Cingular Awards 3-Year RAN Equipment Contract to Carrier Access

Cingular Wireless awarded a three year supply agreement to Carrier Access Corporation to provide next generation equipment for their radio access network (RAN). Cingular selected the Carrier Access MASTERseries platform with "FLEXengine" technology, which incorporates IP management, voice and data prioritization, dynamic bandwidth re-use, and transport data convergence.



Cingular has over 47,000 cell sites, of which over 17,000 are already installed with Carrier Access MASTERseries nodes. This new contract not only gives Carrier Access the opportunity to place new nodes in the remaining 30,000 sites, but also the ability to upgrade the existing sites with incremental hardware and software capabilities.

http://www.carrieraccess.com

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Avaya Signs GE to Broaden its North American Sales Channels

Avaya signed a distribution agreement with GE's Access Distribution division , a value-added distributor of IT solutions. Access Distribution will represent the entire Avaya product portfolio, as well as solutions from Avaya Global Services, including maintenance and installation work.



Avaya currently has a network of more than 2,500 resellers in North America. Access Distribution has over 600 additional reseller customers experienced in complex IT products, solutions and services -- from network security and storage to enterprise applications software.

http://www.geaccess.comhttp://www.avaya.com

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Pure Networks Launches European Home Networking Solution

Pure Networks has formed a partnership with IP Globalnet to offer hardware manufacturers and service providers across Europe local language versions of Pure Networks' home networking software, Network Magic, and router set up wizards. Already two companies, TopCom and Cable 1 have joined the program and are using Network Magic to help their consumers solve home networking challenges.

http://www.networkmagic.eu

• In January 2006, Pure Networks, a start-up based in Seattle, secured $12.5 million in new funding for its Network Magic home networking software and services.
  
  
  
  Network Magic is software for consumers that resides on each computer within a home network, connecting and unifying the many different PCs, routers, gateways, and networked devices into a seamless home network. To manage and repair the home network, Network Magic shows a visual Network Map of all computers and devices on the home network, making it easy for the average PC user to understand and run his or her own home network. When installed, Network Magic automatically configures a Windows 98 and above PC to access and share with others. A “Repair�? button and the Network Map help to eliminate a common frustration of broken internet connections by allowing anyone to easily fix the Internet or their home network when trouble occurs. Network Magic's Network Map will also show when Intruders are on your home network and provide clear steps to help secure it.

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Yipes Reportes 51% Revenue Jump in Ethernet Services

Yipes Enterprise Services, a privately-held company, announced sharply increased financial and operating results for the six-month period ended June 30, 2006. For the first half of 2006, Yipes said it grew overall revenues by more than 40 percent, with 51 percent growth in its core global Ethernet offerings compared to the same period in 2005. Yipes said it now has more than 760 customers. Approximately 98 percent of Yipes' revenue is under long-term agreements.



Yipes provides services in and between major metropolitan markets including: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, London, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tokyo and Washington DC. http://www.yipes.com

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D-Link Wireless Home Routers Pass Intel "Viiv" Verification

D-Link's RangeBooster G, Xtreme G and AirPremier Wireless Routers are among the first to earn Intel "Viiv" technology verification. Intel Viiv technology verified routers ensure compatibility with Intel Viiv-based PCs and also enable consumers to use the latest Intel Viiv software update for simplified set-up of verified devices.



Intel Viiv technology is Intel's new brand for in-home entertainment PCs designed to transform how consumers manage, share, and enjoy a broad and growing assortment of movies, programs, music, games, and photos.

http://www.dlink.com

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Verizon to Carry Hearst-Argyle's Local TV Stations

Hearst-Argyle Television announced a long-term agreement with Verizon providing retransmission consent for carriage over Verizon FiOS TV of four local television stations: WCVB-TV, Boston; WMUR-TV, Manchester, NH; WBAL-TV, Baltimore; and WMOR-TV, Tampa. The agreement includes video-on-demand (VoD) and high-definition digital (HDTV) rights to the stations' local programs and carriage of digital multicast programming.



