"Combined Endeavor" Brings Together Largest Interoperability Event

"Combined Endeavor 2005", the largest and most complex Communications and Information System (CIS) military exercise in the world, is currently underway in Lager Aulenbach, Germany , with the participation of more than 1,200 military and civilian personnel from 43 countries and four continents.The 13-day military exercise, which is organized by the U.S. European Command and the German and Romanian Ministries of Defense, brings together NATO and Partnership...

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Marvell Reports Revenue of $365 Million, up 35% YoY

Marvell Technology Group reported quarterly revenue of $364.8 million, an increase of 35% the same period last year and a 7% sequential increase from the preceding quarter. Net income (GAAP) was $63.5 million, or $0.20 per share (diluted), compared with net income of $14.5 million, or $0.05 per share, a year earlier.The period represented the 30th consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth for Marvell. http://www.marvell.c...

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Lucent Appoints Satoshi Fujita President of Japan Operations

Lucent Technologies announced the appointment of Satoshi Fujita as president of its operations in Japan. Fujita-san is a former Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) executive, having started with NTT in 1969. He has held leadership positions in sales, marketing, finance and operations throughout his career. He was most recently corporate auditor for NTT DoCoMo Inc. Prior to that he was the executive vice president and general manager of the global services business division of NTT Communications Corporation. http://www.lucent....

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Minnesota Town Deploys Municipal FTTX with ADC

Windom, Minnesota is deploying a $8.6 million city-owned broadband network supported by ADC's OmniReach FTTX infrastructure solutions. Windomnet delivers digital cable, telephone and 100 Mbps Internet access to the city's homes, businesses and schools. http://www.adc.com http://www.windomnet.c...

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BT Media and Broadcast Deploys Juniper IP/MPLS

BT Media and Broadcast has selected Juniper Networks' routing platforms to create what is described as Europe's first point-to-multipoint IP/MPLS-based broadcast distribution network. The network has been deployed by BT Media and Broadcast on behalf of Meridian, a regional member of ITV, the UK's leading independent national television broadcaster. The network uses Juniper's M320 and M10i routing platforms to transport broadcast-quality video, data files, voice and IT traffic between ITV's studios. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.juniper.netIn...

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Ericsson and ZTE to Collaborate on TD-SCDMA

Ericsson and Zhongxing Telecom Equipment Corporation (ZTE) announced an alliance to collaborate in the TD-SCDMA area. In accordance with the agreement, Ericsson is to integrate ZTE's TD-SCDMA Node B into its radio access network, including hardware and software, on an OEM basis. The two parties will also team up to participate in the TD-SCDMA trials in China.Ericsson also announced plans to establish a new R&D center in Nanjing, China, to focus on the development of TD-SCDMA product offerings. The facility is expected to have 50 research staff...

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FCC Issues VoIP E911 Order

By a vote of 4-to-0, the FCC adopted rules that require all VoIP providers that permit their customers to receive and place calls over the public-switched telephone network to provide their customers with 911 access. At its open meeeting, the FCC heard from witnesses who described tragedies that followed from their inability to reach emergency services over a residential VoIP line. One woman from Florida told how she was unable to connect with 911 using Vonage when her 3-month old daughter stopped breathing. The mother ran to a neighbor's house...

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FCC Skips USF Issue

At its open meeting on Thursday, the FCC skipped over its planned review of the Universal Service Fund (USF) and support mechanisms going forward. No word on when the issue will be reconsidered. http://www.fcc....

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WSJ: Cellphone Calls to 911 Go Unlocated

An unacceptably high number of mobile calls to emergency response operators are failing to provide accurate or useful location information, according a report in The Wall Street Journal. Despite FCC requirements more than a decade old, emergency operators in major U.S. cities are finding that many calls lack useful latitude and longitude data. Reasons given for the problems include urban density, geography, topography or poor implentation of GPS. http://www.wsj....

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Pulver Blasts FCC E911 Order for Discouraging Innovation

Jeff Pulver, CEO of pulver.com and founder of Free World Dialup (FWD), the VON Coalition, LibreTel and other VoIP industry endeavors, blasted the FCC's E911 order for its failure to prohibit port blocking as a means of addressing emergency responses. "The FCC had a golden opportunity to take one positive steps to promote IP- based communications. The FCC could have prohibited "port blocking" and compelled direct access to the ILEC-controlled emergency response infrastructure. Instead, the FCC chose to regulate the previously unregulated, and declined...

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Broadcom Sues Qualcomm for Patent Infringement

Broadcom has commenced federal litigation against Qualcomm alleging that the San Diego-based company infringes 10 Broadcom patents related to wired and wireless communications and multimedia processing technologies.In two complaints filed yesterday in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Broadcom is seeking unspecified monetary damages from Qualcomm as well as a permanent injunction barring the manufacture and sale of Qualcomm's core suite of baseband and RF integrated circuits, including its multimedia, enhanced...

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RCN Hires Former Nextel Executives

RCN announced the appointment of Timothy J. Dunne as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Dunne also manages the corporate marketing, programming, and information technology functions for the company. Prior to joining RCN in March 2005, Dunne was Vice President, Digital Media & Business Development for Nextel Communications.RCN also named Michael T. Sicoli as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining RCN, Sicoli spent over seven years at Nextel Communications, where he held a number of positions...

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Vonage to Purchase Nomadic VoIP E9-1-1 from SBC, BellSouth

Vonage agreed to purchase access to elements of the wireless and wireline Enhanced 9-1-1 network from SBC Communications and BellSouth. Vonage announced a similar arrangement with Verizon earlier this month. The deals enable Vonage to deliver both caller's location and call back number to emergency services personnel for 9-1-1 calls placed throughout the RBOC territories before the end of the year."SBC and BellSouth have really come a long way over just a few short weeks - we now have a good faith agreement to get this done in the marketplace...

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Sandvine Secures $15 million for Broadband Traffic Management

Sandvine, a start-up based in Waterloo, Ontario, secured US$15 million in venture capital financing for its application and subscriber-aware broadband management solutions. Sandvine's platforms help service providers better understand subscriber behavior, recognize and address network threats, classify applications, guarantee service levels and create profitable tiers for multiple broadband services - without a forklift upgrade to current infrastructure. The company claims deployments in over 100 ISP networks in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America,...

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SunRocket to Support VoIP 911

SunRocket announced that it expects to meet ahead of time the new FCC requirements for VoIP E-911 and that the majority of its customers are already provided E-911.The company said that by carefully assigning phone numbers matched with the legacy service areas for those phone numbers, it can enable E-911 for customers today without requiring expensive modifications. Currently, the traditional E-911 infrastructure cannot easily accommodate "out-of-region" phone numbers and "nomadic" scenarios, where consumers might transport their VoIP equipment...

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