Redback Enhances Service Control for IP Video Networks

Redback Networks released a new version of its NetOp Policy Manager for its SmartEdge platform aimed at on-demand video and broadcast IP TV services. Based on the industry standard RADIUS protocol, the NetOp Policy Manager 2.0 is designed to work over residential and business broadband access technologies including DSL, Wi-Fi, Cable, Leased Lines, ATM/Frame Relay and Ethernet.The NetOp Policy Manager 2.0 solution tightly integrates with the Redback SmartEdge Service Gateway to assure high-quality on-demand video services by auto-adjusting bandwidth...

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The Cloud Plans European Wi-Fi Expansion with Tropos

Tropos Networks and The Cloud, the largest hot spot operator in Europe, announced a collaboration to deliver metro-scale mesh networks to city centers in the UK and Europe. The collaborative deployments will begin in 2006. Both parties anticipate the adoption of the joint solution to be aggressive, with a number of European projects to be announced during the year.The Cloud's networks are open to any service provider who would like to provide advanced wireless services to their customers. The Tropos MetroMesh architecture allows multiple user communities...

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ThingMagic Raises $21 Million for RFID Readers

ThingMagic, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., has raised $21 million in financing to support the development of its radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.ThingMagic's Mercury4 RFID reader platform is designed with a unique Software Defined Radio architecture. It is certified by EPCglobal and MET Labs for all three Generation 2 RFID modes, including the complex Dense Reader mode. The Mercury4 readers can be remotely updated for any future Generation 2 variants and other new RFID standards.New investors include Cisco Systems, Inc.,...

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Amino Confirms Interoperability with H.264 Encoder Vendors

Amino confirmed that its H.264 AmiNET124 IP set-top box is fully compatible with leading H.264 (otherwise known as MPEG4-AVC) encoders. The Amino set-top box is now certified to interoperate with H.264 encoded video from Harmonic, SkyStream, TANDBERG Television and Tut Systems.http://www.aminocom....

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Congress Sets February 2009 DTV Deadline

DTV-related provisions were included in Congress' budget reconciliation bill, which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on February 1. The final bill sets February 17, 2009, as the date certain for completion of the DTV transition; it allocates $990 million of the analog spectrum auction proceeds toward a digital-to-analog converter box program, with a provision that allows for the amount available to increase to $1.5 billion if Congress needs more money to fulfill the program; and the bill allocates $1 billion to be used for a grant...

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Motorola and NTT DoCoMo Develop 3.6 Mbps HSDPA Prototype

Motorola and NTT DoCoMo have co-developed a high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) prototype that can be used on WCDMA(3GPP Rel5) networks worldwide. The prototype which achieves a downlink data rate of up to 3.6 Mbps.The companies plan to actively undertake the interoperability test partnering with carriers and vendors from around the world. http://www.motorola....

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Nortel and Huawei Establish Joint Venture for Broadband Access Market

Nortel and Huawei Technologies will establish a joint venture for developing ultra broadband access solutions for markets around the world. The two companies have also entered into a supply agreement that allows Nortel to immediately begin engaging customers with Huawei's current broadband access portfolio.The new company will combine Huawei's broadband access solutions with Nortel's voice and broadband networking technologies to create a new product portfolio designed to be a leader in the industry in value and performance. These products will...

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Verizon Extends Global Ethernet Footprint in U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific

Verizon Business has expanded the availability of its Ethernet access services in key cities in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.Underlying the Ethernet service is the interconnection of the Verizon Ethernet network with the company's Converged Packet Access (CPA) hub switches to deliver consistent Ethernet access to Private IP customers globally. Immediately available, Verizon Business' extended Ethernet portfolio includes Ethernet Private Line (EPL) and Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL), which provide service in 85 metro...

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Cavium and Atheros Team on 802.11 Secure Gateways

Cavium Networks introduced an 802.11 a/b/g broadband wireless gateway reference design based on its newly unveiled OCTEON CN30XX MIPS64 SoCs (system-on-chip) and Atheros Communications' AR5006XS single chip WLAN solution. Cavium Networks also announced that it will be supporting the upcoming 802.11n standard.The OCTEON reference and evaluation platform is suited for wired and wireless Broadband Remote Access and Universal Threat Management Routers and Gateways, including the emerging 802.11n standard. Combined with the Atheros AR5414 single chip...

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Lucent Enhances VIVO's 1xEV-DO Network in Brazil

VIVO, the largest mobile operator in the Southern Hemisphere, selected Lucent Technologies to expand and enhance its 3G CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network. Lucent will provide additional infrastructure equipment and services and also work with Riverstone Networks and Juniper Networks to deliver a core IP/MPLS network serving Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.As part of the agreement, Lucent is upgrading more of VIVO's existing Lucent-supplied base stations to support CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and also providing new Modular Cell 4.0 and 4.0B base stations. Lucent Worldwide...

