Meru Debuts Enterprise Wireless Backbone Switch

Meru Networks introduced an enterprise-class "Wireless Backbone System" aimed at eliminating the need for wiring in the distribution and access networks for both voice and data, and delivering un-tethered access to business-critical applications with the same reliability, security and service fidelity they have come to expect from traditional wired, switched networks. The new Meru Wireless Backbone System consists of: Meru AP150-WB a new, dual radio...

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Juniper Outlines Application Acceleration Strategy

Juniper Networks outlined its strategy to address the evolving application performance issues created by data center consolidation, server centralization and globally distributed users. Juniper's strategy will be to leverage its core competencies in application acceleration and security, as well as its Enterprise Infranet framework, to address the challenges associated with limited bandwidth, latency, application contention and system-wide management in the distributed and extended enterprise. The strategy builds on the established foundation of...

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HELIO Mobile Service Unveiled, Featuring Content "Gifting and Begging"

HELIO, the new joint venture between Earthlink and SK Telecom, introduced its nationwide mobile service aimed at the U.S. youth market. HELIOis a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) using Sprint's EVDO infrastructure. Key features of HELIO include: MySpace on Helio-- a mobile service designed specifically for MySpace users that allows them to post photos directly from their Helio device to their MySpace page as part of a bulletin, message,...

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Meru Raises $25 Million for VoWiFi

Meru Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $25 million in fourth round of funding for its enterprise wireless LAN solutions. The company said that over the past 12 its business has grown at a rapid pace. Among its prominent milestones, Meru was recently selected by Osaka Gas for a wireless VoIP project described as the world's largest fixed-mobile convergence deployment.Lehman Brothers Venture Partners led the funding round, which also included Clearstone Venture Partners, NeoCarta Ventures, BlueStream Ventures, JumpStartUp...

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Cavium Samples Single- and Dual-Core OCTEON MIPS64 Processors

Cavium Networks began sampling its new OCTEON CN31XX single- and dual-core processors, which are designed for security application acceleration in networking equipment such as routers, Unified Threat Management appliances, Layer4+ content-aware switches, modular chassis switches, Network Access Control equipment, 3G wireless equipment, broadband router and wireless LAN access/aggregation points. The CN31XX single- and dual-core chips are members of Cavium Networks' OCTEON family of Multi-core MIPS64 Processors. http://www.caviumnetworks....

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NETGEAR Skype WiFi Phone Priced at $249

NETGEAR announced an MSRP of $249 for its upcoming Skype WiFi phone (model SPH101). The Skype-certified handset lets consumers make free Skype calls over open or secured (password required) wireless networks. Wireless security support includes WEP and WPA-PSK.http://www.netgear....

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Pulse~LINK Unveils Gigabit UWB Chip for In-Home Media Networks

Pulse~LINK, a start-up based in Carlsbad, California, introduced its "CWave" UWB chipset designed for whole-home distribution of HDTV content, high quality multi-channel audio and high-speed data across in-home coax and wireless networks. By bridging its wireless and wired communications technologies, CWave enables high data rate transmissions to be distributed throughout the home via coax then wirelessly connects peripheral devices in each room.Pulse~LINK said its "CWave" chipset will deliver up to a Gigabit of throughput with guaranteed quality...

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Thales and Alcatel Partner on Government Security Solutions

Thales and Alcatel Government Systems entered into a strategic partnership under which AGS will resell the entire Thales Datacryptor product line to the U.S. Department of Defense and civilian government agencies. The Datacryptor product line of encryption devices enable secure transmissions for wireless and wireline deployments. The Datacryptors can be coupled with Alcatel's microwave, SONET and high-speed IP products. http://www.thalesesec.comhttp://www.alcatelgov....

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Verizon Boosts FiOS Internet Speed

Verizon is increasing the bandwidth on its FiOS Internet service for customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut -- with no increase in price.Verizon now offers consumers three tiers of service at the same prices previously charged for the lower speeds:10 Mbps downstream and 2 Mbps upstream (increased from 5/2 for $34.95 a month with a one-year agreement or $39.95 a month stand-alone.20 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream (increased from 15/2) for $44.95 a month with a one-year agreement or $49.95 a month stand-alone.30 Mbps downstream and...

