I.T.U. Celebrates 100 Years of Regulating Wireless Communications

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is celebrating the 100th anniversary of it role in regulating radio communication. Later this month, the ITU will host an event to commemorate the 1906 Berlin Convention at which participating nations signed the International Radiotelegraph Convention. The 1906 Convention aimed at making two-way coast to ship radio communication free from harmful interference. These first regulations laid down rules...

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Microsoft and Orange Launch Orange Messenger

Orange and Microsoft launched a new "Orange Messenger by Windows Live" service aimed at linking the 135 million Orange customers worldwide with the 240 million Windows Live Messenger users. The companies are hoping the new IM implementation will become as widespread as the adoption of e-mail and SMS in everyday life."This new phase in our alliance with Microsoft, which builds upon the experience that we have acquired over the past years, opens up...

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ZTE to Supply ULH DWDM backbone for GTS Central Europe

GTS Central Europe, a leading regional telecommunication provider, selected China's ZTE Corporation to deploy an ultra long haul DWDM transmission network linking Frankfurt in Germany, Prague in the Czech Republic and Bratislava in Slovakia. The network will use ZTE's ZXWM M900 DWDM equipment with RZ coding and AFEC ULH DWDM transmission technologies to provide 1,000 km transmission spans without electrical regeneration.ZTE's system can provide up to 160 10 Gbps DWDM (1.6 Tbps) capacity, and be configured with variety of transponder cards. Financial...

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Xelic Intros 40 Gbps SONET/SDH Framer Core

Xelic released a 40 Gbps SONET/SDH Framer Core that performs framing and byte alignment, transport overhead processing, contiguous concatenated pointer processing and path overhead processing for use in a variety of applications such as line cards, routers and test equipment.The company said it has demonstrated this core in an FPGA implementation by verifying independent transmit and receive functions using industry standard 40 Gbps SONET/SDH test equipment. The system under test was comprised of a 40 Gbps transponder, OIF compliant SERDES and...

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Mobidia Names Gary Tauss as CEO

Mobidia Technology, a start-up based in Vancouver, has appointed Gary Tauss as president and CEO. Most recently, Tauss was the president and CEO of InfiniRoute Networks, a provider of managed VoIP peering services for wireline and wireless carriers, which was acquired by TNS. Prior to joining InfiniRoute, Tauss was CEO for LongBoard, Inc., a SIP-based, multi-media roaming provider for carriers. Tauss has also served as president and CEO of TollBridge...

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Juniper Reports Q3 Revenue of $573.6 Million, up 5%

Juniper Networks reported Q3 net revenue of $573.6 million, compared with $546.4 million for the same quarter last year, an increase of 5 percent. Net revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 were $1,707.8 million, compared with $1,488.5 million for the same period last year, an increase of almost 15 percent.Net cash, cash equivalents and investments increased over $166 million during the third quarter of 2006 to $2.4 billion. http://www.juniper....

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Juniper's MX960 Targets Carrier Ethernet Market

Juniper Networks introduced its MX960 Ethernet Service Router for Carrier Ethernet services. The new platform features up to 960 Gbps of routing and switching capacity in a single chassis and offers up to twelve 40 Gbps slots. The platform is powered by Juniper's I-chip next-generation processor, which was first introduced on the M120. Key features include fully redundant hardware, separate data and control plane, graceful restart, MPLS traffic...

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Telstra International Launches Enterprise VoIP with CoS

Telstra International launched its "Global VoIP" service extending the enterprise voice service beyond the Australian market.Telstra's Global VoIP off-net termination solution comes with three selectable Classes of Service -- premium, enhanced and standard -- that can be applied to each originating extension on the network. The service also features embedded monitoring capabilities based on Fluke/Visual Networks VoIP MRI (management, reporting and...

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AT&T to Provide Citywide Wi-Fi in Riverside, CA

AT&T will build and operate a citywide Wi-Fi wireless broadband Internet access network in Riverside, California. The agreement represents the largest planned AT&T deployment of citywide Wi-Fi service to date.AT&T said the project will also be the nation's largest Wi-Fi network that is designed for both public and municipal use, covering the city's 80-plus square miles.The agreement calls for AT&T to deploy equipment on city light poles and fixtures throughout the coverage area. AT&T will maintain and upgrade the network and...

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D-link Announces 802.16-2005-Compliant WiMAX Router

D-Link made its entry into the WiMAX consumer premise equipment (CPE) market with an 802.16-2005 (formerly 802.16e)-compliant WiMAX router designed for service providers looking to offer wireless residential service. The new router supports wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) and multiple physical layer (PHY) protocols. It supports adaptive modulation -- 64QAM, 16QAM, QPSK -- with up to 5 b/s/Hz spectral efficiency, and 1K fast Fourier transform...

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Verizon to Spin-Off U.S. Directories into "Idearc"

Verizon's Board of Directors approved the proposed spin-off of the carrier's U.S. print and Internet yellow pages directories company to its stockholders. The spin-off will result in a new public company called Idearc (pronounced EYE'- dee-ark).Verizon currently expects that a "when issued" public market for Idearc common stock will begin on or about Nov. 2 on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol "IAR wi." Following the spin-off, Idearc...

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