Toshiba Launches Enhanced Softphone

Toshiba America Information Systems launched its newly enhanced SoftIPT softphone. Compatible with Toshiba's family of Strata CIX IP business communications systems, the new Toshiba SoftIPT 2.1 wirelessly extends the features and functionality of Toshiba desktop telephones to suitably equipped PDAs running Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0, SmartPhone Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0 as well as notebook computers, tablet PCs, and PCs running...

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Pakistan's Mobilink Chooses DragonWave for WiMAX Backhaul

Mobilink, a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom Holding has selected DragonWave's Horizon Compact high capacity IP backhaul product to provide 270 wireless backhaul links for a new nationwide WiMAX Network in Pakistan. Initial rollout will begin in the cities of Islamabad,Karachi and Lahore. Financial terms were not disclosed.DragonWave's Horizon Compact product will be used to enable Mobilink to backhaul traffic from their nationwide WiMAX deployments with a native IP backhaul solution. DragonWave's solution is providing high capacity IP backhaul...

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RadiSys Posts Q3 Revenue of $84 Million

RadiSys announced revenues of $83.6 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2007 and a net loss of $2.5 million or $0.11 per share. Non-GAAP net income for the third quarter was $2.8 million or $0.11 per diluted share. Non-GAAP results in the third quarter excluded a loss of $0.22 per share, primarily attributable to the impact of acquisition-related expenses and stock-based compensation expense. Commenting on the financial results for the quarter, Scott Grout, President and CEO stated, "I am pleased with our results in the third quarter. We...

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Conexant Cuts Wireless In Restructuring

Conexant Systems reported quarterly revenues of $183.9 million, including a non-recurring royalty of approximately $4 million related to an existing license agreement. Core gross margins were 44.7 percent of revenues. Core operating expenses were $90.3 million. The core operating loss was $8.0 million, and the core net loss was $18.5 million, or $0.04 per share.In addition, the company announced that it will terminate further investments in "stand-alone"" products for wireless networking but will continue to support DSL gateway solutions that incorporate...

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TrendChip Offers New ADSL2+ Chipset

Taiwan's TrendChip Technologies announced a new ADSL2+ chipset composed of an ADSL2+ processor and an Analog Front End (AFE). The chipset is targeted at ADSL2+ Bridge, Router, and WiFi Gateway applications.TrendChip said its design features a high performance ADSL2+ CPE processor with enhanced DMT structure and optimized cache architecture, which provides high processing power, enhanced Impulse Noise Protection (INP) capability for IPTV, advanced IP routing and bridging functionalities, QoS support, and high throughput performance. In addition,...

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Sea Launch Prepares for Thuraya-3

Sea Launch has left its home port of Long Beach, California and is preparing for the launch of the Thuraya-3 satellite on November 13 from an equatorial launch site in Pacific. Boeing designed and built the GEO-Mobile (GEM) spacecraft for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company, which is based in the United Arab Emirates. Boeing also built, and Sea Launch successfully deployed into orbit, Thuraya-1 (October 20, 2000) and Thuraya-2 (June 10,...

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MySpace and Google Collaborate on OpenSocial APIs

MySpace and Google are joining forces to launch OpenSocial-- a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. MySpace will provide critical user mass and platform guidance. The companies said the OpenSocial standards will to evolve through contribution from the open source community and as new features are developed by various partners. Global members of the OpenSocial community include Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING. http://www.google.com...

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Verizon FiOS TV Readies for 150 HD Channels

Verizon announced plans for a fivefold increase in the number of HD channels carried by its FiOS TV service. In the spring of 2008, Verizon will begin expanding its HD lineup as well as the sports and multicultural program offerings on FiOS TV. Verizon initially will double the current number of HD channels, on a market-by-market basis, to more than 60, including additional sports channels. Verizon expects to have more than 150 HD channels by year-end 2008 as it continues to add to its HD lineup and programmers launch new channels. The company...

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Verizon Shareholders to Vote on Executive Compensation

The Board of Directors of Verizon Communications adopted a policy that provides for an annual advisory vote related to executive compensation beginning in 2009. The company is also amending its executive severance policy to define more specifically the types of payments included in the calculation of severance payments. http://www.verizon....