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Level 3 to Acquire Telcove for $1.2Billion, Gaining Local Access

Level 3 Communications agree to acquire TelCove, Inc., a privately held, facilities-based network operator, for $1.2375 billion in stock and cash. TelCove's network has over 22,000 local and long haul route miles serving 70 markets across the eastern United States, with approximately 4,000 buildings on net. The company has annual revenues of about $390 million. TelCove also holds over 300 LMDS and 39 GHz licenses covering 90% of the U.S. population."The acquisition of TelCove increases our ability to provide end-to-end bandwidth services to our...

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U.S. Bancorp First to Deploy Lucent RPR Metro Optical Card

U.S. Bancorp will deploy Lucent Technologies' Metropolis DMX portfolio of metro optical networking products and VitalSuite Integrated Network Controller software, to create a high-capacity, fully redundant carrier grade backbone network in five cities. The project market the first deployment of Lucent's standards-based Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) card, which enables service providers to double the amount of bandwidth on their network by using both sides of rings for transporting traffic. The RPR card also supports fast restoration of packet traffic...

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Tokyo Electron to Launch Silicon Valley Venture Program

Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL), a supplier of semiconductor and FPD production equipment, had formed a new subsidiary to make strategic seed and early stage investments focusing on promising technological innovations. TEL Venture Capital plans to invest up to $10 million annually and will tap into Silicon Valley venture resources.http://www.tel....

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NETGEAR Launches SSL VPN Concentrator

NETGEAR introduced an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) VPN solution for small- and mid-sized businesses under 100 users. The ProSafe SSL312 provides remote access to mobile users, enabling them to connect securely to the corporate network using any computer, from locations such as an authorized partner location, a home, or even a kiosk, using a standard Web browser. The SSL312, which ensures data privacy with SSLv3 and TLSv1.0 with AES-256, supports 25 concurrent SSL VPN sessions, enabling remote users to securely access resources using standard web...

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Telstra's "BigPond" ADSL Breaks Million Subscriber Milestone

Telstra's "BigPond" ADSL service activated its 1,000,000th customers -- roughly doubling its subscriber base in the past year. The first 500,000 ADSL services took almost six years to achieve.http://www.telstra....

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Airport Authority Hong Kong Builds Huge WLAN with Cisco

The Airport Authority Hong Kong has deployed Cisco Systems' Unified Wireless Network equipment to create one of the world's largest airport WLANs in terms of coverage and number of access points. Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), the world's busiest international cargo and fifth busiest international passenger airport, now provides WLAN coverage in all indoor areas including the passenger terminal and the baggage sortation hall, as well as all aircraft parking bays on the apron. The infrastructure now comprises over 200 Cisco 1000 Series...

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Tekelec Sells its IEX Group to NICE Systems for $200 Million

Tekelec agreed to sell its wholly owned subsidiary, IEX Corporation, a global provider of workforce management and optimization technology for contact centers, to NICE Systems for $200 million in cash.Commenting on the sale, Frank Plastina, President and CEO of Tekelec said, "We are very pleased with this transaction because it converts a non-telecom business unit into cash at an attractive valuation and under favorable terms. IEX has been an important contributor to our financial performance for the last several years, but it was not a component...

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Quake Surpasses 300,000th 10 Gigabit PHY Shipment

Quake Technologies has shipped more than 300,000 10 Gigabit Ethernet Physical Layer ICs (PHYs) to date. The company first entered the 10GE PHY market in 2001 with a serial-to-XAUI device. Quake supports all PMDs covered by the IEEE 802.3ae and IEEE 802.3ak standards. Its products are used both within pluggable modules as well as directly on system cards. http://www.quaketech....

