Maven Raises $12 Million for Broadband TV Platform

Maven Networks, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., raised $12 million in Series C funding for its platform for creating, managing and delivering broadband video channels. Maven Network's Maven Media System (MMS) enables media companies to design and launch professional broadband video channels, and generate new revenue streams. The Maven Media System has been used by customers such as 20th Century Fox, A&E Television Networks International, Disney Buena Vista Pictures, Hallmark Channel, National Geographic Channel, Pepsi, Nike, and Sony...

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TANDBERG Acquires Zetools for Internet TV Tools

TANDBERG Television agreed to acquire Zetools, a Los Angeles-based developer of software that enables the delivery of digital video services over the Internet. Financial terms were not disclosed.Zetools automates the formatting, management, programming and publishing of interactive and on-demand Internet video with a focus on ease-of-use. Its publishing and management applications help to monetizing and syndicating video over the Internet and simplify the process of creating multi-platform portals, so content providers can reach the maximum number...

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TANDBERG Acquires Zetools for Internet TV Tools

TANDBERG Television agreed to acquire Zetools, a Los Angeles-based developer of software that enables the delivery of digital video services over the Internet. Financial terms were not disclosed.Zetools automates the formatting, management, programming and publishing of interactive and on-demand Internet video with a focus on ease-of-use. Its publishing and management applications help to monetizing and syndicating video over the Internet and simplify the process of creating multi-platform portals, so content providers can reach the maximum number...

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CableLabs Issues DOCSIS 3.0, Enabling 160 Mbps Downstream and 120 Mbps Upstream

CableLabs officially issued Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) 3.0 -- a new set of specifications enabling downstream data rates of 160 Mbps or higher and upstream data rates of 120 Mbps or higher over cable networks. To achieve these higher data rates DOCSIS 3.0 describes a methodology for channel bonding in both the upstream and downstream directions. DOCSIS 3.0 also incorporates support for IPv6. The specifications were made available for review and comment early this year to supplier companies that have signed non-disclosure...

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Fujitsu Debuts 20-Port, 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch IC

Fujitsu Microelectronics America introduced a 20-port, 10 Gbps Ethernet (10GbE) switch IC (the MB8AA3020) designed to meet the performance demands of high-density backplane switching for advanced TCA (ATCA) and micro TCA, blade server, and data center applications.The new 20-port 10GbE switch chip delivers 400+Gbps, non-blocking, aggregate switching bandwidth through 3Mbytes of proprietary, multi-stream shared buffer memory, with on-chip 10Gbps serial SerDes.Fujitsu said its chip provides high quality of service (QoS) for data center and carrier...

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Sonus Reports Record Revenue, Strong Growth in Q2

Sonus Networks reported Q2 revenues of $64.4 million compared with $60.0 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2006 and $58.1 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2005. Revenues for the first six months of fiscal 2006 were $124.4 million compared with $91.7 million in the same period last year, reflecting an increase of 36%.The company is not providing detailed GAAP or non-GAAP financials for the quarter at this time because the Company has voluntarily initiated a review of the processes by which it has historically issued and accounted for...

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AT&T Wins NYC Contract Potentially Valued at up to $100 Million

The City of New York has awarded AT&T a major contract for telecommunications (local, long distance and networking) services for both the city's routine and critical data applications. The multi-year agreement, initially valued at $25 million, will enable AT&T to secure up to $100 million in business from the city's various agencies.AT&T is one of only two carriers with which the City has negotiated a "master services contract" for the provision of such services, as a result of a competitive procurement process.AT&T described the...

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NETGEAR Selects Cavium Security Processor

NETGEAR has selected Cavium Networks' NITROX Soho CN22X MIPS32 processor and SSL application toolkit to power the new NETGEAR ProSafe SSL VPN Concentrator for small to medium enterprises. The NETGEAR ProSafe SSL VPN Concentrator provides secure multi-tunnel remote access connectivity without having to maintain IPsec VPNs or the accompanying client software. http://www.cavium....

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CacheLogic Announces P2P Accelerated Media Delivery Platform

CacheLogic introduced its new "VelociX" Accelerated Media Delivery Platform combining the benefits of scalable Peer-to-Peer technology with a distributed physical network of P2P caches.CacheLogic said its system is able to provide the quality-of-service benefits offered by traditional content distribution networks (CDNs), enabling large media files such as television programs or movies to be downloaded in minutes rather than hours using broadband connections. The peer-assisted content delivery also promises significantly lower cost compared to...

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Comcast Hires Cox Exec to Head its Business Services

Comcast appointed William Stemper as President of Comcast Business Services and Senior Vice President of Comcast Cable, a newly created position in which he will oversee Comcast's business services strategy to facilitate the deployment of new and existing communications products and services for business customers. He will report to Dave Watson, Executive Vice President of Operations for Comcast.Stemper most recently served as Vice President of Cox Business Services for Cox Communications in Atlanta, GA. Prior to that, he held key executive positions...

