Tekelec Considers Strategic Options for its Switching Unit

Tekelec reported revenue from continuing operations for the third quarter of 2006 was a record $155.2 million, up 43% compared to $108.4 million for the third quarter of 2005. For the third quarter of 2006, the company had orders for the Telecom business of $108.0 million, up 8% compared to $100.4 million for the second quarter of 2006 and down 20% compared to $135.6 million for the third quarter of 2005. Telecom backlog as of September 30, 2006 was $455.0 million compared to $502.2 million as of June 30, 2006 and $520.2 million as of December...

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AudioCodes and Broadsoft Partner

AudioCodes and Broadsoft are collaborating to provide pre-integrated access solutions for hosted VoIP applications. AudioCodes will join BroadSoft and a consortium of other customer premises equipment (CPE) and access equipment vendors to build solutions that integrate equipment with hosted applications to simplify the integration challenges service providers face when deploying new services.The companies supporting the BroadWorks VoIP application platform and AudioCodes media gateway platforms, collaborating with each other to validate components...

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GridNetworks Unveils P2P "GridCast" Digital Content Delivery

GridNetworks, a start-up based in Seattle, unveiled its "GridCast" Platform for instant-on, full-screen, DVD-quality video to broadband-connected viewers.GridNetworks said its solution overcomes the challenges faced by both content delivery networks (CDNs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software solutions. While CDNs can provide secure distribution of content, their hardware-based delivery systems are expensive and fail to offer the delivery speed or scalability...

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Microsoft Releases Windows Embedded CE 6.0

Microsoft released Windows Embedded CE 6.0, targeting devices such as IP set-top-boxes, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), wireless projectors, and a variety of industrial automation, consumer electronics and medical devices. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 is a tool kit device-makers use for building customized operating system images for a variety of non- desktop devices.Windows Embedded CE 6.0 boasts a re-engineered kernel with capabilities such as a capacity for 32,000 simultaneous processes and 2 GB of virtual memory address space per process while...

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Tyco to Build Undersea Cable System in Gulf of Mexico

Tyco Telecommunications signed a contract with Houston-based BP America Inc. to supply an undersea fiber optic system serving offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The system will comprise the undersea backbone of a regional communications network, providing diverse connectivity from BP's Gulf of Mexico offshore production facilities back to the regional operating center in Houston, Texas. Financial terms were not disclosed.The system will initially link seven deep-water production platforms with landings in Freeport, Texas and Pascagoula,...

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Swisscom Launches Bluewin IPTV Service

Swisscom officially launched its Bluewin IPTV service, offering 100-plus television channels, 70-plus radio channels, live sports coverage and an initial VOD library of 500-plus films. The monthly fee for the basic offering, Bluewin TV Plus, is CHF 29 (US$23). Bluewin is delivered over either an ADSL or VDSL connection. Customers in areas which do not yet provide VDSL access can have only one TV channel transmitted at a time, and pay CHF 26 instead...

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AT&T Expands Homezone -- Combining Satellite and Broadband Content

AT&T has expanded the availability of its "Homezone" service across its entire broadband footprint. AT&T Homezone integrates AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet, AT&T | DISH Network satellite television and AT&T Home Networking services via a single device. AT&T Homezone is available to new AT&T | DISH Network residential customers who either already have or plan to order AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet and the 2Wire...

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Modulus Unveils MPEG-4 AVC Encoding Solution

Modulus Video unveiled a real-time, MPEG-4 AVC encoding solution for both SD and HD designed to meet the growing demand for video on demand (VOD) movies and local content delivered over IPTV networks. The Modulus VODxchange system can convert content from virtually any video format and encode it into MPEG-4 AVC at bit rates specifically optimized for IP networks. It includes advanced features like bandwidth optimizing Constrained Fidelity-Constant Bit Rate (CF-CBR) mode, digital program insertion triggers and integrated low resolution stream output....

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Efonica Reaches 750,000 VoIP Subscribers

Fusion Telecommunications has registered more than 750,000 subscribers from more than 100 countries since launching its free Efonica VoIP services this past June. In addition, Fusion now has more than 10,000 paid Efonica subscribers.Efonica offers subscribers its worldwide "Internet area code", which when dialed allows subscribers to speak with each other for free. Subscribers can simply register their existing landline or mobile telephone number...

