Tacit Networks Secures $16.9 Million for Storage Caching

Tacit Networks, a start-up based in South Plainfield, New Jersey, secured $16.9 million in its second round of financing for its enterprise remote office IT solutions. Tacit has developed an enterprise storage caching appliance designed to enable low-latency file sharing among geographically dispersed locations. The platform leverages a unique Storage Caching/ Internet Protocol (SC/IP) developed by Tacit Networks that is interoperable with existing storage, network and hardware infrastructure. The Tacit Storage Cache attaches directly to the...

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Shaw Selects Telution's Order Management and Service Assurance Software

Shaw Communications will deploy Telution's COMX order management and service assurance software to improve its ability to flexibly deliver "triple play" service bundles, including voice services, to its Western Canadian customer base. Telution's COMX is an application set that helps client companies improve operations, service delivery, and customer support. Telution said its software enhances an operator's ability to flexibly add VoIP to its product mix, while managing complex workflow situations related to voice ordering and complex service...

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Agere's Mini 801.11g Module Delivers 6 Mbps at 100m

Agere Systems announced a small-form-factor 802.11g mobile Wi-Fi module specifically designed for handheld consumer devices such as PDAs, media players, Smartphones, handheld video game devices, and digital cameras and camcorders. Measuring only 20x29 millimeters, the mini-module delivers an extended range of up to 100 meters at 6 Mbps. Using Agere's WaveLAN chip set -- which includes an RF transceiver, media access controller, baseband processor and power amplifier -- the module delivers output power of 14 dBm at 54 Mbps operation and 16 dBm...

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Wayport Adopts New Wi-Fi Business Model, Team with McDonald's

Wayport announced a new business model aimed at driving more mobile broadband customers to its Wi-Fi hotspots. Wayport's "Wi-Fi World" strategy seeks strategic partners for offering ubiquity, accessibility, quality, uniformity, value and simplicity of mobile broadband connections. The strategy offers network broadband providers an additional type of venue for providing DSL access along with in-store branding opportunities. The company is also seeking roaming partners at $32/month per Wi-Fi World site. Wayport has been selected to Wi-Fi enabled...

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Motorola Extends Push-To-Talk Across GPRS, CDMA2000 and Wi-Fi

Motorola introduced an IMS-based solution that extends Push-To-Talk connectivity across and between GPRS, CDMA2000 1X, and WiFi networks. This is a network-based solution, aligned with Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standards, that does not require modification to standards-based Push-To-Talk over Cellular (PoC) clients. Motorola said its Cross-Technology PoC solution would also be compatible with future Data Rate for Global Evolution (EDGE), High Speed Packet Downlink Access (HSDPA), Wideband CDMA/Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (W-CDMA/UMTS),...

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Data Connection Rounds Out its IP Routing Suite with RIP

Data Connection Limited (DCL) has added a Routing Information Protocol (RIP) product to its suite of IP Routing and MPLS software. DC-RIP is a fully portable, source code solution that implements full mandatory RIPv2 protocol support, as defined in RFC 2453, together with advanced features such as Split horizon with Poison Reverse, Triggered Updates and Authentication through plain text and MD5. The company said its DC-RIP has already been licensed by a number of equipment manufacturers. http://www.dataconnection....

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Puerto Rico's Liberty Cablevision Offers VoIP System-wide

Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico has launched residential VoIP service to all of its 300,000 users using Net2Phone's fully managed end-to-end cable VoIP service. Under the terms of the original six-year agreement, Liberty Cablevision maintains ownership of the customer, service brand, and Tier I customer and technical support, while Net2Phone supports the back office platform, switching and transport, ongoing operations and Tier II+ technical support to deliver a fully managed QoS IP solution. Net2Phone tracks and monitors voice quality and...

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Analog Devices Launches Blackfin Fusiv Platform

Analog Devices (ADI) unveiled its "Blackfin Fusiv Platform" aimed at integrating media processing, network processing and voice processing in a single system. ADI's Fusiv-Vx 150 and the Fusiv-Vx 200 processors integrate fast, secure network and voice processing in a system-on-chip (SOC) product. ADI is also supplying an integrated and optimized software solution. The company said its Fusiv-Vx 200 processor can achieve 31 times the small-packet mixed-system VPN throughput of its nearest competitor, delivering wire-speed fast Ethernet routing,...

