Wavesat's WiMAX Chipset Enters Production

Wavesat, a developer of OFDM Broadband Wireless (BW) silicon, completed the design of its WiMAX DM256 chip and transferred it to Atmel Corporation for production. Wavesat plans to have both WiMAX chipsets and subscriber (CPE) reference design available by October 2004. The company said its DM256 chip is optimized to facilitate the transition of existing systems (both Base Station and Subscriber unit) to become WiMAX compliant. http://www.wavesat.com

• Wavesat is based in Montreal. Key investors include Skypoint Capital Corporation, BDC Venture Capital, Innovatech du Grand Montreal and Monet Capital.

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Airgo Hires Sales Team for MIMO Wireless Chipsets

Airgo Networks, a start-up developing MIMO (multiple input/multiple output) chipset technology, announced that Bob DeMartino and Bob Twomey have joined the company as the vice president of worldwide sales and the vice president of North America sales, respectively.



Prior to joining Airgo, DeMartino was with Sun Microsystems for more than 15 years. In his most recent position, at Sun, he served as vice president of Asia Pacific sales.



Twomey previously served at Agere Systems, where he was recognized as the top worldwide sales manager and his group was the leading revenue generator for the company's WLAN chipsets. He was directly responsible for Agere's WLAN chipset engagements with major wireless OEMs and for managing the North American ODM partners. In his new position at Airgo, he will report directly to DeMartino.



Airgo Networks also named John Quigley as vice president of hardware engineering. Quigley, previously with Motorola, managed the planning, design execution, validation and production launch for 2G, 3G and WPAN radio chipsets and point solutions. http://www.airgonetworks.comAirgo Networks is based in Palo Alto, California.

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Proxim Settles WLAN Patent Lawsuit with Symbol

Proxim reached a settlement and cross-licensing agreement with Symbol Technologies. Under the deal, Proxim has agreed to pay Symbol $22.75 million over the next 2 1/2 years, or 10 quarters, commencing in the current quarter. Proxim also has agreed to pay Symbol a two percent (2%) royalty on future sales of certain wireless LAN products. The two companies have cross-licensed certain patents and Proxim has assigned certain intellectual property to Symbol. Finally, Proxim and Symbol have entered into a mutual covenant not to sue with respect to patent infringement covering networking products through September 2009. http://www.proxim.com

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D-Link Offers Public/Private Wi-Fi Gateway

D-Link introduced a business-class Wi-Fi gateway solution designed for enterprise-level hot spot management. The new gateway features two built-in WAN ports for network load balancing while providing firewall, DHCP server and router functions for both public and private Internet access in a single rack-mountable device. The product provides management capabilities for monitoring and controlling up to 400 active public user accounts while maintaining a private LAN for employees behind a physical firewall. The MSRP is $3,500. http://www.dlink.com

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UPC Launches chello Broadband VoIP, Boosts Cable Modem Speed

UPC, a division of UnitedGlobalCom, is set to launch VoIP services over its "chello" broadband cable network in The Netherlands, which serves 2.4 million customers. After an initial launch in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, the rest of The Netherlands will follow in early 2005. This follows the company's launch of VoIP telephony services in Hungary last week.



UPC said a basic VoIP subscription will cost almost 50% less than the basic subscription of Dutch incumbent KPN, while tariffs per minute are 10%-15% cheaper. UPC is also planning several advanced capabilities, including fax-to-email, voicemail-to-email and conference calling.



At the same time, UPC is boosting the cable modem speed of chello broadband. chello's top-line service tier for the whole of The Netherlands will be upgraded to an 8Mbps downstream capability. UPC will also start a market trial in October with a 30Mbps downstream service, to be followed by commercial deployment soon thereafter. A separate market trial with a 50 Mbps service is envisaged for Amsterdam in the coming months. http://www.unitedglobal.com

• Based on UGC's operating statistics at June 30, 2004, the Company's networks reached approximately 12.3 million homes passed and served over 9.3 million RGUs, including approximately 7.6 million video subscribers, 756,900 telephone subscribers and 1,032,000 broadband Internet subscribers.