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Amdocs Reports Quarterly Revenue of $665 Million, up 16%

Amdocs reported quarterly revenue of $665.4 million, an increase of 16.1% from last year. Net income on a non-GAAP basis was $109.5 million, or $0.50 per diluted share (excluding acquisition-related costs. The company cited ten new wins, including Bell Canada."The strong market that we saw in 2006 was a result of the transformation that service providers are undergoing," said Dov Baharav, chief executive officer of Amdocs Management Limited. "We see strong demand as our customers cope with competition, consolidation and convergence; our customers...

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Bell Canada Sees Slower Growth for DSL, Wireless

Bell Canada reported revenues of $4,339 million in the third quarter, up 0.4% from the same quarter last year, driven by higher average revenues per user (ARPU) in residential growth services (wireless, video and high-speed Internet), as well as an expanding subscriber base in those services, improved revenue performance from the Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund (Bell Aliant) and growth in revenues from wireless and Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) solutions in the Business segment.Reported operating income was $827...

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Vitesse's Latest Crosspoint Switch Tops 1.5 Terabit Per Second Switching Capacity

Vitesse Semiconductor unveiled a crosspoint switching chip boasting a breakthrough 1.5 Terabit per second (Tbps) of switching capacity and advanced Signal Integrity technology.With low-latency switching capability, the 11 Gbps-per-port, 144 × 144 VSC3040 asynchronous crosspoint switch delivers market-enabling capacity for storage, video and network equipment used in Core, Metro and Enterprise environments. The device is designed for the aggregation, switching and transport of data links from a wide array of sources. This higher data rate capability...

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Juniper Networks Powers 40G Link for China's CERNIC

The China Education and Research Network Information Center (CERNIC) has deployed Juniper Networks' T-series core routing platform in its next generation China Education and Research Network (CERNET2). The deployment marks the first long-haul 40 Gbps link between Beijing and Tianjin. CERNET2 is part of the larger nationwide China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) infrastructure and connects over 20 cities and 200 universities across mainland China....

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Telefonica Selects Solaris to Consolidate Oracle database

Telefónica de España selected Sun's Solaris Operating System (OS), Sun Fire servers and services from Sun Microsystems to upgrade and consolidate its multiple Oracle databases. Sun is serving as the prime contractor on the project. Telefónica is implementing Oracle Real Application Clusters to enable single databases to be deployed across a cluster of servers, providing fault tolerance from failures and planned outages.http://www.sun....

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Nokia Service Suite Bridges Cellular and WLAN

Nokia announced a software solution which automates both the connectivity over the available access methods like cellular and WLAN, and also provides the preferred location and presence specific services to the user. Nokia Service Suite, which will make its official debut at next week's VON Europe Autumn 2006 Conference in Berlin, is a software application for all Nokia WLAN enabled dual mode devices, including both Nokia Nseries and Nokia Eseries...

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Bharti Airtel Selects Nokia for US$400 Million Contract

Bharti Airtel Limited has awarded Nokia contract to expand its managed GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks in eight Airtel circles and deploy a pan-Indian WAP solution across its networks. Under the three-year contract, which was valued at US$400 million, Nokia will provide managed services and expand Airtel networks to cover all towns and cities in the eight telecom circles of Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa, Gujarat, Bihar (including Jharkhand), Orissa, Kolkata,...

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Fonpods Introduces Fast Access Service to Mobilize Podcasts

Fonpods released a new version of their service designed to make mobile access to a consumer's favorite Podcasts much easier. Fonpods' Fast Access solution works as follows:Podcasters upload feed to FonpodsFonpods generates a unique ID for the podcast feedPodcasters can post the Fast Access number (712-432-3031) along with feed ID number on their website, emails, newsletters, etc. A Web-based interface allows users to customize and create their...

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LogMeIn Launches Hamachi Zero Configuration VPN

LogMeIn announced the release of a zero configuration, instant virtual private network (VPN) service that gives network administrators and support professionals the ability to quickly provide remote users the connectivity and services traditionally available only on a corporate network or through traditional VPNs. LogMeIn Hamachi -- already in use on more than five million machines during the beta program -- requires no firewall or router reconfiguration,...

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Agere Posts First Full Year of GAAP Profitability

Agere Systems reported GAAP net income of $20 million, or $0.12 per share, for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, compared to a GAAP net loss of $8 million, or $0.04 per share, for fiscal 2005. The results represent the first fiscal year that Agere has been profitable on a GAAP basis.Richard Clemmer, President and CEO of Agere, said, "Our results for fiscal 2006 mark Agere's first full-year profit as a public company. This milestone in financial performance demonstrates that we are executing on our turnaround strategy.In the December quarter,...

