Nortel and Toshiba Test Mobile WiMAX

Nortel and Toshiba Corporation are collaborating on a mobile WiMAX trial being conducted by the Tohoku Bureau of Telecommunications, a regional arm of Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), as part of MIC's "Next Generation Broadband Strategy 2010." The vision is targeting anywhere, anytime connectivity for all citizens by 2010 through universal broadband services supporting Internet access, VoIP, video conferencing, interactive gaming and other high-bandwidth services.Nortel will provide base stations and terminals from...

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T-Com Selects Cisco Carrier Routing System for IPTV

T-Com, the broadband and fixed network business area of Deutsche Telekom, has certified and deployed the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System as the core terabit routing system in its multi-vendor IP/MPLS network. The CRS-1 system is being used to provide the capacity and future scalability to handle the growth in traffic from T-Com's expanding high-speed broadband customer base and innovative services, such as the "T-Home" IPTV and video-on-demand service. Financial terms were not disclosed.T-Com's multi-vendor IP/MPLS network now incorporates...

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AT&T and Cisco Collaborate on Encrypted MPLS Transport

AT&T and Cisco introduced an enhanced encryption solution for enterprise customers' MPLS networks that creates a single, ultra-secure, encrypted connection -- known as a trusted group tunnel -- over an existing MPLS network, while maintaining existing service level agreements.The enhanced encryption solution uses the Cisco tunnelless virtual private network based on Group Encrypted Transport (GET VPN) technology. Tested in the AT&T Proof-of-Concept Labs, this solution will be available to AT&T customers in the first quarter of 2007.Cisco...

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SIRIUS Trims Year-End 2006 Subscriber Guidance

SIRIUS Satellite Radio trimmed its year-end 2006 subscriber guidance, saying it now expects to have between 5.9 million and 6.1 million subscribers at year-end."While strong, this year's retail sales results since the Thanksgiving weekend have not been at the pace we had anticipated. We are updating our year-end 2006 subscriber guidance to between 5.9 million and 6.1 million. At the lower end of our range we will still add almost 20% more subscribers...

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IEEE 802.3 Study Group Supports 100 Gbps as Next Ethernet Speed

The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) voted to support 100 Gb/s as the next speed for Ethernet. In addition, the IEEE 802.3 HSSG also agreed to support reaches of at least 100 meters on OM3 MMF (multimode fiber) and of at least 10km on SMF (single-mode fiber).The Ethernet Alliance, an industry group dedicated to the continued success and expansion of Ethernet technology, described the vote as another significant milestone for Ethernet.http://www.ethernetalliance....

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BSkyB Tests QUALCOMM's MediaFLO

British Sky Broadcasting Limited (BSkyB) and QUALCOMM completed a joint technical trial of QUALCOMM's MediaFLO System in the United Kingdom. The technical trial, conducted over two months in Cambridge, featured 11 channels from the BSkyB content menu delivered to non-commercial devices from QUALCOMM and aimed to demonstrate the performance of the MediaFLO System in both laboratory and mixed field test environments.QUALCOMM said key conclusions of the trial included:MediaFLO in general either met or exceeded QUALCOMM's previous performance claims.Testing...

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NDS to Acquire Jungo for its Software for Residential Gateways

NDS, which provides solutions for securing digital pay-TV, plans to acquire Jungo Ltd, a developer of residential gateway software, for an aggregate consideration of up to $107.5 million in cash.Jungo's portfolio includes OpenRG, a middleware software platform for deployment on network devices in the digital home and small office including triple play residential gateways, home/SOHO routers, wireless access points, cable/DSL routers and voice gateways. Jungo's customers include residential gateway manufacturers like Actiontec, Cisco, Pirelli, Sagem,...

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OKI and Huawei Collaborate in Mobile WiMAX

Oki Electric Industry Co. will sell Huawei Technologies' mobile WiMAX Series products to telecom carriers in Japan starting in the fiscal year ending March 2008. OKI will also provide its products globally with the support of Huawei. The companies announced the partnership at the ITU Telecom World 2006 conference in Hong Kong.OKI will also develop its own WiMAX-WiFi converter, WiMAX communication module for embedded systems, and indoor base station solutions such as pico cells. For base station solutions in particular, OKI plans to develop solutions...

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MultiService Forum Outlines Conclusions from GMI 2006

IMS far more mature than many realize, according to a newly published whitepaper from the MultiService Forum (MSF) that outlines the useful lessons learnt from the GMI 2006 interoperability event held in October. The conclusion of the whitepaper focuses on the main lessons learnt, and the way forward. Six key issues emerged:1. The "Pre-conditions" mechanism for end-to-end QoS is not being consistently implemented by the industry. Current mechanisms,...

