FCC Dismisses M2Z Petition for 2155-2175 MHz band

The dismissed a petition from M2Z Networks seeking an exclusive license to nationwide spectrum in the 2155-2175 MHz band. The company had sought to provide free, advertising-supported, wireless Internet access in areas reaching 95% of the U.S. population. In return, M2Z was promising a 5% royalty payment of its revenues to the U.S. Treasury for 15 years.



In a statement, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wrote "the public interest is best served by considering fully the best use of this spectrum in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, rather than through forbearance petitions seeking exclusive use for a single entity."



FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who also voted to dismiss the M2Z petition, issued a statement outlining the possibilities that could result from the Proposed Rulemaking: (1) opening this band to unlicensed use, as has proved so productive in other bands; (2) designating it for an open access model that would combine wholesale broadband access and a Carterfone mandate; (3) using it to provide free, advertiser-supported broadband service (as initially proposed by M2Z and one other applicant) as well as a fee-based premium broadband service; or (4) allocating it through a traditional, largely unconditioned auction.

http://www.fcc.gov

• M2Z Networks attracted a number of high-profile backers, including the firms of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers; Charles River Ventures; and Redpoint Ventures.

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MetaSwitch Exceeds 500 Softswitch / Media Gateway Deployments

MetaSwitch announced several significant milestones, including:

• More than 500 of the company's award-winning softswitch / media gateway systems have been deployed by more than 250 service provider customers



• MetaSwitch solutions are serving subscribers in 50 U.S. states, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Asia



• MetaSwitch now counts as committed customers nine of the top 50 U.S. ILECs, including such leading providers as Windstream and CenturyTel



• Its total shipments of Class 5 switching capacity passed the 10 million subscriber mark.

Metaswitch also noted that over the last three years, the company averaged a quarter-to-quarter increase in systems shipped of 23 percent. Over the last year alone, customer deployments accounted for an average of 400,000 new media gateway ports added each quarter.

http://www.metaswitch.com

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Cisco and Trend Micro Extend Collaboration

Cisco Systems announced an agreement to extend Trend Micro security services incorporated into Cisco's network infrastructure products. The companies have been collaborating since 2004 when they began plans to incorporate Trend Micro's content security services into Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance family. In addition to the Cisco ASA collaboration, Trend Micro became one of Cisco's first Network Admission Control partners.



Under the deal, the companies now will work closely on integrating additional content security services into Cisco's routing offerings.

http://www.cisco.com

http://www.trendmicro.com

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IBM Cites Breakthroughs in Nano Storage, Molecular-level Switching

IBM announced two major scientific breakthroughs in the field of nanotechnology that could have significant impact in digital communications. The basic research is being publishing in two reports by the journal Science.



The first discovery concerns a property called magnetic anisotropy, which concerns an atom's ability to store information. Until now, nobody has been able to measure the magnetic anisotropy of a single atom. Using IBM's special scanning tunneling microscope (STM), researchers were able to manipulate individual iron atoms and arrange them with atomic precision on a specially prepared copper surface. The researchers then determined the orientation and strength of the magnetic anisotropy of the individual iron atoms.



With further work it may be possible to build structures consisting of small clusters of atoms, or even individual atoms, that could reliably store magnetic information.



IBM calculates that digital storage based on magnetic anisotropy would enable nearly 30,000 feature length movies or the entire contents of YouTube -- millions of videos estimated to be more than 1,000 trillion bits of data -- to fit in a device the size of an iPod.



IBM also predicts the breakthrough could lead to new kinds of structures and devices that are so small they could be applied to entire new fields and disciplines beyond traditional computing.



In the second report, IBM researchers unveiled the first single-molecule switch that can operate flawlessly without disrupting the molecule's outer frame -- a significant step toward building computing elements at the molecular scale that are vastly smaller, faster and use less energy than today's computer chips and memory devices.



In addition to switching within a single molecule, the researchers also demonstrated that atoms inside one molecule can be used to switch atoms in an adjacent molecule, representing a rudimentary logic element. This is made possible partly because the molecular framework is not disturbed.

http://www.ibm.com

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Ciena Reports Revenue of $205.0 million, up 34.4% YoY

Ciena posted third quarter revenue of $205.0 million, representing a 5.9% sequential increase from fiscal second quarter revenue of $193.5 million, and an increase of 34.4% over the same period a year ago when the company reported sales of $152.5 million.



Ciena's net income (GAAP) for the fiscal third quarter 2007 was $28.3 million, or $0.29 per diluted share. This represents a 117.6% sequential increase from fiscal second quarter GAAP net income of $13.0 million, and compares with a reported GAAP net loss of $4.3 million, or a loss of $0.05 per share, for the same period a year ago. Overall gross margin was 47.7% and product gross margin was 53.7%.

http://www.ciena.com

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Reaches 310,000 FTTB and 333,000 IPTV Subscribers

Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent operator in Taiwan, reported Q2 revenue of NT$50.6 billion, up 9% over the same period last year, driven by Internet and data revenue (up 6.7%); ADSL & FTTB (up 4.6%), mobile revenue (up 2.2%) and mobile valued added-services (up 23%).

Some highlights for the quarter:

• Strong growth in HiNet FTTB subscriptions, with net additions of 72k over the course of the second quarter bringing the total number of HiNet FTTB subscribers to 310k on June 30, 2007, a significant increase from 30k a year earlier.



• Total HiNet Internet subscribers decreased 7.3% from 1Q 2007 to 4.03 million at the end of June 2007, due to the separation of 330k Prepaid Card subscribers from the total HiNet subscriber base since May 2007.



• As of the end of June 2007, Chunghwa had 333k multimedia on-demand (MOD) or IPTV subscribers, with 48k new subscriptions added during the second quarter, a solid 112.5% year-on-year increase.



• Overall, the company had 4.17 million broadband subscribers (including ADSL and FTTB subscribers) at the end of June 2007, a 7.7% increase in the number of total broadband subscriptions compared to the same period of last year.



• By the end of June 2007, the number of ADSL and FTTB subscriptions with a service speed of greater than 8 Mbps reached 1.04 million, representing 24.9% of total broadband subscribers.



• Total Data revenues were NT$5.69 billion in 1H 2007, a 8.2% increase compared to in 1H 2006.



• As of June 30, 2007, Chunghwa had 8.58 million mobile subscribers,
  slightly up quarter-on-quarter by 0.29% compared to 8.56 million on March 31, 2007.



• Chunghwa's total mobile subscriber market share (including 2G, 3G and PHS) was 36.3%, while 2G revenue and 2G subscriber market share were 35.1% and 40.2%, respectively.



• Chunghwa had 400k net additions to its 3G subscriber base during the second quarter, recording a 31.1% rise in the total number of 3G subscribers to 1.68 million on June 30, 2007. At the end of second quarter this year, the ARPU of 3G was 58% higher than that of 2G.



• Mobile VAS revenue for 1H 2007 was NT$2.4 billion, posting an 18.0%
  increase year-on-year, with SMS revenue up 24.6% and mobile internet revenue up 23.4%.



• As of the end of June 2007, the Chunghwa maintained its leading fixed- line market position, with fixed-line subscribers totaling 13.04 million.

http://www.cht.com.tw

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Amdocs Cites Milestone for its Qpass Digital Commerce

Amdocs announced that its Qpass digital commerce solution has processed more than $2.5 billion worth of premium digital products and services, representing over 900 million transactions since 2003.



Citing a growth in the number of mobile subscribers using premium data services, Amdocs expects that in 2007 alone its Qpass digital commerce solution will process more than $1 billion in premium digital content, an increase of approximately 40 percent over 2006.



Amdocs also noted an interesting trend in mobile commerce - it has seen the average price per premium content transaction go up from $3.18 in January to $3.49 in June. Direct-to-consumer, or so-called "off-portal" sales in which consumers purchase premium services or products directly from content providers and pay via their service provider billing mechanisms, have also grown as a result of stronger marketing efforts. As of June 2007, off-portal sales grew 15 percent over the previous 12 months contributing to the overall growth in the digital content market.

http://www.amdocs.com

• In April 2006, Amdocs agreed to acquire Qpass, a leading provider of digital commerce software and solutions, for approximately $275 million in cash. Qpass can act as a channel between the content provider and the service provider, helping to determine how to offer, manage, charge, and fulfill for the service. It plays a key role in enabling the value chain and monetizing digital content. Qpass currently has relationships with over 300 content providers and also works with some of the largest carrier groups globally, including Cingular, Sprint, and T-Mobile.

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Starz Entertainment Employs Motorola's HD Encoding

Starz Entertainment will utilize a Motorola four-channel, high-definition (HD) MPEG encoding system for the upcoming launch of its new HD channels -- Starz Comedy, Starz Edge and Starz Kids & Family.



The new HD system compresses, encrypts, and modulates the HD signals. within a single integrated transmission system. It is configured for STARZ using Motorola's Modular Uplink System which will support Starz's planned future migration to MPEG-4 compression technology.



Motorola said its MPEG-4 AVC technology handles both 1920 x 1080I and 1280 x 720P resolutions at approximately half the bandwidth required with similar MPEG-2 coded signals.



A key component of the enhanced content delivery chain is Motorola's new DSR4410MD multi-program demodulator/decryptor. The new 1 RU product receives DVB-S2 modulated signals and decrypts up to 64 services from a single MPEG-2 transport stream. Testing with STARZ signals has shown reliable transmission at 77.5 Mbps using a 36 MHz, C-Band transponder -- which translates into four- to-five MPEG-2 HD streams or as many as 10 MPEG-4/AVC HD streams.

http://www.motorola.com

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Deutsche Telekom Promotes IPTV Packages

Deutsche Telekom is showcasing new features of its "Entertain Comfort" IPTV service at this week's Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) show in Berlin. The company is offering new promotions for the IPTV offering, which is now available in 3 price tiers. DT is offering "Bundesliga on PREMIERE" soccer programming, promising a stadium-like effect when watching HD coverage on a wide screen TV. The first 20,000 Entertain customers will get a special offering -- the complete 2007/2008 season of Germany's top-flight Bundesliga soccer league at no extra charge.



