NEC Selects Ikanos for New VDSL Equipment

NEC Magnus Communications has selected Ikanos' Fx 100100 and Fx100100S-4 chipsets to deliver up to 100 Mbps symmetrical data services in new versions of its broadband access products.NEC Magnus has used Ikanos' VDSL chipsets in its access platforms and customer premises equipment for three years, most recently in systems that deliver up to 100 Mbps downstream and 50 Mbps upstream performance in MTU/MDU applications. With the latest Fx and FxS series chipsets, NEC Magnus can now offer systems providing up to 100 Mbps symmetrical data rates. Moreover,...

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Disability Groups Call for Telecom Legislation for Access to Broadband Services

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD), the American Foundation for the Blind other disability groups is calling upon Congress to enact legislation mandating disability access to Internet-based communication services.The groups are urging that any updates to the Telecom Act include disabled access provisions for all services. Kelby Brick, NAD Director of Law and Advocacy, said: "People with disabilities use communications technologies every day that were not even in existence at the time our nation's communications laws were last amended....

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Nintendo Reports Strong Initial Uptake for WiFi Gaming

Nintendo reported that 45% of people who bought its new "Mario Kart" DS racing game for its Nintendo DS system already have test driven its free Wi-Fi capabilities.On November 14, Mario Kart DS became the first game to use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Through the end of Sunday, more than 112,000 people in the United States had purchased the game. In the same time frame, nearly 52,000 unique users had logged onto Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to play against people from all over the country.Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection lets users connect to the service at...

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Loral Emerges From Chapter 11

Loral Space & Communications completed its financial reorganization and emerged from the Chapter 11 process. Loral exits chapter 11 with approximately $180 million in cash. During the chapter 11 reorganization, Loral did not require any debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing, and, as of its emergence from chapter 11, has only $126 million of debt in the form of the notes issued by Loral Skynet. Loral Skynet has also issued $200 million of preferred stock to certain creditors of Loral Orion.Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) is a leading manufacturer...

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QUALCOMM Announces Foundry Partnership with Samsung

QUALCOMM announced a new manufacturing partnership with Samsung Electronics focused on advanced CMOS-based foundry processes for CDMA. QUALCOMM and Samsung's new foundry partnership expands on the two companies' existing relationship, and builds upon QUALCOMM's fabless business model of outsourcing foundry operations to partners such as Samsung. The companies will collaborate on current and future technology needs, with plans including the usage of Samsung's 90 nanometer (nm) and sub-90 nm nodes to enable manufacturing of leading-edge system-on-a-chip...

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CopperGate Secures $14.5 Million for Home Networking Silicon (HPNA)

CopperGate Communications, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, raised approximately $14.5 million in a third round funding for its chipset solutions for multimedia home networking.The financing led by new investor Carmel Ventures, with the participation of existing investors Tamir Fishman Ventures and the Challenge Fund. CopperGate has been a prime contributor to the HPNA V3 specification for high performance multimedia home phoneline networking. HPNA V3 standard chipsets utilize existing coax cables and telephony wiring in the home for connecting devices...

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Cisco Partners with ZTE in China, Asia-Pac

Cisco Systems will partner with ZTE Corporation to pursue business opportunities in the telecommunications service provider market in China and the Asia Pacific region, excluding Japan. The agreement was signed at a ceremony at ZTE's headquarters in Shenzhen, China earlier this month.http://www.cisco.com http://www.zte.com...

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First Avenue and RCN Build Wireless/Cable Service Alliance

RCN and First Avenue Networks have formed a strategic partnership to capitalize on the metropolitan wireless fiber extension market opportunity.Under the deal, First Avenue will equip RCN Business Solutions, the wholly owned but separately managed division of RCN Corporation that provides bulk video, high-capacity broadband and voice services to business customers, wireless extensions of their fiber network at up to 155 Mbps. In return, RCN will provide First Avenue the fiber links necessary to deliver carrier-grade backhaul service to its fixed...

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Mexico's Protel Selects Juniper/Lucent for MPLS

Protel i-Next, a Mexican full-service, facilities-based telecommunications carrier, is upgrading its national IP/MPLS backbone to better support its VoIP and IP Centrex services. As part of the project, Lucent is supplying Juniper Networks' M-series routing platforms. http://www.juniper.nethttp://www.lucent....

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Juniper Networks Appoints New CIO and VP Operations

Juniper Networks announced the appointments of Alan Boehme to the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Kevin Q. Smith to the position of vice president (VP), Operations. Boehme joins Juniper Networks from Best Software, a leading provider of business management applications for small and mid-sized companies. Smith joins Juniper from Sanmina, where, in his role as senior vice president and general manager, he had full responsibility for his division's product and marketing strategy. Prior to Sanmina, he was the vice president of operations...

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Force10 Powers Fifteen of the Top 100 Fastest Supercomputers

Fifteen of the world's 100 fastest supercomputers are using Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers, including two of the top 10, according to a list published by Top500.org. Force10 Networks said the current Top500 list illuminates several transitions occurring within high performance computing environments. Chief among these is a movement of supercomputing technologies from research and education organizations into the enterprise with 53% of the world's largest supercomputers being operated within commercial organizations...

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Brightcove Signs AOL for Internet Video Publishing, Raises $16 Million

Brightcove, a start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, signed a video content distribution partnership with AOL. Brightcove is building an open Internet TV service that would help video producers to monetize their content. Brightcove is currently available in an invitation-only commercial preview, which is being used by a variety of publishers ranging from independent producers to large cable broadcasters. Using the open online service, publishers are able to reach consumers through a wide range of broadband channels on the Internet while...

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U.S. Senate Schedules Telecom Hearings

The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee announced an aggressive schedule of telecom related hearings starting in January. The hearing are seen as a prelude to possible congressional action on revising the Telecom Act next year. Nomination hearings were also scheduled for open FCC Commissioner seats. Senate Commerce Committee  Telecom Hearings December 13 10:00 AM (Tuesday) Nomination hearings for Michael Copps and Deborah Taylor Tate to be FCC Commissioners ...

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Verizon to Launch FiOS TV in Herndon, Virginia

Verizon FiOS TV launches this week in Herndon, Virginia. This marks the first availability of the Verizon service outside of Texas.ttp://www.verizon.net/fio...

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