blinkx.tv Indexes One Million Hours of Online Video Content

blinkx.tv, a start-up based in San Francisco, announced that its rich media index has 1,027,000 hours, of TV clips, including comedy, sports and news programming from both traditional and user-generated sources. blinkx.tv is a search engine for the video content.blinkx has also enhanced and expanded its SmartFeed service, which is now serving some 500,000 requests a day. SmartFeed allows users to receive highly customized rich media RSS feeds. New developments including added support for ATOM and the integration of blinkx's SmartFeed technology...

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NexTone Raises $35 Million, Sees Customer Momentum for Intelligent Session Management

NexTone Communications raised $35 million in Series D funding for its distributed and intelligent session management solutions for VoIP and other real-time IP services.NexTone, which has provided intelligent session management solutions to more than 370 carrier and enterprise customers worldwide, estimates its customers now carry over 50% of all long-distance VoIP traffic in the world. NexTone expects that as service providers and enterprises embark...

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Hong Kong PCCW Deploys Juniper for Video/Broadband

PCCW, Hong Kong's incumbent carrier, has deployed Juniper Networks E-series Broadband Services Routers and SDX Service Deployment System to enable its IP-based video on demand (VoD) services. The Juniper Networks solution enables PCCW to dynamically allocate bandwidth for and assure the quality of service (QoS) of its now Broadband TV VoD service and its now.com.hk web-based streaming video service. Financial terms were not disclosed.PCCW has deployed the E-series Broadband Services Routers at the edge of its IP network to aggregate broadband traffic,...

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Versatel Selects Juniper for Triple Play over DSL

Versatel has selected Juniper Networks routing platforms for its new broadband services network, which will deliver VoIP, broadband access, broadcast TV, video on demand, and televised live sporting events, such as national league soccer, over DSL. Versatel is deploying Juniper's E-, M- and T-series routing platforms across 21 locations. The equipment is installed, integrated and maintained by Telindus, Juniper's local partner. The M- and T-series deliver advanced IP/MPLS capabilities in the core, and the E-series Broadband Services Routers provide...

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Juniper Offers Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for IPTV

Juniper Networks announced a unique Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation capability for its E-series Broadband Services Router aimed at IPTV. Juniper also introduced its SDX Network Resource Manager for the E-, M- and T-series family of IP routing platforms. Both enhancements provide advanced capabilities for managing bandwidth between large numbers of subscribers and multiple sources of video content. As IPTV rollouts gain momentum, Juniper expects...

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SimplySurf to Deploy Nortel Wireless Mesh Around Ottawa

SimplySurf, which provide dialup, ADSL, web hosting, server co-location in Ottawa, is deploying a wireless mesh network from Nortel to deliver broadband services in rural communities throughout Ottawa. SimplySurf is initially offering wireless broadband service to more than 1,200 homes and businesses in the community of Dunrobin, a rural village northwest of downtown Ottawa. In addition to Dunrobin, SimplySurf plans to use Nortel Mobility Solutions and professional services to expand wireless broadband access in multiple rural communities throughout...

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Telefónica International Wholesale Deploys Acme Packet

Telefónica International Wholesale Services is deploying Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers to deliver its business voice-over-IP (VoIP) trunking services. Telefonica Wholesale manages all of Group Telefonica's voice, IP, data and capacity wholesale services worldwide. Its network extends more than 45,000 km across Europe, Latin America and the United States, providing access to 150 international voice carriers.Telefonica Wholesale's VoIP services enable its carrier customers to trunk business voice traffic originating from enterprises...

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White Rock Introduces OC-3/STM-1 to T1/E1 Multiplexer

White Rock Networks has expanded its optical transport product family to include its new "VLX840" OC-3/STM-1 to T1/E1 Multiplexer.The VLX840 will provide additional DS1 capacity in conjunction with the VLX2006 OC-48 SONET-based Optical Access platform which supports OC-3/OC-12 drops, for a total package that delivers both electrical (DS1/DS3) and optical (OC-3/12 & FastE/GbE) services in a compact, power-efficient, carrier-class, environmentally hardened package.With up to 84 T1s (63 E1s) terminated on an OC-3 (STM-1 or OC-3) the VLX840 provides...

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Optical Internetworking Forum Works On Higher Density Electrical Interfaces

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) announced two new Physical and Link Layer Working Group (PLL WG) projects:a Common Electrical Interface (CEI) 25 project, which will address electrical interfaces of 20 to 25+ Gbps for both chip-to-chip and backplane applications. The published CEI Implementation Agreement (IA) enables backplane interfaces to operate up to 11 Gbps. This is the first step in addressing the Ultra High Bandwidth requirements presented by the OIF¹s Physical Layer User Group at the Forum¹s third quarter meeting in July 2005....

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Motorola: Three Lessons from Early HSDPA Trials

Motorola published a list of three key findings from its HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) trials in Europe. The HSDPA trials focused on user experience and how service providers can ensure high customer satisfaction at the launch. Motorola's three key HSDPA findings include:1. Sufficient processing power needed to reduce latencyHSDPA will provide high speed but can be prone to delays when using applications such as web browsing. These delays can be attributed to a mechanism known as "state switching". This effectively moves a user from...

