RADVISION Certified for DoD Networks

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) JITC (Joint Interoperability Test Command) has certified RADVISION's viaIP Multipoint Conferencing Unit (MCU) Platform for use in DoD networks. Also certified were RADVISION's iVIEW DCS data collaboration server for real-time document and application sharing and the company's newly announced ECS Gatekeeper v3.5 for robust and secure video network/call management. Furthermore, RADVISION engineers, in collaboration with DISA and Asynchrony Solutions, defined common user scenarios which were used as...

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OKI Launches Two New VoIP Gateways

Oki Network Technologies introduced two new Voice over IP (VoIP) broadband media gateways for the service provider and enterprise markets. The products include a T1/E1 VoIP gateway, and an analog FXS and FXO VoIP gateway. Both support H.323 v 4, SIP, T.38 fax, and G.711, G.723 and G.729 audio codecs for maximum interoperability. Both gateways are engineered for toll-quality QoS and incorporate advanced jitter buffers, silence suppression, echo cancellation, VLAN tagging, DiffServ, ToS and NAT Traversal features. http://www.okint....

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AT&T Expands VoIP to Western U.S.

AT&T's CallVantage consumer VoIP service has been expanded throughout the Western United States, including areas of Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. To date, AT&T has made the service generally available to consumers in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Texas. http://www.att.comAT&T launched its CallVantage at the end of March 2004, along with an extensive advertising campai...

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Lucent Fined $25 Million by SEC, Ten Individuals Charged

The SEC filed a complaint and final judgment in Federal District Court against Lucent Technologies, which will pay a $25 million civil penalty, but will not be required to make any financial restatements. The SEC also charged nine current and former Lucent officers, executives and employees, and one former Winstar Communications Inc. officer with securities fraud and aiding and abetting Lucent's violations of the federal securities laws. The SEC's complaint alleges that Lucent fraudulently and improperly recognized approximately $1.148 billion...

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Lufthansa Launches Airborne Internet Service

Lufthansa launched its WiFi-based, Connexion by Boeing Internet connectivity service on a commercial route from Munich to Los Angeles. This marks the first commercial launch for the Connexion by Boeing service. http://www.connexionbyboeing.com/In March 2004, 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...

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Motorola Names CEO for its Freescale Spin-off

Michel Mayer has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Freescale Semiconductor, a Motorola subsidiary that is expected to become a separate, publicly traded company later this year. Mayer spent almost 20 years at IBM Corporation, most recently as general manager of IBM Microelectronics, which develops and markets customized semiconductor products and services. A native of France, Mayer earned a degree of ingenieur in electrical engineering and computer science from the Ecole Superieure d'Electricite in Paris. With the creation...

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China Telecom Selects Lucent's Optical Gear in Jiangsu

Jiangsu Telecom, a provincial subsidiary of China Telecom, selected Lucent Technologies to supply optical networking gear to expand its backbone. Lucent will supply the LambdaUnite Multi-Service Switch (MSS) and Navis Optical Management System (OMS), as well as technical support provided by Lucent Worldwide Services. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.lucent.comLast month, UTStarcom announced a new contract valued at approximately $40 million with China Telecom to expand and optimize its IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) network...

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Good Technology Lands $45 Million for Wireless Messaging

Good Technology, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised over $45 million in new funding for its standards-based wireless messaging and corporate data access products. Good Technology's flagship offering, GoodLink, is a standards-based wireless messaging and corporate data access system that provides mobile field forces with a two-way wirelessly synchronized connection with the critical information contained in Microsoft Exchange Servers (enterprise email, contacts, calendar, notes and tasks) and CRM, ERP and SCM systems. The company...

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Telstra Selects NetCracker OSS

Telstra has purchased NetCracker's Network Inventory, Auto Design & Assign and Order Management applications. The carrier plans a phased implementation which will kick off with NetCracker's BAM! (Business Analysis & Mapping) process-- a joint NetCracker-Telstra exercise designed to map business requirements and processes and identify any areas which require further discussion. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.netcracker....

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TI Offers Power-over-Ethernet Modules and Controller

Texas Instruments introduced a new integrated circuit (IC) controller and a Power-over-Ethernet plug-in power module for Ethernet-powered industrial and commercial devices such as WLAN access points, IP phones, security and point- of-sale systems. TI's new Bi-CMOS controller can be used to effectively manage discovery, classification and delivery of direct-current (DC) power to a powered device. http://www.ti....

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Global Crossing Doubles VoIP Traffic Volumes with Sonus

Global Crossing exceeded its network traffic goals for 2003, and in March 2004 carried more than 2.4 billion minutes of traffic on its VoIP network. The carrier more than doubled the traffic transmitted on its VoIP network between January 2003 and March 2004, growing from 1.16 billion minutes per month to 2.4 billion minutes per month. Global Crossing is using Sonus Networks' VoIP platform, which has delivered five nines availability for all of 2003 and 2004 year-to-date. http://www.globalcrossing.comhttp://www.sonusnet....

