Atrica Raises $28.2 Million for Carrier Ethernet

Atrica raised $28.2 million in a new round of new financing to support its carrier Ethernet platforms. The company is currently engaged with 30+ carriers worldwide.Atrica's Carrier Ethernet portfolio is comprised of the A-2000 family of Carrier Ethernet Edge Switches, the A-4000 family of Carrier Ethernet Aggregation Switches, the A-8000 family of Carrier Ethernet Core Switches, the A-100 and A-200 Ethernet demarcation devices and the Atrica Service Platform for Ethernet Networks (ASPEN), an integrated service provisioning and management system.The...

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Atrica Announces Outdoor Carrier Ethernet Edge Switch

Atrica introduced an environmentally-hardened Outdoor Carrier Ethernet Edge Switch that enables cable operators and telecom service providers to extend their points of presence (POPs) virtually to anywhere. The new switch, which is designed to be strand-mounted or pole-mounted, could be used for wireless backhaul, FTTH, FTTC and FTTB access network applications. The new A-2160 supports Atrica's carrier Ethernet feature set, including granular QoS...

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Broadcom Delivers 7.2 Mbps Single-Chip HSDPA Processor

Broadcom introduced a baseband processor that is fully compliant to the High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) standard for high-speed cellular data. The new mixed-signal monolithic chip integrates a complete Category 8 HSDPA modem that is capable of delivering 7.2 Mbps connectivity, advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and multimedia functionality (for recording and playback of video and audio), and a high-performance ARM11 applications processor. http://www.broadcom....

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VeriSign Launches Hosted Service for Mobile Phone Backup

VeriSign launched a service that automatically backs up and restores personal data on mobile phones. Cincinnati Bell will be the first carrier in the world offering the hosted, self-care service.VeriSign Backup Plus will initially feature instant, over-the-air back up of contacts in mobile phone address books, giving consumers peace-of-mind from knowing their data is backed upon entry and easily retrievable if phones are lost, stolen or damaged. Later this year, the service will back up mobile calendars, pictures and video and audio content.Studies...

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Agere Adds Windows Media Support to Mobile Chipset

Agere Systems is enhancing its mobile phone chipset to support the Microsoft Windows Media Audio (WMA) format, an important feature for adding music download capabilities to mass-market phones.Agere's Vision X115 solution supports Windows Media Audio 9.1, the format's most current version, which includes specific codecs for multi-channel surround sound and voice encoding. WMA provides both constant and variable bit rate (VBR) encoding. With VBR, the encoding bit rate increases to capture complex sections of data, and then decreases to compress...

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Alcatel's Genesys to Acquire VoiceGenie for Voice XML Apps

Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, a subsidiary of Alcatel, agreed to acquire privately held VoiceGenie for an undisclosed amount of cash.VoiceGenie offers a software platform based on Voice XML, an open standard used for developing self service applications by both enterprises and carriers. Voice XML is used in contact centers for customer voice self-service; is widely deployed by telecom providers to support multi media services such as directory assistance, navigation direction and virtual receptionists; and as increasingly applied to...

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Lucent and IBM Collaborate on BladeCenter IMS Solution

Lucent Technologies will offer the option to deploy parts of its IMS portfolio on the IBM BladeCenter family of servers.The incorporation of blade server technology is the result of IBM and Lucent's recently announced partnership targeting new "blended" services for wireless and wireline carriers.IBM's portfolio of blade servers provides a single, open, standards-based architecture that can be deployed either in the data center or within a central office.Also at this week's CTIA in Las Vegas, Lucent and IBM are demonstrating the inter-working of...

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Modeo Expects DVB-H Launch in US for 2H06

Modeo, a subsidiary of Crown Castle International, plans to officially launch its DVB network and its commercial-grade multicast mobile broadcast center during 2006 in select major U.S. markets, including New York City. The company currently is working on deployment of the network to the top 30 U.S. markets, with launches targeted throughout 2007.At this week's CTIA conference in Las Vegas, Modeo is showcasing a mobile handset designed around the high performance DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld) standard, the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0...

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Tellabs Enhances Digital Cross-connect for Wireless Backhaul

Tellabs has expanded the wireless transport capabilities of its 5500 digital cross-connect with features for wireless backhaul, integration of voice-quality enhancement and DS-0 grooming.Tellabs estimates 40% to 50% savings in backhaul transmission bandwidth through elimination of idle transmissions and packetization of cell site traffic. As part of its "IntegratedMobile" solution, theTellabs 5500 system will enable migration from TDM and ATM to an all IP network. The addition of integrated voice-quality enhancement (iVQE) and DS-0 grooming (iDS-0)...

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STMicroelectronics Debuts 802.11a/b/g Ultra Low Power Mobile Wi-Fi Chip

STMicroelectronics introduced an ultra-low power consumption dual-band Wi-Fi solution -- the STLC4420 -- that provides wireless IEEE802.11a/b/g capability for mobile handsets. A second new device IEEE802.11a/b/g capability for mobile handsets in a single compact package. A second new device, the STLC4550, delivers similar IEEE802.11b/g functionality to the existing STLC4370, which entered volume production early in 2006, but in a significantly smaller package; the earlier device is designed into several Wi-Fi enabled handsets from leading mobile-phone...

