Cisco Highlights IP NGN Momentum, IMS Enhancements

In conjunction with its Worldwide Analyst Conference 2005 this week in San Jose, Cisco Systems cited growing momentum for its IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture and announced a series of product enhancements for IMS-based applications. Cisco cited Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) as a primary driver for IP NGN.Recent service provider adoption of Cisco's IP NGN include China Telecom, Cable&Wireless (UK), Telstra (Australia), Hong Kong Broadband, SaskTel (Canada) and Euskaltel (Spain).The Cisco Service Exchange Framework (SEF), which...

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Venturi Wireless Names CEO

Venturi Wireless named Bret Sewell as its new president and CEO. Sewell previously served as president of SnapTrack, Inc., a $50 million company that created the high-precision location-based wireless services market. Sewell pioneered SnapTrack partnerships with DoCoMo, KDDI, Sprint, Verizon, Alltel, Bell Mobility, SK Telecom, KT Freetel, China Unicom, and other carriers, as well as with wireless equipment manufacturers such as Motorola, Texas...

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MontaVista Support's TI's DaVinci with Linux

The MontaVista Linux Professional Edition (Pro) is the first available operating system for Texas Instruments' DaVinci technology. As part of the new DaVinci technology offering, TI will include MontaVista Pro together with two digital signal processor (DSP) -- based systems on a chip (SoC), multimedia codecs, application programming interfaces (APIs), frameworks and development tools for digital video systems. http://www.mvista....

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Cingular Wireless Deploys Kodiak for PTT

Cingular Wireless has deployed Kodiak Networks' Real-Time Exchange (RTX) System to power new voice services, including Push to Talk (PTT). The Kodiak RTX supports various capabilities included in Cingular's initial service launch, including: Mobile user availability -- displays the current availability of friends, family, co-workers, customers and suppliers to receive a wireless call. Availability includes "available", "silent mode", "do not disturb", and "offline" states. Voice Messaging - allows instant voice messaging from Kodiak-enabled phones...

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Japan's OnDemand TV Deploy Verimatrix IPTV Content Protection

OnDemand TV, a joint venture between NTT West, NTT East and Itochu, has deployed the Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS) to protect Video-on-Demand (VOD) and broadcast content. OnDemand TV is using IPv6-based fiber networks with MPEG-2 compression to deliver its extensive library of VOD movies and 27 broadcast channels to its FTTH subscribers across Japan. VCAS was integrated with the SeaChange IP Video System, SkyStream's Mediaplex-20 video headend for video streaming and Buffalo's PC-STB1 set-top box. Itochu Technoscience Corporation...

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TI Samples First DaVinci Digital Video Silicon

Texas Instruments released the first products based on its DaVinci technology, including two digital signal processor-(DSP) based system-on-chips (SoC), multimedia codecs, application programming interfaces (APIs), frameworks and development tools.TI said the advantage of its DaVinci products is that developers are able to add digital video to an application by simply writing to an API.The TMS320DM644x architecture is a highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC) that has absorbed many of the external components required for digital video, dropping...

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LSI Logic Introduces HDTV DVD Recorder Processors

LSI Logic introduced ATSC-compliant HDTV DVD recorder system processors. Based on the LSI DoMiNo architecture, DMN-8633 and DMN-8683 are highly-integrated, single-chip processors capable of simultaneously decoding and displaying HDTV content, while recording content onto DVD.LSI Logic said that to address the FCC mandate that requires peripheral TV equipment such as VCRs and DVD recorders to be ATSC-compliant by March 2007, DVD recorder manufacturers will need to add HDTV/ATSC tuner capability (consisting of a digital tuner, an 8VSB demodulator,...

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Intel and ST Announce Common Memory Subsystem for Mobiles

STMicroelectronics and Intel announced a common flash memory subsystem to lower development costs for handset OEMs and enable them to get to market faster with feature-rich phones. The two companies agreed to provide hardware- and software-compatible NOR flash memory products based on common specifications. The deal creates a "second source" for NOR flash products and subsystems marks the first time that ST and Intel have worked together on common memory specifications. The first Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NOR products based on the common specifications...

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Moscow's COMCOR Selects Scientific-Atlanta

COMCOR (Moscow Telecommunication Corporation) selected Scientific-Atlanta equipment to deliver cable programming to customers in Moscow. Multiple cable operators will access COMCOR's signal that will be delivered to fiber nodes in its backbone network via the Scientific-Atlanta equipment. The two-year network expansion includes enhancements to COMCOR's existing Scientific-Atlanta digital headend, new Vision 1000 analog headends, the deployment of the iLYNX backbone system and associated fiber nodes, and the installation of Prisma II analog optics....

