Vivato Adds Tri-mode 802.11a/b/g Indoor AP

Vivato unveiled its new tri-mode 802.11a/b/g Indoor Wi-Fi Access Point (AP)/Bridge. The tri-mode functionality of each radio allows configuration in 802.11a and 802.11b/g mode simultaneously to service both 802.11a clients and 802.11b/g clients.


The tri-mode functionality of each radio allows configuration in 802.11a and 802.11b/g mode simultaneously to service both 802.11a clients and 802.11b/g clients. Vivato said this configuration is optimal for servicing bandwidth-intensive applications for clients operating in 802.11a and 802.11g modes, while also supporting the 11Mbps 802.11b mode.


Cross-band configuration of the AP/Bridge (one radio in 802.11a mode the other in 802.11b/g mode) allows it to act as an out-of-band bridge. In this configuration Wi-Fi service can be delivered in the 2.4GHz band while data backhaul is accomplished in the 5.8GHz band.


Target applications for Vivato's 802.11a/b/g Indoor Wi-Fi AP/Bridge include warehouses, universities, airports and military facilities. The VA4200 AP/Bridge will be generally available August 8, 2005.
http://www.vivato.net/

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ECI Supplies Multi-service Edge Routers to SDN

SDN Communications, South Dakota's largest communications network, has selected ECI's ST200 multi-service edge routers to deliver enhanced IP services. The new network enables SDN to offer customers a range of quality-assured data services, including Virtual Private Networks. It also provides a platform for SDN to eventually migrate other services to the network -- including voice and video -- for cost and operational efficiencies.


The ST200 product line has become part of ECI's product offering following the acquisition of Laurel Networks in June . Based in Pittsburgh, Pa., Laurel now operates as ECI's Data Networking Division.

http://www.ecitele.com

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Nortel Reports Rise in Revenue and Profitability

Shares of Nortel Networks rose 12% as the company reported financial results ahead of market expectations based on stronger sales of both carrier and enterprise networking equipment.


Nortel's Q2 revenues were $2.86 billion, compared to $2.59 billion for the second quarter of 2004 and $2.54 billion for the first quarter of 2005. Net earnings in were $45 million, or $0.01 per common share on a diluted basis, including special charges of $90 million related to restructuring activities and $39 million of costs related to the sale of businesses and assets.


"Our results demonstrate progress against our strategic plan. I am pleased that our strategic objectives of cash, costs and revenue combined with a strong focus on our business operations and execution are delivering solid results," said Bill Owens, vice chairman and chief executive officer, Nortel. "We are playing to win, and Nortel's commitment is to long-term value, not just short-term gain."

Some highlights:

• Carrier Packet Networks revenues were $743 million, an increase of 3% compared with the year-ago quarter and an increase of 12% sequentially. Enterprise Networks revenues were $730 million, an increase of 26% compared with the year-ago quarter and an increase of 33% sequentially. GSM and UMTS Networks revenues were $719 million, an increase of 1% compared with the year-ago quarter and a decrease of 9% sequentially. CDMA Networks revenues were $662 million, an increase of 17% compared with the year-ago quarter and an increase of 24% sequentially.



• Gross margin was 43% of revenue, in line with expectations.



• Cash balance at the end of the second quarter of 2005 was $3.06 billion, down from $3.43 billion at the end of the first quarter of 2005.

http://www.nortel.com

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Marconi Comments of Huawei Merger Speculation

In response to press speculation on a possible acquisition bid by Huawei, Marconi issued a statement saying that it is continuing "to pursue all strategic options with the objective of maximising shareholder value. These options include, amongst a range of alternatives, discussions with third parties about potential business combinations. The discussions are at a preliminary stage and there can be no assurance that an offer will ultimately take place."http://www.marconi.com

• In May 2005, Marconi and Huawei signed a mutual distribution agreement. The deal had first been reported at the end of January. The companies agreed to resell parts of each other's product portfolio. Marconi will resell Huawei's carrier-class data communications products to telco services providers only under an OEM model or other model as agreed by both companies. Huawei will resell Marconi's microwave radio, including next-generation microwave radio equipment, and associated network services for Huawei's wireless network projects. The two companies have agreed to a process wherein they will leverage their respective sales and marketing teams' capabilities and regional strengths on an account-by-account basis to bring products and support services to as many customers as possible.

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Huawei-3Com Selects Passave Silicon for FTTH

Huawei-3Com has selected Passave's Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) chips for deployment in its Quidway S6500 Series Switch product line. The Quidway S6500 is designed for gigabit-speed delivery of data, voice, and video over fiber and is expected to provide users a significantly lower cost for EPON-based broadband service.


Passave said its low-cost, highly integrated EPON chipset is suited to the requirements of carriers in China for cost-competitive broadband delivery and services.


Huawei-3Com's Quidway S6500 Series Switch product with integral Passave FTTH silicon will begin shipping in volume in the third quarter of 2005.


