Kagoor Develops 3-Way Session Border Control Architecture

Kagoor Networks, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, introduced a 3-way session controller architecture that incorporates a Proxy, a Back-to-Back User Agent, and a MIDCOM distribution protocol in a single platform. Kagoor's 3-way "VoiceFlow" architecture provides carriers with flexibility in choosing and using session border controller technology for specific application. The 3 approaches include:B2BUA (Back-to-Back-User-Agent) for protocol translation and carrier-to-carrier peering translations, where the VoiceFlow platform provides...

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NTT Divisions Raise CAPEX for Fiber Access

NTT East and NTT West, the two regional division of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp , have raised their combined capital spending budget for local fiber access networks to 280 billion yen ($2.57 billion) compared to 240 billion yen in the previous year. The companies hope to end the year with two million fiber access customers, compared to about 705,000 at the end of January 2004. Priorities for NTT's research and development activities in 2004, which were detailed in the company's annual budget, include technologies for configuring economical...

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France Telecom and SAGEM Partner on Location Based Services

France Telecom is working with SAGEM to jointly develop solutions for Location Based Services around mobile phones. The partnership is expected to include joint research and development teams, joint R&D funding, and a limited period of exclusivity to leverage usage from the shared intellectual property. France Telecom said this partnership fits into its strategy to develop new and innovative services for its customers on mobile networks. http://www.francetelecom.comIn February 2004, France Telecom and Ericsson signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

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Global Crossing Calls on FCC to Change Access Charge Structure

Global Crossing is calling on the FCC to expeditiously issue clear and simple rules on the issues surrounding IP telephony, thereby stimulating investment in the nation's telecommunications infrastructure, promoting effective competition in this important market, and freeing companies to innovate and maximize the potential value of this emerging technology. In comments filed concerning the proper regulation of IP telephony (Wireline Docket Number 03-266), Global Crossing also recommended that the FCC affirmatively declare that the legacy access...

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Xtera Raises $30 Million, Names New CEO

Xtera Communications, a start-up offering optical transport solutions for regional, long- haul and ultra-long-haul networks, named Jon R. Hopper as its new president and CEO. The company also appointed Paul Colan as its new CFO. Jon W. Bayless will continue to play a key role as company Chairman while resuming duties as a General Partner at Sevin Rosen Funds. Hopper was formerly Chief Executive Officer at Extreme Devices, Inc., IRSI, and Dynamotion. He also served as a Senior Vice President at Photon Dynamics and as a Group Vice President at...

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BT Breaks the £20 broadband price barrier

BT introduced a Broadband Basic service priced at £19.99 a month and aimed at current dial-up users. BT Broadband Basic operates at up to 512 kbps, the same as BT Broadband and BT Yahoo! Broadband, but includes a bandwidth usage allowance of 1GB a month. It also requires a 12 month minimum term contract and is intended for single PC use only (does not support home networking). http://www.btplc....

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Alcatel Introduces 1678 MSPP

Alcatel has expanded its cross connect and multi-service provisioning platform (MSPP) portfolio with a new transport solution for metro and core applications in ETSI markets. The Alcatel 1678 Metro Core Connect (MCC) integrates add/drop multiplexer (ADM), broadband and wideband cross-connect, and MPLS functionality into a single node with a full Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) control plane. The Alcatel 1678 can be used to aggregate and consolidate multi-protocol traffic streams from the metro towards the core. By integrating MPLS, different data packets...

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Canadian Carriers Announce Wi-Fi Roaming Agreement

Canadian Carriers Announce Wi-Fi Roaming Agreement Bell Mobility, Microcell Solutions (Fido), Rogers AT&T Wireless and TELUS Mobility have entered into a roaming agreement covering their respective public Wi-Fi hotspots across Canada. Under...