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Saturday, March 31, 2007
AT&T Ponders Acquiring Stake in Telecom Italia
AT&T confirmed that it is negotiating to acquire an indirect investment in Telecom Italia S.p.A. A deal would provide AT&T with a strategic European partner serving 24 million landline, 57.9 million mobile and 8.6 million broadband connections, including broadband interests in the Netherlands, France and Germany, and wireless in Brazil.AT&T is considering the purchase of a one-third stake in Olimpia S.p.A., a holding company with approximately 18 percent of Telecom Italia's ordinary shares, subject to satisfactory completion of AT&T's...
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Orange Business Services Offers International Ethernet Link
Orange Business Services launched International Ethernet Link, a new network solution available in 14 countries and intended for businesses with international subsidiaries and for multinational companies.International Ethernet Link is now available in three continents:Europe: France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Italy and SpainNorth America: the United StatesAsia-Pacific: Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.International Ethernet Link comes as an addition to the worldwide IP VPN MPLS service...
RCN Enters indefeasible right of use (IRU) Deal with Verizon
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan has approved the Department of Justice's 2005 Verizon/MCI merger consent decree, giving the go-ahead for iRCN Business Solutions to begin a ten-year indefeasible right of use (IRU) agreement with Verizon.RCN Business Solutions, a transport, Internet, bulk video and voice service provider to the carrier and enterprise business communities, will increase its fiber footprint in the Greater Boston Area, as well expand into the Portland, ME and Richmond, VA markets.In the Greater Boston Area, RCN will offer its...
Information/Communication Drives 50% of EU growth
Public and private information and communication technology (ICT) continues to grow faster than Europe's overall economy, and contributed nearly 50% of EU productivity growth between 2000 and 2004. Software and IT services are currently the most dynamic growth area (5.9% for 2006-2007).The European Commission's annual progress report on i2010 shows that Europeans are quickly embracing new online services. This is supported by a record number of...
Australia's PowerTel Installs Nortel's Common Photonic Layer
Australia's PowerTel has deployed a 400 Gbps long-haul and metro network using Nortel's Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 and Optical Metro 5200 platforms. The newly deployed optical network will consolidate PowerTel's east coast infrastructure between Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane. Financial terms were not disclosed.PowerTel is basing the network Nortel's Common Photonic Layer (CPL) technology, which delivers optical network intelligence through software monitoring and self optimization. Along with CPL, the long-haul and metro DWDM solution...
Hibernia Atlantic Adds POPs in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Brussels and Paris
Hibernia Atlantic, which operates a high-capacity, undersea cable system linking North America and Europe, has established network Points of Presence (PoPs) in the following locations: TelecityRedbus in Amsterdam, Tollaan 994 St. Stevans in Brussels, Paris Telehouse II, and Interxion in Frankfurt. These new PoPs are in addition to Hibernia Atlantic's existing network presence in the U.S., Canada, Ireland and the UK. The total cable length now owned...
Turkcell Selects Ericsson for Expansion
Turkcell, which is Turkey's leading operator with over 32 million subscribers, selected Ericsson to expand its network. Turkcell currently operates more than 12,000 base stations, and provides network coverage to 97.2 percent of the nation's population. Ericsson has been a long-term supplier to Turkcell. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ericsson.com http://www.turkcell.com...
BigBand Supplies Systems for China's Xiamen CATC
Xiamen CATV, which serves more than 400,000 subscribers in southeastern China's Fujian province, is using BigBand Networks' Cuda cable modem termination system (CMTS) and FastFlow Broadband Provisioning Management software to deliver high-speed data and IP video. BigBand said Xiamen selected Cuda in part for its support for key Ethernet functions--such as virtual local area networks (VLAN) and point-to-point protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE)--that are designed to allow the CMTS to interoperate with the Fujian operator's other network equipment. The...
Siemens Networks to Resell Nominum's IP Routing Directory
Siemens Networks will resell Nominum's Navitas as part of the Siemens VoIP and IMS solutions. The joint solution combines the strengths of Siemens SURPASS hiQ 8000 soft switches and the CFX-5000 Multimedia Session Controllers with Nominum's Navitas ENUM-based IP-application Routing Directory (IPRD).VoIP Peering allows Voice over Internet Protocol traffic to travel over an all IP network by inter-connecting separate VoIP islands. Converged architectures are required to deliver high quality, low cost advanced services over all-IP networks as well...
Motorola Completes Tut Systems Acquisition for $39 Million
Motorola completed its acquisition of Tut Systems for approximately $39 million on a fully diluted basis.Tut Systems provides carrier-class end-to-end digital video encoding, processing and distribution products. Their solutions support MPEG-2 and MPEG- 4 AVC video compression, local ad insertion, forward error correction, and real-time conditioning of video and audio. Tut Systems' customer list includes more than 160 service providers worldwide.Tut Systems' "Astria" content processor (CP) is an IPTV headend solution supporting various access networks,...
Verizon Sells Stake in Puerto Rico Telephone
Verizon closed on the sale of its 52% interest in Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico (TELPRI) to a subsidiary of America Movil. The buyer purchased 100% percent of TELPRI, including the other shares held by the Puerto Rico Telephone Authority, which owned 28 percent; Popular,13 percent; and the company's employee stock ownership plan, 7 percent. PRT provides telecommunications services to more than 1 million residential and business customers and to more than 550,000 wireless customers under the Verizon Wireless brand.http://www.verizon....
