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 the deal, all public commercial
hotspots operated by the carriers, and any other Canadian
operator or hotspot owner who meets the minimum
requirements and chooses to join the roaming alliance,
will be branded consistently with the common hotspot
identifier. The agreement will also simplify payment
options for customers who use Wi-Fi access at one of the
branded hotpots.
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Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS) will deploy the Nokia D500 IP DSLAM and the Redback SmartEdge 400 and 800 Service Gateway platforms for its consumer broadband service throughout the Moscow capital area. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.redback.comhttp://www.nokia.com
Time Warner Cable, North America's second largest cable operator, has approved the Motorola Broadband Services Router (BSR) 64000 for deployment of DOCSIS 1.1-based IP services throughout its cable systems in the U.S. Time Warner will begin deploying the Motorola BSR 64000 with a fully redundant configuration in its San Diego network. This marks the first deployment of the Motorola BSR 64000 in a Time Warner Cable system. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.motorola.com
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Wi-Fi
Alcatel has added Wireless LAN products to its portfolio of enterprise LAN switches and IP-PBXs.
The new line-up includes OmniAccess 1200 Access Points and OmniAccess 4000 wireless LAN switches and appliances, which were developed to support voice over WLAN and other real-time applications and services. The products, which are now shipping, are 802.11i-ready for next generation wireless security support.
Alcatel is also introducing the Mobile IP Touch 300 and 600 wireless phones, which act as extensions of the Alcatel OmniPCX family of IP-PBXs to provide access to enterprise-class communication features and services. They utilize the IEEE 802.11b global standard to operate as client devices on wireless LANs,http://www.alcatel.com
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Wi-Fi
NEC America unveiled UNIVERGE, a pure-IP architecture and new product family to unify voice, video and data onto a single network. The UNIVERGE architecture will integrate VoIP, data and video networking solutions supported by NEC with services including network performance and security assessments, and network monitoring and management. The architecture will also support vertical market applications such as healthcare, education, hospitality, government, retail, legal, financial, manufacturing, call centers and entertainment.
The current release will include the SV7000 full-featured telephony server. The SIP- enabled, client server configuration supports the broadest range of telephones in the market, from wired to wireless, as well as proprietary and standards-based. A unique feature of this IP system is that an optional chassis can be added to expand the number of IP ports if needed.
NEC's wireless LAN solution, the UNIVERGE WL Series, announced in late 2003, is also part of the UNIVERGE portfolio. http://www.necam.com
AT&T has added accelerator software that increases the download speed of its consumer dial-up Internet service by up to 5x. The compression and caching technology, which is provided by Propel Software Corporation, compresses text and graphics. AT&T Worldnet Service is priced at $14.95 per month. http://www.att.net/features/accelerator
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Wi-Fi
Nortel Networks introduced a Wireless IP Telephony portfolio and an adaptive WLAN solution for supporting converged applications. The new IP Telephony over WLAN solution is based on the new Nortel Networks WLAN Security Switch 2270 and the WLAN Access Ports 2230 and 2231 and is complemented by the WLAN Handsets 2210 and 2211, WLAN IP Telephony Manager 2245 and WLAN Application Gateway 2246.
The WLAN Security Switch 2270 provides advanced radio frequency (RF) specific functions that enable the control and security of the wireless LAN infrastructure to support voice traffic. It also provides advanced security features, including unauthorized access point detection and containment.
The WLAN Handsets emulate Nortel Networks i2004 Internet Telephone and leverage the full feature set of the company's call servers. The also offer walkie-talkie capabilities.
Nortel Networks is also introducing a Wireless Mesh Architecture for wireless deployments in open areas or where no LAN infrastructure exists, such as warehouse and university campus environments. This solution replaces the wired backhaul or transit link with a wireless link, eliminating the need to install additional LAN cabling and other infrastructure to extend WLAN service beyond the reach of the existing LAN. http://www.nortelnetworks.com
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Mobile
UTStarcom will collaborate with Cisco Systems on IP technology for third-generation (3G) wireless networks. The companies are focusing on IP-based core networks and on products designed to furnish end users with increased bandwidth and full multimedia capability. The collaboration is aimed at telecom operators in China. The first UTStarcom field-trial network employing 3G will become operational in Beijing in the first quarter of 2004. http://www.utstar.comhttp://www.cisco.com
MCI introduced a Denial of Service (DoS) Service Level Agreement (SLA) to help its Internet customers better thwart and defend against Internet threats and attacks. The new SLA ensures that all MCI Internet customers will have immediate access to MCI's security staff to help them rapidly address and mitigate Internet attacks, providing the strongest network security protection available.
MCI guarantees its response to suspected DoS attacks within 15 minutes of a customer-generated trouble ticket through MCI Customer Support. MCI's Security team works hand-in-hand with customers to determine and implement the necessary steps to quickly mitigate the security threat.
MCI's DoS performance guarantee automatically extends its SLAs at no additional cost to customers. The new SLA is being applied across all MCI IP services including dedicated and remote Internet access, IP VPN Dedicated and Remote, and Internet Colocation, Shared and single-server Dedicated Hosting. http://www.mci.com
Allstream (formerly AT&T Canada) has selected Alcatel's next-generation IP service router for its national switched gigabit Ethernet network. The deployment will use the Alcatel 7750 multiservice router, which delivers enhanced Internet and virtual private network services with QoS for each customer. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel.com
Quarry Technologies, a start-up based in Burlington, Massachusetts, raised $18 million in D Series venture funding for its line of carrier-class security service routers. Quarry's iQ Security Service Routers enable carriers to offer billable network-based security services over their IP/MPLS networks to enterprise and consumer customers. Quarry's platform combines high-performance ASICs, network processors and proprietary algorithms for priority queuing, virtual routing and real-time statistics. Quarry's packet processing system provides wire speed traffic classification, policing, fine-grained queuing, dynamic firewall filtering, address translation and priority-sensitive traffic aggregation, thereby enabling the enforcement of application-specific Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to each customer. The platform, which is deployed at the edge of service providers networks, applies billable security services (i.e. firewall, virus scanning, DoS prevention, intrusion detection/prevention) to IP and MPLS VPNs subscribers. A customer self-management portal is provided. The platform is scalable to 1000's of VPNs, 10,000's subscribers, and 1,000,000's of firewall session and IP QoS flows.
Quarry said it has experienced 25% growth in the past six months. Announced customers include Dacom (Korea), InTouch (Netherlands), and StraitShot (USA).
Investors include 3i, Jerusalem Venture Partners, ARCH Venture Partners, Walden International. The company had raised $77 million in its prior rounds of funding. http://www.quarrytech.com
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