-1/OC-3 interface is available as a 2-port card. The T1/E1 interface is available as a 32-port card. Salira's Optical Line Terminating (OLT) chassis can accept up to 8 TDM cards.a new Salira 2330 Optical...

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AT&T's Dorman: UNE-P is Bridge to VoIP

"We must recognize that UNE-P is an essential bridge to next-generation technologies and to lasting competition," said AT&T Chairman David Dorman in a speech at the New America Foundation. Dorman argued that unbundled network elements (UNEs) represent the most meaningful competitive choice today and will ensure a "vigorously competitive market" as next generation technology gets deployed. http://www.att....

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Nortel Networks Creates Core Interoperability Lab

Nortel Networks will establish a new interoperability lab to focus on multivendor circuit-to-packet migration issues. The new lab, which will be located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, will provide interoperability testing between Nortel Networks and key, third-party vendors. In particular, testing will focus on enabling interoperability of Nortel Networks Succession Communication Server (CS) 2000 superclass softswitches and Nortel Networks Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) 5200 with third-party access and trunk gateways, border...

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