Neuf to Offer 50 Mbps FTTx at EUR29.90 in Paris

Beginning in April, Neuf Cegetel plans to begin offering a FTTx service in Paris priced at EUR 29.90 (including VAT) per month. Like the company's "100% Neuf Box ADSL package", the new offer will include the phone line, unlimited calls to landline numbers in France and over 30 countries, a television bouquet, access to video on demand, and the Neuf Giga online storage service. The Neuf FTTx service will deliver dynamic bandwidth of 50 Mbps (both...

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Fiber-to-the-Home Council Calls for "100 Megabit Nation"

The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council is calling on the U.S. government to adopt a "100 Megabit Nation" policy aimed at ensuring that next-generation broadband connections are universally available by 2015.The FTTH Council proposed that Congress and the President act by the end of 2007 to adopt a strategy and timetable for clearing the way for all Americans to gain access to communication services at transmission speeds in excess of 100 Mbps. The...

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Nokia Reorganizes North American Device Business

Nokia is reorganizing its North America sales and marketing organization with the goal of becoming more channel-focused. Specifically, Nokia is redefining the roles of its device sales teams for North America and relocating most sales support people closer to customers. The device sales organization will move most of its support functions from Irving, Texas, to Nokia's corporate facilities in White Plains, New York. As part of the changes, Mark Louison, the current head of Nokia's networks business in North America, has been appointed to head...

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Alcatel-Lucent Names Reinaudo as President of Europe & North activities

Alcatel-Lucent appointed Christian Reinaudo as President of the company's Europe and North* activities, replacing Vin Molinaro, who has decided to leave the company. Reinaudo will also continue in his current role as Integration Program Office (IPO) leader and Steering Council Member.Before his current role as Corporate Executive Vice-President in charge of the Integration Program Office, Christian Reinaudo led the Alcatel Optics Group for four years and then led Alcatel's Asia Pacific Operations for three years. Christian Reinaudo has been a...

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Alcatel-Lucent Expands IP/MPLS Routing Portfolio

Alcatel-Lucent rolled out a series of IP/MPLS edge routing products and enhancements, including a new 6-slot, 80 Gbps (full-duplex) chassis and switch fabric for its 7450 ESS platform and new operating system software. The new capabilities address network scalability, availability and resiliency. Highlights of these new features include:Multi-chassis Link Aggregation and Subscriber Routed Redundancy Protocol (SRRP) -- enables dual-homed links from any IEEE 802.3ad standards-based access device (e.g. IP DSLAM, Ethernet switch or Video on Demand...

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AT&T Adds 13,000 New Hot Spots to Global Wi-Fi Access Footprint

AT&T announced a major expansion of its global Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) footprint for business customers, adding 13,000 hot spots around the world. The total global Wi-Fi service area offered by AT&T now exceeds more than 48,000 hot spots in 79 countries.Also, AT&T has enhanced its Global Network Client -- the software used by mobile workers to access their company's VPNs -- streamlining logons and adding a new level of security features...

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Motorola Expands its Network Operations Center

Motorola has expanded the capabilities of its centralized Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations Center (SOC) to offer managed services such as remote monitoring and diagnostics for private and public wireless networks, including cellular and wireless broadband systems. Historically, Motorola has offered monitoring services for private radio system customers such as municipalities, enterprises and public safety agencies. In 2006, Motorola enhanced its monitoring process and implemented a software solution to manage events for private...

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TiVo Ends January with 4.4 Million Subscribers

TiVo's cumulative total subscriptions as of January 31, 2007 were up slightly from last quarter to 4.4 million. In the quarter, TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions were 163,000, increasing overall TiVo-Owned subscriptions to 1.7 million. As expected, TiVo reported a net decline to 2.7 million DIRECTV TiVo subscriptions during the period as DIRECTV deployed fewer TiVo boxes and as there was continued churn of existing DIRECTV TiVo subscriptions.For its most recent fiscal quarter, TiVo's service and technology revenues increased 22% to $57.4...

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