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T-Mobile USA Acquires California/Nevada GSM Net from Cingular

T-Mobile USA will terminate its wireless network sharing joint venture with Cingular Wireless and instead acquire 100% ownership of the shared GSM networks in California and Nevada for $2.5 billion. The purchase price of $2.5 billion will be offset by $200 million related to the unwinding of the joint venture, resulting in a net cash payment of approximately $2.3 billion to Cingular. In addition, T-Mobile USA will: provide network services to Cingular under a wholesale arrangement until Cingular's customers in these markets transition to the networks...

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Intersil Acquires BitBlitz for SerDes Devices

Intersil has acquired BitBlitz Communications, a start-up that supplies high-speed serializer-deserializers (SerDes), retimers and transponders, for $2.5 million in cash. In addition, Intersil has agreed to pay contingent consideration of up to $5 million if certain performance milestones are met in 2004 and 2005. BitBlitz is based in Milpitas, California. http://www.intersil....

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BigBand Networks to Acquire ADC's CMTS

BigBand Networks will acquire the IP Cable Business Unit of ADC Telecommunications, including its Cuda and FastFlow product lines, for an undisclosed sum. ADC will become a minority interest holder in BigBand Networks as part of the agreement. The acquisition does not include the Homeworx cable telephony system that had also been a part of the business unit. BigBand Networks will continue sales and full service for Cuda and FastFlow customers, including operation of technology and business activities in Westborough, Massachusetts, as well as other...

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SMC's Wireless Cable Modem Router Among First to Receive CableHome 1.1 Certification

SMC Networks has received one of the first CableHome 1.1 certifications for its EZ Connect Wireless Cable Modem Router. CableHome 1.1, released last year, builds on the original CableHome 1.0 with improved residential gateway security features, introduces standardized prioritized Quality-of-Service for home LANs, and adds support for home servers, telecommuters and home offices. The SMC EZ Connect Wireless Cable Modem Router combines DOCSIS 1.1 cable connectivity, an integrated 4-port switch and an 802.11g access point in one device. http://w...

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StrataLight Provides 40 Gbps Transport for Cisco/MCI Demp

StrataLight Communications, a start-up based in Campbell, California, supplied the 40 Gbps optical transport equipment that interconnected two Cisco CRS-1 core routers over MCI's intercity fiber in the demonstration event for the new Cisco core router. Specifically, the routers, both equipped with short-reach 40-Gbps OC-768c optical client interfaces, were interconnected over MCI fiber facilities using StrataLight OTS-4000 Optical Terminal Subsystems in conjunction with Cisco ONS 15454 SONET MultiService Transport Platforms, which provided optical...

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MCI Demonstrates 40-Gbps Across IP Backbone

MCI demonstrated the fastest IP intercity transmission ever across its IP backbone -- a single trunk filled with 40-Gbps of traffic at an event hosted at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California by Cisco Systems. The technology trial took place over MCI's optical fiber network between PoPs located in San Francisco and San Jose, carrying 40 Gbps of traffic over a single full-duplex Optical Carrier (OC)-768c interface. Two IP routers were connected across the MCI network via a wavelength utilizing StrataLight's OTS-4000 Optical...

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SBC Reaches New Labor Contract with Union

SBC Communications and the Communications Workers of America tentatively agreed to a new five-year contract covering 100,000 SBC employees. Key terms of the deal include: Wages: The agreement will provide for average base wage increases of 2.3% per year for the life of the contract and lump sums averaging $300 per year. Health Care: The agreement helps the company rein in health care costs, which have been growing at double digit rates annually. No monthly contributions will be required, but co-payments for drugs, doctor visits, emergency room...

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Cisco Unveils its Carrier Routing System

In a public event marking the 20th anniversary of its founding, Cisco Systems unveiled its next generation CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, a carrier-class, terabit-scalable, core routing platform aimed at large service providers and research organizations. The Cisco CRS-1, which was developed in-house over a period of four years and at cost of $500 million, leverages a series of hardware and software...

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