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Cisco Broadens its Activities, Investments and Sourcing in China

Cisco CEO John Chambers unveiled a multi-year investment initiative aimed at strengthening its business commitments and long-term corporate strategy in China. Highlights of Cisco's multi-year investment program include:A significant increase in local procurement. In the past five years, Cisco has purchased more than USD $7 billion worth of China-sourced components and services, a critical part of the company's virtual manufacturing supply chain. According to Cisco estimates, these procurement commitments provide employment to 50,000 people in manufacturing...

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Cisco to Acquire Securent for Security Auditing Software

Cisco agreed to acquire Securent, a start-up offering policy management software for enterprises, for approximately $100 million in cash and assumed options.Securent, which is based in Mountain View, California with development offices in Hyderabad, offers an Entitlement Management Solution (EMS), an XACML standard-based solution that allows organizations to create, enforce, review, and audit fine-grained access policies across heterogeneous application...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa: 26% of Broadband Lines Exceed 8 Mbps, 350K IPTV Users

Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent operator in Taiwan, was serving 4.22 million broadband subscribers (including ADSL and FTTB subscribers) at the end of September 2007, a 6.3% increase compared to the same period of last year. At the end of September 2007, the number of ADSL and FTTB subscriptions with service speed greater than 8 Mbps reached 1.12 million, representing 26.4% of total broadband subscribers. There were 81,000 net HiNet FTTB additions...

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Alcatel-Lucent Posts Q3 Revenue and Presents Restructuring Indicatives

Alcatel-Lucent reported Q3 revenue of Euro 4.35 Billion, up 2.3% sequentially and down 7.8 % year-over-year at constant EUR/USD exchange rate. Gross margin improved sequentially to 34.2%. The company also presented new restructuring initiatives."As you can see our results this quarter were essentially in line with the update we provided on September 13, and in a few areas a bit better; however they are still not at a level that we are satisfied with, commented CEO Pat Russo.Alcatel-Lucent's Board of Directors expressed its support for a newly...

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Alcatel-Lucent Announces Senior Management Change

Alcatel-Lucent has named Hubert de Pesquidoux as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), replacing Jean-Pascal Beaufret, who is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Hubert de Pesquidoux currently leads the Enterprise Group of Alcatel-Lucent.As part of its plan to improve profitability it has streamlined its regional structure, the company will create two regional structures, one for the Americas and one that includes Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Frederic Rose, who currently heads the Asia-Pacific Region, will assume...

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Telindus Offers Unified Communication Solutions from ShoreTel

Telindus, the European specialist in ICT solutions and services, will sell ShoreTel products to deliver unified communications as a managed service. Financial terms were not disclosed. Telindus operates in 14 countries in Western Europe, Sweden, Hungary, China and Thailand. Telindus' headquarters are in Belgium.http://www.shoretel.comIn January 2006, Telindus joined the Belgacom Group, becoming the IT Services division of the market's new business leader....

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Windstream to Bundles TiVo DVR & High-Speed Internet Access

Windstream will begin offering bundled internet and TiVo DVR services in 2008. Windstream has approximately 3.3 million access lines across 16 states. http://www.tivo.com http://www.windstream....

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Huawei Collaborates with ITU on Emerging Market Initiatives

Huawei Technologies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to jointly promote telecom technologies in developing countries. Under the MOU, Huawei and ITU will work together to improve connectivity in rural and remote areas in emerging markets, as well as to close gaps in broadband backbone networks. As a first step, the two parties will use Huawei's existing training centers in India and Nigeria to provide telecommunications training for local talent. Huawei operates 22 training centers...

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Allot Announces First Commercial Deployment its New Service Gateway

Allot Communications announced the first commercial deployment of the Allot Service Gateway, Omega Series (SG-Omega). The Service Gateway provides a platform for broadband providers to build secure, manageable and profitable intelligent networks, optimized to deliver Internet-based content and services.The Service Gateway has recently been deployed at a major DSL Internet service provider in the Asia Pacific region. The Service Gateway is operating on 10 Gigabit Ethernet lines, intelligently managing high-volume IP flows on its core network. The...

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Avaya Launches "Master Reseller" Channel Programs Focused on SMBs

Avaya launched two programs that broaden its support for sales channels. Specifically, the Avaya Master Reseller program is enabling select Avaya BusinessPartners to recruit and train independent sales agents who work under their direction to sell Avaya's small and mid-sized business portfolio. Many of the new agents are companies that specialize in data networking but want to offer their clients ready access to voice solutions as well.To date, 10 Master Resellers are working with more than 300 independent sales agents across North America. Avaya...

