Raza Raises $20 Million for Packet Processing Silicon

Raza Microelectronics, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, closed a $20 million round of financing to support is work in high-performance silicon for packet processing applications.The company's XLR and Orion processor families are complex, highly-integrated designs incorporating hundreds of millions of transistors and built on leading-edge TSMC silicon process technologies.Raza Microelectronics said it is supplying its advanced silicon solutions to a number of top-tier networking system vendors.The funding round was led by Advanced Equities...

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Motorola Debuts Canopy Wireless Extension for HFC Networks

Motorola introduced a strand-mounted, MOTOwi4 Canopy solution that enables cable operators to quickly deploy wireless extensions to their existing networks.The Motorola Canopy solution, part of the MOTOwi4 wireless access solutions, integrates a DOCSIS 2.0-compatible hardened cable modem and pre-WiMax access point constructed to withstand and perform in all outdoor conditions. The unit is line-powered and supports dedicated licensed spectrum at 2.3...

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Samsung and Tekelec Announce Interoperability for Mobile NGN

Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung) and Tekelec announced interoperability between the Samsung SSX-300C Wireless Softswitch (WSS) and the Tekelec 8000 Converged Multimedia Gateway. The interoperability brings Samsung closer to a joint solution with the Tekelec 8000 Converged Multimedia Gateway as a part of Samsung's Mobile Next Generation Network (NGN) solution for North America.The Tekelec 8000 Converged Multimedia Gateway is a converged media gateway that complements the Samsung SSX-300C WSS, the keystone for Samsung's distributed mobile...

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YouTube Raises $8 Million for Consumer Video Uploads

YouTube, a consumer media company that lets people upload and share short video clips, received $8 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital. This contributes to the initial $3.5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital completed in November 2005. YouTube said more than 35 million videos are currently being watched daily on its service. http://www.youtube.comYouTube is based in San Mateo, Californ...

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Agilent Tunes its Wireless Network Optimization Platform

Agilent Technologies released a new version of its Wireless Network Optimization Platform, which enables RF engineering teams to optimize and troubleshoot radio access networks and wireless services, and quickly identify the cause of problems.New features include support for HSDPA and 1xEV-DO measurements.The new platform functions include a flexible user-interface design environment, view synchronization, protocol analysis view, combined data/voice call sequencer and improved mapping capabilities. The Wireless Network Optimization Platform incorporates...

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Fujitsu to Offer Mobile WiMAX, Mesh Wi-Fi Solutions

Fujitsu Network Communications will offer a native mobile WiMAX solution based on the IEEE 802.16-2005 standard. Fujitsu is also offering a series of Wi-Fi mesh products that allow telecom carriers, cable/MSO operators, utilities and municipalities to offer turnkey wireless services that integrate seamlessly within current infrastructure and operations. Fujitsu's wireless portfolio includes WiMAX its System on Chip (SoC) and reference designs for WiMAX-certifiable systems. New WiMAX Forum Certified base stations and end-user devices are optimized...

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AT&T Lobbies for California's "Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act"

AT&T announced its support for proposed legislation in the California Assembly authored by Speaker of the Assembly, Fabian Nunez, (D - Los Angeles) and co-authored by Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee Chair, Lloyd Levine, (D - Van Nuys). The "Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006" would streamline the video franchising process in California by implementing a new statewide-issued authorization.http://www.TheNewATT....

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Finland's Elisa Launches HSDPA Service

Finnish telecom operator Elisa launched the first commercial High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network in the Nordic countries. Nokia supplied the HSDPA solution to Elisa as part of a frame agreement announced in June 2005, and continues as the main supplier of Elisa's mobile network infrastructure. http://www.nokia....

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SupportSoft Updates its Self-Service Suite

SupportSoft released a new version of its Self-Service Suite, a Web-based software solution that enables end-users to solve technical problems on their own. The software can reduce or eliminate the need to telephone a service representative for assistance.Self-Service Suite is part of a scalable set of software solutions from SupportSoft that enable companies to provide self-service answers for tens of thousands of employees or millions of customers. When a problem occurs that may impact many end-users, companies can use the Self-Service Suite...