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Inventec Makes Strategic Investment in NetXen

Inventec Corp. (IEC), the world's largest server ODM, has made a strategic investment in NetXen, a start-up developing 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) Intelligent NIC technology. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. Additionally, Inventec Enterprise Systems Corporation (IESC), a wholly owned subsidiary of IEC, has entered into a manufacturing and supply chain partnership with NetXen to deliver advanced 10GbE solutions for the volume server market.http://www.netxen.comhttp://www.inventecesc....

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Vonage Passes 2 Million Subscriptions

Vonage added 204,591 net subscribers in Q3, giving it a total of 2,057,844 lines in service, an increase of 11% sequentially and 94% above the year-ago level.Third quarter 2006 revenue grew to $161 million, a 12% increase from $143 million in the second quarter 2006 and up 118% from $74 million in the year- ago quarter. The sequential growth was driven primarily by the growth in subscriber lines while year-over-year revenue growth resulted from subscriber line growth and increases in average monthly revenue per line.Non-GAAP adjusted loss from...

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Mitel Supplies Unified Communications for Microsoft Technology Centers

Mitel will supply its suite of unified communications solutions will be used at Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC) worldwide. The entire suite - comprised of the Mitel 3300 IP Communications Platform (ICP), Mitel Live Business Gateway, Mitel Navigator and the Mitel 5340 and 5224 IP Phones - will provide demonstrations of rich telephony, presence and integration features based on Microsoft's unified communications (UC) solutions.The deployment is part of an agreement between the two companies to demonstrate the combined UC solution with advanced...

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Limelight Appoints CEO

Limelight Networks, a leading content delivery network, named Jeffrey W. Lunsford as CEO and chairman of the board of directors. He replaces founder Bill Rinehart, who will remain with the company as co- founder and continue to work with Limelight's customers and partners.Lunsford joins Limelight from digital marketing and analytics firm WebSideStory, where as CEO and Chairman he led the company through a successful IPO, a strategic product expansion phase -- including two acquisitions and 11 consecutive quarters of positive cash flow.Limelight's...

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Narus Secures $30 Million for IP Traffic

Narus, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, secured $30 million in new financing for its solutions for real-time, IP traffic analysis and management. This financing includes $20 million in equity and a $10 million revolving line of credit. The funding will be used primarily to develop the next generation of NarusInsight products, and to accelerate the company's global channel initiative to support the worldwide adoption for its products.NarusInsight...

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Alvarion Supports Primary Voice Services over WiMAX

Alvarion is now supporting the deliver of primary voice services over WiMAX using the latest edition of its BreezeMAX platform. Alvarion now supports V5.2 interfaces, enabling interconnection of TDM-based infrastructures. When coupled with its existing VoIP capabilities, BreezeMAX can now interface directly with both legacy and next generation voice networks.Alvarion said the primary voice services of the BreezeMAX platform have been tested with carriers in Africa and South America, and approved as interoperable with various vendors' Class 5...

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Alcatel and Samsung to Develop S-Band Mobile Handsets

Alcatel and Samsung Electronics agreed to develop mobile handsetscompatible with the evolution of the DVB-H standard in the S-Band. The companies will collaborate on interoperability testing in orderto deliver a seamless end-to-end solution to operators and a high quality Mobile TV service to end-users. Both companies will support the standardization process of this solution in the DVB Forum undertaken in the DVB-SSP (Satellite Services for Portable devices) Ad-Hoc Group, and join forces to market their combined solution. In...

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Siemens Expands WLAN Portfolio with Open Mobility Solutions

Siemens Enterprise Communications expanded its wireless LAN portfolio with the launch of its HiPath Wireless Manager and a new HiPath Ready Partner Program for Open Mobility Solutions. The new Open Mobility Solutions and open APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) enable the ability to add third-party solutions.Siemens said its open approach to mobility supports an enterprise-wide strategy that centralizes mobility management with "best of breed" WLAN security products. The HiPath Wireless Manager is a new, centralized WLAN management platform...

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Avaya and Juniper Networks Extend Strategic Alliance

Juniper Networks and Avaya are extending their strategic alliance focused on enterprise networking. Juniper now plans to integrate Avaya's IP voice gateway and intelligent communications applications with the new Juniper J4350 and J6350 J-series enterprise branch routers. This is the first completely integrated solution from Avaya and Juniper that involved joint product engineering and software development by both companies.The new Juniper J4350 and J6350 J-series routers provide up to two Gigabit Ethernet performance for enterprise remote, branch...

