Cisco Launches IP RAN Optimization for Mobile Operators

Cisco Systems launched an IP Radio Access Network (RAN) optimization solution designed to help mobile operators using GSM and UMTS networks to reduce up to 50% of their backhaul traffic.The Cisco IP RAN optimization solution optimizes GSM and UMTS traffic at the cell site using IP and helps to enable end-to-end IP services. A key component to this is the Cisco MWR 1941-DC-A mobile wireless access router. In a typical deployment, Cisco MWR 1941 mobile wireless access routers optimize and aggregate GSM and UMTS traffic at the cell site. In doing...

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Tellabs Develops 1RU Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP)

Tellabs unveiled a fully featured MSPP that fits into one standard rack unit (size 44mm). The Tellabs 6325 edge node is a fully redundant, carrier-class MSPP designed for deployment in access or metro network locations for both wireless and wireline applications.MSPPs transport a mix of TDM and data traffic over a Next-Generation Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (NG-SDH) infrastructure. Golden Telecom (Ukraine) is one of the first customers to order...

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Ericsson selected by Vodafone for IMS

Vodafone Group named Ericsson as a preferred supplier of its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Financial terms were not disclosed.Under the agreement, Ericsson will be able to supply its IMS system,support and integration services to support Vodafone's step-by-stepevolution to an all-IP network. As Ericsson's IMS enablesinteroperability between operators, network types and handsets,Vodafone's aim is to start interoperability testing as soon as possible. The first market implementation is planned for Vodafone KK (Japan)."Vodafone intends to pilot...

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MovieBeam Launches with HD Content, Future Broadband Connectivity

MovieBeam, a movies-on-demand service backed The Walt Disney Company, Cisco Systems, Intel and leading venture capital firms, launched its service in 29 major metropolitan areas across the U.S., including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, reaching nearly half of all U.S. households. The MovieBeam movies-on-demand service provides instant access to a library of protected content stored on a set-top box with a hard drive. New content is delivered...

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Axerra Appoints Gadi Tamari as CEO

Axerra Networks announced the appointment of Gadi Tamari as CEO, effective March 1. Mr. Tamari recently stepped down as the CEO of RADVISION after leading it from 2001 through 2005. Prior to joining RADVISION, he was appointed VP of international sales of Lucent Softswitch after the acquisition of Excel Switching by Lucent in 1998 for $1.7B. Tamari will also become a member of Axerra's board of directors.Gil Biran, Founder and current CEO of Axerra, will assume the position of COO and retain his current position on Axerra's board of directors....

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Nortel Expects HSOPA to Deliver 25 Mbps Wireless Links in 2007

Nortel announced a strategy to bring some of the key advantages of OFDM and MIMO technologies into its broadband wireless systems, including High Speed OFDM Packet Access (HSOPA). The technologies could enable wireless operators to offer true "quadruple play" services: voice, high-speed interactive applications including large data transfer and feature-rich IPTV with full mobility. In addition, HSOPA/LTE has the potential to increase ten-fold the number of users that can be served by an operator's network. Nortel estimates that by using HSOPA/LTE...

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Nortel to Adopt ATCA Architecture for Carrier-Class Platforms

Nortel announced plans to evolve its wireless and wireline platforms to the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA). Nortel is working closely with Motorola's Embedded Communications Computing division and Intel to incorporate modular communications server building blocks into its ATCA system architecture.Nortel's Call Session Control Function (CSCF), which is in multiple global customer trials, will be the first IMS product delivered on the VSE platform, with planned commercial availability in the second quarter of 2006. Nortel said it...

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Cingular Awards 3 Year Contract to Nortel for 3GPP Release 4

Cingular Wireless awarded a three-year contract with Nortel to provide wireless network services and equipment. Financial terms were not disclosed.Specifically, Nortel will deploy its 2G/3G 3GPP Release 4 compliant MSC (Mobile Switching Center) Server and Media Gateway products to support Cingular's UMTS/HSDPA network deployment. These products are compliant with 3GPP Bearer Independent Core Network standards. Nortel's R4 technology will help provide a significant increase in call handling capacity - up to 300% according to Nortel estimates.Nortel...

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Alcatel's "Unlimited Mobile TV for Mass Market" Combines DVB-H with Satellite Broadcast

At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Alcatel launched its "Unlimited Mobile TV for Mass Market" project, an initiative that will use a unique combination of DVB-H-based terrestrial and satellite broadcast delivery in the S-Band, complementing existing 3G/UMTS networks. Alcatel said its idea is to help operators protect and leverage their 3G investments while offering unlimited coverage, unlimited audience, unlimited number of TV channels and maximum interactivity.The combination of DVB-H-based terrestrial and satellite broadcast for mobile...

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T-Mobile Selects Alcatel for mobile TV in Europe

T-Mobile International selected Alcatel to provide its affiliated companies in Germany, the UK and Austria with a fully integrated interactive mobile TV solution. This solution will enable T-Mobile's innovative "TV in Your Pocket" service, allowing the operator to address the booming mobile TV market, while enhancing its subscribers' experience with interactive and personalized mobile TV programs. Financial terms were not disclosed.Alcatel will provide T-Mobile International with an end-to-end integrated solution, including comprehensive customer...

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Amino to Supply its IPTV Set-Tops for French Hospitals

Amino has been selected by EONA and La Communication Hospitaliere, technology providers and integrators respectively of on-demand digital solutions for hospitality, corporate and education markets, to enable its delivery of interactive IPTV services to patients of the Centre Hospitalier of Valenciennes, in France. The deployment will include several thousand units. Amino said its set-tops will allow patients to take full advantage of the hospital's IP network, offering high-speed Internet access, multicast IPTV and true video-on-demand straight...

