JDSU Posts Strongest Results in 5 Years

JDSU reported quarterly revenue of $366.3 million and GAAP net income was $23.2 million, or $0.10 per diluted share. This compares to net revenue of $318.1 million and GAAP net loss of $(17.4) million, or $(0.08) per share, reported for the preceding quarter, and to net revenue of $312.9 million and a GAAP net loss of $(42.1) million, or $(0.20) per share, for the same period a year earlier."During the second quarter, JDSU delivered the strongest revenue, gross margin, and net income results in more than five years," said Kevin Kennedy, JDSU's...

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Cisco Expands Catalyst Switch Portfolio

Cisco has expanded its Catalyst switching portfolio with new models aimed at campus networks. The rollout includes:Cisco Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Series Switches: Enterprise-class line of 10/100/1000 wiring closet switches with 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and full Power over Ethernet (PoE) configurations.Cisco Catalyst 3560 and Catalyst 2960 Compact Switches: Small form-factor switches with Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet and PoE configurations designed for meeting rooms, classrooms and other wiring and space-constrained environments. Cisco...

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New Skies Loses NSS-8 Satellite in Sea Launch Failure

Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket, carrying New Skies' NSS-8 satellite, failed during lauch from the Odyssey Platform in the equatorial Pacific, leading to the total loss of the satellite.Sea Launch said it was trying to determine the root cause of the lauch failure. NSS-8 was built by Boeing. The spacecraft was intended to operate at SES NEW SKIES orbital position of 57° East to replace the existing NSS-703 satellite. New Skies said the launch failure of NSS-8 means that NSS-703 will now stay at 57° East in order to continue to serve existing customers...

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Tropos Signs 500th Wireless Mesh Customer

Tropos Networks has reached the 500 customer milestone for its metro-scale wireless mesh network systems. The company said its Q4CY05 to Q4CY06 node shipments grew by more than 120%. In 2006, Tropos added more than 200 new customers including:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Rock Hill, South Carolina; Southaven,Mississippi; Pasadena, California; and Rome, Georgia. The latest customer is Las Vegas, New Mexico.Tropos expects the vibrant market growth to...

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Deutsche Telekom Sees Increased Competition, Continues VDSL Push

Despite increased competition in its home market, Deutsche Telekom intends to establish itself at the top of the international telecommunications market by focusing on the customer, said company executives at a press event in Berlin. This consumer push includes opening 200 new retail stores and adding 1,500 sales employees. Deutsche Telekom is increasing its focus on the broadband opportunity while de-emphasizing conventional fixed line telephony,...

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UK Ministry of Defence Deploys Juniper Routers

BT will provide routers and security solutions for the U.K.'s Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) project, which connects 240,000 users at over 1,500 sites across the UK and overseas. DFTS has consolidated all existing defense networks to deliver unified voice, data, LAN interconnectivity and WAN services for the Royal Navy, British Army, the Royal Air Force and MoD Centre. The new network is now live, with the first services being delivered in September 2006. Financial terms were not disclosed.The new network based on Juniper routers,...

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Amedia Ships MIPX home gateway for Motorola Trial

Amedia has begun shipments to Motorola for trials of the jointly developed MIPX home gateway. The MIPX product is an IP home gateway intended to provide expanded support for data, IPTV, HD TV, and Digital Video Recorders using Motorola's existing Multi-Service Access Platform for exclusive distribution by Motorola under the Motorola brand. In Q4 2006, Amedia successfully passed the IPTV Gateway System Verification Testing Acceptance Test -- a major engineering milestone in the Strategic Alliance Agreement between the companies. To date, Amedia...

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Zarlink and Marvell Demo Synchronous Ethernet solution

Zarlink Semiconductor and Marvell have developed a synchronous Ethernet solution for supporting real-time services over packet-based networks.The companies said network synchronization is a key issue for carriers in the drive towards network convergence. For example, economical cellular backhaul over IP networks requires synchronization to allow legacy applications such as voice and fax to function properly. As high-growth applications such as YouTube and AOL Video gain popularity, these applications need to co-exist alongside critical time-sensitive...

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PCCW Selects Harmonic for its MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)Service

PCCW, the incumbent operator in Hong Kong and currently the world's largest IPTV operator with 700,000 subscribers, is deploying Harmonic's new DiviCom Electra 5400 standard definition (SD) MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoders for its entire "now TV" channel lineup. This expansion enables PCCW to add services and extend its reach in Hong Kong. Harmonic's Electra 5000 MPEG-2 encoders were also recently implemented at PCCW as part of a channel expansion. The implementation at PCCW also includes Harmonic's NMX Digital Service Manager for service operations...

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Convergin Launches IPTV-Ready Service Control and Interaction SCIM Solution

Convergin introduced its Accolade WCS Service Capability Interaction Management (SCIM) product for integrating IPTV and telecom services into converged networks. As a SCIM platform, the Accolade WCS coordinates and unifies the orchestration and interaction of services from various application servers. With its new IPTV capabilities, Accolade WCS now extends the service orchestration to incorporate headend servers alongside SIP application servers and other service platforms. Thus, video services such as Video on Demand (VoD) and broadcast media...

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Global Crossing Supports Belgacom International Carrier Services

Global Crossing was awarded a contract to support the consolidation of Belgacom ICS' existing infrastructure in continental Europe and the UK through the provision of network infrastructure, creating the foundation for a 40-Gbps capable European backbone. Specifically, Global Crossing will provide 3,000 km of dark fiber and associated colocation space connecting 36 major points of presence in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Germany, as well as wavelengths on routes that are geographically dispersed from Belgacom ICS' network.This...

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Global Crossing Supports Global Caribbean Network

Global Crossing announced an agreement to interconnect its network with Global Caribbean Network (GCN), a subsea cable operator headquartered in Guadeloupe, French West Indies, to enhance global IP connectivity to the Caribbean region. GCN will interconnect its voice and data traffic services arriving from the Caribbean to Global Crossing's IP network in St. Croix, via 10-Gigabit wavelengths, enabling GCN to extend its services to North America, Europe and Asia.GCN is a subsidiary of Groupe Loret, an enterprise conglomerate responsible for different...

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Skype Licenses HelloSoft's Internet-Telephony for SmartPhones

Skype has licensed HelloSoft's Internet-Telephony technology, which will be incorporated into Skype's communication software. The HelloSoft technology enables the Skype service from smartphones and Pocket PCs connected to the Internet."Our technology will support today's mobile and wireless generation as they use Skype on the go. We are excited to be working with Skype to enhance the performance of Skype for Windows Mobile," said Krishna Yarlagadda, HelloSoft's President and CEO. http://www.hellosoft....

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AT&T Introduces Pay-Per-Use Push To Talk Service

Cingular Wireless introduced a Push To Talk (PTT) service that is available on a pay-per-use basis. Customers using one of several wireless phones can now use the company's PTT service, as needed, for $.15 per minute. Unique icons on the phone indicate whether other PTT customers are available before making a PTT call. The service also supports the ability to a convert a PTT call to a regular wireless voice call. Calls with up to 30 participants can be converted, creating a mobile conference call. Customers can also send a voice message to...

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Personeta Receives Cisco Funding for FMC

Personeta, a start-up developing of converged service creation and application solutions for communications service providers, announced an equity investment from Cisco. The company said it plans to use the funding to further its development of solutions and components based on its TappS NSC product for next- generation, converged service delivery -- particularly in the areas of fixed- mobile convergence (FMC) and multimedia solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.personeta.com/Personeta's TappS NSC is an application server...

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