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Deutsche Telekom Selects Cisco IP NGN for IPTV Service

Deutsche Telekom's T-Com and T-Online divisions selected Cisco Systems' IP NGN architecture and its IP set-top boxes for the "T-Home" broadband service. Specifically, T-Com's video delivery network is based on the Cisco IP NGN architecture and incorporates Cisco 12000 Series routers at the provider edge, Cisco 10008 Series routers as Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS) platforms and Cisco Catalyst 6509 Series switches."T-Home" is delivered through a Cisco STB from the KiSS series called the T-Home X 300T Media Receiver which supports Microsoft...

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Ikanos Makes Management Appointments

Ikanos Communications named Dean Westman as General Manager and Rakinder Grover as Vice President of Business Development. Prior to joining Ikanos, Mr. Westman served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Mathstar, where he was responsible for creating and executing a global product strategy. Previously, Mr. Westman served as Vice President of Marketing at C-Cube Microsystems, where he managed the product roadmap of the Broadband Networks Division. Prior to joining Ikanos as Vice President of Business Development, Mr. Grover had been a business...

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U.S. General Services Administration Buys VoIP

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Technology Service has made VoIP available to federal agencies under the MCI Contract. Federal customers subscribing to the MCI's VoIP service can now place voice calls over their data network using a new or existing MCI provided data circuit.GSA is the centralized, federal procurement, property management, policy development and information provision agency.http://www.gsa....

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Nortel Files 2005 Financial Statements

Nortel Networks reported Q4 2005 revenues of US$3.0 billion and a net loss of US$2.3 billion, including a US$2.5 billion expense to settle shareholder class action litigation.2005 revenues were US$10.5 billion and there was a net loss for the year of US$2.6 billion.The company's financial restatements have also been completed. Revisions to the Company's previously reported 2003 and 2004 financial results reflect negative impacts on revenue of US$261 million and US$312 million and on net earnings/loss of US$141 million and US$156 million, respectively,...

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France Telecom Reaches 8.1 million ADSL customers in Europe

As of 31-March-2006, France Telecom was serving 8.1 million ADSL customers in Europe, representing an increase of 10% since 31-Dec-2005. This includes 4.9 million ADSL customers in France, representing a consumer ADSL market share of 49.8% in France.The number of ADSL TV subscribers reached 229,000 at quarter's end, up from 102,000 a year earlier.France Telecom also reached 1.2 million VoIP customers in France, up by 377,000 for the quarter.The number of LiveBox gateways marketed in Europe surged to 2.4 million (2.1 million in France), up from...

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Comcast Adds 437,000 Internet and 211,000 VoIP Customers in Q1

Comcast added nearly 1 million revenue generating units (RGUs) in Q1 -- its highest growth rate yet -- driving revenue in its Cable business to $5.6 billion. Some highlights for the quarter:Video revenue increased 6% to $3.6 billion in Q1, reflecting a 1.3 million or 14% increase in the number of digital customers from the first quarter of 2005. Comcast Cable ended the quarter with 10.1 million digital cable subscribers, a 47% penetration rate of the Company's 21.5 million basic cable subscribers.Growth in video revenue and digital cable subscribers...

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Orb Networks Offers Internet Radio and Podcasts from PCs to Mobile Phones

Orb Networks, a developer of software for providing access to digital content, announced support for playing and recording Internet radio and for enjoying podcasts from any mobile device with a streaming Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, 3GP player, or Macromedia Flash Player on any carrier network and Wi-Fi.The free Orb software enables the user to play and record Internet radio and enjoy podcasts from the native Web browser and streaming media player of their mobile phones and PDAs. The Orb software on a user's always-connected Windows XP PC...

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ECI Reports 11% Rise in Q1 Revenue

ECI Telecom reported Q1 revenue of $162 million, an 11% increase from the $145 million recorded in the first quarter of 2005 and compared with $169 million for the fourth quarter of 2005. Net income (GAAP) reached $3.1 million, or $0.03 per share on a fully diluted basis.Some highlights:Revenues for the Optical Networks Division totaled $89 million for the first quarter of 2006, up 17% from the year ago period and up $2 million from the preceding quarter. Revenues for the Broadband Access Division totaled $62 million for the first quarter of 2006,...

