TI Integrates Wi-Fi into VoCable Platform

Texas Instruments is incorporating Wireless LAN capabilities into a single VoCable gateway.

The TNETC731 chip supports all of CableLab's PacketCable 1.5 requirements. The new gateway design allows cable service providers to also deliver voice quality monitoring, T.38 fax relay, and battery backup. Voice is enabled through wired telephones, as well as cordless single- or dual-mode wireless VoIP handsets throughout the home network.
http://www.ti.com/tnetc731

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Alcatel Adds VoIP Media Gateway to ISAM

Alcatel is adding a VOIP media gateway as well as legacy POTS and ISDN line cards to its ISAM broadband access family. The Alcatel ISAM Voice Package is designed to help service providers migrate to an NGN/IMS network. The solution is especially aimed at incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) in ETSI regions who want to deal with the obsolescence issues of their current PSTN network.

Key features of the ISAM Voice Package include:

• the ability to convert legacy POTS/ISDN voice traffic to IP traffic



• up to 10,000 subscribers per gateway



• One gateway controls local and remote Alcatel 7302 ISAM subscribers



• Requires only one IP address per gateway



• Handles 1,024 active calls per voice gateway plus 102 reserved for emergency calls



• Provides 12 call attempts per second



• Provides POTS only, ISDN only or Combo (xDSL + POTS) boards



• Is fully integrated with IMS/TISPAN architectures

http://www.alcatel.com

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Alcatel 1850 Transport Switch Mixes Ethernet, TDM and WDM

Alcatel launched a new metro networking solution that offers flexible mix of Ethernet, TDM and WDM switching in a single platform.


The new Alcatel 1850 TSS can be used to aggregate, switch and transport any combination of Ethernet/MPLS/RPR, SDH/SONET and WDM services. At the heart of the platform is a new "Universal Switch" technology developed by Alcatel, which enables a single matrix to switch any service type. Service specific line cards can be added as they are needed, making investments linear over time and enabling 1850 TSS configurations from 100% circuit to 100% packet, or anything in between. The Alcatel 1850 TSS is initially available in 40 Gbps and 320 Gbps chassis sizes.


Alcatel estimates CAPEX savings of more than 30% and OPEX savings of more than 40%, compared to the alternative architectures based on separate platforms.


Telecom Italia is testing the Alcatel 1850 TSS in a live network for IPTV service delivery in a major Italian city.
http://www.alcatel.com

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OEN Plans Large-Scale FTTH Deployment in Houston

Optical Entertainment Network (OEN), a private investor-backed company based in Texas, announced plans to deploy FTTH to 1,600,000 households in Houston, the 10th largest television market in the U.S. The company, which has partnered with leading European and North American vendors plans to launch its United States service offering in December 2005 and begin European operations in Q2 of 2006.


The company plans to offer integrated IPTV service, 10 to 100 Mbps Internet, Voice, Video-on-Demand (VOD) and other broadband applications such as, Home Security, videoconferencing and telemedicine. OEN said it has acquired programming agreements for IPTV distribution from top programming television networks and will deliver over 400 television channels, including 50 plus channels of HDTV.


OEN's first deployment partner is Phonoscope of Houston, Texas, owner of the largest privately held metro fiber network. Already the existing network reaches 200,000 household easements and is within 100 to 500 yards of approximately 1.6 million households in the 6 county areas around Houston.


OEN has selected Alloptic as the equipment supplier for its optical access network. OEN has also selected Amino to supply IPTV set-top boxes, and Nexans to supply fiber optic cabling.
http://www.4fiber.tv

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Switch and Data Offers 10 GigE Peeing at Three PAIX Sites

Switch and Data has deployed a 10 Gigabit Ethernet platform in three of its hosting facilities . As part of its PAIX peering services, the 10GigE PAIX switch is now operational in Switch and Data's Palo Alto site and in New York City at both 111 8th Avenue and 60 Hudson. Switch and Data said it is the first Internet exchange to offer 10GigE peering capacity on both the East and West Coast.