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Cingular Expands Deployment of Sonus Gear

Cingular Wireless is expanding its Sonus-based, next generation voice network. The carrier has deployed a full suite of Sonus' SMARRT Wireless voice solutions, establishing a nation-wide long-distance IP-based voice network and has established gateway mobile switching centers (Gateway MSCs) across the United States. The Sonus-based network has been carrying live customer traffic since 2003. In this next phase of the network deployment, Cingular is expanding its Sonus-based national service network to support increased traffic volumes. The expansion...

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South Korea's CDNetworks Selects Force10's Switches/Routers

CDNetworks, South Korea's leading content delivery network provider, is deploying Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers. The Force10 TeraScale E-Series platform is being used to interconnect localized content servers across South Korea. With the Force10 TeraScale E-Series anchoring its content delivery network, CDNetworks enables its customers to gain the economic efficiencies and provides faster access to high-bandwidth applications such as streaming audio and video files. http://www.force10networks....

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Juniper Supplies Core Routing for China Telecom's CN2 Network

Juniper Networks announced that China Telecom has expanded the core capacity of its ChinaNet Next Carrying Network (CN2), enabling CN2's Juniper Networks M- and T-series routers to support an increasing number of network edge devices and applications. Juniper said that since November 2004, China Telecom has deployed its routers as the only routing platforms in the national core of its CN2 project, continuing to build upon previous deployments as part of its CN2 expansion plan. Specifically, Juniper T640, T320 and M320 routers are underpinning...

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Veraz Offers Options for Local Number Portability

Veraz Networks announced flexible deployment options for using its "ControlSwitch" softswitch to provide nationwide Local Number Portability (LNP). Service providers that have already deployed a service-control-point (SCP)-based LNP solution can use the ControlSwitch to provide the LNP query from the existing SCPs. Additionally, through cooperation with 3rd party partners, Veraz offers solutions that migrate number portability from legacy Intelligent Network (IN) systems to a more flexible SIP-based solution. Deploying a pure SIP-based next generation...

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Nortel and Broadstream Partner on IPTV for Rural Providers

Nortel is collaborating with Broadstream Communications, a provider of IPTV content transport and management services, to deliver an end-to-end IPTV solution that now includes both video infrastructure and television programming.Broadstream provides TV channels that are pre-packaged in an IPTV-ready format by pre-encoding them into high quality MPEG-4 and delivering them via a single satellite to the telco video head-end. This process eliminates the telco's need for costly encoders and expensive satellite receivers. Nortel then interconnects the...

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Alcatel and XTEND Deliver E911 for VoIP

Alcatel has added enhanced E911 capabilities to its OmniPCX Enterprise communications server with the help of XTEND Communications Corp. The XTEND EADM Basic E911 server. EADM is a PC-based, integrated solution operating with Alcatel's OmniPCX Enterprise and the OmniVista 4760 Network Management for Enterprise IP Telephony systems. At its most basic level, EADM provides the conduit for sending the subscriber information (ELIN/ERL) to the 911-service provider's automatic location information (ALI) database. The solution also includes unique features...

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Internet2 Introduces Middleware Toolkit

Internet2's Middleware Initiative introduced its Signet Privilege Management System and the Grouper Group Management Toolkit, making it easier for research and academic institutions to manage access to protected online resources.The Signet Privilege Management System provides institutions an easy to use framework to manage user access privileges in terms familiar to business managers and provides a consolidated, shared authorization data repository that is independent of any specific institutional system. The Grouper Group Management Toolkit enables...

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NTT Com to Launch MPLS-based VPN Service to Vietnam

NTT Communications and Vietnam's largest international telecom carrier, Vietnam Datacommunication Company (VDC), have agreed to provide MPLS-based Global IP-VPN services in Vietnam under the name of VPN/VNN-Arcstar. The two companies will start services in September.http://www.ntt.co...

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Google and MTV Networks Partner of Video Clip Distribution

Google plans to distribute four- or five-minute clips of popular TV shows from MTV Networks via its online advertising service. The deal potentially will put selected video clips in front of a massive audience.Under the deal, Google will distribute ad-supported content from MTV Networks to targeted website publishers, allowing publishers to showcase clips from premium programming like Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants and MTV's Laguna Beach to enhance the content on their websites.http://www.google.comhttp://www.viacom....

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OEN Signs IPTV Carriage Agreement with NFL

Optical Entertainment Network (OEN), which is building an FTTH network in Houston, has signed an IPTV carriage agreement with the National Football League to carry NFL Network, the 24-hour, year-round football channel -- including its primetime regular season games this fall to FISION subscribers in Houston. NFL Network plans nearly 2,000 hours of original programming in the coming year. OEN will carry NFL Network within its 400 channel line-up. http://www.getfision....

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