Gizmo Project and Google Talk Connect IM Networks

SIPphone and Google Talk became the first major instant messaging networks to launch complete compatibility between their user bases.Interoperable features incorporated between the two services include:Instant messaging, which allows users of Google Talk and Gizmo Project to communicate across networks.Full address book management, including the ability to send invitations to members of other networks.Presence (online, offline, away) so you can see...

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Opnext Ships its 100,000th 10G transceivers

Opnext has shipped more than 100,000 10G transceivers to date. The company offers a line of 10G products, including 300-pin, XENPAK, X2, XPAK and XFP encompassing all port types within these form factors. The company's modules enable applications for use in: SONET OC-192 and SDH STM-64 and 10GbE long-reach terrestrial transmission, metropolitan area network, IP Router premise switching, OADM, High-speed data communications, and FEC (10.7 Gbps G.709). http://www.opnext....

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Sentito Appoints Stephen Crummey as CEO

Sentito Networks named Stephen Crummey as its new CEO, replacing Dennis Chateauneuf. Crummey joins Sentito from vCentrix, where he served as the company's CEO. vCentrix offers a hosted, turnkey VoIP platform for telecommunications service providers. Prior to his tenure at vCentrix, Steve served as CEO of e-Studio Live, a multimedia applications company that developed authoring software for the webcasting market; co-founded and held the position of CEO at the web-collaboration company Intranets.com, now Webex; served as VP of Worldwide Sales for...

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Cisco Names Susan Bostrom as Chief Marketing Officer

Cisco Systems announced the appointment of Susan L. Bostrom to the position of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and an executive officer of the company. Bostrom succeeds James Richardson, who has been appointed Senior Vice President (SVP), Commercial Business, a new role created to accelerate Cisco's opportunity in its fastest growing customer segment made up of small and medium-sized businesses. An eight-year Cisco veteran, Bostrom most recently led...

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IPWireless Launches TDtv for Existing 3G Spectrum

IPWireless unveiled its TDtv mobile television solution that would allow mobile operators to leverage existing unpaired 3G spectrum. TDtv combines IPWireless' commercial UMTS TD-CDMA platform and the newly defined 3GPP Release 6 Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Standard (MBMS. IP Wireless cited several strategic, performance, and economic advantages over alternative mobile TV solutions. These include:TDtv operates in the universal unpaired 3G spectrum bands that are available across Europe and Asia at 1900MHz and 2010MHz. It allows UMTS operators...

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Siemens Selected for Nationwide Wireless Network

Hutchison Telecommunications International selected Siemens to be the supplier for a nationwide turnkey wireless network and managed services in Indonesia. Financial terms were not disclosed.Hutchison Telecom Indonesia plans a range of nationwide comprehensive and affordable wireless communications services in Indonesia, through a GSM 1800 network with UMTS infrastructure overlaid in key cities.According to plan, the network shall be expanded in phases with target completion of around 2,000 cell sites in Phase One in the second half of 2006. Under...

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Finland's Vaasa Build Metro Ring with Extreme Networks

Finland's Vaasa Telephone has built a high-speed 10 Gigabit network between the cities of Vaasa and Seinajoki using Extreme Networks' BlackDiamond 10K switches for the network core and Summit switches at the network edge. The network aggregates more than 30,000 combined Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) and DSL connections, carrying broadband traffic for phone calls, Internet connections and video.Extreme Networks said it was selected by Vaasa for its scalability with 10 Gigabit bandwidth and its redundant EAPS protocol, enabling a highly available ring...

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IPWireless Raises New Funding Led by Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel has made an additional $10 million strategic investment in IPWireless, a supplier of TD-CDMA technology. Sprint made its initial investment of $4 million in IPWireless in July 2005.Sprint Nextel is currently trialing IPWireless' UMTS TD-CDMA technology in the Washington, D.C. area for broadband access for laptops, desktops or PDAs; backhaul for enterprise campus; and a wide array of Wireless Interactive Multimedia Services such as video-streaming, online gaming, document collaboration and video-conferencing.IPWireless has raised...

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HelloSoft Receives Funding From Intel Capital

Intel Capital has made an equity investment in HelloSoft, a supplier of signal processing technology and Software Defined Radio (SDR) solutions for VoIP, Wi-Fi, Cellular, and converged markets. Financial terms were not disclosed.HelloSoft's products are provided as a suite of integrated-offerings that include DSP software, networking software, RTL, complete reference designs and consulting services to customize these solutions to suit customer requirements. Products that utilize HelloSoft's solutions include next-gen mobile phones, personal digital...

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Sonus Names Cisco Exec as VP of Engineering

Sonus Networks announced that Chuba Udokwu has joined the company as its new Vice President of Worldwide Engineering. He joins Sonus most recently from Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for managing the design, development and release of the company's MPLS-based software technologies. Prior to joining Cisco, Udokwu led the engineering team at Seranoa Networks (acquired by White Rock Networks). http://www.sonusnet....

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Strix Announces 802.11j Mesh Products for Japan

Strix Systems announced the availability of 802.11j wireless mesh products for the Japanese market. Strix has introduced support for 802.11j in its multi-radio, multi-channel, multi-RF wireless mesh platform to address the need for a high-performance mesh solution for use throughout Japan, where 802.11a is prohibited. Strix's 802.11j-compliant radios operate at the 4.9 to 5.0 Ghz frequency, providing a high-throughput mesh backhaul replacement. Strix...

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VideoEgg Raises Funding for Video Publishing

VideoEgg, a start-up based in San Francisco, closed a venture round with August Capital supporting its web-based video publishing solutions. The VideoEgg Publisher, which is expected to launch soon, aims to make it as easy to post videos to the web as it is to post photos. The web-site plug-in software will grab video from a digital camcorder, digital camera, video file, Web cam or mobile phone and then post to a blog or other website. Funding details were not disclosed. http://www.videoegg....

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Sony Ericsson Ships 3 million Walkman Phones

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications shipped 16.1 million mobile phones in Q4 2005, up from 13.8 million in the previous quarter. Sales for the quarter were EUR 2.310 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 15%. The second half of 2005 was particularly strong due to the success of hit model phones in both the imaging and music product categories. Since the first Walkman phone was launched in volume in August, Sony Ericsson has shipped 3...

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BroadSoft Reaches Profitability, Reports 2005 Gains

BroadSoft, a provider of VoIP application software, announced that it achieved profitability in 2005, reaching the milestone ahead of its expectations. The company said in 2005 it ounted 6 of the top 10 and 11 of the top 25 global carriers (based on revenue) as customers, with an overall base of more than 150 customers and 1,750,000 lines deployed. The company also noted that it doubled revenues for the year, ending with the eighth consecutive quarter of sequential quarterly revenue growth. During the year, the company grew by more than 50 percent,...

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