Foundry and Myricom Form 10GigE Alliance

Foundry Networks has formed an alliance with Myricom, a supplier of high-performance computing (HPC) interconnect technology for computing clusters, to jointly develop and deliver 10-Gigabit Ethernet solutions within Foundry's HPC Ethernet Alliance Program. Foundry's HPC Ethernet Alliance Program is designed to accelerate deployment of high-performance Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet solutions. Foundry will work closely with Myricom to deliver standards-based, high-performance, 10-Gigabit Ethernet solutions to both the HPC community and...

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Freescale Acquires Seaway for Layer 4-7 Processors

Freescale Semiconductor has acquired Seaway Networks, a privately-held fabless semiconductor supplier of content processing technology and solutions. Seaway, which was founded in 2001 and is based in Ottawa, developed high-performance, silicon-based content processing, advanced security and traffic-management solutions. Seaway focuses on delivering high-performance processors and subsystem products for Layer 4-7 applications. Financial terms were not disclosed. Forty Seaway employees will staff Freescale's newly formed Ottawa Technology Center."This...

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PIPEX Launches WiMAX Trial in UK

PIPEX Communications has launched a six-month WiMAX trial in the UK using equipment from Airspan Networks. The companies said this is first 802.16-2004 compliant WiMAX trial in the UK. The trial will be conducted in the Midlands region of the UK and involve delivering PIPEX's home and business broadband services over Airspan's WiMAX last mile access products. In addition to data services, the trial will also test VoIP services that would allow PIPEX to offer product bundles. http://www.airspan.com http://www.pipex....

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Passave Adds GPON Chipset to FTTH Portfolio

Passave introduced a pair of Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) devices, the PAS5211 optical line terminal (OLT) and the PAS6211 optical network terminal (ONT), bps for GPON-compatible FTTH equipment. The new devices use Passave's GigaPASS architecture, providing interoperability for GPON central-office (CO) equipment and GPON customer premise equipment (CPE).Passave said developing a low-cost, high-performance GPON FTTH semiconductor is a significant technical challenge because it requires single-chip integration of gigabit and faster point-to-multipoint...

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Coradiant Raises $12.7 Million for Monitoring Capabilities

Coradiant, a start-up based in San Diego, raised $12.7 million in new funding for its real-user monitoring equipment for data center applications. Whereas existing user monitoring approaches typically rely on synthetic sampling, Coradiant's technology enables a new category of easy-to-install data monitoring equipment that is capable of seeing and reporting actual performance as experienced by every user, in each session, in real time. The system integrates with enterprise management software (EMS) systems. Drill-down incident management and analysis...

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Nortel Softswitch Receives PacketCable 1.1 Qualification

Nortel achieved PacketCable 1.1 softswitch qualification for its Communication Server 2000 (CS 2000).Nortel's CS 2000 was successfully tested in this certification wave against the latest in Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance Specification (LAESS) and Event Messaging specifications. The LAESS specification focuses on softswitches and their ability to deliver lawful intercept capabilities within the PacketCable architecture. Support of event messaging allows cable operators to generate call records for downstream billing and customer usage...

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Vivato Supplies Base Stations for "Enormous" Hot-Spots in Taiwan

TW-Airnet of Taichung, Taiwan will deploy 42 of Vivato's Base Stations throughout densely populated areas of the island to create "enormous Wi-Fi Hot Zones." The deployments will occur in five cities, including Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Taichung. TW-Airnet has access to over 2,200 pre-selected sites and roof tops for installation of the Vivato base stations. Each of the 5 cities will have an initial hot zone of approximately 8 sq. miles each, and will serve both mobile and stationary customers. TW-Airnet will also provide customer premise equipment...

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First VON MEXICO Planned for February 2006

The first VON MEXICO event will take place February 14-17, 2006 at Centro Banamex in Mexico City, co-located with EXPO COMM MEXICO 2006. VON MEXICO. The event is being produced in partnership with E.J. Krause & Associates (EJK), one of the largest privately owned exhibition management companies in the United States. Pulvermedia has hosted VON events in Europe and the United States for the last nine years. http://www.von.com/mexico06http://www.expocomm.com/mexi...

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World Wide Packets Partners with Marconi Softswitch

Marconi has selected World Wide Packets' LightningEdge solution forconnection to the Marconi's IMPACT SoftSwitch XCD5000. The partnershipprovides a fully integrated VoIP for Triple Play services. This partnership creates a global referral program in which World WidePackets is certified to work in conjunction with Marconi's SoftSwitchto deliver derived voice. Several large networks have already deployedthe combined offering.http://www.worldwidepackets.com http://www.marconi....

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Marconi Wireless Partners with LS Telcom AG

LS Telcom AG agreed to distribute Marconi's Planet EV wireless network design and optimization software. Mobile operators in targeted Eastern Europe and DACH (Germany, Austria & Switzerland) markets will benefit from enhanced access to the leading Planet EV product portfolio as well as local support and services. Planet EV will also become an integral part of LS telcom's modular set of planning solutions and will replace the current CHIRplus_UMTS product of LS telcom. http://www.lstelcom.com http://www.marconi....

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Meru and Firetide Form Voice over Mesh Partnership

Firetide and Meru Networks announced a strategic partnership to deliver high quality, reliable voice communication over wireless mesh networks.The joint solution combines Firetide's HotPort high performance mesh network and Meru's Wireless LAN System, which is designed specifically to handle voice over wireless. The companies said their solution allows for cost-effective voice over mesh deployments for universities, hotels, recreational venues, airports, municipalities, warehouses and other environments where structured wiring or other solutions...

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Pulse~LINK Teams with ADI on HDTV Wireless Links

Pulse~LINK and Analog Devices joined forces to demonstrate a wireless transmission of real-time High Definition video using Ultra Wideband (UWB) communications. The demonstration combines Pulse~LINK's "CWave" UWB wireless technology with ADI's ADV202, a single-chip implementation of the JPEG2000 standard. The companies said their solution is capable of wirelessly delivering cinema quality images in the home when used to provide wireless connectivity between devices such as High Definition Television Displays, Projectors, DVD players, Set-top-boxes,...

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Sun Unveils Open Media Commons initiative

Sun Microsystems unveiled the Open Media Commons initiative, an open-source community project developing a royalty-free digital rights management standard. Sun promised to immediately share the entirety of its internal Sun Labs program Project DReaM (DRM/everywhere available) with the Open Media Commons community under the OSI-approved Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). Sun Labs Project DReaM consists of:DRM-OPERA: An interoperable DRM architecture implementing standardized interfaces and processes for the interoperability of...

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TI Debuts VoCable Chipset and Wideband DOCSIS Design

Texas Instruments announced the availability of its advanced voice-over-cable (VoCable) chipset and new Wideband DOCSIS reference design.TI's DSP-based TNETC47xx (Puma-4) VoCable chipset incorporates advancements to process cellular codecs, setting the stage for fixed mobile convergence with phones that operate on cellular or VoIP connections, depending on the user's choice and proximity to either network. The company said its low bit-rate codecs for conferencing channels use half the bandwidth currently consumed for multi-user calls, saving bandwidth...

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