U.S. Bancorp First to Deploy Lucent RPR Metro Optical Card

U.S. Bancorp will deploy Lucent Technologies' Metropolis DMX portfolio of metro optical networking products and VitalSuite Integrated Network Controller software, to create a high-capacity, fully redundant carrier grade backbone network in five cities. The project market the first deployment of Lucent's standards-based Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) card, which enables service providers to double the amount of bandwidth on their network by using both sides of rings for transporting traffic. The RPR card also supports fast restoration of packet traffic...

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Tokyo Electron to Launch Silicon Valley Venture Program

Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL), a supplier of semiconductor and FPD production equipment, had formed a new subsidiary to make strategic seed and early stage investments focusing on promising technological innovations. TEL Venture Capital plans to invest up to $10 million annually and will tap into Silicon Valley venture resources.http://www.tel....

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NETGEAR Launches SSL VPN Concentrator

NETGEAR introduced an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) VPN solution for small- and mid-sized businesses under 100 users. The ProSafe SSL312 provides remote access to mobile users, enabling them to connect securely to the corporate network using any computer, from locations such as an authorized partner location, a home, or even a kiosk, using a standard Web browser. The SSL312, which ensures data privacy with SSLv3 and TLSv1.0 with AES-256, supports 25 concurrent SSL VPN sessions, enabling remote users to securely access resources using standard web...

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Telstra's "BigPond" ADSL Breaks Million Subscriber Milestone

Telstra's "BigPond" ADSL service activated its 1,000,000th customers -- roughly doubling its subscriber base in the past year. The first 500,000 ADSL services took almost six years to achieve.http://www.telstra....

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Airport Authority Hong Kong Builds Huge WLAN with Cisco

The Airport Authority Hong Kong has deployed Cisco Systems' Unified Wireless Network equipment to create one of the world's largest airport WLANs in terms of coverage and number of access points. Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), the world's busiest international cargo and fifth busiest international passenger airport, now provides WLAN coverage in all indoor areas including the passenger terminal and the baggage sortation hall, as well as all aircraft parking bays on the apron. The infrastructure now comprises over 200 Cisco 1000 Series...

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Tekelec Sells its IEX Group to NICE Systems for $200 Million

Tekelec agreed to sell its wholly owned subsidiary, IEX Corporation, a global provider of workforce management and optimization technology for contact centers, to NICE Systems for $200 million in cash.Commenting on the sale, Frank Plastina, President and CEO of Tekelec said, "We are very pleased with this transaction because it converts a non-telecom business unit into cash at an attractive valuation and under favorable terms. IEX has been an important contributor to our financial performance for the last several years, but it was not a component...

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Quake Surpasses 300,000th 10 Gigabit PHY Shipment

Quake Technologies has shipped more than 300,000 10 Gigabit Ethernet Physical Layer ICs (PHYs) to date. The company first entered the 10GE PHY market in 2001 with a serial-to-XAUI device. Quake supports all PMDs covered by the IEEE 802.3ae and IEEE 802.3ak standards. Its products are used both within pluggable modules as well as directly on system cards. http://www.quaketech....

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Deutsche Telekom Selects Cisco IP NGN for IPTV Service

Deutsche Telekom's T-Com and T-Online divisions selected Cisco Systems' IP NGN architecture and its IP set-top boxes for the "T-Home" broadband service. Specifically, T-Com's video delivery network is based on the Cisco IP NGN architecture and incorporates Cisco 12000 Series routers at the provider edge, Cisco 10008 Series routers as Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS) platforms and Cisco Catalyst 6509 Series switches."T-Home" is delivered through a Cisco STB from the KiSS series called the T-Home X 300T Media Receiver which supports Microsoft...

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Ikanos Makes Management Appointments

Ikanos Communications named Dean Westman as General Manager and Rakinder Grover as Vice President of Business Development. Prior to joining Ikanos, Mr. Westman served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Mathstar, where he was responsible for creating and executing a global product strategy. Previously, Mr. Westman served as Vice President of Marketing at C-Cube Microsystems, where he managed the product roadmap of the Broadband Networks Division. Prior to joining Ikanos as Vice President of Business Development, Mr. Grover had been a business...

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U.S. General Services Administration Buys VoIP

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Technology Service has made VoIP available to federal agencies under the MCI Contract. Federal customers subscribing to the MCI's VoIP service can now place voice calls over their data network using a new or existing MCI provided data circuit.GSA is the centralized, federal procurement, property management, policy development and information provision agency.http://www.gsa....

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Nortel Files 2005 Financial Statements

Nortel Networks reported Q4 2005 revenues of US$3.0 billion and a net loss of US$2.3 billion, including a US$2.5 billion expense to settle shareholder class action litigation.2005 revenues were US$10.5 billion and there was a net loss for the year of US$2.6 billion.The company's financial restatements have also been completed. Revisions to the Company's previously reported 2003 and 2004 financial results reflect negative impacts on revenue of US$261 million and US$312 million and on net earnings/loss of US$141 million and US$156 million, respectively,...

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France Telecom Reaches 8.1 million ADSL customers in Europe

As of 31-March-2006, France Telecom was serving 8.1 million ADSL customers in Europe, representing an increase of 10% since 31-Dec-2005. This includes 4.9 million ADSL customers in France, representing a consumer ADSL market share of 49.8% in France.The number of ADSL TV subscribers reached 229,000 at quarter's end, up from 102,000 a year earlier.France Telecom also reached 1.2 million VoIP customers in France, up by 377,000 for the quarter.The number of LiveBox gateways marketed in Europe surged to 2.4 million (2.1 million in France), up from...

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