Data Connection Enhances its GMPLS Software

Data Connection Limited (DCL) released enhancements to the optical extensions of its DC-RSVP-TE solution, including full support of end-to-end (e2e) label switched path (LSP) protection and restoration as per the IETF's draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-recovery-e2e-signaling specification.Data Connection said its DC-RSVP-TE and related optical control plane products are utilized by the majority of the optical equipment manufacturers in the networking industry. The e2e LSP recovery feature, which enables full LSP recovery from ingress node to egress node...

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Intel Demos Its First Mobile WiMAX Baseband Chip

During a keynote at ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong, Intel announced design completion of its first mobile WiMAX baseband chip. Combined with the company's previously announced single-chip, multi-band WiMAX/Wi-Fi radio, the pair creates a complete chipset called the Intel WiMAX Connection 2300. The demonstration featured an Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology-based laptop with mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005), Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n), and high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) 3G capabilities successfully accessing the Internet at broadband...

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SeaChange Sees Growth in North American VOD

SeaChange, a supplier of digital video systems, posted total revenues of $42.3 million for its fiscal third quarter ended October 31, a 20% increase compared to total revenues of $35.3 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2006. Net loss for the third quarter was $1.0 million, or $0.04 per share, compared with a net loss of $2.1 million, or $0.07 per share for the same period last year.Revenues from the company's Broadband segment, which includes Video on Demand (VOD) and Advertising Insertion hardware and software, were $24.5 million, an increase...

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BT Launches 21C Global Venture Business to Share NGN Expertise

BT is launching a 21C Global Venture (21C GV) business unit to market its expertise in next-generation networks (NGN) to other communication providers across the globe. The new business will leverage the unique experiences BT has gained in developing its 21st Century Network (21CN). BT estimates the addressable market for NGN services to be in excess of $50 billion over the next five years.The first customer will be Turk Telekom, following a support agreement between BT and Oger Telecom.Paul Reynolds, CEO, BT Wholesale said: "BT's 21st Century...

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Samsung Uses Agere for Thinnest Cell Phones

Samsung's Ultra Edition 6.9 (X820 bar design) and Ultra Edition 9.9 (D830 clamshell design) cell phones, which are the thinnest yet among its form factors, leverage Agere Systems' chip packaging design. The technique is called package-on-package (stacking) in which a packaged memory chip is stacked on top of the baseband chip package to reduce the overall area footprint. This enables single-sided component mounting so the phone itself can be made...

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Kineto and Extricom Test Enterprise UMA Solution

Kineto Wireless, a supplier of Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology, and Extricom, a provider of enterprise WLAN solutions, completed interoperability testing between their platforms. The companies said their testing validated what is believed to be an industry first: seamless handover and continuity of active UMA voice calls and data sessions between Wi-Fi access points in an enterprise wireless LAN environment. Extricom's Wi-Fi infrastructure enables UMA-based sessions to move transparently between access point radios, without any interruption...

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Broadcom Adds Gigabit Ethernet Wi-Fi Processor

Broadcom introduced a new Wi-Fi Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) processor that extends its Intensi-fi family of draft-802.11n solutions. The device is currently being used in the latest products from Linksys and Buffalo.The company said that although current generations of 802.11n products deliver 4 times the throughput of 802.11g, performance is actually bottlenecked by the Fast Ethernet switch and network processor. By integrating a GbE controller and increasing the processor's clock speed to 300 MHz, Broadcom's latest offering eliminates those bottlenecks,...

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Vodafone Turkey Selects Motorola

Motorola was awarded a major contract to upgrade, extend and manage Vodafone's nationwide GSM network in Turkey. Under the eight-year contract, Motorola will modernize and upgrade Vodafone's radio access network to increase coverage and capacity. In addition, Motorola will assume responsibility for operational management of the network. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.motorola....

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Verizon Business Builds Trans-Atlantic Mesh with Ciena CoreDirector

Verizon Business has deployed a highly-resilient mesh network based on Ciena CoreDirector Multiservice Optical Switches across its terrestrial and undersea cable network. The new configuration provides six diverse paths for rerouting traffic, if needed, on three major submarine cable network systems. Verizon has deployed Ciena CoreDirector multiservice optical switching platforms at locations in both the United States and Europe. Networked CoreDirectors continually evaluate the health of the network and maximize its resiliency. Verizon Business...

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Verizon Sees Steady Improvement in FiOS Metrics

Speaking at an investment conference in New York, Verizon CFO Doreen Toben said that customer demand for and usage of FiOS services are steadily increasing.She said "all of our FiOS metrics are moving in the right directions and closer to the long- term targets" that the company announced in September. The FiOS initiative's dilutive impact on earnings will peak in the fourth quarter 2006 and first quarter 2007, Toben said, with a steady quarterly...

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AT&T Provides New MPLS Network for Boeing Linking 91 Locations

AT&T has built a 91-location MPLS-based network for The Boeing Company. Under a recently completed three-year, multimillion-dollar contract, AT&T helped link 91 Boeing sites in North America and the United Kingdom by providing a new VPN. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.att....

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Global Crossing Opens PoP in Helsinki

Global Crossing opened a new Point of Presence (PoP) facility in Helsinki, Finland, that provides customers with direct access to global IP solutions over its MPLS-based network. The Helsinki PoP is a business gateway from the Baltics and Russia to Western Europe and provides customers with network access to Finland.The company has deployed 10GigE PoPs across Europe in Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom.Global Crossing also noted that IP traffic increased 126 percent between the third quarter of 2005...

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Aruba Teams with OKI on Network Security

Aruba Networks and OKI Electric Industry Co. will join efforts to deliver network security for Next-Generation Networks (NGNs). The partnership combines Aruba's strengths in secure mobility technology and OKI's strengths in QoS technology for VoIP. Specifically, OKI will incorporate Aruba's wireless security technologies into AP@PLAT, OKI's network infrastructure for "Ubiquitous Services." The two companies will develop highly secure and reliable products in several areas including small- to large-scale secure WLAN, Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN)...

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