Some other highlights:

• IPTV will be available to 17.2 million households across Germany by the end of the year.



• VDSL will be available in 27 cities and towns across Germany by the end of the year.



• ADLS2+ is now available in 750 towns and cities across Germany



• 10.3 million DSL lines currently in service



• the company has captured at least 40% market share of new DSL accounts in Germany for the past 3 quarters.



• VOD library contains 2,000 titles



• the company is expanding its MyFaves mobile feature, enabling calling across networks for 5 cents per minute

http://www.telekom.com

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Interphase Hires Former Alcatel Exec as VP Engineering

Interphase named Marc E. DeVinney as its new vice president of engineering. Prior to joining Interphase, DeVinney spent 25 years with Alcatel, serving in various capacities. Most recently, DeVinney served as Director, Mobile Solutions Circuit Core for Alcatel in Paris. http://www.interphase.com

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Blockbuster Israel Deploys Orca for IPTV and WebTV

Blockbuster Israel, a franchise of the U.S. DVD rental firm, is using Orca Interactive's RiGHTv middleware platform for the delivery of digital video services. The project was valued at US$3 million.



Using Orca's new combined solution, Blockbuster Israel will launch a new Internet service for progressive download of up-to-date digital content over PCs by the end of the year. In early 2008, Blockbuster Israel plans to provide an IPTV-ready STB to enable TV connectivity from the PC and advanced services such as Push VOD and HDTV, followed by a complete digital TV offering.



Orca's new WebTV offering includes progressive download and push VOD capabilities over PCs and STBs, in addition to other services such as PVR, home media and high definition television based on VOD push. The combined IPTV and WebTV platform supports the new WebTV capabilities alongside IPTV services such as video-on-demand and live television. The WebTV-powered RiGHTv middleware platform continues to provide connectivity to OSS/BSS systems, enabling service providers to efficiently operate both services.

http://www.orcainteractive.com

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Germany's QSC Deploys Huawei

QSC AG (QSC), which operates a nationwide network in Germany, has deployed Huawei's ME60 multi-service control
gateways (MSCG). The ME60 is a next-generation multi-service edge solution supporting QoS. After a strict test and selection process, QSC chose Huawei as a partner to build up its All IP network. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.huawei.com

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Vodafone Portugal Selects HP Fraud Management System

Vodafone Portugal will deploy the HP Fraud Management System (HP FMS) to mitigate fraudulent activity on its mobile and fixed networks.



HP FMS, which has been implemented at more than 80 service providers worldwide, helps network operators to identify, investigate and respond to all types of fraudulent behavior from all kinds of services. HP said major features and benefits of the latest release of HP FMS include:

• Greater precision in fraud detection through user-defined key risk indicators with threshold alarming and extended patterns;



• Enhanced case management with improved case escalation, notification management and advanced reporting;



• Advanced security and audit capabilities to guard against internal mistakes and intentional misconduct.

http://www.hp.com

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Broadcom Introduces First 65 Nanometer Gigabit Ethernet Switches

Broadcom announced the availability of the industry's first Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switches produced in 65 nanometer (65nm) CMOS process technology.



Broadcom said an unprecedented level of integration is achieved using 65nm process technology, which enables lower-power silicon. This, in turn, reduces overall costs in local area networks (LAN), service provider networks and data centers.



The new StrataXGS 200 series contains highly integrated multilayer Ethernet switches that can support up to 28 GbE ports and can operate at 10/100/1000 Mbps. The series provides wire speed Layer 2 (L2) switching and Layer 3 (L3) routing for highly manageable enterprise networks. It also performs IPv6 routing and transition services in hardware,. The series also integrates a 32-bit MIPS CPU processor optimized for supporting advanced QoS capabilities, including sophisticated metering, statistics and traffic management.



Broadcom estimates that it currently holds 70 percent market share in merchant silicon for GbE switch integrated circuits (ICs).



http://www.broadcom.com

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Lockheed Martin Announces IPv6 Transition Pilot

Lockheed Martin made a significant networking announcement: the company will transition a portion of its global network to IPv6.

The pilot program will work through all phases of a full-scale IPv6 transition, upgrading a network that connects laboratories in 10 different cities, from California to the United Kingdom.

The company said its pilot project is similar to one that a government agency would undertake in transitioning to IPv6.

"We've been working on IPv6 for the past seven years, and we understand that transitioning to IPv6 requires a great deal of prep-work before you actually transition to this new protocol," said Frank Cuccias, director, Lockheed Martin IPv6 Center of Excellence. "A thorough understanding of the process is critical to a successful implementation, and this pilot program will enhance our ability to guide customers through their network upgrades." http://www.lockheedmartin.com/

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Verizon Business Enhances Wholesale VoIP

Verizon Business announced several new features aimed at increasing functionality and adding choice for its SIP Gateway VoIP customers. Among these are:

• Foreign Telephone Number Assignment (FTNA), the ability to assign a U.S. telephone number outside the normal local calling area for that number. For example, a resident of Dallas could be assigned a Chicago-area telephone number, allowing friends and family in the Chicago area to place a local call. Businesses could use this function to maintain local numbers for their customers while controlling costs by centrally locating all or portions of their business elsewhere.



• The ability for wholesale customers to pick and choose specific functions. For example, wholesale customers will have the ability to order two-way telephone numbers associated with SIP Gateway Service with or without E911 service. Many wholesale companies rely on multiple VoIP providers, so they prefer the savings and efficiency associated with unbundled 911.



• Flexible pricing model, including the ability for wholesale customers to select metered or unmetered pricing for SIP Gateway Service Inbound Complete.



• Discretionary Call Blocking, giving wholesale customers the ability to designate blocking of eight specific types of calls (such as international long-distance) at the time the order is placed. Verizon Business then integrates the selected blocking into its network switch, thus freeing the wholesale customer from managing the blocking function.



• Seasonal pricing, which allows a wholesale customer to keep a telephone number but temporarily suspend the ability to make or receive calls, except 911. This feature is especially attractive to wholesale subscribers who have multiple homes or who travel extensively.



• More robust fraud detection and treatment capability. Verizon Business can improve detection of fraudulent VoIP traffic, alert the wholesale customer, then temporarily or permanently block the suspected traffic based on the wholesale customer's direction.

http://www.verizonbusiness.com

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TiVO at 4.2 Million Subscriptions, Eyes HD Transition

TiVo issued its financial report for its most recent quarter. Some highlights:

• TiVO recently launched its HD DVR box for the mass market and is expecting a gradual transition



• there was a net loss of $17.7 million, which included a combined inventory write-down and inventory purchase commitment charge of $11.2 million, as compared to TiVo's net loss guidance of $5 to $8 million that didn't contemplate the inventory related write-down.



• TiVo's net loss per share was $0.18. The inventory-related charge primarily relates to long-lead time dual-tuner Series2 standard definition DVR inventory.



• TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions for the second quarter were 41,000, compared to 74,000 gross additions for the year-ago period. The company said gross subscription additions were impacted by the pace at which retailers moved to a high definition sales focus.



• Overall, TiVo-Owned subscriptions totaled 1.71 million, up 136,000 on an annual basis compared to the year ago-period.



• As expected, TiVo reported a net decline in DIRECTV TiVo subscriptions during the period as DIRECTV is no longer deploying new TiVo boxes.



• Cumulative total subscriptions as of July 31, 2007 were 4.2 million.



• The monthly churn rate was 1.2% compared to 1.1% in the prior quarter.



• Comcast plans to commence its TiVo rollout shortly, which will continue rolling out throughout the fall in Comcast's New England Division including metro Boston, Southeast Massachusetts and New Hampshire.



• Comcast has also agreed to fund significant additional development work to bring the TiVo service to other Comcast platforms, including Scientific Atlanta set top boxes.

http://www.tivo.com

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Nokia Debuts "Ovi" Internet services

Nokia introduced "Ovi", its new Internet services brand name for mobile devices. Ovi, meaning "door" in Finnish, will be Nokia's portal enabling consumers to access its gaming and music store services. Also under the Ovi umbrella is Nokia Maps, the company's navigation service, as well as future Internet-based services the coming plans to introduce in the coming months.



Nokia also promised to make Ovi "an open door to web communities, enabling people to access their content, communities and contacts from a single place, either directly from a compatible Nokia device or from a PC."



The English language version of Ovi is expected to debut in Q4.



Nokia also unveiled four new mobile devices specifically optimized for entertainment, music and games. Each device offers dedicated music or gaming keys, expanded memory, large screens and extended battery performance. Prices range from EUR 225 to EUR 560, with shipping later this year. The new devices include:

• the Nokia N81 and Nokia N81 8GB, featuring 3G and WLAN connectivity, and a polished surface with keys that light up when you activate them;



• the Nokia N95 8GB, featuring a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, built-in A-GPS, WLAN, HSDPA and an innovative 2-way slide. The Nokia N95 8GB now offers up to eight gigabytes of built-in memory. The N95 8GB also boasts a new luminous 2.8" QVGA display.



• the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, featuring an aluminium finish, and an iconic design that is only 9.9mm thick and weighs less than 71 grams. The device offers up to 18 hours of music playback, memory for up to 3,000 songs on an optional 4GB microSD card and dedicated music keys. It also features a 2-megapixel camera and a 2-inch QVGA screen.



