BellSouth and Yahoo! Form Strategic Alliance

BellSouth and Yahoo! entered into a strategic alliance to provide co-branded broadband service to BellSouth FastAccess DSL subscribers throughout BellSouth's nine-state operating region. Beginning in late 2006, this new co-branded service will be provided, at no additional charge, to all new BellSouth residential broadband subscribers on all tiers of service. BellSouth's existing base of subscribers will have the option to select the co-branded service. The companies have also agreed to market the new BellSouth Yahoo! service on the Yahoo! network...

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Cingular selects Lucent for IMS

Cingular Wireless awarded a four-year contract to Lucent Technologies to supply a comprehensive IMS-based (IP Multimedia Subsystem) solution that will enable Cingular to rapidly develop and launch a broad range of new personalized voice, video, data and multimedia services. Financial terms were not disclosed.Cingular will deploy components of Lucent's Accelerate Next Generation Communications Solutions portfolio, which includes the Lucent Session...

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Global Crossing Partners with China's CPCNet

Global Crossing is interconnecting its MPLS network with CPCNet Hong Kong Limited, a CITIC Pacific company. The deal enables Global Crossing to offer MPLS to 12 cities in mainland China.In the last 12 months, Global Crossing has expanded its MPLS core network by deploying IP Service Points of Presence (PoPs) in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney and Singapore, in addition to forging a partnership with Sify in India. http://www.globalcrossing.com http://www.cpcnet-hk.c...

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Broadcom Rolls Out Latest Voice over Cable Chip

Broadcom announced the production of its newest voice over cable modem system-on-a-chip (SoC). The device (BCM3368) incorporates the company's new VoIP on Enhanced RISC (VIPER) processor architecture, enabling primary multi-line voice solutions to be implemented without the costly and complicated dual processor, dual memory architectures used in all prior voice over cable modems. Additionally, the VIPER architecture significantly simplifies the development of VoIP solutions, reduces the development costs of DSP programming and reduces time to market....

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Greenfield Unveils Carrier Ethernet Switch Silicon

Greenfield Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced its "Packetry" II Architectural Platform, targeting the rapidly growing Metro Ethernet market driven by Triple Play services and IP Convergence. The Packetry II architectural platform features a combination of cost-effective Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, integrated traffic management capabilities, and advanced metro capabilities, such as scalable tables and buffering, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, VPLS, QinQ, MAC-in-MAC and hierarchical QoS, traffic policing and shaping. Greenfield's...

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Lingo Chooses Intrado to Provide VoIP 9-1-1

Primus Telecommunications' Lingo VoIP phone service will use the Intrado V9-1-1(SM) Mobility Service for many of its VoIP subscribers. V9-1-1 Mobility Service will help support Lingo's plans for complying with the FCC's rules that require VoIP service providers to provide E9-1-1 to subscribers by November 28, 2005.http://www.intrado.com http://www.lingo.c...

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Fujitsu and Galazar Collaborate on Ethernet/SONET

Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) and Galazar Networks announced a partnership aimed at developing advanced Ethernet over SONET networking components.The first elements of this collaboration are the CompactNode and MicroNode, which were announced by Galazar in August , and were developed based on the Fujitsu Ethernet over SONET technology. Two companies will collaborate to develop next-generation networking solutions for carrier- services applications.http://www.galazar.com http://www.us.fujitsu.com/micro/10gether...

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Britain's ITV Launches Online Video Service

ITV, the UK's largest commercial broadcaster, launched a free, online service allowing viewers to access local ITV content and commercial services over the Web. The new service features local news, weather, music and what's on guides, as well as locally produced short films, features and entertainmen. There are seven different channels on each service and the ability to view content live, on demand, in a 24 x 7 schedule and via a searchable archive....

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Conexant Introduces ADSL2plus CPE Chipset with VoIP

Conexant Systems introduced an ADSL2plus chipset featuring an integrated two-channel voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) processor and dual high-speed universal serial bus (USB) 2.0 interfaces. The chip is based on the ARM-10 core processor. To further boost processing power, additional hardware engines have been incorporated in the devices. These include Conexant's PRISM Nitro XM technology which significantly increases 802.11g and 802.11a/g performance, and a security engine for computationally intensive tasks such as VPN or wireless LAN encryption.The...

