Comptel Challenges FCC's Broadband Relief for Verizon

COMPTEL, an industry organization representing competitive carriers and their suppliers, filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging last week's FCC action that granted broadband regulatory relief to Verizon.In a statement, Earl Comstock, COMPTEL's President and CEO, said:"The FCC's default grant of forbearance makes Verizon the only telecommunications company in the entire country that is not subject to regulatory oversight. COMPTEL believes that the statutory provision that allowed this situation...

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BroadSoft Opens Operations Center in Prague

BroadSoft, a supplier of VoIP application software, opened an operations center in Prague, Czech Republic, to support is more than 30 European carrier customers. The Prague centre joins BroadSoft's existing operations facilities in North America and Asia to deliver live 24 by 7 support capabilities worldwide.http://www.broadsoft....

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Axerra and Narad Partner on Wireless Backhaul over HFC

Axerra Networks and Narad Networks have partnered on a T1 backhaul solution over HFC. The combined offering delivers an end-to-end latency of less than 8ms, enabling Multiple System Operators (MSOs) to satisfy the stringent differential delay requirements of mobile wireless backhaul. The solution leverages Axerra's AXN Pseudo-Wire platforms and Narad's switched Ethernet over Coax solution, avoiding the need for fixed wireless solutions or costly...

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Conexant Adds Client-side PON Controllers

Conexant expanded its broadband access portfolio with a new family of system-on-chip (SoC) controllers for passive optical networks (PON). Conexant's "Xenon II" family of controllers is designed for optical network units (ONUs) on the client-side of FTTP, multi-dwelling-unit (MDU) and FTTN EPON/GE-PON applications. Support for VoIP, as well as IP multicasting is included to facilitate real-time IP voice and video applications. In addition, Xenon II controllers can be used with the company's media processing, wireless LAN and home networking chipsets...

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Netrake and Kineto Partner on UMA Wireless LAN Solutions

Netrake and Kineto Wireless completed interoperability testing to support currently installed UMA systems. Netrake's nCite Security Gateway and Kineto's IP-based UMA Network Controller (IP-UNC) are currently deployed in multiple commercial trials for UMA-based mobile/Wi-Fi convergence. This joint solution allows mobile operators to leverage their existing infrastructure and utilize UMA-based technology to cost effectively manage and accelerate fixed-to-mobile usage in home and enterprise environments.Netrake's nCite Security Gateway encapsulates...

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Mexico's Cablemas Chooses Scientific Atlanta's Net Mgt

Cablemas, Mexico's second-largest cable operator, has launched the first phase of an extensive network management initiative using Scientific Atlanta's ROSA technology.The ROSA NMS is capable of monitoring and controlling nearly all aspects of service management, network management and element management of broadband networks. It translates legacy equipment's proprietary alarm and performance data into Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for centralized monitoring and control in a NOC.Cablemas has deployed the ROSA NMS at its network operations...

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AudioCodes and Kineto Interoperate for Mobile/Wi-Fi Convergence

AudioCodes and Kineto Wireless completed interoperability testing between AudioCodes' Mediant media gateways and Kineto Wireless' IP-based UMA Network Controller (IP-UNC). In addition, the companies announced their deployment of these products as part of ongoing fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) trials with several major European operators.The core component of Kineto's mobile/Wi-Fi convergence solution is its IP-UNC, a carrier-class network element...

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India's MTNL Selects Optibase for IPTV Headend

India's state-owned major telecom, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL), will deploy Optibase's IPTV MGW 5100 platforms for its digital head-end for delivery of Triple Play services in the Delhi and Mumbai areas. MTNL is deploying these services targeted at their 3.9 million subscribers along with Time Broadband Services Limited as their video tier partner. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.optibase....

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QUALCOMM Files New Patent Suit Against Broadcom

QUALCOMM filed a new complaint against Broadcom charging misappropriation of trade secrets relating to QUALCOMM's development and marketing of WCDMA baseband integrated circuit products and the multimedia capabilities of such products. The suit alleges that Broadcom has used the misappropriated trade secrets to compete unfairly with QUALCOMM for the sale of WCDMA chipsets. The new lawsuit is the third intellectual property infringement case brought by QUALCOMM against Broadcom. San Diego is the venue of the other two cases as well. To date, QUALCOMM...

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Modulus Video Offers MPEG-4 AVC Video Encoding in 1RU

Modulus Video introduced a small-form-factor (1RU) version of its MPEG-4 AVC video compression system. The new ME100 provides a complete implementation of the AVC toolkit and delivers sophisticated Constrained Fidelity Constant Bit Rate (CF CBR), which maximizes bandwidth efficiency. It also introduces new features to enhance IPTV services, including the first embedded low resolution proxy solution for enabling Picture-in-Picture (PIP) for Microsoft TV and Electronic Program Guide (EPG) applications.The ME1001 standard definition encoder from...

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Alcatel Adds Support for Microsoft's Network Access Protection

Alcatel's new Access Guardian feature set and the Alcatel OmniVista 2770 Quarantine Manager will support Microsoft's Network Access Protection, which is a policy enforcement technology built into Microsoft's operating systems Windows Vista and the future version of Windows Server. Microsoft's Network Access Protection aims to provide better protection of network assets from unhealthy computers by enforcing compliance with network health policies, such as antivirus (AV) signatures, patch levels, and firewall configurations.Alcatel said its Access...

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