Lucent to Resell TCS' Location-based Application in IMS Portfolio

Lucent Technologies will resell TeleCommunication Systems' (TCS')location-based solutions and applications. Specifically, Lucent will offer the TCS Xypoint Location Platform and Xypoint Secure User Plane for Location (SUPL) Server with its IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) solutions portfolio, including the Lucent Intelligent Services Gateway (ISG), iLocator application and managed service offerings to provide network operators integrated location-based solutions. The location-based services include navigation, "family finder", asset and fleet tracking,...

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Deutsche Telekom Trims Guidance, Warns of Competitive Pressure

Citing competitive pressures in its home market, Deutsche Telekom AG trimmed its revenue guidance from the previous range of between EUR 62.1 billion and EUR 62.7 billion to between EUR 61.5 billion and EUR 62.1 billion. Revenue is expected to continue to grow at a moderate rate in 2007.The company said the reduction in high-margin revenues in Germany will lead to a drop in expectations for adjusted EBITDA for the 2006 financial year to between EUR 19.2 billion and EUR 19.7 billion. Previous guidance was between EUR 20.2 billion and EUR 20.7 billion....

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Leapstone Enhances its IPTV Software

Leapstone Systems released a new version of its Communications Convergence Engine (CCE) suite incorporating enhancements designed to strengthen its carrier-grade IPTV capabilities. Leapstone's newest CCE software release now offers broadband service providers the means to implement a centralized management layer on top of IPTV platforms like Microsoft TV, enabling to offer superior VOD services.The key enhancements in CCE Release 6.5 include:Flexible...

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Cisco Selected for Unified Communications Project for Portugal's Largest Bank

Millennium BCP, the largest private financial group in Portugal, has selected Cisco's retail banking solution to transform its information and communication infrastructure to a converged voice and data IP network. Millennium BCP will be making one of the largest deployments of Cisco Unified Communications technologies in the region, replacing its various telephone systems from multiple vendors with a Cisco Unified CallManager system and 15,000 Cisco Unified IP phones at more than 900 office and branch locations in Portugal. Future plans will extend...

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Intel Sells Media and Signaling Business to Eicon Networks

Eicon Networks agreed to acquire all of the assets of Intel's media and signaling business, for an undisclosed sum.Intel's media and signaling business includes all of the product lines from Intel's Dialogic acquisition, as well as Host Media Processing (HMP) software and HMP-enabled blades. Intel's complete line of SS7, PBX integration and gateway solutions are also included in the sale.The sale does not include Intel's communications infrastructure products for telecommunications equipment manufacturers, including its Advanced Telecom Computing...

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FCC Auction for Advanced Wireless Services Spectrum Gets Underway

The FCC commenced its auction for Advanced Wireless Services licenses in the 1710-1755 MHz and 2110-2155 MHz bands (AWS-1). A total of 168 bidders were pre-qualified for the auction. During the first two rounds of auction, conducted on Wednesday, the top ten bidders were:Wireless DBS (backed by DirecTV, News Corp, Fox, EchoStar, Rupert Murdoch, and EchoStar)T-MobileSpectrumCo (backed by Comcast, Time Warner, Cox and Sprint Nextel)Dolan Family Holdings (holder in Cablevision)Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon WirelessDenali Spectrum LicenseCingular...

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Atheros Acquires Taiwan's ZyDAS

Atheros Communications completed its previously-announced acquisition of ZyDAS Technology Corporation, a Taiwan-based fabless IC design company specializing in high-performance IEEE 802.11 semiconductor and software solutions for PC, mobile and embedded applications. Atheros has established its new Taiwan Research & Development Center in ZyDAS' former headquarters in in Hsinchu Science Park.http://www.atheros....

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Verizon's Video Franchises Now Cover 3 Million Households

Verizon now has video franchises covering approximately 3 million households in nine states and over 100 franchise areas. This month, Verizon began offering its FiOS TV service to 4,000 households in north Sarasota County, Florida, following the Sarasota County Commission's decision on July 12 to award a franchise to Verizon.http://www.verizon....

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Zarlink and BroadLight Combine Packet Processing and GPON

Zarlink Semiconductor has completed interoperability testing of its CESoP (circuit emulation services-over-packet) technology with BroadLight's GPON solution. The companies noted the continued importance of TDM traffic as evidenced by the recent GPON RFP (request for proposal) issued in North America, which stipulates legacy services must be supported."Carriers are seeking ways to add TDM service support to the new GPON infrastructure, rather than incur the expense of maintaining existing circuit networks," said Bruce Ernhofer, product manager,...

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NDS Sees Growth in STB Middleware as Smart Cards Decline

NDS reported revenue for fiscal 2006 of $600.1 million, an increase of 8% compared to the previous fiscal year. Conditional access revenue increased; higher security fees resulting from growth in the number of authorized cards using NDS technologies were offset in part by lower deliveries of smart cards. Revenue from integration, development and support declined. Higher middleware development revenue in fiscal 2006 did not compensate for the prior...

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Verizon Wins US Army Contract

Verizon was awarded help modernize and upgrade the telecommunications infrastructure on U.S. Army posts, camps and stations worldwide over the next decade.Verizon Business, through its Federal Network Systems (FNS) arm, was among ten prime contractors chosen by the Army to participate in future bidding for task orders in its $4 billion Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Infrastructure Modernization (IMOD) program. Each contractor is guaranteed a minimum amount of the overall program.IMOD is a 10-year contract effort managed by the Program...

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UTStarcom Reports Revenue of $549.1 Million

UTStarcom reported net sales for Q2 of $549.1 million. Gross margins for the second quarter were 19.9% and GAAP net loss for the quarter was $21.4 million, or a loss of ($0.18) per share.The company's cash balance was approximately $647 million at the end of the second quarter, reflecting approximately $25 million of positive cash flow from operations, offset by approximately $50 million used to pay down short- term debt in the quarter.http://www.utstarcom....

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