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Impsat Fiber Networks Deploys Acme Packet

Impsat Fiber Networks has deployed Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers (SBCs) to deliver its VoIP services for the mid and large corporate market and VoIP interconnects for wholesale services to carriers. Impsat, a leading competitive operator in Latin America, has already deployed Acme Packet's Net-Net SBCs as part of its voice network in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and the US with plans to expand further in 2007. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.acmepacket.comLast week, Global Crossing announced plans to acquire Imps...

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Metaswitch Supplies Core Switching at GMI 2006

MetaSwitch supplied core switching functionality during the recent Global MSF Interoperability 2006 (GMI 2006) event, which focused on the technical interoperability issues surrounding IP Multimedia Sub-system (IMS) deployments. MetaSwitch's core switching solutions were tested within the joint BT and Vodafone test facility in the UK and used to support advanced IP services that spanned the four continent network test bed. This year's GMI event marks the third MSF test program that has leveraged MetaSwitch's technology at its core.The worldwide...

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SES Global and Eutelsat to Launch Satellite S-Band over Europe

SES GLOBAL and Eutelsat Communications announced a 50/50 joint venture company, which will operate and commercialize S-band satellite services over Europe for mobile video services. The S-band (2.0 and 2.2 GHz), which represents a new frequency band for both SES and Eutelsat, provides a set of frequencies optimized for supporting a wireless distribution network for mobile devices, including phones, PDAs, laptops and vehicle receivers.Eutelsat Communications...

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Nortel Delivers IMS-ready FMC for France's neuf

Nortel supplied the VoIP and IMS-ready technology underpinning Neuf Cegetel's "TWIN" GSM/WiFi hybrid service. Neuf Cegetel estimates users of TWIN are achieving savings of up to 30% on their mobile phone fees. Under WiFi coverage the TWIN phone automatically connects to the Neuf box or WiFi community access point and calls are made at the same price as calls from a landline phone.The fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution for Neuf Cegetel includes...

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Xilinx and AXIS Offer Integrated Radio Card Platform for W-CDMA, WiMAX

Xilinx released a common digital radio system (CDRS) development platform that increases power amplifier (PA) efficiency and reduces capital and operating costs for W-CDMA and WiMAX base stations. The CDRSX development platform consists of the Xilinx W-CDMA and WiMAX digital front-end (DFE) reference designs and a flexible development board from AXIS Network Technology."The market is looking for flexible, cost-effective solutions that can be used to develop initial systems and then go from concept-to-production as quickly and easily as possible,"...

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Koor Considers Sale of Telrad Networks

Koor Industries announced the receipt of a number of inquiries from various entities interested in acquiring its holdings (61%) in its subsidiary, Telrad Networks. No decisions have been announced.Telrad provides a family of products for Next Generation Networks (NGN), WiFi mesh, and FMC. The company also provides system integration, maintenance and ongoing upgrades of systems. Telrad, which was founded in 1951, is based in Israel.http://www.koor.comhttp://www.telrad....

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Catapult Supplies 3G IMS Test System to KT

Catapult Communications has been selected by Korea Telecom (KT) to provide simulation and load testing capabilities for the addition of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services to their existing IP network.http://www.catapult....

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Verizon Adds 1.9 Million Wireless, 448,000 Broadband Users

Verizon reported Q3 revenues of $23.3 billion, up 25.8% from third quarter 2005, and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of 66 cents, or 68 cents per share before special items (non-GAAP measure).Verizon Wireless is now the largest U.S. wireless carrier in terms of revenue. The company is also the largest wireless data provider based on data revenue, and it has the most retail customers -- that is, businesses and consumers directly served by Verizon...

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Microsoft Releases Windows Media Player 11

Microsoft released Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP, featuring seamless integration with URGE, MTV Networks Co.'s digital music service. Other key enhancements include new formats for ripping and music playback, including Windows Media Audio Professional and WAV Lossless, and improved search capabilities.http://www.microsoft....

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Optibase and SeaChange Collaborate on IPTV

Optibase and SeaChange will extend their product interoperability in support of IPTV services. Optibase will integrate its carrier-class media gateways with SeaChange's TV Platform. The Optibase Media Gateway encodes, transcodes, transmits and recasts live video in real-time.http://www.schange.comhttp://www.optibase....

