Mangrove Systems Targets "MetroMPLS"

Mangrove Systems, a start-up based in Wallingford, CT, outlined its vision for extending MPLS convergence to the metro and access network infrastructure. Mangrove believes that core networks are fundamentally divided between MPLS and Optical infrastructures. In the metro, a single converged architecture that supports traditional data, Ethernet, private line, VoIP and SAN applications is required. This new converged metro and access ...

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Nortel Networks Unveils its Multiservice Provider Edge

Nortel Networks unveiled its Multiservice Provider Edge (MPE) 9000 series platform for converging multiple services over an IP/MPLS core. At its customer conference in Miami, Nortel Networks' said its new platform would address the network reliability, service scalability and traffic prioritization shortcomings of current edge routers. Nortel Networks contends that its MPE platform is built for the delivery of multiple services with appropriate...

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ADVA Launches Ethernet Access Solution for North America

ADVA Optical Networking introduced a family of low-cost, standards-based aggregation and demarcation products for the North American market.  ADVA's new FSP 150 platform could be used to deliver all types of managed Ethernet services (E-Line, E-LAN, private and virtual private) to the customer premise -- independent of speed, service or infrastructure (SONET/SDH, dark fiber, or native Ethernet). ADVA said its new FSP 150...

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Broadcom Unveils Converged NIC Ethernet Controller

Broadcom introduced its next generation Gigabit Ethernet controller featuring an integrated transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) offload engine, iSCSI host bus adapter functionality, remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology, and remote system management. This integration allows a single server NIC to simultaneously perform storage networking, high-performance clustering, accelerated data networking and remote system management pass- through functions. The TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) shifts the Ethernet protocol processing...

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Verizon Launches MPLS-based VPN Service

Verizon launched a long-haul IP VPN service aimed at large business, education and government customers. The launch is part of Verizon's Enterprise Advance initiative. Verizon's new service is available now in select Northeast and mid-Atlantic areas and will expand through the summer to Verizon markets in the South and West. Verizon is offering two service quality options -- basic and premier. Verizon also supports IP-VPN service with service-level agreements (SLAs) for both the local and long-haul portions of the company's network. Verizon...

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Charter Cites Growth in Cable Modem Revenue

Citing stronger cable modem subscriptions, Charter Communications reported Q1 revenue of $1.185 billion, an increase of $55 million, or 5%, over the same period in 2003. Some highlights for Q1:added 125,200 residential high-speed data (HSD) cable modem customers on a pro forma basis. These additions, together with HSD customer growth over the previous three quarters, drove a 40% increase in HSD revenues on a pro forma basis and a 38% increase on an actual basis, compared to the year ago quarter.grew the digital video customer base by 68,800 customers,...

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NETGEAR and Firetide Team on Wi-Fi Meshes

NETGEAR and Firetide announced a co-marketing agreement targeting large-scale WLANs in locations otherwise too difficult or costly to reach with wires. The partnership combines NETGEAR's access points and Firetide's Hotpoint Wireless Mesh Routers, which provide a wireless backhaul solution. http://www.firetide.com/http://www.NETGEAR....

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Siemens to OEM Spectralink's Wi-Fi Phones

Siemens AG will resell SpectraLink's Wi-Fi wireless telephones as part of its HiPath Convergence Portfolio of products under an OEM agreement between the firms. The SpectraLink-manufactured Wi-Fi handsets will be added to the Siemens HiPath enterprise convergence architecture. Two handset models will be available: the optiPoint WL1 professional is targeted at general enterprise applications, and the optiPoint W1 professional is designed for healthcare, retail, and industrial markets. http://www.siemens.comhttp://www.spectralink.comIn March, SpectraLink...

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Fujitsu Supplies ASICs to Greenfield

Fujitsu Microelectronics America has supplied three ASICs to Greenfield Networks, a start-up supplying high-performance, merchant Ethernet switch silicon. Fujitsu's ASICs, which are designed for network traffic management and packet processing, incorporate the industry's first SPI-4P2 Network Processor Streaming Interface running at 1.3 Gbps. ASICs range in size from a few million to over ten million gates, including memory operating at core frequency of 250MHz. http://www.fma.fujitsu.com/a...

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Cablevision is Adding 3,200 Consumer VoIP Lines per Week in New York

Cablevision System's new residential VoIP service, which is available in the New York metro area, is adding about 3,200 new customers per week. The cable company ended Q1 with 70,800 VoIP customers, up by 42,200 for the quarter. Overall, Cablevision Systems' Q1 net revenues increased 19% to $1.2 billion compared to the prior year period based on continued strong growth at both the Telecommunications Services and Rainbow Media's Core Networks divisions. Consolidated operating loss totaled $9.6 million, compared to operating income of $31.6 million...

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Polycom Introduces New Enterprise IP Video Solution

Polycom introduced a new enterprise-class video conferencing solution priced at under $2,000. The Polycom V500 delivers video at 30 frames per second), near CD-quality wideband audio (14 KHz), H.264 video compression for higher quality video over lower bandwidth, and advanced video calling capabilities. Multiple network support options are offered, including cable, DSL, ISDN or LAN connections -- IP support up to 512 Kbps and ISDN up to 128 Kbps (separate model) . AT&T plans to provide the equipment as part of its "AT&T IP Video Bundle"...

