Strix Secures $12 Million for Wireless Mesh

Strix Systems, a start-up based in Calabasas, California, secured $12 million in an oversubscribed round of preferred stock financing for its wireless mesh networking solutions.Strix's Access/One solutions employ a unique modular, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-RF wireless mesh architecture that enables the high throughput and low latency needed to support wireless voice, video, and data applications. The design supports up to six radios per...

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Siemens Secures IPTV Content with Verimatrix

Siemens will integrate Verimatrix's Content Authority System (VCAS) into its SURPASS Home Entertainment portfolio, providing broadband operators with additional controls to guard against IPTV video and content piracy. The SURPASS Home Entertainment solution also includes integrated security and management solutions provided by middleware from Myrio, a Siemens company.Verimatrix's VCAS, already part of the Siemens Home Entertainment solution deployed by KPN Royal Dutch Telecom, allows devices and systems within media delivery networks to be encrypted...

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China Netcom and Telefonica Sign Strategic Alliance

China Netcom and the Telefónica Group formally entered into a strategic alliance. The deal will become effective after the completion of the acquisition of the additional shares by Telefónica, representing the difference between the existing stake of 5% of the outstanding issued shares held by Telefónica and 9.9% of the entire issued share capital of the company outstanding from time to time.http://www.telefonica...

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Tropos Adds Former Qualcomm Exec as VP of Marketing

Tropos Networks announced the addition of Ellen Kirk as vice president of marketing. Previously, Kirk served as Vice President, Business Development, in the CDMA Technologies Division of Qualcomm, where she was responsible for creating W-CDMA handset strategies, defining initiatives for accelerating migration to 3G, and driving adoption of location-based services worldwide. In this role, Ms. Kirk was instrumental in creating global awareness of Qualcomm's gpsOne technology as the dominant method for locating wireless handsets. Kirk joined Qualcomm's...

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Tropos Announces New Tools and Partners for MetroMesh Networks

Tropos Networks announced significant enhancements to its MetroMesh architecture with its new family of MetroMesh operation and optimization tools, as well as new partners to help with rapid deployment wireless mesh services.The MetroMesh optimization and operation tools aimed at speeding the deployment of MetroMesh networks include:Tropos Insight -- a remote MetroMesh analyzer and optimizer that evaluates backhaul, mesh and client performance across the network. The tool retrieves metrics and local statistical data from each router and then identifies...

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Patriot Media Deploys Nortel Cable VoIP

Patriot Media, a cable operator serving 115,000 homes in central New Jersey, is using Nortel's cable VoIP solution for its newly launched Digital Phone service. The installation uses Nortel's PacketCable-qualified Communication Server (CS) 2000-Compact softswitches. Nortel Global Services also provided integration and testing of IP Unity's Mereon 6000 Media Server and Mereon Unified Messaging application. http://www.nortel....

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Juniper to Acquire Funk Software for Network Access Security

Juniper Networks agreed to acquire Funk Software, a provider of standards-based network access security solutions, for approximately $122 million in cash. Funk Software, which is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, develops products and technologies that protect the integrity of the network by ensuring both the user and the device meet an organization's security policies before they are granted access. These solutions include market leading products such as its RADIUS/AAA server, Steel-Belted Radius, Odyssey Client, an 802.1X client for...

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Capgemini Selects France Telecom in EUR 200 Million Project

Capgemini selected France Telecom and its subsidiaries Orange and Equant for a ten year network outsourcing project for Schneider Electric Industries. The deal, which was valued at EUR 200 million, covers telecommunications systems and services at approximately 500 sites across Europe. http://www.francetelecom....

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Fermilab Deploys Ciena ONLINE Metro DWDM

The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) is deploying Ciena's ONLINE Metro Multiservice DWDM Platform.ONLINE Metro is enabling 10G wavelengths for Fermilab to connect with one of the most advanced international optical networking facilities in the world - the StarLight (Science Technology and Research Light-Illuminated Gigabit High-Performance Transit) facility on the Chicago campus of Northwestern University.At this week's SCinet event at the SC|05 conference in Seattle, Fermilab will demonstrate disk-to-disk replication between its...

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Cingular Offers MobiTV's 40-Channel Radio Service

Cingular Wireless began offering MobiTV's 40-channel digital radio service to its mobile customers.MobiRadio on Cingular is a rich consumer application which displays album art, song and artist information during playback. In the coming months, Cingular and MobiTV expect to expand the services offered through MobiRadio by integrating the ability to instantly purchase related ringtones and other associated content as the music plays directly from the customer's Cingular phone.MobiRadio on Cingular is currently available on the Nokia 6620, Sony Ericsson...

