Ubicom Secures $21 Million for Wireless Processor

Ubicom, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, secured $21 million in a Series II financing round for its wireless network processor and software platforms. Ubicom has developed a new processor architecture designed for real-time tasks and low latency. The company said its system can process packets twice as fast as typical solutions, improving response times for games, voice, and other interactive applications. The Ubicom platform also uses proprietary design techniques to enable the high-performance execution of software I/O -- a technique...

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Cablevision's Lightpath Migrates Core from SONET to DWDM

Lightpath, the business telecommunications services division of Cablevision Systems, has migrated its core network from SONET to a DWDM architecture. The new network infrastructure will enable next generation IP-based and broadband services to businesses in the Tri-State metropolitan area, including New York City, Long Island, Westchester, southern Connecticut and northern New Jersey. The second phase of the upgrade, which is already underway, will be the deployment of an MPLS overlay on the DWDM core. The result will be a converged, ubiquitous...

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Netifice Deploys Cisco's IPSec-to-MPLS Security and Routing

Netifice Communications began offering a network-based IPSec VPN service that uses Cisco Systems' IPSec-to-MPLS security and routing technology. Netifice said its new service provides greater reliability, scalability and ease-of-use than a "do-it-yourself" IP VPN solution. Each customer's network can be designed as a hub-and-spoke, partially meshed or fully meshed topology. Netifice's new Network-based IPSec VPN service uses Cisco Provider Edge (PE) Accelerated VPN Routers located throughout the Netifice network to terminate IPSec tunnels from...

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Riverstone Routers Deployed in Berlin Network

Riverstone's RS metro routers are being used to provide Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) between scientific and educational institutions over the Berlin Research Area Information Network (BRAIN). The solution, supplied by T-Systems, connects several major institutions including Freie Universitat Berlin (FU Berlin), Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin (HU Berlin), Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Technische Universitat Berlin (TU Berlin) and Zuse-Institut Berlin (ZIB). Riverstone's RS 8000 metro routers to provide a secure, multi-point VPLS solution...

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Ixia Enhances Broadband Test Suite

Ixia announced significant enhancements to its IxAccess broadband test suite, including greater scalability and a realistic application traffic environment for executing performance, stress and negative tests on broadband access aggregation devices. The new IxAccess feature set supports over 1 million user sessions in a single Ixia chassis with support for all key variants of the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPPoE, PPPoEo802.1q, PPPoEoA, PPPoA) and Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP, L2TPoA) access protocols. These capabilities provide for testing of...

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Disney and NTT Launch Massively Multiplayer (MMP) Online game

Disney's Toontown Online, a downloadable massively multiplayer (MMP) 3D online game for kids and families, is now available to broadband users in Japan through a distribution deal between Walt Disney Internet Group and NTT East and NTT West. The Japanese version of the game offers all of the same characters and unique game functionality as the popular U.S. version, but is a standalone MMP environment. Disney's Toontown Online first launched in the U.S. in June 2003.htt://www.dig....

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Sprint and AT&T Wireless Sign Wi-Fi Roaming Pact

Sprint and AT&T Wireless signed a reciprocal Wi-Fi roaming agreement for Denver International (DIA), Kansas City International (MCI), Philadelphia International (PHL), Raleigh-Durham International (RDU) and Salt Lake City International (SLC) airports. This is the first roaming agreement between Sprint and AT&T Wireless for Wi-Fi service. http://www.sprint.com/http://www.attwireless.c...

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Vyvx Extends MPEG-2 Fiber Video Service in Canada, U.K.

Vyvx has extended its compressed fiber video services to locations in Canada and the United Kingdom. Broadcasters can now transmit live, broadcast-quality video to and from locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, and London at 8 or 18 Mbps. The new service offers full PAL pass-through for seamless handling of various international broadcast transmission standards, and interconnects seamlessly with Vyvx's extensive domestic network, as well as the company's MPEG-2 Compressed Services to and from Japan. http://www.vyvx.c...

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Tektronix Offers Test Tools for H.264 and Windows Media 9

Tektronix announced new design verification tools for next-generation video compression technologies available on the company's leading MPEG Transport Stream Test System. The new tools support H.264 and Microsoft Windows Media 9 Series (WMV9). http://www.tektronix.c...