• the Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, featuring an iconic Music Slider key making music easy to access with a flick of the thumb. It has a 2.2-inch display and capacity for 3,000 songs on an optional 4GB microSD card.

http://www.nokia.com

http://www.ovi.com

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Chicago Backs Away from Muni Wi-Fi

The City of Chicago is backing away from plans for a municipal Wi-Fi network after failing to reach an agreement with AT&T and Earthlink. A report by the Chicago Tribune said city officials were concerned by both the cost of the project and the apparent lack of public enthusiasm in other cities nationwide. In the City of Lompoc, California, only 500 people out of a population of 40,000 have signed up for paid Wi-Fi access since the network was launched a year ago.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-tue_nowifi0828aug28,1,5694863.story

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Sierra Wireless Debuts New HSUPA USB Modems

Sierra Wireless introduced two new additions to its product portfolio for HSUPA networks - the AirCard 880U and AirCard 881U USB modems. Both USB modem support the theoretical maximum uplink speed of 2 Mbps. Downlink speeds are also improved, with a theoretical maximum download speed of 7.2 Mbps.



For use in areas where HSUPA networks are not yet available, the AirCard 880U and 881U USB modems are fully compatible with HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS, and GSM network technologies on all frequencies currently used worldwide. The AirCard 880U is optimized for Europe and Asia, while the AirCard 881U is optimized for North America. Shipments will begin in September.

http://www.sierrawireless.com

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Netflix Reports 10 Million Instant Viewings

As of August 22, Netflix members have watched movies and TV episodes 10 million times on their PCs, doubling the number of viewings in the last six weeks. As of July 7, Netflix counted 5 million instant viewings.



Netflix currently has more than six million subscribers for its DVD by mail service.

http://www.netflix.com

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Optimum Lightpath Offers Broadcast Video Transport over Metro Ethernet

Cablevision Systems' Optimum Lightpath division has launched a Broadcast Video Transport (BVT) service as part of its Metro Ethernet Intelligent Transport Services portfolio. The service, which is aimed at media companies, supports compressed, uncompressed, analog, digital, and high-definition video applications that require "Broadcast Quality" transportgiven its sensitivity to packet loss, transit delay and jitter.



Optimum Lightpath's BVT is a MEF 9 and 14 certified service with standard attributes that include Dedicated Access Termination; Guaranteed Bandwidth [CIR]; Quality of Service; and Network Path Protection with <50ms Resiliency.



The service runs over Optimum Lightpath's intelligent, carrier-class Metro Ethernet network, which spans more than 2,700 route miles throughout northern New Jersey, Connecticut and the New York metropolitan area.



The company said its BVT over Metro Ethernet also features the standard attributes of Metro Ethernet, including point to point connection provisioning, guaranteed network reliability, dedicated bandwidth, and simplified pricing.

http://www.optimumlightpath.com/

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SEC Charges Former General Counsel of KLA-Tencor and Juniper

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed fraud charges against Lisa C. Berry, who is accused of routinely backdating option grants from 1997 to 2003, first as General Counsel of KLA-Tencor Corporation and then as General Counsel of Juniper Networks. The Commission alleges that Berry's misconduct caused the two companies to conceal hundreds of millions of dollars in stock option compensation expenses relating to undisclosed in-the-money options provided to company executives and employees.
http://www.sec.gov

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Sycamore Enhances Circuit/Packet eXchange (CPX) Module

Sycamore Networks announced enhancements to its Circuit/Packet eXchange (CPX) module set, including a doubling of performance and scalability. The CPX solution is designed for migrating from TDM to IP in transmission networks.



The module is interoperable with Ethernet/PPP-compliant routers and SS7 signaling network elements. It aggregates circuit traffic onto higher-speed uplinks in traditional DCS grooming fashion; it also routes downstream traffic from multiple networks into a statistically multiplexed packet-switched uplink to optimize bandwidth in the packet network.



Sycamore's DNX 11/88 multiservice cross-connect system equipped with a CPX interface now supports up to 1024 DS0s or 32 T1/E1 virtual WAN connections. The new CPX software release also delivers improved link utilization and reporting features that enable network operators to simplify performance management and improve capacity planning. Sycamore said these enhancements provide the tools to more effectively monitor SS7 and IP traffic loads and proactively preempt network congestion and traffic bottlenecks as the network scales.

http://www.sycamorenet.com

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Pyro.TV Integrates Video App in Facebook

Pyro.TV has integrated its video channel service as an application within Facebook.

With Pyro.TV, Facebook users create their own personal Internet TV with custom channel line-up, called My Channels. Facebook users can also display and promote their My Channels through a multi-channel video player, embedded in their Facebook profile.

Pyro.TV provides a syndication channel for media companies and independent publishers.

http://www.pyro.tvhttp://apps.facebook.com/pyro_tv/

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Juniper Reaches Final Settlement with SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) authorized a final settlement with Juniper Networks regarding the previously-disclosed SEC inquiry into the company's historical stock option granting practices. Without admitting or denying the allegations in the SEC's complaint, Juniper Networks has agreed to settle the charges by consenting to a permanent injunction against any future violations of the antifraud, reporting, books-and-records and internal control provisions of the federal securities laws. No monetary penalties were assessed against the company.

http://www.juniper.net

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Nsight Telservices Deploys Nortel for IPTV

Nsight Telservices, a midwestern U.S. regional telecommunications provider, has deployed Nortel's end-to-end IPTV solution. The new IPTV service will be available to Nsight Telservices subscribers in Northeast Wisconsin in September.



Nortel's IPTV solution includes Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600, Nortel Application Switch 2424, Nortel VPN Router 600, as well as elements from a best-in-class IPTV ecosystem. The IPTV ecosystem includes Avail Media Connect and Edge platforms for the provision of content, Minerva Networks' iTVManager middleware and Widevine Technologies' content protection.



Nortel will also provide Nsight Telservices with Global Services for IPTV including project management, engineering, integration, installation, technical support and assisted operation.

http://www.nortel.com

http://www.nsighttel.com/

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Service Electric Cablevision Deploys Harmonic

Service Electric Cablevision, which was founded in 1948 -- making it the first cable operator in the U.S., has deployed Harmonic's Narrowcast Services Gateway (NSG) edgeQAM with Privacy Mode encryption for its video-on-demand (VOD) service.



Harmonic's family of edgeQAM solutions includes its NSG 8108 and 9116 models as well as a universal edgeQAM, the NSG 9000. The NSG 9000 supports a wide variety of applications, including switched digital video, broadcast, on-demand, modular CMTS and DOCSIS 3.0 video delivery.



Service Electric Cablevision offers video, voice and data triple play services to nearly 85,000 subscribers.

http://www.harmonicinc.com/

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Philippine Carrier Deploys Ellacoya for Traffic Management

Innove Communications, a leading integrated communications provider in the Philippines, has deployed Ellacoya Networks' broadband service optimization system to gain visibility into the traffic on its network. The platform provides Innove the ability to manage that traffic on a per-subscriber and per-application basis. It will be used to monitor and manage quality on the network as well as to provide the basis for new revenue streams.



The Ellacoya solution, consisting of e30 and e100 network platforms and a rich suite of applications, is a carrier-class system that identifies traffic by application and subscriber; and then gives operators the tools to analyze the resulting data through a web-based reporting environment.



The deployment of the Ellacoya solution was carried out by CommVerge Solutions. CommVerge Solutions has been reselling and supporting Ellacoya's broadband service optimization solutions as part of its solutions for broadband providers since 2005. The companies have entered into a non-exclusive agreement under which CommVerge resells Ellacoya's solutions to broadband providers in Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.

http://www.ellacoya.com

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Infinera Selects Jazz's SiGe BiCMOS Process for 100 Gbps ICs

Infinera utilized Jazz Semiconductor's 0.18-micron Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS process to enable the 100 Gbps IC used in its Digital Optical Networks architecture. The platform is built upon Jazz Semiconductor's 0.18-micron Analog/RF CMOS baseline process and includes four layers of metal. This process includes two bipolar (NPN) transistors, 3.3V CMOS, lateral and vertical PNP transistors, 2fF/µm² MIM capacitors, resistors (poly, Nwell and metal), and high-Q inductors. Options include deep trench isolation, Schottky diode, high-performance varactors, triple well, a stacked 4fF/µm² MIM capacitor, four layers of metal, and thick top metal.

http://www.jazzsemi.com

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Earthlink to Cut 900 Jobs in Restructuring

Citing weakness in its subscription model, Earthlink announced a corporate restructuring that includes the elimination of approximately 900 jobs. The company will close its Orlando, FL; Knoxville, TN; Harrisburg, PA and San Francisco, CA offices and substantially reduce its presence in Pasadena, CA, and Atlanta, GA. EarthLink expects to record facility exit and restructuring costs of $60 - $70 million associated with the plan.



Earthlink said it now expects industry-wide gross subscriber additions to decelerate in 2008, resulting in fewer gross subscriber additions for EarthLink. The company no longer will seek to add "new subscribers that do not yield a positive lifetime value for our shareholders." Additionally, as subscriber growth slows, the company expects to realize fewer migrations from narrowband to broadband.



EarthLink expects that as it reduces its marketing efforts aimed at acquiring new customers who have high early life churn characteristics, its overall churn will come down over time as its longer tenured existing customers become the predominant part of its base.



Additionally, EarthLink is modifying its previously issued revenue, adjusted EBITDA and net loss guidance for the third quarter and full year 2007. For the third quarter of 2007, EarthLink now expects revenue of $290 - $300 million. Excluding the one-time facility exit and restructuring charges, the company now expects adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure, see definition in "Non-GAAP Measures" below) of $30 - $35 million and a net loss of $(33) - $(43) million. For the full year 2007, Earthlink now expects to end the year with approximately 3.9 million subscribers, with revenue of $1.190 - $1.210 billion. Excluding the one-time facility exit and restructuring charges, the company expects full year 2007 adjusted EBITDA of $135 - $145 million and a net loss of $(79) - $(109) million.

http://www.earthlink.net

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom to conduct Share Buy-back

Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent operator in Taiwan, announced a share repurchase or buy-back program. The company expects to repurchase 250 million ordinary shares, representing 2.35% of the company's total outstanding shares. The range of the repurchase price will be from NT$38.36 to NT$85.23 per share. Repurchased shares will be deregistered in the future.