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
PMC-Sierra to Close R&D Centers in Winnipeg and Saskatoon
PMC-Sierra announced a corporate restructuring that include the closure of two of PMC-Sierra's R&D centers in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The total work force reduction under this restructuring is expected to be approximately 175 positions across the organization. PMC-Sierra currently has 1,183 employees worldwide. The restructuring will begin immediately and is expected to be substantially complete by the end of the third quarter of 2007.Overall, the company expects the restructuring will reduce on-going annualized operating...
3Com Buys Out Huawei's Stake in Joint Venture
3Com Corporation closed its acquisition of Huawei Technologies' 49% stake in H3C for $882 million and 3Com now owns 100% of the China-based company. To fund the transaction and related fees and expenses, 3Com used approximately $470 million of cash from its balance sheet and approximately $430 million from a senior secured bank loan at its H3C segment.3Com won the right to acquire the remaining stake in H3C through a bidding process that ended on...
Sonus Partners with Apertio for Broadband-Cellular Convergence Solutions
Sonus Networks has formed a partnership with Apertio aimed at broadband-cellular convergence. The two companies will integrate Sonus' IMS-ready wireless solutions with Apertio's One-HLR, Home Location Register, a standards-based approach to a critical component of wireless networks.Apertio's software application suite, Apertio One, delivers a single, open, subscriber-centric architecture for current and new generation networks. The suite includes Apertio One-NDS (Network Directory Server), Apertio One-HLR (Home Location Register) and Apertio One-HSS...
Telstra to Withdraw NYSE Listing
Telstra confirmed its intention to withdraw the listing of its American Depositary Shares, evidenced by American Depositary Receipts (ADR), and the underlying ordinary shares from the New York Stock Exchange. In conjunction with the delisting, Telstra will be moving to an over-the-counter ADR program.The securities will not be listed on any other exchange in the United States, but Telstra's ordinary shares will continue to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.On 21 March 2007, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved final rules...
Verizon Launches its Own Local TV Station of FiOS
Verizon launched its first owned-and-operated television channel to be delivered over its FiOS fiber network. FiOS TV subscribers in the Washington metro area will be able to tune to the new local television channel, FiOS1, a one-stop shop for local weather, traffic, news, sports and community features. Verizon is planning to launch similar channels in other markets this year.Verizon's first original programming is "Push-Pause," featuring programming produced by citizen video journalists (VJs) who live in the area. FiOS1 also plans to invite viewers...
Extreme Networks Appoints CFO
Extreme Networks appointed Karen M. Rogge to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, replacing Michael Palu, who served as acting Chief Financial Officer for the past seven months, and will return to his position as Vice President and Corporate Controller for the company.Most recently, Rogge served as Vice President, Corporate Finance and Treasurer at Seagate Technology. Prior to Seagate, Rogge served as Vice President and General Manager for the Internet search division at Inktomi. http://www.extremenetworks....
Vyyo Secures New Funding from Goldman Sachs
Vyyo, a supplier of broadband access equipment for cable system operators, announced new funding from Goldman, Sachs & Co., an existing investor. The deal includes $17.5 million in new funding and an additional $17.5 million to pay off the aggregate of notes issued to Goldman Sachs in 2006. The total financing of $35 million consists of a five-year unsecured note convertible into Vyyo common stock at $10 per share, a premium of 34% over the closing price of Vyyo's common stock on March 27th. The convertible note will bear a 5% annual interest...
Azaire Enables "All Services Everywhere" for CDMA with PDIF
Azaire Networks introduced a new CDMA network component for its IP Converged Network Platform with eXtended Mobility (IP-CNP with XM). The new product is the first Packet Data Interworking Function (PDIF) optimized and available to deploy for CDMA networks. Azaire said its platform can be used by mobile operators to provide their subscribers with highly secure access to their enterprise and consumer applications using authentication and authorization features. To enable fixed mobile convergence networks, the 3GPP2 has defined an element called...
Axerra Releases Pseudo-Wire Access Device
Axerra Networks has released its AXN10-8NR Pseudo-Wire Access Device, extending its family of AXN Pseudo-Wire Gateways and Access Devices with a solution that is designed specifically for mobile wireless backhaul cell site connectivity applications. Along with capabilities that enable operators to meet the growing traffic requirements for the backhaul of voice and data services, including EV-DO and HSDPA, in packet-based radio access networks (RAN), the AXN10-8NR features removable, field upgradeable and reparable power supplies and spans a wide...
Alvarion, NDS and MobiTV Showcase Mobile WiMAX TV Services
Alvarion, is showcasing an application called "4Motion" mobile WiMAX high resolution TV in cooperation with NDS (content security) and MobiTV (content aggregation. 4Motion is designed to fully integrate NDS's digital rights management (DRM) and conditional access (CA) solutions, with MobiTV's end-to-end mobile WiMAX television services, to enable broadcast of live channels video on demand (VoD), interactive TV, and other value added video applications. 4Motion is designed to be compliant with 802.16e-2005 and WiMAX Forum Network Working Group...