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Kenya Data Networks Deploys LightPointes Optical Wireless

Kenya Data Networks (KDN), has installed three LightPointe FlightStrata 155 optical wireless systems for a metropolitan ring network in the city of Nairobi. Huawei Technologies, a strategic OEM partner for LightPointe, led the network integration, provisioning and installation for the wireless network deployment. In addition to KDN, Huawei is leveraging LightPointe's optical wireless products for several international carriers that provide a variety of subscriber services through mobile wireless and traditional wireline networks. http://www.li...

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Global Crossing, SURFnet carry 19 Gbps Transatlantic Visualization Stream

Global Crossing supplied multiple 10 Gbps wavelengths to the Dutch research network operator SURFnet to set a world record in transatlantic visualization. Scientists SARA, the academic computer center in Amsterdam, displayed a visualization stream of 19.5 Gbps between NetherLight, the GLIF Open Lightpath Exchange (GOLE) in Amsterdam, and San Diego.During the experiment, network usage peaked at 19.5 Gbps, with a sustained rate of 18 Gbps -- a world record for bandwidth usage by one single application showing actual scientific content. The experiment...

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Verizon Consider Sale of Directories Business

Verizon Communications is considering strategic alternatives for the domestic operations of the company's wholly owned directories publishing business, Verizon Information Services (VIS). The division operates SuperPages.com and publishes approximately 1,750 telephone directories in 44 states and Washington, D.C.Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg said, "With the MCI merger expected to close shortly, this is the right time for us to optimize our business mix and unlock value. We remain focused on a competitive strategy of operating the best...

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Personeta Raises $12 Million for IMS Application Servers

Personeta, a start-up based in Naperville, Illinois with R&D in Israel, secured $12 million in additional equity financing in a series D round for its Network Service Control (NSC) and IMS application servers.Personeta's TappS NSC speeds time to market and introduction of new service offerings. It also delivers the same services over any combination of network technologies -- fixed, mobile, VoIP and broadband. As an application server, TappS NSC interfaces directly with the Call Service Control Framework (CSCF) and HSS functions using standard...

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Reef Point Adds UMA Test Tools for its Security Gateway

Reef Point Systems, which supplies a massively scalable security gateway for the fixed mobile convergence market, introduced a suite of Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) test tools for production-scale implementations of UMA based on the IKEv2 protocol.Reef Point said it developed the iQ UMA Test Suite to fully stress and validate UMA implementations including simulating hundreds of thousands of mobile station endpoints and exercising the entire authentication infrastructure at scale. Reef Point's control and data plane test suite, which runs on its...

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VeriSign Activates Internet Domain Server Cluster in Australia

VeriSign activated a new regional server cluster in Sydney serving as the authoritative registry for .com and .net domain names.com in Australia. VeriSign now operates a global constellation of 18 geographically-dispersed Internet server clusters that monitor and mirror the world's Internet traffic for .com and .net. The company said it is processing more than 15 billion queries daily in its operation of .com and .net Internet infrastructure. http://www.verisign....

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Cisco CRS-1 Adds IP-over-DWDM

Cisco Systems announced over IP over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (IPoDWDM) on its CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, enabling integration between the IP layer and the optical transmission layer. Cisco said the capability will help service providers increase the throughput of existing DWDM infrastructures from 10Gbps to 40Gbps to efficiently manage traffic growth from video/IPTV services.The Cisco IPoDWDM integration strategy features three key integration points: Element Integration, Control Integration, and Management Integration.Element...

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Ericsson Supplies ADSL2+ in Vietnam

Ericsson was selected by Vietnamese operator Saigon Postel (SPT) as the main (key) supplier for its network upgrade to ADSL2+. Ericsson is providing network design, supply, delivery and installationof its IP-DSLAM EDA system, as well as relevant training and support services. Deployments are underway in Ho Chi Minh City. http://www.ericsson....

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ntl Expected to acquire Virgin Mobile -- UK Quadruple Play

ntl is in talks to acquire Virgin Mobile, possible creating a UK "quadruple play" communications company with cable TV, high-speed broadband, mobile phone and fixed-line voice services. In October, ntl confirmed plans to acquire Telewest for GBP 3.4 billion ($6 billion), creating the UK's second largest communications company with a cable footprint covering more than 50% of the nation's households. The combined company will have nearly 5 million customers, including 2.5 million residential broadband subscribers and the second largest fixed telephony...

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