Chunghwa also announced plans to review its real estate holdings, which include approximately 410 hectares across Taiwan. The company will then release unused lands gradually to a new property management subsidiary to develop these assets.

http://www.cht.com.tw

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Huawei Builds WiMAX 802.16e Net for Saudi Telecom

Saudi Telecom has selected Huawei Technologies to deploy a WiMAX 802.16e-based network covering major cities including Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. Financial terms were not disclosed.



Under the contract, Huawei will design and deploy an end-to end WiMAX 802.16e network including Base Station, Access Service Network Gateway, Network Management System, as well as an Authorization, Authentication and Accounting system.



Huawei's end-to-end WiMAX solution integrates key technologies such as orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), enabling high-quality network coverage and bandwidth capacity.

http://www.huawei.com

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Quorum Develops TD-SCDMA + GSM/GPRS/EDGE Transceiver Chip

Quorum Systems, a start-up based in San Diego, unveiled an ultra-low-power, multi-band, multi-mode radio frequency (RF) transceiver. The new "Sereno" QS3200 adds TD-SCDMA support to the company's already existing 2G/2.5G/3G RF transceiver family. The chip is built on a single-die and integrates TD-SCDMA + GSM/GPRS/EDGE capabilities.



Quorum's QS3200 simultaneously supports dual-band (1900MHz and 2000MHz) TD- SCDMA/HSPDA Category 10 and Quad-band (USGSM850, GSM900, DCS1800, PCS1900) GSM/GPRS/EDGE. Compared with solutions in the market today, Quorum said its device removes as many as four chips from the radio bill-of-materials (BOM), without the need for costly modules.



Quorum is currently working with baseband partners and expects platform reference designs utilizing the QS3200 to be available in mid-2008.

http://www.quorumsystems.comTime division-synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) is a 3G mobile telecommunications standard specific to the People's Republic of China. TD-SCDMA is based on spread spectrum technology and uses the time division duplex (TDD) mode, which transmits uplink and downlink traffic in the same frame in different timeslots.

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NEC Electronics unveils ARM processor Cores for Networking

NEC Electronics unveiled two 32-bit ARM processor cores that can be used with its system-on-chip (SoC) design methodology to develop high-speed solutions for networking, wireless, digital consumer, imaging, storage, automotive and industrial applications.



NEC Electronics describes its90-nanometer (nm), 700 MHz (931 MHz under nominal process conditions) dual-core implementation of the ARM11 MPCore multicore processor as the highest-performing ARM processor core on the market, and its ARM926EJ-S processor core as the industry's fastest at 130 nm, clocking in at 400 MHz (532 MHz under nominal process conditions).
http://www.necel.com

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Motorola Sues Aruba Networks for Wireless Patent Infringement

Motorola and its subsidiary companies Symbol Technologies and Wireless Valley Communications filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Aruba Networks claiming infringement of patents related to wireless local area network (WLAN) technologies.



Motorola said two of the patents in this lawsuit relate to WLAN switching architecture technology, where both Symbol Technologies and Wireless Valley have been pioneers. Wireless Valley developed a predictive design approach, a three dimensional representation of an environment, and site specific information in the design, implementation and management of wireless networks in and around buildings. Two of the patents in the lawsuit relate to WLAN site planning and RF management. http://www.motorola.com/

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Tellabs 8800 Multiservice Router Gains RUS Compliance

The Tellabs 8800 Multiservice Router (MSR) series recently gained acceptance by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) program. Now independent telcos can get low-interest government loans for deployments of the platform.



The Tellabs 8800 MSR is a next-generation router that integrates carrier Ethernet, IP/MPLS, ATM, SONET and TDM technology on a single, unique platform. http://www.tellabs.com

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QUALCOMM Announces $1.1 Billion Stock Repurchase

QUALCOMM announced that it has repurchased and retired approximately 29 million shares of common stock during July and August 2007 for approximately $1.1 billion under its $3.0 billion stock repurchase program. Approximately $1.5 billion remains authorized for repurchase in future periods, net of put options outstanding, under the stock repurchase program announced on May 22, 2007.

http://www.qualcomm.com

• Since fiscal 2003, QUALCOMM has returned approximately $6.3 billion of capital to stockholders, including approximately $2.3 billion in dividends and approximately $4.0 billion through the repurchase of approximately 101 million shares of its common stock.

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Spreadtrum Announces AVS Audio/Video Decoder Chip

Spreadtrum Communications, a wireless baseband chipset provider based in Shanghai, announced the commercial release of its AVS audio/video decoder chip. AVS is the audio and video coding- decoding standard independently created by China.



Spreadtrum said its new SV6111 product includes all of the decoding functions required by the AVS standard, while at the same time supporting MPEG-2 specifications. The device supports real time decoding in both high definition and standard definition modes, and contains key functions designed to support both current and future digital TV set-top boxes (STB). Applications include IPTV, cable digital TV, digital satellite TV, and DMB-T transmission standards.

http://www.spreadtrum.com

http://www.avs.org.cn/en

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AT&T Adds Big Ten Football to U-Verse Line up

AT&T announced the availability of the Big Ten Network football coverage across all U-verse markets. The Big Ten Network will showcase more than 400 live events, original programming and conference football games in standard and High Definition (HD).

http://uverse.att.com/uconnect

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Fujitsu Launches Transmitter Modules for W-CDMA Mobile Phones

Fujitsu Media Devices (FMD), a leading manufacturer specialized in devices for mobile phone equipment, introduced three compact, high-performance transmitter modules for high power efficiency for W-CDMA mobile phones. The modules serve Band I, Band II and Band V. FMD is also planning to develop transmitter modules for Bands IV and VIII in an effort to further strengthen its product lineup.



FMD said its use of a proprietary duplexer and filter enables an optimal design and the world's highest level of power efficiency (27%). The transmitter modules support three output power modes: High power, Middle power, and Low power. In the FMD design, the transmitting circuit components of the mobile phone -- the power amplifier, SAW filter, and SAW duplexer -- are built into a single unit, thus the transmitter modules can achieve a compact size of 7.0 mm × 4.0 mm (with a maximum height of 1.2 mm). This enables a nearly 30 percent decrease in the circuit area when compared to modules configured using conventional discrete components. The transmitter modules support High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), which serves as the base for 3GPP Release 5, for downlink speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps.

http://jp.fujitsu.com/fmd/en/

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Yahoo! Offers Email-to-SMS Connectivity

Yahoo! has enhanced its email service with the ability for users to send real-time text messages to mobile recipients. Through this service, users in the U.S., Canada, India and the Philippines can send messages to a mobile phone number directly from their e-mail account. Simultaneously, Yahoo! Mail accounts can receive text messages from mobile phone users.

http://www.yahoo.com

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Ikanos Signs Development Pact with European OEM

Ikanos Communications announced a $1.6 million strategic non-exclusive development and feasibility study agreement with a leading European original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that supplies solutions that deliver triple play services.



Ikanos said this extension of the parties' relationship leverages the OEM's extensive DSL and networking system expertise, sets forth a time line that is compatible with Ikanos' next generation design cycle, and explores highly integrated, low-power architectures for next generation, multi-mode VDSL2/ADSLx products that are expected to meet worldwide carriers' requirements and deployment trajectories.



In addition, Ikanos has determined that, because this agreement involves consideration given to a customer, the company is required by applicable accounting rules to record the consideration against revenue. Accordingly, the company's previously reported revenue guidance for the quarter ending September 30, 2007 has decreased by $1.6 million and is now expected to be between $26.4 million and $28.4 million. http://www.ikanos.com

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Sprint Awards Samsung New York Deal For XOHM

Sprint Nextel selected Samsung Telecommunications America to support the rollout of its mobile WiMAX network in the New York metro area.



Samsung was previously awarded the Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Providence, R.I., markets. The New York award is part of an extensive, multi-year supply agreement, and encompasses New York City, Nassau-Suffolk and Jersey City, N.J. It also includes northern and central New Jersey the Newark, Bergen-Passaic, Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon and Monmouth-Ocean areas. Financial terms were not disclosed.



Sprint's forthcoming "XOHM" mobile WiMAX network promises broadband access with speeds up to five times faster than current third-generation wireless networks.



With Xohm mobile Internet, customers will get interactive communications, high-speed Internet browsing, local and location-centric services, and multimedia services including music, video, TV and on-demand products. Sprint also plans to bring Xohm WiMAX mobile Internet customers search, interactive communications and social networking tools through a new mobile portal in a deal announced with Google.

http://www.sprint.com

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Alcatel-Lucent Supplies Universal 802.16e–2005 for Germany's VSE NET

VSE NET, a regional telecommunications service provider based in Saarbrücken, Germany, selected Alcatel-Lucent for a commercial universal WiMAX network - based on the 802.16e--2005 standard (also known as Rev-e) - in the Saar region. The network will support high-speed Internet access and VoIP and other data services with transfer rates of up to 6 Mbps. In the initial stage of the deployment, wireless broadband will be made available to residential and business customers in the sparsely populated northern Saar region, where it is not economically viable to build a conventional DSL infrastructure. The network will operate in the 3.5 GHz frequency band.



Under the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will provide its compact WiMAX base stations as well as wireless access controllers to support the seamless handover of mobile broadband subscribers between individual base stations. The base stations are suitable for indoor installation as well as outdoor mast mounting. Financial terms were not disclosed.



