OnFiber Acquires C2C Fiber in Boston

OnFiber Communications has acquired a majority of the assets and all customer contracts of C2C Fiber of Massachusetts, a competitive carrier operating in the Boston metropolitan area. The deal included approximately 350 route miles in over 25 cities and towns throughout the Boston area, including the I-495 corridor. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.onfiber.comOnFiber was founded in December 1999 and has raised nearly $134 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Incepta (affiliate of Bechtel Enterprises), Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, Amerindo Investment Advisors, GE Capital, TeleSoft Partners and others.



In August 2003, OnFiber acquired a majority of the network assets and customer contracts of Telseon Inc.

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Hitachi Telecom Teams with Wave7 on FTTP

Hitachi Telecom has selected Wave7 Optics to develop an optical broadband product based on Hitachi's FSAN-compliant ATM technology. The AMN1200 SFU, now available, supports the full "triple play" of video, very high-speed data and voice services and complies with the FSAN (Full Service Access Network consortium) BPON specification.



The agreement marks Wave7's entry as a supplier of ATM-based FTTP equipment. http://www.wave7optics.comhttp://www.hitel.com

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Aperto Cites Growing Deployments of its BWA

Sequelle Communications Alliance, one of first private wireless carriers in the US to pilot-test and win Rural Broadband Development (RUS) funding, has exclusively deployed 2.5 GHz systems from Aperto Networks, a supplier of 802.16 class broadband wireless access (BWA) systems. The carrier has deployed BWA throughout Parkersburg, West Virginia, Marietta, Ohio and 20 surrounding communities. RUS funding was awarded to Sequelle in 2002, and the company has now deployed to dozens of business, higher education and government sites using Aperto PacketWave systems throughout its network. It plans to serve between 200 and 600 such customers in each market it enters. The carrier is offering data access up to 14 Mbps throughput, VPN service, VoIP and Hot Spot as well as LAN/WAN integration services for its customers. Financial terms were not disclosed.



TransAria, a network operator based in Bozeman, Montana, already deployed Aperto's PacketWave systems in both 2.5 and 5 GHz spectrum systems for last-mile wireless access. http://www.apertonet.com

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Verizon Signs a UNE-p Deal with a Wholesale Customer

Verizon and Sterling Telecommunications today announced they have signed a letter of intent for a commercial agreement that will replace the existing wholesale network leasing arrangement known as Unbundled Network Element Platform (UNE-P). Sterling Telecommunications has been a buyer of Verizon's wholesale services under the UNE-P system for more than four years. The company, headquartered in Huntington, N.Y., serves customers in the New York metropolitan market. http://www.verizon.com/

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Qwest Appoints VP of Corporate Strategy

Qwest Communications has appointed Kenneth C. Dunn as vice president of corporate development & strategy. Since joining Qwest in 2002 as vice president and deputy general counsel, Dunn has directed the legal aspects of Qwest's transactional matters, including financing, tax, real estate and procurement. Dunn served as the primary legal advisor for the $7.07 billion sale of Qwest's directory publishing business and the company's substantial initiatives over the past 14 months in reducing debt and improving liquidity. He has previously served with SBC and Ameritech. http://www.qwest.com

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Acme Packet Partners with VocalTec on Session Border Control Solutions

VocalTec Communications agreed to market and distribute Acme Packet's Net-Net family of session border controllers as part of its softswitch-based solutions for next generation networks. The companies are already working together on a project for a major European carrier, as well as jointly addressing other opportunities. Acme Packet's session border controllers will be an integral part of VocalTec's Essentra softswitch for wholesale ILD, Class 4 and broadband access networks. http://www.acmepacket.com

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Siemens (Poland) Signs Reseller Agreement with Terawave

The Polish local subsidiary of Siemens A.G signed a reseller agreement covering Terawave's FTTP converged access products. The Terawave family of products provides multiple networking technologies such as PON, GigE, SDH and SONET. Terawave also supports a comprehensive suite of networking protocols such as IP, MPLS and ATM. The Terawave portfolio supports TDM services, IP VPN services, advanced video solutions and telemetry services. http://www.terawave.com

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Bay Microsystems Expands Its Federal Business

Bay Microsystems announced an expansion of its business with the U.S. Government through continuing multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts to develop next generation technology solutions for the government's global mission critical secure broadband network that spans air, ground and sea. Bay Microsystems has been delivering full-line rate 10Gbps Montego-based system solutions to the U.S. Government for more than one year. Its contracts include the sale of existing products as well as on-going development of Bay's Internetworking Process (InP) family for higher speed (up to 40G) data transfer rates for use within these networks of the federal government. Bay's InP family includes the Montego OC192c/10G processor capable of classification, policing, segmentation and reassembly, and traffic management at wire rate. The second member of the InP family is Biscayne, a programmable classification processor that can parse, classify and police packets and cells at rates up to 16 Gbps, at minimum packet size regardless of traffic patterns. http://www.baymicrosystems.com

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