Cedar Point Adds Three MSOs in Colombia

Cedar Point Communications announced agreements with three Colombian cable system operators for the deployment of its SAFARI C(Cubed) Media Switching System for the delivery of cable telephony services. The agreements, which were negotiated jointly among Cedar Point and the three systems, provide for the utilization of SAFARI C(Cubed) units with TV Cable in Bogotá, with Promision in Bucaramanga and with Costavision in Cartagena. The systems are leaders in deploying bi-direction services in Colombia, and collectively pass more than one million homes....

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Force10 Reports Growing Sales

Force10 Networks, a privately-held company, reported record quarterly sales for the period ended July 31. The company said sales growth reflected the diversification and expansion of its worldwide customer base as well as a surge in demand for its high-density, 90-port Gigabit Ethernet card, which increases the density of the TeraScale E-Series to an industry-leading 1,260 ports."We saw record sales during the quarter as our customer base expanded and the average deployment size increased," said Marc Randall, president and CEO of Force10 Networks....

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Zarlink Targets Voice Processing with Echo Cancellers

Zarlink Semiconductor introduced the first in a family of voice processing chips aimed at improving voice quality and reducing noise in hands-free communication devices. Hands-free technology is a key requirement in a wide range of communication systems, such as security networks, desktop phones, conference phones and PDAs.Hands-free communication systems are often hindered by acoustic echo that is created when the voice from the loudspeaker in a car kit or conference phone, for example, is picked up by the microphone and retransmitted. Mobile...

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Agilent Refocuses on Test & Measurement Market

Agilent Technologies confirmed plans to sell is Semiconductor Products division to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners for $2.66 billion.In addition, Agilent will sell its stake in Lumileds to Royal Philips Electronics for $950 million plus repayment of $50 million of debt. Lumileds manufacturers high-power LEDs for everyday purposes including automotive lighting, computer displays, LCD televisions, signage and signaling and general lighting.Agilent also plans to spin off its SOC and Memory Test businesses as soon as...

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sentitO Enhances its ONX VoIP Switching Architecture

sentitO Networks has enhanced its ONX VoIP switching and service delivery architecture with a new set of carrier-grade SIP service, security, and routing capabilities. The platform's standards-based approach uses the emerging IMS architecture to transparently synchronize the transport, signaling, and open application layers.Key enhancements for ONX System 3 include:SECURITY: The ONX System 3 SIP implementation provides carriers full "citizenship" by protecting the integrity of their VoIP subscribers and network interconnections. Integrated into...

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Convergin Unveils Wireless Convergence Server (WCS)

Convergin, formerly PhoneDo Networks, unveiled its new Accolade platform that serves as a core network Wireless Convergence Server (WCS) solution for Fixed Mobile Convergence.Convergin said its Accolade platform unifies mobile, legacy and next-gen network elements, enabling service providers to accelerate their core network evolution towards SIP Mobile Convergence. It expands the reach of core switching and service platforms beyond their original domains towards IMS. The platform leverages a distributed architecture to scale up to millions of...

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Marconi Licenses BorderWare's SIP Firewall for Virtual Presence System

Marconi's Data Networks division will license BorderWare's SIPassure SIP Firewall, which has been optimized for the Marconi ViPr Virtual Presence system. The ViPr SIP Firewall "Powered by BorderWare," will be available as a separate system for existing ViPr customers, as well as new customers who want to benefit from campus-to-campus high-resolution video conferencing and multimedia collaboration across private or public networks.The companies said that although perimeter firewalls provide basic pinholing, allowing SIP traffic to pass through,...

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Nuvio Files Appeal of FCC VoIP - E911 Order

Nuvio Corporation filed an appeal of the recent FCC order requiring VoIP providers to make E911 available to their customers nationwide by the end of the year. Because of the looming November 28, 2005 deadline, Nuvio has requested the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to expedite the schedule in the hopes of reaching a decision prior the FCC Order taking effect."While we share the Commission's passion about deploying 911 service, and we have worked diligently to provide our users with 911 access, the 120-day requirement imposed...

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Platinum Equity to Acquire US Robotics

Platinum Equity will acquire US Robotics in an all-cash transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed.In addition to dial-up modems, US Robotics offers several lines of wired and wireless consumer networking products, including 802.11 adapters, access points and antennas; and broadband routers switches and adapters.Joseph J. Hartnett, president and chief executive officer of US Robotics, saod the transaction will allow the company to maintain its independence and entrepreneurial spirit while benefiting from the financial resources and M&A...

