Teledata and Italtel Supply Gateways for Telefonica Moviles Guatemala

Teledata Networks is supplying its BroadAccess Multiservice Access Gateways supporting broadband and traditional services to Telefonica Moviles Guatemala, as part of an agreement with Italtel. The agreement covers the modernization of the access network, migration to an IP backbone and the supply of high speed Internet services to business and residential subscribers in the City of Guatemala.



Teledata Networks' participation in the project is a result of its strategic cooperation with Italtel for development of Next Generation Network solutions. Teledata Networks' equipment supplied to Guatemala includes BroadAccess Multiservice Access Gateways supporting V5.2 and IP networks, and a mix of traditional and broadband services, from POTS to SHDSL and ADSL2+.

http://www.teledata-networks.comhttp://www.italtel.com

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Orange Business Enters WiFi partnership with T-Mobile Hotspot

Orange Business Services announced a partnership with T-Mobile HotSpot providing its customers with access to more than 7,000 public Wi-Fi locations throughout the U.S.



Orange Business Services represents the business communications solutions and services provided by the France Telecom Group as of June 1st, 2006. They were previously sold under the France Telecom, Orange, Equant, Etrali, Almerys, EGT, Expertel Consulting, France Telecom Intelmatique, SETIB and Solicia brands.

http://www.orange.com

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Global Crossing Selects Ubiquity's SIP Software

Global Crossing has chosen Ubiquity Software as a preferred supplier for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Application Server technology in its global IP network.



Under a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement, Global Crossing will use Ubiquity's SIP Application Server (SIP A/S) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) service creation environment to develop, deploy and manage a new generation of IP-based services, and to migrate existing legacy applications to Global Crossing's global IP platform. Global Crossing currently plans to deploy several applications including VoIP Interactive Voice Response and VoIP Network Transfer.



In connection with the agreement, INUK Networks, a partner of Ubiquity, entered into a separate agreement to purchase VoIP services from Global Crossing (UK) Telecommunications Limited (GCUK). The services will be part of a triple-play offering to be launched by INUK Networks later this year, providing university students broadband Internet access, IPTV and VoIP.

http://www.ubiquitysoftware.com

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NEC to Participate in GMI 2006

NEC will participate in the upcoming Global MSF (MultiService Forum) Interoperability (GMI) 2006.



GMI 2006, which is scheduled for Oct 16 to 27, will bring together dozens of carriers and vendors to test the interoperability of IMS (IP Multimedia System)-based infrastructure components in a real world setting. The event aims to test multi-vendor interoperability necessary for next generation network (NGN) infrastructure.



Currently, 26 MSF member companies, representing the world's top telecom carriers and vendors, intend to participate in GMI 2006. GMI 2006 will consist of interoperability implementation at sites in Japan, US, England and Korea for IMS service and QoS.



NEC will provide its CS-MGW (Circuit Switch Media Gateway) and IMS platform products in the Japan and UK sites to verify interoperability between multi-vendor equipment. http://www.nec.co.jp

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Bell Canada Launches "Optimax" FTTx in Montreal

Bell Canada began offering a "Sympatico Optimax" service in certain areas of Montreal. Bell's network upgrade pushes the fiber deployment closer than before to the customer premises. The service offers an Internet connection that will consistently deliver fast maximum speeds of 10 or 16 Mbps.



Sympatico Optimax is priced at $65 per month for 10 Mbps or $80 per month for 16 Mbps and includes up to 75 GB of bandwidth usage. Availability and pricing of the service in Toronto
will be announced at a later date.

http://www.bell.ca/optimax

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UMC Develops RF Chip for WiMax with National Taiwan University

UMC has partnered with National Taiwan University (NTU) to develop a high performance, fully integrated RF receiver design for WiMax. The low noise amplifier in the 0.18um RF receiver has demonstrated the low noise figure of 1.78dB in a 5 GHz range. The receiver radio frequency front end with ultra low operating voltage (1 volt) also achieved a low noise level of 5-6 dB. In addition, by adopting a new type of system architecture, the design effectively suppresses the DC offset resulting from direct conversion receivers well below noise levels. This design will be packaged as an IP for commercial applications.

http://www.umc.com

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Clearwire Secures $900 Million for WiMAX, Including $600 Million from Intel

Clearwire, the broadband wireless services provider founded by Craig McCaw, secured $900 million in funding to accelerate its development and deployment of portable and mobile WiMAX networks based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard.