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China Unicom Deploys Cisco Mobile Exchange

China Unicom will deploy the Cisco CMX (Cisco Mobile Exchange) solution in Beijing, Guangdong, Shandong and Heilongjiang to support on-demand services, service-based authorization and tariff schemes.The move to a wireless data access platform also facilitates China Unicom's development in the 2.5G and 3G mobile data business. The CMX enables China Unicom to manage real-time services and pre-paid applications. In addition, the Cisco CMX supports pre-paid and post-paid systems and allows operators to switch from air-time-based or per-byte tariff...

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Level 3 Signs Multiyear VoIP Deal with NJ's Patriot Media

Level 3 is providing its (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service to Patriot Media, a New Jersey based cable operator serving 115,000 households. Included in (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service is a fixed-line solution for E-911 that includes network connections to public safety answering points (PSAPs) that serve approximately 68 percent of households across the United States. The principal components offered by Level 3's (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service include network trunking, local telephone numbers, local number portability, the safety of E-911, operator...

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Nokia Powers Optus/Vodafone Shared 3G Network in Australia

Nokia supplied network infrastructure and turnkey services for Optus' 3G services launch in Australia, as well as assisting Optus to develop 3G consumer applications.In August 2004, Optus and Vodafone Australia agreed to share 3G network sites and radio infrastructure across Australia. Under the agreement, Optus and Vodafone will work together to build and operate a joint national 3G radio network infrastructure.The shared network is the first in the world to feature Nokia's Multi-Operator Radio Access Network (MO-RAN) technology, which allows...

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Ruckus Wireless Debuts Wireless Access Gateway for Metro WiFi

Ruckus Wireless, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, introduced the first in a family of broadband wireless home gateways - the Ruckus MetroFlex - designed for MetroMesh Wi-Fi networks. Problems with metro-scale Wi-Fi networks include inadequate range, performance fluctuations, unstable wireless connectivity and broadband performance degradation due to interference. The new Ruckus MetroFlex 2201, available in January 2006, integrates the...

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Moxi Media Center Deployed by 7th MSO, Installations reach 225,000

Eagle Communications, which owns six cable television systems in Kansas, will deploy the Moxi Media Center to its cable customers.Eagle Communications is the seventh U.S. cable operator to deploy the Moxi Media Center, which has now been installed in more than 225,000 homes in roughly 80 markets across North America. The other Moxi customers include Charter, Adelphia, BendBroadband, NewWave Communications, Sunflower Broadband and Service Electric Cablevision.The Moxi Media Center is a television media center that includes a dual-tuner HDTV digital...

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SaskTel Selects JDSU's VoIP Test

Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel) selected JDSU's VoIP test and performance management service assurance solution.SaskTel has chosen JDSU's NetComplete to improve service quality management processes by obtaining visibility of the end-customer voice experience throughout the entire lifecycle of a call. SaskTel will also be able to perform service-assurance functions, such as service monitoring, rapid fault isolation, and tier-two troubleshooting to effectively address the unique challenges of delivering carrier grade VoIP. NetComplete will...

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Infonetics Predicts 54 Million IPTV Subscribers in 2009

Worldwide IPTV service revenue will skyrocket to over $44 billion in 2009, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. The market research firm is also predicting that:IPTV services infrastructure capex will grow 1,377%, from $304 million to close to $4.5 billionThe number of IPTV subscribers worldwide will grow to 53.7 million in 2009http://www.info.infonetics....

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AOL Employs Konitiki's P2P for Internet VOD Service

AOL will begin offering a free, Internet-based VOD service that will feature multiple channels in high-resolution video of vintage TV episodes from Warner Bros. The network- called In2TV - will allow consumers to stream full-length TV episodes and will be available for free on the AOL.com portal in early 2006. The service will be supported by commercials. GM is the first sponsor during the trial period.AOL will use the Kontiki Plug-in and Relay Network delivery mechanism to deliver the VOD service. AOL is promising DVD-like quality in full...

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Venturi Wireless Optimizes Mobile Media Sessions

Venturi Wireless, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, introduced its optimization suite for consumer applications and wireless devices ranging from feature phones to smartphones and PDAs. Venturi Wireless aims to significantly improve the performance of multimedia services on wireless devices, by providing an optimized media server and client application capable of accelerating downloads up to three times. Video/audio streams would start two to three times faster. The architecture scales to enable mobile operators to meet the demands of...

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