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NET Releases its Multi-Service, High-Speed Switching Platform

Network Equipment Technologies announced the commercial release of its NX5010 platform, a next generation, high speed multi-service aggregation and switching platform designed for geographically dispersed data centers, making it possible to collapse into a single integrated system the multiple switches currently required to perform SAN to WAN communications.NET said its platform, which was initially developed for government and financial customers, has demonstrated the ability to transfer up to 60 terabytes of InfiniBand data over a distance of...

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Force10 Networks Gains Traction in Supercomputing

Force10 Networks now powers 18 of the world's 100 largest supercomputers, including two in the top 10, according to the recently updated Top500 list.The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) moved from 126 on the list to 12 by consolidating multiple high performance clusters. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts also advanced on the list by utilizing the scalability of the TeraScale E-Series to increase computing capacity. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center also utilized the density of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series to move...

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Telco Systems Offers AdvancedTCA Blades for Carrier Ethernet

Telco Systems has introduced two new hub blades for Ethernet connectivity on AdvancedTCA platforms. Telco Systems' T-Hub1 and T-Hub2 blades offer high-bandwidth multi-layer networking, with separate base and fabric Interface switching for enhanced security. The blades comply with PICMG 3.0/3.1 and provide full separation between base and fabric interfaces, supporting 1GigE and/or 10GigE or multi-rate ports. Telco Systems said its modules provide flexible fabric interface connections, with Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel to all 23" ATCA chassis...

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Metro Ethernet Forum Expands Membership Roster

The Metro Ethernet Forum announced today its hundredth member -- ARRIS. The announcement was made today at an MEF press briefing of cable industry members including Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, Optimum Lightpath, ARRIS Networks and Narad Networks.http://www.MetroEthernetForum....

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Cantata Enhances Software-Based Media Server

Cantata Technology introduced a new version of its SnowShore IP Media Server, including support for video sharing -- a sophisticated feature allowing the media server to play a video clip along with its associated audio into calls ranging from a simple two party call to large multi-party conferences. Cantata said this new video sharing feature enables a wide range of applications such as in-call video sharing among mobile users, to corporate conferencing services allowing moderators to play video files during a conference which are viewable by...

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BT Vision Combines Freeview TV with Broadband VOD

BT launched its next generation television service, combining free over-the-air channels, DVR capabilities and broadband-enabled VOD. BT Vision does not require a subscription or minimum monthly payment, differentiating it from other services on the market.BT is giving away a "V-box" set-top box that contains a personal video recorder (PVR) able to store up to 80 hours of content, pause or rewind live TV. An installation fee of £60 and a connection...

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Alcatel-Lucent Finalizes Deal for Nortel's UMTS Radio Access Business

Alcatel-Lucent finalized an agreement with Nortel to acquire its UMTS radio access business (UTRAN) and related assets for USD 320 million (EUR 250 million). The deal was first announced on September 1, 2006.Approximately 1,700 people will join Alcatel-Lucent, of which about 1,100 are R&D engineers, based mainly in France, Canada and China.http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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Alcatel-Lucent and KT Open a Universal WiMAX Reality Center

Alcatel-Lucent and KT have opened a state-of-the-art WiMAX reality center in Seoul, South Korea. The lab will showcase WiMAX IEEE 802.16e-2005 technology and broadband multimedia mobile services. The center hosts a full end-to-end Alcatel-Lucent 9100 WiMAX network architecture -- comprising base stations, WAC (WiMAX Access Controller), OMC (Operation and Maintenance Center) and CPE.http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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EIB Provides EUR 400 million for Telefónica's R&D

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide EUR 400 million to support Telefónica I+D's investments in R&D activities in Spain. Investments will be located in research centres in Madrid, Barcelona, Valladolid, Granada and Huesca.http://europa.eu....

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LSI Logic to Acquire Agere for $4 Billion

LSI Logic agreed to acquire Agere Systems in an all-stock transaction with an equity value of approximately $4.0 billion. Under the deal, LSI and Agere shareholders will own approximately 52% and 48%, respectively, of the combined company. Agere is a leading supplier of semiconductors and software for storage, mobility, and networking markets, including for cell phones, wireless and wireline systems, PCs, and hard disk drives. LSI offers a broad...

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Cisco Debuts Content Delivery System for Digital Video and IPTV

Cisco introduced a Content Delivery System (CDS) for the delivery of video-on-demand and time-shifted video services to subscribers' televisions, PCs, mobile handsets, portable media players and other media-capable devices.The Cisco CDS, which is the latest addition to the Cisco IP NGN Service Exchange Framework, is composed of a network of appliances known as Content Delivery Engines (CDEs) which implement content storage, ingest, distribution, personalization and streaming capabilities. Groups of CDEs form a virtual platform for deployment of...

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Cisco Carrier Routing Systems Go Live in BT 21CN

The first eleven CRS-1 Carrier Routing Systems have been deployed in the IP/MPLS core of BT's 21st Century Network (BT 21CN). Additional CRS-1 systems will be deployed within approximately 100 BT POPs over the next year. http://www.cisco....

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