PMC-Sierra Appoints Dr. Robert Yung as CTO

PMC-Sierra named Dr. Robert Yung to the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Dr. Yung was most recently a Founder and Partner at GSR Ventures, an early-stage private equity technology fund focusing on semiconductor design, wireless and Internet services in China and the USA. Prior to founding GSR Ventures, Dr. Yung held various CTO positions within Intel, the most recent being Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Processors. Prior to joining Intel, Dr. Yung was the Chief Technology Officer for Sun Microsystems in Asia. http://www.pmc-si...

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Vitesse Introduces Photodiodes for Ethernet and FTTx

Vitesse Semiconductor announced a new line of photodiode products aimed at Ethernet, multi-rate Fibre Channel and FTTx applications. The first two products in the family, the VSC7750 and VSC7780, are designed for use in the optical receiver side of both the Small Form Factor (SFF) and its pluggable counterpart (SFP). Both devices are manufactured using repeatable fabrication techniques. These include the use of large 4-inch wafers as well as other proven high-volume manufacturing methods to realize unrivaled economies of scale and high device...

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Avaya and Equant Form Global Strategic Alliance

Avaya and Equant formed a global strategic alliance to jointly deliver solutions that provide customers with advanced IP communications. The first joint offering, available today, is a managed IP telephony communications solution designed specifically for multinational companies. http://www.avaya.com http://www.equant....

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Centillium Introduces its eXtremeVDSL2 Silicon

Centillium Communications introduced its eXtremeVDSL2 silicon technology designed to complement its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) initiative and extend its DSL product portfolio. Addressing worldwide interoperability requirements, eXtremeVDSL2 is expected to be backwards-compatible with both ADSL2+ and ADSL2++, enabling operators to deploy video and triple play services without overhaul or disruption of their existing infrastructure.Centillium said its eXtremeVDSL2 solution is being designed from the ground-up to meet the recently approved VDSL2...

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Kotura Raises $13 Million for Silicon Photonics

Kotura, a start-up based in Monterey Park, California, raised $13 million in Series 2 preferred stock financing for its silicon photonic products. The financing round was led by new investor GF Private Equity Group and included the Viterbi Group, also a new investor. Existing investors, ComVentures and ARCH Venture Partners participated in the round as well.Kotura is currently shipping production quantities of silicon photonic products to customers. The components have achieved full Telcordia qualification and are deployed in live networks. h...

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SES AMERICOM Launches IP PRIME Service for Telcos

SES AMERICOM launched IP·PRIME, a centralized, satellite delivered IPTV distribution solution enabling telcos to bundle traditional standard and HD television programming with their voice and broadband services. IP·PRIME will originate from the SES AMERICOM IPTV Broadcast Center based in Vernon Valley, New Jersey, where video and audio will be received and processed for distribution via satellite and fiber to telco video hubs nationwide. IP PRIME programming will be delivered encrypted to the telco's video center for decryption there in accordance...

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Hammerhead Enables Service Oriented Architecture with XML/SOAP

Hammerhead Systems introduced an enhanced EMS capability based on XML/SOAP that enables its HSX 6000 Layer 2.5 aggregation platform to support up to a thousand different service profiles on a single port, including VoIP, IP Video, Internet, email and business services, while supporting up to a million flows per system. Each of these profiles can be "pre-engineered" onto the network, enabling virtually instant provisioning of new services using automated tools.Hammerhead's new Pegador SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) supports the TeleManagement...

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Anue Ships OC-192 SONET "Path Layer" Network Emulator

Anue Systems released its newest Network Emulator, capable of handling 9.953 Gbps SONET OC-192 and SDH STM-64 data rates with the ability to impair and delay each individual channel, or path, independently.Anue Network Emulators are used to validate converged Ethernet and SONET/SDH carrier grade network services, network equipment and applications in a lab test environment. Anue said next generation Ethernet over SONET aggregation solutions using virtual concatenation (VC), link capacity adjustment scheme (LCAS) and generic framing procedure (GFP)...

