Amino Selected for Canal Digital's IPTV

Canal Digital has deployed Amino's AmiNET110 MPEG-2 set-top boxes in its Nordic market. The service roll-out will cater initially to subscribers who will be able to receive popular Canal Digital content over DSL and FTTH. Subscribers to the IPTV service will also be able to order individual movies or games.http://www.aminocom....

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Shanghai Telecom Deploys Cisco CRS-1

Shanghai Telecom is deploying the Cisco CRS-1 multichassis carrier routing system to collapse the super point of presence ("Super-POP") for its current high-speed core IP network and to expand its gateway capacity to meet its future growth. It is the first telecommunications carrier in China to deploy the Cisco CRS-1 multichassis carrier routing system.Through the deployment of the Cisco CRS-1, the current network nodes for Shanghai Telecom's IP network gateway will be collapsed into super nodes with increased uplink and downlink bandwidth. The...

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Airwide Raises $25 Million for Mobile Infrastructure

Airwide Solutions, a start-up based in London, secured $25 million in Series D funding, for its mobile infrastructure software. Airwide supplies software to carriers for mobile messaging applications. Airwide is also active in the mobile security market, with more than 200 million mobile phones around the world secured by Airwide's fraud prevention products. Its customers include over 70 wireless operators worldwide.The financing was led by a new investor, Advent International, with participation from existing investors Artiman Ventures, Axiom...

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Analog Devices Offer High-end Baseband Processor for Mobiles

Analog Devices introduced a high-end multimedia baseband processor enabling advanced audio and video functions in EDGE and GSM/GPRS cellular phones. The new SoftFone chipset consists of the AD6900 digital baseband processor and the AD6855 analog baseband processor, which together offer 3.0-megapixel camera support, USB On-the-Go, 128-voice MIDI ringtones and full-duplex speakerphone capability, without requiring a separate applications co-processor. The chipset is based on Analog Devices' award-winning RAM-based SoftFone architecture.http://ww...

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Salira Supplies GEPON in Bangladesh

Salira Systems is supplying its IEEE 802.3ah-compliant optical platform to build the first GE-PON network in Bangladesh. Sirius Broadband has been using Salira's equipment to deliver commercial-grade bandwidth to downstream carriers for more than two years in the city of Dhaka. http://www.salira.comhttp://www.siriusbroadband....

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Maxim and RAD Develop TDM-over-Packet Pseudowire Chips

Maxim Integrated Products, its subsidiary Dallas Semiconductor, and RAD Data Communications announced a partnership to produce the TDM over Packet (ToP) chips. Specifically, RAD will develop a circuit emulation "core" based on its key technologies, to be incorporated by Dallas Semiconductor, alongside its own integrated T1/E1/J1 transceiver technologies, into the ToP chips. The companies said the ToP solution will be the only TDM-over-Ethernet/IP/MPLS (ToP) family of devices to provide circuit emulation over PSN capability and the Dallas Semiconductor...

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Juniper Posts Revenue of $575 Million

Juniper Networks reported revenue of $575.5 million for Q4 2005, compared with $430.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2004, an increase of 34 percent. Net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis for the fourth quarter of 2005 was $105.5 million or $0.17 per share, compared with a GAAP net income of $66.0 million or $0.11 per share for the fourth quarter of 2004. "I'm pleased to report another strong quarter and the completion of a year characterized by growth across multiple dimensions," commented Scott Kriens, chairman...

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NetLogic to Acquire Cypress's Network Search Engine

NetLogic Microsystems will acquire all of the assets and intellectual property associated with Cypress's standard Network Search Engine products. The deal includes the Ayama 10000, Ayama 20000, and NSE70000 Network Search Engine families as well as the Sahasra 50000 Algorithmic Search Engine family. Cypress, meanwhile, will retain and continue to support its custom TCAM1 and TCAM2 products. NetLogic Microsystems will pay approximately $50 million in NETL common stock upon closing, and, if certain revenue targets are achieved in a 12-month time...

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Motorola Adds UMTS Indoor Access Point

Motorola introduced its new High Speed Access Point -- Motorola AXPT --for enhanced indoor mobile broadband access. Motorola AXPT is designed to help mobile operators retain and grow broadband usage on their cellular network, by reducing the need for users to switch to alternative fixed or wireless broadband services in the office environment. The design combines traditional network functionality, such as SIM authentication, circuit switched voice and roaming with IP backhaul in a wall mountable form factor.http://www.motorola....