Narus Develops Security to Monitor Core of Carrier Wireless Nets
Narus is developing a module for its "NarusInsight Secure Suite" that detects and mitigates wireless-specific attacks from various devices and at different levels of the network architecture. By implementing at the core, Narus said it can monitor all IP traffic and correlate across every link and element on the network, offering far greater visibility into the traffic. Initial customer availability of NSS' new wireless module is targeted for Q4 2007. http://www.narus....
Tango Introduces its "Abrazo" Hybrid Mobile Phone-PBX
Tango Networks introduced its "Abrazo" fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution for enabling mobile operators to integrate all mobile phones with any corporate PBX, Centrex or Unified Communications network. "Abrazo," which means embrace in Spanish, unites the mobile phone network with the enterprise voice network, turning every mobile phone into a PBX/Centrex extension for both incoming and outgoing calls. Tango Networks said that while other fixed-mobile convergence solutions on the market are either entirely enterprise-based or carrier-based,...
RAD Introduces Pseudowire Gateway for Cellular Backhaul
RAD Data Communications unveiled its IPmux-116 pseudowire gateway designed for cellular backhaul transport.The ASIC-based platform offers accurate regeneration of timing on a per port basis to support multiple customers' timing needs, in-band facility loopbacks to allow customers to test their circuits independently of the transport provider and VLAN aware switching with ingress and egress rate limiting to provide tunable bandwidth. The IPmux-116 supports all modes of TDM emulation, including SAToP,TDMoIP, CESoPSN and HDLCoPSN.The adaptive clock...
Agilent Announces 802.16e 2005 WiMAX Test
Agilent Technologies announced its IEEE 802.16e 2005 Protocol Conformance Test (PCT) Solution, which is based on the new Agilent E6651A Mobile WiMAX Test Set. Created in conjunction with Innowireless Co., the test solution enables WiMAX designers to verify protocol implementations. Beginning in June 2007, Agilent plans to support subscriber station testing for WiMAX profiles 1A and 3A. Base station test and other WiMAX profiles will be supported in subsequent releases. http://www.agilent.com/find/Wi...
US Gov't Awards Largest Ever "Networx" Contract
The General Services Administration (GSA), which is the central procurement agency for the U.S. government, awarded a set of contracts under its "Networx" program valued at an estimated $20 billion over 10 years -- believed to be the largest networking contracts ever issued.Contract award recipients include AT&T, Verizon Business Services (MCI), and Qwest Government Services.The Networx program consists of two acquisitions: Networx Universal...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Veraz Adds IMS-Compliant Softclient, Web Portal
Veraz Networks released a new multimedia softclient and a web portal application. The softclient, called "Veraz Virtu", is an IMS-compliant user application that enables end users to access services including voice, instant messaging, prepaid calling card and video telephony. The web portal application is a service management tool that enables both softclient users and traditional subscribers to configure and manage account features such as user...
NEC Launches Mobile WiMAX for North America
NEC Corporation of America announced the availability of its Mobile WiMAX solution based on the IEEE802.16e-2005 standard and also compliant with WiMAX Forum's Wave-2 System Profile for fixed and mobile broadband access services. The platform is suited for operation on Sub-11GHz licensed bands.NEC's latest standards-based Mobile WiMAX solution includes Wave-2 System Profile features to provide enhanced system performance when compared to previous 802.16-2004 and Wave-1 System Profile standard solutions. This new standard addresses mobility extensions...
One Italia to Launch 3G Video Calling using IP Unity Glenayre
One Italia is preparing to launch a 3G video calling service powered by a hosted platform from IP Unity Glenayre and Pradac Informatica.Mobile users will be able to access and download content, such as ringtones and games, via a rich 3G mobile video experience, rather than traditional WAP methods.One Italia has selected IP Unity Glenayre's "Versera Video Portal" as the user interface and presentation management platform for the deployment. The 3G hosted service from IP Unity Glenayre and leading Italian system integrator Pradac Informatica, will...
IMS Forum Plans Second IMS Plugfest
The IMS Forum is planning for the second IMS Plugfest to be held June 4-8th at the IMS Forum UNH InterOp Lab (IOL) in Durham, New Hampshire. The second IMS Plugfest will test interoperability for IMS voice, VoIP and Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) services including IP PBX functionality, features management, billing and operational testing.Interoperability veterans Empirix and Ixia will be Platinum level sponsors, and Sonus Networks a Gold level sponsor.The list of companies announcing today their participation include Amdocs, Argela Technologies,...
Microsoft Backs ZenZui Zooming Interface for Mobile Content
Microsoft is backing ZenZui, an independent company that is developing a "Zooming User Interface" to make it easier for people to engage, consume and interact with mobile Web content. ZenZui's Zooming User Interface technology was initially developed by the Microsoft Research lab in Redmond, Washington. ZenZui's high-frame rate Zooming User Interface employs up to 36 individual "tiles" that are selected and customized by users to reflect their interests and lifestyle with relevant content, interactive communications and fresh data. The modular...
Sonus and RadioFrame Extends GSM-Based Broadband-Cellular Convergence
Sonus Networks and RadioFrame Networks, a developer of IP-based picocell and femtocell solutions, are working together to enable broadband-cellular converged solutions to deliver voice services and multimedia applications to mobile handsets by leveraging customer-premise GSM access picocell and femtocell base stations. RadioFrame is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. http://www.sonusnet.com http://www.radioframenetworks....