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Volo Expands Executive Team

Volo Communications, a next-gen wholesale carrier, named John Wind as Senior Director of Marketing. Wind previously was Vice President of Marketing and Strategy of Epicus. http://www.volocommunications.c...

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Infineon Names Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart as CEO

Infineon Technologies AG appointed Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart as its new president and CEO. Ziebart currently serves as Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board at Continental AG, a leading automotive parts supplier. http://www.infineon....

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Thirty-one Competitors Send UNE-p Proposal to Qwest

Thirty-one telecommunications providers submitted to a joint UNE-p proposal to Qwest Communications. In essence the proposal seeks a statewide, fixed pricing structure for both UNE-P and UNE-L elements. The companies said their proposal provides consistency and certainty over the four-year term of the agreement and would accelerate the move to facilities-based competition. The agreement provides for increases in the UNE-P rates charged by Qwest and decreased rates and improved performance measures for UNE-L. In addition, the proposal seeks...

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MCI Cites Adverse Conditions for Q1 Loss

MCI reported Q1 revenue of $6.3 billion, down from $7.2 billion a year earlier, including the consolidated results of Embratel. The decline reflects the adverse industry environment, as excess capacity and new technology adoption continue to pressure pricing. Exclusive of Embratel, the impending sale of which is expected to be completed in 2004, first quarter revenue declined to $5.4 billion from $6.6 billion a year earlier. There was an operating loss of $205 million for Q1, compared to operating profit of $634 million in the first quarter of...

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MCI Extends its Hosted VOIP Service over DSL

MCI is expanding the availability its hosted VoIP services to include access via MCI's facilities-based DSL service, which covers markets serving many of the top US metropolitan service areas (MSAs) including Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago. Later this year, MCI will more than double its Advantage DSL coverage to reach more than four million businesses via an existing agreement with Covad. To ensure business quality VoIP, MCI manages both inbound and outbound voice prioritization and data packet fragmentation for DSL. MCI is also enhancing the...

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Colubris Adds Voice over Wi-Fi Capabilities

Colubris Networks introduced voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) capabilities for its multi-service WLAN solution. The voice capabilities include support for the SpectraLink Voice Priority (SVP) protocol, providing interoperability with SpectraLink NetLink Wireless Telephones. Colubris Networks also provides support for Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), a component of the IEEE 802.11e standard, enabling prioritization of multimedia traffic over a wireless network. Colubris said its Virtual AP solution isolates each service on the WLAN with independently...

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Vodafone Tests Flarion's BWA in Japan

Vodafone KK in Japan will conduct a technology trial of Flarion's system for mobile broadband services. The trial will start in mid 2004 and will cover metropolitan areas of Tokyo. Vodafone will conduct field tests of Flarion's system performance, user mobility, subscriber scalability, robustness, and transparent delivery of enterprise and consumer applications over an end-to-end IP network infrastructure. The trial will use Flarion's commercially available FLASH-OFDM PC card modems for laptops and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), to field test...

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Qwest Exits Payphone Business

Qwest Communications will sell exit its pay phone business by selling the operations across its 14-state local access area to FSH Communications. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part of the deal, Qwest will remain the primary supplier of public access lines, operator services and long-distance capacity to FSH. The commercial terms available to pay phone customers will remain substantially unchanged following the closing of the transaction. "Over the past two years, we have engaged in a detailed examination of all Qwest's lines of business...

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WildPackets Announces Real-Time VoIP and Ethernet Analysis

WildPackets announced the scheduled release of EtherPeek VX -- a integrated Ethernet and VoIP analyzer designed for enterprises, service providers, and the field service needs of equipment manufacturers. The produce provides both Ethernet and VoIP diagnostics in one solution. As a software-only solution, EtherPeek VX is designed to be portable and affordable. WildPackets said its EtherPeek VX can analyze up to 100 open calls simultaneously, without requiring expensive hardware. The product provides per-call analytics and metrics, and supports...

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Telco Systems Offers WiFi Hotspot VDSL Backhaul

Telco Systems introduced a secure WiFi VDSL Internet access solution that provides Ethernet backhaul connectivity from a WiFi hotspot to a service provider's backbone network over existing copper-pair infrastructure. The design uses VDSL backhaul rather than T1 circuit provisioning, fiber or Category 5 cable. The Telco Systems secure WiFi VDSL backhaul solution integrates the company's EdgeLink VTU10 VDSL termination unit, which is at the WiFi access point; the EdgeLink V24S, which concentrates up to 24 VDSL lines from up to 24 wireless access...

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Packeteer Latest Data Compression Algorithm Promises Significant Bandwidth Savings

Packeteer has developed a new compression algorithm that it claims gives users up to 95% data compression depending on traffic type over point-to-point links with its equipment at each end. Packeteer delivers an Application Traffic Management system via intelligent appliances at the LAN/WAN interface. The Packeteer system identifies, protects and accelerates key business applications and controls malicious, recreational and other non-business traffic by providing deep visibility into the traffic. The new compression algorithm predicts entire...

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