03/06/06 ~ Converge! Network Digest

Monday, March 6, 2006

Verizon Business Adds VoIP to Contact Center Service

Monday, March 06, 2006 Service Providers

Verizon Business is launching "IP Web Center" -- a hosted contact center solution that will allow companies to quickly start up or expand their customer communications operations in response to rapidly changing business plans or business continuity requirements.The service is aimed at mid-sized businesses that want to expand the functionality of their existing contact centers or for those that want to build new contact centers based on IP.Pricing options let customers pay as they go for IP-enabled Web Center services; businesses only pay a monthly...

Verizon Wireless to Offer TiVo for Mobile Handsets

Monday, March 06, 2006 BroadbandWireless

Verizon Wireless will launch TiVo Mobile, a new downloadable application that lets TiVo service subscribers schedule recordings on their TiVo device directly from their Get It Now equipped Verizon Wireless handset. Starting in summer 2006, in an exclusive arrangement with Verizon Wireless, users will be able to download the application from the Verizon Wireless Get It Now suite of services onto applicable handsets. Verizon Wireless and TiVo will also collaborate on a joint marketing campaign to promote availability of the new TiVo Mobile feature....

Verizon Extends its Ultra Long Haul Network, Interconnects MCI Backbone

Monday, March 06, 2006 Optical

Verizon Business' Ultra Long Haul (ULH) optical network has surpassed 20,000 miles of actual deployment, making it the largest ULH network footprint for government and large business customers in the United States, according to the company. The most recent ULH network routes include Cleveland to Chicago, Los Angeles to Dallas, Dallas to Houston, Houston to Atlanta and Atlanta to Washington D.C. During 2006, Verizon Business will continue its UHL DWDM deployment with plans to add 2,600 more miles to the ULH network infrastructure.Verizon said it...

Nintendo's Wi-Fi Service Logs Its 1 Millionth Player

Monday, March 06, 2006 Service Providers

Four months after its launch, Nintendo's Wi-Fi gaming service has signed its one millionth unique user. The 1 millionth user was a player in Japan, who logged on to play Animal Crossing: Wild World. http://www.nintendo....

Cisco to Acquire SyPixx Networks for IP Video Surveillance

Monday, March 06, 2006 Start-ups

Cisco Systems will acquire privately-held SyPixx Networks, a developer of network-centric video surveillance software and hardware, for approximately $51 million in cash and options. SyPixx enables existing analog video surveillance systems to operate as part of an open IP network. Its product portfolio includes analog to digital (IP) video camera encoders, digital (IP) to analog video monitor decoders, analog video transmission equipment, video recording and management software and servers. The acquisition will enable Cisco to deliver video...

OIF Launches External Network-Network-Interface (E-NNI) Routing Project

Monday, March 06, 2006 Optical

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has launched a new External Network-Network-Interface (E-NNI) Routing project to define information to be shared by ASON network elements and allow paths to be calculated for a connection through multiple network domains of optical switching equipment. The new specification, titled E-NNI 1.0 Routing Implementation Agreement (IA), will be based on the provisional routing protocol used by the OIF in interoperability tests performed in 2003, 2004 and 2005."By formalizing its routing inter-domain interface, this...

Vendors Announce Highest Density Pluggable Optical Module MSA

Monday, March 06, 2006 StandardsWatch

Leading optical component vendors announced the release of a Quad (4-channel) Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) optical module specification for final review. The group has developed a common specification for multi-sourcing, application-agnostic, highest density, pluggable optical modules. These modules will optimize real-estate, power, and port density requirements in networking equipment while keeping synergy and compatibility to installed optical module interconnect infrastructure.The QSFP MSA (Multi-Source Agreement) defines a highly integrated...

Japan Telecom Tests Lucent's 40 Gbps Optical Transmission

Monday, March 06, 2006 Optical

Japan Telecom has completed a field trial of Lucent Technologies' 40 Gbps LambdaXtreme Transport optical networking system. The trial was conducted in the Tokyo area on commercially available equipment supporting live network traffic. As part of the trial, Lucent and Japan Telecom demonstrated interworking between the Lucent LambdaXtreme system and a very high capacity router carrying IP traffic over an OC-768 interface, a key technical milestone.http://www.lucent....

