Alcatel Returns to Profitability, Upgrades Outlook

Alcatel reported a net profit in Q1 of EUR 80 million, with all business segments positive -- it's first quarterly profit in three years. The company also upgraded its financial outlook for the rest of 2004, noting that the prolonged decline in sales is now ending and that operating margins are improving due to the restructuring steps it has taken. Alcatel's overall sales for Q1 2004 were EUR 2.740 billion, compared with EUR 2.828 billion in Q1 2003, down 3% at actual exchange rate and up 2% at a constant rate. Income from operations amounted...

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Primal Offers Flow-based Management for VoIP

Primal Solutions announced a new release of its usage management solution for MSOs. The Connect IXC platform supports flow-based usage accounting for high speed data services and usage based billing for VOIP services on the same platform. Primal said its system enables MSOs to apply charges to specific service flows that were previously difficult to track, such as peer-to-peer traffic, through their network. MSOs can utilize flow-based accounting and rating for cable modem using a standards-based interface. The streaming delivery of usage data...

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nCUBE and Digeo Collaborate for On-Demand Solution for Moxi

nCUBE and Digeo announced an agreement to integrate nCUBE's nABLE interactive management software and video server with Digeo's Moxi software platform for deployment on Motorola's Broadband Media Center (BMC) 9000 Series media centers. The Moxi interface delivers consistent navigation features that provide viewers with access to thousands of VOD titles in the same way as they access the rest of their digital cable services. Throughout the Moxi Menu, VOD titles have prominent multiple placements alongside live broadcast and show listings making...

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Carlos Slim Steps Down at Telmex, Son Takes Over

Carlos Slim Helú resigned as chairman of Teléfonos de Mexico (Telmex). He will be succeeded by his son, Carlos Slim Domit, who has been serving as co-chairman of the company. Telmex is Mexico's incumbent carrier and has 15.1 million telephone lines in service and 74,000 km of fiber. The company was privatized in December 1990. http://www.telmex.comIn March, Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex) agreed to acquire MCI's 19% equity stake in Embratel for $360 million in cash. MCI's share in Embratel is a 19.26% economic interest and a 51.79% voting interest....

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Cox Launches VOD Services with Concurrent's 4G MediaHawk

Cox Communications has launched VOD in two of its metro markets (New Orleans and Omaha) using Concurrent's 4th Generation (4G) MediaHawk On-Demand Platform. This represents the most recent launch of Cox Entertainment on Demand service for Cox Motorola-based cable systems. Concurrent's platform supports Movies-On-Demand (MOD), Subscription VOD (SVOD), Free-On-Demand (FOD), Long-Format Advertising (LFA), network-basked Digital Video Recording (NDVR) and high-definition VOD (HDVOD), as well other new applications and services. http://www.ccur....

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PointOne Debuts Wholesale Residential and SOHO VoIP

PointOne is launching new VoIP services for the residential and SOHO (small office/home office markets) markets. PointOne will make the StarPoint IP service immediately available to cable operators throughout the U.S. PointOne has been conducting service trials since October. Since September 2000, PointOne has built out an advanced converged voice and data network that covers 75% of the U.S. population. The residential broadband telephony service provides long distance and local voice, including e911, directory assistance and operator services...

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RAD Introduces TDMoIP Solution for MSOs

RAD Data Communications introduced a unique IPMux product that provides voice and T1/E1 circuit emulation services over cable HFC/metro infrastructures. A second Vmux product combines TDMoIP with voice compression to very efficiently deliver T1/E1 commercial voice services over DOCSIS cable modems with greater resiliency to packet loss and significantly better bandwidth utilization than VoIP. RAD said its TDMoIP is transparent to signaling protocols, ensuring support for existing, rich PBX features sets, as well as carrier class 5 telephony features,...

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Finisar to Acquire Infineon Fiber Optics Business

Finisar agreed to acquire Infineon's fiber optics business unit 135 million shares of Finisar common stock. The acquisition transaction implies a valuation of US$263 million based on the closing share price as of 28-April-2004. Following the transaction, Infineon will hold a 38% equity interest in Finisar. Infineon's fiber business is based in Munich, Germany. Finisar is based in Sunnyvale, California. The acquisition involves the transfer of Infineon's fiber optic development, manufacturing, and certain marketing activities and approximately...

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Corvis Reports $146.8 Million in Revenue

Corvis Corporation reported Q1 revenues of $146.8 million, generated primarily from communications services revenues recorded by its subsidiary, Broadwing Communications, as well as from equipment sales to the U.S. government and Qwest Communications. The Broadwing Communications services division contributed $141.7 million in recorded revenues in the first quarter. The remaining $5.1 million was generated from the company's equipment and equipment service contracts. Reported net loss for the quarter was $33.9 million, or $0.07 loss per share,...

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Nokia Powers Orange 3G Launch in Toulouse

Orange France has launched its first pre-commercial 3G network in Toulouse using a complete Nokia radio-access network solution. This is the first pre-commercial launch of 3G in France. In addition to Toulouse, Nokia is also supplying its WCDMA 3G network to the north, east and southwest regions of France. In coming weeks, launches of Nokia-supplied networks will take place in these regions and in the UK. Nokia is also providing its professional services for the project. To date, Nokia is a supplier to nine of the 21 commercial WCDMA networks...

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Cox Continues Circuit-Switched Telephony Rollout

Cox Communications is preparing to launch its Digital Telephone in Northern Virginia beginning next month to compete with the incumbent local carrier, Verizon. Cox will be using circuit-switched technology in Northern Virginia. Cox's Northern Virginia cable system includes franchises in Fairfax County and Fredericksburg. Cox said it is already the third largest local exchange carrier in Virginia, with existing service in two other Cox markets - Hampton Roads and Roanoke. This marks the 13th telephony market nationwide for Cox. Cox Digital Telephone...

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