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Verizon Business Joins Internet2

Verizon Business has joined Internet2 as a corporate member. The company plans to collaborate with the Internet2 community on projects involving advanced optical networking as well as in areas of next-generation content delivery and network security. http://www.internet2.eduhttp://www.verizonbusiness....

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EMBARQ Links Home and Wireless Phones

EMBARQ announced a new "Together Plan Plus" linking its residential and mobile phone services. Customers are able to control where they take the call, when to take the call and what phone to use with new calling feature capabilities. A call to a customer's home number could simultaneously ring their wireless phone or be directed to any alternate phone if there is no answer. Customers can transfer calls they've received on their home phone to any...

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Polycom Expands VoIP Partnership Program

Polycom has expanded its VoIP Interoperability Partner (VIP) Program for manufacturers of SIP-based call control platforms with the addition of six newly certified members: Cedar Point Communications, LignUp, MetaSwitch, PanTerra Networks, Sutus, and Zultys. Polycom now recognizes a total of 25 leading VoIP platform providers as certified members who deliver solutions that seamlessly interoperate with the Polycom SoundPoint IP desktop and SoundStation IP conference phones. http//www.polycom.com/...

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Sonus Adds Higher Performance DSP Modules to GSX9000

Sonus Networks unveiled new hardware Circuit Network Server (CNS) modules for its GSX9000 Open Services Switch. The company said the GSX9000 platform can now scale to deliver up to three times the compression (or throughput) when using the new CNS modules with built in digital signal processors. The modules are NEBS-compliant and feature Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology from Texas Instruments. The new CNS modules include STM-1 interfaces and three times the number of E1 telephone network interfaces in the same footprint. In addition,...

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FCC Ends Cable Exclusivity for Consumers Residing in Multiple Dwelling Units

The FCC will ban the use of exclusivity clauses for the provision of video services to multiple dwelling units (MDUs) or other real estate developments. Nearly 30% of Americans live in MDUs and these numbers are growing. From 1995 to 2005, cable rates have risen 93%. In 1995, cable service cost $22.37 per month. Prices for expanded basic cable service have now almost doubled. The trend in pricing of cable services is of particular importance...

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FCC Expands Local Number Portability to VoIP

The FCC voted to expand local number portability (LNP) rules to VoIP services, giving consumers the right to keep the same, familiar phone number when switching to a new provider.The FCC made clear that the obligation to provide local number portability extends to interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol providers and the telecommunications carriers that obtain numbers for them. The FCC said the action was, in part, a response to numerous complaints by consumers about their inability to port numbers to or from interconnected VoIP providers....

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Norihiko Minato Appointed Head of AT&T Asia Pacific and Japan

Norihiko (Hiko) Minato has been appointed as the new head of the AT&T Asia Pacific and Japan region. Effective Nov. 1, 2007, the company's 12 Asia Pacific markets and Japan will be combined into one region under the new organization.Hiko Minato, who was most recently the president of AT&T Japan, will relocate from Tokyo, Japan to Hong Kong and report to John Finnegan, senior vice president of AT&T Global Sales. By integrating the operations of Japan and Asia Pacific under Mr. Minato, Japanese MNCs will gain easier access to some of...

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Boingo Wireless Acquires Sprint's Wi-Fi in 7 U.S. Airports

Boingo Wireless has acquired seven airport Wi-Fi networks from Sprint and converting them to Boingo hotspots. Financial terms were not disclosed.Sprint customers will retain Wi-Fi access in these seven airports and will gain access to 16 additional airports where Boingo provides Wi-Fi services directly. Additionally, the companies have entered into a roaming agreement that will provide Sprint customers access to Boingo's global hotspot network....

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Cavium Networks and Wind River Expand Networking Partnership

Cavium Networks and Wind River Systems are expanding their technology partnership. Wind River's VxWorks 6.6 SMP product will include out-of-the-box, optimized support for Cavium Networks' OCTEON processors in its initial worldwide release. The joint solution is targeted at SOHO, SME and enterprise networking, wireless infrastructure and service provider OEM equipment. http://www.caviumnetworks.com http://www.windriver....