Siemens Carries 100 GigE over DWDM networks for 2400 km
Siemens Networks has successfully tested a 111 Gbps transmission over almost 2400 kilometers, setting the stage for the transport of 100 Gigabit Ethernet per wavelength channel over existing 10 Gbps DWDM infrastructure. The reported trial carried 10 independent wavelength channels of 111 Gbps at 50 Giga Hertz channel spacing over nearly 2400 kilometers of Standard Single Mode Fiber (SSMF). The reported trial has been partly supported within the project EIBONE (Efficient Integrated Backbone) from the German Government BMBF (Bundesministerium für...
Microsoft Expands Xbox LIVE Movie and TV Content Library
Microsoft will begin offering downloadable TV series and movies from A&E Network, ADV Films, National Geographic and TotalVid.com on its Xbox LIVE platform, which adds to the more than 1,500 hours of downloadable entertainment content already available.In addition, Paramount Pictures will offer its feature films for download in high definition. Microsoft noted that downloads on Xbox LIVE have grown in double-digits, month-over-month, with a 400 percent increase since the service began offering TV shows and movies late last year. http://ww...
Fraunhofer IIS and STMicroelectronics Develop ASIC for
STMicroelectronics and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS agreed to jointly develop a dedicated low-power ASIC for Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) applications such as fixed and portable radios, car receivers, software receivers, and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Digital Radio Mondiale is a universal, open standard digital radio system with FM-like sound quality available to markets worldwide for long-wave (LW), medium-wave (MW), and short-wave (SW) frequencies. DRM uses the existing Amplitude Modulation (AM) broadcast frequency...
Taiwan's Chunghwa Tops 4 Million BB Lines, IPTV Grows to 249,000
Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent operator in Taiwan, added 192,000 new HiNet subscribers over the last twelve months to bring the total number of Internet subscriptions to 4.30 million at the end of December 2006. The number of broadband subscribers, including ADSL and FTTB subscribers, increased to 4.04 million at the end of December 2006. A total of 197,000 new ADSL subscribers and 165,000 new FTTB subscribers were added during the year.Chunghwa...
Motorola to Supply 802.16e WiMAX from Chile's VTR
Motorola has been selected by VTR to deploy a 802.16e WiMAX network in Chile. In December 2005, VTR obtained the license to offer wireless communication in Chile from regions I to IX and the Metropolitan Region. Commercial launch of the WiMAX network is targeted for March 2008. VTR is one of Motorola's nine agreements for WiMAX network deployments worldwide.VTR is owned 80 percent indirectly by the U.S. Company Liberty Global, Inc. and 20 percent by Cristalerias de Chile S.A., a local company. http://www.motorola....
Cisco to Acquire SpansLogic for Packet Processing
Cisco Systems agreed to acquire SpansLogic, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, for an undisclosed sum. SpansLogic, which was founded in 2004 and has 14 employees, is developing packet processors for Ethernet switching. Product plans have been publicly disclosed. http://www.cisco.com http://www.spanslogic.com/Cisco's acquisitions for 2007 include: Spanslogic, WebEx, NeoPath Networks, Reactivity, Five Across, and IronPort Syste...
Juniper M120s Deployed in Canada's ORION Research Net
The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) has selected Juniper Networks M120 Multiservice Edge Router for the second phase of a network upgrade. ORION, one of the world's largest and most advanced fully optical research and education networks, is expanding to 5,800 kilometers from its current 4,300-kilometer span. Juniper's new M120 routing equipment is to be installed by the end of March 2007 at ORION Points of Presence (PoPs)...
Alcatel-Lucent Outlines Advancements in Optical Transmission
In a series of papers presented at this week's OFC/NFOEC conference in Anaheim, California, Alcatel-Lucent outlined a series of advancements in optical networking, including:The potential for upgrading existing 40 Gbps transparent long-haul transport networks to 100 Gbps Ethernet. Researchers at Bell Labs transmitted ten closely spaced 100 Gbps WDM data channels over a 1,200 kilometer optical transmission distance in a systems experiment that included six optical add/drop nodes like those used in today's transparent mesh networks. Using this...
Alcatel-Lucent Carries 25.6 Tbps over Single Fiber
Researchers at Alcatel-Lucent have transmitted a world record 25.6 Terabits per second (Tbps) of optical data over a single fiber strand, using 160 WDM channels. This surpasses the previous transmission record of 14 Tbps, established in September 2006.The experimental system transmitted 25.6 Tbps of data through three 80-km spans. The data used wavelength division multiplexing in both the C (conventional) and L (long) wavelength bands and, to double the total capacity, polarization multiplexing in each wavelength was employed. Distributed Raman...
Alcatel-Lucent to Supply CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev A for Mexico's Iusacell
Iusacell, the largest CDMA operator in Mexico, awarded a one-year contract to Alcatel-Lucent to expand and enhance its existing mobile network to support CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A (Rev. A) technology. The new EV-DO Rev. A network will enable Iusacell to continue the deployment of unique services such as IusaTV, BAM-Banda Ancha Movil (mobile broadband services) and other multimedia services such as video telephony to its growing consumer base.As part of this project, which will begin in June 2007, Iusacell's existing Alcatel-Lucent-supplied base...
