Coaxsys Unveils Home IPTV Coaxial Cable Network

Coaxsys, a start-up based in Los Gatos, California, introduced its "TVnet" solution for transforming existing home TV coaxial cable infrastructure into a high-speed, IPTV-ready digitalentertainment network. Once a TVnet adapter is connected to the video or broadband source, all other TV coax jacks in the home become network enabled.Coaxsys said its technology delivers up to 104 Mbps transfer rate and supports distances up to 250 feet, enabling it to deliver multiple HDTV signals simultaneously throughout a home. The TVnet technology is also compatible...

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Juniper Provides Infranet Update

A secure and assured Internet infrastructure is "the inevitable destination of the networking industry" said Pradeep Sindhu, Juniper Networks' CTO and Founder, at an Analyst Day presentation in Sunnyvale, California. For Juniper, this evolution of the Internet is the aim of the Infranet Initiative. The Infranet Initiative was introduced in 2003 at Telecom Geneva by Juniper and Lucent Technologies. Sindhu said there are now about 30 companies participating in the initiative, including a few big name service providers, such as BT and Deutsche...

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Kodiak Offers CALEA Compliant Advanced Push-to-Talk System

Kodiak Networks, a start-up based in San Ramon, California, announced that its Real-Time Exchange (RTX) System can deliver Push-to-Talk functionality in a CALEA-compliant manner. The company said other PTT systems based VoIP do not comply with CALEA. Kodiak's list of global system deployments includes ALLTEL, Cellcom, and Bluegrass Cellular in the U.S.; European-based carrier Orange; and Asia Pacific operator IT&E, located in Guam. http://www.kodiaknetworks....

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Deutsche Telekom Licenses Xten's eyeBeam Software

Deutsche Telekom has licensed Xten's eyeBeam SDK (software development kit), which delivers open standards VoIP and Video over IP. The eyeBeam offers numerous softphone features, including transfer/forward, caller ID, 10-point conferencing, acoustic echo cancellation, voice activity detection, adaptive jitter buffer and message waiting indicator. http://www.xten....

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NTT Reports Six Month Results

NTT reported revenue of 5.3 trillion yen (US$50 billion) for the six month period ending 30-September-2004, down 2% compared to a year earlier. Group net profit for the six months was 344.6 billion yen (US$3.3 billion), up 3% compared to a year earlier. Some highlights:As of the end of September 2004, NTT East had 632,000 B FLET'S optical access subscribers, an increase of 206,000 from the end of March 2004, and 2,620,000 FLET'S ADSL subscribers, an increase of 338,000 from the end of March 2004.NTT West's FLET'S ADSL customers came to 2.12 million...

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CableLabs Issues RFI for an Integrated DOCSIS Access Device

CableLabs issued a request for information (RFI) for Integrated DOCSIS Access Device equipment that could be used by cable operators to deliver voice and data services for small business and commercial customers. The design calls for a customer premise device with a standard RF coaxial cable interface that has a frequency range up to 860 MHz downstream and a return path operating in the range of 5 MHz to 42 MHz. The device would be similar to a Multi-Line Multimedia Terminal Adapter (ML-MTA) in that it will be PacketCable-based for voice services....

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NTT Outlines Migration to IP/Optical Network by 2010

Japan's NTT Group outlined its plans to migrate a majority of its customers to a next generation optical access and IP telephony network by 2010. This "medium-term management strategy" is aimed at advancing the company's long-term "Vision for a New Optical Generation," which NTT first disclosed in November 2002. NTT said it was setting its sights on 3 near-term objectives: 1) Use the combined strengths of NTT to actively build the ubiquitous broadband market and help achieve the e-Japan Strategy and the u-Japan Initiative. (2) Build a safe, secure...

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Missouri 's Fidelity Comm. Selects Occam BLC 6000

Fidelity Communications Co., a Missouri-based company with 16,000 ILEC customers and 7,100 CLEC customers, has selected the Occam Networks' BLC 6000 System to deliver POTS, high-speed data, and transparent LAN service to banks and other business subscribers located in the area served by the company's CLEC subsidiary. The ILEC has deployed the BLC System in multiple sites throughout its service area. Currently, Fidelity has Occam BLCs installed and delivering services to CLEC customers from Fidelity's Central Offices (COs) in Bourbon, Cuba and...

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Vodafone Launches 3G Services in 13 Countries

Vodafone launched 3G services in 13 countries: Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.Vodafone is featuring a range of downloadable and streaming content, including:an extensive music catalogue from world's greatest artistsa new "made-for-mobile" video drama inspired by the blockbuster TV series "24"exclusive videos, pictures, animated greetings and wallpaper launch...

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Toshiba Incorporates Broadcom's IP Phone Chip

Toshiba is using Broadcom's IP phone chip in its enterprise IP telephones. Broadcom's BCM1113 IP phone chip features an integrated Ethernet switch (two port) capability that enables manufacturers to develop IP phones that use the Ethernet switch connections of the IP Phone to support both voice calls through the phone and data traffic to the PC. This capability eliminates the need to have two Ethernet connections in an office or to add switch ports in the wiring closet to support VoIP. http://www.broadcom....

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UTStarcom and VeriSign to Offer CALEA to VoIP Providers

UTStarcom and VeriSign announced a joint marketing agreement through which UTStarcom will refer its mSwitch IP telecom softswitch platform customers -- those who need assistance in compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) -- to the VeriSign NetDiscovery Service. The two companies have made NetDiscovery interoperable with mSwitch in order to support service providers' VoIP and other voice-over-broadband (VoBB) deployments. UTStarcom's mSwitch platform supports traditional PSTN and softswitch protocols. VeriSign's...

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Ericsson Provides Brasil Telecom with Ethernet DSL Solution for Broadband Access

Brasil Telecom selected Ericsson's Ethernet DSL Access solution to expand its broadband network. The contract includes central office and customer premises equipment. The solution will be deployed in the region of Brasilia, Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ericsson.com/pr...

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Ericsson Awarded Ethernet Broadband Access Contract from Telkom in Indonesia

Indonesia's incumbent operator, PT Telekomunikasi (Telkom), has awarded Ericsson a contract to deliver Public Ethernet broadband access solution and related services to their customers in East Java. Ericsson is providing it's Ethernet DSL Access (EDA) solution, for supporting Telkom to build an advanced IP/Ethernet broadband access network. This solution will able to deliver triple play services such as data, voice and video simultaneously to their customers in Surabaya, East Java - the second largest city in Indonesia. Financial terms were not...

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China Shanxi Unicom Deploys Motorola's Canopy Wireless Broadband

Shanxi Unicom is expanding its deployment of Motorola's Canopy wireless broadband solution in four cities in Shanxi Province -- Datong, Suzhou, Xingzhou and Taiyuen. The Canopy solution provides wireless broadband access to businesses in the four cities, which are marked with hills and mountains that make it difficult for providers to lay cable or fiber. Shanxi Unicom originally selected Motorola's Canopy solution in December 2003. In order to meet the increasing demand for high-speed voice and data transmission, Shanxi Unicom expanded its networks...

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International Carriers Reach Wi-Fi Roaming Agreement

T-Mobile, which operates the largest carrier-owned Wi-Fi network in the U.S., announced a series of roaming agreements with six other major international wireless operators in the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA). Participating WBA members include: BT Group (UK), Telecom Italia (Italy), Maxis (Malaysia), NTT Com (Japan), StarHub (Singapore), Telstra (Australia), T-Mobile USA (USA) and, through existing arrangements, the European operating companies of T-Mobile in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. It...

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