Nielsen//NetRatings Measures Skype/eBay Audience at 58 Million

Nielsen//NetRatings released some interesting Internet user metrics on Skype and eBay.Globally, Skype saw 6.9 million active users, or a 2.4% active reach, during July 2005, across the 10 countries of Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. and U.S. In the U.S., Skype reached an all-time high of 1.3 million unique users, or an active reach of less than 1%, during July 2005. Year-over-year growth from August 2004 to August 2005 shows a 178% rise in unique users. eBay grew 15% to 58 million unique users during...

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Türk Telekom selects Alcatel for IP/MPLS

Türk Telekom awarded a contract valued at US$28 million to Alcatel for the design, deployment and management of an IP/MPLS-based data backbone network based on the Alcatel 7750 Service Router and 5620 Service Aware Manager. Deployment of new services will begin as early as 2006, with completion of the multi-phased contract by 2007. http://www.alcatel....

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Alcatel Enhances 7750 IP Router with Pseudowires, VPLS Tools

Alcatel released a series of upgrades for its Alcatel 7750 Service Router (SR) and the 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM), helping operators to offer fully-managed and converged ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet and IP VPN services on a single IP/MPLS network.Software enhancements to the Alcatel 7750 Service Router now enable Frame-ATM-Ethernet interworking with pseudowires. Non-stop services include ATM pseudowires, Frame Relay pseudowires, Ethernet pseudowires, VPLS and IP VPN (with any access). The upgrade also enables Frame Relay and ATM access to...

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Marconi and Airspan Launch WiMAX Trials in Italy

Marconi has been selected to support the largest public WiMAX trial to date, providing WiMAX connectivity in Italy's Piedmont and Sicily regions. The selection was made by a working party that included representatives from the Italian Ministry of Communications, the Italian Ministry of Defence, and the Ugo Bordoni Foundation, which is coordinating the trial at a national level.Marconi will deploy Airspan's AS.MAX family of WiMAX broadband wireless access products. The AS.MAX product family is IEEE 802.16-2004 compliant and due to its Software Defined...

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Vonage Selects Force10 for National Network

Vonage is deploying Force10 Networks' Tera Scale E-Series family of switch/routers to increase the capacity of its nationwide network and build in the scalability to support an increase in VoIP calls over the next several years. Vonage will use a combination of high density Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet links between POPs to accommodate increasing traffic demands. In addition to adding more capacity, Vonage is simplifying the architecture and management of its network by deploying the Force10 TeraScale E-Series in the core, collapsing...

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FCC Schedules Meeting on Hurricane Katrina Failure

The FCC will hold an Open Meeting on Thursday, September 15, 2005 to focus on the effects of Hurricane Katrina on communications services in the Gulf Coast states. In a joint statement, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Michael Copps: "In the days ahead, the challenge will be facilitating service restoration. But in the long term, we will need to learn from this event and work together to improve the reliability, survivability, and security of our nation's telecommunications networks."http://www.fcc....

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Marconi Uses Galazar for MSPPs

Galazar Networks is supplying key semiconductor solutions for multiservice provisioning platforms (MSPP) to Marconi. Recent wins for Marconi with a number of major operators have included products supporting next generation SONET/SDH features enabled by Galazar's MSF250 and DSF250 chips. This includes the ability to efficiently carry Ethernet services on existing SDH network infrastructure using Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), high order and low order Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) and Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS). http://www.galazar.com...

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Oracle Offers Telecommunications Billing Integrator

Oracle announced the availability of a Telecommunications Billing Integrator capability as part of its E-Business Suite, allowing communications service providers (CSPs) to integrate Oracle Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications with third-party billing systems. Oracle Telecommunications Billing Integrator allows CSPs to use standards-based technology to connect previously siloed systems, reducing integration time, cost and risk. The solution positions the Oracle Customer Relationship Management modules within the Oracle E-Business...

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Juniper Enables Service Providers to Offer Managed SSL VPNs

Juniper Networks has extended its SSL VPN product family with a high-end model designed to enable service providers to deliver additional revenue generating network-based SSL VPN managed services. The new carrier-class SSL VPN solution features end-to-end virtualization capabilities that enables service providers to offer remote and extranet access, disaster recovery and Intranet LAN security services (e.g. wireless LAN, VoIP) to their enterprise customers worldwide.SSL VPNs enable authorized users to gain secure access to network resources from...

