CopperCom Acquires Switchmaxx for Web Port App

CopperCom, a supplier of softswitches, has acquired Switchmaxx, a division of Phonetics LC, for an undisclosed sum. Switchmaxx offers a Unified Self-Care Web portal that incorporates applications such as Web-enabled voice mail, unified messaging, single-number service, parental controls, etc. Significantly, Switchmaxx software provides telcos with a single interface for managing services on both their legacy TDM and next-generation switches, such as the CopperCom CSX. "This strategic investment furthers CopperCom's commitment to enable our customers...

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Shenick Enhances IPTV Test Software

Shenick Network Systems, added significant IPTV and triple play enhancements to its "diversifEye" Version 3.0 software, which provides granularity required to test overall performance and quality of service (QoS), coupled with the ability to drill down to individual IPTV, VoIP and Internet users.Shenick said its diversifEye handles the complete cycle of broadband customer access scenarios from obtaining an IP address via DHCP to establishing PPP tunnels through emulation of real user application traffic flows of multiple IPTV, VoIP, VoD and data...

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Caspian Counters Net Neutrality with Fair Use Framework

Caspian, a supplier of multimedia traffic management solutions for service provider, large enterprise, and government networks, entered the Net Neutrality debate by outlining a Fair Use Policy Framework aimed at bridging the interests of consumers, application providers, and network operators.To date, the Net Neutrality debate has pitted major telcos against the larger Internet community of content providers and users, who have viewed any attempt...

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Motorola Signs Set-top Deal with NCTC

The National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) has placed an order for all-digital, high-definition (HD) and digital video recording (DVR)-capable Motorola set-tops, in the consortium's first-ever volume set-top purchase. Financial terms were not disclosed.NCTC is a programming and hardware buying cooperative that represents more than 1,000 independent cable operators and their 6,500 individual systems. The NCTC members serve 8 million cable subscribers.The...

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Aperto Raises $26 Million for its WiMAX Systems

Aperto Networks, a start-up based in Milpitas, California, raised $26 million in venture funding for its WiMAX base stations and subscriber units. Aperto is a founding board member of the WiMAX Forum as well as a founder and lead contributor to IEEE 802.16 and the ETSI-BRAN standards. The company currently claims more than 200 customers in 65 countries.The new Series E follow-on financing round bring the company's total capitalization to $120 million. The financing round was led by GunnAllen Venture Partners with significant participation from...

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Motorola, Camiant and Sandvine Supply PacketCable MultiMedia to Singapore's StarHub

Singapore's StarHub has deployed a PacketCable MultiMedia (PCMM) solution supplied by Motorola, Camiant and Sandvine.The deployment includes Sandvine's PCMM application manager, Camiant's PCMM policy server, as well as Incognito's and Interactive Enterprise's provisioning software.Motorola, which is overseeing and managing the end-to-end integration of the technology, is also supplying its Broadband Services Router 64000 (BSR 64000) -- the first Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) to receive PCMM Qualification within DOCSIS 2.0 from CableLabs.Sandvine's...

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Former FCC Commissioner Joins Citizen Comm. Board

Former FCC Commissioner Kathleen Quinn Abernathy will serve on the Board of Directors for Citizen Communications. Abernathy, who resigned her post in November 2005, currently is a partner in the communications and information technology practice in the Washington, DC office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where she advises clients on a wide variety of policy and regulatory issues related to the telecommunications and media fieldshttp://www.czn....

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AT&T Offers in-Home Tech Support for New DSL Customers

AT&T will begin providing new customers who order AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet Express or Pro services with an AT&T Wireless Gateway through an AT&T call center with home networking setup services from a CompUSA "Techknowledgist" or from other participating retailers' technical support crews. Customers who order AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet Pro will receive a $99 mail-in rebate to cover home network setup fees; Express customers will receive a $50 mail-in rebate to use toward the $99 setup fees (taxes and other charges...

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Cisco Releases Application Control Engine for Catalyst 6500

Cisco Systems released an Application Control Engine (ACE), providing up to 16 Gbps of throughput, rich multi-layer security, and unique virtual partitioning capabilities, for its Catalyst 6500 Series Switch. The module enables many new capabilities, including hundreds of virtual partitions, per-partition resource allocation, role-based access control, and an XML management API. The ACE also consolidates functionality such as server load balancing and off-load, application acceleration, and application-layer security. Cisco also announced today...

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Calix Implements Wintegra Access Processors for FTTN

Calix has selected Wintegra's WinPath Access Processor as the primary processor for its E-Series IP Service Edge Node. Wintegra's WinPath facilitates a wide range of services for the E5, including connectivity via ADSL2+ and VDSL2. http://www.wintegra....

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Clearwire Launches VoIP over its WiMAX Network

Clearwire, the broadband wireless provider founded by Craig McCaw, began offering a residential VoIP service over its network. The service was jointly developed with Bell Canada. Clearwire said it will only sell service to those who qualify for Enhanced 911 (E911) service. Features include a local phone number within Clearwire's market, unlimited local and long-distance calling within the U.S. and Canada, competitive international calling rates,...

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Disney-ABC Tests Online Distribution with Flash-8

The Disney-ABC Television Group will offer ad-supported, full-length episodes of four ABC primetime series via its website, bypassing cable operators and other content aggregators.Current episodes of "Lost," "Desperate Housewives," and "Commander In Chief," as well as the entire present season of "Alias," will be available for streaming during May and June for free. A number of advertisers have already signed-up, including AT&T, Cingular, Ford, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Unilever's Suave, Universal Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures.The...