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Linksys Offers Mini Wireless-G Router for Sharing EVDO or Hotspot Access

Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, introduced its Wireless-G Router for Mobile Broadband (WRT54G3G-NA), which enables mobile broadband users to share their single wide area mobile signal with up to five users via a Wireless-G network. The product is designed to work with mobile broadband data services, such as Mobile Broadband on the Sprint Power Vision Network. When a customer plugs their mobile broadband card into the PC Card slot on the router they can turn their wide area mobile broadband connection into a shared wireless (802.11g) and...

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San Francisco Selects Google/Earthlink for Wi-Fi

The San Francisco City Council selected Google and EarthLink to provide a city-wide Wi-Fi service. A free Internet access service will be provided by Google and Earthlink will offer a higher-speed, paid tier.Six proposed solutions were submitted to the City. A review panel of city employees and an internationally known outside consulting firm undertook a detailed analysis of the proposals, each ranking them according to a methodology outlined in the RFP. The scores were combined and a final rating created for each bidder.. http://www.sfgov.org/site/tech_connect_page.asp?id=38562In...

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Netgear Ships First Products Based on 802.11n Draft

NETGEAR has begun shipping its first RangeMax NEXT Wi-Fi products, which are based on the draft 802.11n specification. NETGEAR said the products deliver wireless speeds up to 300 Mbps.The product line includes both the RangeMax NEXT Wireless Router Gigabit Edition with 10/100/1000 Switch and RangeMax NEXT Wireless Notebook Adapter Gigabit Edition ; the RangeMax NEXT Wireless Router with 10/100 Switch ; RangeMax NEXT Wireless DSL 2+ Modem Router with...

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Samsung Unveils WiFi/UMA Handset, IMS and WiMAX Solutions

At CTIA Wireless 2006, Samsung Telecommunications America showcased a line-up of 35 mobile phone models, including its first model (t719) for the U.S. market that incorporates RIM Blackberry Connect Email in a compact, slim folder design.Samsung also unveiled the t709, expected to be the first phone in the U.S. to offer WiFi/UMA connectivity, and the zx20, expected to be the first HSDPA phone supporting 1.8 Mbps in the U.S. Samsung showed other distinctive products for the U.S. market, including the slim slider d807, push to talk d407, multimedia-rich...

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ARRIS Lands Two-Year E-MTA Supply Deal with Comcast

Comcast signed a purchase agreement for a minimum of 1.2 million ARRIS Touchstone(R) Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapters (E-MTAs) over the next two years. An E-MTA is the combination modem and phone adapter. The contract covers the ARRIS Touchstone Telephone Modem TM402 and the next-generation Touchstone Telephony Modem TM502 product line. ARRIS will equip the Comcast E-MTAs with battery back-up for service reliability in case of a power failure in the home.http://www.arrisi....

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Verizon Business Adopts Hosted Microsoft Office LCS

Verizon Business will use Hosted Microsoft Office Live Communications Server, including Microsoft Office Communicator client software, as the platform for its newly launched Hosted Secure Instant Messaging (IM) Service. Verizon Business is the first announced network service provider to offer a service based on Microsoft's Hosted Live Communications Server. The new Verizon Business service will provide enterprise-class, security-enhanced instant messaging and presence awareness. Verizon Business can host thousands of customer organizations on a...

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Walt Disney Unveils its Family Mobile Service with GPS Tracking

The Walt Disney Company unveiled a national wireless phone service designed for families and featuring customizable tools that allow parents to manage the children's phone use, including:set spending allowances and track usage for voice minutes, text messaging, picture messaging and downloadable contentdetermine the hours of the day and days of the week when kids can use their phonesprogram restricted and always-on phone numbers to manage with whom...

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Narus Enhances its Carrier-class IP Security & Intercept Platform

Narus announced major enhancements to its "NarusInsigh", a carrier-class IP traffic processing system that provides real-time network visibility essential to secure, manage and deliver Services over IP (SoIP). The platform can be used for advanced IP security, intercept and traffic classification, including blocking specific applications.NarusInsight 5 now processes full-packet layer 7 traffic at speeds up to OC-48 (2.5 Gbps) and layer 4 traffic at speeds up to OC-192 (10 Gbps). In addition, NarusInsight 5's new security application modules (the...

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Shanghai Telecom Deploys Narus to Detect "Rogue" VoIP Traffic

Shanghai Telecom is deploying Narus' "NarusInsight" IP traffic processing system to detect and mitigate "rogue" VoIP traffic on their network. NarusInsight performs deep-packet inspection (layers 2 through 7) of IP traffic, while correlating across every link of the network.The contract marks Narus' first installation in China, and comes on the heels of an unprecedented agreement with the China Information Technology Security Certification Center (CNITSEC), which recently certified NarusInsight to protect China's major telecom carriers against...

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