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ECI Announces Reorganization

ECI Telecom announced a reorganization focused on three key areas -- the creation of a Network Solutions Division, a Global Services Division, and expansion of the Global Sales and Marketing organization. ECI said the changes will enable it to rapidly meet the needs of the market by accelerating growth in its transport and access businesses, expanding its service offering, while improving operational efficiencies.The new Network Solutions Division (NSD) is the result of consolidating ECI's two business units -- the Broadband Access and the Transport...

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BigBand Posts Revenue of $38 Million, Restructuring Eliminates CMTS

BigBand Networks posted Q3 revenue of $38.5 million, a decrease of 10% from the third quarter of 2006. GAAP net loss for the third quarter of 2007 was $12.2 million, or $(0.21) per diluted share compared to GAAP net income of $1.6 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2006. GAAP gross margins for the third quarter of 2007 were 36% compared to 52% in the third quarter of 2006. In addition, BigBand announced a restructuring plan designed to realign resources and significantly increase its efforts on video networking. As part...

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SipStorm Chooses Level 3 to Enable FMC

SipStorm has selected Level 3's voice services to enable nationwide wholesale mobile phone service and fixed mobile convergence (FMC) services. SipStorm's converged communication service supports wireless and voice service providers who are implementing FMC services to both residential and business customers.SipStorm includes the ability to send and receive local, long distance and international calls. By utilizing a single Level 3 VoIP phone number,...

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Ditech Debuts Dynamic Transcoding

Ditech Networks announced a Dynamic Transcoding capability for its Packet Voice Processor (PVP) that supports a wide range of compressed and uncompressed codecs. The transcoding enables Service Providers to directly connect diverse codecs without compromising scalability, network performance or call quality. It can also reduce the required equipment session capacity for supporting VoIP service by up to 50 percent.Specifically, Ditech's Dynamic...

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Packeteer Resolves IRS Tax Dispute, Not Subject to $122 million

Packeteer resolved its previously reported dispute with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Under the deal, the company's pre-existing federal net operating loss carryforwards ("NOLs") will offset essentially all increases in income with the following net impact: the company will not be subject to the $122 million and $49 million of regular tax liabilities and penalties, or related interest, previously asserted by the IRS with respect to 2003 and 2004; and the company expects that the total federal and state regular and alternative minimum income...

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AT&T Expands its Wholesale VoIP Connect Service

AT&T is expanding its wholesale Voice Over IP Connect Service (AVOICS), which provides U.S. service providers with IP-based connectivity to AT&T's global IP network for long distance call termination. AVOICS provides unbranded and unbundled transport over the AT&T network, as well as termination of international and U.S. domestic traffic. Customers connect to the service via AT&T's Managed Internet Service (MIS)/Multiprotocol Label...

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Verizon FiOS TV Enhances its Program Guide

Verizon introduced its new FiOS TV interactive media guide, which pulls together content from a variety of sources -- broadcast TV, Verizon's more than 12,000- title video-on-demand library and the subscriber's own DVR recordings -- into one media management system. Customers who have FiOS TV's Media Manager can also search, organize and enjoy their digital photos and music with the remote control. Verizon said that over the next year, subscribers...

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High Definition TV Reaches 14% Penetration in U.S. Households

Almost 14% of TV households in the U.S. are equipped with an HD television and HD tuner capable of receiving signals in HD (HD Capable), while 11.3% are equipped with an HD television and HD tuner and receive at least one HD network or station (HD Receivable), according to new research released by The Nielsen Company.Los Angeles has the highest penetration of HD Capable homes (20.4%) and New York has the highest penetration of HD Receivable homes (17.5%). http://www.nielsenmedia.c...

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CounterPath Licenses Unified Communications Solution to Verizon Business

CounterPath, which develops softphone and SIP applications, has licensed its software to Verizon Business to enable voice, messaging and presence management in its Integrated Communications Package. Financial terms were not disclosed.Verizon Business' Integrated Communications Package - currently available to U.S.-based Hosted IP Centrex customers - is a unified communications service which enables employees to control incoming and outgoing calls, access voicemail, manage their online presence, send text messages, and synchronize contacts and...

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Alcatel-Lucent and IBM Expand Unified Communications Solution

Alcatel-Lucent introduced an integrated audio conferencing solution for IBM Lotus Sametime customers. The "OmniTouch My Teamwork for IBM Lotus Sametime" provides click-to-conference capability from Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus Notes and audio conference scheduling and management from Lotus Sametime Web conferencing. Additional features include PSTN quality dial-in "meet-me" conferencing, audio conference scheduling, conference call control, active talker indication, and call recording. All features are embedded within the Lotus Sametime unified...