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Avaya Launches Nationwide Mobile Truck Tour

Avaya is conducting a nationwide mobile bus tour to encourage businesses to develop contingency plans for communicating during and after a major disaster. The bus features technologies that help local businesses maintain critical communications during disasters, and when their communications systems fail, these technologies get lines of communications up and running within an hour. http://avayaebc.reg4events.com/roadshow/index.html?cid=cn_em_n_...

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NET Readies Multi-service, High-speed Switch for Naval Research Labs

Network Equipment Technologies has received initial advance orders for its NX5010 high-speed switching platform, to be shipped upon general availability of the product, which is expected shortly. The new NX5010, which was jointly developed by NET and Bay Microsystems, is a compact, scalable, 10 Gbps multi-service aggregation and switching platform. The NX5010 enables geographically dispersed data centers to connect and enables multiple components currently required to perform SAN to WAN communications to be replaced and collapsed into a single...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Reaches 3.97 Million BB, 8.4 Million Mobile Users

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom 47,000 new ADSL subscribers and 53,700 new FTTB subscribers in the third quarter, bringing its total number of broadband subscribers to 3.97 million as of the end of September 2006.Additional highlights for 3Q06:Total revenue increased 2.2% QoQ to NT$47.38 billion, of which 34% was from fixed-line services, 40% from mobile services and 24% from Internet and data services. The increase in revenues was mainly driven by continued growth in the Internet and data businesses.Internet & data and mobile revenues increased...

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Conexant's STB Business Records 5th Consecutive Quarter of Double-Digit Growth

Conexant Systems reported revenues of $245.9 million for its fourth fiscal quarter, within the guidance range communicated at the beginning of the quarter, down 2.3 percent from third quarter fiscal 2006 revenues of $251.6 million, and up 14.4 percent from $214.9 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005. Core gross margins in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 increased to 45.8 percent of revenues. Core operating income in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 was $20.7 million, compared to third quarter fiscal 2006 core operating income of $25.5...

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Schwarzenegger Forms California Broadband Task Force

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger held a press event to announce a new task force for promoting broadband networking in California. The event highlighted the possibility of telemedicine. Schwarzenegger signed an executive order designating one state agency -- Business, Transportation & Housing (BT&H) -- as lead coordinator for implementing the state's broadband policy. The agency will create a database linking private broadband companies...

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Turin Acquires Assets of White Rock Networks

Turin Networks acquired the product portfolio and the majority of the material assets of White Rock Networks, a provider of next-generation optical transport products for metro networks, for an undisclosed sum. The deal expands Turin Networks' product portfolio and carrier customer base to over 300 customers worldwide.White Rock Networks' product portfolio consists of the VLX 2020 Optical Transport System, the VLX 2006 Multiservice Access Platform, the VLX 300 and 400 Service Edge Concentrators and the VLXpert EMS.http://www.turinnetworks.comIn...

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Espial IPTV Makes Executive Appointments

Espial, a supplier of IPTV middleware and applications, named Brian Mahony as its new VP of Marketing and Bob Daly as CFO.Mahony most recently served at Netcentrex (acquired by Commverse). Prior to Netcentrex, Mahony's roles included VP Marketing and Business Development at Tundo Corporation, Director of Business Development and Strategy at Unisphere (acquired by Siemens and Juniper Networks for $740M), and Business Development Manager at Nortel.Mr. Daly is a Chartered Accountant and previously served as Vice President of Finance for JDS Uniphase....

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NTT DoCoMo Reports Flat Revenue, Intense Competition

For the six months ended 30-Sept-2006, NTT DoCoMo reported operating revenue of Y2,383 billion, up 0.4% compared to the same period last year, while operating income was Y516 billion, down 7.4% compared to last year, and income before taxes was Y309 billion, down 17.8% compared to a year earlier.NTT DoCoMo said it plans to increase CAPEX in the second half of its fiscal year in order to reinforce the quality of its FOMA network. Spending will rise...

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NTT DATA to Sell U.S. Datacenter Business in NJ

NTT DATA will sell its U.S. datacenter service provider business to Quality Technology Services Holding LLC ("QualityTech"), a privately held provider of data center facilities and managed services. Financial terms were not disclosed. NTT DATA said will focus its resources on IT services.http://www.nttdata.co.jp/en/media/2006/102500.h...

