Fujitsu Captures 75% Global Market Share in Metro ROADMs

Fujitsu Network Communications has attained over 75% market share for Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs), according to figures from RHK cited by the company. The product category is defined as a platform that offers single wavelength granularity, optical layer protection with sub-50 ms switching times, automated per-channel dynamic gain equalization, and favorable engineering rules that let carriers shrink network Capital Expense (CAPEX) requirements. The market is being driven by metro WDM builds, including metro core/regional...

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TI Tests DSL Gateways with KTL

Texas Instruments (TI) will cooperate with KTL, an independent testing laboratory (ITL) officially recognized by the DSL Forum, to provide more extensive interoperability testing of TI´s residential gateway products. TI said this collaboration should ultimately allow its customers to reach the market faster and more cost-effectively with leading DSL, wireless and voice products. http://www.ti....

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Alcatel Ships 19.6 Million DSL ports in 2004

Alcatel's DSL port shipments increased strongly in 2004, reaching 19.6 million ports for the full year, a 24 percent increase over 2003. Citing Q4 data from the Dell'Oro Group, Alcatel said its cumulative global market share has increased to 37.8% with a total of more than 58 million cumulative DSL lines shipped. The figure is more than four times the cumulative global DSL line volume of any other supplier.http://www.alcatel....

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KPN Upgrades to ADSL2+ with Alcatel

Alcatel announced contract with KPN for the upgrade of its existing DSL infrastructure in The Netherlands to ADSL2+. This contract involves the upgrade of all current DSLAMs, which were installed and implemented by Alcatel in previous years. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.alcatel....

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Wireless USB Specification Nears Completion

The Wireless USB specification is expected to be completed at the end of March and the Multi-band OFDM Alliance (MBOA) medium access controller (MAC) is scheduled to be completed by midyear, according to an update from Intel provided at its Intel Developer's Forum in San Francisco.Wireless USB will be one of the technology implementations that will use UWB as the radio technology. The goal of Wireless USB is to deliver the same ease of use and high speeds associated with USB 2.0, but without wires. To maintain the same usage and architecture as...

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SBC Signs Wi-Fi Roaming Pacts with Boingo, Airpath

SBC Communications announced Wi-Fi roaming agreements with Airpath Wireless and Boingo Wireless. The agreement with Airpath adds 3,300 nationwide and international locations - making more than 4,000 total roaming hot spots available to SBC Wi-Fi customers. In addition, SBC hot spots will be available to thousands of Airpath mobile computer users. The agreement with Boingo will bring increased traffic to the SBC FreedomLink network from Boingo customers and from worldwide subscribers of Boingo's Platform Services partners. For Boingo, the agreement...

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KT Deploys Cisco's ONS 15454 MSPP

KT recently has started offering Triple Play service in the Seoul area supported by the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP). KT selected Cisco as its strategic vendor for its new optical backbone plan on December 2004. As part of the initial deployment of the network, Cisco has completed the first service trial of KT's 2.5-Gbps/10-Gbps MSPP project, which is a part of a new 5-year plan to deploy an optical transport system infrastructure to service KT's customer base with multiple advanced services. This service trial involved...

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WiMedia and MultiBand OFDM Groups to Merge

The WiMedia Alliance and the MultiBand OFDM Alliance Special Interest Group (MBOA-SIG) have merged into a single organization. Operating as the WiMedia Alliance, the combined organization continues to drive the standardization and adoption of ultra wideband (UWB) for high-speed wireless, multimedia-capable personal area connectivity. The WiMedia-MBOA said it is conducting an intellectual property review of the MBOA-SIG's physical (PHY) layer specification, which has already been distributed to MBOA-SIG members who are building products. The organization...

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Consumer Electronics ATA 1.0 Specification Completed

A final CE-ATA 1.0 specification paving the way for the expanded use of mini disk drives in handheld electronics. The CE-ATA specification defines a disk drive interface tailored to the needs of the handheld and CE market segments. The new CE-ATA interface standard for small form factor disk drives addresses requirements inherent to such small devices, including low pin count, low voltage, power efficiency, cost effectiveness and integration efficiency. At this week's Intel's Developer's Forum in San Francisco, Intel and partners showed a prototype...

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LG Electronics, Nortel Show Consumer Handset-Based HSDPA

Nortel and LG Electronics completed the first live test calls using a commercial handset supporting High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA). The companies completed calls using commercially-available UMTS network infrastructure from Nortel and an LG HSDPA handset slated for commercial availability in late 2005. Downloads of pop music songs and three-minute streaming movie clips (the LG device served as a modem to a PC screen) were completed in a moving automobile to demonstrate real-world stability at speeds up to 1.4 Mbps. HSDPA boosts network...

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BT Opens Global Network Control Centre in Amsterdam

BT has opened a new Network Control Centre (NCC) in Amsterdam, responsible for monitoring BT's global data network. The Amsterdam network centre will focus on the services layer of the network while the transport layer is managed by the Diegem (Belgium) NCC, opened two years ago. The Diegem and Amsterdam NCCs will serve as backup to each other in case complications are encountered at either facility. A third centre provides backup to both NCCs in cases of serious breakdown that continue for more than six hours. http://www.btplc....

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Deutsche Telekom Tops 5.8 Million DSL Lines in Germany

Deutsche Telekom ended 2004 with 5.8 million DSL lines in Germany, up by 1.8 million for the year. This figure also includes 246,000 DSL lines sold by T-Com to competitors under its resale offer. 628,000 new broadband lines were recorded in Germany in the fourth quarter alone. In the Deutsche Telekom subsidiaries managed by T-Com in Hungary, Croatia and the Slovak Republic, business operations also focused predominantly on the marketing of broadband communications. The number of DSL lines provided by companies in Central and Eastern Europe consequently...

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Vonage Prevails in VoIP Port Blocking Case

Vonage has prevailed in a case involving VoIP-port blocking by local telephone company. The case involved the Madison River Telephone Company, which Vonage accused of blocking ports used for VoIP applications. Last month, the FCC's Enforcement Bureau issued a Letter of Inquiry to Madison River. This has resulted in a Consent Decree under which Madison River will refrain from blocking VOIP traffic and ensure that such blocking will not recur. Madison River will also pay a $15,000 fine to the U.S. Treasury."We saw a problem, and we acted swiftly...

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Class Action Lawsuits Against Bell Canada Dismissed

Two proposed class action lawsuits against Bell Canada International and Bell Canada Enterprises brought on behalf of BCI common shareholders and seeking $1 billion in damages, have been refused leave to appeal by the Supreme Court of Canada. No further appeal of these actions is available to the plaintiffs and the actions are effectively dismissed. http://www.bci.cahttp://www.bce...

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