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U.S. Internet Tax Ban Extended Through 2014

The U.S. Congress has approved legislation that would bar states and local municipalities from imposing Internet specific taxes through 2014. The bill now heads to the President for signature. The current ban was set to expire on November 1st. http://www.house....

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Huawei Unveils its ALL IP 4G Platform

Huawei Technologies rolled out its New Generation WiMAX commercial solution at PT/EXPO COMM CHINA 2007 in Beijing.Huawei said its ALL IP- based New Generation WiMAX solution adopts HSPA/LTE/UMB co-platform infrastructure, and integrates the 4G technologies including HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat-reQuest), MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Out-put). The products include a gateway, distributed base station, transmission, network management system and terminal....

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RadiSys Adds Media Processing Blade, Boosting Media Server to 24K Ports

RadiSys introduced a new media processing blade for its Convedia CMS-9000 Media Server, delivering capacity and performance improvements for processing-intensive applications such as conferencing, video and low bitrate codec. The Convedia CMS-9000 Media Server, which is already in customer production networks, was designed to accommodate modular capacity upgrades. The new MPC-IV card adds additional Digital Signal Processor (DSP) resources to the...

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Akamai Releases "HDWeb" Proof-of-Concept Portal

Akamai Technologies announced The HDWeb, a proof-of-concept portal designed to showcase the experience consumers can have with high definition content online. The Website, available at www.thehdweb.com, showcases content from a variety of industries including music, movies, professional sports, games and news. Companies providing HD content for the initiative include Apple, BBC Motion Gallery, CBS, Gannett, MTV Networks, NBA and more. Akamai said...

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"Connect Africa" Draws Promise of Large Investments from Leading Mobile Operators

At the Connect Africa summit, an ITU event being hosted by the government of Rwanda, leading global mobile operators announced plans to invest more than $50 billion in sub-Saharan Africa over the next five years. The goal is to provide more than 90% of the population with mobile coverage by extending the reach of GSM mobile networks and enhancing the services with GPRS, EDGE and HSPA technologies.According to the GSM Association, there are more...

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XO Completes 800 Gbps Core Network Capacity Upgrade

XO Communications completed an 800 Gbps capacity upgrade on major coast-to-coast routes of its nationwide fiber optic network. The upgrade delivers an additional 80 10-Gbps channels on major coast-to-coast network routes. This additional network capacity augments a capacity expansion XO completed last year which delivered 400 Gbps of capacity across the XO network.XO also announced a new installation guarantee for wholesale customers that need faster...

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Atheros Posts Q3 Sales of $101 Million, Up 34% YoY

Atheros Communications reported record Q3 revenue of $106.3 million, up five percent from the $100.8 million reported in the second quarter of 2007 and up 34 percent from the $79.6 million reported in the third quarter of 2006. Net income (GAAP) was $9.7 million or $0.16 per diluted share. This compares with GAAP net income of $9.3 million or $0.16 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2007. "Our networking business was especially strong in the third quarter, as sales of our 11g and 11n solutions led to significant increases in revenue with...

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Atheros Announces Low-Power Wi-Fi Solution for Mobile Devices

Atheros Communications announced a low-power chip for mobile WLAN devices that draws near-zero standby power and has nominal impact on battery life even in active mode, according to the company. The gains are achieved using a combination of advanced hardware and software power-saving protocols and techniques.Atheros said that based on consistently repeated, actual power demonstration measurements, its new AR6002 chip consumes 70 percent less power than competitive solutions on the market in active mode while downloading content. This substantial...

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D2 and Ikanos Partner for VoIP-Enabled Quad Play Gateways

Ikanos Communications has partnered with D2 Technologies to develop a quadruple play residential gateway design that integrates Ikanos' Fusiv Vx180 VDSL2 gateway processor with D2's vPort VoIP software. The residential gateway supports voice, video, data and mobile wireless services. The residential gateway design also accelerates the rollout of new VDSL2 customer premises equipment (CPE) for the home office or small- to medium-size businesses, offering comprehensive quality of service (QoS) for VoIP and Internet protocol television (IPTV) applications.The...

