Korea's Hanaro Reaches 900,000 Optical LAN Subscribers

As of the end of 2006, the total number of optical LAN subscribers served by hanarotelecom reached 900,000, accounting for 40% of the 100 Mbps market, according to the company. Hanaro said that by upgrading its own HFC networks to 100 Mbps networks, it is planning to expand the total 100 Mbps coverage to 12.6 million households by the end of 2007 from the current optical LAN coverage of 4.3 million households.



For 2006, Hanaro posted revenues of KRW 1,723.3 billion, operating profit of KRW 30.8 billion and net loss of KRW 86.0 billion.

http://www.hanaro.com

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Spirent Develops Mobile Video Analysis Platform

Spirent Communications introduced a lab-based mobile video analysis solution that allows operators and manufacturers to evaluate the quality of video being displayed on a mobile device prior to deployment of the device and/or the service.



Spirent said its APEX Wireless Multimedia Analyzer (WMA) provides accurate and repeatable content-based video quality assessment. It allows lack of a video source and display deficiencies to be captured, issues that can result in misleading high mean opinion score (MOS) when using other methodologies. It also offers voice and video time alignment (lip-sync) measurement.

http://www.spirentcom.com

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Boingo Offers Unlimited Wi-Fi Phone Roaming Access for $7.95 Month

Boingo Wireless launched the first global Wi-Fi Internet service aimed specifically at Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones and devices.



Boingo Mobile provides global hotspot access for Wi-Fi enabled handsets for a monthly flat rate of USD $7.95. Boingo partner locations include airports, hotels, restaurants and convention centers worldwide.



The Boingo Mobile software is a client application that enables automatic connection and roaming authentication to more than 150 different Wi-Fi network operators around the world. It is currently available for Windows Mobile 5.0-based Smartphones or Pocket PC devices.



The new Boingo Mobile service is also currently available to users of Belkin's Wi-Fi Phone for Skype. Boingo is also working with Nokia to showcase the company's Symbian-based S60 phones using Boingo Mobile Wi-Fi access.



Boingo anticipates additional Wi-Fi enabled devices -- mobile/cellular handsets, VoIP phones, mobile gaming consoles, MP3 players and digital cameras -- will be available with integrated Boingo Mobile service in the near future.



"Wi-Fi enabled phones just became a whole lot more useful," said Tim Farrell, Boingo vice president for product management & professional services."http://www.boingo.com

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Alvarion Pursues Open Ecosystem for WiMAX Deployments

Alvarion is pursuing an "OPEN WiMAX" ecosystem to match best-of-breed IP platforms from core network equipment to consumer electronics to its WiMAX systems. Alvarion said the IP open architecture of its OPEN WiMAX would enable service providers ton choose any combination of vendors and partners to best fit their specific requirements.

http://www.alvarion.com

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Québec's Télébec Partners with MetaSwitch

Télébec, Québec's leading regional telecommunications company, has will deploy MetaSwitch platforms to enable the launch of new services based on an IMS architecture. In addition to being the lead equipment provider, MetaSwitch is providing a wide range of professional services including systems integration and project management.

http://www.metaswitch.com

http://www.telebec.com

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Samsung Invests in Strix for Wireless Mesh Networking

Samsung Ventures has made a strategic investment in Strix Systems, a start-up specializing in wireless mesh networking. Samsung Electronics is a leading supplier of WiMAX equipment worldwide. Financial terms were not disclosed.



Strix offer a modular, chassis-based mesh system that accomodates up to six radios per node. The platform can scale by adding more radio boards, 4.9GHz, WiMAX modules, or new technologies. The network architectures features Scalable Mesh Fast Re-route (SMFR) capabilities for distributed localized node intelligence, network topology-independent fast re-route, instant roaming, zero throughput loss, and zero latency over multiple hops. http://www.strixsystems.com

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Motorola Debuts 10 Gbps AdvancedTCA Communications Servers

Motorola introduced its Centellis 4000 series AdvancedTCA-based communications server featuring a 10 Gbps internal Ethernet switching fabric and high performance payload blades. Target applications include 4G base stations and IPTV service delivery platforms.



This first release of Motorola's Centellis 4000 Series of ATCA communications servers features a combined system controller and switching blade providing 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet links to each payload slot, and both optical and copper fabric extension ports. The system will support existing Centellis 3000 payload blades to ease migration, and also will introduce a new 1Gbps and 10Gbps AdvancedMC carrier blade and a high performance 10Gbps packet processing blade.



Motorola said its Centellis 4000 series would help network equipment providers (NEPs) to accelerate service providers' migration to a standards-based carrier-grade common platform.



