Huawei Wins Phase II IPTV contract in Morocco

Morocco's Maroc Telecom has selected Huawei as the exclusive supplier for the second phase of its IPTV project. In just 3 months since launching IPTV service, Maroc Telecom has registered more than 10,000 subscribers.The first phase of the IPTV project covered the capital city Rabat and Casablanca, and the service focused on BTV and VOD using H.264 encoding.In the phase two contract, Huawei will enable "Video Value-Added Services" for Maroc Telecom,...

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Ciena Reports 16% Sequential Revenue Rise, 1-for-7 Reverse Stock Split

For its fiscal third quarter 2006 ended July 31, 2006, Ciena reported revenue of $152.5 million, representing a 16.3% sequential increase from fiscal second quarter revenue of $131.2 million, and an increase of 38.0% over the same period a year ago when the company reported sales of $110.5 million. Ciena's net loss (GAAP) for the fiscal third quarter 2006 was $4.3 million, or a net loss of $0.01 per share. This compares with a reported GAAP net loss of $51.0 million, or a net loss of $0.09 per share, for the same period a year ago. "Strong sequential...

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Nokia Acquires gate5 for Mapping/Navigation in Mobile Devices

Nokia agreed to acquire gate5, a supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services, for an undisclosed sum.gate5, which was founded in 1999 and is based in Berlin, provides software to leading personal navigation device manufacturers around the world. Its "smart2go" software enables a sophisticated mapping and navigation experience with advanced features such as house polygons, earth browsing and dynamic route guidance. All applications...

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Telstra Awards Contracts Valued at EUR 270 million to Alcatel

Telstra has budgeted AUD460 million (EUR 270 million) for upgrades to its fixed networks in a works program led by Alcatel.In 2006/07, Alcatel will establish an IP network footprint in five Australian cities - Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide - by supplying and deploying its IP-DSLAMs, Ethernet aggregation and optical networking solutions. A milestone reached in the lead up to this next phase of upgrades is the establishment of Telstra's...

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Arcadian Raises $20 Million for IP-based Wireless Monitoring Network

Arcadian Networks, a privately held wireless carrier based in New York, raised an additional $20 million of financing from Clal Industries and Investments Ltd. (CII), Goldman Sachs and Gilo Ventures.Arcadian Networks commenced operations in April 2006 and has introduced IP-based, private network and turn-key carrier services for real-time monitoring and control of mission-critical applications such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), security surveillance, VoIP, automatic meter reading (AMR), and workforce management. Industries...

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Fujitsu Names Keith Horn COO for U.S. Semiconductor Operation

Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) named Keith Horn to be its Chief Operating Officer (COO). Horn, who is currently serving as senior vice president of sales and marketing, will report to Kazuyuki Kawauchi, President and CEO of Fujitsu Microelectronics America.http://us.fujitsu.com/mi...

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HelloSoft to Provide Symbian VoIP and IMS/VCC Solutions

HelloSoft is extending its VoIP and IMS/VCC software solutions for mobile devices to the Symbian OS ecosystem. HelloSoft has a range of VoIP and wireless products. In addition, HelloSoft's IMS/VCC stack enables seamless hand-off between cellular and Wi-Fi networks for multi-mode handsets. HelloSoft is headquartered in San Jose, California with an R&D facility in Hyderabad, India. http://www.hellosoft....

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ESnet and Internet2 to Launch Next Gen Research Network

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Internet2 will deploy a high capacity nationwide network that will greatly enhance the capabilities of researchers across the country who participate in the DOE's scientific research efforts. Called ESnet4, the new network created through this partnership will initially operate on two dedicated 10 Gbps wavelengths on the new Internet2 nationwide infrastructure and will seamlessly...

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GSM Exceeds 50% Market Share in the Americas

GSM has taken more than fifty percent of the market share in the Americas, adding nearly 100 million new customers from June 2005 to June 2006. At the end of 2Q 2006, two billion of the world's 2.41 billion cellular subscribers used GSM/UMTS. Informa's World Cellular Information Service projects three billion GSM/UMTS customers by 2009, with 551 million of these subscribers using UMTS services. Some other notes:At 2Q 2005, GSM held 38% of the Americas...

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CBS Launches More Than 100 Broadband Channels of College Sports

CSTV Networks, a division of CBS, is launching more than 100 new broadband channels dedicated to live college sports. Consumers can subscribe to CSTV XXL via www.CSTVXXL.com or CSTV.com, which includes the entire array of All-Access broadband channels and all 10,000 events.The service is powered by thePlatform Media Publishing System and Maven Network's Maven Media System."Exclusive Internet content has become a vital element as we segue from a mass media to a personalized media world," said Brian Bedol, President and CEO, CSTV Networks, Inc. "Oftentimes...

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