Colombia Móvil Selects Huawei for GSM Expansion

Colombia Móvil, Colombia's the third biggest mobile operator, awarded a GSM expansion contract to Huawei Technologies. The deployment will extend services to over 560,000 users across Colombia's five biggest cities of Medellin, Cali, Bucaramanga, Barranquilla, as well as its capital Bogotá. Financial terms were not disclosed. Colombia Móvil, a leading mobile operator in Colombia, created by Bogotá Telecommunication Enterprise (ETB) ahttp://www...

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Taiwan's Asia Pacific Online Chooses Caspian

Asia Pacific Online (APOL), a leading ISP in Taiwan, has deployed Caspian Media Controllers to enforce multimedia peering service level agreements (SLAs) and improve IP multimedia service performance. The Caspian Media Controllers will be used to provide improved quality to the peering fabric in APOL's network using Caspian's IP QoS flow control. Caspian said its Media Controller functions like "traffic metering lights" in peering networks -- identifying,...

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Siemens Supplies IPTV Middleware for SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME

Siemens Communications has supplied its Myrio IPTV middleware for integration with SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME content distribution service. As part of the PRIME IPTV distribution system, Siemens open, standards-based IPTV middleware has been integrated with content protection technology and MPEG-4 video, including high-definition (HD) video support to provide an end-to-end certified solution.IP-PRIME, scheduled for U.S. commercial launch later this...

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Nokia Delivers 3.6 Mbps HSDPA to Hong Kong's CSL

CSL, the leading mobile operator in Hong Kong, and Nokia successfully completed the first 16QAM call supporting 3.6 Mbps HSDPA in the CSL network. Nokia and CSL have been working together since 1991, providing GSM, GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA infrastructure for the CSL's network. http://www.nokia.comhttp://www.hkcsl....

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Kodiak Networks Signs Brightstar for Global Distribution

Kodiak Networks, a supplier of advanced Push to Talk (PTT) wireless systems, announced a distribution deal with Brightstar, a global wireless distribution and supply chain solutions company. Under the deal, Brightstar will procure original equipment manufacturer (OEM) devices for wireless operators that are PTT-capable and include the Kodiak AVS applications including real-time availability, group conferencing, instant voice messaging and the ability to convert a PTT conversation to a full-duplex, cellular call. http://www.kodiaknetworks.comKodiak...

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Cisco and SAP Partner on Network-based Application Intelligence

Cisco System and SAP AG announced a joint marketing agreement for the United States and Canada that will address governance, risk and compliance (GRC) business processes and IT control issues across the entire IT infrastructure -- from the network layer all the way through the application layer. The partnership will encompass sales and marketing activities as well as advanced service offerings. The joint effort aims to leverage the access and identity intelligence resident across Cisco's Service Oriented Architected Network Architecture (SONA)....

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Global Crossing Introduces Carrier VoIP Community Peering Service

Global Crossing introduced a carrier customers VoIP Community Peering service that gives carriers the ability to more easily offer their business customers high-quality, end-to-end IP connectivity. Global Crossing's VoIP Community Peering, which has been available to enterprise customers since June 2006, applies to all VoIP Local Service numbers on the Global Crossing network, including numbers provisioned within a carrier's network, to other carriers, and to any Global Crossing enterprise customer. This delivers the end-to-end quality of an all-IP...

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Modulus Ships HD/SD Switchable MPEG-4 AVC Encoding Platform

Modulus Video began shipping a new line of MPEG-4 AVC video encoders -- a 1RU encoding platform that can be switched between high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) video. Modulus said its new ME2000 offers more than 25 percent reduction in bit rates while significantly enhancing video quality. The ME2000 platform shares the features of the Modulus Video ME6000, am HD IPTV encoding system, and includes: support for full resolution 1080i and 720Plow resolution proxy for program guide, monitoring and Microsoft TV Picture in Picture...

