Multiservice Switching Forum Teams with MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance

The Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) and the MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance plan to collaborate on two interoperability test events in 2004. These include joint technical work on an MPLS and Frame Relay demonstration at SUPERCOMM in June, as well as at the MSF's Global MSF Interoperability (GMI 2004) event in October. The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance will lead the effort at SUPERCOMM, a live, multi-vendor demonstration of QoS-enabled Layer 2&3 VPNs and VPLS services on a MPLS core network. MSF members will be invited to participate...

Read More

NeoPhotonics Raises $40 million for FTTP

NeoPhotonics, a start-up based in San Jose, California raised $40 million in venture funding for its integrated optical modules and systems. The company's products are especially targeted at FTTP and metro markets. The company's access product suite includes a full range of splitters and couplers, new "triple play" triplexer transceivers, CWDM Mux/DMux modules, and fully thermal arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) DWDM Mux/DMux modules for FTTP installations. NeoPhotonics cited recent key design wins. Leading the round were Oak Investment Partners...

Read More

Danish Carrier Chooses Cisco Metro Ethernet for Triple Play

Dansk Bredbaand a/s (DBnet) is using Cisco Systems' equipment to deliver the triple play of services (voice, video and 10 Mbps data) over an Ethernet to the Home network. The network will serve an initial 10,000 residents in Copenhagen and across Denmark. DBnet is implementing the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform and Cisco 12000 Series routers in the core. A network of Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches act as broadband aggregation units at regional POPs. These provide Gigabit Ethernet connections to Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series...

Read More

Telco Systems Unveils AdvancedTCA Layer3 Routing Switch

Telco Systems introduced an AdvancedTCA-based IP Routing Switch for the carrier market. Its ATCA-compliant modules can be used in any ATCA-compliant chassis (wireless, storage, etc.) to comply with ATCA vision of "Any-Protocol at Any-Card in Any-Slot of Any-ATCA-Platform". Telco Systems' T6Pro-ATCA switch features a no- single-point-of-failure architecture. Its switch fabric provides wire-speed connectivity of more than 240 Gigabit Ethernet ports within a single 12RU chassis The company offers a variety of line cards, including 10-Gigabit Ethernet,...

Read More

T-Com Awards ECI Telecom Two-Year xDSL Equipment Contract

T-Com, Deutsche Telekom's national fixed line division, extended ECI Telecom's long-term contract for the deployment of broadband access platform for an additional two years. Currently, T-Com has over four million T-DSL subscriber lines, with plans to more than double that number to at least 10 million T-DSL users by 2007. The carrier plans to use ECI's latest fourth generation Hi-FOCuS 4 multi-service access gateway (MSAG) to help reach this goal. ECI's Hi-FOCuS 4 features live video multicast service capabilities. It also offers integrated voice...

Read More

Atrica Announces Residential Strategy for Optical Ethernet

Atrica announced a new residential triple play strategy that leverages its Optical Ethernet systems in a universal "Open Access" architecture. Atrica said its Open Access network would transparently connect subscribers to any service provider of their choosing with guaranteed QoS for each service. The transport network is managed independently from the service provider's...

Read More

CIENA Unveils its CoreStream Agility

CIENA announced the general availability of its CoreStream Agility system for advanced optical core network. CoreStream Agility integrates optical transport and software-enabled wavelength switching in a single system. It delivers "agile WDM" by enabling rerouting of signals and reconfiguration of network traffic via software. CoreStream Agility is capable of routing 2.5G, 10G and 40G wavelengths for long-haul and ultra long-haul (ULH) network routes. The platform has been lab-tested for 40G compatibility. CoreStream Agility also delivers an...

Read More

Flarion Announces New FLASH-OFDM Chipsets, Modems

Flarion Technologies unveiled its latest broadband wireless modems and embedded chipsets for use in laptops, tablet PCs, PDAs and handsets. The FLASH-OFDM modems and chipsets support typical downlink speeds of 1 Mbps and peak user burst rates of 3 Mbps (Downlink Modulation: 16 QAM, QPSK) using 1.25 MHz FDD spectrum, and typical uplink speeds of 300 to 500 Kbps and peak user burst rates of 900 Kbps (Uplink Modulation: QPSK). Flarion plans to begin shipping its second generation PCMCIA modem card in the second half of 2004. The company will also...