Monday, March 26, 2007
Alcatel-Lucent Adds 48-port VDSL2 Line Card to ISAM
Alcatel-Lucent introduced a 48-port VDSL2 line card as part of Release 3.3 of its ISAM product family, a density especially important in space-constrained cabinets. This is a universal DSL card, which is backwards compatible with ADSL.Alcatel-Lucent's ISAM Release 3.3 products include the 7302 ISAM for central offices and its smaller form factor 7330 ISAM Fiber to the Node (FTTN) optimized for street cabinets. Through the same 48-port VDSL2 line card, services providers can support IPTV subscribers with VDSL2 plus existing ADSL users.The Alcatel-Lucent...
Motorola Invests in GoTV Networks
Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment in GoTV Networks, a made-for-mobile television provider. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.GoTV Networks is the first made-for-mobile television network and studio group, which applies an on-demand model to allow consumers to select and watch up-to-the-minute news, sports, entertainment and other compelling content. GoTV programming is accessible on a broad range of wireless devices via monthly subscription through Cingular, the new AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, Helio and Boost...
QUALCOMM Plans Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) -- 40 Mbps Down, 10 Mbps Up
QUALCOMM outlined its roadmap to "Ultra Mobile Broadband" delivered using its next-generation Cell Site Modem (CSM) CSM8900 and Mobile Data Modem chips. QUALCOMM will support the latest 3GPP2 UMB standard, expected to be finalized within the first half of this year. QUALCOMM is positioning the technology as an evolutionary upgrade within the family of CDMA2000 standards that can be deployed in existing or new spectrum allocations using scalable bandwidths up to 20 MHz.QUALCOMM said UMB technology incorporates the benefits of OFDMA, CDMA and other...
Sonus Acquires Zynetix for GSM Softswitch
Sonus Networks will acquire privately-held Zynetix Ltd, which developed and IP-based voice switch for GSM networks. Under the deal, Sonus will pay approximately $13 million in cash and stock for Zynetix. The acquisition is expected to close by the second week of April 2007. Zynetix's newly developed IP-based GSM solutions are based on 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) architecture. The software- based solutions leverage the ubiquity of GSM handsets to provide enhanced services to end users. Unlike traditional Soft-Mobile Switching Centers...
Verizon Business Boosts Backbone to 40 Gbps on Key Route
Verizon Business is boosting the capacity of its ultra long haul (ULH) all-optical network from 10 Gbps line rate to 40 Gbps in the high-traffic corridor between New York and Washington, D.C. The fourfold increase in ULH capacity will start in Q2, with similar increases planned for additional key routes throughout the year."Transmission of 40 Gbps at 80 wavelengths provides quick response to customer demands for bandwidth. As a result, customers will see new standards of service delivery, performance and reliability," said Fred Briggs, executive...
Verizon to Begin GPON Rollout
Verizon will begin deploying GPON access equipment from Alcatel-Lucent in its FTTP network, making it the first major telecommunications company in the US to deploy the technology. Verizon plans to roll out GPON first to a group of customers in Lewisville, Texas, early in the second quarter, and then to a group of customers in Kirklyn, Pa., over the summer. At the successful conclusion of the initial deployments, plans for wider expansion of the...
Tekelec and HP Partner on IMS-based Multimedia Services
Tekelec announced an agreement with HP to accelerate the deployment of multimedia services based on the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS).The solution includes IMS core network infrastructure, service enablers, operational and business support system linkages and application service offerings that enable the delivery of subscriber-centric services spanning wireless, wireline and broadband networks.IMS core network elements in the solution include the following:Call state control function (CSCF) and home subscriber server (HSS)Service enablers such...
Teknovus and Cavium Collaborate on EPON Home Gateway
Teknovus, which supplies Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (G-EPON) chipsets, and Cavium Networks, which offers dedicated processors intelligent networking and security applications, are collaborating on an integrated EPON home gateway.The joint EPON home gateway reference design provides carrier-class media and management features and performance by combining Cavium Networks' OCTEON MIPS64 processor with Teknovus' EPON ONU chip. The OCTEON processor with integrated intelligent hardware acceleration is designed to meet the parameters of...
TeliaSonera Deploys Motorola UMA-Enabled Voice Gateway
Motorola announced the commercial launch of its Residential Seamless Mobility Gateway -- the Motorola RSGu3502 -- supporting Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology. TeliaSonera will deploy the UMA-enabled gateway for fixed-mobile voice convergence services. UMA-based service will enable lower-cost calls with better coverage and higher capacity in the home where WLAN access is present. FMC also promises a seamless mobile experience when moving in and out of the home using a single device, single number, contacts book, voicemail, and bill. The...
NTT Unveils Dual-Mode Optical Fiber
NTT Photonics Laboratories introduced a Dual-Mode Fiber (DMF) that functions as both multi-mode and single-mode optical fiber. Up until now, businesses have had to choose between single-mode or multi-mode optical fiber for their data transmission and data center needs. NTT said its Dual-Mode Fiber eliminates the need for expensive system upgrades by functioning as both multi-mode fiber and single-mode fiber. At the outset, when businesses transmission demands are low, Dual-Mode Fiber can be installed and used as multi-mode fiber at a lower cost...