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Mitel to Resell SpectraLink's Wi-Fi Phones

Mitel will resell SpectraLink's NetLink Wireless Telephones to offer its customers a Wi-Fi telephony solution. SpectraLink licensed Mitel's MiNET protocol, which will be incorporated in NetLink Wireless Telephones to enable interoperability with Mitel's SX-2000 PBX and 3300 Integrated Communications Platform (ICP). http://www.spectralink.comhttp://www.mitel.com/

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BorderWare Debuts SIP Firewall

BorderWare Technologies introduced a firewall specifically designed to protect the flow of VoIP-specific SIP communications. Designed to sit alongside SIP-based IP PBXs such as Cisco CallManager and Avaya Communications Manage rmanages all inbound and outbound SIP sessions. The company said its firewall prevents voice spam and voice mail bombing (vbomb), while offering oDoS/DDoS protection (RTP, SIP REGISTRAR), and packet-level intrusion prevention.



The BorderWare SIPassure SIP Firewall will be available in two models, aimed at enterprises and carriers. http://www.borderware.com

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Hughes Network Systems Introduces Satellite-based VPN

Hughes Network Systems introduced a satellite-based virtual private network (VPN) acceleration technology based on IPsec. The DIRECWAY VPN Accelerator, which is available across the U.S., is designed to interoperate seamlessly with Nortel IPsec VPN solutions, and in later releases, with Check Point and Cisco systems. Hughes Network Systems said its accelerator technology eliminates the latency constraints of prior satellite-based VPNs. http://www.hns.com

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Telecom Egypt Selects Ericsson Multi-Service Network

Telecom Egypt selected Ericsson to supply of a multi-service network in the region of Alexandria, Egypt. The new network will provide both traditional narrowband services and broadband services. The installation includes Ericsson's multi-service softswitch, Engine Integral Network and Engine Access Ramp products. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ericsson.com

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Nuvio Sees Potential Discriminatory Practices in Broadband VoIP

Nuvio, a provider of business and residential broadband VoIP services, filed an ex-parte letter with the FCC to combat what it sees as "potential discriminatory practices by broadband Internet access providers."



Nuvio is seeking government regulation to preserve competition in the VoIP market by preventing "any discriminatory against unaffiliated VoIP providers in favor of affiliated providers." Nuvio, which is based in Kansas City, is especially concerned that rural ILECs will use discriminatory practices to artificially keep VoIP competition from reaching rural customers. Nuvio is urging the FCC to exercise its Title I jurisdiction to prohibit discriminatory practices of vertically integrated broadband/VoIP providers.



"Broadband providers have nothing to lose and everything to gain from degrading the connection quality of their customers who are using unaffiliated VoIP providers," said Jason Talley, president and CEO of Nuvio Corporation. "The few customers they lose from discrimination is drastically offset by the substantial increase in its VoIP subscribers, market share and revenues from the practice. http://www.nuvio.com

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Enertel Selects ECI Telecom for Optical Network in Holland

Enertel, one of the largest Dutch data and telecom operators, selected ECI Telecom to supply its XDM MSPP (Multi Service Provisioning Platform) solutions for metro and backbone networks throughout the country. ECI Telecom was named the sole transmission and optical provider for Enertel's network. The new contract is valued at several million dollars.



ECI's XDM MSPP platform enables Enertel to utilize SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and CWDM capabilities on the same platform. It can also be expanding with DWDM and CWDM. http://www.ecitelecom

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Mexico's Iusacell Migrates to Packet Voice with Nortel Networks

Mexico's Grupo Iusacell has migrated its circuit switches to a packet infrastructure using Nortel Networks Succession Communication Server (CS) 2000 Superclass softswitch. Iusacell has also deployed Nortel Networks Passport 15000 and Passport Packet Voice Gateways in Mexico's main cities as the basis for its new IP-based core data infrastructure. The core VoIP network support the operator's long-distance traffic, and positions the carrier to expand and deploy 3G services. Financial terms were not disclosed.



"Iusacell has now moved all of its long-distance traffic to an IP network," said Gustavo Guzmán, managing director of Iusacell.

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OPNET to Acquire Altaworks for Application Analysis

OPNET Technologies, agreed to acquire Altaworks Corporation, a developer of advanced correlation and analysis technologies designed to enable enterprises to improve the performance and quality of mission-critical applications, for an undisclosed sum. OPNET is a provider of management software for networks and applications. Altaworks is based in Nashua, New Hampshire. http://www.opnet.com/

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