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8x8 Expand VoIP Offerings with Level 3

8x8 announced an expansion of its Packet8 broadband VoIP channels through its partnership with Level 3 Communications. Level 3 is the wholesale network carrier for 8x8's Packet8 voice and video Internet phone services, and 8x8 is a member of the Level(3)Enabled Master Reseller program, a program that provides assistance in driving sales for select partners. As part of this program, Level 3 works with 8x8 to identify and target prospective channel partners for 8x8's channel program. 8x8, in turn, is able to work directly with those partners to...

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Texas Governor Signs Cable Franchise Bill

Texas Gov. Rick Perry today signed into law a cable-franchising bill passed by the Texas Legislature during its second 30-day special session. The bill vastly streamlines the process of getting cable franchises for telecommunications carriers.SBC and Verizon applauded the legislation. Verizon said it expects to begin offering cable TV service in Texas this fall over its FiOS network. http://www.verizon.com/In August, the Texas House voted 144-to-1 to pass a bill that updates regulation of telecommunications in the state and allows for a single...

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India Joins Europe's Galileo Satellite Navigation Project

India is the fourth country to join the EU's GALILEO satellite radio navigation program. China, Israel and Ukraine have also agreed to support GALILEO and the EU is currently negotiating with Argentina, Brazil, Morocco, Mexico, Norway, Chile, South Korea, Malaysia, Canada and Australia to join the project.GALILEO is Europe's planned satellite radio navigation program, which aims to compete with the United States' GPS system and Russia's GLONASS system, both of which are financed and controlled by the military authorities. GALILEO is supported...

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Apple and Motorola Unveil ROKR iTunes Phone

In a high-profile marketing event, Apple and Motorola unveiled their ifrst mobile phone featuring iTunes. The Motorola ROKR features a color display for viewing album art, dual built-in stereo speakers and stereo headphones that also serve as a mobile headset with microphone. Music fans can randomly autofill or manually fill the mobile phone with playlists of their favorite music, audiobooks and Podcasts from their iTunes library via a USB connection....

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Lucent's Hurricane Disaster Recovery Efforts

Lucent Technologies said it continues to lend support and network restoration expertise to service providers as they re-establish vital communications services knocked out by Hurricane Katrina. The Lucent response includes emergency services and consulting, on-site and remote technical support, and emergency, back-up and replacement equipment to more than a dozen of the Gulf Region's service providers.Lucent currently has about 150 employees engaged in network restoration and recovery efforts across the three-state region. Some of the network disaster...

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FCC Warns Wireless Carriers Not to Disconnect Hurricane Victims

The FCC will take steps to ensure that wireless service providers do not improperly disconnect consumers displaced by Hurricane Katrina because they are unable to pay their bills. The U.S. Post Office is not fully operational in forwarding mail and the communications networks (including access to the Internet for online bill pay options) are not at pre-hurricane capabilities. To ensure that consumers of these services continue to maintain access to their wireless service during this difficult time, all licensees of wireless services serving...

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Ericsson Foresees Faster Deployment of 3G and HSDPA

Ericsson's President and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg said the mobile telecommunications industry has become an attractive market for bandwidth-intensive applications and content, speaking at the Ericsson Strategy & Technology Summit in Shanghai.The global mobile telecommunications industry is close to achieving 2 billion subscribers, representing approximately 30% of the world's population. Svanberg expects growing demand from this huge market for mobile content and the handset's emerging role as a media channel. This will spur the rollout of...

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Ericsson's IMS Selected by Commander in Australia for DSLAM Initiative

Ericsson will supply its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution to Commander Communications Ltd, a telecommunications operator in Australia. The carrier will use the IMS solution to enable its core Ericsson network to access DSLAM connectivity and to allow the deployment of new network hosted multimedia services in its IP network.By integrating Ericsson's IMS solution into Commander's telephony Softswitch solution, Commander will have a single, homogeneous national network capable of supporting traditional voice services. It will also be able...

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pulvermedia Announces the 2005 'pulver 100'

pulvermedia today announced the 2005 "pulver 100" -- its listing of privately held growth companies deemed to represent the future of IP communications. "The pulver 100 has become an indicator of the leading edge in IP communications, and the companies named to this year's list represent the future of our industry," said Jeff Pulver, Founder and Chairman of pulvermedia. "The companies named to the 2005 pulver 100 are: ...

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