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Motorola Offers Push-to-Talk Over Cellular Service for Pre-paid

Motorola introduced a Push-to-Talk Over Cellular (PoC) Prepaid Mediation service that enables wireless operators to extend PoC services to prepaid customers in parallel with their postpaid subscribers. The solution works with the Motorola Global Application Management Architecture (GAMA) and virtually any billing system. It enables swift authentication and debiting of the customer account without a delay in call set-up and can support various types of PoC Prepaid billing scenarios that require a more customized approach to rating, such as pay...

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Nortel Gets US$1.3 Billion Financing Commitment

Nortel Networks entered into binding commitments for a new one year credit facility in the aggregate principal amount of US$1.3 billion arranged by J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking, or their affiliates. The new facility will be used to refinance the outstanding US$1.275 billion aggregate principal amount of 6.125% Notes due February 15, 2006.http://www.nortel....

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QUALCOMM Names Gina Lombardi to Lead MediaFLO

QUALCOMM announced the appointment of Gina Lombardi as president of MediaFLO USA, replacing Richard Sulpizio who served as interim president of MediaFLO USA since January 2005. Lombardi worked for 15 years at QUALCOMM. For the past 5 years she has served as senior vice president of marketing, product management and developer relations at QUALCOMM Internet Services, playing a critical role in driving the growth and adoption of QUALCOMM's BREW solution.http://www.qualcomm.c...

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Brasil Telecom Selects Lucent for IMS Elements

Brasil Telecom (BrT), one of the largest broadband service providers in Latin America, selected Lucent Technologies to deploy new multimedia elements in the operator's networks in Curitiba, Sao Paulo and Brasilia regions. The agreement covers equipment and software on Lucent's MiLife services platform, which includes multiple elements in Lucent's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution, that enables new applications over BrT's IP network. Financial terms were not disclosed.Lucent said it now has seven IMS contracts and 77 trials of IMS elements...

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AT&T Says Merger Synergies Above Expectations, Outlines Growth Sectors

AT&T issued new financial guidance, saying cost synergies from its recently completed merger are ahead of expectations and power double-digit adjusted earnings per share growth and strong cash flow growth over the next three years.The company said the net present value of AT&T merger synergies is now expected to be approximately $18 billion, versus its January 2005 estimate of $15 billion. AT&T now expects total synergies from the merger to reach an annual run-rate approaching $3 billion in 2008. Overall integration costs are largely...

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Cable and Wireless Announces Restructuring

Cable and Wireless announced a significant restructuring of its business, including the following points:splitting the company into two self-contained operational units -- UK (including Bulldog) and Internationalthe resignation of the Francesco Caio and the elimination of his position as Group Chief Executive.a reduction of its corporate operationsJohn Pluthero has been appointed head of the UK operations, while Harris Jones will serve as managing director of International operations.The company currently expects EBITDA for its UK operations to...

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Cisco, Intel and Oracle Push for Medical IT Improvements

Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, and Oracle have formed a Silicon Valley Pay-for-Performance Consortium aimed at pushing leading medical care providers in the area to adopt health information technologies.The Silicon Valley Pay-for-Performance Consortium brings together Cisco, Intel and Oracle as well as some of the largest medical groups and IPAs in Northern California, including Camino Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, San Jose Medical Group, Santa Clara County IPA, Santa Cruz Medical Foundation and Stanford Hospital...

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Belgium's Mobistar Selects Redback's SmartEdge

Mobistar, part of the Orange Group and Belgium's second largest mobile operator, has selected Redback's SmartEdge Service Gateway platform to build a DSL network to deliver new broadband services across Belgium. The SmartEdge Service Gateway systems are being deployed both in the core and at the edge of Mobistar's new broadband network, providing carrier class routing and consumer scale subscriber management services.http://www.redback....

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Georgia's Pineland Telephone Deploys Occam's BLS

Georgia's Pineland Telephone Cooperative is deploying Occam Networks' BLC 6000 System to deliver a full array of Triple Play services to residences and businesses in an eight-county area of south central Georgia. Currently, the cooperative has installed the Occam BLC 6000 in approximately 35 remote cabinets and is delivering POTS, ADSL and IP Video service to its subscribers, with hundreds of its 13,000-plus subscribers receiving IP Video service to date.In 2001, Pineland began a five-year plan to shorten its local loops with a goal of bringing...

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Telewest Chooses Corning NexCor Fiber for Upgrade

Telewest, a leading UK broadband communications and media group, will deploy Corning's access-optimized NexCor single-mode fiber in the latest upgrade of its hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) networks. Telewest is progressively upgrading its network, which currently passes 4.7 million homes. This latest expansion, which includes Corning NexCor fiber, will serve network upgrades in the Preston and Liverpool networks in northwest England.http://www.corning.com/opticalfi...

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Silver Peak Raises $13 Million for Network Acceleration Appliances

Silver Peak Systems, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, secured $13 million in series B funding for its enterprise-class network acceleration appliances.Silver Peak is developing "Local Instance Networking" technology that reduces "server sprawl" and achieves exceptional acceleration for all applications, including email, web, file transfers, real-time applications like Citrix and media applications such as VoIP. Silver Peak's NX Series appliances use "Network Memory" to eliminate the transfer of redundant information over the WAN to...

