SBC Adds Real-Time WAN Monitoring Options, Cuts Prices

SBC Communications rolled out new real-time WAN monitoring tools for its enterprise customers, while cutting prices for many service options. The new SBC PremierSERV Network Management Wide-Area Network (WAN) View monitoring options enable businesses to track network and application performance in multiple locations, regardless of the carrier network being used, allowing quick isolation of applications responsible for poor response times; optimization of bandwidth for key applications; understanding and tracing virus traffic within a network; and...

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Westell Reports Strong Demand for Wireless Gateway

Westell Technologies reported quarterly revenue of $74.5 million up 24% from $60.0 million in the same quarter of last year and up 21% from $61.4 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2004. Net income for the December quarter of $3.7 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, which includes tax expense of $2.6 million, or $0.04 per diluted share. "Our Customer Networking Equipment revenue performance in the December quarter was well beyond our expectations. The early success of our new wireless gateway product, VersaLink, far exceeded even our...

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Belkin Offers Xten's Softphone for its VoIP Service

Belkin has licensed a private-label version of Xten's X-PRO SIP softphone SDK for integration and deployment with Belkin's recently announced callEverywhere Broadband Phone service. Belkin offers free calls to callEverywhere customers along with free email and voice mail. For an additional charge, users can upgrade to a service plan that allows phone calls to and from the PSTN. Belkin's service currently is available in 34 U.S. markets. The SoftPhone is currently available as a free software download. http://www.xten.com http://www.belkin....

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Lenovo Selects Atheros for its Wi-Fi Notebooks

Lenovo Group Limited (formerly Legend Computer), the largest PC vendor in China, has integrated Atheros' single-chip 802.11g solution into new wireless-enabled laptops that will be sold in China and other markets. The companies said 802.11g wireless networking is in high demand by China's mobile computing usershttp://www.atheros....

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UTStarcom Signs $120 Million in Contracts with China Telecom

UTStarcom announced contracts valued at approximately $120 million with China Telecom Corporation (CTC) to expand the operator's existing IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) networks in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Sichuan provinces in China. UTStarcom said China Telecom officials have publicly reiterated that they will continue to invest in PAS even when 3G licenses are issued, as it is viewed as a complementary service to 3G that will target a different demographic. UTStarcom noted that there are now more than 65 million PAS subscribers in China....

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France's SCT Telecom Deploys net.com's VoIP

SCT Telecom, a national provider of wholesale telecommunications services in France, has deployed net.com's ShoutIP VoIP platform to provide low cost delivery alternatives for mobile calls. net.com's voice over IP platform, provides enhanced call routing and IP-to-TDM conversion to allow fixed and mobile calls to be dynamically routed to the least-cost delivery method. Additionally, ShoutIP's BEST Signaling Protocol (BSP) delivers advanced call compression and IP packet management, enabling the platform to use less bandwidth and provide higher...

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Extreme Networks Reports 20% Revenue Growth

Extreme Networks reported quarterly revenue of $100.3 million, up 20% from $83.4 million in the year-ago second quarter, and up 5% from $95.1 million in the first fiscal quarter of 2005. The company recorded net income of $9.95 million or $0.08 per diluted share in the second fiscal quarter of 2005, up from the net loss of ($5.6) million or ($0.05) per diluted share in the second fiscal quarter of 2004. Revenues in the U.S. were $43.4 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2005, or 43.3% of total consolidated revenue. U.S. revenues were up 54%...

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UK's Gamma Telecom Deploys Marconi Softswitch

Gamma Telecom, an alternative carrier in the UK, is replacing its existing Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) infrastructure with Marconi's SoftSwitch platform. The full migration will take place over the course of this year. The Marconi SoftSwitch infrastructure will allow Gamma Telecom to continue to support existing Carrier Pre-Select and Indirect Access customers without the need to invest in additional legacy technology, while supporting new services. In particular, it will allow the operator to offer resellers the ability to provide new...

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Lucent Reports Wireless Growth, Wireline Challenges

Lucent Technologies reported first quarter revenues of $2.34 billion in the quarter, a decrease of 3% sequentially and an increase of 3% from the year-ago quarter. Net income was $174 million or 4 cents per diluted share. These results compare with net income of $1.21 billion, or 23 cents per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 and net income of $349 million, or 7 cents per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. "The dynamic nature of today's telecom market continues to present distinct opportunities and challenges to network...

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Cisco Appoints Wells Fargo Exec to its Board

Richard M. Kovacevich, chairman and CEO, Wells Fargo & Company, has been appointed to Cisco Systems' board of directors. With the election of Kovacevich, Cisco's board now consists of 13 members. http://www.cisco....

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Level 3 Announces Expansion Into Eastern Europe

Level 3 Communications began offering its (3)CrossRoads wholesale Internet access service to ISPs, cable providers, and international carriers selling communications services in Prague, the Czech republic. Among Level 3's initial IP transit customers in Prague is Nextra, a subsidiary of Telenor, the Norwegian incumbent carrier. Telenor, Norway's largest telecommunications group, maintains substantial international mobile operations and, through Nextra, aims to establish itself as a leading IP operator for the business market in the Czech Republic...

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Meru Networks Names New CEO

Meru Networks named Ihab Abu-Hakima as its new President and CEO. Previously, Abu-Hakima served as a Senior Vice President at Proxim Corporation. Prior to Proxim, Abu-Hakima held several executive positions at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. (SGI), most recently as vice president and general manager. http://www.merunetworks....

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RCN Increases Cable Modem Speed to 10 Mbps

RCN will upgrade its 7 Mbps cable modem service to 10 Mbps across all its U.S. markets by February 28, 2005. Customers with 5 Mbps service will be upgraded to 7 Mbps service. This is the third time in the past 18 months RCN has upgraded its modem speeds at no additional cost to customers. RCN said the faster speeds would benefit its music download business. RCN provides service in the Boston, New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan markets. http://www.rcn....

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UTStarcom Signs $40 Million in Contracts with China Netcom

UTStarcom announced contracts valued at approximately $40 million with China Netcom Group (CNC) to expand the operator's existing IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) networks in the Shandong and Henan provinces, as well as in metropolitan Beijing. Over the last two years, nearly 60% of new fixed-line subscribers at China Netcom are PAS users. The carrier is expecting positive growth rates for PAS subscribers through 2008. In addition, the operator believes that they will be able to leverage existing PAS network infrastructure to deploy 3G services...

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Westell and Spirent Partner on IP/Ethernet Diagnostics

Westell Technologies and Spirent Communications announced a partnership aimed at providing an end-to-end automated solution that would enable service providers to perform IP/Ethernet diagnostics to determine the quality of service that is delivered to the end customer network. The companies will market a joint solution consisting of the Spirent SmartSight family of products and the Westell Inteleport Ethernet Network Interface Unit (NIU). Together, these products form an end-to-end automated diagnostic solution with interfaces to performance and...

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Fujitsu Implements Data Connection's Megaco/H.248 Stack

Fujitsu has licensed Data Connection's DC-Megaco (H.248) software for use in its GeoStream Access Gateway product line. Fujitsu began implementing the protocol stack in September of 2004 and was able to demonstrate H.248 functionality the following month, participating in the Global Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) Interoperability (GMI) 2004 event hosted by major carriers across the world. Testing at the GMI verified for the first time that H.248 is suitable for PSTN legacy network migration in the U.K., when implemented according to the MSF...

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