SBC Launches $14.95 DSL Promotion

SBC Communications launched a limited promotion offering DSL (384Kbps - 1.5 Mbps) for $14.95 a month (other charges apply) with a 12-month term for new residential subscribers who order online. The SBC Yahoo! DSL Pro (1.5Mbps - 3.0Mbps) service is available for $24.99 a month for 12 months if they order online (other monthly charges apply). The move is expected to lead to further price cuts across the U.S. broadband market.http://promo.yahoo.com/s...

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Marconi Debuts Service Router

Marconi introduced a new routing platform designed to help service providers deliver high value, low touch IP services such as virtual private networks (VPNs) based on network virtualization capabilities. Marconi said the service provider market is being driven by the same virtualization trends seen in data centers, where storage and other resources are virtualized. Carrier networks need to evolve into commodity cores with differentiated edges.The...

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SBC Sees DSL as Foundation for Next Gen Services

"Broadband is much more than just another add-on service... broadband is the foundation for the newxt generation of wireline services," said Rick Lindner, CFO of SBC Communications, speaking at the Lehman Brothers conference in New York. "That's why we/ve made broadband a high priority and why you can expect us to remain aggressive with DSL. Speaking to investors, Lindner outlined a roadmap for SBC based on five strategic initiatives: broadband, wireless, service integration, business markets, and cost savings. In broadband, SBC added more than...

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Net Insight Introduces Video-Centric SONET/SDH Platform

Net Insight introduced its Nimbra 600 series of next generation multi-service switches, offering up to 1 terabit per second switching capacity per rack. The Nimbra 600 series utilizes next generation SDH/SONET and Net Insight's switching architecture to provide guaranteed video transport over fiber for triple-play and professional broadcast media networks. The Nimbra 600 series also provides lower-order granularity for all services including Ethernet.In a triple play network, the Nimbra 600 could be use to transport video from a head-end facility...

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SureWest Offers 20 Mbps Residential Access in Sacramento

SureWest Communications will begin offering a residential Internet connection of up to 20 Mbps in selected areas of the Sacramento, California market. The service is delivered over the company's FTTP network. The new 20 Mbps service will be added to SureWest's lineup that already includes a 10 Mbps residential Internet connection. When combined with a home telephone or television package, the 10 Mbps service is $49.95 a month and the 20 Mbps service is $89.95 a month. Both the 10 and 20 Mbps services are "synchronous," which means that users...

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Canada's Bell Mobility Selects Nortel for 1xEV-DO

Bell Mobility, Canada's leading wireless carrier, awarded a contract valued at an estimated US$126 million (C$160 million) to Nortel for upgrades to its wireless network. This represents the first commercial deployment in Canada of a next generation wireless data network using EV-DO technology, Bell Mobility customers will be able to download data on their mobile devices at speeds up to 2.4 megabits per second with average speeds of 300-500 kbps. Nortel will provide CDMA2000 1X radio base stations, base station controllers, switching platforms...

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Nortel/BT Selected for UK Ministry of Defence Net

Nortel announced a US $42 million deal with BT to provide a new and secure mission-critical network for the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) and British Armed Forces. This network is based on Nortel's Multiservice Switching and Carrier VoIP solutions that will deliver a secure and resilient wide area network and save the UK MOD approximately £15 million per year. Additionally, Nortel and BT have jointly developed a dedicated testing facility lab for the MOD network. The testing done in this lab will help ensure the smooth migration of new and current...

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Motorola Debuts DOCSIS 2.0 CMTS

Motorola introduced a fully-featured DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem termination system (CMTS) with a compact design that enables cable broadband operators to extend services into new and emerging market venues.Motorola's new Broadband Services Router 2000 (BSR 2000) is a 1 rack unit (1U) unit that can be deployed as a stand-alone device, or in small clusters that support small or medium sized distribution hubs, multiple dwelling unit (MDU) facilities, or hospitality locations. The product supports Motorola RFSentry functionality, which enables advanced...

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Riverstone Supplies Ethernet Routers to China Telecom

China Telecom's Shanghai subsidiary, Shanghai Telecom, has selected Riverstone's carrier Ethernet routers to deliver Ethernet access services to its expanding base of enterprise customers over its ATM core infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed.Shanghai Telecom will deploy Riverstone's RS 3100 Ethernet access routers. The RS 3100 is designed to deliver services over Ethernet, TDM, ATM, CWDM or SONET/SDH networks. Sitting at the edge of the carrier's network or at the customer premises, it features 32 10/100BaseTX fixed RJ-45 ports,...

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Motorola Invests in Sonaptic

Motorola made a strategic minority investment in Sonaptic Limited, a start-up developing advanced audio technologies for the mobile device market. The technology creates an immersive, three- dimensional sound environment that can be experienced using the embedded speakers in portable devices or by using standard headphones. The technology is suited to multiple applications including games, user interface enhancement, music and ringtones. Sonaptic's technology is portable and has been especially crafted for the low power, low resource requirements...

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Perimeter Internetworking Offers "Security in the Cloud"

Perimeter Internetworking introduced a "Security-in-the-Cloud" designed to protect ISPs, VoIP resellers and others from a variety of security threats. The Gateway 4.0 solution provides traffic policy control, intrusion prevention and malware defense. Gateway 4.0 pre-integrates over 50 security services to address every potential threat to SP customers' businesses including Intrusion Defense, Malicious Code Defense, Secure Email Services, Secure Access, Automated Compliance, and Network Services. SP customers can choose between a network-based,...

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BellSouth Selects Tellabs and JDSU for Access Network

BellSouth selected Tellabs as the exclusive supplier for the Fiber to the Curb (FTTC) portion of its next-generation network through the end of 2006. Specifically, Tellabs will develop an upgrade for BellSouth's existing FTTC platforms designed to achieve speeds greater than 50 Mbps for BellSouth's customers served by this architecture. BellSouth currently has approximately 1.1 million customers served by FTTC systems and anticipates adding 150,000 - 200,000 new homes on those systems in both 2005 and 2006.Financial terms were not disclosed."BellSouth...

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Guangdong Telecom Selects Lucent's LambdaUnite

Guangdong Telecom, a provincial subsidiary of China Telecom, awarded two optical networking contracts to Lucent Technologies. The deployments will include Lucent's LambdaUnite Multi-Service Switch (MSS) and the Metropolis ADM MultiService Mux for Guangdong Telecom's networks in Zhongshan and Zhuhai. This marks the first deployment of the LambdaUnite MSS in the two cities and the first deployment of the Metropolis ADM in Zhuhai. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.lucent....

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Spain's Auna Selects Alcatel for Triple Play

Auna, the second largest fixed network operator in Spain, selected Alcatel as its IP Triple Play turnkey project integrator, and as the supplier for most essential network components and service delivery platforms. Along with the DSL access network, Alcatel will deploy its MPLS metropolitan aggregation network solution for AUNA.Alcatel will integrate the softswitch-based VoIP solution, which enables a fast deployment on existing platforms. As in other major IPTV contracts around the world, Alcatel will act as overall systems integrator, managing...

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