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BellSouth Licenses Netopia to Manage DSL CPE from Multiple Vendors

BellSouth has licensed Netopia's NBBS server software platform to manage and support broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) deployed on its network and to streamline the deployment of value-added broadband services. Financial terms were not disclosed.BellSouth selected the Netopia NBBS platform to meet its needs for CPE management compliant with the DSL Forum's TR-069 specifications for centralized remote management. Netopia's NBBS software supports the TR-069 specification for interoperability with CPE manufactured by multiple vendors. Netopia...

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Motorola's Zafirovski to Replace Bill Owens as Nortel CEO

Mike S. Zafirovski was selected to succeed Bill Owens as Nortel's president and CEO on November 15th, 2005. Zafirovski (51) most recently served as president and chief operating officer of Motorola (2002 to 2005). He joined Motorola in 2000 as president and CEO of its Personal Communications Sector division. From 1975 to 2000, Zafirovski held a succession of executive positions at General Electric's key divisions: president and CEO, GE Lighting;...

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Movistar Argentina Selects Ericsson for GSM Expansion

Movistar Argentina, a member of the Telefonica Moviles group, selected Ericsson as a sole supplier for its GSM and transmission networks expansion. Ericsson will supply EDGE-ready GSM/GPRS 850MHz and 1900MHz radio access and core network to expand Movistar's nationwide GSM network. Ericsson will also enhance Movistar's access transmission network with MINI-LINK microwave transmission. It includes high capacity radios and smart traffic nodes, together with implementation and professional services. MINI-LINK will help Movistar Argentina to meet...

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Cox Deploys Eagle's HD Set-Top Box

Eagle Broadband has delivered the first orders of its MediaPro IP5000HD high definition IP set-top boxes to Cox Business Services, for their Hospitality Network, which provides in-room guest video and data technology services to the hotel-gaming industry.Cox's Hospitality Network is using Eagle's MediaPro IP5000HD high definition set-top boxes to enable high quality in-room entertainment services including high definition movies and music-on-demand, high-speed Internet access, an interactive television guide, electronic concierge services, online...

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VeriSign Acquires Moreover for RSS Aggregation

VeriSign announced the acquisition of Moreover Technologies, a wholesale aggregator of real-time content for Web sites, search engines and enterprise customers, for approximately $30 million. Currently, Moreover aggregates more than 12,000 news sources and millions of blogs. Moreover has 35 employees with offices in San Francisco and London. Verisign said that by combining Moreover's content aggregation services with its global feed management infrastructure, it will be able to offer a scalable, real-time content platform.http://www.verisign...

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NetworkStreaming Raises $6 Million for SSL Remote Support

NetworkStreaming, a start-up based in Ridgeland, Mississippi, closed $6 million in second round funding for its SSL appliance-based remote support solutions.NetworkStreaming's SSL appliance enables any remote PC to initiate an on-demand help desk session with full screen-sharing and remote control capabilities. The remote PC do not need to have a pre-installed client and the encrypted session works through corporate firewalls because each session is initiated by the end user.The company also offers an "AccessDesk" product that lets network managers...

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Office Depot Launches VoIP with Accessline

Office Depot launched a new "Wireless Office Service" that enables small and medium-sized businesses to centralize all employee phone numbers (whether in-office, cell phones or home office numbers) with one single main number. The service is now available across the U.S. and is being promoted as part of Office Depot's 19th Anniversary sale.The VoIP-based service is powered by AccessLine Communications, a provider of hosted and managed voice services exclusively for the business marketplace. Accessline built its own AccessLine SoftSwitch, AccessLine...

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SureWest Reaches 30% Residential DSL Milestone

SureWest Communications, which serves the Sacramento, California region, has reached a 30% DSL penetration rate for its residential customer base in the area served by its incumbent local telephone company. With nearly 27,000 DSL subscribers (24,000 residential) as of September 30, 2005, SureWest provides both high-speed Internet service and a video over DSL service for customers in the communities of Roseville, Citrus Heights, Antelope and Granite Bay, California.The company said its DSL penetration increased from just over 7% in its residential...

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ADVA Acquires Covaro for Ethernet Demarcation Devices

ADVA Optical Networking agreed to acquire Covaro Networks, a start-up offering Ethernet demarcation products, for approximately $24 million in stock and cash. Covaro, which is based in Richardson, Texas, developed a line of products that enable service providers to offer intelligent Ethernet services over fiber, copper, SONET/SDH, DS3/DS1 and E3/E1. Covaro's "Etherjack" technology allows carriers (or enterprises) to transport and manage Ethernet services using traditional management methods for T1/T3 services. The system provides an Ethernet demarcation...

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