Macedonia Deploys Country-Wide Wireless Mesh with Strix

The Republic of Macedonia will deploy a country-wide wireless mesh network using Strix Systems' Access/One Outdoor Wireless System (OWS). The 1,000+ square-mile deployment is funded and deployed by Macedonian service provider On.Net and will be used to provide high speed data, voice, and video capabilities to the entire population of over two million people. On.Net has already deployed Strix's high-performance, multi-radio wireless mesh throughout Macedonia's capital city of Skopje, which provides wireless broadband capabilities to the nearly...

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Infineon Enhances IMS Client for Mobile Phones

Infineon Technologies' Comneon subsidiary began shipping the second release of its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Client for mobile phones. The implementation supports the standardized Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) push-to-talk application (version 1.0) and other IMS services, such as presence and group management. Infineon offers a fully portable IMS client embedded in mobile phones. It is also integrated in the APOXITM (Application Programming Object-Oriented Extendable Interface) framework and an option of Infineon's multimedia reference design...

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MetaSolv Lands Large Tier 1 Contract for Inventory and Order Management

MetaSolv was awarded a new multi-million dollar agreement with a major Tier 1, U.S.-based wireless and wireline service provider who has selected its M6 next-generation order and inventory management solution. The MetaSolv platform will be used to manage wholesale circuit and packet-based voice services. The unnamed carrier anticipates growth of its wholesale cable partner initiative. The operator will leverage MetaSolv's M6 to manage key inventory functions including telephone number management and provide comprehensive ordering capabilities...

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BT Cuts Local Loop Unbundling Prices 40% to Stimulate Competition

BT announced a 40% price cut in Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) tariffs aimed at further stimulating competition in the UK broadband market. br>The move follows BT's commitment to industry in June that it would bring the price of LLU New Provide charges in line with those for Wholesale Line Rental (WLR). BT said it is commited to making LLU a success. From 15-Dec-2005, the price for new provides on the fully unbundled product will be reduced from £168.38 (ex. VAT) to £99.95 (ex. VAT). BT will also be withdrawing the minimum term rental charges...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Mobile Selects Azaire for Fixed-Mobile Convergence

Taiwan's Chunghwa Mobile Business Group will deploy Azaire Networks' IP Converged Network Platform (IP-CNP) to provide its subscribers seamless services across 2.5G, 3G and WLAN networks. Chunghwa Mobile subscribers will be able to use a notebook PC with a 3G data card, a PDA or a dual-mode handset to access unified services across different wireless networks. Subscriber will be able to roam between macrocellular 3G networks and WLAN zones, always receiving the best connected service that has an identical look and feel.Azaire Networks, a start-up...

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China Mobile Selects ZTE for DWDM Network

China Mobile selected ZTE for a new optical backbone that will span 521 network nodes covering 18 provinces in Western and Southern China. The 25,000-km network is based on ZTE's ZXWM M900 DWDM platform, which incorporates ultra long-haul transmission technologies like ERZ (Enhanced Return to Zero code) modulation, AFEC (Advanced Forward Error Correction), HOBA (High-power Optical Booster Amplifier) and compensation technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.zte.com...

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FCC Commissioner Abernathy Steps Down

FCC Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy, a Republican, submitted her resignation letter to President Bush. She has served four and a half years in the post.Abernathy's resignation now leaves three of the five FCC Commissioner seats vacant. Earlier this month, President Bush nominated Michael J. Copps, of Virginia, for a new five year term as FCC Commissioner from July 1, 2005. It would be Copp's second term in the post. Copps is a Democrat. Bush nominated Deborah Taylor Tate, of Tennessee, to serve as FCC Commissioner for the remainder of the...

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BellSouth Test Markets Residential IT Services

BellSouth launched a "Managed Home Service" technical support service in metro Atlanta on a trial basis. BellSouth trained technicians will work with customers over the phone or at their homes to complete a range of PC services, including software installation, MP3 player and digital camera set-up, as well as system repair and virus removal. Charges will vary according to the services performed. http://www.bellsouth....

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Sunrise Telecom Adds VDSL Test Module

Sunrise Telecom introduced a Modular Test Toolkit (MTT) VDSL test module for its recently announced SunSet MTT ACM+ test chassis. The solution allows construction technicians to turn up and certify outside plant VDSL electronics and condition copper loops to support triple play FTTn deployments. It can be used to verify service quality and successful provisioning at the customer's home. Technicians can also use the MTT-ACM+ to do all the copper qualification and troubleshooting tests they need to ensure that they are getting the maximum attainable...

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Greenfield Names Cisco Exec as CEO

Greenfield Networks, a start-up offering merchant Ethernet switching silicon solutions, named Bill Rossi as its President and CEO. Rossi previously served as vice president and general manager of the Wireless Networking Business Unit at Cisco Systems. Rossi joined Cisco as part of the Grand Junction Networks acquisition in 1995. He also led marketing for Cisco's Desktop Switching Business Unit. http://www.greenfieldnetworks.comIn October 2005, Greenfield Networks announced its "Packetry" II Architectural Platform, targeting the rapidly growing...

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Skystream Supplies Media Routers for China Education TV

China Education Television (CETV) will use SkyStream's media delivery platforms to expand video content distribution, rural Internet service and distance-learning programs to remote areas.CETV will extend broadband distance learning across the nation using the SkyStream Source Media Router (SMR-26) IP encapsulation solution for broadcasting the educational content at the uplink and Edge Media Receiver and Router (EMR) to receive and distribute the content to its end destination. CETV will also offer video-on-demand and other video services to 25...