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Zhone Reports Q4 Revenue of $53.2 Million

Zhone Technologies reported Q4 2005 revenues of $53.2 million, compared with $28.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2004. Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2005, calculated in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"), was $107.2 million or $0.73 per share compared with a net loss of $3.8 million or $0.04 per share for the fourth quarter of 2004.Zhone noted that it shipped over 675,000 DSL access ports in 2005, putting it among the top three suppliers of DSLAM equipment in North America."We are very pleased with this quarter's...

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TranSwitch Acquires Mysticom for Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Transceivers

TranSwitch has acquired Mysticom, a privately-held developer of high-performance, low-power, multi-Gigabit Ethernet transceivers for the communications industry. TranSwitch acquired the Israel-based company for approximately $5 million in stock. Mysticom, a fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops and markets 10 Gigabit Ethernet transceivers for a variety of applications, including data center, enterprise, server, storage and high-definition video. Mysticom's family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet transceivers delivers superior interconnect performance...

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Cisco Appoints Michael Capellas to Board of Directors

Cisco Systems announced the appointment of Michael Capellas, former president and CEO of MCI, to its board of directors. Capellas, 51, joined MCI as chairman and CEO in 2002 and became president and CEO in March of 2004. Capellas left MCI as planned in early January 2006 upon the company's acquisition by Verizon Communications Inc. Previously, he held multiple CXO level positions at Compaq including serving as chairman and CEO from July 1999-May 2002, until Compaq merged with Hewlett Packard, at which time he became president of the combined company.With...

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Cingular Wireless and Motorola Debut SLVR with iTunes

Cingular Wireless announced the availability of the ultra-slim Motorola SLVR L7 mobile phone with iTunes. SLVR's design includes sleek metal housing, a vivid color display and precision cut keypad. Key features include VGA camera, video capture and playback, and 512 megabytes of optional expandable memory. iTunes functionality allows for up to 7 hours of music, or about 100 songs. Cingular is pricing the phone at $199.99 with a two-year service...

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Boingo Adds 850 Hot Spots in Portugal

Boingo Wireless signed a roaming agreement with PT Wi-Fi, a division of Portugal Telecom, that adds more than 850 popular Portuguese wireless locations including hotels, airports and retail centers to the Boingo Roaming System.Boingo now offers access to over 25,000 locations from more than 100 leading Wi-Fi operators into one worldwide network.http://www.boingo....

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NBC Employs Avaya IP telephony for Torino Olympic Winter Games

NBC is using an Avaya IP telephony solution to provide communication capabilities linking the International Broadcast Center and NBC's Field Shop with sports venues in Torino, Italy, NBC Olympics headquarters in Stamford, Conn., and NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City.This is the fourth consecutive Olympics Games at which Avaya as provided services to NBC. http://www.avaya....

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AWA Builds Mesh VoWLAN in Spain with Meru, Firetide

AWA, a privately held wireless company in Spain with ties to I+D, plans to roll out commercial WLAN and mesh networks with more than 12,000 access points in Spain. The network that AWA is currently deploying will place more than 4,500 of the 12,000 access points in gasoline stations. Access points will also be deployed in the main shopping centers and in public buildings. The European distributor OptiCall will deliver products from Firetide and Meru Networks to build the network. The network will be centrally managed by the NMS platform.OptiCall's...

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USAF Awards Lockheed Martin $491M Contract for 3rd EHF Satellite

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for $491 million to build a third spacecraft for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (Advanced EHF) program constellation.The Advanced EHF system is the successor to the Milstar system and will offer greater total capacity and offer high channel data rates capable of handling tactical military communications such as real-time video, battlefield maps and targeting data.Lockheed Martin said development of the first Advanced EHF satellite is progressing on schedule. The team recently delivered...

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Mazu Networks Hires Former VeriSign CSO

Mazu Networks, a start-up offering behavior-based network security solutions, named Charles Kaplan as chief security strategist. Previously, Kaplan was the chief information security officer for VeriSign Managed Security Services (MSS), where he provided subject matter expertise and direction internally as well as customer facing security guidance to the company's top MSS clients.http://www.mazunetworks....

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Lockheed Martin Upgrades Legacy Global Positioning System

Lockheed Martin has upgraded the software processing and modeling for the U.S. Air Force's legacy Global Positioning System (GPS).The recently completed update, named the Legacy Accuracy Improvement Initiative (L-AII), doubles the amount of navigation data collected and provided to Air Force operators, enhancing the Air Force's ability to monitor GPS satellites and improve system accuracy 10-15 percent for users worldwide.Lockheed Martin is also the prime contractor for the GPS IIR program and is under contract to modernize eight GPS IIR satellites...

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Hammerhead Secures $30 Million for Layer 2.5 Aggregation

Hammerhead Systems, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, closed $30 million in Series C funding, for its traffic aggregation and switching platform. Hammerhead's HSX 6000 is a purpose-built Layer 2.5 Aggregation Switch that features MPLS Pseudowire technology. It provides dense Ethernet aggregation, Pseudowire termination, legacy Frame Relay and ATM support, and Service Interworking. It features a "Layer 2.5" edge aggregation approach...

