Gigamon's Out-of-Band Monitoring Provides Scalable VoIP Testing

Gigamon Systems, a start-up based in San Jose, California, is positioning its GigaVUE-MP Data Access Switch as a scalable means of providing VoIP monitoring and testing. The Gigamon switch solves the problem of "too many tools and not enough access points or SPAN ports" by creating an "out-of-band" monitoring network that brings all critical data to the VoIP analyzer, enabling other tools to share the data view for security or monitoring purposes....

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FCC to Establish Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau

The FCC plans to establish a "Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau" whose mission will be "to provide a more efficient, effective, and responsive organizational structure to address public safety, homeland security, national security, emergency management and preparedness, disaster management, and other related issues."he Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau will handle the following issues and functions that have been dispersed among seven different bureaus and offices:Public safety communications, including 911/Enhanced 911 (E911)...

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Ericsson Bids $178 Million for Riverstone

Ericsson made a last minute, $178 million offer to acquire Riverstone Networks, a supplier of carrier Ethernet infrastructure solutions for business and residential communications services.On February 7, 2006, Riverstone and Lucent Technologies signed an asset purchase agreement in which the stated purchase price was $170 million, subject to certain potential adjustments. At the same time, Riverstone announced that it had filed a petition under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, and that it intended to conduct an auction for the sale of its...

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TANDBERG Showcases Xport MPEG-4 Packaging Tool

TANDBERG Television is introducing "Xport" technology designed for an IPTV network. Xport is a content creation and packaging tool for MPEG-4 AVC video-on-demand. TANDBERG said its initiative marks the first time that a company is taking streaming technology into an on-demand environment. During the upcoming TelecomNext show in Las Vegas, the company will demo Xport by illustrating how IPTV operators can capture MPEG-4 AVC files and get twice the amount of content as other service providers.In addition, TANDBERG Television will be showcasing its...

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SunRocket Names Former AOL Broadband Exec as New CEO

SunRocket, a VoIP service provider, announced today that Lisa Hook has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Hook most recently was President of AOL Broadband, Premium and Developer Services, where she grew the AOL Broadband service from 300,000 subscribers to over five million subscribers in less than two years. She also created AOL's Premium Services business in early 2003, which grew to over two million subscribers by year-end 2004. Earlier, Hook launched AOL's wireless and voice services businesses.Prior to joining AOL in 2000,...

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Bezeq Deploys VoIP from Veraz and SigValue

Bezeq International has replaced its legacy TDM environment with a fully-integrated, end-to-end, VoIP network solution supplied by Veraz Networks and SigValue Technologies Ltd.The joint Veraz-SigValue solution allows Bezeq International to offer new applications such as Voice over Broadband (VOBB), Class 5 Services and Intelligent Network (IN) services. The solution provides a suite of long-distance, international gateway functionalities alongside billing and value added services such as prepaid services and a full-featured postpaid calling card...

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TeliaSonera joins FreeMove Roaming Alliance

TeliaSonera has joined FreeMove, the mobile alliance between Orange, Telefonica Moviles, TIM (Telecom Italia Group) and T-Mobile.The FreeMove alliance is focused on the development of roaming business and delivering competitive services to multinational customers. Collectively, FreeMove alliance members now span 26 markets and reach more than 230 million customers across Europe. The FreeMove alliance was formed in 2003 aiming to take the complexity out of international mobile services. Freemove and TeliaSonera share the ambition to deliver an outstanding...

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VSNL Deploys Aperto WiMAX in 65 Indian Cities

Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL), India's leading telecommunications service provider, has completed deployment of Aperto's PacketWAVE multi-service broadband wireless systems in over 65 cities across India. This is part of an initial deployment phase with the goal of growing the network to cover over 200 cities within twelve months.Aperto's PacketWAVE family of base stations and subscriber units are a part of a country-wide network that enables high-speed wireless voice and data services for a wide variety of end users throughout India. Aperto...

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Cognio's Spectrum Expert Supports Wireless VoIP

Cognio, a start-up based in Germantown, Maryland, announced a spectrum management platform with the ability to create detailed device versus channel charts that shows the impact of specific devices on each WiFi channel and how they are impacting channel and overall network performance. Cognio's technology not only plots the energy of the spectrum but also reads and lists the devices that are using the spectrum in real time. Cognio said this capability enables IT managers to remove, move, shield, or replace specific devices to minimize impact and...

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Ikanos Raises $48 Million in Stock Offering

Ikanos Communications priced a common stock offering of 2,500,000 shares sold by Ikanos and 3,250,000 shares sold by certain selling stockholders at a public offering price of $20.75 per share. As a result of the offering, Ikanos is expecting to receive estimated net proceeds of approximately $47.8 million. The offering is expected to close on March 22, 2006, subject to customary conditions. The selling stockholders have granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to 862,500 additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments.Citigroup...

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BigBand Signs Three Cable Operators in China

BigBand Networks announced cable customers in China: Luoyang Radio and Television Information Network, Lanzhou Radio and Television Information Network and Wuyang Iron and Steel's Digital TV project, representing over 1 million subscribers between them. These operators plan to utilize the BigBand BMR (Broadband Multimedia-Service Router) for processing and delivery of digital video content from their headends. This increases the number of Chinese customers announced by BigBand Networks during the last year to six, driven largely by the country's...

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Nortel Reaches Agreement with Lead Plaintiffs

Nortel announced agreement in principle for a proposed settlement of certain shareholder class action lawsuits with the lead plaintiffs in two significant class action lawsuits.As previously announced, the proposed settlement was conditioned, among other things, on the resolution of insurance related issues and Nortel and the lead plaintiffs reaching an agreement on corporate governance related matters. These matters have now been resolved with Nortel's insurers agreeing to pay US$228.5 million towards the settlement and Nortel agreeing with the...

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DSL Sets Records in 2005: 41 million New Subscribers

As of 31-December-2005, there were 138.8 million DSL subscribers worldwide -- up by 41 million new lines for the year, the equivalent of 112,000 every day or nearly 800,000 per week. Regionally, the European Union (EU) remained the largest DSL population worldwide, adding 16.7 million subscribers in the year -- a growth of 53% -- and at a total of 48.2 million DSL subscribers, now accounting foralmost 35% of the world market.The Middle East and...

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