Arcwave Raises $8 Million for Cable Wireless

Arcwave, a start-up based in Campbell, California, raised $8 million in new funding for wireless solutions that help cable network operators to extend the reach of their plant. Arcwave's solutions are designed for "plug and play" deployment and leverage the existing Wireless DOCSIS standard. The ARCXtend solution consists of a pole- or strand-mounted hub that communicates with customer premises equipment connected to a standard DOCSIS cable modem. Future products are expected to incorporate WiFi and WiMAX technologies.New investors Vulcan Capital...

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Kasenna Closes $15 Million for Broadband Video

Kasenna, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, completed a new $15 million round of private equity investment for its broadband IP video solutions. Kasenna recently announced two new major product line extensions -- vFusion and vForge -- along with the acquisition of ViewNow's content resources and studio relationships, new partnerships with SecureMedia, and customer wins that include Charter Cable, PrairieWave Communications, and Iowa Networks. Key Ventures led the new funding round while another new investor, AsiaTech Management, and...

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NTT Develops 10 Gbps Packet Classifier

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has developed a 10 Gbps packet classification and forwarding board featuring its own "Wspeed" chip. The Wspeed chip features 10 Gbps wired-speed packet processing and IPv4 packet flow classification capabilities. In addition to managing firewalls at the network core, the board can also be applied to a range of off-load processing tasks including user policy-based transfer processing at routers, high layer routing, and application of IPSec at high-speed network servers. NTT Network Service Systems...

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NTT DoCoMo Introduces Mobile Wallet Service

NTT DoCoMo will launch the i-mode "FeliCa Service" for mobile wallet applications for handsets equippend with smart-cards. The The company's first such i-mode smart-card handset goes on sale this week. DoCoMo's new service and smart-card handsets may be used for a variety of unprecedented functions, including train travel, debit card (electronic money) and credit card-based withdrawals and transactions, and personal identification. Ten companies will offer the i-mode FeliCa Service initially, allowing users of the new handsets to make purchases...

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Allstream Launches Wholesale VoIP in Canada

Allstream launched a VoIP Access solution to help other service providers to connect their self-managed VoIP networks to the PSTN. The wholesale service is aimed at residential and SOHO VoIP rollouts. Allstream said it is the first in Canada to offer full ancillary services, including 911, 711, 411, Local Number Portability (LNP) and Operator services to VoIP service providers. In addition, customers can also add or supplement their offerings by taking advantage of other Allstream services such as Long Distance, Calling Card and Internet. Allstream...

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iPass and Yahoo! BB Mobile Expand Roaming Agreement

iPass has expanded its roaming agreement with Yahoo! BB Mobile by adding a reciprocal roaming agreement for both iPass and Yahoo! BB Mobile users. Yahoo! BB Mobile is a wireless LAN service offered by Softbank BB and Yahoo! Japan. The schedule calls for iPass users to have access to Yahoo! BB Mobile access points beginning in July. In September 2003, iPass signed a roam-out agreement with Softbank BB to provide Yahoo! BB Mobile users traveling overseas with dial-up and broadband access in more than 150 countries worldwide. This service has already...

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Marconi Sells its Power Business for $375M

Emerson agreed to acquire the outside plant and power systems business of Marconi Corporation PLC for $375 million in cash. The Marconi power business, based in Lorain, Ohio, is a leading provider of DC power products, engineering and installation services, and outside plant products to major telecommunication carriers throughout North America. Its revenues for the year ended March 31, 2004, were approximately $380 million. This acquisition will allow Emerson to strengthen its presence with the regional Bell companies, inter-exchange carriers,...

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Lucent and Novatel Wireless Selected by KPN to Supply 3G Cards

Lucent Technologies and Novatel Wireless were selected to supply KPN in the Netherlands and E-Plus in Germany with the Merlin U530 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) PC Card Modems -- jointly developed by Lucent and Novatel Wireless. http://www.lucent.comhttp://www.novatelwireless.comEarlier this month, Lucent Technologies and Novatel Wireless announced an agreement with Orange to supply 3G UMTS PC card modems for network rollouts in the UK and France, and with TMN, the leading mobile operator in Portug...

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StarBand Launches Self-Pointing Mobile Satellite Service

StarBand announced the launch of a "self-pointing," satellite-based high-speed Internet service for RVs, trucks, police cars and other emergency services vehicles. StarBand's satellite footprint covers all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The mobile solution offers uses C-COM's self-pointing iNetVu 750 antenna system, which deploys the antenna once the vehicle is stationary and then automatically locks onto the satellite. The service offers download speed of 500 kbps and upload speeds at 100 kbps. The gear is priced at...

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Cisco to Provide Networking Curriculum to Chinese Colleges

Cisco Systems will provide its "Cisco Networking Academy" program, including all the electronic courses, supplementary teaching materials, program support, professional certifications and instructor training, to 35 national Model Software Colleges in China. The programs covered under a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Cisco Systems and China's Ministry of Education add up to a total value of US$37.7 million. Cisco said that approximately 10,000 Networking Academy sites currently operate in all 50 of the United States and in 150...

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AMCC Samples Network Processor and Traffic Manager

AMCC began sampling an integrated network processor and traffic manager to Tier One OEMs. The two devices serve as the cornerstone of AMCC's "MISSION" multi-service switching solution for switches and core/edge routers, delivering extremely fine-grained control of subscriber traffic without impacting the ability to perform complex ATM and packet internetworking at media speeds. AMCC noted that Gartner has ranked it No. 1 worldwide in network processor marketshare for 2003. http://www.amcc....

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BroadLight Secures Additional Funding for its FTTP

BroadLight, a start-up offering components for FTTP solutions, has received additional series C financing from Azure Capital Partners and several existing investors, bringing the total round to U.S. $17.9 million. BroadLight had previously closed this round on March 15th with an investment by Siemens Venture Capital and prior investments by Israel Seed Partners, Delta Ventures and two strategic investors. BroadLight has secured a market share lead in the North American BPON market. The company recently named Andrew Vought as CEO; Tony Maher as...

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