The stations are available to all FiOS TV customers in their respective markets. http://www.hearstargyle.comhttp://www.verizon.net

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Brazil's GlobalCall Deploys Quintum's Tenor VoIP Switches

GlobalCall, a nationwide telecom carrier in Brazil, has deployed a national VoIP network based on the Quintum Tenor VoIP Switches. Tenor VoIP MultiPath Switches are deployed in its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, as well as in several POPs throughout the country. In addition, Tenor DX, Tenor AX and other Tenor models are deployed on customers' premises.



PL Tecnologia was the systems integrator who designed and implemented the VoIP system at GlobeCall. http://www.quintum.com

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ZTE Ships 3.6 Mbps HSDPA Data Card

ZTE has begun production of the first bulk consignment of its HSDPA data cards for use by major telecommunications companies in Europe. ZTE said its MF330 data card is capable of download speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps.



Following the successful commercial testing of the card in Europe, ZTE has now begun to receive bulk orders for its product from a number of European countries.

http://www.zte.com.cn

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Alcatel and Lucent Name Additional Execs

Alcatel and Lucent Technologies named the following additional members to the senior leadership team for the combined company:

• Olivier Baujard, will serve as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the combined company. He currently serves as CTO for Alcatel.



• Jeong Kim will remain President of Bell Labs.



• Helle Kristoffersen, currently vice-president of corporate strategy for Alcatel will become the vice president of corporate strategy for the combined company.



• Baujard, Kim and Kristoffersen will report to Mike Quigley, who will serve as president, Science, Technology and Strategy, in the combined company. Quigley now is President and chief operating officer (COO) of Alcatel.



• John Giere, currently Chief Marketing Officer for Lucent, will assume that post for the combined company.



• Lucent Chief Information Officer Elizabeth Hackenson, has been named to lead the combined company's Information Systems/Information Technology organization.



• Giere and Hackenson will report to Frank D'Amelio, who will oversee a number of key corporate and cross company functions for the combined company. D'Amelio currently serves as COO for Lucent.

http://www.alcatel.comhttp://www.lucent.com

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Angola Telecom Modernizes Network with Siemens

Angola Telecom has commissioned Siemens Communications to expand and modernize the fixed network infrastructure in the capital Luanda. The EUR 60 Million contract covers several thousand telephone lines and ADSL connections. The two-year project will entail a turnkey metro network, multiservice IP-DSLAMs, carrier Ethernet components and optical transmission equipment.

http://www.siemens.com/communications

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TiVo Launches Audience Research and Measurement (ARM) Division

TiVo will begin offering advertisers second-by-Second customized data and analysis of advertising content and viewer behavior. The new TiVo Audience Research and Measurement division aims to provide a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the types of advertisements that are most successful with consumers in TiVo households. The data will be presented in such a way that advertisers and advertising agencies can compare and contrast it with broader audience measurements from other sources. Advertisers will also know the viewership and effectiveness of their advertisements by network, genre, day-part, time slot, day of week and commercial pod position.



TiVo said research will include assessment and analysis of the impact of fast-forwarding, rewinding, replaying, pausing and other behaviors based on anonymous, aggregate data collected from all of TiVo's subscribers across the country, in near real-time, through random analysis of 20,000 of TiVo subscribers per given day.



TiVo is currently working with Nissan, as well as OMD NEXT, a consortium of 14 of Omnicom Media Group's clients who have dedicated resources this year to test and learn about the relative impact that new and emerging media platforms are having on traditional media/advertising models, and the relative brand value that each medium brings to the overall media mix. NEXT clients include Bank of America, GE, Visa, Discovery Channel, McDonalds, and Anheuser-Busch, among others.
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GN Netcom to Supply Verizon-branded Broadband Headsets

GN Netcom, a leading supplier of hands-free audio gear, entered into a licensing agreement to introduce a series of Verizon-branded headsets for use with broadband services and applications, including online gaming and IP telephony.