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mDisney Launches Cross-Carrier, Real-Time Multiplayer Mobile Game

mDisney, a mobile publishing unit of the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG), introduced Pirates of the Caribbean Multiplayer, a cross-carrier, real-time multiplayer game for mobile phones. The game, one of the first action adventure mobile multiplayer games, is slated to launch this summer, in conjunction with the theatrical release of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest worldwide on July 7, 2006.The game will permit up to 16 players to engage in individual game sessions. Players will be able to chat with other players, make friends...

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Network Processing Forum Merges with Optical Internetworking Forum

The Network Processing Forum (NPF) will merge its activities with those of The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF). The mission of the OIF is to accelerate the deployment of interoperable, cost-effective and robust optical networks and their associated technologies. The Network Processing Forum's mission to accelerate the adoption of network processing technologies through the development and implementation of network processing standards and benchmarks. By establishing standard interfaces and benchmarks, the NPF helps semiconductor manufacturers,...

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Nakina Systems Names Former Nortel Exec as Chairman

Nakina Systems, a start-up developing multi-vendor security and element management solutions for network operators, announced that Marco Pagani, former President of Nortel Networks' Metro Optical and Optical Ethernet divisions, has been appointed Chairman of Nakina's Board of Directors.Marco Pagani has recently served as Chairman of the Board of Directors at a number of telecom high-tech companies, including Nimcat Networks, where he helped steer the company towards its eventual acquisition by Avaya in 2005. His most recent position at Nortel was...

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Sprint Offers end-to-end MPLS VPN Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Sprint introduced a standard end-to-end MPLS VPN Service Level Agreements (SLAs) on its wholly owned global network. The new performance guarantees, which are provided at no additional charge to customers, extend SLA coverage and reporting beyond the backbone network and now include the local loop, covering service from customer router to customer router. The service level guarantees include an enhanced network availability SLA of up to 100%, standard end-to-end packet loss and jitter SLAs, and a standard end-to-end delay methodology applicable...

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aduno Introduces its Web 2.0 Conferencing Service

aduno, a start-up based in Paris, introduced its "Rich Meeting" next generation audioweb conferencing services. The company said its Web 2.0 - programming approach will make online, reservationless conferencing available to a much wider audience.Key attributes of aduno include:Provides personal portals for the organizer and participants, to make the audio and web connections simultaneous, immediate and totally secure; no code or number to dial, the access is instantaneous,Offers native integration of audio and web, allowing for piloting, i.e....

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Covad Reports Positive Trends

Covad Communications reported Q1 net revenue of $117.8 million, an increase of 3.6 percent from the $113.7 million reported for the fourth quarter of 2005, and an increase of 9.4 percent from the $107.7 million reported for the first quarter of 2005. Net revenues for the first quarter of 2006 included $1.7 million from a software license agreement.Net loss for the first quarter of 2006 was $9.3 million, or $0.03 per share, an improvement of $8.6 million, or 48.0 percent, from the $17.9 million net loss, or $0.07 per share, reported for the fourth...

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Alcatel's Q1 Revenue Rises 18% YoY

Alcatel reported Q1 2006 revenue of EUR 3.067 billion, up 17.8% compared with EUR 2.607 billion (up 14.9% at constant EUR/$ exchange rate) in the same period last year. The gross margin was 34.9%. Operating profit amounted to EUR 198 million, a 6.5% operating margin. Net income (group share) for the quarter was registered at EUR 104 million or a diluted EPS of EUR 0.08 per share (US$ 0.10 per ADS), which included capital gains of EUR 0.02 per share....

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Alcatel Appoints Head of Merger Integration Team

Alcatel appointed Christian Reinaudo to serve as EVP Integration Project Team Leader to manage the integration and transition process associated with the merger with Lucent Technologies. Reinaudo, a member of the Alcatel executive committee, currently serves as EVP, President of Alcatel Asia Pacific.Alcatel announced two other executive appointments.Frédéric Rose is appointed EVP, President of Alcatel Asia Pacific. He will be based in Shanghai. Frederic Rose joins the Alcatel Executive Committee. He was formerly President of Alcatel's Integration...