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BellSouth Adds 3.0 Mbps DSL service

BellSouth began offering a 3.0Mbps DSL service tier for residential and business customers. The service delivers download speeds of up to 3.0Mbps and upload speeds of up to 384Kbps -- which is twice the downstream speed an 50% faster upstream than the company previous fastest tier. The service is priced at $44.95 per month for residential and $89.95 per month for business customers ( includes 5 static IP address and the option for up to 61 static IP addresses optional). Other service bundles are also available.. http://www.bellsouth.comAs of...

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Qovia Secures $10.6 Million for VoIP Software

Qovia, a start-up based in Frederick, Maryland, closed $10.6 million in second round equity financing for its enterprise VoIP monitoring and management products. Qovia, develops software that monitors and manages voice quality on VoIP telephone systems. The technology is already running on more than 100 networks. The financing was led by Canaan Partners with participation from returning investors Nokia Venture Partners, Anthem Capital and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED) Fund. http://www.qovia.comQovia is headed...

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Firetide Raises $13.6 Million for its Wireless Mesh Networking

Firetide, a start-up based in Los Gatos, California, raised $13.6 million in the first close of a Series B Preferred Stock financing round. Firetide develops mesh technology for "wireless instant networks." The company recently began shipping its HotPoint Wireless Mesh Router, and announced a distribution partnership with Connectronics, a national distributor offering a broad range of products to VARs, ISPs, and system integrators throughout North America. Additionally, Firetide has partnerships in place with Cranite, a leading provider of comprehensive...

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Kasenna and ViewNow Offer Turnkey VOD Service

Kasenna is teaming with ViewNow, a leading video on demand programming, management and marketing services company for cable and telco providers nationwide, to offer a turnkey video on demand (VOD) solution for telephone company operators. In addition, Kasenna and ViewNow have already sold the new solution to twelve independent telcos, including Broadband Visions LLC, an alliance of 15 independent telephone operating companies throughout Minnesota. ViewNow offers VOD content from major motion picture studios and other content providers; programming...

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Microsoft Reports Momentum for Windows Media 9 Series

Microsoft is reporting growing momentum among broadcasting companies for new services that support its Windows Media 9 Series encoding technology. Among the companies adopting Windows Media 9 Series are Rainbow DBS, the satellite services division of Cablevision Systems; Akimbo Systems; Shanghai Broadcasting Lab; and U.S. Digital Television Inc. (USDTV). Rainbow DBS's VOOM HDTV satellite service will use Windows Media 9 Series as one of the compression technologies to expand its available satellite capacity for HD offerings from more than 30 to...

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CoSine Adds Granularity to its IP Network Management System

CoSine Communications announced a new IP service management system featuring SLA (Service Level Agreement) reporting, more granular firewall reporting and powerful capabilities to support data mining. CoSine's InGage customer network management (CNM) system works with the company's IPSX Service Switches with enhanced IP Service Generator (IPSG)+ technology and CoSine's InVision (SMS). It provides reports of all the customer's policies at the network, VPN tunnel, virtual router and firewall levels. Per-customer data is stored in XML format and...

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AT&T Expands CallVantage VoIP to NY, California

AT&T has expanded the geographic availability of its CallVantage consumer VoIP service to major markets in New York, California and the San Antonio area of Texas. The AT&T service is now available in 18 markets across the U.S.. AT&T is offering promotional pricing of $19.99 for the first six months of service. http://www.att.comAT&T currently provides traditional residential local service to more than 4 million households nationwi...

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TeliaSonera Selects Alcatel's IP Service Router

TeliaSonera selected Alcatel's IP service router to build its next generation metro networks. The IP/MPLS network will be used for high-value services such as IP VPNs, virtual private LAN services (VPLS), virtual leased line (VLL), enhanced Internet and a variety of video, conferencing, and advanced multimedia applications. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel.comLast week, Alcatel announced a number of hardware and software enhancements for its Alcatel 7750 IP/MPLS edge routing platform, including a new hierarchical QoS model,...

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