GN Netcom will produce, ship, and provide technical and customer support for the broadband headsets. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

http://www.verizon.comhttp://www.gnnetcom.com

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Pulse~LINK Validates UWB Chipset Performance for Whole-Home HD

Pulse~LINK released independent test results validating the performance of its CWave UWB Over Coax solution. The report generated by Quantum Parametrics, the leading provider of 1394 implementation test tools, confirms Pulse~LINK's performance over coax.



The Quantum Parametrics report verifies that at sustained 400Mbps application layer throughput, Pulse~LINK's CWave Over Coax performance spans hundreds of feet of in-home coaxial cable, including multiple consumer grade signal splitters. The test scenarios were designed to stress the transmission system in various ways. Tested configurations included several combinations comprising hundreds of feet of RG-59 consumer grade coaxial cable; multiple signal splitters; and various lengths of un-terminated coax cable stubs attached to unused splitter ports.

http://www.pulselink.nethttp://www.quantumparametrics.com

• In May 2006, Pulse~LINK, a start-up based in Carlsbad, California, introduced its "CWave" UWB chipset designed for whole-home distribution of HDTV content, high quality multi-channel audio and high-speed data across in-home coax and wireless networks. By bridging its wireless and wired communications technologies, CWave enables high data rate
  transmissions to be distributed throughout the home via coax then wirelessly connects peripheral devices in each room.
  
  
  
  Pulse~LINK said its "CWave" chipset will deliver up to a Gigabit of throughput with guaranteed quality of service. Coax, wireless, and even power line communications are all supported simultaneously from the same chipset radio
  
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  The CWave signal traverses existing RF splitters, coexists with legacy CATV, satellite and other signals already carried on the coax, and requires no changes to existing in-home coax cable wiring.

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BT Signs Download-to-Own VOD Deal with NBC Universal

BT announced digital distribution agreements with Universal Pictures UK and NBC Universal International Television Distribution covering content for purchase (via download-to-own) or rental (via video-on-demand) in the UK.



Content will be available for purchase and viewing on PC from the BT Vision store, a new film and television download service to be launched this month.



From 31-July-2006, BT will offer a PC-based film and television download service, building to offer 150 Universal titles available on the same date as the UK DVD release. Consumers can purchase content for permanent ownership and will download two digital files to PC/laptop and a portable device, in conjunction with a DVD mailed by post.

http://www.btplc.com

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BT's 21CN Test Programme Enters Next Stage

BT's trial 21st Century Network (21CN) is currently handling more than 625,000 live customer calls per day and more than 23 million customer calls have been completed. The trial involves the use of an IP link to carry voice calls between two major network nodes at Cambridge and Woolwich.



BT said the success of its trial represents a significant step towards the creation of its next generation network. It builds on the previous trial which ran from October to December 2005 where fourteen million calls were successfully carried on the IP network and voice quality monitoring carried out.



Multi service access nodes or MSANs from Huawei and Fujitsu are already in use, carrying voice services onto the core network from trial customer lines. This equipment is being installed at 18 exchanges in South East London, Kent and East Anglia.



For this stage of the trial, BT has also newly introduced Cisco's media gateway; Ericsson's call server and a Cisco Catalyst Switch. Other key technology components are Alcatel's LAN switch and Siemens/Juniper routers used in a previous 21CN voice trial.



Deb Covey, managing director, BT Wholesale Networks said: "21CN is gathering momentum as we head towards the start of customer lines being switched to the new network in South Wales in November. We are working with the rest of the industry to finalise the UK rollout plan. It's full steam ahead as we prepare sites across the country for equipment to be installed this summer."http://www.btplc.com

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Mobile 365 Powers SMS Service for Skype

Mobile 365 was selected to provide SMS services to Skype. With this new service, Skype users can send an SMS to a mobile phone directly from their keyboard. The service is quick and simple to use, and features a straightforward pricing plan; users pay using their existing Skype Credit. For example, a Skype user can now contact a friend who is offline, via a mobile message, and arrange a Skype call, thus extending Skype's reach beyond the PC.



