Sprint Nextel Names VP of Strategy

Sprint Nextel named Jack Dziak as senior vice president, Strategy, where he will be responsible for driving Sprint Nextel's three-year strategic plan. He will be based in Reston, Va. and report to Chairman and CEO Gary Forsee. Dziak will move into the role previously filled by Atish Gude, who will fully transition to the role of senior vice president, Mobile Broadband Operations in Sprint Nextel's new 4G Mobile Broadband business unit. Dziak joins Sprint Nextel after serving as senior vice president, Services and Distribution for Mobile Satellite...

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Mistletoe Chip Integrates VPN, Firewall and DoS Capabilities

Mistletoe Technologies, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, introduced a security system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution that puts VPN, firewall and denial of service prevention applications in silicon.The Mistletoe chip enables system manufacturers to add hardware-based, value-add capabilities such as anti-virus and intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) services without sacrificing system performance or security. Specifically, the new VF2110 chip provides enterprise-class security performance and protection for the SMB market.Mistletoe said...

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Skype Founders Launch "Joost"

The company formerly known under the code name The Venice Project has revealed its official brand -- "Joost" -- targeting web-based TV with interactive features and social networking. The company was co-founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, of Skype fame. Beta testing is underway. http://www.joost....

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DHL Adopts Wi-Fi Systems Throughout US Network

DHL, the express delivery and logistics company, is adopting the latest Wi-Fi + GPRS enabled scanning devices to capture shipment information by couriers and other operations personnel. The new handheld (Motorola HC 700) system will provide the same functionality as current DHL scanning devices -- such as electronic signature capture, barcode scanning, and instant communication links to dispatchers -- but has expandable memory to allow for future...

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Glimmerglass Debuts New Intelligent Optical Switch

Glimmerglass announced new versions of its Intelligent Optical Switch family with new features designed to facilitate remotely and automatically creating, monitoring and protecting fiber connections. The platform is optimized for carrier and government mission-critical customers.The new version delivers fully non-blocking transparent connectivity in a 3.5-inch (2U) package that houses as many as 190 fibers and a 7-inch (4U) package that supports as many as 380 fibers. The company also announced a new switch management console -- enabling centralized...

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Verizon to Spin Off Rural Lines in New England

Verizon Communications announced a deal to spin-off approximately 1.5 million access lines, approximately 180,000 DSL customers and approximately 600,000 long-distance customers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.Under the arrangement, Verizon will form a separate entity for these local exchange and related business assets. It will then spin off that new entity to Verizon's stockholders, and merge it with and into FairPoint, a telecommunications...

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Netflix Rolls Out Instant Downloading

Netflix, which has over 5.7 million subscribers for its DVD-by-mail service, introduced a new feature that allows its members to download movies and TV content to a broadband connected PC. Netflix will initially offer about 1,000 titles and its selection will expand over time as licensing for electronically delivered movie rentals widens. Pricing will follow a unique model based on subscribers' monthly plans. Subscribers on the entry-level $5.99 plan will have six hours of online movie watching per month and subscribers on Netflix's $17.99 plan...

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Limelight Reaches Terabit Capacity on its CDN

Limelight Networks, which operates a content delivery network for digital media, has exceeded 1 Tbps of global delivery capacity. Limelight's delivery capacity is a combination of highly scalable delivery services deployed at key regional locations in conjunction with massive provisioning to broadband last-mile networks.Limelight Networks offers three primary delivery services: Content Delivery, providing HTTP/web distribution of all digital media formats; Streaming Media, providing on-demand and live streaming for all major formats including...

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Innocor Adds 40G / 43G Test Capabilities

Innocor has added 40Gbps / 43Gbps test capabilities to its TestPoint product line. The new 40Gbps Module is available in both the 3-slot TS-30 and 17-slot TS-170 chassis configurations.Innocor said the 40Gbps Module is the industry's first OC-768 / STM-256 and OTU3 test interface specifically designed for manufacturing and system test applications. http://www.innocor....

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Seagate Introduces Fastest HDD to Date

Seagate Technology introduced its 2.5-inch, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) "Savvio 15K" drive -- the world's fastest hard drive to date. The Savvio 15K drive is suited for mainstream enterprise applications in both large enterprise data centers and small, medium businesses. The drive offers a number of advantages over 15K-rpm 3.5-inch drives including: size (70% smaller), weight (1.12 lbs less), power (30% lower), drive seek time (12% faster than any...

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Ditech Joins IMS Forum and Sponsors IMS Plugfest

Ditech Networks has joined the IMS Forum and will be a sponsor of the first IMS Plugfest event scheduled for January 15-19, 2007 at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab in Durham, N.H. Ditech Networks said its products strengthen the Border Gateway Function (BGF) and Media Resource Function (MRF) within the IMS architecture to provide network and codec interconnectivity and a better customer experience within IMS and VoIP networks. Ditech plans to work with the IMS Forum to advance network interconnectivity and voice quality best...

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Sonus Appoints Dr. Vikram Saksena as CTO

Sonus Networks has appointed Dr. Vikram Saksena as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He was previously Sonus' chief scientist. In this expanded role, he will be responsible for Sonus' overall technology direction, as well as leading Sonus' advanced development initiatives. Prior to Sonus, he spent 16 years at AT&T building their data network services, software and network infrastructure for Frame Relay, ATM, and IP. He became an AT&T Fellow and Chief Technologist of the Data Networking Business Unit responsible for service and technology...

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