European Broadcasting Union Selects Net Insight

The European Broadcasting Union will use Net Insight's Nimbra platform for its new international fiber TV and data network. The new fiber transport network, which complements EURvision's existing satellite network, will carry real time critical traffic, including breaking news and sporting events to EBU members and other media customers. With its new network, EURvision will provide connectivity for TV traffic between the largest media cities in Europe, with trans-Atlantic connections into the USA. The first phase of the network roll-out includes...

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Pioneer Telephone Selects Calix and Adds to Video Customer Base

Oklahoma-based Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, one of the largest telephone cooperatives in the nation with over 56,000 access lines, is using the Calix C7 ultra-broadband loop carrier (UBLC) to deploy switched video services over ultra-broadband DSL. Calix said its list of active video customers now includes Champaign Telephone Company; Genuine Telecom; MBO Corporation; Panhandle Telephone Cooperative, Inc.; Pioneer Telephone Cooperative; Ringgold Telephone Company; Skyline Telephone Membership Corporation; South Slope Cooperative Communications;...

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SBC Offers to Negotiate UNE-P Wholesale Rates

One day after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the FCC's Triennial Review Order with regard to network unbundling rules, issued a public offer to AT&T, MCI and other competitors, inviting the companies "to negotiate commercially reasonable UNE-P wholesale rates ." SBC Chairman and CEO Edward Whitacre said, "It is time for those of us who believe in free markets to put those commitments to the test in telecommunications." Whitacre pledged to keep in place the public utility commission approved UNE-P wholesale rules and pricing...

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Octasic Offers 32 and 64 channel Echo Cancellers

Octasic introduced 32 and 64 channel versions of its OCT6100 Series carrier-grade echo cancellation solution. The lower density devices are aimed at enterprise and access equipment, such as IP-PBX's, host-based media processing platforms and IADs. In addition to full-featured conferencing, the OCT6100 Series echo cancellers include other key features such as noise matching capabilities, tone-detection and announcement playout. Octasic's OCT6100 Series of devices already included versions with 256, 512, or 672 channels, with 64 or 128 ms tail...

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VoiceCon 2004 Keynote: IP Telephony's in the Enterprise Network

Convergence is actually "an easy business case" and not at all a "career threatening" proposal, said Niraj Patel, Executive VP & CIO, GMAC Commercial Holding Corp., in a keynote presentation on Tuesday at VoiceCon 2004 in Orlando, Florida. Just "don't try it on your old network," he joked... you'll definitely need an MPLS backbone to manage the QoS. GMAC is using a fully meshed MPLS core to reach its 109 offices across the U.S. and worldwide. Already 100% of the company's international voice calls, 20% of its domestic voice calls, and 100%...

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VoiceCon 2004 Keynote: Moving Enterprise Telephony to Next Plateau

Although leading edge corporate users have been testing IP telephony implementations for five years, the real market will be about delivering productivity gains to mainstream users, said Don Peterson, CEO of Avaya, speaking at VoiceCon 2004 in Orlando, Florida. Peterson observed that while overall employment levels have fallen in recent years, impacting sales of corporate PBXs, a growth in productivity that has nevertheless ensued. This growth in productivity, he contends, is driven by streamlined business models and enabled by integrated voice/data...

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Portugal's Rede Eléctrica Selects ECI's SDH/DWDM

Rede Eléctrica Nacional, Portugal's electric transmission company, selected ECI Telecom to build a national transport backbone with a combination SDH/DWDM and next generation Ethernet capabilities in over 30 sites. The deployment will use ECI's XDM MSPP, which converges intelligent optical networking capabilities with advanced data functionality including ATM and Ethernet Layer 2 over SDH/SONET, CWDM and DWDM. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ecitele....

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T-Systems launches WLAN Roaming Platform

T-Systems' carriers' carrier division, International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS) introduced a WLAN Roaming Platform for carriers and wireless ISPs. T-Systems said its open, multiservice-provider platform is fully scalable to support growing wireless transaction volumes. Accounting is generally time based, with a per minute pay per use model. For carriers and WISPs who connect to the WLAN Roaming Platform, ICSS provides clearing and settlement services, defines interface specifications and offers third level support. http://www.t-sys...

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AT&T Awarded $27 Million Contract from The Sports Authority

AT&T was awarded a $27 million, five-year contract by The Sports Authority Inc. to provide an integrated networking solution that will help the company expand its marketplace presence and enhance profitability. The contract covers an extensive portfolio of local, long-distance, data, video and Internet Protocol services. The Sports Authority and GART Sports, the two largest U.S. sporting goods retailers, merged last August to create The Sports Authority Inc., a retailer with 385 stores in 45 states. http://www.att....