The deal includes a $600 million investment from Intel Capital, its largest to date, and Motorola's acquisition of Clearwire's subsidiary NextNet Wireless, which supplies OFDM-based non-line-of-sight (NLOS) wireless broadband infrastructure equipment. Financial terms of this acquisition were not disclosed.



Some highlights:

• Motorola Ventures is participating in Clearwire's financing round.



• Motorola will supply wireless broadband equipment for Clearwire's existing and future networks globally.



• To hasten the proliferation of mobile WiMAX in PC clients, Intel will work to enable the inclusion of WiMAX chipsets in next generation mobile computing platforms.



• All three parties will contribute significant research and development resources to evolve NextNet Wireless' pre-WiMAX technologies.

"Collaborating with Intel and Motorola significantly advances our vision for fixed, portable and mobile wireless broadband services," said Craig McCaw, founder, chairman, and co-CEO of Clearwire. "Wireless broadband networks will enable the creation and delivery of differentiated services and applications that enhance the way people communicate and experience the Internet."http://www.clearwire.comhttp://www.motorola.com

• In April 2006, Clearwire began offering a residential VoIP service over its network. The service was jointly developed with Bell Canada. Features include a local phone number within Clearwire's market, unlimited local and long-distance calling within the U.S. and Canada, competitive international calling rates, call forwarding, enhanced call forwarding, caller ID, voice mail, voice mail to e-mail, three-way calling, caller blocking and international call blocking. The first market launch is in Stockton, California.







• Clearwire is currently providing wireless Internet service in 27 metro markets, covering more than 200 cities and towns in Alaska, California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin in the United States, as well as Ireland, Belgium, Denmark (under the Clearwire name with Danske Telecom) and Mexico (via MVSNet).

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Shanghai Telecom Deploys Caspian Media Controllers

Shanghai Telecom, a provincial subsidiary of China Telecom Corporation, has chosen Caspian A120 Media Controllers for deployment in its backbone network. The Caspian deployment is helping the carrier improve the performance of its network peering points and increase effective bandwidth available per user.



Caspian Media Controllers optimize delivery of IP multimedia services by incorporating Flow-State QoS policy management capabilities at strategic locations in the carrier's 10-Gbps network backbone. With Caspian solutions, Shanghai Telecom can apply and enforce IP traffic management policies that support QoS across its network.

http://www.caspian.com

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Siemens Supplies WiMAX for Colombia's Orbitel

Siemens Communications has installed a commercial WiMAX network in Cali, Colombia on behalf of Orbitel, a Colombian long-distance operator. The network will offer Internet access at up to 2 Mbps.
Siemens' WayMAX@vantage solution comprises base stations, modems and a monitoring and control system. Over the coming months, Orbitel will start to roll out the Siemens WiMAX technology in a further 14 major Colombian cities.



The WayMAX@vantage solution from Siemens is one of the first products to pass the interoperability tests of the WiMAX Forum's international standardization laboratory. It is certified for the WiMAX FDD 3.5 GHz system and thus ready for the future IEEE 802.16e-2005 OFDM profile and the ETSI HiperMAN standard. The IEEE 802.16 standard used today allows data transmissions at rates of up to 10.5 Mbps with a bandwidth of 3.5 MHz.

http://www.siemens.com

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Telekom Malaysia Deploys Juniper M-Series Routers

PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk (XL), a subsidiary company of Telekom Malaysia and one of Indonesia's leading communications providers, has deployed Juniper Networks' M-series routers to improve the performance of its MPLS-based VPN services and for the delivery of advanced services such as 3G. XL provides cellular mobile voice and data services, as well as fixed-line offerings including VoIP and wholesale Internet connectivity to local Internet Service Providers. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.juniper.net

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China Telecom Expands CN2 Network with Cisco Routers

China Telecom is expanding its CN2 business network with the deployment of hundreds of Cisco 12416 routers. Nearly 400 Cisco 12416 Routers, including some already deployed in certain key provinces, will be installed during the CN2 provider edge expansion, marking another significant breakthrough since the adoption of the Cisco IP NGN. The deployment includes products for CN2's backbone network in 2005 as well as CN2's international networking projects in Central America, Europe and Asia in March 2006. Financial terms were not disclosed.