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Axtel to Acquire Avantel, Combining Networks in Mexico

Axtel agreed to acquire Avantel Infraestructura in a plan to create a fully complementary national telecommunications company in Mexico providing local, long-distance, broadband and data, in a transaction valued at $500 million. The deal combines AXTEL's hybrid wireline and fixed-wireless local access network, and 683 kilometers of metropolitan fiber optic rings, with Avantel's 7,700 route kilometers of long-haul fiber optic network and 300 kilometers of metropolitan fiber optic ring.The merger would consolidate AXTEL's position as the second-largest...

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NETGEAR Posts Revenue of $151.6 million, 36% year-over-year growth

NETGEAR's Q3 net revenue increased to $151.6 million, 36% year-over-year growth and non-GAAP net income increased to $11.9 million, as compared to $9.1 million in the comparable prior year quarter, 31% year-over-year growth.NETGEAR launched a total of 10 new products in the third quarter, with the most important being NETGEAR's SSL VPN Concentrator 25 and Skype Wi-Fi Phone.Net revenue from service providers reached 23% of total revenue in the third quarter http://www.netgear....

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AT&T U-verse VOD to Include Warner Bros. Movies

AT&T reached a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to include the studio's current and catalog titles as part of the AT&T U-verse TV video-on-demand (VOD) programming lineup. Financial terms were not disclosed."Warner Bros. has always been focused on providing our content to consumers when and where they want to view it," said Deanne Lewis, director, On-Demand Sales of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. "We are pleased to join with AT&T to offer our award-winning movies as part of the U-verse on-demand library....

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AT&T Offers Remote Home Monitoring Video Service

AT&T introduced a new home monitoring service that enables customers to use both personal computers and Cingular wireless devices to access high-quality, streaming digital video and other real-time data and information from their homes. The service combines live and recorded video (non-audio) capabilities with a range of environmental sensor options. Users can customize alerts and actions.For example, a user can program the service to send a text message alert to a cell phone when motion is detected in an area of the home, while at the same...

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Comcast Credits Triple Play for Growing Momentum

Citing increased demand for its Triple Play service bundle, Comcast reported that revenue increased 12% to $6.6 billion in the third quarter of 2006 (results are presented as if the acquisition of Susquehanna Communications and the Adelphia/Time Warner transactions were effective on January 1, 2005.) Some operational highlights for Q3:Revenue generating units (RGUs) increased 1.486 million in the third quarter of 2006 or 82% from prior year net additions.Added 558,000 new digital subscribers during the quarter. Digital penetration now exceeds...

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Time Warner Supplies 1 Gbps "Quilt" Connections for U.S. Universities

Time Warner Telecom has deployed Gigabit Ethernet Internet connections to the Indiana GigaPoP, located at IUPUI (Indianapolis University-Purdue University Indianapolis), and the University of Minnesota. The two universities are among the first to contract for Internet connectivity from Time Warner Telecom, after the company was named a preferred provider of high performance network services for The Quilt CIS project. The Quilt provides network service to more than 200 Internet2 universities and thousands of other educational institutions across...

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Extreme Reports Revenue of $83.4 Million

Extreme Networks reported quarterly revenue of $83.8 million, compared to $97.9 million in the same period last year and compared to $82.4 million in the preceding quarter. Because the company is conducting a review of its historical practices for stock option grants and accounting for option grants, it did not provide GAAP metrics.Revenues in the U.S. were $34.2 million in the quarter, representing 40.9 percent of total consolidated revenue, compared to $45.1 million or 46.1 percent of revenue in the same quarter a year ago, and compared to $35.0...

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Verizon Business Connects SuperJANET5 Research Network

Verizon Business has supplied a state-of-the-art, fibre-optic network for SuperJANET5, the U.K.'s new national research and education network. SuperJANET5 will link 19 regional educational networks across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, supporting a potential user base of up to 18 million users. Verizon Business supplied an autonomous network backbone, with a dedicated, geographically diverse fiber infrastructure. The network can...

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Vitesse Releases PMD devices for BPON, EPON and GPON

Vitesse Semiconductor announced the general availability of its "PON PRO" family of physical media dependent (PMD) devices for BPON, EPON and GPON applications. To date, PON PRO products have won over twenty designs worldwide with module manufacturers designing Optical Line Termination (OLT) and Optical Network Unit (ONU) applications for the FTTH market, mostly in Asia.http://www.vitesse.com/...

