Veraz Launches New Subsidiary in India

Veraz Networks has opened a subsidiary in New Delhi, India to handle sales, marketing, and support of local partners. Yogesh S. Bijlani has been appointed country manager. Mr. Bijlani was the Vice President Sales & Marketing (Indian Subcontinent) at UTStarcom Inc. Before that, he was the Director of Business Development for Wireless Infrastructure (Indian Subcontinent) with Lucent Technologies. Veraz also operates a facility in Pune, India that focuses on R&D and customer support. Veraz is one of the few next-generation network vendors...

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McLeodUSA Announces Resignation of President

Stephen C. Gray is stepping down from his posts as president of McLeodUSA and a member of the company's Board of Directors, effective December 31, 2004. Gray has worked 21 years in the telecom industry and over 12 years with McLeodUSA . Chris A. Davis remains as McLeodUSA's Chairman and CEO. http://www.mcleodusa.comAs of September 30, 2004, McLeodUSA had 38 ATM switches, 39 voice switches, 696 collocations, 435 DSLAMs and 2,474 employees for its network serving 25 Midwest, Southwest, Northwest and Rocky Mountain stat...

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Hollywood Studios File Suit Against P2P Server Operators

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which represents the major Hollywood studios, filed law suits in U.S. and U.K. courts against individuals operating servers that index millions of illegal copies of movies and TV programs used on computer networks such as BitTorrent. The MPAA said it is working with law enforcement and civil authorities around the world to shut down illegal servers on eDonkey and DirectConnect networks. The MPAA is targeting "peer-to-peer" file-trading networks, such as BitTorrent, Direct Connect and eDonkey, which...

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Nortel Provides Estimated Unaudited Results

Nortel Networks announced limited estimated unaudited financial results for the third quarter of 2004, and updated limited estimated unaudited results for the first and second quarters of 2004 and for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003. The company expects to file final reports on 10-January-2005. Estimated unaudited revenues in Q3 2004 were approximately US$2.3 billion and the Company estimates an unaudited net loss per share in the quarter of US$0.06. The net loss per share in the quarter included approximately US$0.03 per share for the majority...

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India's BSNL Selects Nortel to Expand GSM/GPRS

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the largest telecommunications company in India, awarded a contract valued at approximately US$500 million to Nortel Networks to expand its GSM/GPRS digital wireless network in the eastern and southern areas of the country. Under the contract, Nortel will deploy an end-to-end GSMand GPRS solution -- including GSM radio base stations, mobile switching centres (MSCs), intelligent networks (IN) and other related equipment. Commitments to date against the contract represent the majority of the investment and are...

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First Avenue Raises $93 Million in Equity

First Avenue Networks raised $93.3 million through 12,870,000 shares of common stock priced at $7.25 per share. Over 20 institutional investors participated in the sale. First Avenue intends to use the net proceeds for its mobile backhaul network initiatives and to develop fiber extension facilities for targeted metropolitan markets. The funds also will be used for debt repayment and general corporate purposes. First Avenue also announced that all conditions for closing the acquisition of Teligent's assets and operations were met. The FCC has approved...

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Road Runner Deploys Vibe's Video Mail Application

Time Warner Cable has deployed Vibe Solutions Group's video mail application for the more than three million cable modem customers using the Road Runner service. The Vibe Video Mail service enables users to record and send high-quality video mail, create and send customized greeting cards and text, and record video and digital phot...

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Juniper Networks Appoints Flextronics Exec as New CFO

Juniper Networks named Robert R. B. Dykes to the position of CFO and executive vice president, Business Operations. He previously served at Flextronics as CFO and president of the Systems Group. Prior to that, Dykes spent 9 years as executive vice president, Worldwide Operations and CFO of Symantec Corporation where, having guided the company through its IPO. Starting on January 1st 2005, Dykes will oversee all business systems functions at Juniper Networks, and will have responsibility for finance, legal, information technology, human resources,...

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Danish Utility Selects Nortel for Triple Play Network

EnergiMidt, a Danish utility company, selected Nortel to provide a turnkey solution for delivering Triple Play residential services over a new PON network. EnergiMidt Broadband plans to deliver the services to all of its 162,000 customers. Nortel is also providing EnergiMidt with a carrier-grade optical transport network. Financial terms were not disclosed. The network will use Nortel's Broadband Access Services Gateway (BASG) product line, Nortel's optical Ethernet portfolio and a host of leading video and in-home networking partners -- all...

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IP Unity and Atreus Partner on Automated VoIP Provisioning

IP Unity and Atreus Systems announced a marketing partnership aimed at automating the provisioning of advanced IP features for top-tier carriers worldwide. TELUS, the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada, has deployed IP Unity's unified messaging features and will soon implement the joint solution of IP Unity features with Atreus' service fulfillment solution in its production network. http://www.atreus-systems.comhttp://www.ipunity....

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MCI Leverages Oracle Grid Control for Managing Hosting Services

MCI is working with Oracle to enhance service delivery of its Enterprise Hosting application management services and optimize its managed hosting infrastructure. MCI Enterprise Hosting is now using the Grid Control functionality of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g to help reduce the cost and complexity of managing its advanced IP applications and systems via a single integrated console. MCI monitors and measures the performance availability of hundreds of database servers. The Oracle Grid Control is used to track changes in hardware and software...

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Atheros Launches Single-Chip 802.11g Access Point Device

Atheros Communications introduced the first 802.11g wireless access point on a chip. The new AR5006AP-G integrates the wireless network processor, media access controller (MAC), baseband and radio functions into a single silicon chip. Atheros has also integrated many of the discrete components required by previous 802.11g access point designs. Atheros said the transition from a two-chip design to a single-chip implementation produces substantial cost benefits. In addition, Atheros has reduced the rest of BOM (bill-of-materials) by almost 20 %....

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Comcast Completes $350-Million Network Upgrade in Chicago

Comcast announced the completion of its $350 million broadband network upgrade in the Chicago region. The upgrade provides its cable customers with access to ON DEMAND and Digital Video Recorders and High Speed Internet with download speeds of up to 4Mbps.Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) will be available in the Greater Chicago Region in early 2005 for only $9.95 a month with no fee for the box. All Comcast Digital Cable customers in the region will automatically have access to VOD. Comcast Cable serves more than 1.7 million customers in the Greater...

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deltathree Enhances VoIP Reseller Program

deltathree, a provider of SIP-based VoIP, launched new features and services for its Reseller Program, including expanded inbound calling numbers, call forwarding, voicemail, web call and Web and SMS callback features. In addition, deltathree has expanded the broad range of devices that it has certified are interoperable with its services, and recently launched new pricing plans and an enhanced look and feel for its VoIP services.The expanded choice of Inbound local phone numbers gives customers a choice of receiving calls via these local phone...

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Terayon Offers Distributed Digital Video Processing for MSOs

Terayon Communication Systems has added significant new capabilities to its flagship Terayon 6400 Network CherryPicker digital video processing platform that enable cable television and other network operators to accelerate their transition to all-digital, next-generation networks and to deliver new digital video applications. New features and capabilities include:Distributed Chassis design that enables operators to acquire, manage and distribute digital video services from any point in the network to any other point in the network. Regardless...

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