DSL Worldwide Surpasses 200 Million Line Mark

DSL's subscriber base worldwide has exceeded the 200 million mark, with almost 20 percent (or 37 million) living in China, according to new figures from The DSL Forum and Point Topic. China is now the largest provider of DSL-based services.The new milestone represents a 29 percent increase in the number of DSL customers inside the last twelve months.The DSL Forum estimates that DSL accounts for 65% of all broadband access forms globally and 73 percent of the Chinese broadbandmarket. http://www.dslforum....

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Alcatel-Lucent Wins IP/MPLS Contracts with China Telecom

Jiangsu Telecom and Hubei Telecom, two subsidiaries of China Telecom, have selected Alcatel-Lucent's IP/MPLS gear to expand their IP metro area networks. The multi-million Euro contracts were secured by Alcatel Shanghai Bell. The Alcatel-Lucent IP solution includes the 7750 Service Router (SR). http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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ECI Telecom Gains MEF Certification

ECI Telecom's Multi-Service Provisioning Platforms (MSPP) -- the XDM and the BroadGate (BG) series -- have been certified to be compliant to the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) technical specifications for delivery of Ethernet services. Testing was carried out by Iometrix testing lab. ECI's XDM and BG platforms were found to be fully compliant to MEF 9 and MEF 14, successfully demonstrating the platforms' readiness to deliver any Metro Ethernet service in conformance with MEF's quality of service attributes for traffic management. http://www.ecite...

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Ericsson Sells Planet EV Planning Tool Business to CTS

Ericsson will sell its Planet EV network planning tool suite and associated business to CTS International for an undisclosed sum. Planet EV is a network planning platform for network design, optimization and data management that was acquired by Ericsson in 2006 along with other business assets from Marconi.The sale includes the transfer of approximately 60 employees and is expected to close within 30 days.Ericsson said it will continue to provide its customers with network planning services which combine products and services to increase value...

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Alcatel Double Capacity of FTTU, Introduces New ONTs

Alcatel-Lucent has enhanced its 7342 ISAM Fiber-to-the-User (FTTU) with new quad port line cards, effectively doubling the system density, and a 10 Gigabits per I/O slot. Release 4.4 also supports VoIP with SIP and H248 and supports IPTV with IGMPv3 for fast TV channel change.In addition, Alcatel-Lucent introduced three new optical network terminals (ONTs) for residential, multi-dwelling units and businesses, which gives it the widest range of industry leading ONTs for all customer types. The Residential ONT (I-ONT) is ultra-compact and supports...

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Chunghwa Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent Ethernet/MPLS

Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent operator in Taiwan, selected Alcatel-Lucent to provide an Ethernet/MPLS backbone to support its island-wide FTTH initiative. CHT is deploying the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS), which provides scalable Ethernet/MPLS aggregation resulting in high bandwidth for high-speed Internet, video and voice services. Alcatel-Lucent said the new contract is part of CHT's "Optical Era Project" which involves...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Selects Teknovus for GEPON

Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent carrier in Taiwan, has selected Teknovus' Gigabit Ethernet Optical Network (G-EPON) chipsets for its FTTH deployment. The network will be used for broadband services including premium video services such as IPTV, along with VoIP and high-speed data services. Deployments are underway.Teknovus said its chips and software met Chunghwa's QoS requirements on 1X64 fully loaded PON networks while adhering to low power usage parameters. In January this year, Chunghwa Telecom announced it plans to invest NT$60 billion (US$1.85...

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Micrel Announces New 2.5 Gbps GPON ONU Transceiver

Micrel introduced a single chip programmable SERDES (Serializer/Deserializer) that supports multiple Passive Optical Network (PON) standards and rates including asymmetric Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) with data rates up to 2.5 Gbps on the receive side and 1.25 Gbps on the transmit side. Micrel's SY87725L SERDES chip offers complete clock recovery and data retiming circuitry, along with an integrated 4-bit serial-to-parallel data converter, on the receive side. On the transmit side, it also includes a synthesizer with an integrated 4-bit...

