KT to Offer Alcatel-Lucent's IP-PBX

KT will Alcatel-Lucent's IP-PBX solutions and handsets to provide a variety of customized multimedia services and applications for VoIP services targeting Korean business customers. Specifically, Alcatel-Lucent will supply IP-based OmniPCX Enterprise private switching systems, IP telephone handsets, and mobile Internet telephone handsets to KT's customers that need to deploy large scale IP-PBX solutions.The SIP-based OmniPCX Enterprise can accommodate up to 5,000 lines per node while interoperating with KT's proxy server. http://www.alcatel-lu...

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The Cloud Activates WiFi Mesh Across the City of London

The Cloud activated a Wi-Fi mesh network across the entire City of London -- the famous Square Mile. The project, described as the densest network of its kind in Europe, was built and is operated by The Cloud under a "neutrality" approach endorsed by the City of London. The Cloud will ensure other service providers can use the network, including O2, BT Openzone, iPass, Truphone and Skype on various handsets. Free access for the first month will...

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SAP and Cisco to Develop SOA Applications

SAP and Cisco will jointly develop a new breed of business solutions to transform how applications and networks interact based on service- oriented architecture (SOA). The vision is to integrate the context of operational business applications with the intelligence captured throughout the network, providing customers with high levels of visibility, control and responsiveness across the extended enterprise. The companies said their new network-aware solutions will focus on removing the artificial separation between application infrastructure and...

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Podbridge Raises $8.5 Million for Downloadable Content Advertising

Podbridge, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, closed a new round of venture funding totaling $8.5 million for its advertising service designed for downloadable content. Podbridge currently provides measurement and advertisement services to many large media companies including Bloomberg, C/Net, Forbes, The Nielsen Company and InfoWorld, among others. The company aims to provide analytics and ad services for downloaded content across a wide range of media players and devices.New investor Sutter Hill Ventures led this Series B round with...

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Juniper Posts Q1 Revenue of $626.9M, up 11%

Juniper Networks Q1 net revenues of $626.9 million, compared with $566.7 million for the first quarter of 2006, an increase of 11 percent. Net income on a GAAP basis for the first quarter of 2007 was $66.6 million or $0.11 per share, compared with a GAAP net income of $75.8 million or $0.13 per share for the first quarter of 2006. "Our first quarter results were in line with our expectations," said Scott Kriens, Juniper Networks' Chairman and CEO. http://www.juniper....

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ARCHOS to Feature CinemaNow on its 5th Gen Portable Media Players

ARCHOS reached an agreement with CinemaNow to deliver online video content and services directly to consumers using the forthcoming, 5th-generation ARCHOS portable media player.CinemaNow is the first online video service to offer downloads to consumers in 1500K single-file format, which can be played on desktop and laptop PCs, Media Center Edition PCs, and ARCHOS portable media players.The companies said they unveil additional details of the content...

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Deutsche Telekom and Neuf Negotiate Sale of Club Internet France

Deutsche Telekom and Neuf Cegetel have entered into exclusive negotiations in relation to the sale of Deutsche Telekom's French Internet access unit T-Online France S.A.S., which trades under the Club Internet brand. Club Internet had close to 570,000 ADSL customers at the end of 2006. The companies said a formal consultation process is being initiated with the workers' council of T-Online France. Subject to the outcome of the consultation process,...

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Verizon FiOS TV Adds Three National High-Definition Channels

Verizon has added three more HD channels to its FiOS TV programming -- HGTV HD, Food Network HD and LMN HD (Lifetime Movie Network). The three channels will be available in all FiOS TV markets by the end of this week, bringing the total number of HD channels to at least 27 in most markets, depending on the number of local channels that broadcast in HD. FiOS TV subscribers with an HD-capable TV and an HD set-top box will receive the three new channels at no additional cost. http://www.verizon....

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Time Warner Cable Partners With FON for Open Wi-Fi

Time Warner Cable will enable its broadband subscribers to share their home connections as open Wi-Fi hotspots in the FON community. Through a partnership with FON, Time Warner Cable subscribers will be able to create FON access points via their home or business broadband connection. FON users, or "foneros," are able to connect to the Internet via FON WiFi hotspots provided by other foneros. FON claims nearly 60,000 foneros in the U.S.La Fonera...

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KDDI R&D Labs TestsNovera Optics' DWDM

Japan's KDDI R&D Laboratories has concluded lab trial testing on Novera Optics' Lambda-PON DWDM technology and will now conduct a feasibility study for use in next-generation transport services. KDDI R&D Laboratories also will begin a study of new products for broadband services with WDM-PON technologies.Novera's DWDM transport solution enables point-to-point, bidirectional optical links through a single feeder fiber. The design eliminates the need for expensive, wavelength-specific optical network units (ONUs) on a passive optical network...

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Motorola to Acquire Terayon for Digital Video Grooming Platforms

Motorola agreed to acquire Terayon Communication Systems for approximately $140 million in cash ($1.80 per share. Terayon supplies real-time digital video networking gear to cable, satellite and telecommunication service providers worldwide. Its Terayon "CherryPicker" and related digital video system can be used to localize video services through digital ad insertion. The solutions support both SD and HD digital-into-digital ad insertion solutions,...

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MFA Forum Launches MPLS-based Mobile Backhaul Initiative

The MFA Forum is launching a major technical initiative targeting the role of IP/MPLS in backhaul transport networks that support mobile radio access networks (RAN). The MFA Forum said its MPLS Mobile Backhaul Initiative (MMBI) will help service providers migrate from existing separate, legacy ATM and TDM backhaul networks to a more cost-effective, converged, MPLS-enabled, and multi-purpose network. The Initiative will directly impact mobile operators'...

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Samsung Develops Highly Efficient Stacking Process for DRAM

Samsung Electronics has developed the first all-DRAM stacked memory package using "through silicon via" (TSV) technology -- a breakthrough that the company says will soon result in memory packages that are faster, smaller and consume less power.Samsung's new wafer-level-processed stacked package (WSP) consists of four 512 megabit (Mb) DDR2 (second generation, double data rate) DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips that offer a combined 2 gigabits (Gbs) of high density memory. Using the TSV-processed 2Gb DRAMs, Samsung can create a 4GB (gigabyte)...

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