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Riverbed Adds 300 Customers in Q3

Riverbed Technology reported Q3 revenue of $24.6 million, which represents a sequential increase of 36% from the immediately preceding quarter and a year-over-year increase of 247% from the third quarter of last year. The net loss on a GAAP basis for the third quarter of 2006 was $3.1 million, or $0.16 per share, compared to a net loss of $6.1 million in the second quarter of 2006 and a net loss of $3.9 million in the third quarter of 2005. Riverbed's third quarter of 2006 GAAP results included $2.1 million of non-cash stock-based compensation...

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Global Crossing to Acquire Impsat for Latin American Presence

Global Crossing agreed to acquire Impsat, a provider of private telecommunications network and Internet services in Latin America, for $336 million, consisting of $95 million in cash and assumption of $241 million of debt. Impsat currently provides services to more than 4,500 national and multinational clients, and has operations in Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Peru and the United States.The companies have had a commercial...

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Verizon Wireless Delivers 5 Billion TXT Messages in September

Verizon Wireless delivered more than five billion TXT messages in September 2006 -- a new monthly record for both the company and the U.S. wireless industry. This represents an increase of 150 percent - or an increase of three billion messages a month - for the same time period in 2005.Also last month, Verizon Wireless customers shared more than 100 million PIX and FLIX multimedia messages. http://www.verizonwireless....

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QUALCOMM Reaches 200 Million Milestone for GPS

More than 200 million mobile handsets worldwide have shipped featuring QUALCOMM's gpsOne Assisted-GPS technology. The gpsOne solution provides the position-location technology behind the vast majority of the location services at more than 50 major network operators worldwide.The gpsOne A-GPS solution is integrated into most of QUALCOMM's Mobile Station Modem chipsets. http://www.qualcomm....

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Multiservice Forum's GMI 2006 Event Tests IMS-Compliant NGNs

The Multiservice Forum wrapped up its Global MSF Interoperability event -- GMI 2006 -- a two-week, multinational, distributed, interactive test bed designed to verify key interoperability aspects of NGN/IMS implementations.GMI 2006 amounts to a massive "real network" trial of the MSF IMS (IP Multimedia System)-compatible Release 3 architecture. BT/ Vodafone, Verizon, Korea Telecom/ETRI and NTT Japan together with the University of New Hampshire...

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Cisco to Acquire Orative for Mobile Unified Communications

Cisco Systems agreed to acquire privately-held Orative Corp., a developer of mobile communications solutions, for $31 million in cash. Orative provides an application which will allow Cisco to extend its Unified Communications portfolio to mobile devices such as cell phones and smartphones. Orative was founded in 2002 and has 33 employees based in San Jose, California.Cisco said Orative's mobile software will extend the communications and collaboration capabilities of the Cisco Unified Communications system to business mobile phone users. With...

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Metro Ethernet Forum Launches Service Provider Certification 14 Program

The Metro Ethernet Forum launched its MEF 14 Service Provider Certification Program as a means to help enterprises feel confident that their providers' Carrier Ethernet services can support mission critical and converged applications such as ERP, VoIP, videoconferencing and business continuity.MEF 14 (Abstract Test Suite for Traffic Management) ensures conformance to the MEF Quality of Service attributes, which provides a foundation for the implementation...

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Equinix Posts Revenue of $73.7 million, up 26%

Equinix, a provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, reported Q3 revenues of $73.7 million, a 27% increase over the same quarter last year and an 8% increase over the previous quarter. Recurring revenues, consisting primarily of colocation, interconnection and managed services, were $69.9 million, a 29% increase over the same quarter last year and a 7% increase over the previous quarter. Non-recurring revenues were $3.8 million in the quarter, consisting primarily of professional services and installation fees.Net...

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Sourcefire Files for IPO -- Network Intrusion Prevention

Sourcefire, a developer of network intrusion prevention solutions, filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock. Sourcefire was founded in 2001 by Martin Roesch, the creator of SNORT open source technology for intrusion detection and prevention. According the company's website, there have been over 3,000,000 downloads of Snort around the world to date.The company is based in Columbia, Maryland.http://www.sourcefire.comIn May, 2006 Sourcefire secured $20 million in Series D funding led by...

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PCCW Selects ICTV for Interactive Services

PCCW, the incumbent operator in Hong Kong, has selected ICTV's ActiveVideo Distribution Network platform to enable interactive channels via television to subscribers of its "now" TV service. ICTV, a start-up based in Los Gatos, California, provides the ability to deliver Web programming as MPEG video to any digital set-top box. Live and VOD programming can be blended seamlessly with content that is created and modified using standard Web tools...

