VoiceCon Adds Fall Event

BCR, which is hosting this week's VoiceCon event in Orlando, Florida, announced a new VoiceCon Fall 2005 to be held August 29-September 1 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego. The ongoing VoiceCon Spring Conference in Orlando is experiencing a 25% increase in exhibitors and total attendees compared to last year. http://www.voiceconfall....

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Corrigent Hires Former ECI Telecom Exec

Corrigent Systems, a division of Orckit Communications that supplies packet-enabled add/drop muliplexers (ADMs), announced the appointment of Ido Gur as executive VP of sales and marketing. Mr. Gur most recently was VP of sales and marketing at ECI Telecom's optical division. Corrigent's CM-100 is a packet-ADM that fuses together SONET/SDH technologies with packet technologies such as RPR, Ethernet and MPLShttp://www.corrigent....

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Marconi Sales Rise 8% Sequentially

Marconi reported Q3 FY05 sales of £330 million, up 8% over the preceding quarter and up 5% over the same period a year earlier at constant currency. Marconi experienced a year-on-year sales increase of 14% in Optical and Access Networks, driven by growth in UK and Germany. However, BBRS sales declined to £30 million due to lower US Federal Government spending. There was an adjusted gross profit of £109 million for the quarter.Mike Parton, CEO of Marconi, said "We are very pleased with the progress that we have made in winning significant new...

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EarthLink Reaches 1.4 Million BB Subs, Dial-up Decline Continues

During Q4 2004, EarthLink added 84,000 net broadband subscribers and 118,000 net value PeoplePC Online subscribers, while the net premium dial-up subscriber base decreased by 211,000 and Web hosting accounts declined by 5,000. Overall, EarthLink's customer base declined 14,000 during the fourth quarter.EarthLink ended Q4 2004 with 5.4 million total subscribers, or a 3.5 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2003. EarthLink ended the quarter with 1.4 million broadband customers, an increase of 28.6 percent from a year ago, and 3.9 million...

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Looking Glass Builds Dedicated Network for Discovery

Discovery Communications, a global real-world media and entertainment company, selected Looking Glass Networks to design and build a private dedicated fiber network in the Washington, DC metro area. The new network provides a dedicated dual SONET ring between Discovery's headquarters and key data centers. Discovery is utilizing Type I on-net and Type II off-net circuits in addition to long haul Ethernet and SONET services from Looking Glass. The network also integrates into Looking Glass' metro and intercity networks. Financial terms were not...

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Hughes Network Systems Europe Adds VoIP to DIRECWAY Satellite

Hughes Network Systems Europe (HNSE) will offer Net2Phone's VoIP service to DIRECWAY broadband satellite customers throughout Europe and the Middle East. The integrated Net2Phone VoIP capability is enabled through HNS' advanced DW6040 Voice Appliance terminal operating over its DIRECWAY satellite service. The jointly developed VoIP capability allocates prioritization to voice packets over data traffic. http://www.hnseu.com/http://www.net2phone.c...

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Microsoft Acquires Sybari for Messaging Security

Microsoft agreed to acquire Sybari Software Inc., a provider of anti-virus, anti-spam and content-filtering security products for enterprises. Sybari's products help to protect messaging and collaboration servers from viruses, worms and spam. Microsoft said it will use this acquisition to further provide its enterprise customers with new solutions to help protect them from malicious software. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sybari is based in New York.http://www.microsoft....

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NEC Develops 12 Gbps Ultra-High-Speed Chip Interface

NEC Electronics announced a super-fast serial interface circuit technology, an essential component of system chips having large-scale integration (LSI) and used in next-generation broadband networks and high- speed computers. NEC said its technology enables data transmission of 12 Gbps between LSI chips, or between equipment employing LSI chips. This transmission rate is three to four times faster than conventional transmission rates in current high-end servers or routers, despite the use of legacy printed board traces, wires or cables. NEC also...

