Sigma Designs' Media Processors Now Widevine Ready

Widevine Technologies' Cypher Virtual SmartCard content protection system is now pre-integrated with Sigma Designs' EM8620L and SMP8630 series media processors. This enables telco, cable, satellite, Internet and wireless service providers to offer secure content delivery to consumer devices powered by Sigma Designs' chipsets.Sigma Designs estimates that its EM8620L digital media processor series currently powers approximately 70% of all IPTV set top boxes, including portable video players and portable media players.Widevine's open content protection...

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Ixia to Acquire Dilithium's Test Tool Product Line

Ixia agreed to purchase the mobile video and multimedia test product lines of Dilithium Networks for $5.1 million in cash. Dilithium Networks is a privately-held leader in 3G video telephony solutions for the world's mobile and broadband industries. Dilithium's Network Analyzer (DNA) test product has an estimated 80% market share of the mobile video test market with over 100 installed units at more than 50 mobile equipment manufacturers and operators. The acquisition of this product line marks Ixia's initial entry into the 3G cellular space.ht...

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Alcatel Predicts 70 million IPTV Subscribers by 2010

Alcatel confirmed that a significant milestone - two million IPTV subscribers worldwide - was reached during 2005. The company now projects that the number of IPTV subscribers will grow to 70 million by 2010. Alcatel currently has 30 triple play projects underway around the world.http://www.alcatel.com/triplep...

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Verizon Expands FiOS TV Rollout, Announces Pricing Tiers

Verizon rolled out its FiOS TV service in the towns of Massapequa Park, New York (Long Island) and Woburn, Massachusetts. Verizon is in negotiations in more than a dozen other communities in New York and 40 communities in Massachusetts to obtain additional franchises. Verizon has also obtained video franchises in California, Florida and Virginia, as well as in Texas, where Verizon has accelerated the availability of FiOS TV as the result of a state-issued franchise.FiOS TV subscribers can choose from three set-top boxes: standard definition for...

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Verizon Wireless Adds 2 Million Users in Q4

Verizon Wireless added a record 2.0 million net wireless customers in Q4 2005, an increase of 20.5 percent over the fourth-quarter 2004. For full-year 2005, Verizon Wireless added a net of more than 7.5 million customers, up 19.5 percent over 2004.As of year-end 2005, Verizon Wireless served 51.3 million customers nationwide.Further details will be reported later this week.http://www.verizonwireless....

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Agere Posts Revenue of $403 Million, Implements Business Turnaround Plan

Agere Systems posted revenue of $403 million for its first quarter of fiscal 2006, ended December 31, 2005, compared to $416 million in the September quarter and $410 million in the year-ago quarter.For the December quarter, Agere reported a GAAP net loss of $19 million, or $0.11 per share, better than its guidance, which included a net of $39 million in restructuring charges and equity compensation expenses.Agere said its storage revenues increase sequentially driven by strong shipments of preamplifier and system-on-a-chip solutions.Throughout...

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Nortel, Qualcomm and Orange Test W-CDMA 900 MHz

Nortel, QUALCOMM and Orange successfully completed UMTS and HSDPA calls in the 900 MHz band, a spectrum capable of delivering wireless broadband such as mobile TV, video-on-demand, video telephony and DSL-like services to rural areas.The category 6 HSDPA calls, using the 16 QAM Modulation and reaching 3.6Mbps data rate, were completed using Nortel's commercial infrastructure technologies, mobile handsets based on QUALCOMM's Mobile Station Modem MSM6280 chipset solution and Orange's 900 MHz spectrum.The companies said W-CDMA (UMTS) in the 900 MHz...

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Lucent Posts revenues of $2.05 billion, Down 12% YoY

Lucent Technologies reported revenues of $2.05 billion for its first quarter of fiscal 2006, a decrease of 16 percent sequentially and a decrease of 12 percent from the year-ago quarter. For the quarter, Lucent reported a net loss of $104 million, or 2 cents per share. These results compare with net income of $372 million, or 7 cents per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005, and net income of $174 million, or 4 cents per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.Gross margin for the first quarter of fiscal 2006 was 42 percent of revenues...

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Cingular Adds 1.8 million Users, Voice ARPU Declines

Cingular Wireless added a record 1.8 million net subscribers in Q4 2005, which is more than double the number reported in the third quarter of 2005, driven by its best-ever overall churn performance and record gross additions. Cingular ended 2005 with 54.1 million cellular/PCS subscribers, an increase of 5 million over 2004.Some performance highlights for Cingular in Q4:Average revenue per user (ARPU) in the fourth quarter of 2005 was $48.86, which was down 2.2 percent from pro forma ARPU in the fourth quarter of 2004. This represents an improvement...

