Kenya Data Networks Deploys Strix's Wireless Mesh

Kenya Data Networks (KDN), East Africa's largest public data network operator, is deploying Strix Systems' Access/One Network Outdoor Wireless Systems (OWS) and Indoor Wireless Systems (IWS) to launch a new "Butterfly" Wi-Fi service. Initially available in the cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and Eldoret -- which have a combined population of over 4 million -- Butterfly will ultimately provide seamless connectivity throughout Kenya.KDN will leverage Strix's multi-radio, multi-channel, multi-RF architecture. A planned WiMAX module, which will...

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China Netcom Selects Alcatel's 7750 for Shanxi and Shandong

Shandong and Shanxi Netcom, two subsidiaries of China Netcom, have selected Alcatel's IP solution to expand and optimize their metropolitan networks across the Shandong and Shanxi provinces. The two contracts were won through Alcatel Shanghai Bell. Financial terms were not disclosed.Under the terms of the contracts, Alcatel will deploy its 7750 Service Router (SR) in Qingdao, the major city in Shandong Province, and in Changzhi and Jincheng in Shanxi province. The projects, which are expected to be completed in August 2006. will support residential...

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Netcordia Hires Former CEO of Laurel Networks

Netcordia, a supplier of network analysis tools, announced the appointment of Don Pyle as its new chief executive officer. Terry Slattery, will continue with the company as CTO. Pyle previously served as Juniper's first salesman, and was promoted to Vice President of North American sales. Prior to joining Netcordia, he was CEO of Laurel Networks, which was acquired by ECI Telecom in 2005.http://www.netcordia....

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ECI Hires Former Juniper Exec to Head Data Networking Division

ECI Telecom announced the appointment of Tony Scarfo as Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Data Networking Division, formerly Laurel Networks. Prior to joining ECI, Scarfo served as Vice President, Global Alliances and Partnerships, at Juniper Networks. Scarfo joined Juniper through its acquisition of Unisphere Networks, where he was Vice President of Marketing. Scarfo also spent a significant portion of his career at Lucent Technologies, as Vice President of several divisions including 3G Wireless, Strategic Marketing and Solutions...

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PMC-Sierra Supplies EPON for Dasan Networks, KT

Dasan Networks, Korea's leading supplier of broadband access equipment, has selected PMC-Sierra's EPON Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) semiconductors for use in its FTTH equipment. Dasan's FTTH solution has been selected by Korea Telecom (KT) for volume deployment in Korea's FTTH network rollout. KT is expected to begin volume deployments in the third quarter of this year.Dasan will supply ONU (Optical Network Unit) FTTH equipment for consumers in CPEs (Customer Premise Equipment) and OLT (Optical Line Terminal) FTTH equipment for central office equipment...

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UPnP Releases New Audio Video Specifications for Home Networking

The UPnP Forum released version 2 of its UPnP Audio Video specifications (UPnP AV v2) for AV-oriented home networking. The UPnP AV specifications use the UPnP Device Architecture specifications -- the core interoperability technology for all UPnP enabled devices -- allowing different companies to build home network products that automatically locate and identify each other without any end-user configuration. The UPnP Forum said its new UPnP AV v2...

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Yahoo! and Microsoft Agree to Bridge IM Services

Yahoo! and Microsoft agreed to begin limited public beta testing of interoperability between their instant messaging (IM) services that enable users of Windows Live Messenger, the next generation of MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger with Voice to connect with each other. The interoperability deal -- the first of its kind between two distinct, global consumer IM providers -- would form the world's largest consumer IM community, approaching 350 million accounts."Interoperability between IM services has consistently topped our users' wish lists,...

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Ixia Enhances Automated Test Application

Ixia has updated and enhanced its test application for executing automated performance and functionality testing of network devices. The updated Aptixia IxAutomate 6.00 release enables the testing of Layer 2-7 devices and systems all from a single test framework, including switches, routers, broadband access devices, firewalls and content switches. The new release transitions the former IxScriptMate application to an extensible test automation framework and changed its name to IxAutomate to better reflect this new functionality.IxAutomate, part...

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Tut Systems Warns on Q2 Earnings

Tut Systems, which supplies encoding and content processing systems, expects its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2006 to be below previously issued guidance. Preliminary estimate of second quarter revenue is approximately $8.2 million. Gross margins will also be impacted as fixed costs become a higher percentage of total cost of goods sold. The company stated that sales for the quarter were adversely affected by several large digital TV headend orders that did not close in this quarter as expected and by lower than planned...

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VeriSign to Provide PKI-related Security for WiMAX Networks

The WiMAX Forum has selected VeriSign to provide PKI-related services to all WiMAX Forum Certified solutions based on IEEE 802.16-2004 and ETSI HiperMAN 1.2.1. This partnership promotes industry-wide equipment compatibility and interoperability within the WiMAX Forum community by creating a single, trusted device authentication standard across broadband wireless networks.Under the agreement, VeriSign will operate the WiMAX root CA used to create a single, trusted device authentication standard for WiMAX networks. The VeriSign Custom Device Certificate...

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Meriton Optical Transport Selected by Telepak, Buckeye TeleSystem

Telepak Networks, a CLEC with over 1,900 miles of fiber throughout Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida, has deployed the Meriton Networks 6400 OTP (Optical Transport Platform) to deliver advanced new broadband services at rates up to 10 Gbps to customers throughout the state of Mississippi. Meriton said some of the main drivers for Telepak Networks' selection of the 6400 OTP were its optical backplane, jumperless technology and...

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MobiTV Raises $70 Million in New Funding

MobiTV, which supplies television and digital radio services for cellular, WiFi and broadband-enabled devices, raised $70 million in Series C financing led by Oak Investment Partners.MobiTV said its service already reaches more than one million paying subscribers across the globe who can now watch top news, sports, entertainment and music videos on their mobile devices. The company recently expanded its service to include personal computers across...

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China Telecom to Expand IPTV in Shanghai with UTStarcom's RollingStream

China Telecom awarded a follow-on contract to UTStarcom to deploy its "RollingStream" end-to-end IPTV solution in Shanghai. The deployment is initially designed to support 51,000 users.Prior to this deployment, China Telecom Shanghai selected UTStarcom to deploy an initial 5,000-user IPTV network in November 2005. During the first stage of deployment, UTStarcom's RollingStream solution was put through a rigorous series of technology tests.Shanghai, which is also the largest city in China with a population of approximately 18 million, had nearly...

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Avaya Reports 99.999% Availability for FIFA World Cup Network

Avaya reported 99.999% availability and not a single major outage or error for the converged communication network it built for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.In all, the network Avaya built for FIFA carried over 21 trillion bytes of data during the World Cup. According to Avaya, a total of 21,126 terabytes of voice and data traffic was transferred over the network between May 15, when the network became operational, and July 10. During that time, people have logged on to the converged communications network approximately 642,538 times and...

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Verizon FiOS TV Wins Franchise in Sarasota County, FL

Florida's Sarasota County awarded a franchise to Verizon for its FiOS TV service, to be delivered via its new, digital all-fiber network.The franchise, which could potentially bring competition and consumer choice to over 246,000 residents in the county, makes Florida one of Verizon's most competitive frontiers for FiOS services. As the fiber network is built, the Sarasota franchise, combined with Verizon's franchises for Temple Terrace, Tampa, Oldsmar, Manatee County, Bradenton, Hillsborough County and Pasco County, will enable over 1.8 million...

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