Future releases of the Centellis 4000 will also feature 10 Gbps payload options focused on key applications.

http://www.motorola.com

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Optimum Lightpath Supplies Metro Ethernet for NY Clinics

Cablevision's Optimum Lightpath division announced that more than 15 healthcare providers in the New York tri-state area have recently opted for its Metro Ethernet service. The carrier said that Metro Ethernet is especially attractive to medical facilities that specialize in diagnostic imaging technologies (i.e., MRI, CT, PET Ultrasound, Mammography, and Nuclear Medicine).



"Many of the newest clinical applications, such as those related to imaging, are highly data-intensive. Clearly, the previous 45 Mbps connections we had did not cut the mustard," said Richard Temple, chief information officer, Saint Clare's Health System.

http://www.metroethernetnow.com

http://www.optimumlightpath.com

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Etex Selects Occam's Broadband Loop Carrier

Etex Telephone Cooperative, Inc., among the largest independent local exchange carriers (ILECs) in Texas, has purchased multiple products of Occam's Broadband Loop Carrier system to provide its customers with advanced services, such as Triple Play. Specificallym Etex is deploying Occam's BLC 6252, 6440 and 6312 blades inside Occam's BLC 6012 chassis. The 6252-02 ADSL2Plus Blade provides 48 ports of ADSL2Plus with Lifeline POTS on the same physical interface to deliver voice, data and video services.

http://www.occamnetworks.com

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Fujitsu CMOS Chip Recovers Clock and Data at 40-44Gbps

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a CMOS IC that performs clock and data recovery (CDR) at 40 to 44Gbps and de-multiplexes to 16 x 2.5Gbps.. Future applications include 40Gbps optical serializer-deserializer modules. The IC also complies with the ITU G.8251 jitter tolerance mask standard, achieving BER <10(-12) with a 2(31)-1 PRBS source. Previous ICs with similar or less functionality have been implemented in SiGe, biCMOS and other compound semiconductor technologies.



"This research demonstrates the viability of CMOS for implementing the most difficult circuit blocks in future high-speed optical modules," said William Walker, vice president of the Components and Devices Integration Group at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. "In the near future, we will be able to demonstrate that the remaining blocks, such as the serializer and limiting amplifier, can also be implemented in CMOS and integrated together with the deserializer on the same IC."http://jp.fujitsu.com/group/labs/en

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GSM Association to Develop Global Mobile Payment System

The GSM Association (GSMA) has formed a "Pay-Buy Mobile" to further its efforts to define a common global approach to enabling Near Field Communications (NFC), the technology used to link mobile devices with payment and contactless systems. By embedding mobile contactless services, such as credit and debit payments, in the SIM card the mobile industry will extend the role of mobile phones in customers' everyday lives.



Fourteen mobile operators are participating in the 'Pay-Buy Mobile' initiative, which seeks to define a common global experience for mobile phone payments, on which seamlessly interoperable services will be provided. The fourteen operators, representing more than 900 million mobile users, are Cingular Wireless, now part of the new AT&T; China Mobile; KALL; KTF; MCI; MTN; NTT DoCoMo; Rogers Wireless; Smart Communications; Telenor, TeliaSonera; Telecom Italia; Turkcell, and Vimpelcom.

http://www.gsmworld.com

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TietoEnator Launches IMS Signaling Middleware and Signaling/Protocol Gateways

TietoEnator introduced its next generation signaling products - carrier grade IMS Signaling Middleware and a family of Signaling/Protocol Gateways. TietoEnator said the key benefits of its Signaling products are carrier grade durability, redundancy and highly scalable software and hardware platforms based on a signaling architecture. The current signaling products from TietoEnator are included in major network equipment manufacturers' products used world-wide.



IMS Signaling Middleware provides a platform-independent and portable control plane solution for nodes in the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), such as Call Session Control Functions (CSCF), IMS Application Servers and Charging Functions. Together with TietoEnator's solutions for SS7 signaling, it is a building-block for developing convergence solutions such as signaling gateways, bridging the gap between legacy and all-IP networks.



The Signaling/Protocol Gateway provides interconnectivity between different types of signaling networks, access networks and transport networks, allowing integration of legacy equipment with state-of-the-art next generation IP-based networks.

http://www.tietoenator.com/

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Motorola Deploys WiMAX Network for Pakistan's Wateen Telecom

Nine months after the contract was awarded, Motorola has deployed Wateen Telecom's WiMAX network in 17 major cities across Pakistan, including Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. The network will be used to provide wireless fixed broadband data services for residential and corporate use.
The two companies have also carried out end-to-end voice and data calls over the network. The deployment uses IMS core technology in preparation for Wateen to offer voice, data, Internet and multimedia services to its subscribers.

http://www.motorola.com

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