Deutsche Telekom Reports 2004 Income of EUR 4.6 billion

Deutsche Telekom reported 2004 net income of EUR 4.6 billion, achieving its goal of continued profitable growth. Net revenue increased by 3.7 percent to EUR 57.9 billion in 2004 compared with EUR 55.8 billion in 2003.Some highlights of the annual report:Free cash flow increased from EUR 8.3 billion to EUR 10.2 billionNet debt reduced by EUR 11.4 billion to EUR 35.2 billion. This was achieved primarily due to free cash flow and the sale of investments, such as the sale of a share in the Russian mobile communications company MTS. Total employee headcount...

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Dust Networks Offers 802.15.4 Solution

Dust Networks, a start-up based in Berkeley, California, announced the addition of IEEE 802.15.4 compliant radio hardware to its SmartMesh wireless sensor networking product line. The new standards-compliant hardware operates in the 2.4GHz ISM band and can be certified for use in all of the world's major markets. Dust Networks will continue to offer SmartMesh networks based on 900 MHz hardware in the North American market.The IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which was ratified in May 2003, was created to enable wireless communications for a wide range of...

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Siemens and Nortel to Support BT's Global Client Voice Infrastructure

BT is working with Siemens Communications and Nortel to provide equipment, maintenance and support services for the voice systems and infrastructure used by BT's multi-national customers.BT is responsible for the management and maintenance of a diverse range of PBX equipment and other customer voice systems in over 120 countries. BT's network of global and regional operation centres already provides multi-national customers with service management on a country-by-country basis. In conjunction with Siemens Communications and Nortel, BT will now...

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Global Broadband Surpasses 150 Million Subscriber Mark

The number of broadband subscribers worldwide has just passed 150 million mark, according to IMS Research. This represents an increase of 51 million since the beginning of 2004. IMS Research is forecasting that the number of broadband subscribers will surpass 400 million during 2009.DSL continues to put distance between itself and cable as the most popular broadband technology, with total DSL subscribers passing the 100 million mark in early 2005. http://www.imsresearch....

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Telecom Execs Testify in Favor of Big Mergers

In testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the chief executives of AT&T, MCI, Nextel, SBC, Sprint and Verizon each said the mega-mergers currently planned their firms would be good for the industry and good for the national economy.The committee's chairman, U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), pretty much consented, noting that "with an industry that has changed so much in ten years, it should come as little surprise that companies are looking at one another to determine whether partnerships will enable them to be stronger...

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Alcatel to acquire Native Networks for Optical Ethernet Transport

Alcatel agreed to acquire Native Networks for approximately US$55 million in cash. The companies have been jointly developing Ethernet Packet Ring technology since 2003. Native Networks provides data-aware, Metro Ethernet plus SDH/SONET transport solutions designed for deployment in "first-mile" metro access infrastructure. Its switches transport and aggregate Metro Ethernet packets alongside legacy circuits/TDM services in their "Native" form over dark fiber, existing SDH/SONET infrastructure or DWDM. Native Networks supports advanced layer-2...

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NeoPhotonics Acquires Stake in China's Largest Optical Supplier

NeoPhotonics, a developer and manufacturer of PLC-based (planar lightwave circuit) integrated optical modules and subsystems , has become the largest shareholder in Photon Technology Co., (Shenzhen) following the acquisition of all of the formerly state-owned, shares, or approximately one-third of all outstanding shares, for consideration of cash and stock. Terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1993 as a majority state-owned enterprise, Photon has become China's largest manufacturer of "active" optical components for broadband access and backbone...

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Intel Founder Gordon Moore to Receive Marconi Lifetime Achievement Award

Gordon E. Moore, who in 1968 co-founded Intel, has been named the Marconi Society's 2005 Lifetime Achievement recipient. Moore is widely known for his 1965 prediction which stated that the number of transistors the industry would be able to place on an integrated circuit would double every year. In 1975, the timeline was updated to once every couple of years. Gordon Moore is the third person to receive the Marconi Society's Lifetime Achievement Award during the organization's 31-year history. In 2000, the award was presented to mathematician Claude...

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Sweden's Citylink Selects Juniper's J-series Router

Citylink, the fifth largest Swedish alternative operator providing business services, is upgrading its customer premises equipment with the Juniper Networks J-Series Services Router. Working with local channel partner, Imtech Sweden, the upgrade will enable Citylink to deliver premium managed IP services, including voice, video and VPNs with QoS from the core of the network to the customer premise.Citylink's core IP/MPLS network was built using Juniper Networks M-Series routing platforms in early 2003. The J-Series uses the same modular JUNOS...

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Ericsson Tightens Employee Stock Option Program

The Board of Ericsson has, after discussions with major shareholders, decided to increase the upper threshold of the performance target in the Performance Matching Program for senior managers. The change means that maximum matching shares will be allocated if the average annual growth of Earnings Per Share (EPS) between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2008 is at or above 15 percent, instead of 12 percent as previously proposed. Ericsson's Long Term Incentive Plan 2005 has 3 parts:1. The Stock Purchase Plan for all employees, under which participants...

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ZigBee Alliance Expands Activities

The ZigBee Alliance, an industry group promoting low-cost, low-power wireless networks based on the ZigBee specification, announced a new level of membership, the Adopter Class, designed for companies looking to quickly and cost-effectively bring ZigBee-based products to market. The Alliance is looking to expand its activities following the ratification of the final ZigBee specification in December 2004. Adopter Class membership provides companies access to all final, approved ZigBee specifications. As these members develop, deliver and receive...

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Heliocomm Debuts ZigBee Modules

Helicomm, a start-up based in Carslbad, California, announced its 8051-based IP-Link Embedded Wireless Module Family. Each module includes an IEEE 802.15.4 radio, a Silicon Laboratories 8051 microcontroller, programmable digital and analog I/O, flexible antenna solutions and choice of ZigBee or IP-Net networking software. IP-Link Modules are available in both 2.4GHz and 915MHz frequencies, with three choices of FlashROM/RAM combinations. http://www.helicomm....

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