Thursday, July 13, 2006

Australia's iiNet Chooses Cisco 2416 and 10008 Routers

Australia's largest high-speed ADSL2+ provider, iiNet, has purchased Cisco 12416 and 10008 Routers. The routers will operate at the core of iiNet's network and provide a backbone for all Internet traffic and help iiNet meet the increasing demand for bandwidth from its 600,000 customers across Australia and New Zealand. The routers will join the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches currently running on the border of iiNet's network. The new segmented network design incorporates Cisco's 6500, 10000 and 12000 Series router products. http://www.cis...

Portugal's TV Cabo Deploys Cisco Wideband for 100 Mbps Residential Service

TV Cabo, Portugal's largest pay-TV operator, has chosen the Cisco uBR10012 Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTS) to offer ultra-high-speed broadband, VoIP and high-definition video. TV Cabo is commencing trials of the Cisco Wideband solution, based on the Cisco family of CMTS and other components offered by Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company, and Linksys, a division of Cisco.The Cisco Wideband solution, based on a pre-standard version of the EURCableLabs' Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 3.0 standard, will enable data...

OCP to Acquire Taiwan's GigaComm for PON Components

Optical Communication Products agreed to acquire privately-held GigaComm Corporation, a Taiwan-based supplier of passive optical network (PON) fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) components, in an all cash transaction. OCP will pay approximately $20 million for GigaComm. GigaComm provides PON components to many of Japan's leading technology companies, including Mitsubishi Electric Company. The company claims the majority of the country's market share for Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GEPON) modules.Optical Communication Products, which is based...

Avago Demonstrates 12.5 Gbps SerDes Core in 65 Nm CMOS

Avago Technologies, the privately held semiconductor company that spun out of Agilent Technologies, has validated its SerDes core in 65 nm CMOS process technology. This milestone advances the state of SerDes (Serialization/Deserialization) ASIC core design from today's mainstream 90 nm to 65 nm process technology. Avago said its embedded SerDes intellectual property (IP) core offers extremely low jitter, making it possible to integrate as many SerDes channels as needed onto a single 65-nm CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) chip, each...

NTT DoCoMo Develops Fuel Cell for 3G Handsets

NTT DoCoMo announced a partnership with Aquafairy Co. to develop a micro fuel cell for its 3G "FOMA" handsets. The companies have succesffully demonstrated a prototype recharget based on a polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC).NTT DoCoMo described the fuel cell as the smallest in the world with power output of 2 watts. The recharger combines DoCoMo's recharger technology with Aquafairy's thin film power unit technology and catalyst for producing hydrogen from water. The simple hydrogen-producing mechanism and power units make the recharger less...

Broadcom to Restate Earnings Since 2000 Due to Options Dating

Following its own internal investigation, Broadcom reported that the accounting measurement dates for certain stock option grants awarded during the years 2000-2002 differ from the measurement dates previously used for such awards. Specifically, allocations to individual recipients and/or formal corporate approvals had not been completed as of the original accounting measurement dates. As a result, new accounting measurement dates will apply to the affected option grants.Consequently, Broadcom expects to record in excess of $750 million for the...

Hong Kong's New World Telecom Selects Lucent for IMS

Hong Kong's New World Telecommunications Limited (NWT) has selected Lucent Technologies' IP Multi-media Subsystem (IMS) platform to enable new fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services. NWT is Hong Kong's first fixed line operator to deploy an IMS platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.Lucent has IMS customer wins with Bell South, Cingular, AT&T, Sprint and Paetec, in the U.S. and O2 and Netia in Europe. Lucent also has about 77 ongoing trials for IMS network elements with 16 customers.http://www.lucent.comhttp://www.newworldtel....

AMCC Hit with Options Lawsuit

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) confirmed that a derivative lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against nine former officers of the company alleging improper dating of stock options granted to these former officers on five occasions during the period from March 1998 through December 2000. The suit also names as defendants all of the current members of AMCC's Board of Directors. AMCC previously announced that its Audit Committee had begun a self-initiated review of the company's historical...

Zarlink Postpones Exercise Date for Mitel Networks Shares

Zarlink Semiconductor agreed together with other rights holders to postpone the exercise date for its put rights in Mitel Networks Corporation shares from September 1, 2006 to May 1, 2007.Zarlink said it considers the postponement to be in Zarlink's best interests by enabling an orderly IPO (initial public offering) by Mitel Networks.http://www.zarlink....