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Lucent Completes Riverstone Acquisition

Lucent Technologies completed its acquisition of certain net assets of Riverstone Networks, a maker of carrier Ethernet routers for the telecommunications industry. The purchase price under the amended agreement is approximately $207 million, subject to purchase price adjustments. Lucent said the integration of the Riverstone products would augment its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution. Substantially all of Riverstone's 400 employees are now employees of Lucent.http://www.lucent....

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Brightcove Previews its Internet TV Service

Brightcove, a start-up based in Boston, launched an open, commercial preview of its Internet TV service, which helps video content producers to build broadband TV channels and distribute their video through the Internet. The open commercial preview will offer individuals and organizations the ability to use Brightcove in advance of the full commercial release at no cost."Internet TV has tremendous momentum in the marketplace today, and we're seeing a wide range of content owners and creators quickly moving into broadband programming and distribution,"...

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Industry Group Proposes Public/Private Safety Network in 700 MHz band

A group of wireless industry and public safety communications veterans led by Morgan O'Brien, a co-founder of Nextel, called for the creation of a nationwide, seamless, next-generation network for improved public safety communications.The group envisions a self-sustaining business model for public safety communications that takes advantage of the historic opportunity arising from the long-planned clearance of some of the nation's most useful frequencies, which broadcasters will vacate by 2009. Specifically, a 30 MHz block of spectrum in the 700...

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Sprint Nextel Adds 1.3 Million Mobile Subscribers

Citing strong demand for its communications services, Sprint Nextel reported consolidated revenue of $11.5 billion, an increase of 66 percent compared to the year-ago period. Operating income was $863 million versus $1.04 billion in the first quarter of 2005.For the quarter, diluted earnings per share were 14 cents, compared to 31 cents per share for the first quarter of 2005. The year-ago results do not include the Nextel operations. "In the first quarter, we continued to advance on our operating and strategic goals and integrate the affiliates...

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NEC to Combine its U.S. Operations in IT and Network Solutions

NEC USA, NEC America, and NEC Solutions (America) will combine into one new company dedicated to the IT and network solutions business. Effective July 1, the new company, with more than $1 billion in revenue, will be named NEC Corporation of America and have headquarters in Irving, Texas.NEC Corporation of America will offer customers access to a rich portfolio of technology and professional services ranging from server and storage solutions, digital presentation and visual display systems to biometric security, optical network, radio communications...

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AT&T to Offer Vongo Movie Downloads as Differentiated Service

AT&T reached an agreement with Starz Entertainment Group to offer the "Vongo" Internet movie-delivery service to its DSL customers. The deal marks the first such broadband distribution agreement for Vongo and also serves as an example of a differentiated broadband media service supported by AT&T.The companies will feature a co-branded AT&T and Vongo Web site and special promotions.Vongo, unveiled earlier this year, delivers movies and other video content over the Internet for playback on Windows-based PCs, laptops and select portable...

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Metro Ethernet Forum Announces Service Provider Certifications

The Metro Ethernet Forum awarded certifications to seven service providers complying with its global Carrier Ethernet Service definitions. The companies receiving certification in this first round were: AT&T, Bell South, Cable Vision Lightpath (the first cable operator to apply), Met-Net, ntl:Telewest Business (the first European service provider to apply), Qwest and Verizon.Iometrix was the company responsible for the conformance testing. The testing involves three key stages. In the initial negotiation stage the service provider needs to...

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Equinix Adds 61 New Customers, Raises Guidance

Equinix posted Q1 revenue of $64.9 million, a 5% increase over the previous quarter and a 33% increase over the same quarter last year. The company signed 61 new customers including McGraw-Hill, Trip Advisor and YouTube. The company raised its annual revenue guidance to $280.0 to $286.0 million and EBITDA guidance to $100.0 to $105.0 million.Some other highlights:Over 50 percent of Equinix's new bookings in the quarter came from existing customers including Akamai Technologies, Cisco Systems, IBM, Salesforce.com and Sony Computer Entertainment.Based...