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Siemens Supplies Real-Time IP System for USAF

Siemens Communications' HiPath 4000 Real-Time IP System will soon serve as the central dispatch and communication platform -- for emergency as well as routine communications -- at more than 100 U.S. Air Force command posts worldwide. Siemens and RS Information Systems Inc. (RSIS), a federal systems integrator and telecommunication services provider, are part of a nearly $10 million Northrop Grumman Corp. task order to upgrade communication and command and control systems at 26 Air Force posts, including 17 in the United States. The deployment...

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Korea Internet Data Center Installs Force10 10G Switches

Korea Internet Data Center (KIDC), a leading data center operator in Korea, has installed Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers. Through its extensive peering relationships, KIDC has built a network with the largest aggregate bandwidth in Korea. Leveraging that bandwidth, KIDC is building out a resilient, secure infrastructure with the Force10 TeraScale E1200. The high Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet densities of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series, enable KIDC to reduce network complexity as well as capital and operating expenses....

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Ciena Supplies Access Platform for Slovenia's VDSL Network

T-2, a Slovenian alternative service provider, has selected Ciena's CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform to provide multiservice aggregation and transport of telephone, Internet and television services delivered via VDSL.Ciena's CN 4200 is a multiservice transport and service aggregation platform that enables service-selectable migration to packet for networks transitioning from TDM. For new networks like T-2, which is using ITU G.709, the platform provides software-defined service ports.http://www.ciena....

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Entone and Verimatrix Partner on VOD Content Protection

Entone Technologies has integrated the Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS) into its StreamLiner network video recorder (NVR) for IPTV services. By integrating the VCAS software with Entone's StreamLiner video streaming technology, the companies are providing a digital rights management (DRM) and video on demand (VOD) solution that streamlines the process from content creation, processing, distribution and playout. Currently with most DRM systems, VOD content is distributed over a core network and stored at the operator's site on a stand-alone...

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Texas Instruments Debuts Carrier Infrastructure Platform

Texas Instruments introduced new DSP-based carrier infrastructure platform designed for fixed and mobile communications applications. The new systems on chip (SOC), which is example in the second half of 2006, will be capable of delivering multimedia/3G services, such as fixed-mobile-convergence, within an IP multimedia services (IMS) environment.TI's new carrier infrastructure platform is comprised of three elements -- silicon, software and reference designs that include evaluation modules. The silicon architecture expands on that of the company's...

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Virtela Offers Virtualized SSL VPN Integrated With Global MPLS Network

Virtela, a global network solutions provider, introduced a virtualized network-based SSL Virtual Private Network (VPN) service tightly coupled with a global MPLS network. Similar to Virtela's existing Managed SSL VPN Services, the new Virtela SMB SSL VPN service provides highly secure remote access to the corporate network from any Internet web browser without the need for a pre-installed client. Virtela provides expert design, implementation, 24x7 monitoring and management of the SSL VPN infrastructure.Virtela said the new virtualized design...

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Siemens Invests in G2 for Mobile Resource Management Chips

Siemens Venture Capital has made a strategic investment in G2 Microsystems, a start-up based in Oakland, California, that is developing chips for the Mobile Resource Management (MRM) market. Mobile resource management enables businesses to monitor, track and manage assets either within a facility or throughout a supply chain. G2 Microsystems is developing a range of ultra low-power, active MRM chips that leverage Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11). The company said its system-on-chip (SoC) solutions would provide the right balance of cost, power, functionality,...

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Alcatel to OEM Stratex Wireless Platforms

Alcatel will resell a broad range of Stratex Networks Eclipse wireless transmission solutions as part of the Alcatel worldwide product portfolio. Under the terms the four-year agreement, Alcatel will license certain Eclipse software and products from Stratex Networks.Alcatel said the deal would make its Point-to-Point microwave portfolio even more complete and competitive, particularly in the high capacity mobile backhauling segment.Separately, Stratex announced the first commercial shipments of next-generation Eclipse products. The first products...

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Limelight Uses Quova for DRM Tied to Geolocation

Quova introduced its geolocation solution developed specifically for online digital rights compliance. The flagship customer for Quova Media is Limelight Networks, which operates a content delivery network for digital media. Limelight is incorporating Quova's technology into its content delivery network to offer customers of its two services, Limelight Content Edge and Limelight MediaEdge Streaming, the precise geographic location of online users in order to comply with content rights restrictions.Quova said its geolocation technology has already...

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Cavium Launches Single and Dual Core MIPS64-based OCTEON Processors

Cavium Networks unveiled ten new highly integrated single and dual core MIPS64 processors starting at under $20 price points and designed for next generation networking, wireless, control and storage applications. Cavium's OCTEON family of MIPS64 processors now scales from single core to sixteen cores. The OCTEON processor family is being designed into a wide array of networking equipment, including routers, switches, unified threat management (UTM) appliances, application- aware gateways, triple-play gateways, WLAN and 3G access and aggregation...

