Actelis Raises $22 Million for Ethernet over Copper

Actelis Networks, a start-up based in Fremont, California, secured an additional $22 Million in private capital for its Carrier Ethernet over Copper solutions. The company's products employ advanced digital signal processing techniques and link level dynamic spectral management (DSM) in a bonded-copper solution with Carrier Ethernet characteristics. The new funding was led by Adams Street Partners and included all of Actelis' existing investors including ATA Ventures, Global Catalyst Partners, Dupont Capital, The Carlyle Group, Innovacom Venture...

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Radialpoint Enables Windows Vista Compatible Managed Security Service

Radialpoint, which provides managed Internet services to broadband service providers (BSPs), introduced its next-gen Security Value Added Services (VAS), offering Windows Vista compatibility and enhancements to its Virus Protection, Spyware Protection, Fraud Protection, Parental Controls, and Personal Firewall services.Radialpoint is also introducing two new services - PC Optimizer and Backup & Restore - to address consumer concerns regarding computer slowdown and data loss. PC Optimizer is an automated, fully managed service that, by reversing...

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CableLabs Adopts IPDR Streaming Protocol

Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs) will incorporate technology from the Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization (IPDR.org) into its OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) Version 1.1 initiative.Specifically, the set-top box (STB) mechanism for metrics gathering -- a critical function of the OCAP 1.1 specification - will be using IPDR Streaming Protocol (IPDR/SP), for encoding and transmitting metrics to a collections system within the cable operator. The evolving JSR 190, the Java Community Process (JCP) specification of an API for event...

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Freescale and IBM Announce CMOS Agreement

Freescale Semiconductor and IBM announced an alliance for joint semiconductor research and development covering Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) and Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technologies, as well as advanced semiconductor research and design enablement transitioning at the 45-nanometer generation. http://www.freescale.com http://www.ibm.com/ch...

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Azimuth Introduces WiMAX Channel Emulator

Azimuth Systems introduced a channel emulator platform for testing multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) and single-input-single-output (SISO) WiMAX solutions. The ACE 400WB is a purpose-built, single box that provides channel modeling capabilities in a test automation platform. Azimuth said its solution enables real-time performance testing of MIMO devices, streamlining the testing of WiMAX chipsets, clients and infrastructure.http://www.azimuthsystems....

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PMC-Sierra Opens Shanghai Office

PMC-Sierra announced the opening of a sales and design center in Shanghai, China. Mr. Tom Sun, vice president, Asia Pacific Operations, continues to lead overall operations and the development of this center, which is focusing primarily on the development of PMC-Sierra's enterprise storage and fiber access solutions. http://www.pmc-sierra....

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Spain's Jazztel Launches VOD with Kasenna's PortalTV

Jazztel has launched a video-on-demand (VOD) service across Spain using Kasenna's PortalTV product suite. The deployment, which involved more than more that 50 of Kasenna's video servers, was implemented by Kasenna authorized reseller Telindus.Jazztel operates a nationwide IPTV network. The new Videoclub service uses Kasenna's MediaBase Video Server platform to deliver H.264 video streaming, and by vFusion, Kasenna's content distribution software...

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Alcatel-Lucent Cites Short-term Uncertainty and Trims Outlook

Citing short-term market uncertainty from major customers, delays attributed to its merger, and heightened competition in the global wireless market, Alcatel-Lucent trimmed its financial expectations for Q4 2006 and its outlook for 2007. On an adjusted pro-forma basis, Alcatel-Lucent expects fourth quarter 2006 revenue to be approximately EUR 4.42 billion, compared with revenue of EUR 5.25 billion in the 2005 fourth quarter. Fourth quarter 2006 operating profit(2) is expected to be approximately at breakeven, compared with EUR 0.57 billion profit...

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Amdocs 7 Suite Targets Converged Services

Amdocs introduced its industry-specific software suite that allows service providers to offer their customers the benefits of access to any service, over any network, at any time and on any device, which is made possible by the move to next- generation networks and the convergence of voice, video, data, content, and entertainment.The modular Amdocs 7 suite allows telecom carriers, broadband cable and satellite providers to offer next-generation services, enabling them to bundle these services, offer incentive pricing to customers, capture and fulfill...

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Tellabs Posts Q4 Revenue of $455 million, down 13%

Citing uncertainty from its large North American carrier customers, Tellabs reported fourth-quarter 2006 revenue of $455 million, down 13% from $521 million in the fourth quarter of 2005. For the year 2006, Tellabs revenue totaled $2,041 million, up 8% from $1,883 million in 2005. Tellabs earned $29 million or 7 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2006 on a GAAP basis, down 68% from $92 million or 20 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2005. Tellabs expects first- quarter 2007 revenue to be flat to slightly down from the fourth quarter...

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Tundra's SLE Develops Interlaken Interconnect Protocol IP Core

Silicon Logic Engineering Inc. (SLE), a division of Tundra Semiconductor, has developed a licensable Interlaken protocol IP core for use in ASIC or FPGA designs. SLE's Interlaken IP Core is scalable, with early versions providing from 10Gbps to 60+Gbps bandwidth across the interface. Future versions will provide over 120Gbps of bandwidth. Target applications include network switches, routers and storage equipment. The scalability is achieved through the combination of the SERDES speed (3.125Gbps to 6.375Gbps) and a variable number of SERDES lanes...

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AT&T Supplies Switched Ethernet to California Utility

AT&T was awarded a five year contract to supply its OPT-E-MAN switched Ethernet service to the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), a water and wastewater service provider that serves more than 1.3 million residents in the San Francisco region. Switched Ethernet will be used to connect local access networks (LANs) within the same metropolitan area. AT&T will also deliver Ethernet Dedicated Internet Access (EDIA), a pure Ethernet solution for always-available Internet access. The municipal utility will also take advantage of a...

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