TELECOM '04: Verizon and Comcast Call for New Rules

Big rewards should come from big investments, said Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon's CEO, in a keynote speech at TELECOM '04 in Las Vegas. Verizon is investing heavily to transform itself into a national broadband company, said Seidenberg, citing the company's DSL service, its EVDO Broadband Access wireless network, and now its "Fios" FTTP initiative. Seidenberg renewed his call for the nation to develop a public policy framework that encourages innovation and investment in new applications and network technologies. Noting that cable and telephone companies...

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Mescalero Apache Telecom Selects MetaSwitch

Mescalero Apache Telecom, which serves the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in New Mexico, selected Metaswitch's VP3500 Series Class 5 Softswitch platform to avoid the costs associated with upgrading their legacy Siemens Class 5 switch for local number portability (LNP). In addition, MATI plans to leverage the MetaSwitch's VoIP capabilities to expand beyond their existing service region with VoIP over fixed wireless and other broadband deployments. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.metaswitch....

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Atheros Launches Single-Chip 802.11a/b/g

Atheros Communications introduced an IEEE 802.11a/b/g WLAN solution that integrates a Media Access Controller (MAC), baseband processor, and a high-performance radio with both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz capabilities in a single, low-cost CMOS chip. The design offers full support for the IEEE 802.11i security standard, and support for Atheros XR (eXtended Range) and Super AG performance enhancements. Atheros said its single chip design eliminates the need for up to 24 discrete components, resulting in lower costs and smaller designs for products such as...

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IDT/Mindspeed Target Broadband Access Equipment

IDT and Mindspeed Technologies announced an alliance that combines IDT network search engines (NSEs) and Mindspeed Traffic Stream Processors (TSPs) for next-generation broadband access network equipment. Specifically, Mindspeed's M27480 and M27481 third-generation Traffic Stream Processor (TSP3) devices interface seamlessly with the IDT 75N43102 NSE. The companies said the network search engine significantly extends the Ethernet, ATM, MPLS and IP classification capabilities of Mindspeed's TSP3 network processors at a power and price point suitable...

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Astound Broadband Deploys Alloptic's EPON in Northern California

Seren Innovations, doing business as Astound Broadband, has deployed the Alloptic access network in its Walnut Creek and Concord, California market. Astound is providing business customers with an array of Ethernet-based data transport and telephony services over an Ethernet passive optical network. Astound is also using the Alloptic access network solution in St. Cloud, Minnesota to offer high-speed data and T1 based TDM services. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alloptic.c...

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Orb Networks Connects Remote Users to Home Media Server

Orb Networks, a start-up based in Union City, California, introduced a "Personal Media Portal" service that provides a way for consumers to use any Internet-enabled device to view, hear and control all kinds of their digital content stored on their broadband-connected home PC. A user simply opens a Web browser on any device, logs-in and selects what they want to view or hear from their personal library. Orb's technology determines the best format, codec, bit rate, display capabilities, and network bandwidth available for a particular cell phone,...

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Laurel Adds miniPHY Interfaces to ST50 Service Edge Router

Laurel Networks introduced several new miniPHY (physical interface) access cards for its ST50 Service Edge Router. The new miniPHY cards add T1/E1, DS-3 and 10/100 TX Ethernet access interfaces to the ST50 platform, enabling the delivery of new services such as VoIP, IP VPNs and broadband Internet access through IP DSLAMs, ATM DSLAMs and traditional T1 or E1 circuits. The cards expand the existing ST50 miniPHY family, which includes AnyService AnyPort SONET/SDH and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Three new cards are included in the release: an 8-port...

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Broadsoft Announces 10 More Customers

BroadSoft announced 10 new service provider customers for its BroadWorks hosted VoIP services platform: CommPartners, Comporium Telecom, eGix Communications, IDACOMM, Slovak Telecom, 123.net, Nextcom, North State Communications, Spirit Telecom and Streamdoor Limited. The newly announced customers bring BroadSoft's service provider portfolio to a total of 80 companies, including BellSouth, Covad, MCI, PCCW, SingTel and Telstra. BroadSoft's BroadWorks provides hosted PBX, IP Centrex, residential broadband and other collaborative conferencing applications....

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BT Group Selects RADCOM for 21CN Trial

RADCOM equipment was selected for monitoring voice service quality Monitor Voice Service Quality in a trial deployment of BT's recently announced 21CN (21st Century Network) project. In phase one of the trial, BT states it will bypass the core PSTN network link between two of its major network nodes. BT plans to seamlessly divert the voice calls between these two nodes to the 21C specific network. RADCOM's Omni-Q platform will be used to monitor end-to-end voice quality across both the new 21C network link and the PSTN. http://www.radcom....

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Juniper Enhances its E-series Edge Routing Platform

Juniper Networks announced new hardware and software features for its E-series edge routing platform, including:new stateful Switch Route Processor (SRP) switchover capabilities that provide enhanced reliability and network service availability High availability for subscriber management applications, including all Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) access options, means that all subscriber sessions and services remain active during failure, resulting in increased network and service availability. a new...

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Spirent Adds VoIP Support for Coppermax DSL Testing

Spirent Communications introduced VoIP support for its CopperMax DSL test platform. With this new CopperMax VoIP feature, service providers have the ability of emulating the customer premise equipment (CPE) by generating and receiving an IP call using both SIP and H.323 signaling protocols. This is important for diagnosing CPE related configuration and Voice Gateway problems. Once the call is established, performance analysis can be performed on the service using industry standard R-Factor techniques and providing the user a MOS score. This operation...

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mPhase Announces its 3rd Generation IPTV

mPhase Technologies announced the third generation release of its mPhase TV+ System for copper or fiber access networks. The new release of the mPhase TV+ System is built around a cluster architecture and features an improved maintenance environment, with links to industry-standard operations support systems (OSSs). mPhase is now providing compatibility with industry-standard services creation environments and a "failover capability" that transfers traffic without interruption from a failing system to a back-up. http://www.mPhaseTech.comIn September...

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Global Crossing Announces Recapitalization Plan

Global Crossing and its majority shareholder, Singapore Technologies Telemedia (ST Telemedia), reached an agreement to recapitalize Global Crossings current debt holdings and provide additional short-term liquidity to the company. Global Crossing intends to pursue additional secured debt financing in fourth quarter to meet long-term funding requirements. In addition, Global Crossing announced a business restructuring plan to streamline and better focus its operations to broadly serve enterprise customers with higher margin global, IP and managed...

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AT&T Certifies and Deploys Siemens SURPASS DWDM

AT&T has certified the Siemens SURPASS hiT 7500 multi-haul DWDM system for use throughout its network. AT&T has begun carrying live customer traffic on a major route between San Francisco and Seattle using the platform. The Siemens SURPASS hiT 7500 DWDM System scales to carry up to 3.2 terabytes per second over 80 channels. It can carry 40 Gbps channels and has a photonic range of up to 2,000 kilometers, with less photonic signal regeneration and optical-electronic-optical (OEO) conversions needed along the way. http://www.usa.siemens...

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UTStarcom Unveils mVision IPTV System

UTStarcom introduced its "mVision" Television over IP (TVoIP) solution for enabling carriers to deliver very-large-scale streaming of video content over a switched network architecture ( xDSL or FTTx ). UTStarcom's mVision is a unicast/multicast distributed system that scales to support millions of users and hundreds of thousands of content hours.  It could span multiple cities, states, or even an entire nation. UTStarcom, which has ...

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