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AT&T Adds Network-based Cybersecurity Services for SMBs

AT&T introduced two network-based security services for small and midsize businesses -- AT&T Internet Protect and AT&T Intrusion Prevention Service.AT&T Internet Protect uses the company's IP backbone as a proxy of general Internet traffic to help predict and profile known and developing malicious activities. It provides network managers with security information, such as immediate network threats, recent patch releases and other...

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Cisco and Microsoft Outline Architecture for NAC-NAP Interoperability

Cisco Systems and Microsoft outlined their plans for how Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) and Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) will interoperate. A technical whitepaper released by the two companies describes how Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP interoperate for security policy enforcement and health assessment. The white paper describes the architecture and provides details on how to integrate the embedded security capabilities of Cisco's network infrastructure with those of Microsoft Windows Vista and the future version of Windows Server,...

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Hibernia Atlantic Adds North American POPs

Hibernia Atlantic has doubled its fiber-optic network in North America to now include the following seven new network Points of Presence (PoPs): 151 Front Street in Toronto, Canada, 194 Washington Street and 11 North Pearl in Albany, New York, 1351 Washington in Stamford, Connecticut, 111 8th Avenue, New York City, 165 Halsey Street, Newark, New Jersey and Equinix in Ashburn, Virginia.Other cities in Hibernia Atlantic's North American network include...

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SunRocket Joins Stealth's Voice Peering Fabric

SunRocket has joined Stealth Communications' Voice Peering Fabric (VPF), enabling SunRocket to exchange voice traffic directly with other VoIP providers instead of accruing per-minute charges associated with routing customer calls through the PSTN. As a VPF member, SunRocket will be able to facilitate secure, high-quality voice communications directly with other Member providers and access the VPF's expanding Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) registry to determine which calls can route directly to other VPF Members.http://www.sunrocket....

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Sonus Signs Distribution Agreement with EMBARQ Logistics

EMBARQ Logistics will resell the entire suite of Sonus Networks' IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-ready solutions throughout North America. EMBARQ Logistics, Embarq's deployment, distribution and logistics division, will now include in its product portfolio Sonus' products for the local and core IP telephony market.http://www.sonusnet.comhttp://www.embarq....

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KPN Selects Lucent for IMS Transition

KPN has selected Lucent to deploy an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution that will replace its legacy public switched telephone network (PSTN). Under the agreement with KPN, Lucent will deliver a standards-based IMS solution that enables cost-effective and seamless transition of KPN's network assets, including the support for number portability, carrier selection, carrier pre-selection, legal intercept, billing and operations support systems.Lucent's...

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Germany's Arcor Selects Italtel for NGN

Arcor, the second largest wireline operator in Germany, has selected Italtel to supply VoIP services and solutions. Specifically, Italtel will supply both a Next Generation Networks (NGN) Class 4 VoIP solution, to expand the current transit network, and a Next Generation Networks Class 5 VoIP solution to develop new IP telephony and multimedia services for residential and business customers. Financial terms were not disclosed.Arcor's network is...

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ROK Launches Free Mobile VoIP Calling via Bluetooth

ROK Mobile, mobile applications developer based in the UK, launched a free mobile-to-mobile VoIP application and service that connects compatible handsets wirelessly to broadband via Bluetooth on their handset and computer. Initially compatible with several Bluetooth-enabled Nokia handsets, ROK aims to add more than 100 mobile handsets to include Java-powered handsets and Windows devices over the next 3 months. For those people without Bluetooth...

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Verizon Appoints Executive for Interactive TV Programming

Verizon has hired Rachelle Zoffer to manage interactive programming for its FiOS TV subscribers. She has held management positions at Softel-USA, ShadowTV and Disney, where she managed early interactive-TV advertising experiments.http://www.verizon.comIn June 2006, Verizon introduced an interactive weather and traffic widget to complement its fiber-optic FiOS TV service. FiOS TV Widgets are available at no additional cost to customers with a set-top...

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