Intel Outlines Next-Gen Centrino, WiMAX Card to Ship this Year

Monday, March 06, 2006 Silicon

The next generation of Intel Centrino mobile technology will include a more powerful mobile microprocessor, an improved graphics chipset, an 802.11n Wi--Fi adapter, , as well as Intel--optimized advanced management and security solutions, said Intel Executive Vice President Sean Maloney, speaking at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The platform will also include Intel's NAND flash--based platform accelerator, which enables much more rapid boot--up time and power savings. The next gen Intel Centrino will use Intel's dual--core mobile...

AllPeers Raises Funding for Firefox P2P "Drag-and-Share" Functionality

Monday, March 06, 2006 Start-ups

AllPeers Ltd, a software start-up based in Oxford, England, raised series A funding for its peer-to-peer multimedia application for the Firefox browser. Serving as an extension to Firefox, AllPeers uses peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies to enable "Drag-and-Share" functionality, which makes sharing videos, photos, podcasts and web pages as easy as dragging and dropping files from one folder to another. The software is currently in beta testing.The new funding came from Mangrove Capital Partners and Index Ventures.http://www.allpeers....

Novera Secures $7.4 Million for Optical Access

Monday, March 06, 2006 Start-ups

Novera Optics, a start-up based in Santa Clara and Daejeon, South Korea, raised $7.4 million in new funding for its fiber optic access solutions for global markets. Last year Novera Optics delivered more than 50,000 lines of its new wavelength division multiplexed (WMD) transport technologies to Korea Telecom. Novera Optics' devices will be used in high volume FTTH and fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) applications. Enterprise Partners led the funding round. Additional investors include Redpoint Ventures, Octane Capital Management, KTB Ventures, Meritech...

Cingular Deploys Real's Helix OnlineTV Streaming Platform

Monday, March 06, 2006 BroadbandWireless

Cingular is the first wireless carrier to commercially deploy Real's Helix OnlineTV platform. Cingular launched its Cingular Video on-demand streaming video service in 16 cities across the country, delivering content from major providers, including exclusive video clips from HBO Mobile and HBO Family, including the Sopranos and Sex and the City. Real is hosting the mobile video service on behalf of Cingular, and delivering streaming content to a variety of new handsets for the carrier's 3G UMTS/HSDPA network.Cingular's next-generation video service...

QUALCOMM Raises its Financial Guidance

Monday, March 06, 2006 Financial

QUALCOMM raised its financial guidance for the second fiscal quarter ending March 26, 2006. Based on the current business outlook, the company now anticipates second fiscal quarter revenues pro forma to be approximately $1.75 to $1.82 billion. QUALCOMM now anticipates second fiscal quarter QUALCOMM pro forma diluted earnings per share to be approximately $0.40 to $0.41, compared to $0.29 in the year ago quarter. http://www.qualcomm....

Passave Delivers One-Millionth FTTH ONU Chip to Mitsubishi

Monday, March 06, 2006 Optical

Passave has delivered its one millionth FTTH ONU device to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation for use in Japan's gigabit/second FTTH broadband access network market. Mitsubishi has been supplying customer premise equipment (CPE) using Passave semiconductor devices to carriers in Japan since 2004. The FTTH broadband access network in Japan is the world's largest, with new FTTH subscribers exceeding new DSL subscribers since the first quarter of 2005.http://www.passave.comAs of year-end 2005, the total number of Japanese broadband FTTH subscribers exceeded...

Cavalier Deploys Lucent Optical/Ethernet for IPTV Transport

Monday, March 06, 2006 TTP

Cavalier Telephone is deploying Lucent Technologies' (NYSE:LU) converged Ethernet solution to enable its new Cavalier Broadband TV, Internet Protocol (IP) TV service offering in Virginia. Lucent is upgrading Cavalier's Metropolis DMX platforms with Lucent's LNW70 Ethernet cards, which enable operators to offer 100 Mbps or Gigabit Ethernet services, delivered with QoS. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.lucent.com/...

Texas Instruments Unveils Latest VoIP System-on-Chip

Monday, March 06, 2006 Silicon

Texas Instruments (TI) announced its latest VoIP system on a chip, the TNETV1061, providing advanced VoIP and data routing features for residential applications where voice quality, scalability, low cost and reliability are essential for service provider deployments. Target applications include analog terminal adapters, VoIP gateway/routers, VoIP-enabled 802.11b/g access point/routers or broadband cordless phones. TI's newest residential VoIP solution integrates the company's Telogy Software for high-quality VoIP with the strength of TI DSPs...