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Tektronix Introduces IPTV Video Quality Measurement

Tektronix introduced its "Spectra2|VQM" (Video Quality Measurement) monitoring solution for the diagnosis and analysis of streaming video transmitted over IP.Spectra2|VQM is a portable monitoring solution that helps identify the causes of poor digital image quality, such as packet loss, delay or data corruption in the IP transport network. It offers support for multiple-level QoS scores and video industry standard, non-proprietary Forward Error Correction (FEC) analysis.The Spectra2|VQM is a Windows-based software package that is part of the Tektronix...

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Atheros Posts Q4 Revenue of $53.1 Million - 7.7 Million Chipsets Shipped in Q4

Atheros Communications reported Q4 revenue of $53.1 million, up 16 percent from the $45.8 million reported in the third quarter and up 27 percent from the $41.7 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2004. Gross margins in the fourth quarter were 46.7 percent, above the company's target range of 43 to 45 percent and above 43.5 percent gross margins recorded in the third quarter. The company recorded fourth quarter net income (GAAP) of $13.1 million or $0.24 per diluted share. The company shipped a record 7.7 million Wi-Fi chipsets in the fourth...

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AudioCodes Reports Q4 Results

AudioCodes reported Q4 2005 revenue of $30.6 million, compared to $29.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2005 and $25.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2004. Fourth quarter revenues grew 3% sequentially and increased 21% compared to the fourth quarter of 2004. Net income for the fourth quarter of 2005 was $3.9 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, compared to net income of $3.5 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2005 and $2.6 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, for the corresponding period last y...

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Tut Systems to Expand IPTV Headend with MPEG-4 AVC at Iowa Network Services

Iowa Network Services (INS) is deploying Tut Systems' Astria content processor (CP) with MPEG-4 AVC encoding and transcoding solutions. Tut Systems' Astria CP platform today serves as the core video processing system for INS' 177 channel MPEG-2 digital headend currently serving 17 video service providers throughout the state of Iowa. The headend has the potential to serve more than 100 additional service providers. When deployed, the MPEG- 4 AVC headend from INS will yield better picture quality while significantly lowering the bandwidth required...

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Cavalier Telephone Acquires Elantic

Cavalier Telephone completed its acquisition of Elantic Telecom (formerly known as Dominion Telecom), which operates an 8,200 route mile fiber network connecting major cities on the Eastern portion of the United States. For the past 18 months, Cavalier has been providing management, engineering and operating support to Elantic through a management services agreement. The Elantic fiber network connects over 52 cities in a self-healing fiber ring design. The network reaches west from Chicago, and North thru New York, expands down the East coast...

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Telecom Italia and Cisco Target DoS/DDoS Attacks

Telecom Italia Sparkle (TI Sparkle) is rolling out a network-based solution designed to provide more effective protection against Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for international wholesale customers of the TI Sparkle IP backbone (SEABONE). S@FE is the result of close cooperation between TI Sparkle and Cisco Systems. Trials are currently underway.http://www.cisco.comhttp://www.telecomitaliasparkle....

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Deutsche Telekom Reaches 8.5 Million DSL, and 86.6 Million Mobile Subscribers

Deutsche Telekom released key growth figures for 2005, citing gains the broadband and mobile sectors. Some highlights:The Mobile segment remained the key growth driver for Deutsche Telekom in the fourth quarter of 2005 and the group now has over 86.6 million users. Organic customer growth over the full year amounted to just under 12 percent or around 9.0 million. Around another 200,000 customers can be added from the newly consolidated Monet/Montenegro.T-Mobile USA added 1.4 million net new customers in the fourth quarter of 2005 and served 21.7...

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3Com Names New CEO

3Com named R. Scott Murray President and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Bruce Claflin who retires. Murray also assumes Claflin's position on the 3Com Board of Directors. Murray will shortly become Chairman of the company's joint venture in China, Huawei-3Com.Prior to accepting the role of CEO for 3Com, Murray was the CEO of Modus Media International, a global provider of supply chain management and hosted services. While at Modus, he expanded the company's operations in Europe and Asia, particularly in China. In addition to his work with Modus...

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ITU Standardizes on PacketCable 1.5 Suite

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) approved a suite of CableLabs' PacketCable specifications as standards for the international version of services including VoIP.PacketCable-based standards are known internationally as IPCablecom, and this recently approved suite covers such topics as architecture, network call signaling, call management server (CMS) to CMS signaling, quality of service (QoS), support for multimedia and other functions necessary to provide time-critical interactive services over a cable television network using IP.The...

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GlobeCast Renews Contract with Intelsat for IA-5 Capacity

GlobeCast WorldTV renewed a long-term, multi-transponder contract for Intelsat-Americas 5 (IA-5) satellite capacity to support the substantial growth of its international television distribution platform over North America. IA-5, located at 97 degrees W, hosts one of the largest neighborhoods of international video programming in the U.S. and has been home to GlobeCast WorldTV since 1998.GlobeCast WorldTV is an aggregator and distributor of premium international television and radio channels in North America for delivery via direct-to-home (DTH),...