Deployment will start in the autumn of 2007, and commercial operation is set to commence in January 2008.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

http://www.vsenet.de

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ECI Supplies Optical and Broadband for Vietnam's Viettel

Viettel, a network operator in Vietnam, has selected ECI Telecom's optical and broadband access solutions to expand its nationwide network. Specifically, ECI has supplied its XDM Multi-Service Transmission Platform (MSTP), BroadGate (BGTM) Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP), and Hi-FOCuS Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN) platform in an IP DSLAM configuration. The project is being implemented by ECI's business partner in Vietnam, Ntegrator.



Viettel is building a new, long haul DWDM network with a capacity of 40 channels of 10 Gbps using ECI's XDM all-range platform. The network uses very high power fiber amplifiers, widely tunable lasers and very long reach transponders. Viettel also chose ECI's cost-effective, miniature BG-20 optical platform in order to provide optical access for backhauling of mobile base station traffic.



In addition, for this network expansion, Viettel installed ECI's Hi-FOCuS-5 MSAN platform to increase DSL broadband access from Ho Chi Minh City to the other major cities and provinces in the country.



ECI and Ntegrator have been leading suppliers in Viettel for the past nine years, supplying optical equipment for nationwide wireless backhaul.

http://www.ecitele.com

http://www.viettel.com.vn/

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Intellon to Provide HomePlug for DIRECTV

Intellon announced that its HomePlug 1.0 with Turbo powerline communications IC will provide "No New Wires" connectivity for DIRECTV's Video On Demand service that is scheduled to launch this fall.



DIRECTV On Demand will offer customers access to thousands of titles, including movies, music, popular television shows and more, through their DIRECTV Plus HDDVR.



DIRECTV customers who sign up for the new service will have access to a HomePlug-enabled surge protector and a HomePlug powerline-to-Ethernet adapter, manufactured by TII Network Technologies. This will enable the consumer to connect each HR20 set-top box to the Internet for DIRECTV content downloading, using existing home wiring.

http://www.intellon.com

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Akamai Pushes HD Internet Video

Akamai Technologies is now delivering HD quality video content for its customers via its distributed edge delivery network with servers in more than 750 cities worldwide. For the Internet, Akamai said it is making the HD web possible by continuing to refine the infrastructure required to bring the HDTV experience to online audiences.



HDTV is defined as pixel resolution of 1080i, 1080p or 720p. A 2-hour feature-length movie would need to be encoded at a bit rate of at least 6-8 Mbps, which would result in the file being a size of 5-8 GB. This presents numerous technical challenges to deliver such a high-quality, large file.



Akamai calculates that to deliver a file encoded at 6 Mbps to an audience of one Nielsen ratings point (1,102,000 households) would require 6.6 Terabits of sustained bandwidth. Another critical factor to enable high bit rate delivery of very large HD files is the proximity of the end-user to the server sending the file. As the distance from the server becomes greater, throughput dramatically decreases. Even a seemingly small distance can result in lost throughput due to lower throughput, higher packet loss, and increased latency. As an example, the only way to achieve 10 to 20 Mbps throughput for typical PC end-users is if the server is less than 20 milliseconds away.



Akamai has architected its platform to comply with the following technical criteria that content owners must leverage to successfully enable an HD web:

• Technology and an operational model to operate serving devices in the largest high-throughput networks around the world (servers need to be physically in the networks, as that is where the capacity lies)



• Established relationships with the largest high throughput networks



• Support for delivery, storage, and management of files greater than 2 Gigabytes



• Support of VC-1 and MPEG-4 video standards, achieving visual parity with other broadcast video networks



• Support for files with resolutions of 720p, 1080i and 1080p



• Client-side technology that is deeply integrated into its delivery system to be deployed as appropriate.

Additionally, Akamai plans new service launches, device integration, and partnerships with technology vendors in the coming months.

http://www.akamai.com

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South Korean Online Portal Deploys Force10

DAUM Communications, the second largest Internet portal in South Korea with 55 million users throughout Asia, has deployed Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers and S50 data center switches in a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network.



Force10's TeraScale E600 supports up to 633 Gigabit and 112 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports per system. Additionally, the high density and robust routing functionality of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series combined with its high performance switching features allow DAUM to simplify its architecture by collapsing multiple network layers. http://www.force10networks.com

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OFS Introduces Fiber-to-the-Multiple Dwelling Unit Solution

OFS introduced a new solution for installing fiber within Multiple Dwelling Units (MDUs) using in-building PON or point-to-point fiber topologies. The solution features OFS' bend-optimized AllWave FLEX ZWP fiber.



OFS said its solution helps to cut installation time, space, and labor cost up to 50%http://www.ofsoptics.com

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Verizon Offers "Lifetime" Price for DSL

Verizon will offer a "lifetime" pricing for customers who order its Verizon High Speed Internet service online with a connection speed of up to 768 Kbps with a two-year commitment. Under this plan, the customer will pay $14.99 a month for as long as they subscribe to the same price-for-life plan. The same plan applies to Verizon's 3 Mbps service, which is available online for $27.99 a month. http://www.verizon.com

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Verizon Business and SAIC Target Passive Fiber-to-the-Desktop Integration

Verizon Business and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a leading systems integrator for the U.S. government, are working on a new converged solution that combines Verizon's single fiber passive optical network technology with SAIC's system and technical service integration capabilities. This fiber-to-the-desktop solution would use either a broadband passive optical network (BPON) or gigabit passive optical network (GPON) architecture, with no active electronics, repeaters or other equipment needed to boost the signal for seven miles.



Verizon Business and SAIC will draw upon their joint integration and communications expertise to identify information technology infrastructure (ITI) modernization opportunities and implement solutions for federal agencies and large businesses operating in a campus environment.

http://www.saic.com/http://www.verizon.com

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XFONE to Acquire Texas-Based NTS

Xfone USA agreed to acquire NTS Communications, a provider of integrated voice, data and video services based in Lubbock, Texas, for $42 million.



NTS operates the largest CLEC network in West Texas, providing local, long distance, broadband data, video and private line services to approximately 47,500 residential and business customers. Markets served include Lubbock, Amarillo, Midland/Odessa, Abilene, Wichita Falls, Pampa and Plainview. NTS operates through 21 ILEC central office collocation sites within its core areas and provides nationwide private line and regional long distance service as well as statewide, Midwest and northwest regional services to customers beyond its own network facilities through a variety of inter-carrier arrangements.



The company says it has invested over $23 million in developing a Fiber-to-the-Premise platform for residential and business customers.



Following the acquisition, the combined company will have annualized revenues and EBITDA exceeding $114 million and $13 million, respectively based upon the first six months of 2007 unaudited results. http://www.xfoneusa.com

http://www.ntscom.com

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MetroFi Free Welcomes Apple iPhone Users

MetroFi, which operates metropolitan Wi-Fi networks in nine cities across the U.S., is welcoming iPhone users to its free, advertising-supported access service. After a one-time registration, iPhone users can get quick, single-touch, free access to the Internet by selecting MetroFi-Free as their iPhone's preferred Wi-Fi network. This enables iPhone users to launch the MetroFi-Free service automatically when touching the Safari browser button on the iPhone home screen.



In the San Francisco Bay Area, MetroFi noted that it has logged network sessions by 1,000 unique iPhone devices in July. This represents 5% of the Bay Area networks' user population that month, which is on par with iPhone usage the company has been seeing in other MetroFi markets as well.

http://www.metrofi.com

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Vitesse to Sell Storage Products Business to Maxim

Vitesse Semiconductor agreed to sell a portion of its storage products business to Maxim Integrated Products for $63 million in cash and potential earn-out payments of up to $12 million in the aggregate.



The deal includes Vitesse's Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Serial Attached ATA (SATA) expander product segments, enclosure and baseboard management devices and certain other assets of Vitesse's Storage Products Division, which is based in Colorado Springs. Vitesse will retain its RAID-on-Chip (ROC) and Fibre Channel product segments, which had been part of the Storage Products Division and will be integrated into its continuing operations.



Vitesse said it plans to focus on its core networking and Ethernet IC businesses. Vitesse also announced $30 million in new financing, which the Company will use, along with the sale proceeds, to repay its existing credit facility and to invest in its business.

http://www.vitesse.com/http://www.maxim-ic.com

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Alcatel-Lucent Wins US$100 Million Contract in Uganda

Hits Telecom Uganda, a new regional operator whose majority shareholder is Abu Dhabi-based International Investment House, signed a US$100 million contract with Alcatel-Lucent to deploy a new GSM network.



Under the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will supply an end-to-end GSM network including network design, OSS/BSS integration and managed services. It will also supply transmission solutions, including microwave systems, and its IP routing solution.



Hits Telecom Uganda has been awarded a full telecommunications license, which includes the GSM 900/1800 spectrum, WIMAX broadband, international gateway, mobile virtual network operation and data transmission services.



Hits Telecom Uganda plans to introduce its services in time for the Summit of the 53 Heads of States of the Commonwealth Countries, which will take place in November.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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Comcast Reaches 3 Million Phone Customers, Launches in Colorado Springs

Comcast announced the launch of its Digital Voice in Colorado Springs, offering unlimited direct-dial local and domestic long-distance calling, Web access to voicemail, E911 service, and 12 of the most popular calling features such as three-way calling, call waiting, caller ID, speed dial and enhanced voicemail.



Comcast noted that it has more than three million phone customers. Comcast Digital Voice is currently available in more than 70 markets nationwide, reaching 38 million homes.

http://www.comcast.com

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BT Handles Million VoIP Calls per Day for Gov't Agency

BT announced that a newly installed IP telephony platform at the UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is now handling one million VoIP calls per day. The network installation reaches 435 sites around the UK and serves over 35,000 users. To date, over 24,000 new handsets and nearly 4,000 fax and other analogue devices are in use over the new network.



