Vitesse Places Chief Executives on Leave, Opens Investigation

Vitesse Semiconductor's Board of Directors announced that Louis R. Tomasetta, the company's CEO, Eugene F. Hovanec, the company's Executive Vice President and Yatin Mody, the company's Chief Financial Officer, have been placed on administrative leave.Vitesse has appointed a Special Committee of independent directors to conduct an internal investigation relating to past stock option grants, the timing of such grants and related accounting and documentation. The Special Committee is being assisted by independent outside legal counsel.Vitesse said...

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Netopia and Verifone Partner on Merchant Wi-Fi Hot Spots

Netopia has integrated its Wi-Fi Hot Spots with VeriFone payment systems to provide merchants with a flexible hot spot solution. The solution allows merchants to determine who can access the wireless network, how long they can stay connected, and whether Wi-Fi access is free of charge or available for a fee. And they can change the parameters of access to support marketing initiatives or respond to usage patterns. Merchants generate a receipt on their VeriFone payment system with a unique access code for each patron. Netopia Hot Spots are also...

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AT&T to Offer Akimbo in Homezone TV Service

AT&T will offer the Internet-based Akimbo video-on-demand service as part of its upcoming AT&T's Homezone TV service, scheduled to launch later this summer. AT&T plans to offer the content available from Akimbo's library of more than 10,000 television programs and movies-on-demand. Akimbo said it is currently adding more than 150 new mainstream and niche titles in 85 different categories per week.The service will have an online guide that enables AT&T Homezone subscribers to view a comprehensive listing of all Akimbo videos and...

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Nanochip Secures $10 Million for MEMS Storage

Nanochip, a start-up based in Fremont, California, has secured $10 million of a $15 million Series C financing round for its development of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) silicon data storage chips for the consumer electronics market.Nanochip is developing a new class of ultra-high-capacity MEMS-based storage chips. The company said these new chips -- with bit-densities enabling the storage of tens of gigabytes per chip -- use a nano-probe array technology that goes far beyond the expected limits of conventional lithography used in present...

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Oracle Outlines Roadmap for Telecom Service-Oriented Architecture

Oracle outlined its roadmap for a standards-based Service Delivery Platform (SDP) for the telecommunications industry. The plan is to help service providers, network operators and system integrators to evolve current silo-based network investments into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) supporting IP-based services. Enterprises could also deploy the Oracle SDP as a foundation for VoIP, mobile and real-time applications.The Oracle SDP extends the company's Fusion Middleware for network-centric applications. Key functionality includes: IMS Support:...

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Envivio Adds MPEG-4 Decoders for SD and HD

Envivio introduced its first professional decoder for high definition (HD) content and a new decoder supporting mobile and standard definition (SD) content. The D1 and D5 join Envivio's 4View Broadcast Series of MPEG-4 professional decoders, providing real time decoding and confidence monitoring of content as it passes from production through distribution and is repurposed for delivery over mobile, IPTV, enterprise and broadcast networks. The 4View D5 professional MPEG-4 AVC decoder supports both SD and HD content and decodes HD in both 720p and...

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Nokia Expands Mobile Infrastructure R&D in China

Nokia will expand its R&D operations in Chengdu, China. The facility , which was established in August 2005, started as a focused R&D unit for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based communications applications. In order to have more direct responsiveness to emerging customer needs in this market, Nokia has decided to further expand the Chengdu R&D Center scope, engaging in development of systems such as carrier grade platform middleware, WAP gateways for mobile browsing, intelligent packet core subsystems and increasing multimedia applications...

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Tut Systems Offer Power-over-Broadband Solution for Hotels

Tut Systems introduced a networking platform that delivers both power and broadband connectivity up to 75 Mbps over standard telephone wiring in multi-tenant dwelling units, hotel complexes, and campus networks. While specifically designed to deliver multiple channels of high-definition television over IP networks, the product line also enables campus wide deployment of VoIP phones, wireless access points, and IP-enabled security cameras.Tut Systems said that by delivering both power and broadband connectivity across a single in-house telephone...

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JDSU Intros Centralized IP Video Service Monitoring System

JDSU introduced its Digital and IP Video Service Monitoring System with capability of simultaneously monitoring more than two hundred and fifty video streams. The system is designed to test access coverage at all points in the network relevant to delivering video service. It also monitors a range of interfaces and streams, including GigE, ASI, QAM, QPSK, 8VSB and COFDM. The Digital and IP Video Service Monitoring System leverages the MPEG test capabilities found in JDSU's DTS-330 and DTS-200 digital video protocol analyzers. The system is comprised...

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Broadcom Debuts16-port 2.5 Gbps Single-Chip Switch for Blade Servers

Broadcom introduced a 16-port 2.5 Gigabit single-chip switch that uses existing Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network infrastructure to deliver simultaneous 1 GbE and 2.5 Gigabit connectivity in blade servers. The new BroadcomStrataXGS III 2.5 Gigabit switch is optimized for blade servers. It works in conjunction with Broadcom's NetXtreme II converged network interface controller (C-NIC), and includes 4 ports of 10GbE. The device features auto-negotiation of both 1GbE and 2.5 Gigabit, which allows each port to simultaneously support either 1GbE or 2.5...

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Verizon Expands FiOS TV to Plano, Texas

Verizon began offering its FiOS TV service in Plano, Texas, its largest local market in the state. The launch of FiOS TV in Plano follows the passage just six months ago of a state-issued video franchise that expedited by about one year the time frame in which Verizon can launch the service.http://www.verizon....

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Motorola to Acquire Orthogon System for OFDM

Motorola agreed to acquire Orthogon Systems, a start-up developing a high-performance fixed wireless, for an undisclosed sum. Orthogon Systems, which is based in Ashburton, UK, offers intelligent OFDM-based, wireless IP, point-to-point transmission solutions. Orthogon has developed software-defined Ethernet bridges.Orthogon Systems uses intelligent orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) along with a special multi-beam space time coding technique to provide far greater radio coverage than has previously been possible with non-line-of-sight...

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COMTek Plans Earthday Videocast Reaching 16,000 Schools

Earth Day Network (EDN) is planning to host a live, two-way audio/video conference reaching more than 16,000 high school and college science classrooms across the United States from 1-3 p.m. ET/10 a.m.-1 p.m. PT on April 21, 2006. Students will see a scientific expert panel followed by a panel of religious leaders and be able to chat with the panelists on a real-time basis throughout both presentations. The broadcast is being coordinated by Chantilly-based Communication Technologies, Inc. (COMTek), which operates a private, hybrid, global IP network...

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Motorola Q1 Sales up 23% to $10.01 billion

Motorola reported record first-quarter sales of $10.01 billion, up 23% compared to first-quarter 2005 sales of $8.16 billion. Earnings were $.27 per share, including $.02 per share for stock compensation expense. Some additional highlights:Record handset shipments of 46.1 million units, up 61% compared to the first quarter of 2005 -- and up 3% compared to 44.7 million handsets shipped during Q4 2005.Global handset market share estimated at 21%, up 4.8 percentage points versus the year-ago quarter.Record digital set-top box shipments of more than...

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Amdocs to Acquire Qpass for $275 Million

Amdocs agreed to acquire Qpass, a leading provider of digital commerce software and solutions, for approximately $275 million in cash. Qpass can act as a channel between the content provider and the service provider, helping to determine how to offer, manage, charge, and fulfill for the service. It plays a key role in enabling the value chain and monetizing digital content. Qpass currently has relationships with over 300 content providers and also works with some of the largest carrier groups globally, including Cingular, Sprint, and T-Mobile....

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