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Verizon Adds 203K FiOS TV Customers, 229K FiOS Internet Customers in Q3

Verizon Communications reported Q3 revenue of $23.8 billion, up 5.8 percent; up 6.0 percent on an adjusted basis (non-GAAP). Operating income for Q3 was $4.2 billion, up 19.0 percent over last year. Some highlights for the quarter:Verizon Wireless added 1.8 million net retail customers and 1.6 million total net customers after reductions in wholesale customers. The company ended Q3 with 61.8 million retail (non-wholesale) customers and 63.7 million...

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Avanex Signs Supply Deal With Alcatel-Lucent, Pirelli Takes Stake

Alcatel-Lucent has extended its supply agreement with Avanex for an additional three years. In addition, the Pirelli Group has purchased the 12.4 percent stake in Avanex previously held by Alcatel-Lucent. Pirelli also signed a supply agreement with Alcatel-Lucent for related components. Avanex solutions enable or enhance optical wavelength multiplexing, dispersion compensation, switching and routing, transmission, amplification, and include network-managed subsystems.http://www.avanex....

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NDS Cites Rapid Growth in Conditional Access

NDS, a majority-owned subsidiary of News Corp., reported quarterly revenue of $205 million, up from $164 million in the same period last year. Net income was $46 million, compared to $35 million a year earlier.Some key metrics:Smart card deliveries (in millions) reached 7.4 million, compared to 6.7 million a year agoThe number of authorized cards reached 78.6 million, compared to 66.6 million a year agoCumulative deployments of Middleware Clients reached 69.9 million, with 8.1 million additions in the quarterBharti Airtel, India's largest cellular...

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ShoreTel Reports 57 % YoY Revenue Growth, Signs AT&T as a Channel Partner

ShoreTel reported quarterly revenue of $32 million, an increase of 57% over the same quarter last year. GAAP net income was $2.6 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, compared to $1.0 million, or $.03 per diluted share, reported in the same period last year. Gross margin for the quarter improved to 64% from 61% last year.ShoreTel also announced that it has expanded its relationship with AT&T by signing a master reseller agreement under which AT&T will resell ShoreTel's Pure IP unified communications systems and implementation services....

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SanDisk Sues 25 Firms

SanDisk filed three patent infringement actions against 25 companies that manufacture, sell and import USB flash drives, CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, MP3/media players and/or other removable flash storage products. The company said the legal action demonstrates its commitment to enforcing its patents. http://www.sandisk....

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Sandisk Launches 8GB MicroSDHC and M2 Card

SanDisk announced the availability of its 8GB microSDHC and M2 flash memory cards to retail outlets worldwide. The device targets next gen mobile devices integrating phones, music players, digital cameras and video player/recorders.In addition to the microSDHC and M2 card, SanDisk also offers a range of both embedded and removable storage solutions for mobile handset manufacturers and mobile network operators. These include iNAND and mDOC embedded...

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N.E.T. to Acquire Quintum for VoIP Gateways

Network Equipment Technologies agreed to acquire privately-held Quintum Technologies, a supplier of enterprise VoIP access switching and gateways, for $41 million, comprised of $20.5 million in cash and $20.5 million in NET stock. NET will also assume approximately $2.0 million in debt currently on Quintum's balance sheet, and has committed to issue to Quintum employees a number of stock options having an approximate Black Scholes valuation of at least $3 million. Quintum's "Tenor" line VoIP access switching and gateway products are deployed in...

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Occam Completes Terawave Acquisition, Adds GPON Products

Occam Networks completed its previously-announced acquisition of Terawave Communications for $3.2 million in cash. Among the assets of Terawave acquired by Occam are the following:FSAN ITU G.984 GPON interoperable technology,Technology focused on GPON physical interfaces,Products and technology directed towards Metro Ethernet, andTechnology license agreements with Ikanos Communications and Mindspeed Technologies.http://www.occamnetworks....

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Avaya Completes Privatization

Silver Lake and TPG Capital have completed their acquisition of Avaya in a transaction valued at approximately $8.3 billion. Under the deal, Avaya stockholders are entitled to receive $17.50 in cash, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes, for each share of common stock they owned immediately prior to the effective time of the merger. Avaya common stock ceased trading on the NYSE before the commencement of trading on October...