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IPWireless Ships 3GPP Chipset with full HSDPA

IPWireless released the first TD-CDMA 3GPP chipset with full HSDPA implementation.The new IPWireless chipset implements full HSDPA for devices, including 16QAM modulation to deliver far higher peak throughputs and higher overall usable capacity for each sector. IPWirelss said its system can now deliver up to 9.7 Mbps throughput per sector. The increased throughput performance is achieved without affecting the coverage and high cell edge performance of TD-CDMA, or affecting mobile handoff between sectors. With TD-CDMA systems, the full sector...

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BT Selects Covad as U.S. Broadband Partner

BT will use Covad's nationwide network to provide business-class broadband to its U.S.-based customers. Under an agreement announced by the companies, BT will work with Covad to offer all of its business-class broadband services in the 44 states where Covad has a network presen...

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ISC Upgrades DNS Root Server to IPv6 with Juniper

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has upgraded the Domain Name System F Root installation at its New Zealand location with Juniper Networks M-series routing platforms. The upgrade allows the nameservers at the location to handle IPv6 packet addressing. This latest deployment complements ISC's M-series deployments at its other Asia Pacific root server locations, including Osaka and Seoul. Financial terms were not disclosed.ISC is a non-profit public benefit corporation that operates one of the 13 root servers behind the Internet's Domain Name...

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HomePlug Powerline Alliance Adopts France Telecom's Turbo Code

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance, an industry consortium that promotes standards-based powerline communications technologies, will implement a forward error correction (FEC) technology originally developed by France Telecom as part of its HomePlug AV specification. HomePlug AV provides broadband home networking, enabling connectivity and distribution of HDTV, Digital Audio, and Internet access throughout the home via existing power lines. The advanced preliminary specification for HomePlug AV aims to deliver data rates of up to 200 Mbps to support...

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Cisco Sales up 12%, Net Income Doubles

Cisco Systems reported net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2005 were $6.1 billion, compared with $5.4 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2004, an increase of 12.3 percent, and compared with $6.0 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2005, an increase of 1.5 percent. Net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2005, on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, was $1.4 billion or $0.21 per share, compared with $724 million or $0.10 per share for the second quarter of fiscal 2004, and compared with $1.4 billion or $0.21...

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Level 3 Reports 30% quarter over quarter growth in IP traffic

Level 3 Communications reported a significant acceleration of IP traffic growth during Q4 2004, saying average traffic per day increased over 30%. Level 3 also noted better than expected growth from its wholesale VoIP business.The company reported Q4 revenue of $1.05 billion compared to $840 million for the third quarter 2004. Communications revenue was $482 million in the fourth quarter versus $423 million for the previous quarter, and information services revenue was $547 million compared to $392 million for the previous quarter.The net loss...

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AT&T Begins Marketing CallVantage Small Office Plan

AT&T launched a CallVantage Small Office Plan offering two VoIP lines with unlimited local and long- distance calling throughout the U.S. and Canada, plus the ability to send and receive faxes for $49.99 per month.The business-class service offers the ability to subscribe to as many as nine distinctive telephone numbers on the primary line. For an additional monthly charge of $7.49 per number, each additional number's inbound call experience can be managed independently, even though all the numbers share the same line.An example of a premium...

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BellSouth Selects Redback for Triple Play

BellSouth selected Redback Networks' SmartEdge Service Gateway platform for its next-generation integrated IP network. The SmartEdge systems will enable the delivery of "Triple Play" services, including potential future IP video services that BellSouth is currently testing, in addition to serving as the new architecture for broadband services and subscriber management. Deployment of the systems could begin as early as the second half of 2005. Previous generation SMS systems from Redback Networks have powered BellSouth's successful deployments of...

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BellSouth Selects Alcatel for Next Gen IP DSLAMs

BellSouth named Alcatel as its preferred supplier of IP DSLAMs over the next three years. The agreement extends Alcatel's existing strategic supplier relationship with BellSouth for DSL equipment. Specifically, Alcatel will provide IP DSLAMs from its Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) family for enabling Triple Play services. Financial terms were not disclosed.BellSouth is testing the Alcatel 7330 and 7302 products with ADSL2+ to provide triple play services at rates up to 24 Mbps per household. http://www.bellsouth.comIn the wake to the...

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