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Sony and Motorola Partner on Mesh Camera Video Networking

Motorola and Sony Electronics announced a reseller agreement that will make Sony IPELA remote video cameras compatible with Motorola's MOTOMESH technology, which supports up to four radio networks in a single access point, and Motorola's Mesh Enabled Architecture (MEA). The cameras are being sold by Motorola as its Mesh Camera Wireless Video Networking System for municipal deployments. The mesh-enabled cameras can be configured to operate over licensed 4.9 GHz public safety or unlicensed 2.4 GHz frequencies.The cameras feature a 360-degree "endless"...

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Modulus Video Awarded IPTV Orders Exceeding $10 Million

Modulus Video recently received orders exceeding $10 million for its MPEG-4 AVC SD and HD video encoding systems. The orders were for over 100 Modulus Video ME6000 high definition AVC encoders for a major U.S. telecommunications IPTV deployment.Key features of Modulus Video MPEG-4 AVC encoders include: Constrained Fidelity Constant Bit-Rate (CF-CBR) encoding to maximize bandwidth efficiency for IPTV;Embedded low resolution proxy for enabling Picture-in-Picture (PIP) for Microsoft TV and Electronic Program Guide (EPG) applications; Video on Demand...

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Nortel Cites Customer Gains for its MIMO-powered WiMAX

Nortel said its MIMO-powered WiMAX systems recently have been selected by NEW Energie in Germany, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and National Taiwan University in Taiwan, and Telefónica Móviles in Mexico. NEW Energie has completed a WiMAX broadband service trial in the town of Erkelenz in North Rhine-Westphalia, laying the foundations for commercial launch. For the trial, Nortel worked with German communications consultant tkt teleconsult to deploy a WiMAX network that allowed NEW Energie to provide broadband wireless connections to a selection of small...

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Nortel Enhances IMS Portfolio with Wireless Mobility Gateway

Nortel has enhanced its IMS portfolio with a new Wireless Mobility Gateway 6000 (WMG 6000) that is designed to allow service providers to bridge 3G wireless networks and WLAN networks.A key component of Nortel's IMS Converged Mobility solution, the WMG 6000 would make it simpler for service providers to offer personalized multimedia services to virtually any device across any network - wireless, wireline or cable. The platform provides presence and advanced telephony features such as caller ID, call waiting, call hold, click to call, call screening...

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Wi-Fi Alliance and CTIA Develop Wi-Fi/Mobile Test Plans

The Wi-Fi Alliance and CTIA will cooperate on development of test programs for overlapping aspects of converged Wi-Fi/mobile phones. The initial focus will be on Radio Frequency (RF) performance mapping in a mixed network environment. Future work will explore other technology challenges of convergence, such as handover between cellular and Wi-Fi networks, cross-radio signal sensitivity and battery life. The groups envision that testing will occur in shared top-tier test laboratories worldwide, each authorized to perform both CTIA and Wi-Fi Alliance...

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Lucent Appoints Elizabeth Hackenson as CIO

Lucent Technologies named Elizabeth Hackenson to the position of chief information officer (CIO), responsible for all of Lucent's global information technology systems. Hackenson, who previously held a similar position with MCI, has more than 25 years of experience in information technology with the last 12 years in the telecommunications industry. She will report to Lucent Chief Operating Officer Frank D'Amelio. http://www.lucent....

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Extreme Networks Sees Quarterly Results Below Expectations

Extreme Networks expects its net revenue for the fiscal quarter ended 02-Apr-2006 to be $84 million to $85 million. This is below the company's previous expectations of $90 million to $95 million, due primarily to lower than anticipated revenues in the U.S. and Japan, which offset revenue growth in the Company's European markets.Based on preliminary information, the Company expects earnings per diluted share for the third quarter to be between a profit of $0.01 and a loss of ($0.01) on a GAAP basis. Excluding stock-based compensation expense, non-GAAP...

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Discovery Channel Launches on Broadband, Powered by Brightcove

Discovery Communications will launch its first broadband channels on April 15: Discovery Channel Beyond and Travel Channel Beyond. The ad-supported TV will later be expanded with broadband channels for TLC, Animal Planet and Discovery Health Channel will launch in the coming months.Discovery is using Brightcove for publishing its video content.http://www.discovery.comhttp://www.brightcove....

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