BT to Reduce Wholesale Broadband Charges

BT will reduce the price of its wholesale broadband products beginning next month. From 1-May-2007, service providers using BT Wholesale's most highly used product -- BT IPstream -- will benefit from a 9 percent reduction in the monthly rental charge, with the price falling from £8.40 per line per month to £7.63. BT said there will also be further savings for service providers at high density exchanges, to reflect the lower cost of providing broadband in these areas. The current rebate scheme that covers 561 of these exchanges will now apply to...

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Datang and Alcatel-Lucent to Supply TD-SCDMA for China Mobile

Datang Mobile and Alcatel Shanghai Bell were selected to provide TD-SCDMA network solutions to China Mobile as part of China Mobile's TD-SCDMA trial network expansion program. Financial terms were not disclosed.Datang and Alcatel Shanghai Bell plan to deploy TD-SCDMA network solutions for China Mobile in Shanghai and in the southern city of Guangzhou. Alcatel Shanghai Bell will provide the Node B equipment to be used in the network.TD-SCDMA, initially developed by Datang Mobile, has been officially recognized as an international standard for third-generation...

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Akimbo VOD Service Now Available for TV and PC

Akimbo's Internet video-on-demand service will be available next week in beta release for Windows XP and Vista-based PCs. The service has previously only been available to the Akimbo set-top box.Akimbo used the Sonic Solutions' Roxio Venue, a rich media management application, to make the Akimbo Service available on PCs. The service offers a progressive download feature, allowing users to begin to watch videos before the download is complete. Later...

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NextWave Wireless to Acquire IPWireless for TD-CDMA

NextWave Wireless agreed to acquire IPWireless, the leading supplier of TD-CDMA network equipment and subscriber terminals, for approximately $100 million at closing, consisting of $25 million in cash and $75 million in NextWave common stock. Additional consideration of up to $135 million will be paid based on the achievement of certain revenue milestones in the 2007 -- 2009 timeframe as specified in the agreement.IPWireless is known for its developmental work in 3GPP TDD UMTS standards. Its TD-CDMA technology has potential application as the...

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Novatel Wireless Announces HSDPA Launch in Europe through OEMs

Novatel Wireless announced that four tier-one operators and two OEM partners, including existing and new customers, have launched its next generation HSDPA product portfolio throughout Europe. Novatel Wireless currently has five products commercialized for the European market across all product portfolio segments of PC and ExpressCards, embedded modules and Ovation fixed mobile solutions. The company said these customer relationships have resulted in more than a 25 percent sequential increase in HSDPA EMEA sales in the first quarter of 2007....

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KT to Deploy DASAN STBs Powered by Sigma Media Processors

KT has selected DASAN Networks for deployment of FTTH equipment for their Megapass TV service. Under the contract, customers that sign up for KT's flagship Megapass TV service will be offered a DASAN Network IPTV set-top box.The DASAN STBs are powered by Sigma Designs' SMP8634 media processor. An internal hard disc drive enables the download and play option for personal video recording. The set-top box also includes a port of ACAP middleware to support data broadcasting reception of the ATSC digital TV standard.KT's new Megapass TV Advanced Video...

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OPNET Delivers HAIPE Network Planning and Configuration Validation

OPNET Technologies announced new capabilities for planning and validating the configuration of High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) networks. HAIPE encryption devices comply with the National Security Agency's (NSA) HAIPE Interoperability Specification, a suite of features for traffic protection, networking, and management to ensure secure interoperability between IP encryption devices. HAIPE devices are emerging as a standard for protecting IP traffic for national security systems.New capabilities include support for modeling and...

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Modulus Video Announces MPEG-4 AVC Receiver Encoders

Modulus Video introduced a new class of video receiver/encoder systems for direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and IPTV headend operations. The new MRE2000 is a single 1RU chassis that incorporates direct RF signal input, demodulation, decoding and signal processing along with MPEG-4 AVC high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) video encoding. The MRE2000 family complements Modulus Video's ME2000 family of dedicated HD/SD MPEG-4 AVC video encoders. The MRE2000 eliminates the need for external demodulator, receiver and decoder systems by providing...

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Telsima Raises $50 Million for WiMAX

Telsima, a start-up based in in Santa Clara, California, raised $50 million in new funding for its WiMAX based Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) and Mobility solutions.Telsima's StarMAX BWA product lines resemble end-to-end WiMAX solutions, enabling operators to deploy non-line-of-sight, fixed or portable broadband wireless multimedia services in dense urban, suburban and rural environments.Telsima said it currently has commercial deployments in emerging markets such as India, and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), with several multi-million dollar...

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Vodafone Selects Ericsson for European-Wide Managed Services

Vodafone has selected Ericsson to manage the supply and distribution of spare parts for its mobile networks across several of its major European operating companies including Germany, Spain and Portugal.Under the multi-million Euro deal, Ericsson will assume responsibility for the logistics, warehousing, repair and replacement of multi-vendor spare parts in the selected operating companies. The agreement will cover the end-to-end management of spare parts for 2G, 3G and transmission equipment in the selected European operating companies.Ericsson...

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Israel's Partner Comm. Deploys AMDOC's Service Mediation

Partner Communications, a leading Israeli mobile provider operating under France Telecom Group's Orange brand name, has deployed Amdocs Service Mediation Manager 7 to support new services while reducing operational costs. This is the first deployment of Amdocs Service Mediation Manager 7, a product within the Amdocs 7 suite which was launched on January 23, 2007. Financial terms were not disclosed.Amdocs has been supporting mediation at Partner since 2000. With the current deployment, Partner was looking to consolidate all data and content mediation...

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Bay Microsystems and Enigma Push Line Card Designs to 40 Gbps

Bay Microsystems and Enigma Semiconductor have jointly developed a 40 Gbps line card solution using Bay's Chesapeake 40G Network Processor and Enigma's HybriCore chipset.The combination of Bay's 40G network processor and Enigma's single chip, 40G full duplex EN6240 fabric manager device enables OEMs to develop a new generation of broadband equipment, metro Ethernet routers and multi-service provisioning platforms capable of delivering advanced IP-based services.Bay and Enigma Semiconductor said they have aligned their product roadmaps to support...

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Rinera Raises $9 million for Internet Video Distribution

Rinera Networks, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, raised $9 million in Series A funding for its development of solutions for the delivery of distributing video over the Internet. The funding came from NEA and Foundation Capital. Rinera said its unique Coordinated Video Distribution System (CVDS) allows content owners to offer a consumer experience that is on- par with or better than that offered by server-based Content Delivery Network (CDN) solutions. Furthermore, Rinera's technology provides excellent network efficiency and breakthrough...

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Cablevision Appeals Network DVR Decision

Cablevision Systems is appealing the recent New York federal district court ruling involving network-based DVRs. Cablevision said it plans to seek expedited review of its appeal, citing the district court's misapplication of modern copyright law to remote-storage DVR, with potentially broader negative implications for technological innovation, and the clear consumer benefits of remote-storage DVR."We continue to believe strongly that remote-storage DVR is permissible under current copyright law and offers significant benefits to consumers, including...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Invests in Content Aggregator

Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent operator in Taiwan, has acquired a 21-percent stake in Elta Technology Co Ltd, a local company that delivers digital content to Chunghwa Telecom's mobile users and Internet TV subscribers as well as other mobile carriers.http://www.cht.com.tw/http://www.elta.com.tw/Earlier this year, Chunghwa Telecom acquired a 32% stake in Senao International, Taiwan's second-largest domestic handset retail...

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