Infinera to Present 10x40 Gbps Photonic Integrated Circuits

At next week's OFC/NFOEC 2005 conference in Anaheim, California, Infinera will present four papers including a paper describing technical results of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) capable of carrying 400 Gbps of telecommunications traffic per chip. In May 2004, Infinera introduced the first commercial, large-scale PICs, which integrate over 50 photonic devices on a chip and support 100 Gbps of Wave Division Multiplexing transmission. The devices, which serve as the heart of the Infinera DTN digital optical networking system, are now carrying...

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CoreOptics and Fujitsu Team on 40 Gbps Integrated Circuits

CoreOptics and Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe announced an agreement to provide a complete set of 40 Gbps Integrated Circuit solutions for applications in the high capacity DWDM optical transport, IP Networking as well as test and measurement industries."The general availability of these complete and ready-to-use 40 Gb/s building blocks signifies the emergence of the third generation of cost effective and fully integrated 40 Gb/s client and line solutions for our industry," said Achim Herzberger, CoreOptics Co-founder and Vice President of Product...

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VocalTec Receives NASDAQ Notification

VocalTec received a notice from the Nasdaq Stock Market of its non compliance with the $10 million minimum stockholders' equity requirement for continued listing on the Nasdaq National Market. In response, VocalTec has submitted to Nasdaq a plan to achieve and sustain compliance with all Nasdaq National Market listing requirements, including the minimum stockholders' equity standard. If Nasdaq does not accept the plan, it may issue a delisting notice and in such event the company will consider other alternatives, including listing on the Nasdaq...

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Comcast Provides Monthly Activity Reports to VOD Content Providers

Comcast will begin making monthly on-demand reports available for no charge to participating video on demand content providers. Comcast said it is its using Rentrak's OnDemand Essentials measurement system to provide anonymous, non-personally identifiable information about how customers are using VOD. The availability of timely reports is important for VOD programmers and advertisers. The new reporting activity This extends an earlier agreement for Comcast to use Rentrak's OnDemand Essentials system to internally analyze data across four standardized...

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Vonage Suffers Widespread Outage

Vonage suffered a widespread network outage on March 4 at 2:45 EST affecting nearly half its 500,000 customers across the U.S. Both inbound and outbound calling via its VoIP service, as well as its website and voicemail system, were down periodically throughout the afternoon. Vonage attributed the outage to a glitch in a software upgrade to its network. http://www.vonage....

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OCP Introduces 1.3 micron VCSEL-Based GigE Transceivers

Optical Communication Products introduced its Gigabit Ethernet extended reach (XR) pluggable transceivers. The 1.3 micron VCSEL-based product line increases the effective transmission distance of a Gigabit Ethernet link over legacy multimode fiber (MMF) to 2,000m. It is available in SFP and GBIC form factors. The XR product family utilizes a 1.3 micron VCSEL as its laser source with an optical link budget of 8.5dB to achieve the 2km transmission distance over legacy multimode fiber. http://www.ocp-inc....

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Nortel Appoints Former Cisco Exec as New President

Nortel Networks announced the following senior management changes:Bill Owens, currently president and CEO, will become the vice chairman and CEO.Gary Daichendt has been appointed to the position of president and chief operating officer (COO) reporting to Owens. Daichendt was previously executive vice president, Worldwide Operations, Cisco Systems. In his new role Daichendt will be responsible for leading Nortel's carrier and enterprise businesses, research and development, services and supply chain functions and global sales and operations. Peter...

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New MSA for Multi-Standard Quad SFP Optical Transceivers

Nine leading networking component suppliers agreed to jointly create a new Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) for an integrated multi-standard Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) transceiver to support Ethernet, Fibre Channel and SONET/SDH with data rates of up to 4.25 Gbps.The QSFP MSA defines a transceiver module mechanical form-factor with latching mechanism and a host board SFP-like electrical edge connector and cage. The hot-pluggable module integrates four transmit and four receive channels with a standard MPO parallel optical connector. The...

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NuVox Deploys Acme Packet's Session Border Controllers

NuVox Communications, an integrated communications provider serving business customers in the southeastern and midwestern U.S., will deploy Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers for its hosted business VoIP offering beginning in the second quarter of 2005. The Net-Net products are satisfying the security, service level agreement assurance, service reach and regulatory requirements for the delivery of premium IP services, such as VoIP. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.acmepacket.comNuVox is using the Sonus Insignus platform...

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Sun Microsytems Installs 10 GigE/Copper from SYSTIMAX

Sun Microsystems is installing a 10 Gigabit Ethernet over copper/UTP cabling solution from SYSTIMAXinto a major operational hub in the United Kingdom. SYSTIMAX Solutions believes it is the first vendor to provide a complete UTP solution that complies with the latest IEEE 802.3an task force guidelines for 10GBASE-T. http://www.systimax....

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Verizon Wireless Completes Purchase of Qwest Spectrum

Verizon Wireless completed its purchase Qwest Wireless' spectrum licenses and certain network assets for $418 million. The deal was first announced in July 2004.The agreement includes spectrum licenses in 62 markets in 14 western and mid-western states, covering a population of 30.8 million people. These licenses, all in the 1900 MHz PCS frequency range, average nearly 10 MHz per market. The transaction also includes Qwest Wireless' network switching centers, cell sites and related network equipment, which operate on the CDMA standard, the same...

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Verizon Raises Quarterly Dividend 5.2%

Verizon Communications declared a quarterly dividend of 40.5 cents per outstanding share, an increase of 2 cents, or 5.2%, from the previous quarter. The dividend is payable on May 2, 2005, to Verizon Communications shareowners of record at the close of business April 8.Verizon has approximately 2.7 million shareowners and approximately 2.8 billion shares of common stock outstanding. In 2004, the company made $4.3 billion in dividend payments.http://www.verizon.c...

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