Nortel to Resell VoIP gateways from Nuera

Nortel Networks agreed to integrate, sell and support VoIP gateways from Nuera Communications as part of an integrated PacketCable qualified solution. Both Nortel Networks softswitch and the Nuera media gateway are fully PacketCable qualified. Nuera's Orca BTX-21 and BTX-8 PacketCable qualified gateways complement Nortel Networks VoIP media gateway portfolio, which includes Nortel Networks Passport Packet Voice Gateway (PVG). Passport PVG, which is currently deployed in four cable VoIP networks around the world, provides cable operators with a...

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Redback Adds Session Level Reliability

Redback Networks introduced a Session Level Reliability capability designed to provide uninterrupted broadband Internet sessions for voice, video, online multi-player games and other applications. The new capability is built into the latest release of the operating system for Redback's SmartEdge Service Gateway and is designed to ensure that ongoing individual broadband subscriber sessions will not be dropped or interrupted in the event of a hardware failure. The system is designed so that if an error is encountered, sessions are seamlessly transferred...

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Telution Announces Full Operations Support Management for VoIP

Telution unveiled full operations support capabilities for VoIP service rollout and scalability for its flagship COMX product. The enhancements include modular order handling, service control, service assurance, revenue management, and customizable business reporting modules. Telution said these VoIP-centric capabilities allow service providers to better manage the intricacies of VoIP and to better manage complex triple play bundling and service personalization, essential capabilities for attracting and retaining business and residential customers....

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Broadcom and Microsoft Show TCP/IP Offload Chimney

Broadcom demonstrated a one Gigabit per second (Gbps) working implementation of its TCP/IP offload engine technology, supporting the Microsoft TCP Chimney architecture. TCP Chimney is a Microsoft technology that allows the operating system to offload the TCP processing of selected network streams from the CPU to the network controller. TCP processing consumes a significant amount of the host CPU cycles and as network speed rapidly increases, the need to offload this burden from the host CPU becomes more urgent. Offload frees the host CPU for processing...

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BellSouth Signs 4 Long-Term Deals with Wholesale Carriers

BellSouth signed long-term commercial agreements with four additional wholesale carriers (ABC Telecom, INET, KingTel and WebShoppe) for the provisioning of wholesale local phone services throughout the nine-state BellSouth region. This brings the total to seven commercial agreements for BellSouth. http://www.bellsouth....

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SBC asks FCC to exempt UNE-p Deals from State Rules

SBC Communications filed an emergency petition with the FCC asking the commission for an immediate ruling clarifying that the Telecom Act does not require terms of voluntary, commercial agreements to be filed with state commissions in their entirety. It also asked the commission to pre-empt any state filing requests beyond what is required by the Act and to halt any existing requests to do so. SBC said it was concerned that some states may try to interfere with commercial negotiations on UNE-p issues by seeking to approve and regulate the commercial...

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Globalstar Extends its IP VPN Contract with Equant

Globalstar, the handheld satellite phone service provider, extended its IP VPN services contract with Equant through February 2007. Currently, Globalstar leverages the any-to-any connectivity of Equant IP VPN at 15 earth stations in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. The IP VPN plays a critical role in Globalstar's ability to manage and control its low-earth-orbit satellite constellation. In particular, Globalstar is using the five classes of service (CoS) available on the MPLS backbone to prioritize its business...

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Infonet Launches MPLS-based IP Video VPN

Infonet Services Corporation announced the availability of its global videoconferencing service, IP Video VPN, to 33 countries. The service lets multinationals connect their globally distributed videoconferencing systems across the MPLS-enabled IP infrastructure of Infonet's "The World Network." Infonet operates a Cisco Powered Network and uses certified video Class of Service (CoS) for the videoconferencing. The company supports access speeds ranging from 128 Kbps to 45 Mbps. http://www.infonet....

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Sycamore Enhances its Optical Switch

Sycamore Networks introduced a new modular service interface card that enable a variety of interface types, port speeds, and transport options for its SN 16000 intelligent optical switch. The new Universal Service Card supports Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet or SONET/SDH service interface groups, and flexible port speeds, optical reach, and wavelengths. The architecture can support up to four separate Line Interface Modules (LIMs) per line card with a broad range of service reach options via pluggable optics: Short Reach (SR), Intermediate...