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Rogers Tests 7.2 Mbps Wireless Data in Canada

Rogers has begun field trials of 7.2 Mbps wireless data service in Brampton and Montreal using 3.5 generation wireless HSPA/UMTS technology (High Speed Packet Access/Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) technology. The announcement follows Roger's expansion of its HSPA network to 25 Canadian markets earlier this month.Rogers plans to spend approximately $500 million over the past two years upgrading its network. http://www.rogers....

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China's ZTE Reports Fast Growth

ZTE, the Chinese manufacturer of telecom infrastructure products, said its Q3 revenue climbed 53.07 percent to RMB 8.216 billion as compared to the same period last year, and its net profit rose 116.46% to RMB 143 million as compared to the same period last year.ZTE said its domestic telecommunications market enjoyed stable growth during the nine months ended 30 September 2007. Growth in investments was underpinned by expenditure mainly in three...

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Telecom New Zealand Promises ADSL2+ Rollout, Plans Separation

Telecom New Zealand submitted plans to the national regulator for the operational separation of its retail, wholesale and network businesses functions. At the same time, the carrier announced plans for a nationwide rollout of ADSL2+ and fiber-to-the-node technology over the next four years. Telecom New Zealand plans to invest aboutTelecom Draft Separation Plan is online. http://www.med.govt.nz/upload/52553/telecom-draft-undertakings....

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NTT DoCoMo Revenue Declines 2.4% in 1H07, Reorganization Announced

For the six month period ended 30-Sept.-2007, NTT DoCoMo reported revenue of 2.325 billion Yen, down 2.4% from the same period last year, and operating income of 408.5 million Yen, down 21% compared to the previous year.During the first half of the year, NTT DoCoMo introduced a number of discount plans. The company also cited an accounting change in the way it recognizes revenue under 2-year subscription deals for the drop in revenue. NTT DoCoMo...

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Nokia Siemens Networks to Acquire Atrica for Carrier Ethernet

Nokia Siemens Networks will acquire Atrica, a supplier of Carrier Ethernet solutions for Metropolitan Area Networks, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will allow Nokia Siemens Networks to offer end-to-end Carrier Ethernet Transport solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of data-optimized transport networks - from access to the core network.Atrica's product suite consists of its A-8100 Carrier Ethernet Core Switch, its A-4100 Carrier...

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Hibernia Offers 40 Gbps Wavelengths from Boston to Halifax

Hibernia Atlantic has begun offering native 40 Gbps capacity over a subsea span between Boston and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Hibernia Atlantic has deployed Huawei Technologies' optical transmission gear to enable this service. Specifically, Huawei supplied a 192-channel, 40G system; increasing the capacity from 1.9 Tbps to 7.68 Tbps using 40G technology.Huawei accomplished this upgrade with its internally developed, 40G integrated solution, which includes...

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Huawei Deploys IP Base Stations for China Mobile

Huawei Technologies has deployed what is described as the world's first IP-based base station system (IP BSS) commercial network for China Mobile. The installation uses Huawei's next generation base station controller, the BSC6000.The IP BSS commercial network uses IP to transmit voice and data services avoiding the cost of TDM transmission, while meeting the requirements of increased data transmissions.Huawei estimates that by adopting IP transmission,...

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Comcast Adds 450K Cable Modem Users, 662K VoIP in Q3

Comcast's cable segment revenue increased 11% to $7.4 billion for the third quarter of 2007 as compared to $6.7 billion in the third quarter of 2006. The company attributed the growth to consumer demand for its Comcast Triple Play offering. Some highlights for Q3:Revenue generating units (RGUs) increased 1.4 million, a decrease from the 1.5 million additions reported in the third quarter of 2006. The company ended Q3 with 55.8 million RGUs, a 13%...

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Global Crossing Expands VoIP Network in USA, Mexico

Global Crossing announced the extension of its VoIP Local Service to 16 major metropolitan cities in Mexico and nearly 400 additional cities in the United States. The addition of Mexico brings to 21 the total number of countries worldwide where the service is offered. In the U.S., the company expanded availability of VoIP Local Service to nearly 400 additional cities, including Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Tucson, bringing that total to more than...

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Internet2 and Level 3 to Offer Advanced Networking Awards

Level 3 Communications will sponsor a new "Wave of the Future" category as part of the Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) Awards program. Open to existing or proposed applications, the Internet2 IDEA awards are designed to showcase projects that apply the latest in advanced networking capabilities to enable transformational progress in research, to enhance teaching and learning, and to potentially increase the impact of next-generation...

