Tropos Cites Growing Deployments of Municipal Wi-Fi

Tropos Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, cited another deployment of its metro-scale Wi-Fi. The City of Corpus Christi, Texas, will deploy the Tropos Wi-Fi system for use by the city-owned water and gas utilities, public works departments, and public safety agencies. In addition to the utility applications, the network will be available for use by city public works crews, as well as the Corpus Christi Police and Fire Departments. The public safety agencies, with more than 315 police, fire, and EMS vehicles in their collective...

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UTOPIA Gets Financial Go-Ahead for Municipal FTTP

The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) closed $85 million in revenue bonds to finance Phase I of a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network that will serve residents of 11 pledging member cities across the state. Construction of the FTTP network will begin in August. Phase I will connect more than 50,000 premises in portions of six cities in Salt Lake County (Murray, West Valley and Midvale) and Utah County (Orem, Payson and Lindon). Phase II, which will expand the network to other cities (Brigham City, Centerville, Layton,...

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Cox Reaches 2.2 Million Cable Modem Users

Citing growth in digital cable, high-speed Internet access and telephony services, Cox Communications reported Q2 sales of $1.6 billion, an increase of 12% over the same period last year. Higher basic cable rates, an increase in business service customers, as well as an increase in advertising sales, also contributed to overall revenue growth. Cox ranks as the nation's third-largest cable television provider. Some highlights for Q2:Ended the quarter with approximately 6.3 million basic video customers, up 0.6% from June 30, 2003.Ended the quarter...

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British Government Moves to IP Telephony with Siemens

Siemens Information and Communication Networks (ICN) and Global Crossing will supply an IP telephony solution serving more than 110,000 public sector personnel in the U.K. in over 550 locations. The project is described as a first step towards ultimately migrating government users to a fully converged IP VPN communications solution. The deployment will use Siemens' HiPath technology, providing the ability to use any device, in any location to gain the functionality of the desk phone. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.siemens.com...

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Japan's KVH Telecom Deploys Atrica's Optical Ethernet

Japan's KVH Telecom, a competitive carrier, is deploying Atrica's Carrier-class Optical Ethernet Systems to support a new Ether-MAN Plus next-generation Ethernet service offering in the Tokyo metropolitan region and other selected areas of Japan. Financial terms were not disclosed. KVH's Ether-MAN Plus service, which is enabled by Ethernet over Multi Protocol Label Switching (EoMPLS), combines the reliability of leased lines with the flexibility of a wide-area Ethernet service to deliver integrated voice, video, and data connectivity. The service...

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Siemens Forms New Communications Unit focused on Convergence

Siemens has formed a new business unit combining wireless and wire line infrastructure, devices, and IP convergence applications. Siemens Communications, which will be based in Boca Raton, Florida, will combine all Siemens wire line and mobile businesses. It will serve all major customers in the industry -- wireless and wire line carriers, enterprises, cable operators and service providers. Andy Mattes, who has been leading Siemens' U.S. networking business, will be appointed president and CEO of the new U.S. companyhttp://www.usa.siemens.c...

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BT Reaches 2.7 million DSL Users, Adds 36K per Week

BT reported quarterly turnover of £4,567 million, down 0.4% including the impact of mobile termination rate reductions. However, BT noted that turnover for its "New Wave" services rose 32% over last year to £936 million. New wave turnover is mainly generated from Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions, broadband, mobility and managed services. ICT turnover grew by 15 per cent to £634 million partly reflecting the strong order intake last year. Mobility turnover at £43 million achieved growth of 169 per cent. Broadband turnover...

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Ericsson/Juniper Selected for IP Backbone Upgrade by China Mobile

China Mobile Communications Corporation (China Mobile) selected Ericsson to provide a major IP backbone upgrade in all 31 Chinese provinces and autonomous regions. The expansion will leverage MPLS to improve overall scalability in China Mobile's network and facilitate more efficient use of bandwidth. Ericsson is the IP/MPLS routing platforms through its long-term strategic relationship with Juniper Networks. Ericsson was also the sole equipment supplier of China Mobile's Phase One IP backbone network in 2000. Financial terms were not disclosed....

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Riverstone to Deliver Active Ethernet FTTP to 14 Utah Cities

Riverstone Networks will immediately begin shipping Ethernet equipment to the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) for its FTTP municipal networks across the state. The network design uses an open, active Ethernet architecture recommended by DynamicCity. The UTOPIA project uses Riverstone's RS 38000 core routers and RS 8600 metro aggregation routers. It also employs MPLS-based Ethernet to support Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) that carries a combination of voice, video and data traffic to end-users . The UTOPIA project...

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Alcatel Reports Rise in Q2 Sales with Growth in Broadband Access

Alcatel reported Q2 sales or EUR 3.078 billion, compared with EUR 2.967 billion in the second quarter 2003, up 3.7% and 7.2% at a constant EUR/USD exchange rate. Net income pre-goodwill for the quarter was EUR 125 million, or diluted EUR 0.09 per share (USD 0.11 per ADS). Some highlights for the quarter:Fixed communications : Revenue was stable at EUR 1.353 billion from EUR 1.360 billion in Q2 2003. Significant growth was registered in broadband access, data networking, and solutions. In broadband access, growth was seen both in Western Europe...

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