MetaSwitch Delivers Open Packet Host/Remote Architecture

MetaSwitch is delivering an open "packet host-remote" architecture for telephone companies seeking to migrate from legacy switching platforms. Metaswitch said its open solution is currently being adopted by independent operating companies (IOCs) including Southern Kansas Telephone (SKT), which had been serving more than 6,000 telephone customers using a legacy host-remote network before migrating to the open "packet host-remote" architecture.MetaSwitch highlighted several unique elements to its open host/remote architecture:Multi-level ESA -- traditional...

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Ciena Report Income of $104 Million, Loss of $75 Million

Ciena reported quarterly revenue of $103.8 million, representing a 9.6% sequential increase, and an increase of 39.0% over the same period a year ago. Net loss (GAAP) for the quarter was $74.8 million, or a net loss of $0.13 per share. The company said it reduced cash burn from operations by 15.5% sequentially, from $43.3 million in the preceding quarter to $36.6 million in the current quarter. Ciena ended the quarter with cash and short-and long-term investments valued at $1.19 billion."With our fifth sequential quarter of solid revenue growth,...

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Ciena Extends its CoreStream Platform for Regional Networks

Ciena announced an extension of its CoreStream Agility Optical Transmission System designed for serving metro and regional core networks that have moderate capacity and distance requirements. Existing CoreStream DWDM platforms support long-haul and ultra long-haul (ULH) applications. The new CoreStream Regional system, which is part of Ciena's recently announced FlexSelect Architecture, features flexible optical add/drop multiplexing (OADM) options, including a fixed OADM that allows up to eight add/drop channels per add/drop site and a "Select...

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Siemens Venture Capital Invests in Global Locate

Siemens Venture Capital has made a multimillion-dollar investment in Global Locate, a start-up offering Assisted Global Positioning Systems.Global Locate is focused on the emerging market for Location Based Services (LBS) by marketing a portfolio of Assisted-GPS semiconductor solutions, network products and services. Siemens plans to integrate Global Locate's A-GPS technologies into its new solution for A-GPS.The company is headquartered in San Jose and has sales offices in the New York metropolitan area, Tokyo and Madrid. http://www.siemensventurecapital.com...

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Swisscom/Bluewin Deploys Windows Media Video 9

TANDBERG Television has commenced the installation of an end-to-end IPTV delivery system for the commercial roll-out of the Swisscom/Bluewin triple play service. Swisscom has chosen the TANDBERG Television professional hardware encoding solution for Windows Media Video 9 (Microsoft's implementation of VC-1, the proposed SMPTE standard) following a competitive tender process. As part of the new contract, TANDBERG Television will provide a number of its EN5920 encoders, TT1260 MPEG-2 professional receivers and an nCompass control and monitoring system...

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Tut Systems Deploys First MPEG-4 Digital TV Headend in North America

Farmers Telephone Cooperative in South Carolina has deployed an MPEG-4 AVC digital TV headend from Tut Systems. The deployment is believed to be the first MPEG-4 AVC digital TV headend in North America.Tut Systems' Astria Digital TV platform will serve as the core video processing system for the all-MPEG-4 AVC digital headend. Tut Systems is also providing comprehensive systems integration services to Farmers Telephone Cooperative, including design, assembly and pre-launch testing of its digital headend. FTC plans to commercially launch its Digital...

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Verizon Holds its Dividend Steady

Verizon Communications declared a quarterly dividend of 40.5 cents per outstanding share, unchanged from the previous quarter. The dividend is payable on Aug. 1, 2005, to Verizon Communications shareowners of record at the close of business July 8.http://www.verizon....

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ARRIS' DOCSIS Channel Bonding Achieves 100+ Mbps

ARRIS unveiled further details about its "FlexPath Wideband," its implementation of Wideband functionality on its Cadant C4 CMTS platform and new Touchstone Wideband Modem. The technology is positioned as a way for cable operators to outperform the forthcoming ADSL2+ and VDSL2 services from telco competitors. DOCSIS channel bonding is expected to deliver data rates well in excess of 100 Mbps to subscribers.ARRIS' FlexPath uses the same Packet Bonding technique as CableLabs' chosen approach for DOCSIS 3.0. Channel bonding is an efficient way to...

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McAfee Acquires Wireless Security Corp.

McAfee announced the acquisition of Wireless Security Corp, a start-up offering Wi-Fi security solutions to protect home and small business wireless networks from unauthorized access. Financial terms were not disclosed.The Wireless Security Corp. solutions employ strong industry standard encryption and authentication with intrusion detection technology. It supports WEP and WPA-PSK and virtually 100% of network cards. Additionally it supports the most popular routers from the largest vendors such as Linksys, D-Link, and Netgear, along with support...

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Sun Acquires StorageTek for $4.1 Billion

Sun Microsystems agreed to acquire StorageTek in a deal valued at $4.1 billion, including the assumption of employee stock options. Sun expects the transaction to be accretive to non-GAAP earnings in the first 12 months following the closing. Sun offers a line of storage and networking products, including the Sun StorEdge 6920 storage system, a platform for virtualization and data services on almost any vendor's storage system. StorageTek offer a line of data protection and intelligent archive products, including its Storage Resource Management...

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European Broadband Deployments Accelerate -- 45,000 New Lines per Day

Take-up of broadband connections in the EU25 continues to accelerate, according to figures released this week by the European Commission. As of 01-January-2005, there were 40,064,671 broadband lines in services across the EU -- an increase of 16.5 million broadband lines over 2004, representing a growth of 70%. This increase represents 45,000 new broadband lines on average per day for the year, up from 29,000 per day in 2003. Growth accelerated during the second half of 2004, with 9.9 million lines added.The vast majority of the new broadband connections...

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Verizon Sees Convergence Driving Market Expansion

"The overall communications market is expanding due to convergence," said Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon's CEO, speaking at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York earlier this week. This expansion will not be just a linear function of combining voice, data and video into a single offering, said Seidenberg, but a much broader expansion of telecom spending. Verizon estimates the overall U.S. telecom services market will grow from $440 million in 2004 to $570 million in 2009. Almost all the growth is projected to come from home entertainment/communication...

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Mangrove Announces Piranha 600EX Pseudowire Transport Hub

Mangrove Systems, a start-up based in Wallingford, CT, introduced its Piranha 600EX Pseudowire Transport Hub designed specifically for wireless and wireline operators for migrating between TDM, ATM and Ethernet/IP access networks. The platform offers dynamic pseudowire signaling with robust per flow traffic management, enabling Mangrove's customers to rapidly provision subscriber services over a shared infrastructure. Mangrove's Piranha 600EX provides native support for high density, protected ATM IMA, PPP, Frame Relay and Ethernet service aggregation,...

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