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Amaru Prepares to Launch Global IPTV Service over the Internet

M2B World, a company based in Singapore with a subsidiary named "Amaru" based in Hollywood, California, is launching a Global IPTV service that will offer 40-channels of content streamed over the Internet to an Amaru-provided set-top box. Amaru is partnering Zentek Technology Singapore (Zentek) for the design of the set-top boxes and for technical service support to customers on a worldwide basis. Amaru said its content will range from Hollywood movies, documentaries, music, fashion and lifestyle to travel and leisure, corporate training and...

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Sri Lanka Telecom Deploys Juniper for MPLS

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has further expanded its network with Juniper Networks M-series multiservice routing platforms and E-series Broadband Services Routers.The M-series platforms enable SLT to offer advanced MPLS-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) services to business consumers in Sri Lanka. SLT has also upgraded its broadband infrastructure with Juniper's E-series to enable advanced multiservice broadband offerings.SLT previously deployed Juniper Networks M-series to replace its legacy Internet gateway routers. The carrier now plans to introduce...

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AOL Signs New Broadband Deals with BellSouth, Time Warner and Verizon

AOL announced new broadband partnership deals with major network operators, including BellSouth, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and other DSL carriers. The deals enable AOL to offer its premium Internet service over a high-speed connection for as low as $25.90. In BellSouth's territory, AOL High Speed will be offered at $29.90. AOL said its plans to launch aggressive marketing for the new AOL High Speed offering, hoping to encourage its dial-up subscribers to upgrade to broadband. AOL is working with BBDO New York for national television, radio...

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Cisco Cites CRS-1 Core Router Deployments in China

China Education and Research Network (CERNET), the world's largest education network, has deployed the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System to provide increased bandwidth and improved performance to more than 20 million Internet users in China. The Cisco CRS-1 in its core network nodes in five cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Nanjing. The CERNET network links more than 1,000 major universities and research institutions in China.Shanghai Telecom has replaced numerous routers powering its "super" point of presence "POP," or high-speed...

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Lockheed Martin Awarded $2 Billion USAF Networking Contract

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $2 billion contract to lead the development of an advanced, high-bandwidth, global communications network for the U.S. Air Force. The 10-year contract for the TSAT Missions Operations System (TMOS) program will link the Transformational Satellite Communications Systems (TSAT) program to the Global Information Grid (GIG) and is expected to commence operations in 2014. TSAT will provide mobile forces a high-bandwidth connection to the GIG from virtually anywhere in the world, while protecting its users from enemy detection,...

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Movaz Raises $20 Million for its Optical Networking

Movaz Networks closed $20 million in equity financing and secured an additional line of credit for $12 million, supporing its optical networking solutions.Movaz recently announced the in-service deployment of its multi-degree ROADM, providing dynamic reconfigurability across rings, at hub locations, and through spur junctions. The company claims 90 customers around the world and over 4,000 nodes currently in service.Movaz said the combined $32 million financing enables it to support its expanding operations and also provides a solid foundation...

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Redback Reaches Revenue of $48.0 million, up 32% Sequentially

Redback Networks reported net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2005 of $48.0 million, an increase of 32 percent from the third quarter of 2005. Net revenue was up $15.9 million, or 50 percent, over the fourth quarter of 2004. Net revenue for the fiscal year 2005 jumped to $153.3 million, compared with $115.6 million in fiscal year 2004. GAAP net income for the fourth quarter of 2005 was $0.3 million or $0.01 per share attributable to common stockholders compared to a GAAP net loss of $12.0 million or $(0.23) per share in the fourth quarter of...

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Microsoft Launches "Live Labs" Research Initiative

Microsoft announced the formation of "Live Labs," a new initiative between MSN and Microsoft Research aimed at providing "consistency in vision, leadership and infrastructure as well as a nimble applied research environment that fosters rapid innovations."Microsoft Live Labs, which will be headed by Dr. Gary William Flake, noted industry technologist and Microsoft technical fellow, will focus on Internet-centric applied research programs including rapidly prototyping and launching of emerging technologies, incubating entirely new inventions, and...

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Nokia Estimates 2 Billion Mobile Subscribers Globally, 795 Million Mobile Phones Shipped in 2005

Nokia shipped 84 million mobile devices in Q4 2005, up 26% sequentially and 27% year on year. The company calculates it held 34% of the global market, which is it estimates at 244 million units, up 23% sequentially and 25% year on year .Jorma Ollila, Nokia's Chairman and CEO, said "Our quarterly sales reached more than EUR 10 billion for the first time ever this quarter, and we achieved record breaking device volumes and healthy device market share gains during the full year. Nokia's sales grew 16% in 2005, the highest sales growth we have seen...