When a Skype user sends a message, Skype distributes the message via Mobile 365's global inter-operator network to over 60 countries across the world. Mobile 365 accommodates high traffic volumes via its upgraded platform, which recently benefited from a $15 million investment, further enabling the network to reliably deliver messages into over 180 countries worldwide.

http://www.mobile365.com

• Mobile 365 is currently delivering two billion messages per month through its global delivery and settlement service for SMS, MMS, and WAP. Major operator customers include Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Telcel, Telefonica, O2, China Mobile, China Unicom, Hutchison, and Airtel.

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AT&T U-VERSE Adds Bloomberg TV

AT&T announced a content distribution deal to include BLOOMBERG TELEVISION programming as part of its U-verse TV service. Financial and other terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

http://www.att.com

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Lucent Cites Delayed Deployments by North American Mobile Operators

Lucent Technologies reported revenue of $2.05 billion for its third quarter of fiscal 2006, which ended June 30, 2006, a decrease of 4 percent sequentially and a decrease of 12 percent from the year-ago quarter. Net income (GAAP) was $79 million, or 2 cents per diluted share, which is consistent with the preliminary results announced on July 10, 2006. These results compare with net income of $181 million, or 4 cents per diluted share, in the second quarter of fiscal 2006, and net income of $372 million, or 7 cents per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.



"Our results this quarter reflect an impending shift in spending as some of our North American customers begin to move from current-generation to next-generation mobile high-speed data solutions. While these results were clearly disappointing, we do not believe these results are indicative of the longer-term opportunities we see in the global mobility market. CDMA continues to represent a large, sustainable market, and we see significant growth in the UMTS market as our customers enable their networks to deliver the exciting new applications their customers are demanding," said Lucent Technologies Chairman and CEO Patricia Russo.

http://www.lucent.com

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Atheros Chip Powers UTStarcom's Ultra-thin Handset

Atheros Communications' single-chip solution for the PAS (Personal Access System) cellular market in China, the AR1900, is featured in UTStarcom's ultra-thin X30 PAS handset. Since its launch in April 2006, the X30 has become a best-selling PAS handset model in China.



The handset is only 10 mm thick and weighs less than 60 grams. It features a 1.5-inch color LCD screen, MP3 ringtones, games, 300 hours of standby and seven hours of talk time. It offers reliable voice connectivity through seamless handover between PAS base stations that are now prevalent throughout Chinese metropolitan markets.

http://www.atheros.comhttp://www.utstarcom.com

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Limelight Raises $130 Million for Content Delivery Services

Limelight Networks announced a $130 million equity financing round for its content delivery network for digital media.



"Consumer demand for rich media delivered over the Internet -- video, music, games, and social media content -- has exploded over the past few years. This financing round, our first significant external equity financing, sets the stage for Limelight to continue expanding its infrastructure and capabilities to meet mounting market demand," said Bill Rinehart, President and CEO of Limelight Networks.



Limelight claims more than 600 of the world's top media companies as customers, including Akimbo, ABC Radio Networks, Belo Interactive, Brightcove, "BuyMusic" @ Buy.com, DreamWorks, LLC, Facebook, FOXNews.com, IFILM, ITV Play, Marimba, MSNBC.com, MySpace, NC Interactive, Real Networks Rhapsody, Radio Free Virgin, Valve Software, and Xbox Live.



Earlier this month, Limelight Networks reported strong growth in the second quarter of 2006, as revenue rose to over $14 million, an increase of nearly 40% from the first quarter of 2006 and over 200% from the same quarter last year.



The funding was led by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners. As part of the financing, representatives from Goldman Sachs will join the company's board of directors.

http://www.llnw.com

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