Limelight Networks, a leading content delivery network, is adding 10GigE ports in Switch and Data's Palo Alto and New York PAIX facilities as part of the build-out of its global content delivery network. During the course of the year Limelight has upgraded its delivery network by stepping up to 10GigE connections and implementing a multicore routing architecture to provide enhanced delivery of high-bandwidth media.


The 10GigE PAIX platform has been extended to 111 8th Avenue and 60 Hudson in New York City after being in full production in Palo Alto since May 2005. Almost 200 peering participants are on the 10GigE platform in Palo Alto and 111 8th today. Customers at 60 Hudson can immediately peer with customers at 111 8th through a Layer 2 MetroPAIX connection of the two New York sites. This interconnection of both 10GigE platforms creates a single peering fabric in New York that allows customers to focus their equipment investment in one facility while benefiting from the choice of peering participants in both - driving significant overall savings. http://www.switchanddata.com/

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Telefonica Selects Nominum for DNS Acceleration

Nominum will supply its carrier grade DNS software to Telefónica de España for deployment in its European Data centers. Nominum claims its Foundation Caching Name Server (CNS) is the world's fastest caching name server.
http://www.nominum.com/

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Navini Trials Pre-WiMAX With BT in the UK

Navini Networks has supplied its "Ripwave" CPEs, PC cards and base stations to BT for a trial of pre-WiMAX systems for the UK market.
http://www.navini.com/

• BellSouth is also trialing Navini's broadband wireless access systems.

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Zimbra Offers Open Source Messaging Server with AJAX Client

Zimbra, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, unveiled an open source messaging server and client that uses an AJAX-based model for delivering the web service. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite is multi-tiered; on the back end, the collaboration server integrates search, archiving, discovery, anti-spam and anti-virus/security features into a single messaging platform. On the front end, a rich, thin, AJAX-based web client brings e-mail to life through web mash-ups; for example, when viewing an e-mail, users can see their schedule by hovering over a date, or see the status of a purchase order by hovering over the number. Additionally, it is compatible with all leading browsers and enables e-mail, calendar and contact functions to work more effectively across a variety of desktop clients, including Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple Mail.


Zimbra's Public License package is available free of charge. Zimbra's Network Standard Edition is available for $30 per mailbox per year.


Zimbra has raised $16 million in series A and B funding from Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, Redpoint Ventures and Eric Hahn, former Netscape CTO.
http://www.zimbra.com/

• AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a web delivery model that makes use of JavaScript to dynamically send requests to the server without reloading a web page, and then parse and work with XML documents. Google is using AJAX for Gmail, Google Maps and Google Earth.

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Hammerhead Announces Executive Appointments

Hammerhead Systems announced the appointments of Kevin Pope as VP of Engineering, and Kim Holmes as VP of Operations and VP of Customer Support. Pope most recently as Vice President of Engineering and co-founder at Mahi Networks, where he was responsible for the development of the Mi7 product line, a high speed network element optimized for carriers migrating their legacy TDM networks towards IP/MPLS with a focus on next generation Ethernet/IP services.


Kim Holmes joined Hammerhead Systems in June 2002 and has served as the company's VP of Engineering and VP of Operations. Prior to Hammerhead, Kim was VP of Engineering for optical networking start-up Cinta Networkshttp://www.hammerheadsystems.com/

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SIRIUS Satellite Radio Adds 369,000 Subs in Q3

SIRIUS Satellite Radio added more than 359,000 new net subscribers during Q3 a 97% increase in net subscribers over year-ago quarter net additions of approximately 182,000. SIRIUS ended the quarter with over 2.17 million subscribers.


SIRIUS said it expects to reach three million subscribers by the end of 2005.
http://www.sirius.com/

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EarthLink Selected for Philadelphia's Municipal Wi-Fi

The City of Philadelphia selected EarthLink to develop and implement the largest municipal Wi-Fi network in the U.S. No City or taxpayer dollars will be used to fund the project. EarthLink will finance, build and manage the wireless network, and provide Wireless Philadelphia with revenue sharing fees to help support the Wireless Philadelphia Non-Profit Corporation.


