PMC-Sierra Offers SIP-based Analog Telephone Adapter Solution

PMC-Sierra announced the availability of a VoIP Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) platform solution, its first in a family of turnkey designs for residential Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). PMC-Sierra is providing a complete Analog Telephone Adapter solution including a MIPS-Powered VoIP processor, voice processing firmware and Codecs, SIP signaling protocol stack, telephony and management applications, and complete hardware design. The platform supports up to 200Mbps of data throughput and can handle up to two channels of VoIP with QoS prioritization...

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TranSwitch Introduces Ethernet Processing Chips

TranSwitch introduced a single-chip ATM-to-Ethernet interworking processor and traffic manager, and an Ethernet-based switch processor and traffic manager for Ethernet in the last mile and access applications. The new devices allow efficient connectivity to ATM physical layer framers and Ethernet PHYs, providing a packet processing and traffic management solution for converging network applications. The devices are targeted at wireline and wireless platforms such as IP DSLAM, next-generation digital loop carrier (NG-DLC), APON/BPON/EPON optical...

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Redback and ZTE Supply Triple Play in India

Redback Networks announced that its SmartEdge Service Gateway systems have been selected by Atlas Interactive for an initial rollout of triple play services in Delhi, later expanding nationwide. Redback is working with ZTE, which is the lead integrator in the project.On a state visit by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to India in April, China's ZTE inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) pledging US$1 billion to support an advanced IP network rollout by Atlas Interactive, an Indian telecom group. The deal includes a sales contract valued at...

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Juniper Hires Executives from Cisco, 3Com

Juniper Networks announced the appointments of Hitesh Sheth to the position of vice president, Enterprise Products and Solutions and Liam Kiely to the position of vice president of Engineering, for Juniper's Infrastructure Products Group (IPG).Sheth joins Juniper Networks from Cisco Systems, where he led a strategic cross-company initiative to establish Cisco in the Metro Ethernet market. During his seven year tenure at Cisco, he held a number of senior management positions in marketing, business development and general management. Prior to Cisco,...

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Yahoo! Messenger Offers Worldwide Calling, Interactive Features

Yahoo! launched a public beta for its next generation instant messenger service, offering free PC-to-PC calls, photo sharing, better tools to expand friends' lists, increased spam protection, better integration with online games and other features. It does not provide direct PSTN connections.The free worldwide calling feature to other Yahoo! Messenger users also integrates with Yahoo!'s voice mail service. Voicemail messages can be left for friends who are away from their desks or offline, and can be retrieved through a call history log that...

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Motorola Authorizes $4.0 Billion, 36-Month Stock Repurchase

Motorola's Board of Directors has authorized the company to repurchase up to $4.0 billion of its outstanding shares of common stock over the next 36 months, subject to market conditions. Based on Motorola's current stock price, $4.0 billion represents approximately 10% of the company's total market capitalization. As of April 2, 2005, Motorola had approximately 2.45 billion shares of common stock outstanding. http://www.motorola....

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Marconi and Laurel Networks Reaffirm OEM Agreement

Following the announcement that ECI Telecom will acquire Laurel Networks, Laurel and ECI reaffirmed their commitment to an OEM relationship with Marconi. Marconi and Laurel Networks will continue to supply IP-based, multi-service edge routing technology through their existing worldwide relationship. The partnership has been active since early 2003 and has recorded multiple customer deployments. To date, this has included multiple wins for Marconi with US Federal Government and EMEA customers. The two companies will continue to pursue opportunities...

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Occam Ramps Up Revenues with 13 New Customers in Q1

Occam Networks reported quarterly revenue of $6.9 million, setting a new company record for the third consecutive quarter. The company also added 13 new customers during the quarter. During the first quarter of 2005, Occam signed a strategic alliance with Tellabs, which opened up market opportunities with large North American Local Exchange Carriers for Occam's IP-based loop carrier equipment. As part of the agreement, Tellabs also licensed Occam's Ethernet transport technologies for integration into Tellabs FiberDirect portfolio. Occam gained...

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Marconi Confirms Its SoftSwitch Commitment

Marconi reconfirmed plans for its next-generation Impact SoftSwitch, which will be targeted at operators such as alternative carriers, ISPs, cable TV providers, metro city carriers, international PTTs and local loop unbundlers.Marconi's Impact SoftSwitch is a carrier-class, next-generation switching solution that integrates voice and data services into a single converged packet network. It provides a full range of both traditional and new services across a variety of protocols, including Media Gateway Control Protocol, H.323, H.248 and SIP. It...

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Symbian Appoints new CEO

Symbian named Nigel Clifford as its new CEO, replacing David Levin, who left Symbian in March 2005 to take up the post of Chief Executive of United Business Media Plc. Clifford previously served as Chief Executive of Tertio Telecoms, an international software product and services company that was acquired by Evolving Systems in November 2004. Before Tertio Telecoms, Clifford spent two years as Senior Vice President, Service Delivery with Cable & Wireless. http://www.symbian....

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KT Selects Sun for Operations Infrastructure and Services

KT selected Sun Microsystems' Client Solutions organization to design an Operations Support Systems through Java solution running on Sun Fire servers powered with SPARC and AMD Opteron processors. Specifically, Sun will work with KT Operations Labs to develop a Broadband Convergence Network (BcN) network management system. Financial terms were not disclosed.With Sun's OSS through Java solutions and services, KT will be able to implement new operations solutions and integrate with multiple legacy systems, as well as support web-based, customer-centric...

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palmOne Includes Wi-Fi & Bluetooth in Latest PDA

palmOne introduced its "LifeDrive" mobile manager PDA featuring a 4GB hard drive (3.85GB user available), a large 320x480 high-resolution color screen, and wireless access through built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The handheld device uses the 416MHz Intel XScale processor.Devicescape Software provided the Wi-Fi client software for the LifeDrive. palmOne is working with T-Mobile to ensure a "good experience" on the carrier's public Wi-Fi network. T-Mobile is providing a free 30-day trial offer for LifeDrive owners.RealNetworks is giving LifeDrive...

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Western Digital Ships SATA Hard Drives with 300 MB/s Performance

Western Digital began shipping in volume hard drives offering Serial ATA (SATA) interface with 300 MB/s burst data transfer rate. The new WD Caviar SE16 hard drives feature 16 MB cache -- 2 to 8 times the cache size of standard desktop-class hard drives. The 300 MB/s performance is up to 3 times faster than previous EIDE-versions of the WD drive. Suggested retail pricing is $199 USD for WD Caviar SE16 with 250 GB capacity. http://www.westerndigital....

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Florida Municipality Awards Video Franchise to Verizon

The city of Temple Terrace, Florida, which has a population of 23,000, is the first municipality in the state to award a video franchise to Verizon for its FiOS TV product, to be delivered via its new, all-fiber network.Verizon's Temple Terrace franchise will provide an unrivaled video service to its residents. Under the agreement, which covers 15 years and includes a $35,000 grant, Verizon will provide service to all of Temple Terrace once the company's fiber network is completely built out. In addition, the agreement contains provisions for the...

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