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NET Partners with DTECH LABS for Government VoIP Solutions

Network Equipment Technologies and DTECH LABS, a provider of secure, mobile communications products, have expanded their partnership to provide for the deployment of NET's VX Series Universal Voice Exchange on a new hardware platform developed by DTECH LABS. DTECH's WHISPER400 is a mobile Secure VoIP Interface in a small package targeted at the tactical and first-responder market segments. The WHISPER400 Secure VoIP Interface was designed to meet the growing demand for mobile STU, STE and SCIP (FNBDT) calling over emerging BGAN and VSAT IP-based...

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Redback Reports Revenue of $57.9 Million

Redback Networks reported Q1 revenue of $57.9 million, an increase of 21 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005. Net revenue was up $23.6 million, or 69 percent, over the first quarter of 2005. GAAP net loss for the first quarter of 2006 was $(2.6) million or $(0.05) per share attributable to common stockholders compared to a GAAP net loss of $(7.1) million or $ (0.13) per share in the first quarter of 2005.http://www.redback....

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Amdocs Reports 23% Growth in Revenue

Amdocs reported quarterly revenue of $601.1 million, an increase of 23.1% from the same period last year. Excluding acquisition-related costs and equity-based compensation expense, net of related tax effects, of $13.7 million, net income was $95.5 million, or $0.44 per diluted share.Amdocs said demand for its products and services continues to be driven by service providers' need to address competition, consolidation and convergence. Amdocs' new business included eleven new key wins. In addition to Sprint Nextel, these wins include a large project...

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Tellabs Q1 Revenue Grows 18% to $515 Million

Tellabs reported Q1 revenue of $515 million, up 18% from $436 million in the first quarter of 2005. On a GAAP basis, Tellabs earned $52 million or 11 cents per share compared with $1 million or less than one cent per share in the first quarter of 2005.Broadband - Revenue from the broadband segment totaled $260 million, up 14% from $228 million in the first quarter of 2005. Within the broadband segment, access product revenue totaled $164 million, up 28% from $128 million in the first quarter of 2005; managed access product revenue totaled $74 million,...

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MRV Reports 25% YoY Growth, Strong Transceiver Sales for Verizon FTTP

MRV Communications reported $77.3 million, an increase of 25% over revenues of $62.0 million for the first quarter of 2005. GAAP net loss for the first quarter of 2006 was $3.7 million, or $0.03 per share, a reduction of 43% when compared to a GAAP net loss of $6.4 million, or $0.06 per share, for the first quarter of 2005.MRV's optical component business unit, LuminentOIC, posted 43%sequential revenue growth and continued to improve gross margin to 21%. Demand was primarily driven by sales of its ONT Triplexer Transceiver, which is being used...

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Time Warner Telecom Supports SIP Network Serving 14,000 University Telephones

Time Warner Telecom is supplying a managed voice and data network to Boise State University that encompasses over 14,000 telephone numbers and 4,000 handsets. Time Warner Telecom's 20 Mbps capable SIP trunk service replaces existing T1s. Time Warner Telecom's metro Ethernet Native LAN uses Cisco equipment and has been designated a Cisco Powered Network service.http://www.twtelecom....

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NETGEAR Posts 17% Growth, Notes Component Shortage

NETGEAR reported Q1 revenue of $127.3 million, a 16.8% increase as compared to $109.0 million for the first quarter ended April 3, 2005, and an increase of 4.5% as compared to $121.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2005. Net income (GAAP) was $9.9 million or $0.29 per diluted share. This net income was a 25.3% increase compared to net income of $7.9 million for the first quarter of 2005 or $0.24 per diluted share, and $8.9 million or $0.26 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2005.Non-GAAP gross margin in the first quarter of 2006 was 35.1%,...