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TI and Network Physics Collaborate on IP Quality Management

Texas Instruments and Network Physics announced a development initiative centered on delivering optimized end-user experiences for VoIP and IPTV services. The initiative will leverage TI's "PIQUA" quality management system to help service providers and enterprise IT managers deliver important real-time visibility into performance related problems and provide automated corrective actions that can be deployed to mitigate some of the challenges with delivering IP-based services.TI's PIQUA system, which is based on the company's digital signal processor...

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FTS Supplies Business Control & Billing Software for Vodafone Iceland

Og Fjarskipti (Vodafone Iceland) will overhaul its billing system using FTS' Leap Billing and Leap Business Control Engine (Leap BCE) solutions, enabling next generation services with real time customer interaction. Vodafone Iceland will use FTS' solutions as the platform to support all current and future charging, billing and real-time customer interaction needs as part of a renewal of its entire BSS environment under a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. In addition, FTS will be responsible for overall project migration. Financial...

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Motorola Invests in VOCEL for Mobile Push Marketing Service

Motorola Ventures has made an investment in VOCEL, a start-up based in San Diego that is developing wireless push technology. Financial terms were not disclosed.VOCEL's INCA (Interactive Commerce Accelerator) wake-up mobile marketing service provide opt-in personalization, wake-up discovery, and one-click purchasing, which is designed to stimulate new data users and increase revenue for mobile operators and content publishers. INCA personalizes each marketing message through a sophisticated inference and recommendation engine that analyzes user-supplied...

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Click! Selects NeuStar for CALEA Compliance

Click! Network, a Tacoma, Washington-based broadband network of independent local exchange carriers (ILECs) and one of the nation's largest municipally-owned telecommunications systems, has selected NeuStar to support its Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) compliance efforts. Under a one-year contract, NeuStar will provide broadband lawful intercept services to the network. The CALEA compliance deadline was May 14, 2007 for all facilities-based broadband access providers and interconnected VoIP service providers.http://...

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Bell Canada's Privatization Talks Enter New Phase

BCE, the parent company of Bell Canada, announced that another group is entering into discussions to explore the possibility of taking the company private and that members of the group have signed non-disclosure and standstill agreements with BCE on a non-exclusive basis. The consortium includes Teachers' Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Providence Equity Partners Inc. http://www.bce.caIn April 2007, BCE announced a series of discussions with a group of leading Canadian pension funds to explore...

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Microsoft Shows new Version of Office Live Meeting

Microsoft showed off the new version of Office Live Meeting, which is scheduled for availability in fall 2007. The new version features a simplified user interface and a support for live video, VoIP and rich media. The 2007 release also supports multiple communication channels, such as enabling the user to integrate two-way conference audio into the meeting, or embedded flash, video and audio files into the presentation. "The 2007 release of Office Live Meeting is a prime example of Microsoft's software-plus-services in action," said Kim Akers,...

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Joost Names Volpi as CEO

Mike Volpi has been appointed chief executive officer, replacing Fredrik de Wahl, who remains at Joost as chief strategy officer.In February 2007, Volpi resigned his position as senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Routing and Service Provider Technology group. While at Cisco, Volpi also pioneered the company's M&A process, and acquired more than 70 companies during his tenure. http://www.joost....

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Avaya Accepts $8.2 Billion Buyout from Silver Lake, TPG

Avaya accepted an $8.2 billion buyout offer, or $17.50 per common share, from Silver Lake and TPG Capital, both private equity firms. The price represents a premium of approximately 33 percent over Avaya's average closing share price of $13.17 during the 30 trading days ending May 25, 2007.The merger agreement provides for Avaya to solicit proposals from third parties during the next 50 days. In addition, the company may, at any time, subject to...

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