Cisco Delivers Metro-Scale Wi-Fi for Government

Cisco Systems introduced a wireless LAN product set for delivering broadband wireless access across a city to public sector agencies such as city, state and federal agencies, public safety (police, fire, and ambulance), transportation and public works. The Cisco Metropolitan Mobile Network solution consists of Cisco Aironet Series of Wi-Fi outdoor infrastructure and Cisco 3200 Series Routers with the new integrated Wireless Mobile Interface Card. When used in vehicles, the Cisco 3200 Series Router with new integrated Wireless Mobile Interface...

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Metalink Ships 200,000 VDSL Ports to Korea in Q2

Metalink announced that shipments of its ITU-T standard compliant VDSL products to South Korea for the second quarter of 2004 have exceeded 200,000 ports. The company said its Total-VDSL provides performance of over 50 Mbps and up to 5 km DSL service capability. http://www.metalinkbb.c...

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France Telecom and Motorola Form Strategic Partnership

France Telecom and Motorola signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the joint development of Seamless Mobility Solutions. This collaboration aims at developing and deploying new and innovative, integrated services, using a wide range of wireless access networks and technologies, for the home, office, car and on the move. The MoU includes: the establishment of joint research and development teams; the sharing of R&D funding; and the principle of sharing intellectual property. http://www.francetelecom.comhttp://www.motorola.comIn recent...

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Centillium Integrates ADSL2+/2++ and VoIP on a Chip

Centillium Communications introduced an ADSL2+/2++ and VoIP gateway-on-a-chip for next-generation Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). The new Palladia 400 chip uses Centillium's eXtremeDSLMAX technology for downstream rates up to 50 Mbps. It offers an integrated 200MHz MIPS processor and a high-powered DSP designed specifically to process VoIP. Palladia 400 supports a variety of voice codecs such as G.711 (PCM), G.729a/b, G.726.32 and G.723.1. The chip includes support for Caller Identification (Caller ID) -- including Japan Caller Identification...

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Cablevision Cuts its Pricing for Triple Play Bundle

Cablevision Systems cut the pricing of its bundled triple play (cable TV, cable modem and unlimited VoIP) residential service -- a move that is expected to put increased pricing pressure on Verizon as well as on other VoIP residential providers. The company unveiled a limited-time promotional offer that will run through July 31 and allow new customers to purchase advanced digital video, voice and data services for $29.95 each per month for 12 months when all three services are taken together. Also, Cablevision's cable customers will be offered...

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KDDI Deploys Calient's Photonic Switches in Japan's R&D Test bed

KDDI has commercially deployed Calient Networks' DiamondWave PXC photonic switch as the core optical switch element in the new R&D Testbed Network JGN II for the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Financial terms were not disclosed. JGN II, or Japan Gigabit Network II, has been designed and deployed to provide high-speed IP and Ethernet services to NICT's research centers as well as to universities and government research centers throughout Japan. JGN II is expected to accelerate research and development...

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Fujitsu Expands FLASHWAVE 4500 for Core Grooming

Fujitsu Network Communications announced the availability of a Multi-Service Switching Platform (MSSP) designed for ultra high-capacity, core grooming applications that traditionally require a high-cost Digital Cross-Connect System (DCS), or the deployment of a completely new, large-scale MSSP network element. Fujitsu's MSSP configuration, which is based on the FLASHWAVE 4500 Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP), delivers a three-fold increase in interface capacity and provides up to 300 Gbps of traffic grooming capacity, while supporting...

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White Rock Networks Adds Multi-Service Optical Access Platform

White Rock Networks launched a low cost, OC-48 SONET-based Optical Access platform for delivering both native DS1/DS3 and FastE/GbE services. The VLX2006, which the company describes as the first OC-48 ADM priced at under $10K, also offers fully protected Ethernet ports. The unit can remotely "right size" GbE access pipes as well as provide full Layer 2 Ethernet switching. Each GbE fiber interface can support subscribed customer rates from 512 Kbps to 1 Gbps. The VLX2006 is fully compatible with White Rock's VLX2020 OC-48/OC-192 SONET Transport...

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Kagoor Signs Reseller Agreement With Siemens IC

Siemens Information and Communication Networks will resell Kagoor Networks' VoiceFlow series session controllers, including the VoiceFlow 200, 1000 and 3000 products, as part of Siemens' Next Generation Product portfolio. With the Kagoor VoiceFlow series products, Siemens will be able to address both carrier and enterprise VoIP markets. http://www.kagoor....

