OpVista Raises $28 Million for ROADMs

OpVista, a start-up based in Milpitas, California, secured $28 million in funding for intelligent optical networking equipment featuring cost-effective reconfigurability, capacity and 10G upgrades capabilities.The company said the new funding, anticipated to be the company's final round, will be used to expand its product development activities, accelerate international expansion, and broaden marketing and sales support for OpVista2000, which is deployed with Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and other networks throughout North America.The...

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Telco Systems to Acquire Metrobility Optical Systems

Telco Systems agreed to acquire Metrobility Optical Systems, an early developer of optical Ethernet demarcation solutions for the deployment of carrier Ethernet services. The acquisition will integrate Metrobility's intelligent Ethernet service demarcation devices with Telco Systems' metro Ethernet access solutions to offer service providers a wider range of carrier Ethernet demarcation options, as well as augment Telco Systems' cable provider customer base. Financial terms were not disclosed.Metrobility is a privately held company based in Merrimack,...

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Executives Named for Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia and Siemens named the top executives for their recently announced 50-50 joint venture that combines the Networks Business Group of Nokia and the carrier-related operations of Siemens. The team consists of: Mika Vehviläinen, who will serve as Chief Operating Officer. Vehviläinen is currently Senior Vice President & General Manager, Core Networks, Nokia. As Chief Operating Officer, Vehviläinen will have overall responsibility for the following business units: Radio Access, Operation Support Systems, Service Core and Applications, IP...

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Nokia Scaps CDMA Plans

Nokia and SANYO have scrapped plans for their jointly owned CDMA mobile device company. The companies decided that it is more beneficial to pursue other options individually for their CDMA handset business.Nokia said that it intends to selectively participate in key CDMA markets, with special focus on North America. Nokia plans to ramp down its own CDMA R&D and manufacturing by April 2007. Nokia is evaluating opportunities to leverage its existing CDMA product development infrastructure and assets in profitable parts of the business.The company...

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Enterasys Appoints CTO

Enterasys Networks promoted Leon Woo to executive vice president and chief technology officer (CTO). Woo had been executive vice president of engineering since 2003. He joined Enterasys in 2003 when it acquired Tenor Networks, a developer of IP/MPLS-based solutions. Before starting Tenor, Woo was a member of the operating committee and the vice president of research and development at 3Com's Switching Division. He also was a co-founder of Synernetics, a pioneer in the Ethernet switching marketplace. Enterasys also announced the appointment of Chris...

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BellSouth Chooses Tektronix for Real-Time VoIP Service Monitoring

BellSouth will deploy Tektronix's GeoProbe VoIP monitoring solution throughout its IP network to provide end-to-end performance monitoring. Financial terms were not disclosed.Tektronix' GeoProbe monitoring solution collects all signaling information related to VoIP traffic and provides the ability to trace a call across multiple protocols and networks. The proactive nature of the solution facilitates early detection of network problems and enables BellSouth to quickly isolate and correct problems for greater levels of service quality.http://ww...

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Verimatrix Raises $8 Million for Watermarking Digital Content Protection

Verimatrix, a start-up based in San Diego, raised $8 million for its digital content protection system. Verimatrix develops Pay TV content protection and access control systems, which include a user-specific forensic watermarking technology called "VideoMark". The Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS) is a software-based content security solution that enables digital video content on devices and systems within media delivery networks to be encrypted and authenticated in order to identify security breaches and unauthorized network users. ...

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Alvarion Test Mobile WiMAX Interoperability

Alvarion has completed initial interoperability tests between its 4Motion BreezeMAX base stations and various end user devices from third party manufacturers that are expected to be generally available in the near future. Focused around the IEEE 802.16e-2005 specification for mobile WiMAX, the tests were performed by Alvarion at multiple locations using its BreezeMAX base stations and other vendors' end user devices, many of which use the mobile WiMAX chipset from Beceem Communications.http://www.alvarion....

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Pulver Announces "Video on the Net" Event for September

Jeff Pulver announced a new event: Video on the Net, which will be taking place September 12-14 in Boston at the Boston Convention Center.Industry perspectives planned for the event include:Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman, AOL LLC, President, AOL AudienceBram Cohen, CEO and Co-founder, BitTorrentJeremy Allaire, Chairman and CEO, BrightcoveJeff Jarvis, Consultant and Blogger, Buzz MachineWarren Schlictling, Vice President, New Business Strategies, ComcastJeff...

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Asia Netcom Activates Lucent LambdaUnite Switch on Pan-Asian Cable System

Asia Netcom completed the deployment of Lucent's LambdaUnite Multi-Service Switch (MSS) in its pan-Asian submarine cable network, EAC. The upgrade project, carried out over a period of six months, will enhances Asia Netcom's ability to deliver next-generation bandwidth services with a variety of advanced transport and connectivity solutions in the Asia Pacific region. With the LambdaUnite MSS platform and its support for ASON (Automatically Switched Optical Networks)/GMPLS (Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching) technology, Asia Netcom will...

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Nortel Appoints Ex-Broadcom Exec as CTO

Nortel has appointed John J. Roese as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He will report directly to the President and CEO and will be based in Nortel's R&D headquarters in Ottawa.Roese joins Nortel from Broadcom, where he was vice president and CTO for networking technologies with a focus on unified communications. Previously, as executive vice president and CTO at Enterasys Networks, he was the principal architect of Enterasys' User Personalized...

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Verizon Markets DSL at Wal-Mart

Verizon will begin marketing its DSL service at 549 Wal-Mart stores across 24 states. Specially trained Wal-Mart Connection Center associates will help shoppers use an automated ordering system that checks eligibility for Verizon DSL service and then lets them quickly place their order. A three-step, do-it-yourself installation kit will be shipped directly to the customer once the order is completed. Nearly 50 of the Wal-Mart stores will have Spanish-language sales materials.http://www.verizon....

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Next High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) Spec Doubles Bandwidth

The seven HDMI Founder companies (Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic), Royal Philips Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson, and Toshiba) released a major enhancement of the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) specification for consumer electronics.Specifically, the HDMI 1.3 specification more than doubles HDMI's bandwidth and adds support for Deep Color technology, a broader color space, new digital audio formats, automatic audio/video synching capability ("lip sync"), and an optional smaller connector for use with...

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Novell Replaces CEO and CFO

Novell's Board of Directors decided to terminate its CE,O Jack L. Messman, and its CFO, Joseph S. Tibbetts, effective immediately. Mr. Messman will remain on Novell's Board of Directors until Oct. 31, 2006. The company's Board elected its current President, Ronald W. Hovsepian, to the additional position of CEO, effective immediately. Hovsepian, who also has been elected to the Board of Directors, has been president and chief operating officer since October 2005. Dana C. Russell, 44, Novell's current vice president of finance and corporate controller,...

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