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World Wide Packets Hires Marconi Exec for EMEA

World Wide Packets announced the appointment of Andy Charalambous as vice president of EMEA. Most recently, he served as Vice President of EMEA for Marconi's Data Networks Division, where he was responsible for leading Marconi into next generation data networking. In this position, he worked to maintain several strategic partnerships for Marconi, drove revenues and signed many significant contracts, including Kingston Communications and British Telecom. Prior to Marconi, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services at Orchestream...

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Vativ Supplies 10 GigE Copper Transceiver for Occam's BLC 6000

Vativ Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego, will supply its 10Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) copper transceiver for Occam Networks' next generation Intelligent Blade Interconnect Architecture. Using Vativ's transceiver device, Occam's BLC 6000 Broadband Loop Carrier System is able to offer flexible, low-cost, blade interconnect solutions operating at 10 Gbps over copper cabling.The addition of Vativ's V10LAN-based VTV1110 transceiver device to Occam's broadband loop carrier enables blade-to-blade and rack-to-rack 10Gbps connections...

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LSI Logic Announces New DSP Cores Featuring Cached Memory

LSI Logic introduced three additions to its family of "ZSP" licensable digital signal processor (DSP) cores. Featuring cached memory, the new cores provide greater flexibility in choosing how to distribute instructions and data between on-chip and external memory, enabling more robust ASICs and System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. LSI Logic said for applications such as IP phones, ATA modules, portable media players and 2/2.5/3G handsets, large programs can be managed with greater efficiency by storing most of the program code and data off-chip providing...

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TI's OMAP 3 Architecture Targets Next-Gen Mobile Phones with HD Video Capabilities

Texas Instruments introduced its new OMAP 3 architecture and application processors designed to power a new class of mobile phones with improved entertainment and productivity features.TI's first OMAP 3-based device, the OMAP3430 processor, will be the industry's highest-performing application processor and is believed to be the first wireless processor to use 65-nanometer (nm) process technology. The OMAP3430 processor will sample this year.TI said OMAP 3 will the industry's first application processor platform to be based on the new ARM Cortex-A8...

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Hifn Develops Pattern Matching Software for Network Edge Security

Hifn introduced new high-performance, Pattern Matching content processing software that accelerates compute-intensive pattern and signature recognition tasks for enterprise and carrier-class networks, as well as content inspection of packets traveling through the network.Hifn Pattern Matching (HPM), contains "rule compression" technology that creates a highly compact rules database format. The database, along with HPM's small code footprint, resides in a microprocessor cache enabling runtime performance. Hifn said network edge security devices...

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Hifn Unveils Security Processors for VoIP

Hifn introduced a family of security processors designed specifically to protect VoIP traffic. The Hifn 7870- and 8170-security processors offer security processing for both signaling and media channels. When added to session border controllers, media gateways, packet switches and other VoIP network devices these processors protect against a wide spectrum of threats to both media and signaling. Hifn's Secure VoIP processors offer low latency, high bandwidth, mixed protocols and a very large number of concurrent sessions. The processors support...

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Quintum Offers VoIP Applications Bundle with Intel Host Media Processing

Quintum Technologies has established a new bundled offer that will feature a fully tested and interoperable solution utilizing the Quintum Tenor AS and BX lines of VoIP switches and gateways and Intel NetStructure Host Media Processing (HMP) Software. This offering, which will be available from Paracon, is targeted towards Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs.HMP software from Intel performs media processing tasks on general-purpose servers based on Intel architecture without the use of specialized hardware....

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JDSU Sells Ottawa Manufacturing Facilities

JDSU agreed to sell its manufacturing operations located in Ottawa, Canada to Fabrinet, its contract manufacturing partner. Financial terms were not disclosed. Upon close, Fabrinet will manage ongoing production and the Asian transfer activities currently performed by the Ottawa site. Non-manufacturing activities at the Ottawa site are unaffected by this agreement."This transaction marks the final phase of our plan to transition all Optical Communications assembly manufacturing to Asia," said Debbie Shoquist, vice president of global operations...

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Vodafone Awards Global Contract to Nokia for IMS

Vodafone Group named Nokia as a preferred IMS supplier for its affiliates worldwide. The first deployments are expected during 2006.Under the agreement, Nokia becomes a preferred supplier of Vodafone's IMS network architecture and the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) technology that will enable Vodafone to pilot next generation services and start interoperability testing. Nokia is also deploying its OMA-compliant Presence and List Management solutions. IMS is an essential element of the Nokia Unified Core Network solution and a key enabler of...

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Lucent to Resell Ubiquity's SIP Application Server

Lucent Technologies will resell Ubiquity's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) Application Server and applications as part of its IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)-based solution portfolio.Lucent said Ubiquity's applications portfolio, including mobile conferencing, IP multi-media conferencing, push-to-conference and mobile music sharing, complements its own IMS-based solution that enables the delivery of "blended lifestyle" services -- resulting from interworking voice, data and video capabilities -- to subscribers anytime, anywhere. Lucent also will...

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BellSouth Signs 5 Year Marketing Deal with DIRECTV

BellSouth signed a five-year exclusive marketing alliance with DIRECTV, allowing it to offer digital satellite entertainment service to its customers. This agreement extends an existing contract and also creates a new sales channel for BellSouth FastAccess DSL services.More than 523,000 customers have added DIRECTV service to their BellSouth Answers bundle since 2004. http://www.bellsouth....

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