EarthLink plans to implement a 135-square-mile, city-wide Wi-Fi mesh network, which is expected to be fully operational by the fourth quarter of 2006. The network is intended to provide:

• Inexpensive, high-speed Internet access;


• Open access for multiple, competing service providers;


• Roaming capabilities for providers of hot spot access;


• Free Internet access in some parks and public spaces;


• Daily and weekly access for occasional users and visitors;


• Small business connectivity and serve as a wireless T-1 alternative.

http://www.earthlink.net/

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Alcatel's DSL Shipments Pass 70 Million Mark

Alcatel has now shipped more than 70 million digital subscriber lines (DSL) to customers worldwide. This achievement represents a 40% increase over the 50 million lines cumulative milestone announced last year.


Alcatel noted that in less than a year, over 35 customers worldwide have committed to deploy its ISAM products, including China Telecom, China Netcom, Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telefonica Brazil, Telefonica del Sur (Chile), Telemar, SBC, TELUS, and BellSouth.
http://www.alcatel.com

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Sprint Nextel Files VoIP Lawsuit Against Vonage

Sprint Nextel filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Vonage Holdings Corp., Voiceglo Holdings Inc. and theglobe.com Inc. in the U. S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Sprint Nextel alleges these companies have infringed seven patents relating to voice over packet technology.


Sprint Nextel is seeking an injunction to prevent these companies from further misappropriating its technology as well as seeking unspecified monetary damages.


In response, Theglobe.com and Voiceglo issued a statement saying their technology was proprietary and patent-pending and that they would defend against the lawsuit.
http://www.sprint.com/

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Sun and Google Form Open Source Alliance

Sun Microsystems and Google announced an alliance to promote and distribute open software technologies as a key enabler for next gen web services. Initially, the companies will make it easier for users to download Sun's Java Runtime Environment (JRE), the Google Toolbar and the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite. Looking ahead, the companies plan to promote and enhance Sun technologies, like the Java Runtime Environment and the OpenOffice.org software suite, as part of the industry's larger shift to open source platforms.


Google has also agreed to become a major customer of Sun Microsystems. Further announcements are expected as Google builds out it global web services infrastructure. Sun Microsystems will be a major advertiser on the Google network.


In a press event in Mountain View, California, Scott McNealy, Sun's CEO, described the alliance as a "natural partnership" given both companies' roots in the open source culture. Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, previously worked for McNealy as CTO and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of Java and defined Sun's Internet software strategy.
http://www.sun.com
http://www.google.com

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Motorola and Microsoft Form Alliance for Gov't Solutions

Microsoft and Motorola announced an alliance to provide marketing and development support to deliver software applications to law enforcement, first responder and criminal justice agencies.
Specifically, Motorola will offer software applications built on the Microsoft platform, including the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Windows Server System.
http://www.motorola.com
http://www.microsoft.com

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ARM Announces its Most Powerful Mobile Processor to Date

ARM announced its most powerful processor yet for consumer and low-power mobile devices, enabling the delivery of higher levels of entertainment and innovation to end users.


The new ARM Cortex-A8 processor delivers up to 2,000 DMIPS, sufficient for running multi-channel video, audio, and gaming applications. The device uses less than 300 mW in 65nm technology. The design includes the first implementation of the "NEON" signal processing extensions to accelerate media codecs such as H.264 and MP3. The Cortex-A8 processor also includes Jazelle-RCT Java acceleration technology to optimize Just In Time (JIT) and Dynamic Adaptive Compilation (DAC), and reduces memory footprint by up to three times. Additionally, the new processor features TrustZone technology for secure transactions and Digital Rights Management (DRM), and IEM capability for low power.


ARM has already secured five licensees for the Cortex-A8 processor, including Freescale, Matsushita, Samsung and Texas Instruments, and future support from major EDA and Operating System vendors.


TI said it intends to use the Cortex-A8 processor across a range of next-generation, ultra-low power 3G modems and high-performance, OMAP application processors manufactured in 65nm processes and enhanced by TI's SmartReflex power and performance management technologies and M-Shield security solution.
http://www.arm.com
http://www.ti.com

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