Juniper Report Q1 Revenue of $567 Million, up 26%

Juniper Networks reported Q1 revenues of $566.7 million, compared with $449.1 million for the first quarter of 2005, an increase of 26 percent. Net income on a GAAP basis for the first quarter of 2006 was $75.8 million or $0.13 per share, compared with a GAAP net income of $75.4 million or $0.13 per share for the first quarter of 2005."The first quarter reflected the continuing acceptance of Juniper's product portfolio with both our enterprise and service provider customers," commented Scott Kriens, chairman and CEO, Juniper Networks. "We will...

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KT Deploys Meriton Agile Interconnect Between Optical Rings

Meriton Networks announced a major win to supply its Agile Optical Networking solution for KT's next generation I-WDM (Intelligent WDM) network. Financial terms were not disclosed. The announcement follows other high-profile deployments in BT's 21CN initiative and a California network linking Equinix's Internet Exchanges, among others.Deployed in the I-WDM network are the Meriton 7200 OSP (Optical Switching Platform) and the 8600 NMS (Network Management...

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EarthLink Selects Level 3 for Consumer VoIP

EarthLink selected Level 3 to serve as the underlying provider for its VoIP initiative. Specifically, Level 3 VoIP Enhanced Local service will provide nationwide local voice service to EarthLink as part of a bundled voice and broadband Internet package that includes features such as caller ID, voicemail and 3-way calling bundled with multiple speeds of DSL Internet access. This supports EarthLink's local, long distance and international voice traffic, providing voice origination, voice termination, directory listings, and caller ID. The service...

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DSL Forum TR-101 Enables Migration to Ethernet-based Networks

The DSL Forum published a new Technical Report 101 (TR-101) that enables service providers to evolve their DSL access networks to better support faster rate technologies such as ADSL2plus and VDSL2. In parallel, it specifies the architecture to coordinate service rate management and multicast capability in an Ethernet network without affecting existing services that are currently offered. The DSL Forum said that by leveraging TR-101, service providers can develop a multi-service end-to-end architecture to support offerings of new secure value-added...

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Cingular Adds 1.7 Million Net Subscribers, Strong Results

Cingular Wireless added 1.7 million net subscribers in Q1, giving it a total base of 55.8 million cellular/PCS subscribers at quarter's end. This compares to 1.4 million net additions a year ago. Overall monthly subscriber churn of 1.9 percent, its lowest ever. This represents an improvement of 30 basis points over the year-ago first quarter and a sequential improvement of 20 basis points. Postpaid churn improved by 30 basis points both year-over-year and sequentially to 1.6 percent, another record low.Gross additions were 4.7 million, which...

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Motorola "MeshConnex" Supports 802.11s Standard

Motorola confirmed that its "MeshConnex" technology will add support the final IEEE 802.11s meshing standard via an over-the-air software download. The 802.11s standard was created to define common features and ensure interoperability between mesh equipment vendors. MeshConnex is Motorola's high performance, mesh networking technology implementation and powers a wide variety of the company's products, including its Mesh Enabled Architecture and MOTOMESH multi-radio broadband systems. MOTOMESH networks support both unlicensed WiFi and licensed...

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Japan's ACCA Selects Alcatel for WiMAX Trial in Tokyo

ACCA Networks selected Alcatel's "Evolium" WiMAX radio solution for a WiMAX trial in the Tokyo area. y. It will be Alcatel's first WiMAX reference in Japan based on the 802.16e-2005 WiMAX standard.The WiMAX trial network will be deployed in June 2006. ACCA will, in particular, validate the integration of WiMAX services in its existing DSL portfolio, with a first set of applications including video streaming, high- speed Internet access and VoIP.ACCA Networks currently operates an ADSL and optical fiber broadband access service for more than 1.3...

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UPC Reports Fast Growth in VoIP in Europe

UPC Broadband, the European broadband division of Liberty Global, Inc., has reached the milestone of deploying voice service to over one million telephony subscribers within its European footprint. UPC's telephony deployment count has doubled over the last 15 months and has been driven by the accelerated growth of UPC's VoIP-based Digital Telephony service.UPC Broadband is using Nortel's PacketCable and EUR-PacketCable-qualified Communication Server 2000-Compact softswitch and AudioCodes' Mediant 5000 Cable Access Gateway. The network also includes...

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Qualcomm Posts Revenues $1.83 Billion, up 34%

QUALCOMM reported quarterly revenue of $1.83 billion, up 34 percent year-over-year and 5 percent sequentially. Net income was $593 million, up 11 percent year-over-year and down 4 percent sequentially. Diluted earnings per share were $0.34, up 10 percent year-over-year and down 6 percent sequentially."QUALCOMM's record revenue this quarter was driven by greater overall CDMA handset shipments and record demand for our chipsets," said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, CEO of QUALCOMM. "I am pleased that demand for our chipsets was spread across our broadly segmented...

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Lucent to Market Telefónica's IPTV middleware

Lucent Technologies will assume responsibility for the future development and deployment of Telefónica's "Imagenio" IPTV middleware platform, including the ongoing introduction of new features and capabilities.Under an agreement reached with Telefonica, Lucent will also market the platform to the broader, global service provider community. In support of this effort, Lucent will establish IPTV research and development centers -- linked to Bell Labs -- in the Spanish cities of Madrid and Huesca (Aragon), as well as in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo...

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