Cisco Would Welcome Nortel Partnership

Cisco Systems chief executive John Chambers was widely quoted by news sources as open to the idea of a strategic partnership with Nortel Networks. Speaking at the 2004 Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto, Chambers said Cisco is more inclined to building partnerships than pursuing large acquisitions. Neither company commented further. http://www.cisco....

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Alcatel Installs 500,000 DSL ports for Neuf Telecom

Alcatel has installed the 500,000th DSL port for Neuf Telecom, a major fixed operator in the French market. Neuf Telecom launched its DSL rollout in early 2003. Alcatel has installed multi-DSL technology (ADSL, SHDSL) based on the Alcatel 7301 Advanced Services Access Manager. Alcatel said it now accounts for the largest part of Neuf Telecom's installed base. http://www.alcatel....

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BellSouth Selects SupportSoft to Automate Next Gen Services

BellSouth has entered into an agreement with SupportSoft for the development of software tools to help automate the activation and ongoing support for BellSouth's next generation of digital product offerings, including wireless and wireline services, VoIP and bandwidth on demand. This new agreement expands the current relationship between SupportSoft and BellSouth. Currently, SupportSoft's Service Automation Suite is being used to provide self-service and assisted technical support for retail BellSouth FastAccess DSL subscribers. In addition to...

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China Telecom Wuhan Deploys Riverstone's Ethernet Routers

The Wuhan Branch of China Telecom has deployed Riverstone's RS 3000 and RS 8000 Ethernet routers to link its existing ATM and Ethernet networks. The Wuhan branch will initially use Riverstone's Ethernet solutions to provide high-speed leased line services, including Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), to its enterprise data customers. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.riverstonenet....

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Data Connection Demonstrates Layer 3 IP VPNs and Re-Routing

Data Connection Limited (DCL) will be demonstrating 2547 MPLS/BGP VPNs and automatic network recovery using its carrier-grade IP Routing and MPLS solutions in the Isocore technology showcase at SUPERCOMM 2004. Data Connection's emulated router will operate in the Isocore network in two locations. It will act as a node in the converged IP/MPLS core, demonstrating rerouting around simulated failures in the core optical network using MPLS fast re-route techniques. It will also provide Layer 3 VPN services, acting as a full 2547 MPLS/BGP VPN edge...

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Data Connection Software Powers SuperComm Demos

Data Connection Limited's (DCL's) IP Routing and MPLS source-code are being employed within products being demonstrated by CIENA, Chiaro Networks, Native Networks, NEC, Quarry and others at next week's SUPERCOMM 2004 in Chicago. The platforms are being shown in a variety of interoperability demonstrations organized by ISOCORE, by the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance / Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) and by the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF). Data Connection's IP Routing and MPLS protocol products (which includes DC-OSPF, DC-ISIS, DC-RIP,...

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Data Connection Announces Portable Multicast Routing Software

Data Connection Limited (DCL) introduced the first two products in its new Multicast Product Family for OEMs building multicast-enabled routers and switches. The portable source code covers a range of multicast applications, including edge, core and border routers, and multicast group discovery protocol proxies. The first two products are:DC-PIM-SM, which supports Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), including Source Specific Mode (SSM). DC-IGMP, which supports Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP).Data Connection will extend...

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Tarari Raises $13.8 Million for Content Processors

Tarari, a start-up based in San Diego, secured $13.8 million in Series B round financing for its content processors. Tarari's silicon is used to accelerate XML processing and to accelerate processing in Content Filtering, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, and Compliance systems. Tarari's acceleration offerings incorporate RSA public key, bulk encryption/decryption with 3DES/DES, message digests with SHA-1, and true Random Number Generation. Tarari will extend this support to other standards such as WS-Security. Morgan Stanley...

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Uniden and BroadSoft Announce VoIP Interoperability

Uniden's UIP200 VoIP phone has passed interoperability testing with BroadSoft's BroadWorks network communications platform. Uniden's UIP200 business SIP phone, which was introduced in April 2004, has an MSRP of $149. It features an integrated 2 port 10/100 Ethernet switch, high-quality speakerphone with echo cancellation, multiple power options including power over Ethernet 802.3 af and multiple display languages. http://www.uniden.comhttp://www.broadsoft....

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SUPERDemo to Showcase MPLS Interoperability

Ten companies will be participating in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at SUPERCOMM 2004 designed to showcase the interoperability of MPLS solutions. Participating members demonstrated interoperability of several different MPLS related features and protocols during the Hot Stage test that took place last week at University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) and was further supported by The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). These capabilities include:New MPLS based services such as Hierarchical Virtual...

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BellSouth Adds Wireless Router Option to DSL

BellSouth began offering a wireless router option for small business customers using its DSL service. http://www.bellsouth....

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Cisco to Acquire Procket Networks for $89 Million

Cisco Systems will acquire the intellectual property, a majority of the engineering team and select assets from privately-held Procket Networks for approximately $89 million in cash. Procket, a start-up based in Milpitas, California, is a developer of concurrent services routers and has expertise in silicon and software development. Upon closing of the deal, Cisco will own Procket's entire intellectual property portfolio. The engineers will become part of Cisco's Routing Technology Group, under senior vice presidents Prem Jain and Mike Volpi. ...

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Equant to Offer Corporate Wi-Fi via Orange and Others

As part of France Telecom's Business Everywhere initiative, Equant will offer corporate users a unified mobile access to corporate information and applications via multiple access technologies, including: Wi-Fi, GPRS, DSL, and Dial. Support for UMTS (3G) is scheduled to start in Q4 2004 in major European markets. For Wi-Fi access, Equant is partnering with Orange and other hotspot providers to offer access to more than 8,000 hotspots in business centers, airport lounges and hotels in more than 16 countries in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific....

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China Telecom and France Telecom Announce Partnership

China Telecom and France Telecom announced a strategic partnership that envisages cooperation in a broad range of business areas. The initial phase covers, among others, research and development of technologies and applications, procurement, network and business operation, and personnel exchange and training. The parties have agreed to establish a joint research and development center in China, focusing initially on testing of new technologies and development of applications in support of business units. Efforts will also be made in search of joint...

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Kagoor Enhances its VoIP Session Border Control

Kagoor Networks has enhanced its VoiceFlow session border control solutions with new functionality that enables direct media flow between endpoints residing in a customer LAN behind a local data firewall/NAT device and gateways residing in the wide area network (WAN). This eliminates unnecessary routing of the media through the session border controller(s), thereby reducing cost, and latency and improving network scalability. Using Kagoor's network-hosted NAT traversal application, the VoiceFlow session border controller automatically recognizes...

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CANARIE Deploys Nortel 's Optical Multiservice Edge 6500

CANARIE, Canada's advanced Internet development organization, has selected Nortel Networks' Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 platform to perform SONET/SDH line termination and cross-connecting functions. CANARIE is adding a third 10 Gbps wavelength to CAnet 4, the national optical Internet research and education network that interconnects universities, research centers, government research laboratories, schools and other eligible sites nationally and internationally. CANARIE's User Controlled Lightpath software gives end users the ability to provision,...

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