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ARRIS Reports Preliminary Results

ARRIS reported preliminary results for Q1, including net revenue of $208.3 million, up 53% as compared to $135.9 million in the first quarter 2005 and up 15% as compared to $181.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2005. Net income per diluted share for the first quarter 2006 was $0.19, up 375% as compared to $0.04 in the first quarter 2005 and down 5% as compared to $0.20 in the fourth quarter of 2005. Gross margins were 27.1%, equal to the first quarter 2005 and down from 31.9% in the fourth quarter 2005 primarily due to changes in product mix...

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MLB.com Chooses Anystream for Webcasting

MLB.com will use Anystream's Agility software to webcast 2,430 Major League Baseball games to a variety of consumer devices, including mobile phones. Anystream Agility is an automated, mission-critical solution that tightly integrates with MLB.com's other production systems to autonomously extract video and make it playout-ready for virtually any platform and consumer device.http://www.anystream....

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Sun Supplies Servers & Storage for Fox, HBO

Fox Television Stations is deploying Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 operating system (OS), servers, storage, and service to power its new centralized sales, traffic and programming management system. The project, including integration with neighboring systems and the gradual rollout across all Fox Television stations is planned to take less than three years.Separately, Home Box Office (HBO) has evolved its digital broadcast architecture exclusively using Sun Microsystems's workflow and storage technologies. HBO has standardized on Sun technology...

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Seagate Releases 750GB Perpendicular HDD

Seagate Technology released the first desktop hard drive to hit the 750GB capacity mark. The monster drive is part of the new Barracuda 7200.10 family built on perpendicular recording technology, which stands data bits vertically onto the disc media, rather than horizontal to the surface as with traditional longitudinal recording.Barracuda 7200.10 also features cache sizes from 8MB to 16MB and 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) data transfer rates with Native Command Queuing. NCQ enhances reliability in heavy workloads by reducing head movement...

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Sweden's Bredbandsbolaget Rolls Out FTTH over Cisco IP NGN

Bredbandsbolaget (B2), a leading broadband communication provider in Sweden with more than 375,000 residential and business subscribers, is delivering "triple-play" services, offering bidirectional broadband access, IPTV and IP telephony services, to new Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) customers over a Cisco IP Next Generation Network (IP NGN) featuring the Cisco ME 3400 Series Ethernet Access Switch.The Cisco ME 3400 Series is an access switch family optimized for the FTTH market, providing both Ethernet-to-the-home (ETTH) triple-play services and Ethernet-to-the-business...

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Boingo Partners with Chunghwa Telecom

Boingo Wireless signed a roaming agreement with Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent telecom operator in Taiwan. The partnership expands the worldwide Boingo Roaming System by nearly 900 hot spots. Boingo now provides access to over 30,000 locations from more than 130 leading Wi-Fi operators into one worldwide network. http://www.boingo....

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AT&T Reports Solid Growth, Adds 561,000 DSL Users

AT&T reported strong first-quarter results that reflect advances in wireless, broadband and business services, along with solid progress in merger integration. On a reported basis, AT&T's first-quarter earnings per diluted share were $0.37, up 37.0 percent from $0.27 in the first quarter of 2005. First-quarter earnings were $0.52 per diluted share, up 52.9 percent versus first-quarter 2005 earnings per diluted share of $0.34, before Cingular merger-related costs. AT&T's reported first-quarter 2006 net income was $1.4 billion, versus...

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Nokia N93 Integrates MPEG-4 Video Capture at 30 fps

Nokia unveiled the "N93" -- a mobile device that features a 3.2 megapixel camera, MPEG-4 VGA video capture at 30 frames per second, internal memory of up to 50 MB, hot swap capability to miniSD card of up to 2 GB, and designed to work on WLAN, 3G (WCDMA 2100 MHz), EDGE and GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz) networks. The device is pitched as a multimedia computer with true digital camcorder performance. It can connected directly to a TV or images and video...

