Hellenic Telecom Selects Huawei for IP DSLAMs and Metro Ethernet

Hellenic Telecommunications (OTE) selected Huawei Technologies to build an IP DSLAM broadband access and Metro Ethernet bearer network.Huawei will provide OTE with ADSL2+ IP DSLAM access equipment with a 200,000 line capacity. The Metro Ethernet equipment will serve approximately one hundred nodes in Greece's two largest cities, Athens and Thesalonniki. Based on this new network, OTE can provide its residential users with high-speed internet access service now, and IPTV, Triple Play services in the future.Huawei noted that it has shipped over...

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Alltel Completes Spin-off, Creating Windstream

Alltel completed the spin off its wireline business, which was merged with VALOR Communications Group to create Windstream, a major wireline operator focused on the rural U.S. market. Windstream serves approximately 3.4 million access lines and offers voice, broadband and digital TV services in 16 states. The company has 8,000 employees and about $3.4 billion in annual revenues. Windstream is based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Windstream's common...

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Broadwing Selects Infinera's DTN Optical System

Broadwing will deploy Infinera's DTN optical system, enabling it to offer managed wavelength services to more cities in their nationwide network, while benefiting from the economics of an architecture that combines transport and switching in a single platform. Specifically, Broadwing plans to deploy the Infinera DTN in regional network applications across its national network and is also evaluating the DTN for other applications. The deployment also will facilitate new service capabilities, including:Path to future 40Gb/s OC-768/STM-256 servicesGigabit...

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UAE's etisalat Deploys Juniper's E- and M-series Routers

etisalat, which is one of the United Arab Emirates' leading telecommunications providers, has deployed Juniper Networks E- and M-series routers for its next generation, multiservice network. etisalat has built a multiservice network core that will deliver new Triple Play services such as IPTV, while supporting existing Internet, ATM, Frame Relay and mobile IP services. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.juniper....

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France's Sanef Deploys Atrica's Carrier Ethernet

Sanef Telecoms, a business unit of the Sanef Group which operates motorways across France, has deployed Atrica's Carrier Ethernet Systems. Sanef's new state-of-the-art communications infrastructure leverages a 3,855 km fiber optic network that connects the greater Paris region with the major cities of northern and eastern France.Sanef Telecoms is using the network to deliver services to local authorities, public institutions and businesses situated near its motorways in France, and to expand its wholesale services business. Services include high-speed...

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Club Internet/T-Online France Deploys Harmonic

T-Online France, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, has deployed Harmonic's DiviCom Electra 5000 multi-service encoders to power its new Club Internet ADSL-based digital television service. Club Internet TV, which is now commercially available, uses the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform. The service features more than 150 SD broadcast television channels, a full complement of video-on-demand (VOD) and subscription VOD programs, an intuitive and feature-rich interactive program guide with picture-in-picture, personal video recorder (PVR),...

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LongBoard Introduces "MediaRoam" IMS-Compliant Software

LongBoard introduced "MediaRoam" software that provides telecommunications carriers with the ability to deliver differentiated IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-enabled multimedia services across fixed and mobile networks with service and revenue assurance.LongBoard's MediaRoam delivers network-based policy and enforcement capabilities that ensure that mobile users are always connected to the most optimal fixed or mobile network available. In addition, MediaRoam adapts streaming multimedia services in real-time as users move across networks. For example,...

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Amdocs Agrees to Acquire Cramer, Consolidating OSS

Amdocs agreed to acquire Cramer Systems, a supplier of operations support systems (OSS) solutions, for approximately $375 million in cash, net of cash on hand, subject to post-closing adjustments. Amdocs, which provides carrier systems for integrated customer management, said the acquisition would uniquely position it to support large-scale OSS transformation projects. The OSS domain is typically defined as network-facing applications supporting key service fulfillment and service assurance business processes. Cramer has a proven and tested OSS...

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BellSouth Launches New $99 "Triple Choice" Bundle in Atlanta

BellSouth launched a "Triple Choice" bundle in Atlanta and priced at $99 per month for voice service, DSL Ultra and DIRECTV service or Cingular Wireless service. The voice service includes long distance and local service, including Caller ID Deluxe, Call Waiting Deluxe, Call Return (*69), Three-Way Calling and BellSouth "Privacy Director" Service. "The Triple Choice bundle is unique in that customers can choose to add either DIRECTV service or Cingular Wireless service to their bundle, receiving three great services for one low price," said Joey...

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Cablevision's VoIP Surpasses One Million Customers in NY Metro Market

Cablevision Systems' consumer voice-over-cable service, Optimum Voice, has surpassed the one million-customer milestone. The VoIP service has already attracted one-third of Cablevision's cable television customers and more than half of the company's high-speed Internet customers. Cablevision said that since the launch of the service, Optimum Voice customers have paid an estimated $500 million less than they would have been charged by traditional phone companies for a similar level of service."Optimum Voice brought competition to a market that had...

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Foundry Adds to Power over Ethernet (PoE) Switching Line

Foundry Networks introduced two new modular systems to its FastIron SuperX line of Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches. The FastIron SX 800 and FastIron SX 1600 are scalable, secure, low-latency and fault-tolerant switches optimized for deployment of VoIP, wireless and high-capacity data services throughout the enterprise. The new switches feature redundant power, redundant fans and management modules, load-sharing switch fabrics, high-density 10/100/1000 Mbps PoE and hardware-based low-latency switching and routing for high-performance and reliable...

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Actimagine Raises $3Million for Mobile Video Codecs

Actimagine, a start-up based in Paris, raised EUR3 million in equity financing for its video compression technologies. The company's "Mobiclip" video codec software is optimized for low-power consumption. Actimagine said its codec is a completely new technology and not subject to MPEG, MP3 or any other codec licenses. Mobiclip has already been endorsed by major content studios such as Sony Pictures Digital to deliver full-length, full-screen, 30 frames per second movies on 128MB memory cards. Leading handset manufacturers like Nokia and Sony...

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Nortel and Microsoft Enter Alliance for Unified Communications

Microsoft and Nortel announced a strategic alliance based on a shared vision for unified communications -- converging today's device- and network-centric silos of communication such as e-mail, instant messaging, telephony and multimedia conferencing.Nortel and Microsoft will transition traditional business phone systems into software, with a Microsoft unified communications software platform and Nortel software products to provide further advanced...

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