Brooktrout to Acquire SnowShore for Media Server

Brooktrout will acquire SnowShore Networks, a start-up based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts for approximately $10 million in cash. SnowShore supplies a line of media server and media firewall products aimed at service provider applications. Snowshore's media servers are designed to integrate rich content from the Web and distributed network databases into voice services enabling the creation of converged enhanced services. Capabilities include network announcements, auto-attendant, voice messaging, pre-paid calling, integrated voice recognition,...

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Swedish Municipal Carrier Selects PacketFront

Mälarenergi Stadsnät AB, a council-owned power company in Västerås, Sweden has entered into a partnership with PacketFront to rollout FTTH connections. In 2000, Västerås was the first municipality in Sweden to form its own commercial company to build and operate an open urban network, and since then the company, Mälarenergi Stadsnät AB, has deregulated the broadband market. PacketFront's ASR 4000 broadband routers and its BECS control and provisioning system will be installed in all of Mälarenergi's new connections. Mälarenergi will eventually...

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DoD Selects Lucent to Rebuild Iraq's Communications

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a two-year, $75 million contract to Lucent Technologies to rebuild, restore and modernize communications systems in Iraq. As the prime contractor, Lucent will work under the direction of the Program Management Office (PMO) of the Coalition Provisional Authority as part of the overall Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction program. The contract has options that could extend it for five years. Lucent recently completed installation of 13 switching, optical and network management systems in and around Baghdad...

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Deloitte & Touche Sees Major Off-shoring Trend for Telecom Jobs

By 2008, five percent of the telecom industry's 5.5-million labor force, or 275,000 positions, will be off-shored to countries with lower labor costs, according to a survey 42 global telecommunications operators that was conducted by Deloitte & Touche's Research division. The survey included 10 of the world's top 20 operators on a revenue basis and the survey sample represents approximately 30% of total industry revenues - based on 2002 results. Although the off shoring trend in the telecom industry currently lags behind high tech and financial...

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Mirra Secures $8 Million for Personal Servers

Mirra, a start-up based in Mountain View, California secured $8 million in Series B funding for its digital content protection and management solutions for consumers. The company offers a Linux-powered personal server designed to provide hands-free, continuous backup, secure remote access and sharing from any Internet-connected PC. The new funding was led by Sequoia Capital and included existing investors Venture Strategy Partners and Sunrise Capital. In addition, Mirra announced the appointment of Jonathan M. Harris as vice president of sales....

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Irish Broadband Deploys 3.5 GHz System from Navini

Irish Broadband is using Navini Networks' Ripwave platform to deploy one of the first next generation, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) wide-area wireless broadband networks in the European Union at 3.5GHz. The rollout will begin by covering 100% of Dublin. http://www.navini.comhttp://www.irishbroadband...

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Alcatel and Intel Enter Alliance for WiMAX

Alcatel and Intel announced a strategic alliance for the definition, standardization, development, integration and marketing of WiMAX end-to-end solutions. This alliance will deliver solutions by the second half of 2005. http://www.alcatel.comhttp://www.intel.comEarlier this month, Intel and Siemens announced a partnership for the development of WiMAX base-station infrastructure equipment as well as end user subscriber station devices.Intel has previously announced plans to supply IEEE 802.16 compliant Wi-MAX silicon to Alvarion, Airspan Networks...

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Tekelec Names Chief Operating Officer

Tekelec appointed Lori Craven as Chief Operating Officer (COO). She will continue to support the company's Global Sales and Marketing Group as well as assume responsibilities for the Santera Next-Generation Switching Business Unit. David Heard has left Santera to pursue other interests. Craven joined Tekelec in January 2002 as the Vice President and General Manager of the Network Systems Division and has been leading Tekelec's Global Sales and Marketing Group since August 2003. She previously served with Lucent Technologies as Vice President,...

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AudioCodes Introduces Media Server for VoIP and VoATM

AudioCodes introduced a media server offers up to 2,016 low-bit-rate VoIP/VoATM channels of media processing. AudioCodes new IPmedia 3000 media server could be used to provide centralized announcements, conferencing, vocoding, IVR media transcoding, IP multicasting / IP forking, record & playback, Web-based playback and other media server functions. AudioCodes said its platform can address small to mid-density applications deployed in IP, ATM or mixed IP/ATM core networks. It also offers an optional optical PSTN interface. The IPmedia 3000...

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Ixia Enables Ethernet over SONET Testing with GFP

Ixia announced support for Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) on its OC-48c Packet over SONET (POS) interface test module. The new feature targets the testing of Metro Ethernet devices and services by generating and analyzing wire-speed Ethernet over SONET traffic for verification of transport networking equipment, multi-service provisioning platforms (MSPPs), and edge routers. GFP is the ITU-T G.7041 standard which defines a set of methods for framing different Layer 1 and Layer 2 data traffic types -- such as Ethernet, PPP, IP, Fibre Channel, ESCON,...

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Juniper Networks Secures GSA Contract

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded a Multiple Award Schedule contract (GS-35F-0330J) to immixGroup covering Juniper Networks' products. The contract enables government agencies to more easily purchase Juniper's IP products, including the E- M- and T-series routing platforms. The immixGroup is a government business consulting firm. http://www.juniper....

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AT&T Names Kevin Crull to Head Wireless Initiatives

AT&T named Kevin Crull as senior vice president and general manager-wireless services. Prior to his appointment, Crull was senior vice president of marketing and sales at AT&T's consumer division. http://www.att....

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Connexion by Boeing Sets Pricing for In-Flight Internet

Connexion by Boeing announced pricing details for its in-flight Internet service, which scheduled to become commercially available this spring on certain airlines. The company is offering two initial pricing plans, which will vary depending on flight length: Flat Rate Pricing Option: (Unlimited access to the Internet) $29.95 for long-haul flights (more than six hours); $19.95 for medium-haul flights (between three and six hours); and $14.95 for flights less than three hours.Metered Pricing Option: 30-minute starter package for $9.95 with rates...

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ADC to Acquire the KRONE Group

ADC agreed to acquire the KRONE Group, a global supplier of copper- and fiber-based cabling products, from GenTek Inc.. The deal was valued at approximately $350 million, of which ADC will pay cash of approximately $291 million and assume certain defined liabilities consisting principally of KRONE's pension obligation for its German workforce. ADC said the KRONE acquisition makes "a perfect fit" with its new strategic initiative to become the leader in global network infrastructure solutions and services. The combined company is expected to...

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Visual Networks Introduces Application Performance Visibility

Visual Networks introduced a new "Visual UpTime Select" capability for verification of application delivery across both high-speed (OC-3) and international (E1) IP networks. Visual Networks' performance management system now provides real-time and historical network and application visibility across high- bandwidth networks employing mixed or homogeneous MPLS, private IP, Frame Relay and ATM circuits. Visual Networks said its Analysis Service Elements (ASEs) enable highly scalable data collection with local storage to eliminate the need for...

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ARRIS Achieves Interoperability with Nortel's Softswitch

Interoperability testing has been completed between ARRIS PacketCable and DOCSIS 1.1 qualified Cadant C4 CMTS and Touchstone MTAs and Nortel Networks' PacketCable qualified Succession Communication Server (CS) 2000 superclass softswitch series. The Cadant C4 CMTS and Touchstone MTAs provide customer premise termination for cable VoIP. Nortel Networks' softswitch and associated core products deliver the features and call control functionality. Together, the platforms could be used by cable operators for full-featured primary line residential phone...

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