Hokkaido-Sakhalin Undersea Cable -- Shortest Fiber Route from Tokyo to Europe

Japan's NTT Communications (NTT Com), TransTeleCom (TTC), Russia's leading backbone telecom operator, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a 500 km high-capacity undersea fiber-optic cable linking the two countries.The Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System (HSCS) will transmit data at up to 640 Gbps between Ishikari, Hokkaido in Japan and Nevelsk, Sakhalin in Russia. The project is slated for completion by the end of 2007.The undersea fiber...

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Ixia Adds Support for HD Video-Over-IP Codecs

Ixia has added support for MPEG-4, H.264, and VC-1 codecs to its IxLoad 3.20 IPTV/Triple Play test solution. Furthermore, IxLoad 3.20 supports MPEG-4 video over both existing MPEG-2 transport streams and native MPEG-4 transport to allow testing of HD content regardless of how it is delivered.Ixia's IxLoad 3.20 emulates IPTV and Triple Play subscribers and associated protocols to ensure subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE). The system supports more than 90 test methodologies. Test engineers also can use IxLoad 3.20 to introduce basic network...

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Tekelec Teams with NEC do Brasil on Softswitching

Tekelec has extended its relationship with NEC do Brasil in Latin America to incorporate next-generation network switching solutions, including softswitch and media gateway products. Under the agreement, NEC do Brasil is incorporating its own customizations to the Tekelec Media Gateway Controller and Network Management System Software into NEC's core network solutions in Latin America. Tekelec also is providing professional services and training to NEC do Brasil. In addition, engineers from the companies are working together to modify existing...

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Carl Icahn Files Notice to Increase Stake in Motorola

Carl Icahn and his affiliated business entities filed papers under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 to acquire additional shares of Motorola Common Stock. Motorola said it received a notice stating that Carl Icahn and Icahn Partners LP are each filing to acquire in excess of $119.7 million and up to $500 million of Motorola Common Stock, while Icahn Partners Master Fund LP and Icahn Partners Master Fund II L.P. are each filing to acquire in excess of $500 million, but less than 25% of the outstanding, Motorola Common Stock....

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MobiTV Passes the 2 Million Subscriber Mark

MobiTV has exceeded two million paying subscribers worldwide, more than doubling its user base in less than one year.MobiTV currently features a content line-up with more than 100 television channels worldwide, and nearly 40 channels in its US offering. The company delivers its mobile TV service over nearly all commercial wireless network standards, including existing operator networks as well as future 4G networks such as WiMAX and DVB-H. http...

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Verizon's SIP Trunking Now Avaya Compliant

Verizon Business' Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking services have been rated compliant with key Avaya IP telephony solutions. Specifically, Verizon Business SIP trunks have been tested by Avaya for compatibility with Avaya Communication Manager 3.1, an IP telephony application, and with Avaya SIP Enablement Services 3.1, a standards-based communications architecture that bridges the public switched telephone network and the Internet.http://www.avaya....

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Motorola Initiates OpenSAF Project for High-Availability Network Gear

Motorola is initiating a new open source project to develop a high availability operating environment based on Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) standards. The objective of the new "OpenSAF" project is to accelerate broad adoption of an SA Forum compliant operating environment.The goals of the OpenSAF project are to:Create an open source implementation of a high availability operating environment which includes the SA Forum Application Interface Specification (AIS)Develop additional complementary services necessary to deploy and manage the...

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Sonus Posts Q4 Revenue of $79 million

Sonus Networks reported Q4 2006 revenue of $79 million compared to $75 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2006. Revenues for the full year fiscal 2006 were $279 million. Cash, cash equivalents and investments increased by $47 million during 2006, to $361 million. Sonus is not providing detailed GAAP or non-GAAP financial results because it has not yet completed its previously announced restatement of certain historical consolidated financial statements related to past stock options.Other non-GAAP highlights include:Fourth quarter gross margins...

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Global Crossing Expands VoIP Access in Europe, Asia

Global Crossing has expanded local access in Europe and Asia to support the rising demand for its "Ready-Access" audio collaboration services. Global Crossing now provides local access to its Ready-Access service in 31 cities throughout Europe over its VoIP network. In Asia, Global Crossing is offering access to its collaboration services via its VoIP network in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, Indonesia and New Zealand. The VoIP network represents a more cost-effective way to connect to Ready-Access, and it delivers a higher quality...

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XO Offers Incentives for High-Bandwidth Services

XO Communications announced a new campaign of incentives for other carriers, cable companies, content providers, large enterprises and wireless companies using its inter-city and metro network transport solutions, including Ethernet, IP transit, and wavelength services. To support the campaign, XO has initiated the 3 Guarantee Program consisting of the following guarantees that XO will offer to any large enterprise and wholesale customer to beat valid competing offers for comparable high-capacity network services:Best Price Guarantee: XO will beat...

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TI Debuts Highest Performing Floating-Point DSP -- 350MHz

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced its highest performing floating-point DSP running at 350 MHz. Target applications include high quality audio conferencing, multi-channel audio systems, audio broadcast biometric and industrial solutions. The new device runs at 350 MHz. Versions are also available at speeds of 275 MHz and 300 MHz. TI's floating-point DSP portfolio, including the new device (C6727B DSP), is based on the TMS320C67x+ DSP generation-based core, a C-efficient, VLIW architecture. http://www.ti....

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Japanese MSO Deploys ARRIS Cadant CMTS

KATCH Networks, a cable operator located in Aichi Prefecture Japan, has chosen the ARRIS C4 CMTS to implement the KDDI Cable Plus Primary VoIP service. KDDI is one of Japan's largest telecom providers and subscribing cable service providers such as KATCH Networks use their network to provide primary line VoIP telephony service over HFC. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.arrisi....

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AT&T Wins $41M Contract for DOJ's JUTNet

AT&T Government Solutions was awarded a two-year, $41 million contract extending its existing Justice Unified Telecommunications Network (JUTNet) order with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The network serves approximately 1,900 DOJ locations. JUTNet is an MPLS-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) with advanced, features such as a secondary carrier for transport and access diversity, private IP transport with encryption, end-to-end service...

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Marvell to Support Microsoft Network Access Protection in Switching Silicon

Marvell announced support for Microsoft Network Access Protection technology in its multilayer switching silicon and related software. Network Access Protection is a policy enforcement technology in Windows Vista and the forthcoming Windows Server (code-named "Longhorn") operating systems that allows customers to better protect network assets from unhealthy computers by enforcing compliance with network health policies. "With the incorporation of Network Access Protection into our switching products, we can provide an additional layer of policy...

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Alcatel-Lucent Introduces CDMA2000 for 700 MHz Band

Alcatel-Lucent introduced its CDMA2000 mobile network solution for the 700 MHz spectrum band, which supports the needs of the public safety organizations of state and local governments.Based on CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A (Rev. A) technology, the solution supports services beneficial to public safety personnel including secure, high-speed access to critical information and the ability to share multimedia data, images and video from any location, push-to-talk services to establish easy communication between groups such as first responders, and critical...

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