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Level 3 to Acquire Florida's Progress Telecom for $137 Million

Level 3 Communications agreed to acquire Progress Telecom, a regional wholesale network services company based in St. Petersburg, Florida, for $137 million, consisting of $68.5 million in unregistered shares of Level 3 Common Stock and $68.5 million in cash.The Progress Telecom network features diversely routed fiber, DWDM and SONET connecting nearly 200 POPs across the south-eastern U.S. The infrastructure includes over 8,524 route-miles of fiber and 29 metro networks. Progress Telecom currently generates annualized revenue of approximately $70...

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Tellabs Reports Revenue of $521 million, up 16% YoY

Tellabs reported Q4 2005 revenue of $521 million, up 37% from $379 million in the fourth quarter of 2004. For the year 2005, Tellabs revenue totaled $1.9 billion, up 53% from $1.2 billion in 2004. Compared with the full revenues of Tellabs, AFC and Vinci Systems, revenue increased 16% for the fourth quarter of 2005 and 13% for the full year.Tellabs earned $92 million or 20 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2005 on a GAAP basis, compared with a year-ago net loss of $139 million or 32 cents per share. Transport -- Revenue from transport systems...

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Avaya and SAP Team on CRM

Avaya and SAP America will jointly market mySAP Customer Relationship Management (mySAP CRM) with Avaya Interaction Center software. Initially, both companies will be working with select customers to build awareness of the relationship and the intrinsic value of Intelligent Communications that will result from the joint solutions that are being developed. The companies said this combination of Avaya intelligent routing within the context of information from mySAP CRM will get the right customer to the right business associate more efficiently,...

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Casio Licenses QUALCOMM's 3G CDMA

QUALCOMM has granted Casio a worldwide license to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber units implementing any 3G CDMA standard. The royalties payable by Casio are at QUALCOMM's standard rates and are the same irrespective of the CDMA standard implemented by the subscriber unit.QUALCOMM also signed a worldwide subscriber unit license agreement with Yulong Computer Technology Co., a subsidiary of China Wireless Technologies, to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber units implementing any 3G CDMA standard (i.e., CDMA2000(R) 1X/1xEV-DO, WCDMA/UMTS)....

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EMC Scales Storage Array to Over One Petabyte

EMC introduced the first storage array capable of scaling to more than one petabyte (1,024 terabytes) of capacity. The record capacity is made possible through the qualification of Symmetrix DMX-3 system configurations supporting up to 2,400 disk drives and the availability of new 500 gigabyte low-cost Fibre Channel (LC-FC) disk drives. The new disk drive technology, which compatible with the company's Symmetrix DMX systems, enables the consolidation of more information, applications and storage tiers into fewer arrays and storage networks. EMC...

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BT to Manage Microsoft's Global Call Center Routing

BT was awarded a 2-year contract to manage Microsoft's global OneCall call center routing. Under the agreement, BT will design, build, deploy and manage a solution to unify and manage Microsoft's contact centers throughout the world into a single network-based contact center environment. The contract calls for an 18-month deployment schedule across 77 Microsoft call centers around the world, with potential to expand to more than a hundred centers globally.The OneCall solution will enable Microsoft's call centers world-wide to be centrally managed...

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Cypress Deploys Overtures Multiservice Access Devices

Cypress Communications has deployed Overture Networks' ISG 5000, ISG 2200, and ISG 45+ multiservice access devices within its fiber and copper infrastructure. Cypress provides managed communications in 29 major metropolitan U.S. markets. Overture's platform is designed to deliver any mix of Ethernet and TDM service combinations. The ISG converged packet access platform supports a variety of interfaces ranging from NxT1/E1 to Gigabit Ethernet.http://www.overturenetworks.comhttp://www.cypresscom....

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Terayon Restructures to Pure-Play Digital Video Company

Terayon Communication Systems is changing its corporate strategy to focus solely on its digital video applications and reduce its overall cost structure as a pure-play video business. The company is reviewing strategic alternatives for its Home Access Solutions product line, including the possibility of a sale."Our decision to concentrate solely on digital video applications enables us to laser-focus the company on a growing market for real-time network digital video processing and expand our applications and services," said Jerry Chase, Terayon,...

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Broadcom Posts Revenue of $820 Million, up 18% Sequentially

Broadcom reported net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2005 of $820.6 million, an increase of 18.1% from the $695.0 million reported for the third quarter of 2005 and an increase of 52.1% from the $539.4 million reported for the fourth quarter of 2004. Net income (GAAP) was $194.8 million, or $.50 per share (diluted)."Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch that drove Broadcom to record levels of revenue, net income, and cash and marketable securities in 2005," said Scott McGregor, Broadcom's President and Chief Executive...

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Acme Packet Supplies Session Border Controllers to Korea's DACOM

Dacom, the second largest long-distance service provider in Korea, is deploying Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers in its national, VoIP network. The Net-Net products are being integrated with the Dacom's Next Generation IP Softswitch platform to offer more enhanced services. CommVerge Solutions Korea is the network integrator.http://www.acmepacket....

