Intel Announces PCI Card VoIP Adapter

Intel introduced a PCI card Phone Adapter positioned as a complete Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) solution, including hardware, software and services.The Intel 600SM PCI Phone Adapter allows PC OEMs and system integrators to deliver a VoIP solution for small businesses and residential subscribers. Intel said the ATA is compatible with VoIP services from engin (Australia), Packet8, Skype, and yak.http://www.intel....

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Motorola Shows Wireless Voice-Over-IP Gateway for ADSL2/2+

Motorola introduced a new wireless gateway that combines voice, data, and network functionality for ADSL2/2+ users. The Motorola Home Hub (HH) 1620 DSL VoIP Wireless Gateway includes an 802.11b/g wireless access point, a four-port router, a USB 2.0 Host Connection, a USB 1.1 slave connection, as well as a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based VoIP adapter. Additional features include:an 802.11 b/g wireless access point and a four-port wired router...

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Nortel Announces Second Generation Softswitch for Small Carriers

Nortel introduced its second generation VoIP softswitch for small and medium-sized wireline service providers.The Nortel Communication Server 1500 (CS 1500) is positioned as an evolution path for DMS-10 and DMS-100 customers.The CS 1500 core control, gateways and operations, administration and maintenance interfaces are all housed in a single chassis. Service providers can deploy the switch for end-office (Class 5) and Access Tandem (Class 4) applications to replace an existing switch or as an addition to the network. The platform provides range...

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Nortel Unveils Provider Backbone Transport Ethernet

Nortel unveiled its Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) technology, focused on making Ethernet more capable for service provider deployments where deterministic service delivery with guaranteed quality of service and carrier-grade reliability is required.Nortel describes PBT as a reliable, simple, scalable and cost-effective technology enabling Ethernet-based metro networks to work seamlessly with service providers' existing MPLS core networks.The...

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Kasenna's ViewNow VOD Programming Provider Cites Gains

Kasenna's ViewNow subsidiary announced that its selection of major studio content has been selected by seven more VOD providers. ViewNow now serves more than 25 affiliates in North America, and expects this total to nearly double by the end of 2006. New ViewNow affiliates include Arkwest (Arkansas), Comspan Bandon (Oregon), City of Burlington (Vermont), KPU Telecommunications (Alaska), Pineland Telephone (Georgia), Valley Telecom (Arizona), and Wood County Telephone (Wisconsin). ViewNow aggregates and licenses an extensive lineup of on-demand programming...

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Agere Positions "TrueONE" for Converged Services

Agere Systems introduced its "TrueONE" architected to enable service providers to offer more levels of differentiated, high-margin, billable services at various pricing tiers by leveraging common silicon capabilities in devices throughout their networks.Agere said its TrueONE capabilities would enable service providers to improve and manage network operations and service delivery by meeting stringent latency (delay) requirements of VoIP and video...

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Competitors Lobby FCC to Deny AT&T-BellSouth Merger

A group of competitive telecommunications companies have filed comments urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny the merger of AT&T and BellSouth, citing the irreparable harms to competition and the public interest. The companies that filed the comments are Cbeyond Communications, Grande Communications, NuVox Communications, Supra Telecom, Talk America, XO Communications and Xspedius Communications.The group outlined three overall areas where they believe the merger would cause harm:Eliminating Existing and Future Competition...

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Nortel Reports Q1 Revenue of $2.38 Billion

Nortel Networks reported revenue of $2.38 billion for the first quarter of 2006 compared to $2.39 billion for the first quarter of 2005 and $3.0 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005. Nortel reported a net loss in the first quarter of 2006 of $167 million, or ($0.04) per common share on a diluted basis, compared to a net loss of $104 million, or ($0.02) per common share on a diluted basis, in the first quarter of 2005 and a net loss of $2,302 million, or ($0.53) per common share on a diluted basis, in the fourth quarter of 2005.Mobility and Converged...

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Global Crossing Deploys Juniper's T-Series

Global Crossing is using Juniper Networks' T-series core routing platforms as part of its next generation worldwide network backbone. Global Crossing has expanded its core network by more than quadrupling the capacity of its existing backbone infrastructure to meet growing traffic demands.Global Crossing noted that in the first quarter of 2006, it recorded a 280 percent year-over-year growth in IP VPN traffic, driven by an increasing number of customers using a converged IP solution for multiple applications, including VoIP, IP video and data....

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Sonus and Atreus Launch Self-Service Consumer VoIP Portal Solution

Sonus Networks and Atreus Systems will jointly deliver a Self-care Access Portal as part of the Sonus Certified Voice over Broadband (VoBB) solution. The Self-care Access Portal empowers service providers to automate the configuration and management of VoIP features, giving end users more flexibility, simplicity, and increased service personalization. This includes:an intuitive web-based self-care portal for Consumer VoIP;simplified user-driven voice feature configuration;detailed logs of incoming, outgoing and missed calls;simplified voicemail...