The China Telecom CN2 networking project was first launched in 2004. CN2 currently covers nearly 200 cities in mainland China with points of presence in London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Singapore, Los Angeles, New York, Washington and San Jose, California.



Separately, China Telecom selected the Cisco IP NGN architecture as the foundation of its 2006 ChinaNet network expansion and has named Cisco as the primary equipment provider for the project. Deployment will include the high-end Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System and significant upgrades to its existing Cisco 12000 Series Routers, which will expand the ChinaNet core network's capabilities, reliability and scalability.

As a global leader and China's largest IP service network, ChinaNet is a public communication platform supporting China Telecom's Internet value-added service development. ChinaNet has 25 million broadband subscribers, delivering Internet access and value-added services such as Internet Data Center (IDC) and virtual network services. Market forecasters predict that China Telecom will have 38 million broadband subscribers by 2007.



During the 2005 expansion, China Telecom deployed eight units of the Cisco CRS-1 to integrate and upgrade ChinaNet's supercore network nodes in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Xi'an, Chengdu, Wuhan and Nanjing.



The 2006 expansion will take advantage of the existing eight CRS-1 platforms and will enable ChinaNet to migrate to an all-IP backbone network with CRS-1 at the network core.



Cisco noted that China Telecom's CRS-1 deployment is one of the largest in the world, and the company is one of the first five service providers in the world to install the multichassis configuration of the CRS-1. To date, more than 50 Cisco customers around the globe have deployed the Cisco CRS-1.

http://www.cisco.com

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Extreme Networks' CFO to Step Down

William R. Slakey will be leaving his post as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Extreme Networks following the conclusion of the company's fiscal year. Michael Palu, Extreme Networks' Vice President & Corporate Controller, will be acting CFO as of August 5, 2006 and will report to Gordon Stitt, Extreme Networks' President and CEO, until a permanent replacement is named. http://www.extremenetworks.com

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FASTWEB Employs SupportSoft for Triple Play Services

FASTWEB, Italy's second-largest fixed telecommunications services provider with more than 790,000 subscribers, has deployed SupportSoft software to ease the installation and ongoing support of its triple-play service offerings.



FASTWEB is using SupportSoft SmartAccess software for automated installation of DSL broadband VoIP and Internet services. FASTWEB also chose SupportSoft ServiceGateway software to provide wireless home networking and gateway management for its array of IP service offerings.

http://www.supportsoft.com

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Sonus Networks Signs Russian System Integrator

Sonus Networks announced a marketing agreement with NVision Group, a market-leading Russian system integrator. NVision will promote Sonus' IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-ready architecture and work with Sonus to pursue opportunities with service providers throughout Russia and the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

http://www.sonusnet.comhttp://www.nvg.ru/eng

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IEEE Spectrum Refutes Metcalfe's Law

IEEE Spectrum magazine published an article refuting the theory that the value of a communications network is proportional to the square number of its users, first proposed by Ethernet pioneer Robert M. Metcalfe in 1980.



The authors, Bob Briscoe, Andrew Odlyzko and Benjamin Tilly, compare Metcalfe's Law to other growth curves, including Reed's and Sarnoff's laws, and argue that network growth increases not linearly or exponentially, but logarithmically at a much slower rate.



"In our view, much of the difference between the artificial values of the dot-com era and the genuine value created by the Internet can be explained by the difference between the Metcalfe-fueled optimism of n-squared and the more sober reality of n log(n)."http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul06/4109

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