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....

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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 Torontowill be announced at a later date.http://www.bell.ca/opti...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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/...

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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...

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