Moxi Media Center Reaches 100,000 Milestone at Charter

Charter Communications has deployed its 100,000 Moxi Media Centers to its cable TV customers. Charter has deployed its DVR with Moxi offering in markets serving more than 85 percent of its 2.7 million digital customer base, with plans to launch in additional markets before the end of the year. Charter rolled out its new Moxi multi-room DVR service in St. Louis -- the first of several markets -- on August 31st. The multi-room solution networks the Charter DVR with Moxi to an extension box using existing coaxial cable wiring within the home. This...

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BellSouth to Offer Nationwide MPLS Connectivity with Sprint Nextel

BellSouth signed an internetworking agreement with Sprint Nextel providing for seamless MPLS connectivity for BellSouth's next generation data customers across both providers' networks. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.The service is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2006 and will initially utilize the BellSouth private IP backbone in the southeastern U.S. and Sprint's network in other regions to link businesses with multiple locations."BellSouth customers will now have nationwide access to leading data capabilities, including...

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Enhanced Wireless Consortium Agrees on 802.11n

A new Enhanced Wireless Consortium has been established to accelerate the IEEE 802.11n standard development process and promote a technology specification for next-generation WLANs. The Enhanced Wireless Consortium, which is backed by 27 Wi-Fi industry leaders, has developed a specification that supports speeds of up to 600 Mbps. The group is considering the inclusion of other advanced technologies -- including Space Time Block Coding (STBC) and beamforming -- that will enable systems to deliver greater range for wireless products across multiple...

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Sprint Workers Go on Strike in Four States

Sprint workers represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) went on strike at local Sprint telephone operations in Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina and Indiana. The strike involves about 300 members represented by Local 3871 in Bluff City, Tenn. (Tri-Cities area); about 100 represented by Local 3672 in Hickory, N.C.; 40 represented by Local 4700 in Evansville, Ind., and about 500 represented by Local 3176 in Ocala, Florida. The CWA issued a statement citing management plans to eliminate the cap on employee contributions to health...

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Sensory Networks Raises $10 Million

Sensory Networks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California with R&D in Sydney, Australia, closed US$10 million in new financing for its network security acceleration technology.Sensory Networks said its NodalCore acceleration technology enables developers of next-generation network security products to protect today's high-traffic networks by maintaining wire-speed performance without sacrificing accuracy or threat coverage.The NodalCore Security Processing Unit (SPU) is a 64-bit dedicated processor designed for high-speed scanning, analysis...

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Qwest Offers New Billing Option for IP Voice Termination

Qwest Communications' IP voice terminating service will begin offering providing operating company number-based (OCN) billing to wholesale facilities-based carrier customers. The new billing option provides pricing at the individual OCN/LATA level, giving customers the ability to reconcile their billing, and manage costs more effectively.Qwest said many wholesale VoIP customers have paid for services using blended or averaged rates. However, with the OCN billing option for IP voice terminating services, wholesale customers will receive pricing...

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Atrica Names New VP of Marketing

Atrica named Scott Messenger as its new vice president of Marketing, replacing Nan Chen, who has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Prior to Atrica, Messenger was Director of Product Marketing and Product Line Management for Cisco System's Optical Business Unit. Prior to Cisco, he led product management at Cerent (which was acquired by Cisco for $6.9 Billion), where he was responsible for product management for the flagship Cerent 454. http://www.atrica....

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mtvU Uber Launches College Broadband Channel

mtvU Uber, a broadband streaming video channel and VOD site, began broadcasting to over 730 colleges across the U.S. mtvU Uber is available online and be seen in the dining areas, fitness centers, student lounges at partner colleges.Cisco Systems is teaming with mtvU on a national "Digital Incubator" project to discover the next digital media broadband creators. The project will fund students or student groups to create games, movie shorts, music videos, or other content tailored for mtvU Uber. http://www.mtvu....

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BroadSoft Runs on IBM BladeCenter with Linux

BroadSoft announced an agreement with IBM under which its the BroadWorks VoIP application platform will support the IBM eServer BladeCenter, BladeCenter T family of products and selected xSeries Telecommunications servers, including the x343 and x336.The Solution is now generally available. As part of the agreement, BroadSoft and IBM will also work together on sales, marketing, product development and other business development initiatives.BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform provides a range of advanced applications, including hosted...

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Investor AB Deploys Riverbed WAN Appliances

Investor AB (Investor), the largest industrial holding company in the Nordic region, has selected Riverbed's Steelhead appliances in its global network. The company will deploy Riverbed's Steelhead appliances in offices in Stockholm, Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Palo Alto, California. Before Riverbed, every Investor office required a significant investment in IT infrastructure such as Microsoft Exchange servers, file servers and tape backup equipment. Investor's offices are connected through a T1 or E1 to a global MPLS network. To...

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Hatteras Upgrades its Ethernet Edge Platform

Hatteras Networks announced an upgraded version of its HN400 service deliver platform featuring the ability to support up to eight subtended customers per HN 408 in a CO/RT; delivering up to 5.7 Mbps of symmetrical bandwidth per copper pair - and up to 45 Mbps symmetrical services over eight pairs of bonded copper. Hatteras said this new service flexibility enables carriers to turn up business services to up to eight customers per HN400-U, making it suitable for office parks, multi-tenant units (MTUs) and other densely populated business areas....

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XO Carries 1.8 Billion Minutes of VoIP Traffic in Q3

XO Communications carried more than 1.8 billion minutes of VoIP traffic across its national IP network in the third quarter of 2005. XO said VoIP traffic grew by 17% during the third quarter due to an increased usage of its commercial and wholesale VoIP solutions.For carriers and service providers, XO offers a suite of wholesale voice services including wholesale local voice, long distance termination, multi-market local inbound calling, and VoIP termination services. For business customers, XO offers a range of voice services including local voice,...

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eBay and VeriSign Form Strategic Alliance for Online Commerce and Security

PayPal, an eBay company, will acquire VeriSign's payment gateway business for approximately $370 million. VeriSign will also provide eBay and PayPal with a suite of security services that includes the deployment of two-factor authentication, a security system that gives customers a one-time password or digital certificate to help protect against online identity theft.VeriSign's payment gateway processed more than $40 billion in total payment volume in 2004. PayPal is seeking to accelerate its merchant services business by expanding its customer...

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Global Crossing Deploys IPv6 in Global Network

Global Crossing has deployed IPv6 natively across it's global IP network. IPv6 is now a standard service component in Global Crossing's global Internet Access Services. The company also confirmed that its global MPLS-based IP VPN infrastructure will be fully IPv6-enabled by the end of 2005."IPv6 adds tremendous intelligence, flexibility and scalability to ubiquitous communications," said Anthony Christie, Global Crossing's chief marketing officer. "Governments, research and education networks, transportation companies and wireless carriers will...

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