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BroadLight Raises $10 Million for GPON Silicon

BroadLight, a start-up offering components for FTTP solutions, closed $10 million in a series D financing round led by Motorola Ventures. Motorola Ventures was joined in the funding round by BroadLight's existing investors, including Azure Capital Partners, Broadcom, Delta Ventures, Israel Seed Partners, Siemens Venture Capital, Star Ventures and Tellabs.http://www.broadlight.comIn May 2005, BroadLight unveiled its end-to-end solution for gigabit-capacity, passive optical networks (GPONs). The end-to-end GPON (E2E GPON) features Broadlight's BL2000...

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Thomson Supplies Digital Cable Set-Top Box to Kabel Deutschland

Kabel Deutschland, Germany's leading cable operator, has certified Thomson's DCI1500G cable set-top box for deployment in its network.The DCI1500 features Nagravision's CAK6.0G digital security platform and conditional access to protect against hacking and piracy. The STB provides a multitude of features for digital TV subscribers, including access to free and Pay-TV programmes, home cinema-quality audio and a seven day electronic program guide. It comes with three language options - German, English and Turkish - and offers family-oriented functions...

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Indonesia's Biznet Deploys Nortel's Metro Ethernet

Biznet, an Indonesian ISP and data center provider, has deployed optical Ethernet technology in Jakarta. The new Biznet services include MetroNET, a bundled local loop and Internet access service at speeds up to 2 Mbps, and MetroWAN, a local loop service for interconnecting multiple locations across Jakarta's main business district. The services use Nortel's Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 to provide guaranteed bandwidth service levels, secure services with customer demarcation on a shared uplink, and QoS for triple-play applications. Nortel's Ethernet...

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Nortel Supplies IP Telephony to Israeli Parliament

The Knesset, Israel's governing parliament, has selected Nortel to provide a converged IP telephony network. The current deployment calls for the implementation of the Nortel Communication Server 1000E, making the Knesset and its members the first such deployment in the country.In the first phase of the project, to be completed by the end of 2005, 400 of the total 1,600 lines in the IP telephony system will be deployed in the Knesset's new wing by Taldor, Nortel's channel partner in the project. The remaining lines will be upgraded in the second...

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QUALCOMM Achieves 3.6 Mbps Data Rates With HSDPA

QUALCOMM has achieved HSDPA data rates of 3.6 Mbps with major infrastructure vendors using test terminals based on its Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipset."We have gone from sampling the MSM6280 chipset to achieving 3.6 Mbps calls in interoperability testing with infrastructure vendors in less than two months, and anticipate reaching data rates of 7.2 Mbps in the near future," said Luis Pineda, senior vice president of marketing and product management for QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies.QUALCOMM's first generation MSM6275 solution supports data rates...

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Vitesse Passes 15 Million GigE PHY Port Shipments

Vitesse Semiconductor has shipped in excess of 15 million Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) PHY ports to the worldwide market. The company said its single, quad, and octal SimpliPHY transceiver products have gained significant market share in the Gigabit LAN-on-Motherboard (GLOM), Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GEPON), and Small-Medium Enterprise (SME) Switch port market segments.http://www.vitesse....

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Cingular Enhances its Wireless Internet Interface

Cingular Wireless today announced a significant upgrade to its MEdia Net wireless Internet service that simplifies the interface to online content and adds personalization features. The new interface provides access to news and entertainment headlines, sports scores, financial quotes, local weather, and other content from a personal "phone page" with just one or two clicks on the phone's keypad. Cingular's more than 30 million customers with data-capable handsets will be automatically migrated to the new MEdia Net over the next several weeks. InfoSpace,...

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SBC to Invest $800 million in Texas Network

SBC Communications announced plans to invest $800 million in video and high-speed Internet access technology in Texas. The move follows the passage of a bill that streamlines the process of getting cable franchises for telecommunications carriers.SBC company officials were joined by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, numerous state and local officials, and executives from Alcatel at their Plano, Texas, IPTV Demonstration Center, in announcing one of the largest single private-sector technology deployments in the state's history.Texas Gov. Perry took part...

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Latest Atheros WiFi Chip Integrates Processor, MAC, Baseband, and Radio functions

Atheros Communications introduced its most integrated single-chip wireless LAN for access point and router products to date. The Atheros AR5007AP-G features a complete 802.11b/g wireless access point system on a chip, combining the wireless network processor, media access controller (MAC), baseband, and all radio functions up to the antenna. The level of integration significantly reduces the cost of implementing 802.11g Wi-Fi in access point products for homes and small businesses.Atheros said the AR5007AP-G offers a total component reduction of...

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Yankee Group Acquired by Alta Communications

The Yankee Group, a leading analyst firm focused on communications and networking technologies, has been acquired by Alta Communications, a private equity firm, and Emily Nagle Green from previous owner Decision Matrix Group, LLC. Financial terms were not disclosed.Emily Nagle Green is a research industry executive who served most recently as CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates.In a related move, longtime Yankee Group President and CEO Brian Adamik is stepping down after a transition period to pursue other opportunities. http://www.yankeegroup.com...

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