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Verizon Reports 613,000 Broadband Net Adds and Record Wireless Growth

Verizon Communications reported Q4 revenues of $19.3 billion and earnings of $1.7 billion, or 59 cents per diluted share, highlighted by an industry-record quarterly total for net new wireline broadband connections, as well as continued record growth and sustained margins at Verizon Wireless.The earnings were down compared with $3.0 billion, or $1.08 per share, in the fourth quarter 2004. Highlights for the quarter include:Verizon's wireline business segment added a net of 613,000 wireline broadband connections (DSL and FiOS), giving the company...

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AT&T Posts Q4 Revenues of $12.97 Billion

In its first quarterly financial report since closing its mega-merger, the new AT&T reported consolidated fourth-quarter 2005 revenues of $12.97 billion and earnings of $1.66 billion, or $0.46 per diluted share, including special merger and hurricane recovery related items. The results were ahead of market forecasts driven by growth at Cingular Wireless, broadband and enterprise services.Some highlights for Q4 2005:Wireline segment revenues, which are made up of former SBC wireline results, totaled $9.43 billion, up 1.3 percent from the fourth...

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Amino Selected for Canal Digital's IPTV

Canal Digital has deployed Amino's AmiNET110 MPEG-2 set-top boxes in its Nordic market. The service roll-out will cater initially to subscribers who will be able to receive popular Canal Digital content over DSL and FTTH. Subscribers to the IPTV service will also be able to order individual movies or games.http://www.aminocom....

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Shanghai Telecom Deploys Cisco CRS-1

Shanghai Telecom is deploying the Cisco CRS-1 multichassis carrier routing system to collapse the super point of presence ("Super-POP") for its current high-speed core IP network and to expand its gateway capacity to meet its future growth. It is the first telecommunications carrier in China to deploy the Cisco CRS-1 multichassis carrier routing system.Through the deployment of the Cisco CRS-1, the current network nodes for Shanghai Telecom's IP network gateway will be collapsed into super nodes with increased uplink and downlink bandwidth. The...

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Airwide Raises $25 Million for Mobile Infrastructure

Airwide Solutions, a start-up based in London, secured $25 million in Series D funding, for its mobile infrastructure software. Airwide supplies software to carriers for mobile messaging applications. Airwide is also active in the mobile security market, with more than 200 million mobile phones around the world secured by Airwide's fraud prevention products. Its customers include over 70 wireless operators worldwide.The financing was led by a new investor, Advent International, with participation from existing investors Artiman Ventures, Axiom...

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Analog Devices Offer High-end Baseband Processor for Mobiles

Analog Devices introduced a high-end multimedia baseband processor enabling advanced audio and video functions in EDGE and GSM/GPRS cellular phones. The new SoftFone chipset consists of the AD6900 digital baseband processor and the AD6855 analog baseband processor, which together offer 3.0-megapixel camera support, USB On-the-Go, 128-voice MIDI ringtones and full-duplex speakerphone capability, without requiring a separate applications co-processor. The chipset is based on Analog Devices' award-winning RAM-based SoftFone architecture.http://ww...

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Salira Supplies GEPON in Bangladesh

Salira Systems is supplying its IEEE 802.3ah-compliant optical platform to build the first GE-PON network in Bangladesh. Sirius Broadband has been using Salira's equipment to deliver commercial-grade bandwidth to downstream carriers for more than two years in the city of Dhaka. http://www.salira.comhttp://www.siriusbroadband....

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Maxim and RAD Develop TDM-over-Packet Pseudowire Chips

Maxim Integrated Products, its subsidiary Dallas Semiconductor, and RAD Data Communications announced a partnership to produce the TDM over Packet (ToP) chips. Specifically, RAD will develop a circuit emulation "core" based on its key technologies, to be incorporated by Dallas Semiconductor, alongside its own integrated T1/E1/J1 transceiver technologies, into the ToP chips. The companies said the ToP solution will be the only TDM-over-Ethernet/IP/MPLS (ToP) family of devices to provide circuit emulation over PSN capability and the Dallas Semiconductor...

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Juniper Posts Revenue of $575 Million

Juniper Networks reported revenue of $575.5 million for Q4 2005, compared with $430.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2004, an increase of 34 percent. Net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis for the fourth quarter of 2005 was $105.5 million or $0.17 per share, compared with a GAAP net income of $66.0 million or $0.11 per share for the fourth quarter of 2004. "I'm pleased to report another strong quarter and the completion of a year characterized by growth across multiple dimensions," commented Scott Kriens, chairman...

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NetLogic to Acquire Cypress's Network Search Engine

NetLogic Microsystems will acquire all of the assets and intellectual property associated with Cypress's standard Network Search Engine products. The deal includes the Ayama 10000, Ayama 20000, and NSE70000 Network Search Engine families as well as the Sahasra 50000 Algorithmic Search Engine family. Cypress, meanwhile, will retain and continue to support its custom TCAM1 and TCAM2 products. NetLogic Microsystems will pay approximately $50 million in NETL common stock upon closing, and, if certain revenue targets are achieved in a 12-month time...

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