Russia's TransTeleCom Builds NGN with Huawei

Russia's TransTeleCom has deployed a next generation network (NGN) to carry national and international voice traffic using platforms from Huawei Technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.The country-wide Russian NGN network spans nine time zones from Europe to Asia, encompassing seven national toll call offices and four international toll call offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg and six other cities. The newly built NGN interoperates with the original network and retains all the services of the original network. The Session Initiation Protocol...

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Fujitsu Named a Preferred Supplier to The Quilt Consortium

The Quilt research/education consortium, which includes 28 leading U.S.-based research and networking organizations, has named Fujitsu Network Communications a preferred supplier of optical transport solutions as part of their Vendor Affiliate Program. The Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 4500 multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP), FLASHWAVE 7420 managed wavelength platform and FLASHWAVE 7500 reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) platforms are now available to members of The Quilt for deployment within their regional optical networks. http://us.fujitsu.com/telecom...

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Great Plains Network Includes ADVA

The Great Plains Network consortium, a group midwestern universities dedicated to supporting research and education through the use of advanced networking technology, will include ADVA Optical Networking as its first corporate member. ADVA will lend its expertise in reconfigurable optical network services, coarse and dense wavelength division multiplexing (C- and DWDM) and high-speed Ethernet services for applications including on-demand grid computing and supercomputing infrastructures. http://www.advaoptical....

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BlackBerry Service Suffers Major Outage

Research In Motion's (RIM's) BlackBerry service suffered a major outage across North America lasting from approximately 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday until about 7 a.m. EDT Wednesday. Email service was delayed or interrupted. According to various news sources, RIM experienced a major failure in one of its two network operations centers (NOC).As of March 31, the total BlackBerry subscriber account base was approximately 8 million. http://www.rim....

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Global Crossing Supplies IP VPN for Newsquest

Global Crossing is providing an IP VPN capable of supporting data and voice services to Newsquest Media Group, the UK's second largest regional newspaper publisher. The network will be used to link Newsquest's 160 sites. Global Crossing also will consolidate 50 server locations into two data centers and provide new Internet access points for the data centers. The five-year, $20 million contract was signed last September. http://www.globalcrossing....

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Motorola Posts Loss of $181 Million, Weaker Mobile Sales

Motorola reported sales of $9.4 billion for Q1 2007 and a net loss of $181 million, or $0.08 per share."As I said a few weeks ago, the performance in our Mobile Devices business in the first quarter is unacceptable and we are committed to restoring it to an appropriate level of profitability. However, I am pleased with the continued performance of our Networks and Enterprise and Connected Home Solutions businesses. Despite challenges, the company was profitable for the quarter, excluding the items highlighted above. We also continue to invest for...

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Nokia Expands its Recycling Program for Mobile Phones

Nokia is offering free postage-paid envelopes enabling consumers in the United States to mail any mobile phone, mobile phone battery or mobile phone accessory to the company for recycling.http://www.nokiausa.com/recy...

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XO to Deploy Hatteras Networks' Mid-Band Ethernet

XO Communications selected Hatteras Networks' HN4000 and HN400 platforms as the exclusive Mid-Band Ethernet (MBE) solution to be used in its network. XO is currently deploying the Hatteras platform to expand the reach of its Ethernet Services footprint in 60 metropolitan markets, enabling businesses at copper-fed locations to take advantage of Ethernet services previously only available at buildings connected by fiber. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.hatterasnetworks.com http://www.xo....

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BT to provide Global Managed Services to Ciba

Ciba Specialty Chemicals (Ciba) selected BT to provide a broad package of managed ICT-services to its offices worldwide. BT will supply a global IP telephony solution running across a BT managed LAN and WAN service, a global IT security solution and a flat-rate voice service. Headquartered in Switzerland, Ciba Specialty Chemicals is active in more than 120 countries. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.bt.com http://www.cibasc....

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Verizon Business Extends VoIP Portfolio to Australia

Verizon Business has expanded availability of its portfolio to the Australian market, launching Verizon IP Integrated Access and Verizon Hosted IP Centrex to customers in six Australian cities. IP Integrated Access consolidates voice and data traffic over a single IP network whilst keeping the traditional PBX (private branch exchange) in place. Hosted IP Centrex is a robust, scalable and feature-rich VoIP service delivered from a hosted platform. The services are supported by SLAs.Verizon Business said its global footprint and extensive voice...

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AT&T Reaches 18,000 IPTV Subscribers

AT&T has signed up 18,000 subscribers to date for its U-verse IPTV and Internet service. AT&T's average installation rate has ramped to approximately 2,000 installations a week -- five times greater than its average rate in January. AT&T also confirmed plans to launch U-verse in the Los Angeles area in the coming weeks. Additional launches are planned for later this year and next.AT&T satellite TV offering is growing even faster....

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Carl Icahn Lobbies Motorola Shareholders for Place on Board

Activist investor Carl Icahn issued a public letter to shareholders in Motorola seeking a place on the company's Board of Directors. Icahn said that if elected, he will be unafraid to demand management accountability, especially in regards to Motorola's Mobile Devices division, which he blames for the steep decline in the value of the company's stock over the past few months. http://www.motorola.comhttp;//www.sec....

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