Motorola Reorganization Combines Business Units

Motorola announced a reorganization of its Networks and Government & Enterprise Mobility Solutions businesses into one organization, to be called the Networks & Enterprise business.Greg Brown, currently president of the Government & Enterprise Mobility Solutions business, will lead the new Networks & Enterprise business and continue to report to Ed Zander. Adrian Nemcek, who has successfully led the Networks business over the past five years, will retire from Motorola later this year. Under Nemcek's leadership, Networks, which was...

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Entriq Hires Microsoft and DIRECTV to Drive multimedia content

Entriq announced that Jan Hofmeyr and Stephen Condon have joined the company as Executive Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of Marketing respectively. Entriq provides a full, end-to-end solution to secure and monetize multimedia content for broadband, mobile and IPTV consumers worldwide.Prior to joining Entriq, Hofmeyr spent seven years with Microsoft Corporation focusing on digital TV support in Windows Operating System. At Microsoft, Mr. Hofmeyr was an integral part of the initial group that founded the new Microsoft eHome...

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Amino Integrates Firefox into

Amino will integrate the Firefox browser into its range of IPTV set-top boxes. Firefox will be ported to Amino's software stack and adapted to provide consumers with a clear television interface, wholly different from the web-user experience of the current software. It will also give Amino the ability to customize and optimize the browser for IPTV viewing. The Firefox browser will be available to Amino customers in Q3 2006.http://www.aminocom....

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NTL and Telewest Complete Merger, Creating Largest Broadband Provider in the UK

NTL and Telewest completed their merger. The combined company, which will used the NTL name, will have more than 5 million residential customers. It will be the largest provider of residential broadband services in the UK with 2.8 million subscribers, the second largest pay TV provider with 3.3 million subscribers and also the second largest fixed telephony provider with 4.3 million subscribers.http://www.ntl....

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ADC Names President of Active Infrastructure Business Unit

ADC named Hilton Nicholson as President of its Active Infrastructure Business Unit, replacing Mike Pratt who will be leaving ADC to pursue personal interests. Nicholson was the President of ADC's IP Cable Business Unit until it was divested in 2004. Immediately prior to rejoining ADC, Hilton was the Senior Vice President of Product Operations at 3Com, with responsibility for product management, product marketing, R&D, customer technical support and supply chain. Prior to joining ADC in 2002, Hilton had a distinguished twenty-two year career...

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Siemens Claims Leading Share of Optical Long-Haul DWDM Market

Siemens Communications claimed a 21% share of the 2005 global market of optical long-haul DWDM transport solutions, with reconfigurable add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) capabilities, according to figures from Infonetics Research cited by the company.Siemens said it benefited from strong North America sales of its SURPASS hiT 7500 long-haul DWDM solution. Siemens' optical market momentum was especially strong in the second half of 2005, with a 28 percent fourth-quarter global market share that was more than double that of the next ranking DWDM vendor....

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Comcast Deploys CallMiner for Data Mining of Customer Support Calls

Comcast is deploying CallMiner's Virtual Server Room (VSR) distributed processing platform it its mid-West call center to analyze 100% of recorded customer calls. Comcast's 200-seat Midwest Call Center generates thousands of hours of recorded calls each day. CallMiner's VSR distributed processing software uses speech recognition to process the recorded audio into minable data. VSR works by harnessing the unused processing power of desktops in its network.CallMiner said that currently less than .01% of all agent/customer calls are recorded and less...

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Cisco Upgrades Optical Multiservice Transport

Cisco Systems unveiled hardware and software upgrades for its Cisco ONS optical networking portfolio that give service providers and enterprises greater flexibility in delivering new services as well as more ability to scale their networks and manage their optical infrastructures.The new capabilities include:10-Gbps data muxponder; a unit that provides data and storage services aggregation over a 10 Gbps wavelength, allowing a variety of data and storage services to be efficiently bundled and transported over a single optical wavelength; 32-channel...