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Vonage and Verizon Resolve Patent Dispute

Vonage and Verizon announced a settlement in their patent dispute. The terms of the resolution depend on how the Court of Appeals decides Vonage's pending petition for rehearing regarding two of the Verizon patents (the '574 and '711). If Vonage wins rehearing on either the '574 or '711 patent or if the injunction is vacated as to the '574 or '711 patent, Vonage will pay Verizon $80 million. If Vonage does not win rehearing on either the '574 or '711 patent, or if the stay is lifted reinstating the injunction, Vonage will pay Verizon $117.5 million....

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Foundry Reports Q3 Sales of $160M, Growing Service Provider Sales

Foundry Networks reported Q3 revenue of $159.5 million, compared to $118.8 million in the third quarter of 2006, and compared to $143.2 million in the second quarter of 2007, an increase of 34.2% and 11.3% respectively. Net income was $27.6 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, compared to net income of $12.2 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2006, and net income of $15.6 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2007.The company said North American commercial revenue represented 52.5% of total revenue...

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Ikanos Posts Q3 Revenue of $27.3 million

Ikanos Communications reported Q3 revenue of $27.3 million compared with revenue of $25.7 million for the second quarter of 2007 and revenue of $36.7 million for the third quarter of 2006. GAAP net loss for the third quarter of 2007 was $13.0 million, or $0.45 per share, on 28.7 million weighted average shares and includes a charge of $3.5 million related primarily to the write-off of design tools and severance expenses. This compares with a net loss of $7.2 million, or $0.25 per share, on 28.4 million weighted average shares in the second quarter...

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DSL Forum Advances its Specification Work

The DSL Forum today unveiled its BroadbandSuite Release Plan, representing a major new phase of its work to advance broadband services. The DSL Forum has developed approximately 150 Technical Reports (TRs) over the past 14 years that address issues that range from interoperability to remote management of the digital home. The goal of the Forum's new Release Plan is to clearly identify which TRs are associated with specific milestones of broadband...

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Qualcomm's Gobi Enables Notebook Connectivity to 3G, 2G, GPS

Qualcomm introduced its "Gobi" solution for providing notebook computers with access to CDMA2000 EV-DO and UMTS HSPA networks. The embedded Gobi solution includes Qualcomm's MDM1000 chipset, associated software and API, and a reference design for a software-defined configurable data module supporting both EV-DO Rev. A and HSPA with full backward compatibility, as well as GPS functionality. Commercial release is expected in Q2 2008. http://www.3gchipsets.com/g...

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Sweden's Com Hem Deploys IMS Network

Com Hem, which provides TV, broadband and telephony services to around 40 percent of all Swedish homes, has activated a commercial IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) platform in its network. Com Hem's IMS solution, including the IMS Core and SURPASS hiQ 8000 voice platform, has been provided and integrated by Nokia Siemens Networks. Com Hem is using IMS initially to provide VoIP. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com...

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Level 3 Delivers Multiple 10G Wavelengths to Highwinds

Level 3 Communications' Content Markets Group is supplying High Speed Internet Access and multiple 10 Gbps wavelength to provide the underlying network backbone services that power Highwinds' RollingThunder network. The Level 3 facilities are being used to link Highwinds' data centers in ten cities throughout the United States and in Europe. This business relationship also enables Highwinds to expand its network capabilities and market reach by tapping...

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Sonus Unveils IMX 2.0 Application Platform

Sonus Networks unveiled its IMX 2.0 Multimedia Applications Platform, combining the support for voice-based services delivered in the original platform with a streamlined feature and application environment for advanced multimedia and data-intensive services. The IMX platform is part of Sonus' IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture aimed at helping network operators manage their advanced next- generation networks. The new version enables network operators to embrace a Web-based model for application development; specifically, the ability to...

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Cisco WebEx and Oracle Launch Collaborative CRM Solution

Cisco's WebEx group began offering Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand Service, which is a customer relationship management (CRM) application service. The new offering is part of the WebEx Connect application ecosystem. Key capabilities of the service include:Sales management tools that allow users to engage prospects at key points in the sales processSales dashboards that consolidate critical information and streamline activities for a 360-degree view of every opportunityIntegrated reporting to improve sales productivity by automatically tracking...

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