Passave's optical line terminal (OLT) and optical network unit (ONU) devices are deployed in volume by Japan's major carriers. http://www.huawei-3com.com
http://www.passave.com

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Juniper Unveils New SSL Appliances

Juniper Networks introduced four new Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Network (VPN) hardware platforms. The new Secure Access 700, 2000, 4000 and 6000 appliances are the latest additions to the Juniper Networks Secure Access product family. Using Juniper Networks Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE) software, the appliances utilize the SSL security protocol that is available in all standard Web browsers, enabling enterprises to provide remote access to mobile employees, contractors, partners and customers without requiring an installed client. The appliances also allow enterprises to secure extranet or intranet access without a DMZ build-out, server hardening or Web agent deployments.


Juniper Networks said it achieved a 195% growth with its SSL VPN revenue in 2004 compared with 2003.



http://www.juniper.net

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US Marine Corps Select N.E.T.'s Promina Switch

Network Equipment Technologies will provide EDO Corporation with its Promina bandwidth manager platform for the US Marine Corps' Transition Switch Module (TSM) program. EDO's five-year, $240 million contract for TSM procurement and related services -- which includes two option years -- is expected to comprise approximately 200 Promina platforms valued at over $25 million.


The Promina platform will deliver bandwidth management, multiplexing and technical control functions for integrating voice and data capabilities as part of TSM's Deployable Integrated Transport Suite (DITS) component. Promina will enable management and monitoring within the network's joint network management system using the extensible standard network management protocol.
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Sonus Reports Q2 Revenue of $58.1 Million

Sonus Networks reported Q2 revenue of $58.1 million compared with $33.6 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2005 and $42.4 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2004. Net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2005 was $9.7 million or $0.04 per diluted share compared with a net loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2005 of $3.7 million or $0.01 per diluted share.

http://www.sonusnet.com

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America Online Acquires Wildseed to Expand Mobile Strategy

America Online has acquired Wildseed, a start-up offering "SmartSkin" software that serves an an interactive accessory for wireless phones.by forming an expanded AOL Wireless group. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Wildseed was founded in June 2000 and is based in Kirkland, Washington, with offices in London, UK.


Wildseed's "SmartSkin" interactive accessories, which ran on its debut product, the Curitel Identity handset, transform the phone's interface and automatically deliver entertainment features. he content includes thematic music and ringtones, video clips, pictures, games, and screen styles. The network-driven online activities include photo blogs, voting, polling, interactive media campaigns, and premium SMS services called SmartAlert and SmartChat. SmartSkin accessory themes are music, fashion, and games. Many of the components that form Wildseed's mobile Linux solution can be sold separately to non-Linux based feature phones.


"Data-related mobile technologies are on the cusp of mainstream adoption. We see it everyday in the explosive growth of our mobile AIM traffic. The wireless industry is focused on bringing additional rich media experiences and a new generation of interactive services to the mobile consumer, and we are committed to being a leader in that arena," said John McKinley, Chief Technology Officer and President, Digital Services, America Online.


The expanded AOL Wireless division, which encompasses the AOL Mobile, Tegic and Wildseed groups, will speed the delivery of community and convenience to mobile users with an array of software solutions, communications and content services supported by the top wireless carriers and handset manufacturers.
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QUALCOMM Tests In-Flight Connectivity with Connexion by Boeing

QUALCOMM and Connexion by Boeing are working together to test and demonstrate in-flight wireless communications aboard Connexion One, a specially equipped Boeing 737-400 aircraft.


The companies have successfully demonstrated the simultaneous use of CDMA and GSM mobile phone technology over an on-board network with infrastructure and integration support from UTStarcom. Using standard cellular communications, a small in-cabin CDMA2000 and GSM "picocell," or small cellular base station, is connected to the worldwide terrestrial network by an air-to-ground satellite link provided by the Connexion by Boeing high-speed airborne network.


Passengers on the test flight were able to use BREW-based data applications via QUALCOMM's BREW solution. The BREW solution enables users to download business applications, 3D games, information and communication applications such as email and instant messenger wirelessly, over the air. Passengers also downloaded and watched video clips and made phone calls on a variety of mobile devices including 3G mobile phones. The data tests were conducted over CDMA2000 1X and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and voice calls were made over CDMA2000 and GSM.
http://www.connexionbyboeing.com
http://www.qualcomm.com/

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GigaSpaces Raises Funding from Intel for Grid-based Servers

GigaSpaces Technologies, a developer of grid-based application servers for transaction intensive, business-critical applications, announced that Intel Capital will join the recent financing round which was led by BRM Capital. Intel's investment will bring the total funds raised to $ 6million. Formula Vision, GigaSpaces' major shareholder, also participated in the round.


