ShoreTel Names New CEO

ShoreTel, a supplier of enterprise IP telephony solutions, named John W. Combs as its new president and CEO, succeeding Thomas T. Van Overbeek, who will remain on the company's board of directors. Combs has previously served as a senior executive at Mitel and Nextel. He joins ShoreTel from wireless infrastructure supplier Littlefeet, where he served as CEO and Chairman. Before that, he was CEO of InternetConnect, a broadband networking solutions provider. ShoreTel said its revenues more than doubled between July 1, 2003 and June 30, 2004, with...

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Airspan to Supply Fixed Wireless in Colombia

Airspan Networks will supply its broadband fixed wireless access solution to the Comsat International - America Inalambrica Consortium for the deployment of a turnkey project in Colombia. The Colombian government, through COMPARTEL, conducted a competitive tender for the installation and operation of a turnkey telecommunications network which will provide broadband internet access to locations throughout the country. The tender called for bids on 5 designated zones, of which the Comsat-led Consortium bid on three. The Consortium bid an innovative...

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Nortel Networks Declares Preferred Share Dividends

The board of directors of Nortel Networks Limited declared a dividend on each of the outstanding Cumulative Redeemable Class A Preferred Shares Series 5 and the outstanding Non-cumulative Redeemable Class A Preferred Shares Series 7. The dividend on each series is payable on September 13, 2004 to shareholders of record of such series at the close of business on August 31, 2004. http://www.nortelnetworks....

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American Fiber Sys. to Acquire Marietta

American Fiber Systems, which operates metro fiber networks in five cities nationwide, to acquire Marietta FiberNet, a CLEC, offering voice, data and Internet services to business clients in the north metro Atlanta area. Financial terms were not disclosed. Marietta FiberNet was the first municipally owned telecommunications operation to be certified in the State of Georgia. AFS has deployed over 76,000 miles of metropolitan fiber optic cable since 2000 in several cities, including Cleveland, OH; Kansas City, KS/MO; Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN; Nashville,...

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Korean Government Endorses 801.16

South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication issued a statement endorsing the IEEE802.16 standard as Korea's base technology for portable wireless broadband access. Plans are being developed for the licensing of carriers interested in offering "WiBro" portable broadband services based on the standard. Initial commercial services are forecast to launch in 2006. http://www.mic.go.kr/eng/index.jspIn April 2004, the U.S. Trade Representative and South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) negotiated a compromise agreement...

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SIP Forum Releases SIP Test Framework

The SIP Forum announced the completion and release of its first SIP test suite, called the SIP Forum Test Framework. The open source test framework allows SIP device vendors to test for common protocol errors. It is freely available under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) to test implementations against a test suite and framework that is SIP RFC 3261 compliant.This license, commonly used in the software engineering community, enables anyone to copy, distribute and modify the open-source program, thus insuring wide distribution and use. RFC3261...

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India's Reliance Infocomm and MCI Partner on MPLS VPNs

Reliance Infocomm, in partnership with MCI, launched India's first MPLS Global VPN service. The agreement enables Reliance Infocomm to offer its business customers seamless global MPLS-based VPN connections by leveraging MCI's expansive global network. MCI is installing MPLS network nodes in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore that will enable MCI to deliver seamless access to its global Private IP network throughout India using connections to the nationwide Reliance Infocomm MPLS VPN network. http://www.relianceinfo.comReliance Infocomm is India's...

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Canadian Government Embraces IP for its Embassies

Bell Canada was awarded a three-year $68 million contract by the Government of Canada to design, deliver, install, integrate and manage all engineering, implementation and network monitoring services for MITNET 2004, a global network that will provide international voice and data communications for the country's diplomatic missions around the world. The contract provides a fully managed, end-to-end IP communications solutions for Foreign Affairs Canada. Bell Canada's plans are currently in place to commence the migration of Foreign Affairs Canada's...

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