BT is replacing the entire DWP estate of PBX and other legacy telephony services with a Nortel hosted Service that will ultimately support DWP's Telephony & Contact Center users. BT has installed the Nortel Communication Server 2000 Carrier class soft switch in its core network to provide the hosted IP telephony. Nortel is also supply handsets for the project.
http://www.btplc.com

http://www.nortel.com

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Finisar Delivers Narrowly Tunable, Long-Reach 10 Gbps Optical Transmitter

Finisar announced general availability of its 10 Gbps DM80 and DM200 narrowly tunable CMLTM Butterfly Transmitters for DWDM transponders and telecom line card applications.



The new devices employ the directly modulated Chirp Managed Laser (CML) technology recently acquired by Finisar. The DM200 transmits with an output power of 0 to 3 dBm and can transmit at 10 Gbps over distances of 300 km without requiring costly optical dispersion compensation. For applications requiring high output power, the DM80 can transmit distances up to 120 km with an output power of 4-7 dBm.



Both the DM80 and DM200 transmitters offer narrow tunability at either 4-channel, 100 GHz DWDM spacing or 8-channel, 50 GHz DWDM spacing across both C-band and L-band, thus reducing the supply chain complexity by a factor of 4x or 8x compared to non-tunable sources. http://www.finisar.com

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FCC Chairman Voices Support for A-la-Carte Programming Model

In an open letter published this week, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin expressed his support for a-la-carte television programming models, saying that consumers should be able to purchase access to television channels individually, or in smaller packages. Martin believes this will lower cable bills and enable greater choice in the market.

http://www.fcc.gov

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CableLabs Approves DTCP-IP Content Protection

CableLabs has approved Digital Transmission Copy Protection (DTCP)-IP technology for protection of cable content using Internet Protocol for unidirectional and bidirectional digital cable products. DTCP provides a means of securing links between consumer electronics device, protecting against unauthorized copying and unauthorized Internet retransmission, while assuring consumers' ability to record broadcast and subscription programming in digital formats for personal use. . This would enable cable subscribers to enjoy digital cable programming, including high-definition and VOD cable content, on consumer electronics devices and personal computers on digital home networks.




The approval was reached in cooperation with Paramount Pictures Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. Technical Operations, CableLabs and the Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator (DTLA). The approval permits CableLabs licensees under DFAST, CHILA, and DCAS to protect pay-per-view and video-on-demand transmissions



"The agreement we reached today addresses the highly complex concerns raised by the affected parties-cable, content, and consumer electronics- and brings benefits to consumers," said Dr. Richard R. Green, President and CEO of CableLabs.



In conjunction with this agreement, DTLA has withdrawn a related petition at the FCC. CableLabs previously had approved DTCP for protection of content over the IEEE 1394 interface.
http://www.cablelabs.com

http://www.dtcp.com/

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Marvell Posts Q2 Revenue of $656.7 Million

Marvell reported record Q2 revenue of $656.7 million, an increase of 14% over net revenue of $574.0 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2007 and a 3% sequential increase from net revenue of $635.1 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2008. Net loss under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was $56.5 million, or $0.10 per share (diluted), for the second quarter of fiscal 2008, compared with net income under GAAP of $44.9 million, or $0.07 per share (diluted), for the second quarter of fiscal 2007.



"Our Q2 revenue was greater than expected as a result of strong sales for our communications and applications processors, and our wireless LAN products," stated Dr. Sehat Sutardja, Marvell's President and CEO. "We currently believe this growth trend will continue in Q3."http://www.marvell.com/

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Limelight Signs Microsoft for CDN Services

Limelight Networks announced a major new technology and services agreement with Microsoft under which Limelight will help improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of Internet delivery of media content and online services, including video, music, games, software, and social media, across Microsoft's global Internet properties. Microsoft's web sites serve 460 million unique users per month worldwide.



Under the deal, Microsoft and Limelight will cross-license certain technologies, consider joint development projects in the future, and cooperate on extending and improving their respective technology infrastructures.



Microsoft and Limelight have also entered into a multi-year relationship under which Limelight Networks will continue to provide global media streaming and content delivery services to Microsoft.



The new technology and services agreement is aimed at radically improving user experiences across Internet media properties of Microsoft's globally scaled internet services, which today serve over 460 million unique users per month worldwide.

http://www.llnw.com/http://www.microsoft.com

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Alcatel-Lucent to Upgrade Southern Cross Submarine Cable

Alcatel-Lucent was selected to upgrade the landing stations of Southern Cross' 28,900 km submarine cable network.



The upgrade will provide further route diversity and capacity in the Australasian region. Specifically, Alcatel-Lucent will upgrade the network's ten landing stations, which are located close to the major international hubs of Sydney (Australia), Auckland (New Zealand), Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Honolulu (the U.S.) for ease of access.



Alcatel-Lucent described two phases for the project. The first phase will consist in upgrading the existing 480 Gbps capacity up to 660 Gbps by the end of the first quarter 2008 and the second phase will bring it up to 860 Gbps by the end of 2008. The network will support future upgrades up to 2.4 Tbps.



For the submarine section, Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its 1620 Light Manager DWDM submarine line terminal. The landing stations will also be upgraded with the Alcatel-Lucent 1675 LambdaUnite Multi-Service Switch (MSS), offering advanced dynamic networking based on Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON)/Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) intelligent control plane for improvement of network availability, strengthening of traffic protection and enabling accelerated optical connection provisioning.



This new award follows the contract signed in 2001 for the first upgrade of the Southern Cross network that went into service in November 2000, providing Australasia with a fully protected direct link to the U.S. mainland.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

http://www.southerncrosscables.com/

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Sun to Change Stock Ticker Symbol to JAVA

Sun Microsystems will change its Nasdaq stock ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA. The change will go into effect on Monday, August 27, 2007.



"More than a billion people across the globe, representing nearly every demographic, market and industry, rely upon Java's security, innovation and value to connect them with opportunity. That awareness positions Sun, and now our investor base, for the future," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Sun. http://www.sun.com/java/

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Brocade Posts Revenue of $327 Million

Brocade posted quarterly revenue of $327.5 million, slightly above the company's preliminary results reported on August 8, 2007. Revenues for the quarter decreased 5% from $345.3 million reported in the preceding quarter and increased 73% from $188.9 million reported in the same period last year.



Reporting on a GAAP basis, net income for the quarter was $10.7 million, or $0.03 per share basic and diluted. http://www.brocade.com

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OIF Hosts Global Interoperability Demonstration

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is hosting a "Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration - On-Demand Ethernet Services" to showcase interoperability in a multi-carrier environment. Interoperability testing of heterogeneous network equipment includes MSPPs, routers, Ethernet switches, cross-connects, OADMs in the data plane, as well as both embedded and proxy controllers in the control plane.



Participating vendors include Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena Corporation, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Marben Products, Sycamore Networks, Tellabs and ZTE.



Participating OIF Carrier members include AT&T, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom Group, KDDI, Telecom Italia and Verizon.



OIF participating members are demonstrating end-to-end provisioning of dynamic switched Ethernet services over multiple, control-plane enabled intelligent optical core networks through the use of OIF implementation agreements UNI 2.0 and E-NNI including:

• Ethernet Private Line - allowing carriers to leverage existing TDM infrastructure to carry Ethernet



• Neighbor Discovery - automating what is currently a manual provision process between neighbors



• Control Plane Failure Recovery - an important carrier-class reliability feature



• Non-Disruptive Bandwidth Modification - optimizes network operation and resources by adapting to bursty data traffic flows.

The test phase of the event has been underway in Carrier labs since June 2007. The event will culminate in a public demonstration of the results at ECOC 2007, September 17-19, 2007 in Berlin.

http://www.oiforum.com

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Cox Selects BigBand for Switched Digital Video

Cox Communications, the third largest cable operator in the US, has selected BigBand Networks' switched digital video (SDV) solution for use in multiple cable systems --- including both Motorola and Scientific Atlanta set-top box environments -- and has begun to deploy the solution in its Northern Virginia market. Financial terms were not disclosed.



"BigBand's switched digital video solution gives us the ability to dramatically expand programming--particularly high-definition channels--at a low cost-per-subscriber," said James Kelso, vice president of video engineering for Cox Communications.



Cox is the third U.S. cable operator to deploy BigBand's SDV solution.

http://www.bigbandnetworks.com

http://www.bigbandnetworks.comBigBand Networks began deploying switched digital video commercially in 2005.

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IBM to License OpenScape Technology from Siemens

IBM will license elements of Siemens' OpenScape open unified communications capabilities to enhance the IBM Lotus "Unified Telephony" offering, which is a planned expansion of the Lotus Sametime product family.



By incorporating OpenScape technology, Lotus software users be get access to communications tools within the applications they already use regardless of their back-end telephony systems.
The integration will also enable Lotus customers to decouple their unified communications investments from their PBX infrastructure.



Siemens' OpenScape Unified Communications suite is built on Siemens OpenSOA architecture, and based on Siemens' open communications model.



Siemens said that IBM's decision to license elements of OpenScape and incorporate them within the Lotus Sametime "Unified Telephony" product supports the Siemens' Open Communications model and showcases how SOA-based solutions work well together.

http://www.siemens.com

http://www.ibm.com

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EMBARQ Offers Reward for Copper Cable Thieves

EMBARQ is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of anyone stealing the company's live traffic-carrying cable, primarily copper, in the Las Vegas area.



Copper theft is becoming an industry-wide problem. Officials believe that the copper is taken to recycling centers where it is sold as scrap. So far in Las Vegas, more than 60 people have been arrested for copper theft this year. http://www.embarq.com

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Dialogic Debuts Hybrid Media Gateways for Unified Communications

Dialogic introduced its DMG4000 Media Gateway series designed to connect Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 to existing PBX systems and the PSTN.


