Cisco Upgrades ONS 15454 Optical Platform

Cisco announced significant hardware and software upgrades to its Cisco ONS optical networking platform, including a new 40-channel, mesh reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) supporting from 2 to 8-degrees of dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) traffic, Ethernet Xponder and Cisco Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP)-on-a-blade. Cisco said its mesh ROADM now supports a service provider's migration from ring-based DWDM topologies to more fiber-efficient mesh DWDM topologies. The new Cisco Ethernet Xponder provides aggregation...

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MSF Broadens Scope to Include Web Services

The MultiService Forum (MSF) is extending the scope of its activity to address broader aspects of "making NGN's work" in its technical program for 2007. Whereas the MSF's Release 3 architecture focused on communications via Parlay and Parlay-X services, the new focus will be on next gen web-based and traditional web services and other components, including non-trusted third-party applications. Key elements in this program will be the extension of...

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MetaSwitch Introduces Web 2.0 Portal for Communication Services

MetaSwitch released a communications Web portal that enables its service provider customers to deliver dynamic Web controls to their subscribers.The new CommPortal leverages Web 2.0 standards to provide a tightly integrated user interface to a wide range of services delivered from the company's UC9000 unified communications platform, as well as calling features provided by the MetaSwitch Call Agent, including Visual Voicemail, Recent Calls List,...

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UTStarcom to Deploy 1.3 Million ADSL2+ Lines for India's BSNL

UTStarcom announced a contract with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) for the deployment of 1.3 million lines of its iAN8K B1000 IP DSLAM solution in approximately 900 cities throughout India. UTStarcom will be the turnkey provider for this deployment, with full responsibility for the network design and planning, deployment, and service roll out and maintenance of the network. Additionally, UTStarcom will also supply its NetRing 10000 optical transport solution for the aggregation of DSL traffic in BSNL's network. http://www.utstar....

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2Wire Integrates 3G/UMTS and CDMA into Residential Gateways

2Wire announced plans to include femtocell functionality in its DSL residential gateways for enabling fixed-mobile convergence (FMC).A femtocell is a miniature cellular base station specifically designed for use in the home, vastly improving cellular voice and data coverage and quality throughout the home. 2Wire said its HomePortal BaseStation will provide whole-home coverage for both UMTS 3G voice and data (HSPA) services and CDMA-2000 EVDO 3G services....

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Motorola Cuts Guidance, Names President and Replaces CFO

Citing lower than anticipated sales and operating earnings for its Mobile Devices business, Motorola cut its first quarter 2007 guidance and provided a revised perspective on the full year. Motorola's Network & Enterprise and Connected Home Solutions businesses continue to perform in line with the company's expectations.Motorola now expects sales for the first quarter of 2007 to be in the range of $9.2 to $9.3 billion. First quarter GAAP results are expected to be a loss in the range of $0.07 to $0.09 per share, including charges of approximately...

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Pulver Launches 'Video on the Net Alliance', Files FCC Petition

Jeff Pulver is launching a "Video on the Net Alliance" to advocate on behalf of the Internet video industry, focusing on educating the industry, users and government about the promise of Internet video and the best policy framework to foster innovation and evolution of Internet video."It is essential that we, the members of the Internet video community, dive into the political and policy debates shaping the future of the Internet, video, media and entertainment," said Jonathan Askin, cofounder and Executive Director of the Alliance. "If we don't...

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AT&T: The Network of the Future

AT&T is busy building out a Common Architecture for Real-Time Services (CART), its next generation network that uses IMS but is not IMS, said Siroos Afshar, Senior Technical Consultant at AT&T Labs, speaking at the VON conference in San Jose.The goal is to decouple the company's various access networks from the services delivered to the customer, enabling any application to be easily delivered to any device. In AT&T's vision, the network retains the intelligence of current services, user preferences, device capabilities, and user availability/presence...

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