China's Wuhan Research Institute Partners with NEC on 3G

Wuhan Research institute of Post and Telecommunications (WRI) and NEC Corporation agreed to establish a joint venture to engage in 3G mobile infrastructure development, manufacturing, sales, maintenance, and system engineering (wireless circuit design). As a local vendor in China, the joint venture company will pursue the 3G infrastructure market in China by expanding W-CDMA and developing TD-SCDMA based on NEC's technology.The name of the new firm will be "Wuhan Fiberhome Mobile Communication Inc.". A 65% share of the new company will be hold...

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France's RENATER Selects Alcatel's Optical Transport

France's RENATER (National Telecom Network for Technology, Education and Research) selected Alcatel's optical transport products to link major universities and research centers throughout the country in a distributed grid computing architecture. The project has been won through Communication et Systèmes -- a leading designer and integrator for industrial and critical applications. Alcatel's scalable solution will be based on the 1696 Metro Span and 1626 Light Manager DWDM systems. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel....

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Telstra Appoints Sol Trujillo as CEO

Telstra named Solomon (Sol) Trujillo as its new CEO, replacing Dr Ziggy Switkowski, who steps down on 1 July 2005. Trujillo was previously a nonexecutive Director and then CEO of Orange based in London, one of the largest mobile companies in Europe. Earlier, he spent 26 years with US West Inc, including serving as its Chairman, CEO and President for 5 years. Trujillo left US West in June 2000, following the merger with Qwest Communications.Trujillo will be moving to Australia. Telstra's Board said in a statement that it expects Trujillo to "drive...

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Infranet Initiative Transitions to Open Forum, Alcatel and Cisco to Join

The Infranet Initiative Council, which was launched by Juniper Networks in 2003, voted to transition its activities to a member-funded, open standards-based forum, which will encompass the existing work of the former IIC, and will coordinate efforts to develop the architecture for a federated service infrastructure able to support advanced service provider and network user business and service models.The forum will be independently hosted by the secretariat of a major standards body and be subject to that standards body's rules. The International...

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ARRIS Passes One Million VoIP CPE Units Shipped

ARRIS reached the shipment milestone of over one million Touchstone Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapters (E-MTAs). The company said it shipped over 334,000 units in Q1, giving it the leading market share.The latest ARRIS Touchstone TM402 EMTS provides up to two lines of carrier grade VoIP as well as high-speed data service. It is both DOCSIS 2.0 and EUR-DOCSIS 2.0 certified. The unit is available in several different configurations with varying lengths of battery backup time."ARRIS is very pleased to have reached the 1,000,000 unit mark with...

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Fine Point Selects Motorola's AdvancedTCA Platform

Fine Point Networks plans to develop and optimize its ServPoET Broadband Management Server family of products on Motorola's AdvancedTCA-based Centellis 3000 series products. The ServPoET Broadband Management Server (BMS) platform is a subscriber management system that offloads and terminates PPPoE sessions for all types of broadband service. It provides a solution for aggregating and managing broadband PPPoE subscribers and value-added services. http://www.motorola.com/computinghttp://www.finepointnetworks.c...

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Verizon iobi Adds Text Alert to Voice Mailboxes

Verizon began offering a text message alert service for the voice mailboxes of its home and business landlines. Customers can received a text message alert (SMS) on their Verizon Wireless phone whenever someone has left a message on their wireline voice mailbox. The service is initially being offered in New York City and New England.http://www.verizon....

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AT&T Wins $27 Million Contract with Cargill

AT&T won a $27 million contract to deploy a global networking solution for Cargill, an international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. The agreement extends and expands a long-standing relationship between the two companies.Under the agreement, AT&T will provide domestic and international high-speed data, Internet and voice services. Cargill's traffic will be migrated to MPLS. http://www.att....

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BT Selects Alcatel's 7510 Media Gateway for 21CN

Alcatel's 7510 Media Gateway was included in BT's recent selection of Alcatel as a preferred supplier in the Metro Node for the 21st Century Network (21CN) transformation. The Alcatel 7510 media gateway solution will enable BT to migrate its installed base of TDM voice lines to VoIP. The Alcatel 7510 Media Gateway builds a service-aware edge for voice and multimedia services in user-centric broadband networks by providing any- to-any media switching and inter-working for circuit and IP ports.Alcatel's metro node solution also includes the Alcatel...

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Oracle to Acquire TimesTen for Real-time Database Software

Oracle agreed to acquire TimesTen, a start-up providing real-time data management software, for an undisclosed sum.TimesTen provides infrastructure software for managing events, transactions and data in telecom, networking, securities trading and other vertical markets. The technology is used for real-time billing, stock trading, call centers, airline operations and many other ultra high-performance applications. Products include a real-time database system, a real-time dynamic data caching system, and a real-time transaction processing system.TimesTen...

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