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Telica Announces 8 More Softswitch Customers

Telica announced that eight new service providers have selected and deployed its Plexus 9000 softswitch. The new customers are:ACCATEL Inc., located in New York, offers carrier-grade termination services, via its own international VoIP backbone network, to local PTT's, emerging national carriers and rolling out its domestic and international SIP/MGCP subscribers' service.EasyTEL Communications, a comprehensive communications provider, offers services throughout Oklahoma.FullNet Communications, Inc., an Oklahoma-based ICP, provides integrated communications...

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Telcordia OEMs Atreus' Service Fulfillment for VoIP

Telcordia Technologies has entered into an OEM agreement to market and sell Atreus Systems' "xAuthority" Service Fulfillment solution for VoIP and other advanced services like IP Centrex and Messaging, as part of its Telcordia Elementive Portfolio. The partnership combines Telcordia's ability to enable flow-through activation and provisioning of leading softswitch, application server and media gateway vendors with Atreus's service fulfillment solution to support development and delivery of advanced VoIP services. Through self-service web portals,...

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NTT's Plala Selects P-cube

Plala Networks, a subsidiary of NTT East, has deployed P-Cube's Service Control Platform and Engage solution throughout its nationwide backbone network to reduce network congestion that is caused by Internet user-originated traffic, such as peer-to-peer (P2P). The contract has been delivered through Mitsubishi Corporation providing channel distribution, integration and support services in strategic partnership with P-Cube. P-Cube's Service Control Engine is deployed in strategic POPs in the Plala network. Financial terms were not disclosed. h...

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Ontario Securities Commission Halts Trading by Nortel Directors

The Ontario Securities Commission (the "OSC") issued a temporary order that prohibits, effective immediately, all trading by directors, officers and certain current and former employees of Nortel Networks in the securities of the company. This temporary order is expected to be replaced by a permanent order within the next 15 days. The permanent management cease trade order is expected to be in place until two full business days following receipt by the OSC of all filings that the company and its subsidiary are required to make pursuant to Ontario...

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Level 3 Expands Availability of Wholesale VoIP Service

Level 3 Communications will expand the availability of its (3)VoIP Local Inbound service 73 U.S. markets to more than 300 U.S. markets by the end of June. The service significantly reduces communications costs for foreign carriers, call center operators, conferencing providers, and other service providers that require a reliable and geographically expansive local calling infrastructure. The service complements Level 3's worldwide (3)Voice Termination service and (3)VoIP Toll Free the company's toll-free, nationwide calling solution. http://ww...

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Vonage Cuts Residential Premium Plan by $5 to $29.99

Vonage trimmed the price of its Residential Premium Unlimited Plan from $34.99 per month to $29.99 per month. Features and hardware remain at no cost, with no annual contract and a money-back guarantee within 14-days of sign-up. The cheapest Vonage plan is $14.99 per month for Residential Basic, which 500 minutes of local, toll and long distance calling throughout the U.S. and Canada. http://www.vonage.comVonage current has 155,000 VoIP lines in servi...

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China Telecom Selects Proxim for BWA and VoIP

Proxim and its partner, Forth Research Institute, a subsidiary of DaTang Telecom Inc., have been awarded a frame contract by China Telecom to provide point-to-multipoint broadband wireless solutions in 10 provinces in China. Deployments are already underway in the Tianjin municipality and the Shanxi province to deliver high-speed Internet access and VoIP to residential and enterprise customers. http://www.proxim....

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Teligent Add Fixed Wireless Access to WilTel's National Network

In partnership Teligent, WilTel has begun offering fixed wireless access from carrier and enterprise customer premises to any of its Extended On-Net access points over line-of-sight dependent, point-to-point microwave links operating in licensed spectrum. The service is aimed at Tier 2 and 3 markets of the U.S. that are typically underserved by national network providers and where local access costs onto a national fiber backbone are high. WilTel's Extended On-Net encompasses more than 300 high-bandwidth, on-net access locations along WilTel's...

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Vyyo to Acquire Xtend Networks

Vyyo agreed to acquire substantially all of the shares of Xtend Networks for approximately $19.6 million. Xtend, headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel with operations in Atlanta, Georgia, provides broadband solutions that increase the bandwidth of existing last-mile cable TV networks. Its product line includes multiplexing devices, broadband amplifiers, splitters and CPE devices that enable extension of the usable spectrum of coaxial cable from a current maximum of 860 MHz to up to 3 GHz. The companies said this boost of up to approximately 300%...

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Purcell Systems Raises $17M for Outdoor Cabinetry

Purcell Systems raised $16.6 million in new funding for its customized, modular outdoor power cabinetry for wireless carriers. The four-year old company, which is based in Liberty Lake, Washington, said it is already profitable. It plans to use the funding to enhance growth areas, including new customer acquisition, international expansion and support in the wireless, wireline and cable markets. The funding round was led by new investor Weston Presidio. http://www.purcellsystems....

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Hammerhead Builds Bandwidth Pooling into Migration Edge Switch

Hammerhead Systems, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, introduced its multiservice edge switches designed for migrating existing data services from ATM and Frame Relay networks onto an MPLS backbone, while enabling Ethernet services to interwork with existing networks. The company is targetting the "sweet-spot of corporate data services -- the $20...

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