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Russia's Comcor selects Alcatel IP backbone

Comcor, one of the leading service providers in Russia, has upgraded its backbone IP-infrastructure based using Alcatel equipment. The new infrastructure delivers 10 GigE capacity, which is a significant boost in bandwidth to the existing backbone, and gives Comcor the capability to support the most demanding service level agreements and package tiered service bundles for new IP and Ethernet virtual networking (VPN) services. The installation includes the Alcatel 7750 Service Router (SR) and 5620 Service Aware Manager.http://ww...

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Tekelec Supplies Class 5 Packet Switch to Iowa IOCs

Tekelec announced multi-million dollar contracts with seven IOCs to deploy the Tekelec 7000 Class 5 Packet Switch and Tekelec 6000 VoIP Application Server to replace their legacy switches and roll out SIP-based services. The deployments involve 12 Tekelec 7000 and multiple Tekelec 6000 systems. Six of the operators own the Northern Iowa Communications Partnership (NICP): Ayrshire Farmers Mutual Telephone Company, Northwest Telephone Cooperative Association, Palmer Mutual Telephone Company, River Valley Telecommunications Cooperative, Royal Telephone...

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Coaxsys Hires VP of Corp. Development

Coaxsys, a supplier of in-home IPTV and Multimedia networking, has appointed Ali Taslimi as the company's VP of Corporate Development. Taslimi began his career in a variety of positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. Since 2000, Taslimi has been intimately involved with equipment manufacturers that serve the broadband networking and IPTV arenas, including Alcatel USA and Occam Networks. He also holds a series of Triple-Play-oriented...

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Vodafone Takes Leadership of the OSS/J Initiative

Jörg Frankenberger, head of OSS Engineering, Vodafone D2 GmbH, has been named chair of the OSS through JavaT Initiative, which aims to help service providers find ways to regain control of their Operations Support Systems (OSS) and achieve the opportunities of the convergence era by quickly and cost-effectively introducing new products and services.The OSS through Java Initiative is chartered to develop OSS functional APIs that accelerate the development of innovative OSS/BSS solutions where all applications function together. The Initiative's...

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JDSU Unveils FTTx Test Capabilities

JDSU announced the release of the Very Long Range (VLR) OTDR module for its T-BERD and MTS-8000 platform, combining several new features into an OTDR tester for access and metro network optical applications. The module design, which introduces fiber network characterization capabilities, complements the range of OTDR modules within the T-BERD/MTS-8000 platform.JDSU said the new product optimizes critical OTDR parameters such as speed, dead zone and dynamic range. The JDSU VLR OTDR module combines all three functions with performance features, including...

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Bookham to Acquire Avalon Photonics for VCSELs

Bookham agreed to acquire Avalon Photonics, a supplier of single-mode and multimode Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL) chips, arrays and subassemblies for sensing and datacom applications, for approximately 765,000 shares of Bookham common stock valued at approximately $5.5 million on signing, and a potential additional 348,000 share earn-out based upon Avalon achieving certain revenue and production performance criteria over a two-year period. Avalon, which is based in Zurich, Switzerland, developed a single-spatial-mode VCSELs suitable...

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Verizon Declares Quarterly Dividend

Verizon Communications declared a quarterly dividend of 40.5 cents per outstanding share, unchanged from the previous quarter. The dividend is payable on May 1, 2006, to Verizon Communications shareowners of record at the close of business on April 10, 2006.http://www.verizon.com/n...

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eWAN1 to Launch Global IPtv Service in 36 Languages

eWAN1, a company based in Santa Ana, California, plans to launch a Global Internet Television service on April 15th featuring 75 channels of "On Demand" content over any broadband connection.The company plans to roll out a projected 250,000 of its proprietary "Triple Play" set-top boxes to both U.S. and International consumers this year. The set-top box is pre-bundled with a monthly subscription for the channels of content and consumers will be able to order online and from local retail channels. EWAN will also feature programming in the following...