Read More

NEC's BIGLOBE Deploys Force10

BIGLOBE, NEC's wholly-owned flagship Internet service provider, has deployed the Force10 Networks' E-Series 10 Gigabit Ethernet platform. The equipment is being used to accommodate a flood of peer-to-peer traffic that has overwhelmed its current network. The companies described the deployment as an upgrade for BIGLOBE's current 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. The Force10 E1200 scales up to twenty-eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 336 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.force10networks.c...

Read More

T-Systems to Sell Lucent's' Network Management

T-Systems, the information and telecommunications technology service arm of Deutsche Telekom, has agreed to act as a reseller for Lucent's VitalSuite Performance Management Software solution. T-Systems will sell the software solution to service provider and enterprise customers throughout Europe, as well as integrate it into departments within Deutsche Telekom. Lucent's VitalSuite Performance Management Software is designed to monitor and optimize the delivery of high-margin services such as DSL, VPN, IP Centrex, streaming video, GigE and diverse...

Read More

Intelsat Completes Acquisition of Loral's North American Satellites

Intelsat completed its acquisition of the North American satellites and related customer contracts of Loral Space & Communications Corporation. The $961.1 million purchase enhances Intelsat's global market position by adding full coverage of North America to the Intelsat fleet and expanding its customer base in the broadcasting, cable television and corporate networking segments. The deal also includes insurance rights related to the failure last year of the Telstar 4 satellite, which could total up to $140 million. http://www.intelsat.comIntelsat...

Read More

IBM Tunes its BladeCenter System for Telecom Infrastructure

IBM announced new versions of its eServer BladeCenter system for the telecom industry, targeting wireless/wireline server applications that require near continuous uptime. The IBM BladeCenter T systems will be both Network Equipment Building System 3 (NEBS 3) and European Telecommunications Standard Industry (ETSI) compliant. It has also been hardened to withstand high temperature, violent shaking, lightning strikes, airborne contaminants, fires, and electrostatic discharge. The new system chassis design also incorporates many specialized telecommunications...

Read More

Lucent Announces $300 Million in European Contracts

At CeBIT 2004, Lucent Technologies announced contracts worth more than US$300 million (EUR 250 million) to provide fixed line and mobile service providers in Europe with next-generation services and solutions. These include:T-Com -- for a next-generation voice network pilot project; as well as to expand capacity on its optical transport network. Lucent will also provide a multi-vendor optical network management solution T-Mobile Germany -- for UMTS PC card modems developed with Novatel to support mobile high-speed data servicesKPN -- solutions...

Read More

Siemens and Skype Develop Cordless VoIP Phone

At CeBIT 2004, Siemens mobile introduced a consumer Internet telephony and messaging solution developed in partnership with Skype Technologies, the peer-to-peer VoIP provider. The new telephony product will allow consumers to utilize and manage all of their traditional Internet applications such as instant messaging, chat,...

Read More

Siemens Shows 1.3 Megapixel Mobile Phone

At CeBIT 2004, Siemens mobile introduced a business class mobile phone with a 1.3 MegaPix integrated video camera that films at 15 frames per second. The phone offer Bluetooth, wireless synchronization with Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and extended PIM (personal information management) applications and comes with a 32 MB compact exchangeable Memory Card. It also features up to 6 hours talk time and up to 250 hours standby time. http://www.siemens....

Read More

France Telecom and Alcatel Partner on Converged Fixed/Internet/Mobile

France Telecom and Alcatel announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the joint definition and implementation of a Next Generation Network Architecture (NGN/IMS) towards a converged fixed/Internet/mobile network. The partnership focuses on designing, developing and deploying innovative, differentiated and revenue generating services, based upon the convergence and the evolution of the existing networks and their respective access layers. The partnership is expected to include joint research and development teams, shared R&D funding,...

Read More

Siemens ICN Shows Telco Triple Play Solution

At CeBIT 2004, Siemens ICN is presenting its "Surpass Home Entertainment Solution" for network operators planning triple play services over DSL. The Siemens solution encompasses video telephony via the television, receipt of e-mail via TV, and also SMS and MMS transmission. It also support online gaming and video/audio on demand, storage of TV shows directly from the Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) for later viewing.. Also included are Internet on TV and the "Walled Garden", a service that allows network providers to make a defined internet...

Read More