Based on a standard rack-mount server running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, the DMG4000 gateways are in the class of "basic-hybrid gateways" designed to provide both the media gateway function and the Mediation Server role of Office Communications Server 2007.



Mediation Server provides PSTN and PBX interoperability, high-fidelity audio via the Microsoft RT Audio Codec, and VoIP security for Office Communications Server 2007.



Dialogic said its integration of a media gateway subsystem and Windows Server 2003 delivers two key elements of an Office Communications Server 2007 deployment in one easily managed, 1U rack mount device. The Mediation Server software from Microsoft is a required element of an Office Communications Server 2007 deployment with PBX or PSTN integration, and will come pre-installed on the Dialogic 4000 Media Gateway Series.



The DMG4000 Series feature the Dialogic Diva Media Boards, Dialogic Diva "SIPcontrol" software, Windows Server 2003 and the Mediation Server software for Office Communications Server 2007. These elements are integrated in an Intel IP-Network Server featuring 64-bit Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 series processors, RAID 1 hard disk subsystem and redundant power supplies, in a 1U rugged design that can be deployed in a data center rack.



The media gateway sub-system offers dual load-balancing Gigabit Ethernet interfaces towards the IP networks, as well as a choice of either two or four T1/E1 interfaces towards the PSTN or PBX. The two integrated turnkey configurations can support up to 60 or 120 channels of unified communications traffic between legacy networks and the IP network and thus are capable of supporting hundreds of IP endpoints registered to Office Communications Server 2007. Multiple units can be co-located or distributed across a managed IP network as enterprises scale up their unified communications deployments.

http://www.dialogic.com

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Aztek Networks Raises $7.5 Million for Emergency Switches

Aztek Networks, a start-up based in Boulder, Colorado, raised $7.5 million in Series B funding for its Emergency Stand Alone (ESA) switching products.



Aztek Networks 5000S ESA switching device is an open-standards, environmentally hardened and fully redundant ESA switch designed to ensure public safety by constantly maintaining local calling capabilities and subscriber access to emergency 911 services in the event the link to the primary host switch is severed due to an accident or natural disaster.



The funding was led by the Telecommunications Development Fund (TDF), a previous investor in Aztek Networks. Other existing investors, including Sequel Venture Partners and Grotech Capital Group, also contributed to the financing, along with new investor Legend Ventures. The company, which has now secured a total of $14.1 million.

http://www.azteknetworks.com

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Toshiba Debuts 32GB SDHC Card for Mobile Devices

Toshiba reinforced its line up of SD High Capacity (SDHC) cards with three new cards, including the world's first 32-gigabyte (GB) memory card in this high density.



The rollout includes a 16GB SDHC card and an 8GB microSDHC card. All the new cards meet the Class 4 specification in the SD Speed Class, making them suitable for use in advanced mobile phones and other personal digital products.



The 16GB SDHC card will be available worldwide from October, and the 32GB SDHC card and 8GB microSDHC card will be launched worldwide in January next year.

http://www.toshiba.com

• The SD memory card was jointly developed in 1999 by Toshiba, SanDisk and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (best known for its Panasonic brand name products).


Toshiba noted that i has shipped more than 300 million memory cards and is currently the world's second largest supplier of NAND Flash memory.

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Alcatel-Lucent Announces Departure of Two Senior Execs

Frank D'Amelio, Chief Administrative Officer of Alcatel-Lucent is leaving the company to accept the position of Chief Financial Officer at Pfizer and Mike Quigley, President, Science, Technology and Strategy of Alcatel-Lucent, has decided to leave the company and return to Australia.



Etienne Fouques, currently head of the Carrier Business Segment will assume the leadership for the Science, Technology and Strategy functions that previously reported to Quigley. In addition Fouques will also oversee the Services Business Group, which will continue to be led by John Meyer.



Michel Rahier, head of the Wireline Business Group will assume the overall leadership of the Carrier Business Segment, which includes our Wireline, Wireless, and Convergence businesses.



With Frank D'Amelio's departure the organizations that previously reported to him will now report to other members of the senior leadership team. http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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Verizon Wireless to Build Regional HQ in Tennessee

Verizon Wireless is building a $54 million regional headquarters facility in Franklin, Tennessee. Verizon Wireless will hire 600 to 700 new employees at the state headquarters over the next three to five years to manage a variety of functions, including business services, sales, financial services, IT, HR and network operations. The company currently employs over 2,200 people in the state of Tennessee. Approximately 550 Nashville area Verizon Wireless employees will relocate to the new facility/http://www.verizonwireless.com

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JDSU Reports Quarterly Revenue of $351 Million

JDSU reported quarterly revenue of $350.7 million and a net loss was $17.9 million, or $(0.08) per share. This compares to net revenue of $361.7 million and a net loss of $14.2 million or $(0.07) per share in the preceding quarter.



"In 2007, JDSU achieved 16% growth in revenue with contributions from all of our reported businesses. For the first time in more than five years, JDSU was non-GAAP EPS positive for all four quarters of the year. Further, free cash flow was more than $25 million for the fourth quarter," said Kevin Kennedy, JDSU's Chief Executive Officer.

http://www.jdsu.com

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Nokia Offers Windows Live Services

Nokia and Microsoft released a suite Windows Live services specifically designed for Nokia devices. Nokia customers in 11 countries with compatible S60 devices can now download the new suite enabling access to Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Contacts and Windows Live Spaces. The suite will be extended to compatible Nokia Series 40 handsets next year.

http://www.nokia.com

http://www.microsoft.com

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Bubble Motion Cites Uptake of "Voice SMS" in Asia

Bubble Motion, a start-up based in Mountain View, California with offices in Singapore, cited a rapid uptake of its "Voice SMS" application amongst users in Asia.



"BubbleTALK" is a "Click, Talk and Send" asynchronous Short Voice Messaging Service (SVMS). Messages are limited to 30 seconds of voice recording. The application runs on all handsets.



Bubble Motion said the top user last month made a record-breaking 3201 Bubble messages in a single month. Despite this huge number, this user was not alone in their high usage of the service, as many consumers have started to use BubbleTALK as their main form of communication. In fact all top five BubbleTALK users racked up at least 67 Voice SMS messages every day, or 2000+ messages per month.



BubbleTALK carriers include Vodafone in Egypt, Airtel in India, Digi in Malaysia, Indosat in Indonesia, CSL and New World Mobility in Hong Kong.

http://www.bubblemotion.com

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Verizon Business Launches Hosted Unified Communications Solutions

Verizon Business introduced its Integrated Communications Package for customers of its Hosted IP Centrex. The network-based service provides a central hub where employees can access voice mail, control incoming and outgoing calls, manage their online presence, send text messages, and synchronize contacts and calendars. The services can be used on a Web-based interface, or run in conjunction with a stand-alone desktop client and Microsoft Outlook plug-in. An Administrative Console provides a Web-based tool to the corporate administrator for near real-time service control and management.



The Integrated Communications Package will be available to U.S.-based Hosted IP Centrex customers beginning next month, with plans to expand internationally later this year.



As the service evolves, Verizon Business plans to integrate it with its portfolio of advanced audio, net and video conferencing services, and contact center services.

http://www.verizonbusiness.com

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Black Box to Deliver ShoreTel's IP Telephony Systems

Black Box, a leading technical services company dedicated to designing, building and maintaining complicated data and voice infrastructure systems, will deliver ShoreTel's IP telephony systems across the U.S and Canada. The companies already have several large multi-site installations for FORTUNE 1000 and enterprise-class organizations.



ShoreTel Pure IP telephony systems provide customers with a number of key benefits, including ease of use, manageability and lower total cost of ownership than alternative solutions. ShoreTel's distributed software architecture and switched-based hardware platform extend enterprise-class voice services to every office and remote location, keeping employees fully connected wherever they go. http://www.blackbox.com

http://www.shoretel.com/

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Tellabs Enhances its Optical Transport System

Tellabs has added new unified SONET/SDH and native Ethernet switching fabric and enhanced Ethernet aggregation capabilities to its 7100 Optical Transport System.



The Tellabs 7100 OTS now delivers all types of transport services -- ROADM, Carrier Ethernet, SAN, video, and SONET/SDH.



Tellabs said the integration means Service providers can now buy fewer stand-alone Ethernet switches and MSPPs, enabling them to deliver Carrier Ethernet services while maintaining reliability and profits.

http://www.tellabs.com

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Hughes Reaches 350,000 Satellite Broadband Users

HughesNet introduced new promotional plans with no upfront fees for equipment or installation. Two payment options are available. With the Upfront Purchase Plan, equipment and standard installation are $299.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with monthly fees starting at $59.99. With Option 2-the Promotional Plan-there is no upfront fee and one is eligible for the $100 mail-in rebate, with monthly fees starting at $79.99. Both payment options include equipment and standard installation and require a 24-month service commitment.



Hughes estimates that between 15 and 20 million households in the US are not reached by terrestrial broadband such as cable and DSL. Its satellite broadband service is available across the U.S. anywhere with an unobstructed view of the southern sky.



The company also noted that more than 350,000 consumers and small businesses already use HughesNet satellite broadband for Internet connectivity.

http://www.hughes.com

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ECI Selected for National Packet-Optical Network in Poland

ATM S.A., a leading integrator and carrier of carriers in Poland, has selected ECI's optical solution to build its first national converged TDM-packet-DWDM backbone network.