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Nearly Half of European and US Consumers Do Not Understand What IPTV Is

A survey conducted by Accenture of 6,000 consumers across the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy found that 46 percent do not understand the term IPTV. While there is strong consumer interest in the concept of IPTV, the study indicates that IPTV service providers must focus carefully on the marketing and associated end user education to ensure widespread adoption of the service. "Despite a general lack of understanding about what IPTV means, there is strong consumer interest in the benefits that such a service could bring,"...

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T-Mobile USA Adds 1.4 million net New Customers in Q4 2005

In the fourth quarter of 2005, T-Mobile USA added 1.39 million net new customers, up from 1.06 million net customers added in the third quarter of 2005 and 1.02 million net added in the fourth quarter of 2004. Postpay customers made up 66% of the fourth quarter customer growth and comprised 85% of T-Mobile USA's total customer base at the end of the year. Additional highlights include:T-Mobile USA service revenues, which consist of postpay, prepaid, roaming and other service revenues, were $3.26 billion in the fourth quarter of 2005, up from $3.15...

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AMC-23 Ready for Service

The AMERICOM-23 (AMC-23) satellite, which was launched on December 29, 2005, has successfully completed a full battery of in-orbit-tests and is now operational from its assigned location of 172 degrees East. AMC-23 is a large, high-powered, C/Ku-band satellite that is providing services to customers including Connexion by Boeing on the Ku-band payload as well as various commercial and government customers on the C-band side. The satellite's Ku-band payload is comprised of 20 high-powered transponders with varied bandwidths from 27 to 72 MHz. In...

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Nokia and Telenor R&D Test Fixed Mobile Convergence

Telenor R&D and Nokia are trialing services for fixed and mobile environments using Fixed-Mobile Convergence technologies. The results of the joint research and development collaboration include the ability to deliver IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services over Nokia's D500 DSLAM multiservice broadband platform; VoIP calls between mobile and fixed SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) clients; and establishing test capabilities for gaming and video sharing on a converged platform.The Fixed-Mobile Convergence architecture is based on SIP technology...

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Avanex Announces Optical Performance Monitoring Products

Avanex announced the availability of an optical performance monitoring (OPM) product portfolio, which serves system OEM and carrier customers. An OPM module can be used in a system OEM's line card or a carrier can use an OPM stand-alone subsystem to monitor a network section. The modules offer power, wavelength and OSNR monitoring with accuracies at both 100 GHz and 50 GHz channel plans.Avanex also offers OPM modular solutions through its PowerNode Flexible Optical Layer platform. Using standard SNMP or TL1 interfaces, the OPM can be directly deployed...

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N.E.T.'s 10G Multiservice Platform Enters Federal Lab Trials

Network Equipment Technologies' new 10 Gbps multiservice aggregation and switching platform has entered Federal government lab trials. The "NX5010ae " platform has been jointly developed by N.E.T. and Bay Microsystems as a secure, high speed, multiservice networking and LAN/SAN virtualization system.The NX5010ae utilizes Bay Microsystems' Biscayne and Montego programmable packet processors to enable line-rate multiservice protocol conversion and transport with hard QoS (Quality of Service) management capabilities. Key design criteria include:enables...

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BT Upgrades Exchanges for 8 Mbps ADSL

BT confirmed the launch of new higher speed wholesale broadband services across the UK, enabling ADSL rates up to 8 Mbps.The BT ADSL Max and BT ADSL Max Premium broadband services will be launched on a national basis from March 31 this year. More than 5,300 exchanges are being upgraded to support higher speed broadband, with these exchanges serving more than 99.6% of UK homes and businesses. BT estimates that 78% of BT phone lines should support broadband at line rates of 4 Mbps and above, with 6 Mbps and above available to more than 42%. For...

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Cisco Upgrades Optical Multiservice Transport

Cisco Systems unveiled hardware and software upgrades for its Cisco ONS optical networking portfolio that give service providers and enterprises greater flexibility in delivering new services as well as more ability to scale their networks and manage their optical infrastructur...

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