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Brix Networks Unveils Prequalification Offering for VoIP

Brix Networks announced a prequalification application for VoIP networks that lets service providers test the ability of a prospect's residential broadband connection to support high-quality calls. VoIP PreQual is a commercial version of Brix Networks' free testing portal, TestYourVoIP.com. The Brix VoIP PreQual Application consists of a PreQual Console and the PreQual Agent. The PreQual Console allows a provider's customer care or marketing staff to view, search, and report on the quality of a residential VoIP service prospect's broadband connection....

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sentitO Networks Taps Dennis Chateauneuf as New CEO

sentitO Networks named Dennis Chateauneuf as its new CEO. Chateauneuf has held senior management positions at Sun Microsystems and Shiva Corporation.In 1998, Chateauneuf became the CEO of DTI Networks. In 2001, he merged DTI with CopperCom, and became its president and CEO. http://www.sentito....

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net.com Adds IP WAN Interface to Promina

net.com's Promina product line, which is deployed in enterprise, government and military networks, has added an IP-based trunk module to complement the existing TDM, ATM and serial WAN links. The Promina platform aggregates voice and secure voice traffic, as well as serial, modem, frame, cell and packet data through a single WAN link into a core network. http://www.net....

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Siemens Offers Broadband Plus! DSL Management/Support

Siemens introduced a "Broadband Plus!" solution for streamlining and automating the residential broadband lifecycle. Siemens' Broadband Plus! uses the latest DSL Forum device management specifications to provide end-to-end management and interoperability across DSL client devices, network platforms and back-end systems. Components of this solution include the company's SpeedStream Residential Gateway and its tango Subscriber Manager system. The tango software suite guides subscribers through setup, gateway, PC and service configuration. The...

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MetaSolv Automates Delivery of VoIP Services

MetaSolv Software announced a domain manager service fulfillment solution for VoIP services. The operations support system (OSS) includes MetaSolv's inventory management, order management, and service activation software, combined with MetaSolv's professional services. MetaSolv said its VoIP solution simplifies the provisioning process, enabling service providers to rapidly launch and provision a variety of operator defined residential and enterprise VoIP services in high volumes. MetaSolv currently provisions approximately 200 million subscribers...

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Level 3 Expands Data Services

Level 3 Communication's IP VPN service -- which currently serves a number of large strategic customers -- is being expanded through channel partners to the enterprise market. Additionally, Level 3 has enhanced its wide-area Ethernet, ATM and Frame Relay data networking offerings by adding new lower speed data services. The four services currently provide secure video, voice and data transmission to and from more than 90 markets in the U.S. and Europe. Usage-based bandwidth is scaleable from T-1/E1 to OC-48/STM-16. Level 3 Communications is using...

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Foundry Introduces Layer 4-7 Web Appliances

Foundry Networks unveiled a new series of high-availability Layer 4-7 application management and web appliances for server farms. The new ServerIron GT E-series use Foundry's TrafficWorks embedded operating system and JetCore switching and packet processing chips to provide hardware-based forwarding, denial of service protection and access control filtering. The appliances could be used for load balancing, in-depth network defense and intelligent and configurable content inspection and switching. Three models are being introduced:ServerIronGT...

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Extreme Networks Advances its Metro Ethernet Platform

Extreme Networks is adding advanced traffic management capabilities to its Metro Ethernet Service Platform, including Hierarchical-Virtual Private LAN Services (H-VPLS) and improved resiliency capabilities, such as Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching version two (EAPS v2). The fail-over performance of EAPS v2 has been improved to provide recovery in less than 50ms when a cable cut or equipment failure causes in interruption on an Ethernet ring. EAPS v2 now supports dual attached rings, as well as sub-tended rings. Extreme Networks said metro...

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Freescale Unveils BPON System-on-Chip

Freescale Semiconductor introduced a system-on-chip (SoC) solution for broadband passive optical networking (B-PON). The device integrates Freescale's e300 core (a PowerPC) processor core design), a B-PON media access controller (MAC), Ethernet MACs, and a clock and data recovery (CDR) unit on the same chip. The device's e300 core operates at 266 MHz and includes a 32KB instruction cache and a 32KB data cache. The processor platform integrates a double data rate (DDR) SDRAM memory controller, three 10/100 Ethernet controllers, dual universal asynchronous...

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Tellabs Adds 8600 Managed Edge System

Tellabs introduced a managed edge system for North American service providers. The Tellabs 8600 system is an access-oriented edge platform that delivers IP VPN and Ethernet services, while extending MPLS into the access network and even all the way to the customer premise. The Tellabs 8600 system offers hierarchical MPLS for layer 2 services such as Ethernet and for layer 3 services such as IP VPNs. This hierarchical model is necessary for scalable and efficient MPLS access deployment. Key components of the system include the Tellabs 8620...