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Yahoo! Go for TV Enters Beta Testing

Yahoo! released a public beta test of a new Yahoo! Go for TV application that delivers photos, movie trailers, music from "LAUNCHcast", music videos and other content on a TV screen. Yahoo! Go for TV, which is a free download, also provides DVR-like recording.The recommended hardware is a broadband-connected PC running Windows XP, a TV tuner card (for using the DVR functionality), a USB remote control, and a TV.http://go.connect.yahoo.com/go/tv/in...

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Enterasys Appoints New CEO

Enterasys Networks announced the appointment of Michael Fabiaschi as President and CEO, replacing Mark Aslett, who left the company to pursue other interests. Fabiaschi joins Enterasys from CA (formerly Computer Associates), where he was a senior vice president responsible for launching its efforts in the telecommunications vertical and for its fault and performance management software business. Prior to CA, Fabiaschi was President and CEO of Aprisma, a fault and performance management company that was spun out from Enterasys in 2002 and bought...

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Lucent Posts revenues of $2.14 billion

Lucent Technologies reported net income (GAAP) of $181 million, or 4 cents per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $104 million, or 2 cents per share, in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, and net income of $267 million, or 6 cents per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.The company reported revenues of $2.14 billion in the quarter, an increase of 4 percent sequentially and a decrease of 8 percent from the year-ago quarter. The company's revenues were $2.05 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2006 and $2.34 billion in the year-ago quarter.Gross...

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Japan's Sentivision Selects Motorola's IPTV Set-tops

Sentivision has selected the Motorola VIP series IPTV set-top platform for providing video service to Japanese subscribers. Sentivision becomes the first service provider outside of North America to deploy the Motorola VIP set-top. Financial terms were not disclosed.For this service deployment, Sentivision will port its advanced middleware suite to the Motorola set-top platform.http://www.motorola....

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Canada's Rogers Reports Subscriber Growth

Rogers Communications reported that revenues increased by 28.4% in Q1 over last year, with growth coming from all three of its operating units, including 20.1% growth at Rogers Wireless, 53.2% growth at Rogers Cable and Telecom and 9.5% growth at Rogers Media. Highlights of the first quarter of 2006 include the following:Postpaid voice and data subscriber growth continued to be strong at Wireless, where quarterly net additions of 89,600 subscribers reflected a modest increase from the strong postpaid subscriber growth reported in the first quarter...

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AudioCodes Partners with CompTek in Russia

AudioCodes will supply its media gateways to the Russian market via a partnership with CompTek, a leading Russian distributor of networking and telecommunications equipment. AudioCodes said its range of products, including its carrier class media gateways and servers, has successfully been interoperability-tested, evaluated and deployed in a variety of VoIP networks in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.http://www.audiocodes....

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Nokia Teams with CommTel and Soul in Australia

CommTel Network Solutions Australia, a value added network integrator, will supply Nokia' broadband DSL solutions and related services to the Soul group of companies all operating in Australia. Deliveries commenced in January 2006 and the system will be up and running during April 2006.The deployment includes the Nokia D500 IP Multi Service Access Node, which can deliver access in excess of 24 Mbps, IPTV, and VoIP in conjunction with Soul's SIP-based softswitch. Soul is the new brand name for the SPT group of companies which includes Soul Pattinson...

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First Avenue Networks Selects Huawei for SONET Core

First Avenue Networks, which provides U.S. carriers with wireless backhaul and access services, selected Huawei's SONET platform for its core network. The company will initially utilize Huawei's OptiX Metro 800 system for wireless backhaul applications, providing wireless carriers with T1, T3, 10/100 Carrier Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet services to meet the current and evolving needs of broadband wireless networks. First Avenue will also use OptiX Metro 800 to deliver wireless access services to wholesale service providers focused on enterprise...

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Intel Invests in Zensys for Wireless Home Control

Intel has made an investment in Zensys, a start-up based in Menlo Park, California that is developing mesh networking technology for wireless home control and automation. Financial terms were not disclosed.Zensys' Z-Wave is a low-cost, interoperable RF-based wireless mesh networking technology that is already available in wireless home control and automation products from leading consumer brands. The technology can be used for digital control of a wide array of home devices including lighting, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, access and security...

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