PMC-Sierra Cuts Q3 Business Outlook

PMC-Sierra announced new financial guidance, saying it now expects Q3 revenue to be $71 million to $73 million compared with reported second quarter revenues of $85.7 million. The company's previous outlook was for Q3 revenues to be in the range of $86 million to $92 million, or flat to up 7%. PMC-Sierra said the cut in Q3 revenue outlook was "primarily attributable to changes in customer demand and inventory levels associated with recent reductions in the planned deployment rates of DSL equipment by Asian service providers for the second half...

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NetCologne Upgrades SDH to GigE with ADVA

NetCologne, a regional German carrier, has deployed ADVA's Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 1500 system to upgrade its connection to DE-CIX, the central German Internet node in Frankfurt and the third-largest Internet node in Europe. The carrier's previous SDH link was unable to scale for delivery of Gigabit Ethernet speeds, necessitating a network upgrade. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.advaoptical....

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Texas Instruments Offers Voice over Wireless LAN Platform

Texas Instruments introduced a new software + silicon solution for building wireless LAN IP phones. The solution incorporates TI's VoIP and WLAN software and silicon and is based on TI's power-efficient OMAP16xx architecture, which is widely used in cellular phones. TI said developers could create WLAN IP phones with talk and standby time comparable to cell phones. The WLAN phones would also enable users to receive emails and other data services. The complete solution incorporates TI's TNETW1230 WLAN chipset with software support to meet existing...

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Texas Instrument Unveils DSL Central Office Design for Telco Triple-Play

Texas Instruments unveiled an Integrated Voice and Data (IVD) reference design that enables triple-play delivery of voice, video and data over DSL. The design combines TI's central office chipset and narrowband POTS voice functionality with its Telogy software for Voice over Packet (VoP). TI said the new platform would allow service providers to quickly deploy IVD line cards in DSLAM, DLC and MDU applications to upgrade their large installed base of POTS subscribers for DSL service. TI's AC7 IVD platform utilizes Wntegra's WinPath Access Packet...

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Nuvio Launches Nationwide IP Centrex Service

Nuvio, a carrier based in Kansas City, announced the general availability of NuvioCentrex, the company's full-featured Hosted IP PBX solution aimed at businesses with 2 to 15 employees. Nuvio said it has developed its own switching technology, feature sets, and web interface. Separately, Nuvio announced that Jeff Stern, former co-founder of GoBeam, has joined its Board of Directors. GoBeam was acquired by Covad. http://www.nuvio....

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Tut Debuts Service Controller for Triple-Play, Increases Guidance

Tut Systems introduced a new platform designed to provide IP service management for video, voice, and data services across broadband networks. The new Astria SC provides session-based traffic classification up to and including Layer 7 for up to 100,000 individual service flows. Each service flow is identified, classified, and managed according to both pre-set service parameters and real-time network conditions. This enables the carrier to manage QoS parameters for each end-user, CPE device, application type, and protocol type on a session-by-session...

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Lingo VoIP Service Adds "Unlimited Asia" Calling Option from U.S.

Lingo, a broadband VoIP service, added a new "Unlimited Asia" calling plan offering unlimited calls to China, Guam, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. for $34.95 per month. Lingo provides a primary U.S. phone in 220 area codes. Lingo customers can also add an "International Universal Number" to their service, which is actually "local" to a specific international country, in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. http://www.lingo.comIn June 2004, Primus Telecommunications...

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General Bandwidth Former Taqua Exec as New CEO

General Bandwidth, which supplies a VoIP Media Gateway, named Charlie Vogt as its new president and CEO. He replaces Brendon Mills, who is stepping down. Vogt previously served as President and CEO of Taqua, a supplier of a Class 5 softswitch. Charlie was part of the executive management team with Santera Systems, a Plano, Texas-based developer of a next-generation voice switching technology that was acquired by Tekelec. Prior to Taqua and Santera Systems, Vogt held senior management positions at Accelerated Networks, Ascend Communications,...

