PMC-Sierra Unveils Third Generation Multiprocessor

PMC-Sierra announced its third generation highly integrated 64-bit MIPS-Powered multiprocessor designed for networking, storage and communications applications such as enterprise routers, storage systems and DSLAMs. The new processor integrates two newly designed 1.8 GHz E11K CPU cores with multiple high-speed memory and I/O interfaces, including dual DDR2, dual PCI Express, quad Gigabit Ethernet ports, and HyperTransport. The dual 64-bit DDR2 memory controllers support frequencies up to DDR2-800, and support 8-bit ECC. The PCI Express interfaces...

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USTA to End SUPERCOMM Participation in '05, Plans '06 Trade Show

USTA, which jointly owns the trade show SUPERCOMM with the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), will not host the joint event in 2006 but will host an expanded TELECOM '06 to be held October 7- 11, 2006, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas. SUPERCOMM 2005 will be held June 6-9, 2005 (Exhibits June 7-9, 2005) in Chicago's McCormick Place. With the conclusion of SUPERCOMM 2005, USTA and TIA complete a five-year contractual relationship. TIA has informed USTA that it does not intend to purchase USTA's interest in the...

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Battery Ventures Closes $450 Million Fund

Battery Ventures, a leading venture capital firm investing in information technology companies, closed its seventh fund with $450 million of committed capital. The fund will be invested over a period of approximately three years and is expected to contain a portfolio of 35 to 40 investments ranging in size from $5 million to $25 million each. Previous investments by Battery Ventures have included Akamai Technologies, Allegiance Telecom, Arbor Networks, Broadbus Technologies, Cbeyond Communications, CipherTrust, FORE Systems, Friendster, HNC Software,...

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BT Trims Broadband Basic Pricing to £18

BT trimmed the monthly price for its Broadband Basic ADSL service to £17.99 a month, down from £19.99. Usage is capped at 1GB per month. http://www.btplc....

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Cox Launches its Second VoIP Metro Market

Cox Communications launched its Digital Telephone service in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- its second market to use VoIP. Beginning later this month, Cox will further increase its telephone footprint by launching residential VoIP in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and in west Texas. In December 2003, Cox launched residential VoIP service in Roanoke, Virginia. The company offers circuit-switched Digital Telephone service in 12 other markets. Cox said that 58% of its phone customers subscribe to a three-product bundle of telephone, high-speed Internet and video services....

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Marconi Supplies Virtual Presence System to Florida Court System

The 13th Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida has replaced its analog videoconferencing system and enhanced its closed circuit television (CCTV) network with Marconi's ViPr Virtual Presence System, a high-resolution video telephony and multimedia communications platform. The court project includes 25 ViPr terminals covering several courtrooms, two jails and three remote locations. Judges and support staff are using ViPr for more than 100 video hearings a day. Marconi's ViPr is a SIP-based multiparty desktop video telephony platform that eliminates...

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Broadcom Debuts Gigahertz Quad-Core Broadband Processor

Broadcom introduced a new family of high performance, low power, integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors targeted at data networking and communications applications, as well as security, storage, 3G wireless infrastructure, and high-density computing applications. The new devices integrate up to four 64-bit MIPS central processing unit (CPU) cores onto a single die and are software compatible with Broadcom's existing dual-core and single-core broadband processors. Performance gains for the new processors include up to 10,000 Dhrystone MIPS...

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Qwest Promotes VoIP Integrated Access for Small Businesses

Qwest Communications launched a new "OneFlex" Integrated Access VoIP service aimed at small businesses. The service provides a flat monthly rate for local and on-net voice services on up to 13 lines, and dedicated Internet access up to 1.544 Mbps. Off-net long-distance is charged on a per-minute rate. http://www.qwest.comQwest has extended its "OneFlex" VoIP service to small, medium and enterprise business customers in 10 additional markets throughout its territory. Qwest is also planning an out-of-region business VoIP expansion to other major...

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SBC Rolls out Unified Messaging Across Wireline and Wireless Services

SBC Communications introduced a Unified Communications service that provides a common inbox from multiple wireline and wireless sources for voice messages, faxes, and e-mails. Key features include:Cingular Wireless integration, so customers can access wireless messages from the same portal as landline, e-mail, and fax messages. Integrated message center that allows subscribers to view wireless and wireline voice-mails, e-mail, and fax subject lines all in one inbox. Text-to-speech technology reads e-mails over the phone. Users can listen to voice-mails...

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Infonet Delivers MPLS VPN for Japan's Nitto Denko

Infonet Services Corporation was awarded a two-year IP VPN contract extension with Nitto Denko, a leading Japanese developer and manufacturer of industrial, electronic and functional products. Infonet is supporting the company's managed IP VPN linking facilities in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. Nitto Denko is migrating from Frame Relay to Infonet MPLS-enabled IP VPN Secure. http://www.infonet....

