UK Reaches One Million Unbundled Lines

There are now over one million unbundled lines in the UK. This represents a 420% increase in the number of unbundled lines since the creation of Openreach in January 2006.On average, Openreach is currently fulfilling almost 30,000 LLU orders per week, with more than twenty operators providing unbundled services from more than 1,000 local exchanges across the UK. "The UK has one of the most competitive broadband markets in the world. This progress has been underpinned by price reductions and the introduction of new product and systems capability...

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Cablevision Reports Continued Growth, Solid ARPU

Cablevision, which serves the competitive New York metro region, added more than 288,000 Revenue Generating Units (RGUs) in Q3, as its ARPU rose to $111.13. In Q2, ARPU was at $109. Telecommunications Services net revenues, which includes "Optimum" branded consumer cable services and "Optimum Lightpath" branded, fiber-delivered commercial data and voice services, rose 18.1% to $1,075.8 million, operating income increased 18.5% to $168.5 million, compared to the prior year period.Operational highlights include:Basic video customers up 9,756 or...

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Teknovus EPON Chipset Complies with China Telecom Specs

Teknovus' optical networking unit (ONU) chipset now complies with China Telecom's EPON specifications. The device, which is based on Teknovus' widely deployed TK3713, is a single-chip IPTV ready ONU. It incorporates China Telecom's specifications in the areas of security, DBA (Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation) and interoperability with other EPON chip vendors. Four equipment vendors have announced deployment of Teknovus' EPON systems in China including Salira Systems, Ocean Broadband, Fiberhome and Suminet (a division of Sumitomo). They, along with...

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ADVA's Q3 2006 revenues up 58% YoY

ADVA Optical Networking reported Q3 2006 revenues totaled EUR 53.1 million, up 58% when compared to EUR 33.7 million in Q3 2005 and up 29% when compared to EUR 41.2 million in Q2 2006, respectively. The figures include the operations of recently acquired Movaz Networks.For Q3 2006, ADVA Optical Networking reported an actual net loss of EUR 4.3 million."With Q3 2006, ADVA Optical Networking concluded eleven consecutive quarters of growth in revenues since Q1 2004, reflecting the strong and sustainable underlying market growth and our excellence...

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Jiangsu Telecom Deploys Juniper E320 for IPTV

Jiangsu Telecom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Telecom, has deployed E320 Broadband Service Routers to expand network edge capacity and meet subscriber demand for IPTV, video on demand and other advanced IP services. Financial terms were not disclosed.The new E320 routers join the service provider's existing installed base of Juniper Networks E-series routers.http://www.juniper....

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Skype adds Click-to-call Capabilities

Skype is adding Click-to-call capabilities that let users make calls to ordinary phone numbers with just one click when surfing different websites, using SkypeOut. The upcoming Skype 3.0 will also feature "Skypecasts" and Public Chats which allow users to join in multi-person community conversations and discussions. Public chats are open, ongoing text conversations based on instant messaging where users can meet new people and chat about anything...

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Optical Internetworking Forum Maps TFI, TDM Signals

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)'s Physical and Link Layer Working Group has launched a new project to describe a mapping of the existing TDM-to-Framer Interface (TFI) series of interfaces and their aggregation layer TDM-Protocol (TDM-P). These are methods of transporting SONET/SDH and OTN TDM signals between devices. The CEI-P layer, a protocol layer for the Common Electrical Interface (CEI), was defined in early 2006 and allows the support...

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Nextone Opens Community Portal

Nextone has opened an online community to enable its customers to accelerate their business by building new industry relationships.NexTone said its 550+ service provider customers collectively carry more than 50 percent of the world's international VoIP traffic. In addition, more than 50 service providers in the Voice Peering Fabric (VPF) use NexTone to manage and route their VoIP traffic.The NexTone Community Web portal is an offshoot of the annual...

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SIRIUS Reaches 5.1 Million Subscribers

SIRIUS ended the third quarter with 5,119,308 subscribers, 135% above third quarter 2005 ending subscribers of 2,173,920. During the third quarter of 2006, SIRIUS added 441,101 net subscribers, a 23% increase over third quarter 2005 net subscriber additions of 359,294. The company claims 61% share of the U.S. market.Total revenue for the third quarter of 2006 increased to $167.1 million, up 150% from $66.8 million in the third quarter of 2005. There...

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Marvell Completes Acquisition of Intel's Communications Business

Marvell Technology Group completed the acquisition of Intel's cellular and applications processor business. Marvell made a cash payment of $600 million. Marvell also completed its previously announced senior term loan facility in an aggregate principal amount of $400 million which was used together with existing cash on hand to pay the purchase price.Marvell's mission is to be a long-term, leading supplier in the cellphone and consumer electronics markets," said Dr. Sehat Sutardja, Marvell's chairman, president and CEO. "By adding cellular baseband...

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Global Crossing Sees its European IP Traffic Double in 2006

Global Crossing's IP traffic growth in Europe on track to more than double in 2006, fueled by the worldwide demand for high bandwidth connections to its IP network.By September 2006, IP interconnected VoIP traffic in Europe traversing Global Crossing's global IP backbone had increased by more than six million minutes per month from the previous year. Worldwide, Global Crossing's VoIP platform currently carries more than 2.5 billion minutes per month...

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Luxtera Lands DARPA Grant for High Bandwidth CMOS Photonics Transceiver

Luxtera was awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant for its work in CMOS photonics. Phase 1 of the Electronic and Photonic Integrated Circuits (EPIC) project resulted in the world's first 40Gbps DWDM single CMOS chip transceiver.Phase II of the project will culminate in an even more highly integrated 40Gbps transceiver offering improved performance, smaller size and lower power than demonstrated in Phase I -- bringing key additional circuitry onto the single monolithic CMOS chip. The transceiver will also be designed...

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F5 Networks Completes Review of Stock Option Grants

F5 Networks completed its internal review of past stock option grants and found that the recorded grant dates for certain stock options granted during fiscal years 1999 through 2004 should not be relied upon as the measurement date for accounting purposes. The accounting treatment used for the vesting of certain stock options was incorrect.Based on its analysis, F5 will be required to record an additional non-cash, stock-based compensation expense of approximately $22.9 million, in the aggregate, for fiscal years 1999 through 2006. The company...

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Cisco Reports Sales of $8.2 billion, Record Net Income

Cisco reported first quarter net sales of $8.2 billion, net income (GAAP) of $1.6 billion or $0.26 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $1.9 billion or $0.31 per share. Scientific-Atlanta contributed net sales of $584 million during the first quarter of fiscal 2007, up be 21% YoY."We are in the midst of a market inflection that is changing the landscape of networking, and we believe the network is becoming the platform for the next generation of IT, revolutionizing the way people connect, communicate and collaborate. We laid the cornerstones...

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