Narus Secures $30 Million for IP Traffic

Narus, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, secured $30 million in new financing for its solutions for real-time, IP traffic analysis and management. This financing includes $20 million in equity and a $10 million revolving line of credit. The funding will be used primarily to develop the next generation of NarusInsight products, and to accelerate the company's global channel initiative to support the worldwide adoption for its products.NarusInsight...

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Alvarion Supports Primary Voice Services over WiMAX

Alvarion is now supporting the deliver of primary voice services over WiMAX using the latest edition of its BreezeMAX platform. Alvarion now supports V5.2 interfaces, enabling interconnection of TDM-based infrastructures. When coupled with its existing VoIP capabilities, BreezeMAX can now interface directly with both legacy and next generation voice networks.Alvarion said the primary voice services of the BreezeMAX platform have been tested with carriers in Africa and South America, and approved as interoperable with various vendors' Class 5...

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Alcatel and Samsung to Develop S-Band Mobile Handsets

Alcatel and Samsung Electronics agreed to develop mobile handsetscompatible with the evolution of the DVB-H standard in the S-Band. The companies will collaborate on interoperability testing in orderto deliver a seamless end-to-end solution to operators and a high quality Mobile TV service to end-users. Both companies will support the standardization process of this solution in the DVB Forum undertaken in the DVB-SSP (Satellite Services for Portable devices) Ad-Hoc Group, and join forces to market their combined solution. In...

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Siemens Expands WLAN Portfolio with Open Mobility Solutions

Siemens Enterprise Communications expanded its wireless LAN portfolio with the launch of its HiPath Wireless Manager and a new HiPath Ready Partner Program for Open Mobility Solutions. The new Open Mobility Solutions and open APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) enable the ability to add third-party solutions.Siemens said its open approach to mobility supports an enterprise-wide strategy that centralizes mobility management with "best of breed" WLAN security products. The HiPath Wireless Manager is a new, centralized WLAN management platform...

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Avaya and Juniper Networks Extend Strategic Alliance

Juniper Networks and Avaya are extending their strategic alliance focused on enterprise networking. Juniper now plans to integrate Avaya's IP voice gateway and intelligent communications applications with the new Juniper J4350 and J6350 J-series enterprise branch routers. This is the first completely integrated solution from Avaya and Juniper that involved joint product engineering and software development by both companies.The new Juniper J4350 and J6350 J-series routers provide up to two Gigabit Ethernet performance for enterprise remote, branch...

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Impsat Fiber Networks Deploys Acme Packet

Impsat Fiber Networks has deployed Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers (SBCs) to deliver its VoIP services for the mid and large corporate market and VoIP interconnects for wholesale services to carriers. Impsat, a leading competitive operator in Latin America, has already deployed Acme Packet's Net-Net SBCs as part of its voice network in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and the US with plans to expand further in 2007. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.acmepacket.comLast week, Global Crossing announced plans to acquire Imps...

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Metaswitch Supplies Core Switching at GMI 2006

MetaSwitch supplied core switching functionality during the recent Global MSF Interoperability 2006 (GMI 2006) event, which focused on the technical interoperability issues surrounding IP Multimedia Sub-system (IMS) deployments. MetaSwitch's core switching solutions were tested within the joint BT and Vodafone test facility in the UK and used to support advanced IP services that spanned the four continent network test bed. This year's GMI event marks the third MSF test program that has leveraged MetaSwitch's technology at its core.The worldwide...

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SES Global and Eutelsat to Launch Satellite S-Band over Europe

SES GLOBAL and Eutelsat Communications announced a 50/50 joint venture company, which will operate and commercialize S-band satellite services over Europe for mobile video services. The S-band (2.0 and 2.2 GHz), which represents a new frequency band for both SES and Eutelsat, provides a set of frequencies optimized for supporting a wireless distribution network for mobile devices, including phones, PDAs, laptops and vehicle receivers.Eutelsat Communications...

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Nortel Delivers IMS-ready FMC for France's neuf

Nortel supplied the VoIP and IMS-ready technology underpinning Neuf Cegetel's "TWIN" GSM/WiFi hybrid service. Neuf Cegetel estimates users of TWIN are achieving savings of up to 30% on their mobile phone fees. Under WiFi coverage the TWIN phone automatically connects to the Neuf box or WiFi community access point and calls are made at the same price as calls from a landline phone.The fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution for Neuf Cegetel includes...

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Xilinx and AXIS Offer Integrated Radio Card Platform for W-CDMA, WiMAX

Xilinx released a common digital radio system (CDRS) development platform that increases power amplifier (PA) efficiency and reduces capital and operating costs for W-CDMA and WiMAX base stations. The CDRSX development platform consists of the Xilinx W-CDMA and WiMAX digital front-end (DFE) reference designs and a flexible development board from AXIS Network Technology."The market is looking for flexible, cost-effective solutions that can be used to develop initial systems and then go from concept-to-production as quickly and easily as possible,"...

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Koor Considers Sale of Telrad Networks

Koor Industries announced the receipt of a number of inquiries from various entities interested in acquiring its holdings (61%) in its subsidiary, Telrad Networks. No decisions have been announced.Telrad provides a family of products for Next Generation Networks (NGN), WiFi mesh, and FMC. The company also provides system integration, maintenance and ongoing upgrades of systems. Telrad, which was founded in 1951, is based in Israel.http://www.koor.comhttp://www.telrad....

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Catapult Supplies 3G IMS Test System to KT

Catapult Communications has been selected by Korea Telecom (KT) to provide simulation and load testing capabilities for the addition of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services to their existing IP network.http://www.catapult....

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Verizon Adds 1.9 Million Wireless, 448,000 Broadband Users

Verizon reported Q3 revenues of $23.3 billion, up 25.8% from third quarter 2005, and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of 66 cents, or 68 cents per share before special items (non-GAAP measure).Verizon Wireless is now the largest U.S. wireless carrier in terms of revenue. The company is also the largest wireless data provider based on data revenue, and it has the most retail customers -- that is, businesses and consumers directly served by Verizon...

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Microsoft Releases Windows Media Player 11

Microsoft released Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP, featuring seamless integration with URGE, MTV Networks Co.'s digital music service. Other key enhancements include new formats for ripping and music playback, including Windows Media Audio Professional and WAV Lossless, and improved search capabilities.http://www.microsoft....

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Optibase and SeaChange Collaborate on IPTV

Optibase and SeaChange will extend their product interoperability in support of IPTV services. Optibase will integrate its carrier-class media gateways with SeaChange's TV Platform. The Optibase Media Gateway encodes, transcodes, transmits and recasts live video in real-time.http://www.schange.comhttp://www.optibase....

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