Specifically, ATM is deploying ECI's flagship XDM line of MultiService Transport Platforms (MSTP) to upgrade its existing optical network, initially in four cities in Southern Poland. The XDM's All-Range WDM optics, supporting a full range of distances from metro access to regional and long haul, will be used by ATM to bridge very long fiber spans and to expand the network into other parts of Poland in 2008. In addition, the XDM's feature-set of optical transport network (OTN) mapping and multiplexing will ensure highest transparency, quality of service and multi-vendor interoperability for all SDH and data services, including 10GE LAN.

http://www.ecitele.com

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Keynote Offers Call Quality Monitoring for VoIP Contact Centers

Keynote Systems, which specializes in mobile and Internet test & measurement services, introduced a new system for assessing VoIP service quality from an end-user's perspective.



The Keynote "Voice Perspective 2.0" service leverages a public caller agent infrastructure to offer a geographically distributed view of the customer's voice service quality experience when dialing into a contact center or business that has implemented a VoIP-based telephone system.



Keynote is positioning this service for use by contact centers and enterprises that need to know that customers are receiving an optimal quality calling experience when dialing into their offices. The service provides an objective assessment whether the call originates from a traditional PSTN landline-based phone or an IP-enabled phone.



Keystone's geographically distributed measurement computers, which it calls Public Caller Agents, are initially located in five U.S. cities (New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco). International locations will be added later in the year. The Agents dial in once every 30 minutes to the Keynote Responder, a remotely managed hardware appliance placed at the customer site. This configuration provides an end-to-end view of the call quality as experienced by customers dialing into VoIP-enabled contact centers and businesses around the world.



Key capabilities include:

• Operational performance monitoring -- ongoing subscription service to proactively monitor customer service quality experience from your site to your end user.



• SLA compliance reporting -- ongoing monitoring of promised versus delivered service quality.

Pricing starts at $20,000 a year for monitoring from one location and includes a one time payment for the Keynote Responder and Keynote Diagnostic Services (KDS) support.


http://www.keynote.com

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Veraz Appoints VP of Strategy and Business Development

Veraz Networks named William Rohrbach as its new Vice President of Strategy and Business Development. Rohrbach joins Veraz from Ericsson, where he was Vice President Sales for the Verizon group of companies. http://www.veraznetworks.com

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AT&T Supplies Enterprise VPN for US Postal Service

AT&T will upgrade 1,800 United States Postal Service (USPS) facilities with its Enhanced Virtual Private Network (EVPN) service. This will increase the total number of AT&T-managed EVPN sites to more than 5,500. AT&T is providing Managed Services, including engineering and design, on-site installation and proactive network management and reporting. The VPN runs over AT&T's global MPLS network.



The project, which is covered under the Postal Advanced Telecommunications Network (PATN) contract, was valued at up to $22 million over three years.

http://www.att.com

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Occam Introduces New ONT for MDU Market

Occam Networks introduced a new Optical Network Terminal (ONT) for multiple dwelling unit (MDU) and multiple tenant unit (MTU) environments. The new ON 2351 is designed to deliver Triple Play services including POTS, high-speed Ethernet data, VoIP and multiple HD video streams to up to four residences or businesses. The unit may be place on a building's outside wall, at a common service area or inside a communications closet.



Each of the four internal service locations can deliver two POTS phone lines and four Fast Ethernet ports for data and VoIP. The ON 2351 provides IP video services using 10/100 Base T and/or HPNAv3 coaxial cable to compatible set top boxes.



The ON 2351 offers IP Security Management and it facilitates Administration, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) of subscriber traffic through a combination of IP scalability, simplicity of dynamic configuration with DHCP and the cost effectiveness of Gigabit Ethernet. For MDU/MTU applications, Occam's ONT operating system extends these features by adding DHCP and IGMP snooping as well as MAC limiting, ensuring integrity of subscriber services.

http://www.occamnetworks.com

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Vlingo Develops Voice-Powered Interfaces for Mobile Phones

Vlingo, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., released a beta version of its voice-powered interface for mobile phones. Vlingo developed its own speech recognition technology to power its system.



Vlingo's voice-powered interface lets users speak or type into any vlingo- enabled text box on their mobile phones. The company said the accuracy of its voice processing will open up many new data-enabled applications.
http://www.vlingomobile.com

• Vlingo was founded by Mike Phillips (a co-founder of SpeechWorks, now Nuance) and John Nguyen, and funded by Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners. In April, the company recruited mobile industry veteran Dave Grannan, most recently a general manager at Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone company, as CEO.

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Microsoft Licenses RT Audio Codec to Key Partners

Microsoft has licensed its RT Audio Codec voice software to Intel, Texas Instruments, AudioCodes, Dialogic, LG-Nortel and Polycom.



Microsoft said its RT Audio Codec is suitable for an array of solutions, such as audio conferencing, video, wireless over IP and games. For example, Intel plans to deliver the codec in an upcoming Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) software library release optimized for the PC platform.



Microsoft also announced the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Quality of Experience Monitoring Server, a tool to monitor voice and video quality. The server provides real-time updates, alerts and detailed analysis of network performance to accurately reflect users' experience based on the endpoint they're using. http://www.microsoft.com

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Tilera Ships 64-Core Processor with On-Chip "Mesh"

Tilera, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, launched its first "TILE64" processor containing 64 full-featured, programmable cores, each capable of running Linux. The on-chip architecture is designed to scale to hundreds and even thousands of cores. Tilera claims 10X the performance and 30X the performance-per-watt of the Intel dual-core Xeon, and 40X the performance of the leading Texas Instruments DSP.



Initial target markets for the TILE64 processor include the embedded networking and digital multimedia markets. This could include switches and security appliances with the performance of up to 20 Gbps for L4-L7 services. In the digital video and multimedia market, the TILE64 could deliver two streams of broadcast-quality, high-definition H.264-encode capability in a single chip, and more than ten streams of encode for high-definition video conferencing applications.



The company is pioneering an "iMesh" Interconnect architecture that eliminates the on-chip bus interconnect, which it sees as the central bottleneck through which all packets from multiple cores must flow.
Tilera eliminates the bus by placing a communications switch on each processor core and arranging them in a grid fashion on the chip.



Tilera said this creates an efficient 2-dimensional traffic system for packets. Because the aggregate bandwidth is orders of magnitude greater than a bus and the distance between cores is shorter, the iMesh technology can be leveraged to create grids as large or small as an application requires, creating a "computing-by-the-yard" scalability.



In order to minimize total system power, cost and real estate, the TILE64 processor integrates four DDR2 memory controllers and an array of high speed I/O interfaces, including two 10 Gbps XAUI, two 10 Gbps PCIe, two 1 Gbps Ethernet RGMII, and a programmable flexible I/O interface to support interfaces such as compact flash and disk drives.

http://www.tilera.com

• Tilera was founded in 2004 to bring to market the MIT research of Dr. Anant Agarwal who first created the mesh-based multicore architecture in 1996. The "Raw" project received multi-million dollar DARPA and National Science Foundation grants and spawned the development of the first tiled multicore processor prototype and associated multicore software in 2002.



• Tilera is venture funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Walden International, Columbia Capital and VentureTech Alliance.

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Huawei Selects Tundra's Serial RapidIO Switch for Next Generation Systems

Tundra Semiconductor announced a major design win with Huawei Technologies. Tundra's Serial RapidIO Switches will be used in Huawei's next generation production systems. Tundra's Tsi568A offers up to 10 Gbps per link of inter-processor bandwidth. It also features low power at 120-200mW per port, a large port count with 16x1 solution in a small 27x27mm form factor, as well as ports individually configurable by width and speed to optimize intra component connectivity.

http://www.tundra.com

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Microsoft to Launch its Next Gen Unified Communications Software on Oct 16th

Microsoft plans to launch its next generation of Unified Communications software on 16-Oct-2007 with an event hosted by Bill Gates. The release will include Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Live Meeting, part of Microsoft's unified communications portfolio, which also includes Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. http://www.convergedigest.com

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Cisco and Microsoft Discuss Collaboration and Competition

Cisco and Microsoft have agreed to collaborate in certain areas of network convergence while competing in others. At a press event in New York, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined 7 specific technology initiatives where Cisco and Microsoft will focus their efforts. These are:

• IT infrastructure based on the Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model and the Cisco Service Oriented Network Architecture


• Security, including integration of Cisco's Network Admission Control (NAC) and Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP)


• Management, including finding common ground in defining a new standard called Service Modeling Language.


• Wireless and Mobility, including extending Cisco Unified Communications Manager to Windows Mobile-powered devices.


• Unified Communications, in which the companies will work together in complementary areas while competing in others. Microsoft's approach is that software is the hub of all communications, while Cisco's approach is that the network is the hub of all communications.


• Connected Entertainment, where Cisco is a formal member of the Microsoft IPTV ecosystem.


• Small and medium-sized businesses

http://www.cisco.com

http://www.microsoft.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks Supplies Carrier Ethernet for China Telecom

Yunnan CTC (China), a branch of China Telecom, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks for the supply and implementation of Carrier Ethernet switches. Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will carry out a large-scale Carrier Ethernet switch deployment in China's south-western province of Yunnan. The deployment of SURPASS hiD 6650 Carrier grade Ethernet switches started at the end of July and the network is planned to start operations in September. Financial terms were not disclosed.

http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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F5 Selects Mu Security for Automated Security Analysis

F5, which specializes in application delivery networking, is deploying Mu Security's Mu-4000 Security Analyzer to discover, document and eliminate potential security and robustness vulnerabilities for its BIG-IP and WANJet products. Mu's platform automates current vulnerability auditing and remediation processes throughout a product development lifecycle.



F5 customizes its Mu-4000 analysis for development processes including testing through dynamically generated and non-random Protocol Mutations. For example, SIP analysis ensures optimal VoIP application performance, as well as security and robustness readiness throughout F5's product line. By applying a rich suite of user-defined protocols over IPv4 and IPv6 transport, measurement and testing is automated throughout F5's product design, development and deployment phases, including product upgrades and patches. As a result, F5 is performing highly accurate and automated regression, trending and "negative testing."http://www.musecurity.com

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