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TelTel to Support SIP Virtual Network Operators

TelTel, a provider of SIP-based global Internet telephony with presence-enabled features, is launching a program to enable ISPs, ITSPs, CLECs, carriers and other Internet service and content providers to offer SIP-based telephony and multimedia services without having to build their own SIP infrastructure. The TelTel SIP Virtual Network Operators (SVNO) Partnership Program aims to create a "Public SIP Telephone Network" (PsipTN), a network backbone...

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K-Opticom Japan Selects Teknovus EPON Chipsets

K-Opticom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kansai Electric Power Company in Japan, has selected the Teknovus TK37xx family of EPON chipsets for exclusive use in the next phase of its EO Hikari FTTH deployment. K-Opticom will be offering some of the most advanced broadband services in the world, including VoIP and the first Gigabit EPON service in Japan. This is the third exclusive deployment of Teknovus EPON products in FTTH networks in Asia.http://www.teknovus....

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SureWest Selects Occam and General Bandwidth for Triple Play

SureWest Communications, which serves the Sacramento, California region, has selected a joint solution consisting of the General Bandwidth G6 Universal Media Gateway and the Occam Network' BLC 6000 System to deliver triple play services to customers residing in large multi-tenant buildings. The Occam BLC 6000 will deliver traditional telephony, high-speed data and video services while the General Bandwidth G6 Universal Media Gateway will enable VoIP services to customers being served by the Occam 6000 platform. This solution includes the ability...

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Wave7 Optics Raises $18 Million for its FTTP

Wave7 Optics, a start-up based outside of Atlanta, raised $18 million in new funding for its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) equipment for residential and business services. The company's product portfolio supports a variety of deployment options, based on IP and Ethernet or ATM standards.The new funding included $15 million from the existing investor group of Advanced Technology Partners, Armada Venture Partners, Lucent Venture Partners, Mellon Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures and Oak Investment Partners and $3 million from new investor, Ballast Point...

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BroadSoft Completes Interoperability Testing with Nortel Softswitch

BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform has completed laboratory SIP interoperability testing with Nortel's Communication Server (CS) 2000 (software release SN07 and SN08) and will now carry the Nortel Compatible Product designation.BroadWorks provides a comprehensive range of advanced applications, including hosted PBX, IP Centrex, mobile PBX, business trunking and residential broadband services fully integrated into a single VoIP application platform. http://www.broadsoft....

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eBay + Skype Combines eCommerce and IP Communications

eBay agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies for approximately $2.6 billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential performance-based consideration. Skype claims to have 54 million registered members in 225 countries and is currently adding approximately 150,000 users a day. It serves more users and delivers more voice minutes than any other Internet voice communications provider.eBay said the acquisition would strengthen its global marketplace and payments platform, while opening several new lines of business and creating...

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Mindspeed Launches VoIP Developer Program

Mindspeed Technologies is launching its "OpenMind" development program for matching its Comcerto VoIP processors with open-source applications and other products and design services from third-party companies. Mindspeed's single-chip Comcerto open-source processing platform integrates an application control and signaling processor with a real-time media-stream processor to provide a deterministic architecture capable of scaling from data-only applications to full packet telephony capabilities operating on hundreds of voice channels. Mindspeed's...

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Samsung Electronics Develops First 16-Gigabit NAND

Samsung Electronics announced the world's highest density NAND flash -- a 16Gigabit (Gb) NAND memory device -- targeted at multi-feature mobile applications. The 16Gb NAND density was achieved with the industry's first use of 50-nanometer (nm) technology directly applicable to mass production processes and by using Samsung's proprietary 3D-transistor architecture. Samsung said the new 16Gb memory device should accelerate further expansion of the NAND flash market across mobile and portable digital applications as an alternative to mini-HDDs (hard...

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Tropos Names Cisco Exec as VP of Engineering

Tropos Networks named Saar Gillai as Vice President of Engineering. Most recently, Mr. Gillai was Vice President of Engineering for the Wireless Networking Business Unit of Cisco Systems, where over the past four years he played a key role in building Cisco's enterprise WLAN product line. In addition, Mr. Gillai was instrumental in the company's WLAN acquisition and integration strategy, most recently playing a key role in the acquisition, and integration of WLAN equipment provider Airespace. During his tenure with Cisco, Mr. Gillai also held...

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China Telecom Selectively Blocks Skype

China Telecom has begun selectively blocking Skype traffic in certain cities across China, according to various media sources including Xinhua and the Shanghai Daily.http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/12/content_3477897....

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