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BT Signs TV Music Deals

BT plans to offer more than 500 concerts and performances by some of the world's biggest music artists as part of its upcoming TV service. BT has signed deals with i-concerts and Eagle Rock - two of the most respected providers of long-form music video content.i-concerts' potential line-up includes big names such as Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Bon Jovi, Andrea Bocelli, Billy Joel, Pavarotti, Roxy Music and Sheryl Crow. Eagle Rock programming includes classic and contemporary concerts and documentary profiles from its Eagle Vision portfolio including...

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Aruba Chairman and CEO Switch Roles

Aruba Networks announced that its chairman will switch roles with its CEO. Don LeBeau, Aruba's president and CEO, will become the company's new chairman of the board. The current chairman of the board, Dominic Orr, will assume the role of Aruba's new president and CEO. Both moves are effective immediately.http://www.arubanetworks....

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Nominum and Acme Packet Partner on VoIP Peering

Nominum and Acme Packet announced plans to deliver scalable ENUM directory services based on Acme's Net-Net session border controller family and Nominum's Navitas ENUM-based IP-application routing directory.Acme Packet's session border controllers allow voice, video and multimedia sessions across IP network borders. Nominum's Navitas ENUM-based IP-application routing directory server enables the connection of advanced IP-based communications services between separate networks. http://www.nominum.comhttp://www.acmepacket....

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Global Crossing Expands European Network and VoIP Services

Global Crossing activated additional IP gateways in Austria, Belgium, Germany and Spain, and new points of presence (PoPs) in Rome, Italy and Moscow, Russia. The addition of Rome complements Global Crossing's existing point of presence in Milan and Turin. Global Crossing further expanded its IP services on the existing footprint with the opening of IP PoPs in Brussels, Madrid, Munich and Vienna. Initially, IP Transit and dedicated Internet access services will be available, with the addition of IP VPN expected later in the year. The Madrid and...

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Nokia and Linksys Partner on Digital Home Bundles

Nokia and Linksys (a division of Cisco) announced a product bundle entitled, "Go wireless at home", which includes the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet bundled with either a Linksys high-speed wireless router or gateway. The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet provides mobile broadband access to the Internet via Wi-Fi or by Bluetooth connection with compatible mobile devices. It includes web browser, email client, news reader and media players for listening to music...

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Scientific Atlanta Unveils OCAP Set-tops

Scientific Atlanta, which is now part of Cisco Systems, unveiled a line of set-tops supporting the introduction of CableLabs OpenCable Applications Platform (OCAP) and the FCC mandate for separate security.Key features of Scientific Atlanta's Next Generation Network Architectures (NGNA) set-top line include:Designed for OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) - offering faster processing power, increased memory, and Linux. Complementing the set-top line is Scientific Atlanta's OCAP platform, which includes the company's OCAP Digital Network Control...

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Cox Certifies Ciena's CN 4200 for Triple Play Aggregation

Cox Communications has certified Ciena's CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform for deployment in its metro and regional networks to support the aggregation and transport of residential voice, video and data services, as well as business services. Financial terms were not disclosed.The CN 4200 is a multiservice transport and aggregation platform capable of on-demand support for any transport protocol--including SONET/SDH, Ethernet/GbE/10GbE, storage (Fibre Channel, FICON, ESCON) video--at any speed on any available port using a universal...

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BigBand and Concurrent Partner on Network DVR Solution

BigBand Networks and Concurrent announced an interoperable solution for network-based time shifting, which offers subscribers DVR-like control over live programming. The companies said their solution for time-shifting has recently been deployed by a major North American cable operator.The BigBand BMR (Broadband Multimedia-Service Router) acquires and processes live VBR (variable bit rate) feeds, replicating and clamping them, sending CBR (constant bit rate) versions, necessary for on-demand networking, to the Concurrent Real-Time Catcher. Simultaneously,...

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Charter Supplies 10 Gbps Links for BMW's R&D Lab

Charter Communications is providing BMW with private, redundant connectivity for replicated data storage transport, as well as converging corporate data communications over redundant 10 Gigabit connections using Nortel's optical technology. The network is carrying multiple FibreChannel (FC-200) circuits and multiple gigabit Ethernet circuits between BMW's existing factory in Greer, South Carolina, and its new research facility at the nearby International Center for Automotive Research (ICAR) in Greenville, South Carolina.Nortel's Optical Metro...

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Shanghai Media Group Deploys Envivio MPEG-4 Encoders

Shanghai Media Group (SMG) is using Envivio MPEG-4 IPTV video headends to encode digital video programming for approximately 80,000 subscribers in the Northern Province of Hei Long Jiang and the City of Shanghai. The IPTV services are delivered via China Netcom Company Limited and Shanghai Telecom Co., Ltd., respectively. To increase video quality and customer satisfaction, SMG has deployed 90 encoders from the Envivio Broadcast Series. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.envivio.comIn March 2006, TANDBERG Television and Siemens announced...

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Comcast Signs Retailing Deal with Wal-Mart

Comcast will begin offering its broadband, digital video, and voice services in approximately 500 Wal-Mart locations across Comcast's national footprint. This announcement marks the latest in a series of Comcast agreements with premium retailers. Comcast launched its retail program in 1999.http://www.comcast....

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