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Motorola Debuts 2.4GHz/4.9GHz Dual-Band Wi-Fi Card

Motorola launched a 2.4GHz and 4.9GHz dual-band Wi-Fi card for municipal-wide and ad hoc wireless connectivity. The standards-based WDE (Wireless Device Enabler) card, which is designed for first responders, provides Wi-Fi connectivity on both the unlicensed 802.11b/g 2.4GHz frequency and the licensed 4.9GHz public safety frequency. http://www.motorola....

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Kasenna Signs Ericsson as Global OEM Partner

Ericsson will license Kasenna's PortalTV suite (including Kasenna LivingRoom and MediaBase XMP) for integration with Ericsson's broadband access products. The combined solution will provide an integrated network and IPTV infrastructure carriers need to deliver advanced TV services such as video-on- demand, network PVR, StartOver TV, and customizable electronic programming guides (EPGs).http://www.kasenna....

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Global Crossing's VoIP Integrity Service Offers Real- time Visibility and Reporting

Global Crossing launched an enterprise VoIP Integrity Service, a real-time visibility and reporting service, as the latest addition to its portfolio of Application Performance Management (APM) services.Global Crossing VoIP Integrity Service, which is built with the Visual UpTime Select VoIP module from Fluke Networks, provides key performance reporting and indicators, including per-call Mean Opinion Score (MOS) metrics, in addition to the standard features of Global Crossing Network Integrity and Global Crossing Application Integrity Services."Converged...

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Caspian and ETRI Partner on IPv4-to-IPv6

Caspian announced the second phase of its joint technology development partnership with Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) to deliver new IPv6 services. Caspian and ETRI announced Phase I of their joint technology agreement in February 2005 to develop multimedia quality of service (QoS) solutions for South Korea's Broadband convergence Network (BcN) initiative.Phase II of the joint development agreement between Caspian and ETRI will focus on new IPv6 services that are part of a comprehensive IPv4-to-IPv6 migration...

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Siemens Selects Motorola as Preferred ATCA Supplier

Siemens has selected Motorola's Embedded Communications Computing business as a preferred supplier of AdvancedTCA based communications servers for Siemens' next generation telecom architecture. "Siemens is committed to apply an open standards-based common platform with AdvancedTCA as a main technology in both its mobile networks and fixed networks portfolio," said Dr. Dieter Carl, Vice President platform strategy of Siemens Communications.http://www.motorola.com/comput...

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Metro Ethernet Forum Announces QoS Certifications

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) announced the first group of systems and services to comply with MEF 14 - Abstract Test Suite for Traffic Management. This MEF Certification ensures conformance to the MEF Quality of Service attributes - a requirement of SLAs (Service Level Agreements) supporting simultaneous real-time and data intensive business applications.MEF 14, which is seen as a major step towards making Ethernet carrier-class, provides clear specifications-based guidelines for the formulation of SLAs. MEF 14 complements MEF 9 and covers two...

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NEC to License and Resell Riverbed's WAN Optimizers

NEC will license and resell the Riverbed Technology's wide-area data services (WDS), the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), under an OEM agreement. NEC will combine RiOS with its server product line and sell the offering under its new "WanBooster" product family name.WanBooster based on RiOS is a network appliance deployed in remote offices and in corporate data centers. The company said its RiOS accelerates enterprise applications typically by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times between enterprise datacenters and remote offi...

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Entropic Releases Latest Coaxial Processor

Entropic Communications introduced a new version of its c.LINK Coaxial Network Processor for home networking of digital entertainment. The new processor, called the EN2210, features increased performance, ease of use, lower power consumption and reduced implementation cost. Entropic's solution uses existing coax cabling, found in more than 90 percent of all households in the U.S., for distribution of multiple high definition and standard definition video, digital voice and broadband data.Entropic said its latest chipset can sustain performance...

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Emerson Shows MicroTCA and AdvancedTCA Based Media Processing

Emerson Network Power's new Embedded Computing business, formerly Artesyn Communication Products, is demonstrating IMS and signaling using its new AdvancedTCA blades, AdvancedMC modules, and MicroTCA systems. Specifically, Emerson will demonstrate video streaming and videoconferencing applications on its new KAT4000 AdvancedTCA blade and MicroTCA development system. Emerson will also demonstrate new platform and protocol management software. "AdvancedTCA, AdvancedMC, and MicroTCA are quickly becoming the open architecture platforms of choice among...

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PT Debuts 10 Gbps AdvancedTCA Platform

Performance Technologies (PT) introduced an AdvancedTCA (ATCA) application-ready platform with "AdvancedMC" (AMC) functionality and 10Gb Ethernet fabric. The new offering includes a next-generation ATCA 10Gb Ethernet switch, two AMC compute modules and a new ATCA 10Gb AMC carrier blade.Performance Technologies' complete line of ATCA application-ready platforms include 1Gb/10Gb Ethernet or 10/100/1000 Ethernet switches, shelf management, high-performance compute elements, and accommodate Linux or Solaris operating system software and HA middleware....

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