Tehuti Secures $4.2 Million for TCP/IP Acceleration

Tehuti Networks, a start-up with offices in Austin, Texas and Herzelia, Israel, closed $4.2 million Series A financing for its semiconductors providing TCP/IP acceleration processing for enterprise IT environments. In recent years, the speed in Ethernet networks has increased faster than computer processor speeds. As a result, TCP/IP processing is quickly becoming a bottleneck in 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. Tehuti's Network Traffic Accelerator (NTA) chips increase system performance up to five times. The very low power chips are...

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Sylantro Partners with Microsoft, Offers Flash-based Voice Portal

Microsoft and Sylantro are working together to integrate the Sylantro Applications Feature Server with the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Version 3.0. This will provide integration between the Sylantro solution with Microsoft Connected Services Framework. Service providers will be able to offer a hosted Microsoft LCS solution that integrates with their deployed Sylantro application server, or they could also offer hosted telephony features to enterprises with their own Microsoft LCS deployment. The companies have also...

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Verizon Launches "Richer. Deeper. Broader." Campaign

Verizon kicked off a new corporate advertising campaign around the theme "Richer. Deeper. Broader." In the mass market, the new Verizon campaign will rotate six television commercials and more than six print executions. The TV ads will be seen on national cable networks, and the print insertions will appear in a series of weekly and monthly magazines. The campaign will run through the end of the year."Our new corporate advertising campaign signals that there's a new spirit at Verizon," said Jerri DeVard, Verizon senior vice president for Brand...

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Uniden Supplies Cordless Phone for Vonage

Vonage and Uniden announced a partnership to develop a broadband cordless phone system configured with Vonage's service. Vonage will market the Uniden cordless phone, which offers a corded base unit and is expandable up to ten cordless handsets.Uniden's product will be based on Texas Instruments' TNETV1060 VoIP gateway chipset. http://www.vonage.com http://www.uniden.comUniden America unveiled a 5.8GHz digital expandable corded/cordless phone with...

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WSJ: Agilent to Sell Chip Unit

Agilent Technologies has retained Goldman Sachs to help sell off its semiconductor products division, according to The Wall Street Journal. The division, which produces chips used in fiber optics, storage systems and mobile phones, contributed $2 billion in revenue last year. http://www.wsj....

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United Partners with Verizon for Onboard Wi-Fi

United Airlines and Verizon Airfone received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to install the necessary cabin equipment to enable passenger and crew use of Wi-Fi on board a U.S. domestic commercial aircraft while inflight. The approval was granted after the two companies demonstrated that the usage of 802.11 b/g wireless technology within the cabin does not affect the aircraft's operation.The companies said the commercial launch of Wi-Fi on United ultimately will be determined by the FCC's scheduled "Air-to-Ground" spectrum auction...

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AT&T to Adopt Microsoft Connected Services Framework

AT&T will adopt Microsoft's Connected Services Framework, enabling it to dynamically create new network-based IP services and applications. Microsoft Connected Services Framework is an integrated software solution for building and managing complex services using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web service interfaces. AT&T will deploy Microsoft Connected Services Framework as the foundation of its Microsoft .NET-based SOA, which integrates an array of interoperable Web-based, functional capabilities in a simplified, streamlined...

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Optical Solutions Announces 30th IPTV Customer

Optical Solutions announced its 30th IPTV customer, Pioneer Telephone Cooperative of Oklahoma. Pioneer is the nation's third largest telephone cooperative, with more than 140,000 customers/members in 72 exchanges and 30 Oklahoma counties. Pioneer will deploy the company's GPON-based solution. http://www.opticalsolutions....

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ECI Telecom Completes Acquisition of Laurel Networks

ECI Telecom completed its acquisition of Laurel Networks, a provider of Next-Generation IP/MPLS Multi-Service Edge Routers. Laurel's products and technology add edge routing and IP service capabilities to ECI's broadband, optical, and core routing portfolio, enabling ECI to enhance its systems functionally and to create complete multi-service IP solutions for service providers. ECI paid $88 million in cash for Laurel. Laurel has approximately 150 employees, and the company's sales for the 12 months ended April 30, 2005, totaled $18 million. Among...

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Ciena Adds 10 GigE to Ethernet Provisioning Switch

Ciena announced the addition of a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) module for its CN 4350 Ethernet Services Provisioning Switch, which is designed for telco and cable service providers to deliver business-class Ethernet services as well as supporting Triple Play networks.The CN 4350's new 10 GbE module incorporates 10 Gbps Ethernet LAN/WAN PHY interfaces, 10 Gbps (OTU2) DWDM transport and packet switching functionality. It can be configured as either a packet-switched interface or as a 3R (repeat, retime, regenerate) transponder to provide transport-grade...

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Cisco Shuffles Sales Operations in Four Geographic Theatres

Cisco Systems announced a number of changes designed to organize its worldwide field sales into four "geographic theatres." These include:Emerging Markets--to be led by Paul Mountford, Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems. Currently, Mountford runs Cisco's Worldwide Channels organization. This newly created theatre will bring together common disciplines and programs for regions which are now aggressively investing in new networking capabilities, including Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa, Russia and other members of...

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SBC Seeks "Light Touch" Regulatory Policy for IPTV

In an address at SUPERCOMM 2005, Forrest E. Miller, SBC group president and top public policy executive, outlined his wishes for a "light touch" regulatory framework for IPTV services. SBC believes that a minimal regulatory environment would attract new competitors and encourage the deployment of new technologies in a TV video market dominated by cable companies.SBC's policy framework consists of three principles:First, video policy should expand consumer video choice as rapidly as possible. Just as cable and other new entrants to the voice market...

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Juniper Scales E320 Broadband Services Router to 320 Gbps

Juniper Networks unveiled its E320 Broadband Services Router -- the industry's highest capacity broadband router with scalability to 320 Gbps. Based on the existing E-series platforms, Juniper's new flagship edge router is designed to address the key challenge in deploying Triple Play services -- how to scale the network in terms of subscriber density and bandwidth-per-user. Key features of the E320 platform include:available as either a 100 Gbps or 320 Gbps chassisScales to 128,000 subscribers80 - 180 mpps performanceHitless SRP failover1:4 switch...

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Juniper Scales E320 Broadband Services Router to 320 Gbps

Juniper Networks unveiled its E320 Broadband Services Router -- the industry's highest capacity broadband router with scalability to 320 Gbps. Based on the existing E-series platforms, Juniper's new flagship edge router is designed to address the key challenge in deploying Triple Play services -- how to scale the network in terms of subscriber density and bandwidth-per-user. Key features of the E320 platform include:available as either a 100 Gbps or 320 Gbps chassisScales to 128,000 subscribers80 - 180 mpps performanceHitless SRP failover1:4 switch...

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ADVA Enhances its FSP 150 Ethernet Access Device

ADVA Optical Networking rolled out new capabilities for its Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 150 series including a Gigabit Ethernet port, a new tandem node protection mechanism, and an enhanced customer premise demarcation unit. Release 2.0 of the ADVA FSP 150 is aimed at supporting new Ethernet transport applications, such as backhauling traffic from an IP DSLAM. Key features of the FSP 150 include:Support for Ethernet First Mile (EFM) OAMSecure hardware...

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