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Alcatel Claims Growing Share in DSL Line Shipments Worldwide

Alcatel said its market share in DSL line shipments rose to 40.5% in Q4 2003, based on figures from Dell'Oro Group. The company credited its improved its worldwide position in the DSL market largely due to significant market share gains in Asia Pacific. Year to year, shipments have more than doubled worldwide, and with 15.8 million lines shipped in 2003, Alcatel reached a cumulative number of DSL lines shipped of more than 39.2 million. Of the installed base of DSL worldwide, Alcatel claims a cumulative market share of 37%. http://ww...

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Covad to Acquire GoBeam, Accelerate VoIP Launch

Covad Communications will acquire GoBeam, a privately-owned provider of VoIP, for $48 million in stock. GoBeam, which is based is Pleasanton, California, currently has more than 13,000 VoIP stations (telephones) serving business customers throughout California and in the Chicago, Illinois area. The company offers a full-feature hosted PBX solution with online management tools. GoBeam will retain its own brand and continue to operate its services until mid-year 2004 when the transition to Covad has been completed.Covad said it plans to eventually...

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Telecom Ottawa Selects Meriton Networks

Telecom Ottawa has selected Meriton Networks' managed High- Speed Metro (HSM) architecture to extend its network for delivering Gigabit Ethernet services. The deployment includes the complete Meriton product portfolio. At the core of the architecture is the 7200 OADX (Optical Add/Drop Switch), which collapses wavelength transmission and wavelength switching in a single element. The 7200 OADX supports point-to-point and ring topologies as well as meshing for multi-degree applications. Meriton's 3300 OSU (Optical Services Unit) serves as the access...

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Defense Department Selects net.com's SHOUTIP for Secure VoIP

The U.S. Department of Defense has selected net.com's SHOUTIP VoIP solution to provide secure and un-secure voice calls between coalition sites as part of the Kuwait-Iraq Command, Control, Communications and Computers Commercialization (KICC) program. net.com's SHOUTIP with secure voice relay offers support for secure telephone units (STU) as well as future narrow-band data terminal (FNBDT) technology. As part of the KICC program, remote sites are linked via satellite where bandwidth is at a premium. SHOUTIP's advanced call-packing technology,...

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BellSouth to Offer Customers Free Access to City Wi-Fi Net

BellSouth selected Charlotte, North Carolina for its first major deployment of public Wi-Fi networking. BellSouth's Internet customers will have free access to Wi-Fi hotspots concentrated in the Center City of Charlotte and surrounding suburbs. BellSouth said the objectives of this Wi-Fi trial are to test business and consumer demand for public Wi-Fi, large-scale deployment of a public Wi-Fi service and technical support of a Wi-Fi network. BellSouth initially will deploy about 100 hotspots, with the majority being located in the central business...

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Shandong Netcom Signs $130 Million Contract with Lucent

China's Shandong Netcom awarded a $130 million contract to Lucent Technologies for deployment of its Personal Handyphone System in four cities in Shandong province. The equipment is expected to be operational in early July. The PHS solution from Lucent includes its 5E-XC high-capacity switches for global markets. Lucent Worldwide Services will provide design, engineering and installation support for the project. Lucent noted that personal handyphone networks are widely deployed in China, where there is a need for low-cost, limited mobility wireless...

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Foundry Selected by University of Illinois

Foundry Networks was selected to provide network infrastructure for a new, state-of the art technology education and research facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The Siebel Center network will support advanced research applications, thousands of multimedia appliances and Gigabit to the desktop for hundreds of network nodes. It will feature advanced network security and manageability functions, including Foundry's hardware-based network monitoring feature. Network equipment includes Foundry's FastIron 1500 Layer 2/3...

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ADC Joins Cisco's Advanced Technology Provider Program

ADC has been chosen as part of Cisco Systems' Advanced Technology Provider program for its optical metro transport and metro DWDM initiatives in the U.S. The ATP designation recognizes ADC for having the ability to deploy and support Cisco Optical Metro DWDM and Optical Metro Transport solutions. http://www.cisco....

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Verizon Selects CIENA's DN Multiservice Switches

Verizon is deploying CIENA's DN 7100 and DN 7200 multiservice switches to support its Enterprise Advance network expansion initiative. Specifically, Verizon plans to deploy nationwide the DN 7 product family for Fast Packet services (including Frame Relay and ATM) and other multiservice applications. The switches will help Verizon converge access services onto a high-efficiency multiservice backbone across the country while also providing a migration path for MPLS. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ciena.comSBC Communications has...

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