Digital Fountain's FEC Standardized by 3GPP

Digital Fountain's forward error correction (FEC) technology has been standardized by 3GPP, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, as a mandatory component of the Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) for 3rd generation (3G) cellular networks. Digital Fountain's "DF Raptor" technology will be used as part of the MBMS standard for both streaming and file download services.Digital Fountain's DF Raptor is an advanced and highly flexible FEC technology that ensures the efficient and error-free delivery of both multimedia streams and data files...

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KPN Selects Siemens for IPTV

Dutch operator KPN has selected Siemens as its partner for IPTV integration. KPN plans to introduce digital television over its DSL network during the course of this year. Financial terms were not disclosed.Late last year, KPN also selected Siemens as the strategic IP partner for its entire fixed network and mobile phone business. KPN is already supplying TV services in the Netherlands using its Digitenne wireless network. http://www.siemens.comIn May 2005, Siemens entered the FTTP market with a new family of standards-based broadband passive...

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Redback Hires Sales Exec from Extreme Networks

Redback Networks named John Spiliotis to the position of vice president of sales and operations for the Americas. He joins Redback most recently from Extreme Networks, where he was the vice president for North America. Prior to Extreme, from 1997 to 2001, he was at Cisco Systems where he held various management positions including that of vice president of Service Provider Channels and vice president of ILEC sales. http://www.redback....

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RF Code Secures $20 Million for RFID Software

RF Code, a start-up based in Mesa, Arizona raised $20 million in new funding for its RFID software solutions. RF Code's "hybrid RFID" enables device-independent data collection from a wide variety of devices including active RFID readers, passive RFID readers, remote sensors, mesh RF networks, barcode scanners, Wi-Fi access points and GPS receivers. Its solutions are being used in sectors as diverse as manufacturing, defense, transportation, homeland security, information technology, healthcare and entertainment.The investment marks the first...

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Enterasys Files Patent Lawsuit Against Foundry, Extreme

Enterasys Networks filed a patent infringement complaint against Extreme Networks and Foundry Networks alleging that both companies have been and are infringing six Enterasys patents. The patents at issue in the case relate to virtual local area networking, multiprotocol routing, and several other networking technologies. http://www.enterasys....

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Ryan Hankin Kent's Becomes 10th Street Advisors

The telecom consulting and M&A practice of Ryan Hankin Kent has been re-launched under the name 10th Street Advisors. The company said it will focus on strategy, market metrics and business planning intelligence to help executives intelligently face the challenges of the 21st century telecom markets including next generation networks, triple play, mobile, VoIP, convergence, Telecom Wholesale business, Broadband content strategies, and M&A advisory and due diligence support. "Over the years, our international team has built strong relationships...

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Empirix Launches IP Services Test Environment for VoIP

Empirix introduced its Hammer Suite Studio, an automated environment for stress and feature testing of enhanced IP services applications. The environment is focused initially on CLASS (Custom Local Area Signaling Service) feature testing scenarios for SIP-enabled devices and switching systems and runs on the Hammer FX-IP platform. Class 5-specific tests include call waiting, call forwarding, caller ID, call screening, attended and unattended transfer and others. Hammer Suite Studio tests each step in CLASS feature implementations, enabling users...

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MCI Adds Broadband Gateway Service

MCI unveiled two new additions to its Secure Interworking Gateway (SIG) Services suite to help business and government customers extend their enterprise networks by securely combining the power of private and public IP networking. Broadband VPN Interworking enables MCI's Frame Relay and Private IP customers to connect smaller remote offices with low-cost secure broadband connectivity using DSL and cable access. MCI's Broadband VPN Interworking also provides built-in redundancy with dual SIG ports for continuous network operation, as well as a low-cost...

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Lucent Selected for Navy's SeaPort Purchasing Program

Lucent Technologies was awarded a prime contract under the Naval Virtual Systems Command's (SYSCOM) SeaPort Enhanced program, which provides a Navy-wide electronic procurement process that leverages buying power and reduces purchasing time.The contract has a four-year base period with one five-year award term and one additional one-year award term potential option period. http://www.lucent....

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HelloSoft Raises $16 Million for Software-defined Radio

HelloSoft, a start-up based in San Jose, California with developers in Hyderabad, India raised $16 million in series B financing for its signal processing technology and software-defined radio (SDR) solutions for VOIP, Wi-Fi, cellular, and converged markets. HelloSoft is targeting its CelluLAN technology for the mobile multi-mode handset market. This round is led by Boston-based TD Capital Ventures with the participation from new investors Mitsui & Company Venture Partners, Entrepia Ventures, and current investors, including Venrock Associates,...

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Cisco Unveils Application Aware Networking

Cisco Systems unveiled its vision for Application-Oriented Networking (AON) -- a new initiative and set of technologies designed to move beyond the packet level to read application-to-application messages flowing within the network. "Intelligence throughout the network changes IT forever," said John Chambers, speaking in a keynote address at Cisco's "Networkers 2005" conference in Las Vegas, likening such service to "application-dial tone.""Layers...

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PAETEC and NTT America Launch Financial IP Services

PAETEC Communications will begin international IP-based trader voice services to financial markets via NTT America's global MPLS IP network. PAETEC currently provides services to medium-sized and large businesses, colleges and universities, hospitals, hotels, governmental organizations, financial markets, and affinity groups within its 28-market service area. The company is headquartered in Fairport, New York. http://www.paetec.com http://www.nttamerica....

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Voltaire Supports Double Date Rate Infiniband for Up to 60 Gbps Bandwidth

Voltaire announced support for double data rate (DDR) InfiniBand technology that delivers up to 60 Gbps bandwidth without compromising the low latency and CPU utilization of standard InfiniBand.DDR InfiniBand-based solutions offer twice the bandwidth of current InfiniBand solutions for both switch-to-switch applications as well as connectivity to computing resources. DDR uses the same number of cables. DDR InfiniBand solutions are backward-compatible and fully interoperate with existing 10 Gbps InfiniBand fabrics. The technology is especially aimed...

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Jack Kilby, Inventor of the Integrated Circuit, Dies at 81

Jack St. Clair Kilby, who invented the first monolithic integrated circuit in 1958 and laid the foundation for the field of modern microelectronics, has died at the age of 81.Following military service in WWII, Kilby completed a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois in 1947. Upon graduation, he took a position with Centralab in Milwaukee, where he first worked with transistors, the building blocks for integrated...

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Telecom New Zealand Suffers Dual Fiber Cuts

New Zealand suffered a major telecom outage that was blamed on two fiber cuts in Telecom New Zealand's network. Internet, mobile and landline calls were affected. Bank ATMs were also affected and trading was halted on the New Zealand stock exchange. The outage also affected calls to Telecom New Zealand's own call centers, causing overloading. In the first incident, there was physical damage to a fiber on a bridge that was apparently caused by a rat chewing through a cable. Services through that fiber were able to be routed through different parts...

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Supreme Court Declines Case of Telecom Right-of-Ways Along Railroads

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case concerning whether the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals properly overturned a $140 million class-action settlement between a group of telecom carrier and landowners along railroads.The main issue in the long-running case involved the rights of landowners along pre-existing railroad, pipeline and utility rights-of-way to receive compensation for new fiber construction. In many cases, courts have found that adjacent landowners own the land under the railroads and other utilities, and that only they...

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