Global DSL Subscriber Base Hits 85 Million

The worldwide installed base of DSL now tops 85 million -- a 39% expansion so far in 2004 -- according to data produced for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic. This gain of 24 million DSL subscribers in the first nine months of the year represents a pace of more than half a million new subscribers each week. According to the data, DSL gaining market share in countries with high cable penetration rates. Some highlights of the report:China has the world's largest DSL population with a total of 13.7 million subscribersSouth Korea has...

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France Telecom and Fujitsu Announce R&D Partnership

France Telecom and Fujitsu Limited announced an R&D partnership focused on data mining and grid computing technology. The first phase of the project aims to dramatically facilitate analysis of the huge volume of data, such as for data mining and customer billing, generated by France Telecom. In the second phase, the project will generate value-added external services based on grid computing that can be offered to other enterprises. This partnership will enable France Telecom and Fujitsu to offer innovative value-added services to their customers...

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France Telecom Signs Clients for International IPv6 Transit

France Telecom has signed up the first three commercial clients for an international IPv6 transit service for international carriers and ISPs. France Telecom has developed native IPv6 transit on its international Tier-1 IP backbone at speeds of up to 155 Mbps. Its offering is accessible from nine PoPs on three continents, with 40 peering agreements. The service provides a single interface for both IPv6 and IPv4 traffic. The first IPv6 customers include Belnet and Renater, and Probe Networks. Probe Networks is a Germany-based ISP providing hosting,...

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Marconi Names CTIO

Marconi named Andy Evans as Chief Technology and Information Officer (CTIO). Evans previously spent five years as a senior executive at FLAG Telecom. http://www.marconi....

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MCI Rolls Out Managed LAN Services

MCI rolled out a new suite of Managed LAN services for businesses of all sizes. Previously offered as custom solutions to its largest customers, MCI is standardizing its managed LAN capabilities to give companies the flexibility to fully or partially outsource the management of their local area networks. MCI is offering a choice of three levels of LAN management, including Premium (where the local area network is fully managed by MCI), Basic (shared LAN management between the customer and MCI), and Monitoring & Notification, (MCI monitors...

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AT&T Wins $9.5 Million Contract From Meredith Corp.

AT&T was awarded a $9.5 million, three-year contract to design and implement a networking solution for Meredith Corp., one of the nation's leading media companies. AT&T will provide an MPLS-based IP VPN integrating Meredith's 19 locations around the country, plus local, long-distance, teleconference, Internet access and high-speed data networking services. The VPN also will provide Meredith's 2,700 employees with secure access to the company's applications and databases. http://www.att....

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AboveNet and Equinix Announce Data Center / Fiber Connectivity Deal

AboveNet will provide fiber connectivity to link Equinix's three Internet Business Exchange data centers in the Silicon Valley. In addition, Equinix will assume AboveNet's lease for 103,000 square feet of data center space in San Jose, with AboveNet retaining some of the data center space for existing customers. Further, AboveNet has entered into an agreement with Equinix enabling AboveNet to offer hosting services in Equinix data centers. Financial terms were not disclosed. AboveNet said it is pursuing a strategy to create nationwide access to...

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UTStarcom Unveils "MovingMedia" TD-CDMA Wireless Broadband Platform

UTStarcom introduced its MovingMedia 6000 wireless broadband solution for delivering data services at up to 3Mbps per subscriber using a range of licensed frequency bands -- 1900- 1920MHz, 2010-2025MHz, 2500-2700MHz, and 3400-3600MHz. UMTS license holders with allocated spectrum could use the MovingMedia 6000 solution to offer portable, always-on broadband service to compete with DSL and cable modem services. The wireless mobile data services could also complement existing Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) data service. Future upgrades...

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nLayers Raises $6 Million for Discovery Appliance

nLayers, a start-up based in San Jose, California, closed a $6 million Series B round in financing for its appliance for real-time network discovery and resource optimization. nLayers' InSight is an agentless appliance that provides organizations with "self-funding" discovery and optimization solutions for IT cost savings and operational risk mitigation. Customers use nLayers InSight to optimize applications resources to reduce the risk and cost involved in strategic IT initiatives such as resource consolidation, license realization, M&A and...

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Foundry Networks Offers New Optical Ethernet Interfaces

Foundry Networks expanded its portfolio of modular Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE) optical interfaces to include the recently ratified Ethernet-in-the-First-Mile (802.3AH EFM) standard and a 10-Gigabit Ethernet interface standard (10Gbase-ZR/10Gbase-ZRD) which enables 10-Gigabit Ethernet connectivity of up to 80 Kilometers. These new modular media transceivers are in addition to three new transceivers announced last month: a modular 10-GbE WAN PHY optical transceiver (10Gbase-LW) which enables seamless connectivity between 10-GbE and a...

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Huawei Marks First CDMA2000 Deployment in U.S.

Clear Talk has commercially launched Huawei's next-generation CDMA 1X system for its approximately 358,000 POPs in El Centro, California and Yuma, Arizona. The system consists of a complete Huawei Airbridge CDMA2000 wireless network, including a Mobile Switching Center, Base Station Controller, Base Transceiver Station, Home Location Register, Packet Data Serving Node and fixed terminals. Short Messaging Service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and 1X data services will also be supported. Financial terms were not disclosed. The launch...

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D-Link Unveils First Gigabit Gaming Router

D-Link introduced a "GamerLounge" wireless router that uses an integrated packet processing engine to give priority to gaming traffic over all other Internet applications, email and FTP transfers. The home router is optimized for PC, Xbox and PlayStation2 games so as to provide a "no lag" gaming experience. The D-Link GamerLounge wireless router features four 1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet ports and 108Mbps 802.11g wireless AP functionality. The router features a high performance CPU to support advanced management features such as MAC address authentication,...

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RCN Set to Emerge from Chapter 11

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York confirmed a plan of reorganization agreed to by RCN and its creditors, enabling the company to emerge from Chapter 11 by the end of the year. Under the plan, a total of $1.19 billion in debt will be converted into new equity of RCN. New credit facilities will be established by year end, led by Deutsche Bank, of up to $480 million under favorable terms to be used to pay off the previous senior secured lenders led by JP Morgan Chase. Upon emergence from Chapter 11, RCN will also have...

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Hancock Telephone Selects Motorola for Telco TV

Hancock Telephone, an independent telephone company serving communities in upstate New York and Pennsylvania, has selected the Motorola Multi-Service Access Platform for the delivery of voice, video and data services to residential and business customers over twisted pair wiring. In addition, Motorola said its platform will provide Hancock Telephone, parent company to Hancock Cable TV and Pronet ISP, with the ability to execute on its long term strategy of collapsing all three network types into a single, fully-integrated solution. http://www...

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