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Charter Selects Nortel's Cable VoIP Solution

Charter Communications selected Nortel Networks' cable VoIP solution for its Midwest and Great Lakes operating divisions. The selection includes Succession Communication Server (CS) 2000-Compact softswitches. Charter also intends to deploy Nortel Networks' Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) 5200 in a 2004 market trial, giving both residential and business customers access to multimedia services independent of location. The new Charter VoIP architecture will include the capability to communicate between a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)...

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Pronto and Firetide Partner on Large-Scale Wi-Fi Hot Zones

Pronto Networks, a provider of OSS solutions for large Wi-Fi hot spot networks, and Firetide, a developer of mesh networking technology, announced a strategic partnership to drive Wi-Fi hot zone deployments. The combined Pronto Networks/Firetide hot zone solution will enable service providers and Wireless ISPs (WISPs) to quickly deploy and manage large-scale Wi-Fi networks, specifically hot zones and hot regions in areas such as airports, convention centers, hotels, and major metropolitan areas. Firetide's HotPoint Wireless Mesh Routers replace...

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Copper Mountain Raises $11.25 Million in Private Placement

Copper Mountain Networks announced plans to sell approximately 1,250,000 shares of common stock to new and current shareholders at $9.00 per share. The private placement is expected to raise gross proceeds to the company of approximately $11,250,000. http://www.coppermountain....

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Agere and Data Connection Partner on Next Gen Multiservice Solutions

Agere Systems and Data Connection Limited (DCL) are developing a range of integrated solutions for next-generation multiservice communications equipment that combine integrate Agere's traffic management network processor chips and software with DCL software. The new software platforms combine MPLS, IP and ATM capabilities and target a broad range of wireline and wireless communications equipment applications including DSLAMs, optical networking gear, IP routers, edge switches and wireless base stations. Specifically, Agere will integrate its...

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Luminous Appoints Former Alcatel Exec as CEO

Luminous Networks, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, named Chris Stark to the position of President and CEO. Company founder Alex Naqvi, will continue to provide strategic direction for the company as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Stark previously served as Group Vice President of Alcatel Optics, North America, a multi-billion dollar business unit he helped form and grow. Prior to his most recent assignment, Mr. Stark held positions as Vice President and General Manager of Intelligent Optical Networks Division at Alcatel and Technology...

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BT and HP Announce $1.5 billion Alliance

BT and HP have signed a series of managed services agreements with a combined value of $1.5 billion over the next seven years. Under these agreements, HP will manage BT's midrange and desktop information technology (IT) infrastructure in the UK, and BT will manage HP's voice and data network and product support call centers within the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. The companies have also formed a strategic go-to-market alliance targeting the global information and communications technology (ICT) marketplace. Starting this summer,...

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Qwest Reports Q1 Loss of $310 Million

Qwest Communications reported a Q1 net loss of $310 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, on revenue of $3.48 billion -- a decline of 3.9% compared to Q1 2003. However, the decrease in revenue was less than in Q4, when overall revenue fell 5.6% compared to a year earlier. Some highlights from Q1: CAPEX for Q1 totaled $455 million, versus $429 million in the first quarter of 2003. The increase is primarily associated with the deployment of additional DSL facilities. In Q1, Qwest deployed 1,100 DSL remote terminals. added a record 1.2 million local...

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Verizon Confirms Residential VoIP Plans

Verizon confirmed its previously announced plans to launch residential VoIP service for its DSL customers beginning this quarter. Verizon also plans to add a new tier of consumer DSL service with a maximum connection speed of 3Mbps/768Kbps (for qualified customers). Pricing for the higher-speed DSL service and VoIP package will be announced later. Verizon will also triple to 384Kbps the upstream speed of its basic DSL offering for qualifying customers. The price for this 1.5Mbps/384Kbps service will remain the same as the current 1.5Mbps/128Kbps...

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