Cisco Adds 3G Wireless to Its Integrated Services Routers
Cisco has added a 3G wireless connectivity option to its integrated services router, enabling service providers to offer 3G wireless connectivity to enterprise branch office customers demanding the highest-availability for their WANs. Four leading mobile network operators -- AT&T, Sprint, Telefónica Móviles España and Verizon Wireless -- have trialed Cisco's new 3G Wireless WAN High-Speed Interface Card (HWIC) solution for their enterprise customers. Separate cards are available for GSM and CDMA. Cisco also announced new capabilities that...
Corrigent Releases New Packet Transport Switch
Corrigent Systems introduced its CM-4000 Packet Transport Switch (PTS) series designed for scalable end-to-end delivery of packet and TDM services over a single, converged transport infrastructure. The new platform is a universal transport solution for delivering any traffic mix, from 100% circuit-based TDM to 100% Ethernet services with high cost efficiency.Corrigent is offering two versions of switch (the CM-4314 and CM-4206) with full, non-blocking...
FCC Amends Pricing Obligations in AT&T/BellSouth Merger
The FCC decided to revise one of the conditions imposed on the merger between AT&T and BellSouth. Specifically, the FCC will require AT&T post-merger to comply with the pricing obligations of certain Special Access Conditions regardless of the pricing decisions of other incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs). Second, the FCC will reduce the duration of this Special Access Condition from 48 months to 39 months. http://www.fcc....
Sunday, March 25, 2007
QUALCOMM's EV-DO Rev. B Averages 9.3 Mbps in 5 GHz
QUALCOMM introduced its first device solution for EV-DO Rev. B, delivering highly advanced capabilities for next-generation data and multimedia services. QUALCOMM said recent field tests of EV-DO Rev. B technology resulted in average data rates of 9.3 Mbps on the downlink over 5 MHz of spectrum.The new MSM7850 device chipset provides support for EV-DO Rev. B with full backward compatibility. Scheduled to sample this year, the MSM7850 solution enables manufacturers to deliver the capabilities of Rev. B on consumer products. A software upgrade release...
Bell Labs Develops Silicon-based Tunable Optical Equalizer
Researchers at Bell Labs have demonstrated the first CMOS silicon-based tunable optical waveguide equalizer, a major step in the drive toward high-density, low-cost silicon chip-based optical networking devices.Alcatel-Lucent said the key to its breakthrough is a new control configuration that uses a single voltage to adjust the signal equalization and an innovative architecture to realize complex responses in a low order filter. The result is a highly adaptable transmitter, which brings a very rich level of control to silicon-based optical networking.Possible...
IBM Unveils 160 Gbps Chipset
IBM unveiled a prototype optical transceiver chipset capable of reaching 160 Gbps. To achieve this new level of integration in the chipset, IBM researchers built an optical transceiver with driver and receiver integrated circuits in current CMOS technology. They then coupled it with other necessary optical components made in more exotic materials, such as indium phosphide (InP) and gallium arsenide (GaAs), into one, integrated package only 3.25 by...
AT&T to Offer DDoS Defense for SMBs
AT&T announced a subscription-based Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation offering for small and medium-sized businesses.AT&T DDoS Defense Subscription is a self-managed service that provides customers with as-needed protection against malicious traffic while keeping costs low. The service is available as an option for customers of AT&T "Internet Protect", a security-alerting and notification service that offers advanced information regarding potential real-time attacks (viruses, worms and DDoS attacks) that are in the early-formation...
AT&T to Deliver Napster to Wireless and Broadband Subscribers
AT&T is teaming with Napster to give customers unlimited access for one year to more than 3 million song tracks through "Napster To Go" -- a $180 value -- allowing consumers to customize playlists on their PC and seamlessly transfer favorite tunes to compatible wireless phones and music devices. The offer will be available to qualifying new and existing residential AT&T customers across the company's entire 22-state traditional service footprint where broadband service is available. http://www.att....
AT&T Plans "Video Share" 3G App Built on IMS
AT&T is preparing to launch a 3G service called Video Share this summer in more than 50 markets in the U.S. The service allows users to send a live video stream to a recipient during a standard voice call. Beginning with a normal wireless phone call, customers can hit one button to add a live video stream, allowing the called party to see what the caller is seeing while they're talking. The service also allows customers to switch the direction of the video stream during the same phone call. Customers must be in an area served by the company's...
Sony Ericsson Announces First HSDPA Handset for North American Market
Sony Ericsson introduced its first triband HSDPA (850/1900/2100) and Quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900) phone for the North American market. In addition to HSDPA, the Z750 clamshell features a 2.0 megapixel camera, a 2.2" screen, a media player that supports all the major music formats, and a built-in FM radio with RDS and 3D gaming capabilities. Also, it is the first Sony Ericsson handset to offer push email. http://www.sonyericsson.com...
Sony Ericsson Supporting the Next-Generation Mobile Services Architecture
Sony Ericsson announced its first mobile phone to support Mobile Services Architecture (MSA), the next-generation Java umbrella standard (JSR-248). The Z750 clamshell phone is the first phone based on Sony Ericsson's Java Platform 8 (JP-8), supporting a range of new Java programming features including instant messaging / chat and presence based functionality, handling banking, payment transactions, user identification and authentication through secure encryption technology, mapping and other location-aware applications.The new MSA umbrella standard...