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Wisair Raises $20 Million for UWB Silicon

Wisair, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, Israel, raised US$20 million in Series C funding for its Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB (WUSB) chipset solutions.Wisair recently demonstrated its Wireless USB Hub reference design and its high performance 480 Mbps operation at CES in Las Vegas. Wisair also showcased various Wireless USB implementations with 13 companies including: D-Link, Intellon, Seagate and Toshiba.The funding round was led by funds advised by Apax Partners, with participation from existing investors Bynet, Intel Capital, RAD Group's...

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Sonus Adds Howard Janzen to its Board

Sonus Networks named Howard Janzen to its Board of Directors. Janzen most recently served as the president of Sprint Business Solutions. Prior to joining Sprint, Janzen was the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Williams Communications Group.http://www.sonusnet....

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AT&T and Avaya Enter VoIP Global Strategic Alliance

AT&T and Avaya announced a global strategic alliance to help businesses and government agencies manage the migration to VoIP. The companies said that by giving customers a single point of contact for virtually every aspect of this migration, including design, implementation, operation, ongoing management and maintenance, they would accelerate global VoIP and IP telephony deployments and simplify the integration with traditional circuit-switched enterprise voice networks.Key points of the alliance include:A single source for the seamless integration...

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Azure Updates its Revenue-Assurance Detection and Correction Solution for Carriers

Azure Solutions released a new version of its "Certo" automated revenue-assurance solution designed to help operators analyze, detect and correct revenue-leakage problems in real time. Major new capabilities of Certo 2 include:Integrated and transparent processing of both usage and subscription dataImproved KPI capabilities that empower customers to easily set parameters based on their needs -- represented graphically via dashboardsHuge scale processing (billions of CDRs per day) for IP, content,triple-play and convergent networksSimplified user...

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Agilent Announces Wireless QoS Management Solution

Agilent Technologies introduced a new Wireless QoS Manager (WQM) solution for measuring end-to-end service quality of wireless networks, including GSM, UMTS and CDMA. Agilent's next-generation, end-to-end test probe can be used to characterize service behavior and quickly pinpoint service and customer problems, ensuring a high-quality customer experience. Future enhancements will enable users to remove and relocate test probes for remote testing. Because WQM supports multiple technologies, total cost of ownership is significantly reduced.The evolutionary...

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RADVISION Releases SIP Toolkit

RADVISION announced the immediate availability of version 4.0 of its session initiation protocol (SIP) toolkit for real-time carrier-side applications, such as softswitches, gateways, and application servers.The RADVISION SIP Toolkit 4.0 can support millions of busy hour call attempts (BHCAs) and has been enhanced with carrier-grade features including a Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) layer and automatic translation between phone numbers and SIP addresses (ENUM).Other significant enhancements in this new release include:Connection reuse:...

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CyOptics Shows 80 Gbps Transmission over 2 km

CyOptics has demonstrated an 80Gbps data transmission for supercomputing and short-range (2 km) datacom and telecom markets. CyOptics' TOSA (Transmit Optical Subassembly) and ROSA (Receive Optical Subassembly) engines transmit and receive at 80 Gbps in each direction with a confirmed error free transmission to 1E-15. The engines were also successfully tested over a 2 km fiber path in loop-back mode.The 80Gbps product was designed and developed in partnership with Cray, and is tied to the U.S. government's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS)...

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UTStarcom to Supply Optical Transport for India's RailTel

UTStarcom will supply its NetRing 600 and 2500 optical transport solutions to RailTel of India Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Indian Railways. RailTel is implementing optical, fiber-based broadband telecom long haul as well as access network with new-generation optical networking systems. Financial terms were not disclosed.UTStarcom's NetRing product line provides aggregation, grooming, cross-connect, and transport functionality to deliver high-density, highly efficient STM-1 to STM-16, PDH (E1/DS1, E3/DS3), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit...

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Axerra's Pseudo-Wire Deployed in the Urals

UralSviazInform, the largest telecommunications service provider in the Ural region of Russia, has deployed Axerra Networks' Pseudo-Wire solutions. Axerra's Pseudo-Wire supports circuit emulation and service emulation, enabling voice and data aggregation from a single box and providing a full-service alternative to TDM access. AXN Pseudo-Wire platforms preserve native signaling and features across packet networks, enable bandwidth sharing, and provide the high-precision clock recovery capabilities that are especially required for reliable mobile...

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