New Ethernet Alliance to Promote IEEE 802 Ethernet

A new Ethernet Alliance has been formed by 3Com, ADC, Agere Systems, AMCC, Aquantia, Broadcom, Force10 Networks, Foundry Networks, Intel, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, Pioneer Corporation, Quake Technologies, Samsung, Sun Microsystems, Tehuti Networks, Tyco Electronics, The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), and Xilinx.The mission of the group is to serve as an industry resource and to promote all existing and emerging IEEE 802 Ethernet standards."Although Ethernet has existed for more than 25 years, it does not have an...

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BroadLight Samples its GPON Chip

BroadLight has begun sampling its BL2000 GPON system-on-chip solution. The BL2000 system-on-chip completes BroadLight's End-to-End GPON product offering which also includes PONmaker software and the BL3000 OLT MAC. http://www.broadlight.comIn June 2005, BroadLight unveiled an E2E GPON solution that features the BL2000 GPON System-on-Chip (SoC) for cost focused ONT applications and includes PONmaker software and the BL3000 OLT MAC. In November 2005, BroadLight, a start-up offering components for FTTP solutions, closed $10 million in a series D financing...

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Convergys Lands Multi-year Contract Extension with DirecTV

Convergys, the major provider of customer care services to DIRECTV since it launched its digital television programming service 11 years ago, will continue to deliver and enhance its world-class customer service to DIRECTV's 15 million customers under a new, multiyear contract. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.convergys....

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Juniper Networks Names New Executive Team

Juniper Networks announced a shake-up of its senior executive team.Eddie Minshull, who has headed Juniper's EMEA sales operation for the last five years, will assume the position of executive vice president, Worldwide Field Operations, responsible for Juniper's global Sales and Service organization. Minshull joined Juniper from Alcatel where he held the position of president, Northern Europe and chief executive officer (CEO), UK & Ireland. Prior to Juniper, Lindholm held senior executive positions in both sales and marketing at Unisphere, Redstone...

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AOL Acquires Truveo for "Visual Crawler" Technology

America Online (AOL) has acquired Truveo, a start-up specializing in Internet video search, for an undisclosed sum. Truveo's approach to video search utilizes a proprietary web crawling technology it calls "Visual Crawling" that automatically discovers video files and related information on complex, dynamic web pages.This unique technology has enabled Truveo to amass one of the most comprehensive indexes of high-quality, current video on the web. As a result of this unique approach, Truveo's video search engine includes a large selection of popular...

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Harmonic Unveils MPEG/IP-Based Video Mosaic Solution

Harmonic introduced a multi-channel digital mosaic system that tiles several channels within a single high-quality digital video stream. This provides the subscriber with a composite multi-program view. In addition, the ProStream 8000 makes it possible to increase revenue from subscription services, video-on-demand (VOD) and advertising by enabling promotions and previews, regional customizations, additional paid programming formats, as well as specialty program groupings including sports, news and children's channels.Harmonic's new IP-based ProStream...

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SilverStorm Raises $13 Million for Clustered Computing Interconnects

SilverStorm Technologies, a start-up based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, closed $13 million in venture funding for its high performance interconnect solutions for clustered computing.SilverStorm said its high-performance interconnects are being used in some of the world's largest computing clusters. Customers include Sandia National Laboratories, Riken Research Institute, Toyota, Lockheed Martin, Chevron, Sun Microsystems, Intel, AMD, Virginia Tech and Canon.The round was led by new investor Core Capital Partners, which was joined by new investor...

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Oki Electric Develops Portable MPEG4 Encoder for Satellite Phones

Oki Electric successfully transmitted MPEG4 video through INMARSAT's satellite service using a portable video compression transmitter. The experiment proved that a compact, light weighted encoder can transmit Internet Protocol video via satellite link, enabling a portable live streaming system."We conducted the experiment based on locations such as marine vessels and mountain areas, where normal transmission routes including fixed LAN, wireless LAN, FOMA and PHS are unavailable or, at best, difficult to maintain," said Yasukazu Hontama, President...

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Virtela Expands Managed DSL to 120 Countries

Virtela, a global network solutions provider, is now delivering managed global DSL connectivity to its private network via a footprint covering more than 120 countries. New locations covered include Azerbaijan, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Egypt, Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Romania, Tajikistan and Vietnam.Virtela has already provisioned and provides ongoing management of business-class DSL services for more than a thousands customer sites worldwide. Virtela's global DSL services enable enterprises to replace low-speed...

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Firetide Partners With EDX Wireless for Municipal Wireless Mesh

Firetide, a supplier of wireless mesh networking, announced a strategic partnership with EDX Wireless, to provide customers with full featured software tools for planning and deploying municipal wireless mesh networks.EDX Wireless, a developer of software for planning commercial and municipal wireless networks, has taken the step to include Firetide HotPort mesh node specifications as part of its SignalMX software, allowing network planners to include the mesh nodes as part of their overall network plan. Firetide and EDX are exploring further integration...

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CMP Media Acquires Shorecliff. Producer of TelcoTV

CMP Media has acquired Shorecliff Communications, a conference organizer for the technology sector. Shorecliff's conferences include RFID World, Broadband Wireless World, Tower Summit & Trade Show and TelcoTV. Other events include Computer Security Institute, Black Hat, and the Embedded Systems, Software Development and Game Developer Conferences.http://www.shorecliffcommunications....

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Widevine Opens Offices in Cambridge and Lisbon

Widevine Technologies, a supplier of downloadable content protection and digital forensics solutions, has opened two European offices in Lisbon, Portugal, and Cambridge, England. The Lisbon office is headquarters for Widevine's European customer engineering teams responsible for implementation and technical support capacities. The Cambridge office will headquarter its European sales and marketing teams.http://www.widevine....

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FCC Appoints Inspector General

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin named Dr. Kent Nilsson as Acting Inspector General and Jon Stover as Acting Deputy Inspector General. Dr. Kent Nilsson most recently served as Special Counsel and Deputy Chief of the FCC's Network Technology Division in the Office of Engineering and Technology. Before joining the Office of Engineering and Technology, Dr. Nilsson was Deputy Chief of the FCC's Network Services Division in the Common Carrier Bureau (subsequently renamed the Wireline Competition Bureau). While Deputy Chief, Dr. Nilsson also served as the...

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European Commission Clears O2 Acquisition by Telefónica

The European Commission cleared the proposed acquisition of O2 by Telefónica. In order to relieve anti-competitive concerns, Telefónica has undertaken to leave the FreeMove alliance. Telefónica is currently a member of the so-called FreeMove alliance, where it co-operates with the other three largest incumbent network operators in the EEA (France Télécom, Telecom Italia, and Deutsche Telekom). O2 participates in the Starmap alliance, where a range of smaller telecommunication companies co-operate under a similar but albeit more loosely structured...

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Apple's iTunes Reaches 8 Million Video Sales

Apple has sold 8 million video episodes since they became available on its iTunes store on 12-Oct-2005. Videos are priced at $1.99 per episode. To date, more than 850 million songs have been purchased on iTunes.http://www.apple....

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