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Lockheed Martin Selects AT&T

Lockheed Martin awarded a $37 million, two-year contract extension to AT&T for a full range of integrated voice, data and IP services. AT&T's services will include end-to-end network-management support and a single point of contact to streamline all service orders and installations. Lockheed Martin employs 140,000 people in more than 900 domestic locations and 56 countries.http://www.att....

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Quorum Raises $15 Million for CMOS radio frequency (RF) transceivers

Quorum Systems, a start-up based in San Diego, raised $15 million in a Series C funding, for its ultra-low-power, high-performance CMOS radio frequency (RF) transceivers.The company recently moved into production volume of its first "Sereno" QS1000 quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE transceiver. The product family will include the QS1000, QS2000 and QS3000. The QS2000 integrates quad-band GSM/GPRS and EDGE capability with 802.11b/g, enabling simultaneous operation of Wi-Fi and cellular. The Sereno QS3000 combines GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 3G HSDPA into a single-chip,...

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ARRIS Posts Q3 Revenue of $228.6 million, up 14% YoY

ARRIS reported preliminary Q3 revenue of $228.6 million, up 14% as compared to $201.0 million in the third quarter 2005 and up 4% as compared to $220.0 million in the second quarter 2006. Net income in the third quarter 2006 was $26.6 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, as compared to net income of $18.8 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, in the third quarter 2005 and as compared to net income of $24.8 million or $0.23 per diluted share in the second quarter 2006.ARRIS said demand for CMTS products continues to be driven by the Multi System...

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LSI Logic to Acquire StoreAge Networking Technologies

LSI Logic Corporation agreed to acquire StoreAge Networking Technologies, a developer of SAN storage management and multi-tiered, data protection software, for $50 million in cash.StoreAge is based in Nesher, Israel with US offices in Irvine, California.LSI Logic said the acquisition would enable it to offer its OEM and channel customers a richer set of products and features for enterprise storage.http://www.lsilogic....

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Conexant to Acquire Zarlink's Packet Switching Line

Conexant Systems agreed to acquire Zarlink Semiconductor's packet switching product line for US$5 million in cash and additional amounts based on revenue performance of the product line over the next two years.Based in Irvine, California, Zarlink's packet switching product line has developed a range of Fast Ethernet aggregation switches for network access equipment. Zarlink's engineering team has produced six generations of packet switches and management software.Conexant said the acquisition would complement its DSL central office silicon solutions,...

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BT acquires Counterpane Internet Security

BT has acquired Counterpane Internet Security Inc., a provider of managed networked security services, as part of its strategy to expand and develop its global professional services capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed. Counterpane, which is based in Mountain View, California, monitors some 550 networks worldwide, real-time view of, and response to, IT security threats. Andy Green, CEO BT Global Services, said: "Counterpane is a welcome...

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EMBARQ Rolls out "Smart Connect" Business FMC Service

Embarq, the fifth largest local communications company in the U.S., introduced a "Smart Connect" service that allows calls to move seamlessly between a business' wireless and wireline networks -- without interrupting the call. EMBARQ began its tiered rollout of this new technology by launching in Las Vegas, Orlando and Charlottesville, Va.The general capability can be enhanced further with the EMBARQ "Smart Connect Plus", which enables calls to automatically...

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Cantata Integrates Media Server with Sonus' IMS Architecture

Cantata's SnowShore IP Media Server has been integrated with Sonus' IMS-ready architecture to perform the Media Resource Function (MRF) and facilitate the seamless delivery of subscriber-focused services and applications that enrich the communication experience. The integration brings together Sonus' ASX Feature Server and IMX Multimedia Application Platform with Cantata's software-based SnowShore IP Media Server, enabling the delivery of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and VoiceXML (vXML)-based applications through scripting capabilities and...

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Alcatel Posts Quarterly Revenue of EUR 3.335 billion, 1.4% Growth, 34% Margin

Alcatel reported Q3 revenue of EUR 3.335 billion, up 1.4% compared with EUR 3.289 billion (up 2.7% at constant EUR/USD exchange rate) in the same period last year. The gross margin was 33.6%. Operating profit amounted to EUR 258 million, a 7.7% operating margin.Third Quarter Business Update: Segment Breakdown Third Qtr Third Qtr Second...

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