Lucent Lands $4.6 Million Optical Contract from U.S. Army

Lucent Technologies was awarded $4.6 million contract with the United States Department of the Army to provide optical networking systems and professional services to upgrade military communications systems at Fort Drum. Lucent will provide its Metropolis DMX Access Multiplexer and its new Metropolis Wavelength Services Manager (WSM). The new agreement is part of the Army's Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program (I3MP) aimed at upgrading and modernizing the voice and data infrastructure at Army bases worldwide. http://w...

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Convedia Claims Lead in IP Media Server Market

Convedia Corporation has captured a 47% share of the global market for media servers, according to figures from iLocus cited by the company. Convedia said its media servers are now operational in more than 50 in-service networks in 20 countries. The media servers are used for consolidating the functions of traditional announcement and recording servers, interactive voice response units (IVR/VRU), audio/video conference bridges, voice mail servers, and speech platforms onto a single shared media processing platform. http://www.convedia....

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T-Systems Teams with Spanish VoIP Provider

International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the carriers' carrier division of T-Systems announced a seven year strategic collaboration agreement with Aló Comunicaciones, a leading Spanish VoIP telephony and broadband provider. The operators will collaborate to launch a broad range of telecommunications services in Spain, which are currently part of T-Systems' Service Offering Portfolio. The carriers will also use their respective networks for the termination of national and international voice and data traffic. http://www.t-systems.com...

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Xten Appoints Robert Sparks as CTO

Xten has appointed Robert Sparks as its Chief Technology Officer, succeeding Rob Raymond, who will stay on with the company as Vice President of Engineering. Sparks has been an active contributor to IETF protocol development, with a strong focus on improving interoperability of SIP and SIMPLE implementations. He spent the past 4 years as a principal engineer with dynamicsoft. Before that, he was a senior engineer with MCI WorldCom, where he was co-designer of MCI's SIP-based IP communications infrastructure; responsible for driving vendor development...

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Copper Mountain Networks Explores Strategic Options

Copper Mountain Networks, a supplier of broadband access solutions, has retained Raymond James & Associates to explore strategic options, including a possible sale of the company. Copper Mountain said the recent cancellation of a large carrier broadband upgrade project and potential delays in decisions from several other large carriers made it necessary to explore these options. The company's VantEdge provides high-density interfaces for aggregation from T1/E1 for remote DSLAMs and access points, to OC-12/STM-4 and Gigabit Ethernet for video...

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Marconi Opens R&D Center Near Boston

Marconi has opened a new research and development facility near Boston that will focus on a new a family of products to address the IP services market. The new carrier-class platform, which will provide virtual private networks in the mission-critical applications, is based, in part, on the technology of Crescent Networks' that Marconi purchased last year. The new platform will include Marconi's network management and quality of service capabilities. Marconi also operates development centers in both Vienna, Virginia, Pittsburgh. http://www.m...

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Foundry Doubles Performance of Load Balancing Switches

Foundry Networks is rolling out enhancements to its ServerIronXL family of load balancing application switches, including new configuration options, an enhanced operating system that doubles application switching performance, and reduced pricing. New configuration options for the ServerIronXL include a 16-port 10/100 model with two ports of Gigabit Ethernet-over-Copper (GoC) and a 16-port 10/100 model with two ports of Gigabit Ethernet-over-Fiber. Foundry also offers higher-density 24-port 10/100 Ethernet systems with options for one or two ports...

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Chelsio's 10GE Adapter add Support for Sun

Chelsio Communications, a start-up offering 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards and protocol acceleration technology, is collaborating with Sun Microsystems to develop drivers for the Solaris Operating System for SPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon-processor based systems. Chelsio is currently shipping the driver for the Solaris OS for its N110 10Gb Ethernet NIC and will have a driver available for its T110 10Gb Ethernet Protocol Engine adapter later this year. http://www.chelsio.com/In August, Chelsio Communications, a start-up based in Sunnyvale,...

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Netgear Delivers Gigabit Card bus Adapter for $60

NETGEAR introduced a Gigabit PC Card for notebook computers at a retail price of $59.99. http://www.netgear....

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Widevine Signs TVN Entertainment for Content Security

TVN Entertainment, a provider of on-demand and pay-per-view television programming, has selected Widevine Technologies' Cypher Suite for secure transport of its VOD assets. TVN will use Widevine's Cypher Suite to provide persistent encryption of media from content provider to docking station. Widevine in turn would then be positioned to extend asset protection to the home for any video service provider. As a result of the agreement, TVN's affiliates will have the ability to protect content all the way from the provider to the consumer premise....

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T-Com Carries 35 Petabytes Per Month with Juniper T640

T-Com, the fixed-line division of Deutsche Telekom, is routing more than 35 petabytes of data per month across its German IP network. Juniper Networks' T-640 routing platforms are used in the T-Com network. In the last two years T-Com has experienced massive traffic growth driven by strong demand for its DSL broadband services. This growth has contributed significantly to the overall traffic mix. The companies said that T-Com's T-640-based Points of Presence (PoPs) has been running without outages since the deployment was completed in 2003....

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Covad Deploys Cisco for Nationwide VoIP

Covad Communications is offering business-class VoIP services based on Cisco equipment to business customers nationwide. The services utilize the Cisco 3662/5350 Gateway, Cisco 7600 Series Routers and Cisco Catalyst 3550 switches. Covad is now part of the Cisco Powered Network program. http://www.covad.comIn August, Covad Communications announced the availability of its hosted, business-class VoIP service in 42 markets across the U.S. The VoIP services, which are aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, are managed end-to-end. Two versions...

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Kasenna Expands Its VOD Patent Portfolio

Kasenna has been awarded three more key patents, adding to the company's patent portfolio in the area of media-on-demand and content management. The first patent, "System and method for media stream indexing," protects Kasenna's technique for implementing VCR "trick-modes" in a video-on-demand system. Trick-mode access allows users to pause, rewind, and fast-forward video or audio streams being served from a video server, the same way they currently interact with a VCR or DVD playback system. The patented technology provides a way for time synchronizing...

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Path 1 Hires Former Ciena Sales Exec

Path 1 Network Technologies named Jeff C. Hale as its new vice president of sales. Hale previously served as Director of Sales, Western U.S. at Ciena, where he handled direct and channel sales to enterprise accounts of the company's line of DWDM, storage and enterprise products. He formerly was with Akara, until that company was acquired by Ciena. http://www.path1....

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