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Siemens to Resell Myrio's IP Video Solution

Siemens signed a worldwide OEM agreement to sell and integrate the Myrio IP Video Platform with its SURPASS Home Entertainment platform for triple play services. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Myrio IP Video Platform consists of two core products, Myrio TotalManage, the back-office subscriber and content-management application, and Myrio Interactive, the full-featured end-user application. The Java-based platform enables the carrier to add new features, such as multiple language support, client Personal Video Recorder (cPVR), and web...

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NETGEAR Ships Double Stream 108 Mbps Wireless Router

NETGEAR began shipping a new Dual-Band Wireless Router that supports two separate wireless streams at up to 108 Mbps. The Double-108 Wireless Router (list $129) provides an 802.11b/g stream as well as a simultaneous 802.11a "fast lane" in the 5 GHz band free from congestion and interference. The wireless router uses Atheros' Super A/G technology, which supports rates of up to 108 Mbps over both the 802.11b/g and 802.11a streams, while maintaining backwards-compatibility with both wireless standards. The Netgear product is also the first to ship...

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Wavesat Raises $8 Million for WiMAX Chipsets

Wavesat, a privately-held company based in Montreal, Canada, raised $8 million for its OFDM Broadband Wireless (BW) silicon designs. Wavesat is developing WiMAX chipsets and Subscriber Unit MAC software. The company plans to offer a Base Station and Subscriber Unit reference design starting in Fall 2004 with a clear evolution towards 802.16e. Investors include Taiwan-based Pac-Link Management Corp., Skypoint Capital Corporation, BDC Venture Capital, Innovatech Montreal, Monet Capital and Sunsino Ventures Group. http://www.wavesat....

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Softbank BB Selects UTStarcom for GigE PON

Softbank BB began offering a new Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) service in Tokyo. UTStarcom has received initial purchase orders valued in excess of $60 million for its Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GEPON) solution. UTStarcom expects to recognize revenue for the contract in the second half of 2005. UTStarcom's GEPON product family includes a BBS1000 Optical Line Termination system (OLT) for deployment at the Central Office (CO) as well as an Optical Network Unit (ONU) for deployment at the customer's premises. The OLT provides a direct...

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Broadvox Cuts Monthly VoIP Service to $19.95

Broadvox lowered the price of its Unlimited Residential Plus calling plan to $19.95 per month from $29.95 per month. Broadvox Direct offers more than 25 standard features such as call waiting, caller ID, call forwarding, voicemail and three-way calling. The company operates is its own facilities-based VoIP network. http://www.BroadvoxDirect....

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Verizon Online Offers Annual DSL Service Plan

Verizon announced a new annual DSL service plan that provides 1.5 Mbps downstream and 384 kbps upstream for $29.95 a month. Other customers will pay $34.95 a month for this service. Verizon is also offering a premium service for 3 Mbps downstream and 768 Kbps upstream for $39.95 a month with the annual service plan. Previously, only customers who purchased DSL as part of a package of local and long-distance calling services received the lowest prices -- $29.95 a month for basic service and $39.95 for a higher-speed optionhttp://www.verizon....

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Spirent Supplies IPv6 for DoD's Joint Interoperability Test Command

Spirent Communications supplied its IPv6 test solution to the Department of Defense's Joint Interoperability Test Command for use in the Joint User Interoperability Exercise (JUICE) and Joint Rapid Architecture Exercise (JRAE). During a dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 interoperability test, the JITC used Spirent's SmartBits SmartFlow QoS automation application to generate traffic and analyze the capability of network devices to handle both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. The JITC also employed Spirent's SmartBits SmartFlow in a QoS test. In this case, Spirent's...

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Wave7 Offers Extended Reach Optics for FTTP

Wave7 Optics introduced a new "Last Mile Core" (LMC) OLT (optical line terminal) unit that can reach subscribers up to 18 km distant when deployed in a "central office" type location and subscribers up to 88 km distant when deployed remotely -- an improvement from the 10 and 70 km limits in the previous version of the LMC. Wave7 Optics' OLT can be deployed remotely from the central office in a distributed architecture or as the centerpiece in a more classical PON approach. The new OLT also adds compatibility to the IEEE 802.3 ah standard and "Layer...

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Critical Telecom Debuts Ethernet Remote DLSAM for Triple Play

Critical Telecom, a start-up based in Ottawa, Canada, introduced a scalable Ethernet Remote DSLAM with ADSL2+ interfaces and designed for Triple Play services over Fiber to the Node (FTTN) networks. The new Gemini Ethernet Remote DSLAM provides integrated GigE backhaul (with two GigE ports) in an environmentally-hardened, compact unit that can be deployed inside of remote cabinets. The unit can be installed without the need for local power or...

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