Optibase CEO Steps Down

Uzi Breier has resigned his position as CEO of Optibase following a management dispute at the company. Tom Wyler, Executive Chairman and President of Optibase, will assume the role of interim CEO until a replacement is found.Optibase provides professional encoding, decoding, video server upload and streaming solutions.http://www.optibase....

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Conexant Offers Designs for Next Gen Satellite PC TV Boxes

Conexant Systems announced a satellite television receiver card reference platform based on the industry's newest digital video broadcast standard, DVB-S2, for personal computers (PCs). It is targeted at manufacturers developing products that allow subscribers to watch, record and replay satellite broadcast programs on their PC. The new solution is based on two Conexant set-top box (STB) solutions and one PC video device. These include a digital video broadcast DVB-S2 demodulator and forward error correction (FEC) decoder, a third-generation 8PSK...

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Sprint Launches Hosted Business VoIP Service with Broadsoft/Lucent

Sprint launched a new hosted enterprise VoIP service aimed at businesses with dispersed workforces.Sprint IP Voice Connect provides network-based hosted telephony with local and long distance services as well as PBX and traditional Centrex features over Sprint's Dedicated IP or Global MPLS network. Sprint's secure carrier-grade service is enabled by Lucent Technologies' Hosted VoIP Solution for Enterprises through its Global Network Operations Centers. It can replace or integrate with customer premises-based telephony systems. The service is available...

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QUALCOMM Signs Licensing Deal with 4G Systems GmbH

QUALCOMM and 4G Systems GmbH, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, today announced that the companies have signed a commercial WCDMA and TD-SCDMA modem card and router license agreement. Under the terms of the worldwide, royalty-bearing agreement, QUALCOMM has granted 4G Systems a patent license to develop, manufacture and sell WCDMA and TD-SCDMA modem card and router products (including HSDPA products). The royalties payable by 4G Systems are at QUALCOMM's standard rates and are the same irrespective of the CDMA standard implemented by the modem...

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HD Audio-Video Network Alliance Expands Membership

The High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA), a cross-industry collaboration of members addressing the end-to-end needs of connected, high-definition, home entertainment products and services, has added Warner Bros. Technical Operations Inc. and Texas Instruments (TI) as promoter members. Other promoter members include Charter Communications, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., JVC, NBC Universal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems as promoter members in the organization. AMD, Digeo, Marvell, NDS, Oxford Semiconductor, TC Applied...

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Raytheon Announces Satellite Communications Breakthrough

Raytheon announced a milestone in satellite communications technology -- the company's Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical -- Terminal (SMART-T) Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF), a mobile ground satellite communications terminal developed for the U.S. Army, is the achieved in-orbit acquisition and data transfer with the U.S. Milstar satellite constellation. This demonstrates backward compatibility of the Defense Department's (DoD) AEHF satellite system terminals with legacy Milstar Army, Navy and Air Force terminals using the critical...

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ECI Telecom Enhances its MSPPs for Cellular Operators

ECI Telecom released and enhanced version of its Multi Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP) targeted at mobile network operators. The XDM platform, which is powered by a unique 120 Gbps switching fabric and high-density service cards, allows cellular operators to cost-effectively deploy and grow 3G networks and to efficiently aggregate traffic from the edge to the core. The new feature set makes the XDM the first platform to optimally combine next-generation SDH with OTN networking. It provides advanced software configurable SDH/OTN interfaces...

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Audiocodes Adds Wideband Vocoding to its DSP software

AudioCodes announced the addition of Wideband Vocoding to its "VoIPerfect" DSP software, offering enhanced voice quality for VoIP Media Gateways, IP PBXs, IP phones, Residential Gateways and ATA products.The traditional PSTN is limited to 300-3400 Hz for narrowband speech. Voice signals are sampled at a rate of 8 kHz, causing limitations to communication quality and comprehension. Wideband telephony refers to transmitting speech signals with bandwidth ranging between 50-7000 Hz, while the voice signals are sampled at a rate of 16 kHz. This effectively...

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Lucent Opens Office in Vietnam

Lucent Technologies opened an office in Hanoi, Vietnam. Quyen Ngo, general director, Lucent Technologies Vietnam Co., Ltd. will head this office. Ngo has more than 17 years experience with Lucent. He started his career in the switching group at Bell Labs, the company's world-renowned R&D organization. He has been working in the Asia Pacific region for nine years, having worked in Indonesia and Singapore and has been involved in Vietnam business development since 2003.http://www.lucent....

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Actelis Launches Ethernet Access Device

Actelis Networks launched its new ML600 Ethernet Access Device (EAD) to enhance the delivery of Carrier Ethernet services. The product combines Actelis' "EFMplus" Ethernet in the First Mile copper transmission capabilities with Carrier Ethernet service delivery features. It delivers up to 45 Mbps of symmetrical Ethernet services over up to eight pairs of existing copper, and up to 400 Mbps over fiber infrastructure. The ML600 EAD can be deployed in a Point-to-Point configuration or as the CPE in a Point-to-Multi-Point configuration with Actelis'...

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Verimatrix Deployed for Telecom Italia AliceBox IPTV in France

Verimatrix Deployed for Telecom Italia France's AliceBox IPTV Telecom Italia France has selected the Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS) for its AliceBox triple play service. AliceBox, which offers unlimited calls to France and Italy, a minimum of 6 Mbps and up to 100 broadcast channels over the DSL network, was officially launched on 1 January 2006. The service is using Sagem's set-top boxes supporting both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC video compression. The VCAS software will protect premium content from TPS and Canal+. The Verimatrix software...

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U.S. Passes 41 Million Broadband User Milestone

The U.S. broadband market has grown explosively, from 4.5 million subscribers in 2000 to 41.2 million subscribers in 2005 according to the newly released TIA's 2006 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast. The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). is forecasting that the broadband market will grow an additional 28 million to 69.2 million by 2009, a 13.8 percent compound annual increase. For the first time in 2005, more new broadband subscribers signed up for DSL than for cable. Total DSL and cable modem subscribers reached 17...

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Alvarion Introduces 3.6GHZ WiMAX Platform

Alvarion has expanded its BreezeMAX WiMAX solution to 3.6 GHz . Operating from 3.6 to 3.8 GHz and targeted to fixed WiMAX operators in Europe and other countries, the BreezeMAX 3600 enables carriers to offer broadband data, voice and multimedia services with high performance over wide coverage areas. Currently in field trials, the BreezeMAX 3600 is expected to be commercially available in the second quarter of this year.http://www.alvarion....

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