Alcatel-Lucent Lands US$6B Contract with Verizon Wireless, Expansion Includes IMS
Verizon Wireless and Alcatel-Lucent signed a three-year agreement worth an expected US$6 billion for Alcatel-Lucent to supply a wide variety of network equipment, software and services supporting Verizon Wireless' ongoing network expansion and continuous improvements. With this agreement Alcatel-Lucent continues to be Verizon Wireless' primary network infrastructure supplier and will continue to help grow Verizon Wireless' existing portfolio of multimedia and data services.The equipment, software and services from Alcatel-Lucent will increase the...
Saudi Telecom Selects Redline's WiMAX
Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has chosen Redline Communications for its nation-wide WiMAX network in Saudi Arabia. STC, the country's national telecommunications operator, has deployed RedMAX products in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam as part of the first phase of its WiMAX network deployment.Redline said that by using TDD (time division duplexing), it can ensure a high degree of spectral efficiency even in dense urban environments. Its OFDM technology overcomes many line-of-sight barriers in urban areas including buildings, trees and other obstructions....
Marvell's TopDog WLAN Supports 802.11n
Marvell announced that its "TopDog" WLAN solutions support the new IEEE 802.11n Draft 2.0 specification as approved during the latest round of balloting by the IEEE 802.11 Working Group. Marvell TopDog WLAN includes Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology which enables higher throughput and improved range over currently available 802.11-based products. Supporting the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz bands, as well as 20MHz and 40MHz channels, Marvell TopDog WLAN technology offers unprecedented levels of wireless connectivity with a peak performance...
QUALCOMM Offers Low-Cost EV-DO Rev. A
QUALCOMM introduced its new QSC6085 solution for CDMA2000 1xEV- DO Rev. A -- supporting up to 1.8 Mbps on the reverse link and 3.1 Mbps on the forward link for enabling advanced capabilities, rich services, location awareness and the significant growth of user-generated content. QUALCOMM said the new device is gaining strong support from network operators, including China Unicom, as well as device manufacturers such as SANYO.QUALCOMM's QSC family integrates baseband modem, multimedia engines, radio transceiver and power management into a single...
Bay Microsystems Ships 40G Network Processor
Bay Microsystems has begun sampling its Chesapeake 40G Network Processor and Traffic Manager. The new "Chesapeake" network processor is targeted at a new generation of broadband infrastructure equipment ranging from high density over-subscribed 1GE/10GE Metro Ethernet boxes to high reliability systems up to 40G and above.While consuming a mere 16 watts of power, the device delivers 125 Gbps of raw processing power and is capable of 122 million packet-per-second...
Mavenir Partners with Ericsson on IMS
Mavenir Systems, a start-up based in Richardson, formed a partnership agreement with Ericsson in the UK focused on Fixed Mobile Convergence and Low Power GSM offerings. Mavenir System's mOne allows customers to utilize and link existing circuit switched , IP, Unlicensed Mobile Access and WiFi SIP devices to Ericsson's IMS solution.As a result of the new partnership, Mavenir's mOne solution and the Ericsson BSC and MSC, UNC and IMS platforms will...
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Orange Business Appoints New Senior VP, Americas
Orange Business Services has named Diana Einterz Leonard as its new Senior Vice President of the Americas. Leonard has had several leadership roles during her six years with Orange Business Services. Most recently she was the Head of International Operations in the Customer Services & Operations organization where she oversaw a group that delivered installation and maintenance services to multinational companies in more than 220 countries and...
Cortina Debuts Interlaken GigE MAC
Cortina Systems introduced the first Interlaken Gigabit Ethernet MAC -- doubling the bandwidth capacity of existing SPI-based Gigabit Ethernet MACs. The new CS3472 MAC can simultaneously sustain line rate performance on all 24 ports. Cortina said its CS3472 MAC offers a high-density line-rate or oversubscription aggregation front-end solution. It integrates rule-based layer 5 classifications, IPv6 & MPLS support, and a flexible scheduler to enable bandwidth guarantees for critical traffic. The CS3472 MAC connects to a packet processor through...
Sphere's IP PBX Gains DoD Certification
Sphere Communications' IP PBX has been certified by the U.S. Department of Defense under the JITC (Joint Interoperability Test Command) testing for Information Assurance. The Sphericall IP PBX is available under the APL (Approved Product List) for purchase and deployment in defense communications. This is the second accreditation for Sphericall under the JITC PBX1 program and further validates its reliability and performance.Sphericall IP PBX is an open, software application that operates on industry standard operating systems and servers. Sphericall...
Orange to Deploy FTTH in Slovakia
Bratislava- Orange Slovensko, a subsidiary of France Telecom, plans to deploy FTTH (Fiber To The Home) in Slovakia. Orange said it intends to invest approximately 1 bil. SKK (32 million EUR) and cover almost 200,000 household by the end of the year. Orange has been trialing the triple play concept under the Orange Homebox service name for a few months covering 15 thousand households. Orange Homebox is a home digital entertainment center including three services for a single monthly fee: Internet with speeds up to 30 Mbps, Digital TV and fixed...
Reef Point Raises $25 Million for FMC
Reef Point Systems, a start-up based in Burlington, Mass., closed $25 million in its Series 2 round of funding led by new investor One Equity Partners LLC (OEP), the private equity investment arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). Reef Point offers a massively-scaleable Multiservice Security Gateway for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks extending across multiple next generation networking standards including 3GPP IMS, 3GPP2, ETSI TISPAN, and PacketCable. The design takes a multi-zoned, fully virtualized, defense-in-depth approach to...
