SBC Selects Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta for IPTV Set-top Boxes

SBC Communications has awarded IPTV set-top box contracts to both Scientific-Atlanta and Motorola. The contracts, awarded by SBC Services Inc., give equal market opportunity to both vendors and continue through the end of 2008. SBC provided a common set of specifications to both vendors to build the set-top boxes. At this time, SBC said it expects to use Motorola set-top boxes initially when it scales the service, with Scientific-Atlanta set-top boxes soon thereafter. Financial terms of the contracts were not disclosed.The planned IPTV set-top...

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Verizon Wireless and Lucent Conduct EV-DO Rev A Trial

Verizon Wireless and Lucent Technologies completed a test of live, over-the-air calls using CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A technology. CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A is an enhanced version of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO that increases the efficiency, data speeds and capacity of existing EV-DO networks. CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A enables users to receive data (forward link) at speeds of theoretically up to 3.1 Megabits per second (Mbps) and send data (reverse link) at speeds of theoretically up to 1.8 Mbps. These increased reverse link data speeds reduce data latency...

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Juniper Ships its 1,000th T-Series Router

Juniper Networks announced the milestone shipment of its 1,000th T-series core routing platform. The unit will be deployed at KT, which first deployed the T-series in 2002. Shipping since April 2002, the T-series is currently deployed in more than 100 service provider production networks worldwide. http://www.juniper....

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White Rock Offers Upgrade Path for Existing AFC Access Networks

White Rock Networks has developed a retrofit kit for its VLX2006 multi-service access platform which provides an upgrade path to OC-48 transport for existing AFC 240 line cabinets.Using a pre-packaged kit, the VLX2006 can be installed into existing cabinets, providing carriers with fully protected Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, DS1, DS3, OC-3, and OC-12 drops to the cabinet. All optical interfaces can be configured on a port-by-port basis providing flexible deployment options. Once installed using the retrofit kit, the VLX2006 increases network...

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Intel Launches "Digital Communities" Initiative

Intel is launching a "Digital Communities" initiative to help communities use wireless technology and innovative applications to expand and improve services for municipal governments, businesses and citizens. Under the program, Intel is working with Cisco, Dell, IBM, and SAP to help 13 "pilot" communities design, develop and deploy comprehensive solutions and services to enhance government efficiency, promote economic growth, foster greater community satisfaction and bridge the digital divide. The applications range from automating mobile workers...

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Tennessee Valley Authority Selects Fujitsu for NGN

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the largest public power company in the U.S., has awarded a federal contract to Fujitsu Network Communications for a large optical network that links TVA main offices and key substation sites across seven states. TVA will deploy the Fujitsu FLASHWAVE and NETSMART product lines for its next-generation network, which will be constructed in multiple stages over several years.This new, high-performance optical network will support a wide array of service types, including Gigabit Ethernet connections between routers,...

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Intelsat Approves HNS Satellite Broadband Platform

Intelsat successfully completed laboratory testing and analysis of Hughes Network Systems' (HNS) DW7000 satellite broadband platform, clearing the way for the system and the Internet Protocol over Satellite (IPoS) standard to be added to the portfolio of broadband technologies Intelsat markets through its worldwide customer base.The DW7000 family of broadband satellite routers consists of two initial offerings: the DW7700 for high-performance enterprise and government requirements, and the DW7000 for small business and consumer customers. The IPoS...

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HomePlug AV Specification Approved

HomePlug AV, a global powerline technology distributing HD and SD video, VoIP and Internet services in home networks using existing electrical wiring, has been finalized and approved unanimously by the Board of Directors of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance. The HomePlug Alliance anticipates that HomePlug AV capability will be designed into consumer products (such as TVs, audio equipment, computers, and networking gear). HomePlug AV technology was built with contributions from companies that worked as part of the alliance's specification working...

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ColorChip Acquires Lambda Crossing's Optics Plant

ColorChip, a manufacturer of glass-based Planer Lightwave Circuit (PLC) chips and modules for fiber optic communications, has acquired Lambda Crossing's plant. The plant - whose operations had ceased about a month ago - together with its equipment, will be used by ColorChip to mass-produce its chips as soon as development has been completed and the company moves to the manufacturing stage.ColorChip said it is currently in the process of expanding and shifting its focus from development to mass production. The company will ship its first samples...

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Marvell Posts Quarterly Revenue of $390.5 million, up 31.4% YoY

Marvell Technology reported record net revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2006 of $390.5 million, an increase of 31.4% over net revenue of $297.2 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2005 and a 7.0% sequential increase from net revenue of $364.8 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2006. Net income (GAAP) was $77.3 million, or $0.25 per share (diluted), for the second quarter of fiscal 2006, compared with a net income under GAAP of $28.6 million, or $0.10 per share (diluted), for the second quarter of fiscal 2005."Q2 was another very...

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Ennis Resigns with AT&T for 41-site IP VPN

Ennis , one of the largest private-label printed business product suppliers in the U.S., selected AT&T to continue providing an IP VPN linking its 41 facilities located throughout 16 states, Mexico and Canada. Terms were not disclosed. http://www.att....

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Connexion by Boeing Names New Head for Commercial Business

Connexion by Boeing named Lianne Stein as vice president, Commercial Aviation Business, where she will be responsible for Connexion's Commercial Aviation channel, which provides high-speed Internet service to commercial airlines worldwide. Most recently, Stein was the vice president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes for Washington D.C. Operations. In this role, Stein was responsible for all Boeing commercial aircraft activities in Washington, D.C., relating to commercial aircraft sales campaigns, U.S. government advocacy, public policy and the U.S....

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Marvell Introduces Highly Integrated VoIP Chip

Marvell introduced a family of highly integrated VoIP solutions.. The Marvell 88W8618 is designed for ultra-low power Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) handsets. Marvell estimates the chip will extend handset talk time by a factor of three versus competitive solutions.Other members of the Marvell 88W86 family are targeted at VoIP residential gateways. Each product integrates VoIP processing, low power WiFi circuitry, a high-performance host CPU and peripherals into single system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions.All of the devices have on-chip security processing...

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EAS Group to Acquire Brooktrout for $173 Million

EAS Group, the privately held parent of Excel Switching Corporation, agreed to acquire Brooktrout for $173 million. Brooktrout stockholders will receive $13.05 in cash for each share of Brooktrout common stock, representing a 38% premium over the closing price of Brooktrout common stock on August 17, 2005. Excel is a worldwide provider of carrier-class, open services platforms, media gateways and media servers. Brooktrout specializes in media processing, call control, signal processing, and fax communications. The company is based in Needham,...

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China Telecom USA Continues to Expand Operations

China Telecom USA announced the opening of a regional office in Atlanta, Georgia, and another in Austin, Texas. These offices have been opened to better serve multi-national companies and Global 1000 accounts in these regions with operations in Asia.China Telecom USA has tapped two senior telecom sales executives, each with more than 20 years of experience in the telecom sector, working for Tier 1 companies such as AT&T, Sprint, SingTel and Telecom Malaysia, to lead these regional offices. China Telecom said it has the most network capacity...

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