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Interlink to Distribute Verilink's Optical Ethernet and Broadband Access Products

Under an expanded contract, Interlink Communication Systems (ICS) will market and distribute Verilink's complete product portfolio, which now includes products acquired from Larscom such as Optical Ethernet access products, access routers, TDM Integrated Access Device (IAD) products and a line of multiplexers. http://www.verilink.comhttp://www.interlinkweb.c...

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NexTone Supplies Session Border Controller to Iristel

Iriste, a wholesale provider for VoIP and TDM based networks based in Toronto, has deployed NexTone's Multiprotocol Session Controller (MSC) as part of its network for wholesale international VoIP services. Iristel partners with Tier 1 carriers in North America and Europe to complete international long-distance calls to the Mid-East, Africa and Eastern Europe via the Internet. Iristel is now handling about 20 million minutes per month through its POP in Toronto and three million of those minutes come from new carrier customers. Financial terms...

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UTStarcom Lands $290 Million Contract from Japan Telecom/Softbank

Japan Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of SOFTBANK, awarded a contract valued at approximately $290 million to UTStarcom to supply its new iAN-8000 Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN) equipment and to manage a sales promotion program. Japan Telecom will deploy the multi-function broadband access platform to support approximately ten million existing and new subscriber lines. Japan Telecom is deploying UTStarcom's iAN-8000 as part of a next-generation network it is building that it believes will ultimately provide fixed-line service to all...

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Sylantro Selected for Lightyear's Nationwide VoIP Launch

Lightyear Network Solutions, a CLEC with over 200,000 customers and more than $120 million in annual revenues, selected Sylantro Systems' application server for a new nationwide, hosted IP telephony service. Residential users of the Lightyear XSTREAM service receive advanced features such as find me/follow me, call forwarding, conferencing, call transfer and repeat dialing, as well as a browser-based portal for access to and control of their services. Lightyear will also offer advanced PBX-replacement services for businesses of all sizes. The...

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Tekelec Acquires VocalData for Hosted VoIP

Tekelec has acquired VocalData, a start-up offering a hosted IP telephony platform for business and residential customers, for approximately $27.5 million, consisting of $14.5 million of cash and approximately 780,000 shares of Tekelec common stock. For fiscal year 2003, VocalData revenues were approximately $4.8 million, with gross margins of approximately 70%. Operating expenses were approximately $3.5 million per quarter. Tekelec said it plans to leverage VocalData's hosted IP telephony application server to provide an immediate path to IP...

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Intel Invests in Start-ups for the Digital Home

Intel announced first-time investments in several start-ups and follow-up investments in two more targeting the Digital Home. Financial terms were not disclosed. The investments include:Cablematrix, a broadband network services software company. CableMatrix, which located in Atlanta, Georgia, provides a software platform based on the CableLabs PacketCable Multimedia standard. http://www.cablematrix.com.Mediabolic Inc., a developer of embedded software for consumer electronics devices. Mediabolic, which is based in San Francisco, provides a...

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Broadcom Acquires Alphamosaic for Mobile Processors

Broadcom agreed to acquire Alphamosaic Limited, a start-up developing mobile multimedia processors for cellular phones, for approximately 4.17 million shares of its Class A common stock (with a value of approximately $120.3 million) and agreed to make cash payments aggregating approximately $2.7 million. Alphamosaic's first-generation VC01 multimedia co-processor is currently being used by leading cellular handset makers such as Samsung. Commercially available Samsung phones now incorporate the VC01 for advanced multimedia functions including...

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NYT: MCI is Looking for Buyers

MCI has retained the services of three investment banks, Lazard, Greenhill & Company and J. P. Morgan Chase, as well as the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, to explore a possible sale of the company, according to The New York Times. MCI did not comment on the story. http://www.nytimes....

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Greenfield Networks Secures $21 Million for Ethernet Silicon

Greenfield Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $21.5 million in third round venture funding for its next gen Ethernet switching silicon. The company offers a merchant silicon solution that combines low-cost Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and features such as full IPv6 routing, MPLS switching, scalable packet buffering, and scalable MAC, route and classification tables. Greenfield's "Packetry" family, which is aimed at metro edge deployments, supports service provider features including MPLS switching, stacked VLANs, Layer...

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