Vativ Raises $11 Million for Copper Transport DSPs

Vativ, a start-up based in San Diego, raised $11 million in a second round of venture funding for its DSP-based silicon solutions for high-bandwidth transport over copper. The company is preparing to launch high performance digital television products and its 10Gigabit Ethernet devices. Participating in this round are new investors InnoCal Venture Capital, the lead investor, and the Intel Digital Home Fund. Existing investors, Redpoint Venture Capital, Mission Ventures, and QUALCOMM co-founder Dr. Andrew Viterbi also participated in the round....

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8x8 Adds Rate Centers for Local Inbound and E911

8x8 has added 987 new U.S. rate centers for Local Inbound Service and 660 rate centers for E911 service to all Packet8 broadband calling plans. Packet8 residential VoIP service, which uses Level 3's (3)VoIP Local Inbound Service, now covers 3,883 U.S. rate centers, significantly increasing the availability of the service throughout the country. The additional E911 rate centers broaden the availability of this optional Packet8 service feature to a total of 1607 rate centers including newly added cities such as Dallas, Louisville, Memphis, Flagstaff...

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FCC Launches Consumer Site to Promote DTV

The FCC launched a web site to promote digital television (DTV) to U.S. consumers. http://www.dtv.g...

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Netgear Posts Q4 Revenue of $105.1 million, 21% year-over-year

NETGEAR reported Q4 revenue of $105.1 million, a 4% increase as compared to $101.2 million for the third quarter of 2004, and a 21% increase as compared to $86.8 million for Q4 2003. For the full year 2004, net revenue totaled $383.1 million, a 28% increase over the full year 2003 net revenue of $299.3 million. Net revenue in the fourth quarter of 2004 derived from North America was $53.7 million, the Europe, Middle East and Africa, or EMEA, region was $44.2 million, and the Asia Pacific region was $7.2 million. There were 12.7 weeks in the fourth...

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Nextel Reports Revenue of $13.4 Billion, up 24% for 2004

Nextel Communications Inc. reported record 2004 financial results, including a 24% increase in 2004 revenue to $13.4 billion, a 22% increase in operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA) to $5.1 billion and a 107% increase in income to $3.0 billion, as compared with 2003. Some highlights of the report:Nextel ended 2004 with approximately 16.2 million total subscribers, up 22% from the 13.3 million total subscribers at the end of 2003. At year-end, the subscriber base consisted of 15 million subscribers of Nextel branded service...

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Interphase Selected for AdvancedTCA-Compliant SGSNs

Interphase has been selected by a prominent telecom equipment manufacturer to provide a variety of communications controllers for their first AdvancedTCA-compliant SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node). This service-critical mobile core network element, which provides the continuity of data communication throughout the different cells of the mobile network, was recently announced at 3GSM World Congress 2005 in Cannes, and represents one of the world's first applications of AdvancedTCA-based network equipment. The name of the telecom equipment manufacturer...

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BT/iO Launches Mobile Content Mgt and Delivery Service

iO, a start-up jointly funded by BT and New Venture Partners, unveiled its new service for managing and delivering mobile content. The service provides packaging, pricing, presentation, purchase, delivery and billing for mobile content. iO initially will be marketed to mobile network operators as a complete outsourced solution for content delivery on a revenue-share basis by BT Global Services.Mobile network operators would gain more rapid access to, and deployment of, a vast range of branded, global and local content (such as video, audio, MMS...

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Zarlink Appoints New CEO, Announces Restructuring

Zarlink Semiconductor announced the appointment of Kirk K. Mandy as the company's new President and CEO. Mandy has been associated with Zarlink Semiconductor and Mitel Corporation for 21 years in a variety of increasingly senior positions. He was named Vice President and General Manager of Mitel's Semiconductor division in 1992 and later assumed responsibility for the Business Communications Systems division. Mr. Mandy was CEO of Mitel from 1998 to 2001 and joined the Board as Vice Chairman when Zarlink was formed in 2001.Zarlink also issued guidance...

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IBM to Invest $100 million in Linux Network-Delivered Computing

IBM unveiled plans to invest $100 million over three years to expand Linux support and technology across its Workplace software portfolio. The investment will be focused on ISV support programs, channel and partner enablement and promotion, research and development, sales and marketing, and various technology and integration centers. IBM's server-managed client model enables customers to centrally manage and deploy business applications and data to a range of devices as needed -- from traditional desktops and laptops to a range of devices such...

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Germany Sees Growing Competition in Broadband Access

Germany ended 2004 with nearly seven million broadband connections, 20% of which were operated by competitors, according to the latest figures from Germany's Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post (RegTP). In the previous year this figure was 11%, which means it has almost doubled within the space of a year. Amongst new broadband customers, the competitors have gained 33% of the market, and this trend was strengthening at year's end. RegTP credits competition and Deutsche Telekom's resale model for these positive trends.Competitive...

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Akamai Revenues Rise 8% Sequentially

Akamai Technologies reported Q4 revenue of $57.6 million, an 8 percent increase over the previous quarter's revenue of $53.3 million, and a 27 percent increase over fourth quarter 2003 revenue of $45.2 million. Total revenue for 2004 was $210.0 million, a 30 percent increase over 2003 revenue of $161.3 million. Q4 net income (GAAP) was $13.4 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, a 19 percent increase over previous quarter net income of $11.2 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, and a $15.5 million improvement over the 2003 fourth quarter net loss...

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