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Intel Invests in Three Chinese Firms

Intel Capital announced equity investments in three Chinese firms:Chipsbrand Microelectronics (H.K.), a fabless semiconductor design company targeting the mobile storage and multimedia consumer electronics market segments. Onewave Technologies (Shanghai), a broadband entertainment technology solutions provider that enables broadband content delivery to TV set-top boxes and streaming media and video on demand to PCs. Verisilicon Holdings Co. Ltd., an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design foundry with operation centers in Shanghai,...

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Ubicom Develops Broadband Uplink Accelerator

Ubicom announced technology for building low-cost retail device designed to significantly improve broadband uplinks, thereby enhancing online gaming, VoIP and file sharing. The Ubicom technology initially will be available in retail devices from D-Link and Hawking Technology.The Ubicom Network Accelerator improves performance and quality through the following capabilities:Analyzes and automatically identifies delay-sensitive trafficDynamically prioritizes delay-sensitive traffic ahead of normal trafficLimits uplink delay by controlling packet...

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PanAmSat's Galaxy 14 Roars into Orbit

PanAmSat's new Galaxy 14 satellite was successfully launched by a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Galaxy 14, the 24th satellite in PanAmSat's fleet, is to be co-located with Galaxy 12 at 125 degrees west longitude, enable PanAmSat to have two in-orbit spares for its U.S. fleet. Although designated a back-up satellite, the all C-band spacecraft is designed to deliver digital video programming, high-definition television (HDTV), VOD and IPTV service throughout the continental U.S.Galaxy 14 will also be an additional...

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BigBand Shows Modular CMTS for Channel Bonding and Installed Cable Modems

BigBand Networks announced the first live operation of its modular CMTS functionality. The company is demonstrating its Cuda CMTS and BME (Broadband Multimedia-Service Edge) platforms jointly delivering broadband services to DOCSIS cable modems. The demonstration shows the Cuda and BME jointly achieving well over 100 Mbps per single MAC (media access control) domain. Sixteen unique high definition video streams of approximately 10 Mbps each are delivered to sixteen laptop computers connected to that MAC domain. The BigBand Networks M-CMTS design...

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Broadcom Announces AVC/VC-1 Video Coding Chips

Broadcom announced a family of AVC/VC-1 high definition (HD) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for cable, satellite and IP set-top boxes and gateway/client architectures. Broadcom has implemented advanced video coding (AVC) (the ITU and ISO joint standard) and VC-1 (the Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers or SMPTE standard), which employ the latest generation in video compression technology, in the new family of single-chip solutions. Broadcom's new BCM740x family of single-chip solutions is built upon the company's previous two-chip...

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TiVo Begins Video Downloads with Independent Film Channel

TiVo has launched a video download trial in conjunction with Independent Film Channel (IFC), enabling select TiVo subscribers to download IFC programming over broadband to their TiVo Series2 DVR. The availability of the IFC programming will be promoted to trial participants through a TiVo Showcase. Once a TiVo subscriber chooses to receive the IFC programming, the shows are downloaded via a broadband connection. Limelight Networks is providing content delivery network services for the trial.TiVo said its planning to add a series of broadband features...

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TelCove Launches VoIP Service

TelCove, a CLEC that operates in 70 markets throughout the eastern half of the U.S., launched enterprise VoIP services.TelCove's Network VoIP Service is based in the company's owned and managed equipment and facilities. The company a variety of IP telephony customer premises equipment or CPE handsets and access devices. The new VoIP service is facilitated over TelCove's private IP backbone, thus ensuring levels of service delivery quality. http://www.telcove.c...

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GigaBeam Licenses Vitesse's Indium Phosphide (InP) for 10 Gbps WiFiber

GigaBeam, a supplier of "WiFiber" equipment that operates in the 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz radio spectrum bands, has obtained certain exclusive rights to Vitesse's Indium Phosphide (InP) semiconductor technologies for use in GigaBeam's proprietary high performance RF modules. GigaBeam WiFiber operates in the 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz radio spectrum bands, which the FCC has authorized for wireless point-to-point commercial use. GigaBeam's technology, utilizing these large blocks of authorized contiguous spectrum, enables multi Gigabit-per-second wireless...

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