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AudioCodes Unveils Mediant 3000 Media Gateway for VoP

AudioCodes introduced a new Mediant 3000 media gateway that packs from 480 to 4,032 low-bit-rate VoIP/VoATM channels and SONET/SDH interfaces into a 2U compact footprint. The Mediant 3000 will be offered in 1+0, 1+1 or 2+0 media gateway blade configurations that contain the functionality of the stand-alone shelf controllers, Ethernet switches, voice processing blades and interface cards typically utilized in large gateways. The Mediant 3000 supports a variety of VoIP, Wireless, and Cable vocoders, standards-compliant signaling and call control,...

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net.com Announces "Qserv" TR-059 Capabilities for its B-RAS

net.com announced a new release of its SCREAM broadband remote access server (B-RAS) featuring "Qserv" technology for delivering advanced QoS capabilities over existing plain old DSL (PODSL) lines. Net.com's QServ technology complies with The DSL Forum's TR-059 specification for multiple tiers and IP classes of service over DSL while using a single ATM virtual circuit. In essence, Qserv tightly couples the IP and ATM QoS/CoS data planes. The company said independent testing with carrier customers has demonstrated the SCREAM's ability to enforce...

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BroadSoft Selected by BellSouth

BellSouth has selected the BroadSoft's BroadWorks network communications platform for its network-hosted VoIP deployment. The BroadWorks platform currently is supporting BellSouth's network-hosted trial offering announced in June. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.broadsoft.comhttp://www.bellsouth....

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Mahi Networks Debuts its Multi-Service Core Transport System

Mahi Networks introduced its Multi-Service Core Transport System based on "ADM-on-a-Wavelength" line card technology from its acquisition of Photuris. Mahi's Vx7 R2.1 provides single wavelength granularity with full 100% optical add/drop capability for OC-48 and OC-192 line-rates, with full wavelength-reuse around a sixteen-node network that spans up to a 1000 km circumference. The system supports a range of service interfaces, including SONET, SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel, FICON, ESCON, and 'AnyRate'. It also leverages a GMPLS control...

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Mahi Adds L2 Data Features to its Multi-Service Optical Transport

Mahi Networks, a start-up based in Petaluma, California, introduced new layer 2 packet processing capabilities for its Mi7 Multi-Service Core Aggregation System (MCAS) for SONET/SDH Networks. The new functionality enables carriers to deliver differentiated mass-market layer one data transport and layer two packet switched and statistically multiplexed data services over their embedded SONET infrastructure without the need for a separate data overlay network. Key enhancements in the Mi7 R1.5 system release include:a server card enables carriers...

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Mahi Forms Alliances with Covaro, ANDA

Mahi Networks and Covaro Networks announced a strategic alliance to promote intelligent interoperable solutions for Ethernet over SONET. Separately, Mahi Networks and ANDA Networks have also formed an alliance to pursue interoperable solutions that allow SONET networks to seamlessly transport, manage, and deliver Ethernet services with service level agreements using a variety of standards-based formats. Mahi's Mi7 Multi-Service Core Aggregation System serves as an aggregation device for SONET rings transporting Ethernet over SONET. The Mi7's...

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Aware Demonstrates Bonded ADSL2plus

Aware is demonstrating bonded ADSL2plus technology at this week's SuperComm in Chicago. The demo is compliant with the draft proposed American National Standard for ATM-based multi-pair bonding, which enables ADSL throughputs on multiple telephone lines to be aggregated, or "bonded." Bonded ADSL2plus combines ATM-layer bonding with ADSL2plus technology to increase customers' data rates. It can be implemented using off-the-shelf ADSL2plus chipsets and Aware bonding technology. Bonding just two ADSL2plus lines provides enough bandwidth to deliver...

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Sprint and Sweden' SUNET Claim Networking Record

Sprint and the Swedish National Research and Education Network (SUNET) have claimed a new world record for transferring large volumes of data across large distances. Using neither special hardware nor special connections, the Sprint/SUNET team in April sent nearly 840 gigabytes of data from San Jose, California to the University of Lulea in northern Sweden in under 27 minutes. The bulk data traveled roughly 16,250 km (10,157 miles) across Sprint's global Internet backbone SprintLink and the GigaSUNET IP backbone at 4.23 Gbps. The Sprint/SUNET...

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8x8 Announces $12 Million Common Stock Offering

8x8 agreed to sell 4,800,000 shares of common stock to an institutional investor at $2.50 per share for aggregate proceeds of $12 million before placement fees and other offering expenses. The investor will also receive a warrant to purchase 1,920,000 8x8 common shares at an exercise price of $3.00 per share. Packet8 will use the funding to expand its voice and video communication service. http://www.8x8....

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