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Cable One Selects Level 3's VoIP Enhanced Local Service

Cable One, the cable broadcasting division of The Washington Post Company, selected Level 3's (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service. Cable One operates 52 cable systems serving 720,000 subscribers in 19 states.Level 3's (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service includes network trunking, local numbers, local number portability, E-911, operator assistance, directory listings, and directory assistance. http://www.level3.com http://www.cableone....

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QUALCOMM Announces $2.5 Billion Stock Repurchase Program

QUALCOMM announced a new $2.5 billion stock repurchase program to replace its previous stock repurchase program, which had approximately $1.0 billion remaining availability. http://www.qualcomm....

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Surewest Reaches 19,000 FTTH Customers, 2,000 IPTV

SureWest Communications, which serves the Sacramento, California region, reported strong broadband growth, with broadband revenues rising 30% yoy to $13.0 million.Surewest said its broadband revenue growth was fueled by a 30% increase in subscribers on the fiber-to-the-premise network to more than 19,000 subscribers, and a 36% increase in marketable homes to 84,500 at September 30, 2005. In addition, DSL subscribers increased nearly 21% to more than 26,500 subscribers, including more than 2,000 video subscribers on the IPTV platform, more than...

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Cablevision to Launch 30 Mbps and 50 Mbps Cable Modem Tiers in NY

Cablevision Systems, which serves some 3 million households in the New York metropolitan area, introduced two premium bandwidth tiers for its cable modem Internet service:Optimum Online Boost, offering speeds of up to 30 Mbps downstream and 2 Mbps upstream, Optimum Online Ultra, offering symmetrical data connections of up to 50 Mbps upstream and downstreamCablevision's current Optimum Online service will also be upgraded from 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream to 15 Mbps downstream and 2 Mbps up at no additional cost.Cablevision will begin...

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NETGEAR's New Wireless MIMO Products Reach Up to 240 Mbps

NETGEAR unveiled its RangeMax 240 family of wireless networking products, claiming the ability to reach wireless speeds of 240 Mbps and the ability to eliminate dead spots.The products leverage "True MIMO" Gen 3 technology from Airgo Networks, which uses spatial multiplexing to stream multiple data streams over a single channel, new "Adaptive Channel Expansion")technology for dynamically increasing performance to support bandwidth-intensive applications in a Wi-Fi friendly way, and automatic channel selection to provide the clearest and most available...

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Fujitsu to Demonstrate WiMAX Reference Design With Video Streaming

Fujitsu Microelectronics is demonstrating WiMAX-based video streaming, web browsing and high speed file transfers. Both the base station communicating and the subscriber station used in the demonstration were built using the Fujitsu WiMAX Reference Design kit. The kit incorporates all the required hardware and software features to enable designers to develop WiMAX-compliant base station and subscriber station equipment. It is now available for customers worldwide. The demonstration was help at this week's Global WiMAX Summit in Beining, China....

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AT&T Wins $17 Million Networking Contract From Aegis

Aegis Communications, which provides transaction-based business process outsourcing, has awarded AT&T a $17 million networking services contract. The five-year agreement renews and expands a longstanding relationship between the two companies. AT&T will also provide its "ACCU-Ring" Network Access Service at Aegis' headquarters building in Texas. http://www.att....

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Montreal's Videotron Files Suit Against Bell ExpressVu

Bell Canada announced that Videotron, Canada's third largest cable operator, amended its lawsuit originally filed against Bell ExpressVu on 31-August-2005, against Bell ExpressVu, which also provides digital television services. The amendment increases the amount of damages claimed from $1 million to approximately $49.5 million for profits allegedly lost over the last three years, $314.7 million for alleged future losses and $10 million in punitive damages.Videotron has alleged that Bell ExpressVu failed to adequately protect its system against...

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QUALCOMM Files GSM Patent Infringement Suit Against Nokia

QUALCOMM and its wholly owned subsidiary, SnapTrack, filed suit against Nokia in U.S. federal court in San Diego for infringement of eleven of QUALCOMM's patents and one patent owned by SnapTrack.QUALCOMM's lawsuit includes patents that are essential for the manufacture or use of equipment that complies with the GSM, GPRS and EDGE cellular standards (the GSM family of standards) and other patents. QUALCOMM's complaint states that Nokia is infringing QUALCOMM's patents by making or selling products in the United States that comply with the GSM...

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TiVo and Yahoo! Offer Online Schedueling

TiVo's online scheduling features will be offered on Yahoo! TV under a partnership announced by the firms. Yahoo! TV users are now able to request, via TiVo's scheduling technology, recordings of their favorite TV shows on their TiVo Series2 devices from anywhere they access Yahoo!. In the coming months, TiVo and Yahoo! will also make some Yahoo! services, including photos, traffic, and weather available as part of the TiVo service.Yahoo! TV offers a variety of entertainment information, such as show times, program descriptions and cast photographs,...

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Identity Engines Unveils Enterprise ID Management Appliance

Identity Engines, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, introduced enterprise-grade appliance designed to provide centrally-managed network identity management to ensure that only authorized users are granted access to the network and that a user's activities are consistent with their role in the organization. The appliance uses widely-supported protocols, such as RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) and 802.1x., and tightly integrates with common identity stores such as Microsoft's Active Directory as well as popular LDAP...

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