GigaSpaces provides high throughput, low latency applications with a grid-based application server, which delivers all the necessary distributed application services, such as distributed caching, parallel processing and a distributed messaging bus. These capabilities enable large enterprises in a variety of industries (Financial Services, Telecom and Defense) to rapidly develop and deploy distributed applications over low-cost infrastructure.
http://www.gigaspaces.com

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TI Demonstrates Single-chip, Low Cost Cell phone

It is estimated that 80% of the world's population now has wireless coverage, but that only about 20% can afford to subscribe to a wireless service due largely to the cost of mobile phones, according to the GSM Association. At a press event in New Delhi, Tom Engibous, Chairman of Texas Instruments, said his company will deliver a single-chip cell phone solution for ultra-low-cost handsets in emerging markets, such as India.


In India alone, roughly 11% of its total population has telecom connectivity with a mobile subscriber base of 58 million (source: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, June 05).


"The mobile phone is already indispensable in established markets, and wireless will become even more useful in countries where today the availability of wired communication is limited," said Engibous in his remarks to the press.


TI announced last December that it had delivered the industry's first single-chip solution for mobile phones. Developed through TI's 90nm CMOS manufacturing technology, the single-chip solution is now sampling.



The device initially targets GSM/GPRS handsets, but TI said it will offer single-chip cell phone solutions for additional air interfaces.


Also at the press event, Engibous announced the first cell phones built entirely in India, from concept to design to production.
http://www.ti.com/wirelesspressroom

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UTStarcom Supplies IPTV in Brazil

UTStarcom has provided its mVision IPTV solution to Telemar for a recently completed trial of triple play services in Brazil. Telemar currently delivers 15 million fixed lines of telephony service, 8.1 million cellular lines and almost 700,000 Internet lines to the Brazilian market.


The trial used UTStarcom's mVision IPTV solution to serve approximately 2,000 users. The system features a Network Personal Video Recorder (nPVR), enabling the viewer to access a virtually unlimited amount of digitally recorded and stored content, while also pausing, fast forwarding and rewinding live broadcast television. UTStarcom and its integrator, Promon, are making their Rio de Janeiro-based teams available to Telemar. The project could be commercially accessible to subscribers by 2006.

http://www.utstar.com

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Cedar Point Raises $15 Million in New Funding

Cedar Point Communications raised $15 million in additional financing for its integrated packet-based voice switching solutions for the cable industry.


Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) is carrier class VoIP switch that incorporates all of the components that make up the PacketCable voice switching infrastructure, including call management servers, media gateways, record keeping servers, announcement servers, signaling gateways, Ethernet switches and CALEA servers.


The financing was led by Focus Ventures and included participation from existing investors Ascent Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Comcast Interactive Capital, JP Morgan Partners, Motorola Ventures and STAR Ventures.
http://www.cedarpointcom.com/

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Nokia Debuts Web Search on Smartphones

Nokia introduced mobile search software that enables users
to access search engines directly from their Nokia smartphone handsets. The current service and content providers incorporated in the search application include Eniro, Fonecta, Medio Systems, Yahoo!, Yell.com, as well as digital map solution provider AtlasCT and digital map data provider NAVTEQ.


The mobile search application is currently being piloted in the UK, Finland and Sweden. The application will be distributed in the standard sales packs of the Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681 and Nokia 6630 smartphones. Existing owners of these devices can download the search application for free from the Nokia.
http://www.nokia.com/mobilesearch

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Devicescape Launches Wireless Operations Center

Devicescape Software introduced a Wireless Operations Center (WOC) software tool for managing and securing WLANs. The software-based Wireless Operations Center, which scales to hundreds of access points and thousands of users, is designed to address the dynamic configuration complexities of highly mobile users, including the unpredictable and constantly changing radio environment, and unauthorized users seeking access. The software could be used by network support staff to obtain a comprehensive picture of network activity and security, and to troubleshoot user connectivity problems. The Devicescape WOC addresses these challenges by providing a highly visual help-desk system to monitor all aspects wireless network services.


Devicescape's WOC help-desk system has already been deployed at NTT-Broadband Platform (NTTBP), a wireless service provider operating hundreds of hotspots throughout the Tokyo metropolitan railway system. With WOC, NTTBP has gained a high-level view of its entire WLAN system and can detect trends that affect network performance before users call to complain.


The WOC is available to Devicescape's OEM customers as a customizable complement to their WLAN product lines. Devicescape will also offer the solution directly to IT managers for deployment as a help desk in their organizations.
http://www.devicescape.com

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New Whitepaper: Next Generation WLANs Arrive

Early deployments of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) in the enterprise have demonstrated the value of mobile connectivity within business environments and left users wanting more. Not designed for the imminent growth on the enterprise horizon, current WLAN architectures physically can't deliver the cost-performance, coverage or capacity needed to unfetter millions more workers, devices and applications over the next five years. Fortunately, a revolutionary new WLAN architecture has been developed to facilitate growth and overcome the barriers to scale in high-volume wireless or Wi-Fi deployments in the enterprise. This paper introduces the Wireless LAN Array -- the next generation WLAN architecture using breakthrough technology to maximize capacity and coverage, simplify network design, streamline management and optimize security in full-blown enterprise deployments. http://www.convergedigest.com/whitepapers/default.asp

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