Akimbo Names New CEO
Akimbo Systems named Thomas F. Frank as its new president and chief executive officer, replacing Joshua Goldman, who has served as CEO of Akimbo since its launch in 2004. Goldman will continue to be actively involved with Akimbo while maintaining his current seat on the board of directors. Frank previously served at Real Networks, Dick Clark Productions, Leo Burnett Company and Carolco Television. http://www.akimbo....
MTC Kuwait Bids US$ 6.1 Billion for Saudi Arabia's Third Mobile License
Mobile Telecommunications Company, the mobile phone operator in Kuwait, has bid 22.9 billion riyals ($6.1 billion) for Saudi Arabia's third mobile license.On March 17th, the board of directors of Saudi Arabia's Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), chaired by Mohammed Jamil Mullah, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, selected the seven consortia from nine applicants. Egypt's Orascom Telecom and Al-Shoula-MTNL consortium were out of the fray. The other bidders were Samawat - Bharti Consortium (India, Singapore),...
NeoPhotonics Boosts Transceiver Production Capacity
Citing rapidly growing demand for its GEPON, GPON, SFP and XFP transceivers, NeoPhotonics is ramping its transceiver production capacity in Shenzhen, China, to 250,000 units per month. These active devices represent key building blocks for today's evolving FTTx, transport and reconfigurable optical networks. http://www.neophotonics....
Cablevision Loses Legal Fight to Offer Networked DVR Service
A U.S. District court ruled against Cablevision in a copyright infringement case involving network-based DVR service. The judge ruled that network-based DVRs inherently infringe the copyrights of content owners who have not given their permission to have their material stored on Cablevision's hard disk drives for later use by its subscribers. Cablevision's position was that network-based DVRs provide the same functionality as set-up DVR boxes and should be given the same legal status. The lawsuit was brought by Time Warner, News Corp., Viacom...
Vonage Receives Injunction Barring Use of Verizon's VoIP
A U.S. District Court issued an injunction barring Vonage from continuing to use the patented VoIP technology from Verizon that is the subject of their ongoing legal dispute. A permanent injunction is expected to be issued on April 6, but Vonage is expected to seek a stay of the order while the full patent case is appealed."We are confident Vonage customers will not experience service interruptions or other changes as a result of this litigation," said Mike Snyder, Vonage's chief executive officer.Earlier this month, Verizon prevailed on two counts...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Ixia Enables IMS Control Plane and Load Testing
Ixia announced new VoIP and IMS testing capabilities that enable equipment manufacturers and operators to qualify IMS infrastructure as well as conduct more extensive VoIP interoperability testing.The new IxVoice 4.10 release adds the capability to emulate the HSS (Home Subscriber Server) as well as support for SIP Sigcomp for testing Call Service Control Functions (CSCF). CSCFs are the core of the IMS control structure and ensuring their functionality...
World Wide Packets Announces LightningEdge
World Wide Packets introduced its LightningEdge 135B (LE-135B), an Ethernet access platform with integrated VoIP technology from Mediatrix. The LE-135B leverages World Wide Packets' LightningEdge Operating System (LE-OS) as well as the Mediatrix 0124 for enhanced VoIP services. It supports advanced carrier class features such as guaranteed and explicit Quality of Service ("hard" QoS) and rapid restoration of services in case of network or equipment problems. It also has advanced security to protect the edge of the network and the ability to interoperate...
CyOptics to Acquire Apogee Photonics for 10/40 Gbps Lasers
CyOptics agreed to acquire Apogee Photonics, a leading supplier of laser sources for the 10 Gbps and emerging 40 Gbps markets. Terms of the transaction are not disclosed.The acquisition extends CyOptics' high-speed source laser capabilities and positions CyOptics an extensive portfolio of InP-based transmit and receive optical chips and components for telecommunications and data communications applications. Apogee Photonics manufacturers high-speed lasers and offers a broad portfolio of short and long reach products. Apogee Photonics' 10 Gbps...
NexTone, Cantata, Pactolus Offer SIP-Based Prepaid Solution
NexTone, Cantata and Pactolus are offering a Calling Card and Voice over Broadband (VoBB) service solution that combines Pactolus' SIPWare Calling Card and VoBB service offerings, NexTone's Multiprotocol Session Exchange (MSX) product with integrated SBC functionality, and Cantata's IMG 1010 Media Gateway. NexTone's Lab confirms that the solution has established end-to-end interoperability for Pactolus' prepaid SIPware application and its BBTel application with NexTone products. The companies said they are working jointly with several IP carrier...
Verso and Navini Team on Voice-over-WiMAX
Verso Technologies and Navini Networks have formed a partnership to globally market VoIP solutions to the Mobile WiMAX sector by introducing Class 5 telephony features to WiMAX networks. The alliance will provide both companies with mutual visibility and access to emerging VoIP over WiMAX opportunities in their respective niches.The Navini and Verso alliance will bring the Verso MetroNet VoIP Overlay solution (an open standards, cost-effective next generation softswitch platform) to WiMAX access infrastructure enabled by Navini.The combined solution...
