PostPath Raises $15 Million for Linux Email and Collaboration server

PostPath, a start-up offering a Linux-based email and collaboration server, raised $15 Million in Series C funding. The PostPath Server is a drop-in and plug-compatible alternative to Exchange, providing full-featured support for Outlook without the need for complicated plug-ins or other desktop changes, and without disrupting existing email infrastructure. The round was led by JAFCO Ventures; existing investors Matrix Partners and Worldview Technology partners also participated. This brings total funding to approximately $30 million.PostPath...

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TranSwitch and Gore Demo 10 Gbps Over Thin, Flexible Cable

TranSwitch and W. L. Gore & Associates, a leading provider of aerospace wire and high data rate cable, confirmed that the TranSwitch TransPHY-CX4 retimer device can transmit data error-free at 10 Gbps over the thin, flexible 30-gauge GORE CX4 High Performance Cable up to the standard 15 meters. The companies said that by using the TranSwitch PHY device in conjunction with Gore's CX4 High Performance Cable, users can vastly reduce the cost and inconvenience of rigid, heavy cables and their overall management throughout building structures.The...

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Cox Installs Ciena's CoreDirector in San Diego

Cox Communications has deployed Ciena's CoreDirector Multiservice Optical Switches in the super headend of its San Diego network to interconnect two metro rings, each transporting multiple 10 Gbps circuits over DWDM. Ciena's CoreDirector enabled Cox to remove several bays of legacy cross-connect equipment and associated patch cables, eliminated the need to expand its superheadend building, and reduced power consumption. CoreDirector also gives...

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SITA Deploys NexTone's Session Management for Airline Voice Exchange

SITA, which operates the global network serving the air transport industry, has deployed NexTone's session management technology for the company's Voice Exchange service.SITA's Voice Exchange enables its customers (airlines, aircraft manufacturers, airports, airport authorities, aerospace companies, and travel agents) to securely and easily peer with one another over a common global network. The service enables VoIP traffic - whether originated by an IP-based end point or media gateway - to be optimally routed based on an ENUM (the mapping of a...

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Indonesia's PT Telkom Expands IP/MPLS Core with Juniper

PT Telkom, Indonesia's leading telecommunications service provider, has further expanded its IP/MPLS-based core infrastructure with additional Juniper Networks M-series multiservice routing platforms including the M320. The upgrade, performed by Siemens, builds on PT Telkom's existing M-series routers, deployed last year as part of an initial Next Generation Network (NGN) rollout. The new deployment spans 17 cities, connecting softswitch systems and legacy routers. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.juniper....

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Cisco Appoints National Semi Exec to Board

Cisco announced the appointment of Brian L. Halla, Chairman and CEO, National Semiconductor Corporation, to its board of directors. Cisco's board now consists of 11 members.Halla, 60, served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of National from the time he joined National in May 1996 until the beginning of National's 2006 fiscal year. He is now Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of National. He came to National from LSI Logic Corporation where he was Executive Vice President of LSI Logic Products. htt...

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SunRocket Offer US Callers $.01 per Minute VoIP Calling to China

SunRocket announced a new calling plan for its US-based broadband VoIP customers that drops rates to Asia Pacific locations including China, Japan, Hong Kong and Vietnam to as little as one cent per minute. The Asia Pacific Edition reduces international rates to $.01 per minute on all calls (landline and cell) to China, Singapore and Hong Kong; and on landline calls to Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korea. Landline rates fall to $.02 per minute for Japan; while SunRocket's rate on all calls to Vietnam is cut nearly in half to $.10 per minute. htt...

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Nortel and Microsoft Outline Unified Communications Roadmap

Building on the Innovative Communications Alliance announced in July 2006, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Nortel CEO and President Mike Zafirovski outlined their shared vision for unified communications. At a press event in Rockefeller Center in NYC, the two CEOs outlined how their companies can improve employee productivity and effectiveness and reduce the costs and complexity of communications. They also announced 11 new implementation services...

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Brightcove Secures $59.5 Million for Internet TV

Brightcove, a start-up based in Boston, announced $59.5 million in venture funding to support its rollout of Internet TV services. The company said the closing of its Series C financing round comes as it continues to experience significant growth following the October 2006 launch of the Brightcove consumer destination, syndication marketplace and broadband media network.The funding was led by AllianceBernstein, Brookside Capital, and Maverick Capital. Additional investors included The New York Times Company (an early Brightcove customer), and...

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Fujitsu Ships 5.8GHz WiMAX Chip for Base Stations and CPE

Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) announced the commercial release of its 5.8GHz WiMAX baseband system-on-chip (SoC) to ODM partners and customers worldwide, including solutions provider Texas Instruments, WiMAX systems provider ORZA Networks and WiMAX customer premises maker Sun Create Electronics Co., Ltd.Fujitsu's 5.8GHz WiMAX SoC is based on the WiMAX Forum worldwide system profile, supporting full base station designs as well as subscriber unit implementations. The Fujitsu SoC, which supports frequencies ranging from 2 to 11GHz in both...

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Navini Selected for Nationwide WiMAX Network in Bulgaria

Navini Networks will supply its mobile WiMAX 802.16e equipment to Max Telecom, Bulgaria's telecommunications operator with licenses for a nationwide WiMAX network. Max Telecom will launch service in the capital -- Sofia -- with plans to expand nationwide in Bulgaria during 2007. They will be using WiMAX to provide both business and residential services, offering enabling services such as VOIP, DSL equivalent, and VPNs (both voice and data) and video connectivity for applications such as surveillance. Financial terms were not disclosed. http:...

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Time Warner Telecom Calls for Equality in Pole Attachment Fees

Time Warner Telecom filed papers with the FCC seeking the elimination of discriminatory regulations governing fees charged for pole attachments for fiber optic cable that delivers vital broadband communications services to businesses.Time Warner Telecom argues that under current FCC pricing rules, utilities are charging "telecommunications carrier" broadband services providers, like Time Warner Telecom, up to 272 percent more than non-telecommunications carrier competitors to deploy fiber optic infrastructure. This occurs even though telecommunications...

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Verizon to Expand Fiber Deployments in Washington State

Verizon Communications announced plans to expand its FTTP rollout over the next two years in the state of Washington to additional areas in King and Snohomish counties. A total of 68,000 additional homes in both counties will be connected to the FTTP network. Verizon expects to install more than 3 million feet of fiber-optic cabling throughout the two-county area by year-end 2007, passing about 125,000 homes and small businesses with fiber. The company passed 57,000 homes in 2006. http://www.verizon....

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