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Netcentrex Reports Growth in Eastern Europe

Netcentrex signed 10 new customers and 6 new partners in the last 12 months in Central and Eastern Europe for its VoIP platforms.Netcentrex said that although VoIP market growth is still heavily influenced by local loop deregulation and the need to upgrade legacy networks, there is a significant demand for advanced communication services in countries with growing broadband penetration, such as Poland, Croatia or Slovenia.Recent Netcentrex deployments include MobilTel AD in Bulgaria, Optima Telekom and Portus d.o.o. in Croatia. The company will...

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SURFnet6 Deploys Intelligent Optical Network from Nortel

SURFnet, the national research network in the Netherlands, launched SURFnet6 -- a state-of-the-art, self-configurable, intelligent optical network.The network is a high-speed hybrid optical and packet switching infrastructure with native IPv4, IPv6 and Light Path Provisioning over a single transmission infrastructure for easy configuration of broadband access. It is also managed via a control plane for efficient network administration, helping reduce operating costs and enhanced traffic restoration.The hybrid nature of the SURFnet6 network is designed...

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Telindus to Standardize on Amdocs CRM

The Telindus Group, an international Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) company, signed a five- year contract with Amdocs to standardize its global customer help desk on Amdocs CRM software. Telindus has already deployed Amdocs CRM in five out of the 14 countries in which it operates.http://www.amdocs....

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BellSouth Cites DSL Growth and Hurricane Katrina Damage

BellSouth reported Q4 2005 revenue of $8.7 billion, up nearly 2 percent sequentially driven by DSL growth and Cingular customer growth. Normalized net income of $965 million grew $27 million compared to the third quarter of 2005.During the fourth quarter of 2005, revenue was reduced by $48 million due to Katrina-related billing credits and the Company estimates approximately 60,000 access lines were disconnected in the affected area. The Company incurred $244 million of incremental expense and $189 million of incremental capital during the fourth...

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Avaya and Juniper Partner on IP Telephony

Avaya and Juniper Networks announced joint standards-based solutions for enterprise IP telephony. These solutions include:Distributed IP Telephony, providing secure and assured communications across highly distributed organizations, including headquarters and branch offices, that require mission-critical wide area networks (WAN) to support voice, video and data as companies expand their use of business communications applications that drive productivity and deliver competitive advantage;Secure IP Telephony on Any Network, enabling customers to...

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Vodafone Partners With Telekom Malaysia

Vodafone signed a Partner Network Agreement with Telekom Malaysia and its subsidiaries: Celcom (Malaysia), XL (Indonesia) and Dialog (Sri Lanka). The three TM subsidiaries will be able to provide their roaming customers with access to Vodafone's international voice and data roaming services such as Vodafone World, Virtual Home Environment, Vodafone Passport, GPRS roaming and 3G roaming. The three subsidiaries will also locally introduce a number of Vodafone's business solutions, which will include the world-leading Vodafone Mobile Connect Card...

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Denmark's TDC Chooses Alcatel and Microsoft for IPTV

TDC, Denmark's largest telecom and cable TV operator, has selected Alcatel and the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform for its IPTV offering. Alcatel will provide services integration for the network. Financial terms were not disclosed.Alcatel and Microsoft said their joint IPTV solution would offer user-friendly features, such as instant channel change, personal video recorder (PVR) (such as one-touch recording and pausing live TV) and video on demand.http://www.alcatel.comhttp://www.microsoft....

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QUALCOMM Posts Revenue of $1.74 billion, up 25% YoY

QUALCOMM reported quarterly revenues of $1.74 billion, up 25 percent year-over-year and 12 percent sequentially, for its first quarter of fiscal 2006. Net income was $620 million, up 21 percent year-over-year and 15 percent sequentially."In emerging wireless markets like China and India, demand for low-end CDMA phones is increasing; in more established markets like the United States, South Korea, Japan and Europe, subscribers continue to migrate and upgrade to feature rich 3G devices and services," said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, CEO of QUALCOMM."Looking...

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