Tzero Unveils UWB Chipset for Wireless and Coax Home Entertainment Networks

Tzero Technologies, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced its second-generation ultra wideband (UWB) chipset for home entertainment networking.The new Tzero "ZeroWire" chipset is a WiMedia standards-based, ultra wideband (UWB) semiconductor solution optimized for real-time delivery of high-definition video, wirelessly and over wires. The ZeroWire chipset includes both a Radio Frequency IC (RFIC) as well as a baseband and media access...

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Cisco Ships 900 CRS-1s in First Three Years

Cisco has shipped 900 of its Carrier Routing System (CRS-1) platforms to more than 85 providers since the core router was first released in August 2004. Cisco said the rapid growth of CRS-1 sales has been both accompanied and, to some degree, driven by significant IP traffic growth on global networks as video and other advanced service deployments continue.According to data compiled by Cisco and industry analysts, Internet video produced six times more IP traffic in 2006 than the amount of IP traffic that crossed the entire U.S. Internet backbone...

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Telekom Malaysia Selects Alcatel-Lucent for IP/MPLS

Alcatel-Lucent was awarded a EUR 10 million contract to supply a 10 Gbps IP/Ethernet network to Telekom Malaysia. The deployment includes the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router, Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service Switch, Alcatel-Lucent 7250 Service Access Switch and the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager. The network is being delivered through AirStar Sdn Bhd, a local solutions provider in telecommunications and ICT.http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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Netflix to Deliver Online Movie Viewing via Equinix

Netflix has established operations in Equinix data centers in multiple markets across the U.S. to support its new instant viewing feature for online movies. The Equinix facilities provide Netflix with direct access to an aggregation of networks, including the broadband providers and transit networks that reach their end users.http://www.equinix....

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Ciena Adds 40G Transport Upgrade to FlexSelect Architecture

Ciena introduced its FlexSelect 40G Shelf, a universal solution for its installed base of CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platforms and CoreStream Agility Optical Transport Systems that can be used to transition metro, regional, long-haul and ultra long-haul networks to 40 Gbps while providing a migration path for 100G networking. The new FlexSelect 40G Shelf can be deployed for in-service upgrades of granular 40G wavelengths alongside existing 10G wavelengths. This enables operators to add 40G wavelengths to 10G networks without have to...

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Mu Security Cites Growing Adoption of its Security Analyzer

Mu Security, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced that its Mu-4000 Security Analyzer has been deployed by CT Labs, NSS Labs and Ziff Davis test labs among a number of other labs to verify the robustness and security readiness of IP-based products including network equipment, VOIP systems and security gear.NSS Labs is using the Mu-4000 to perform security analysis and robustness testing for networking and security products. Ziff-Davis Labs also uses the Mu-4000 to stress test IP network equipment. http://www.musecurity....

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Calix Adds 4-Port 2.4 Gbps GPON Module

Calix introduced a new GPON service interface module to C7 multiservice access platform (MSAP). The GPON module provides a full 2.4 Gbps to each of four optical line terminal (OLT) ports, enabling the delivery of high bandwidth services, such as high definition IPTV, to each of 256 attached subscribers from a single module, or 5,120 from a single Calix C7 MSAP. The multiservice nature of the C7 allows for the support of high-speed, high-density GPON services from the same platform used to support DSL, Gigabit Ethernet, BPON, SONET, and legacy copper...

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Siemens Offers IP Cordless Phone and WLAN DSL Gateway

Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices (SHC) introduced two new Gigaset devices with integrated VoIP functionality.The Gigaset S450 IP is a hybrid cordless communications system that supports connections for both fixed-line (PSTN) and VoIP over a broadband connection. If the phone is not already pre-configured with the provider's VoIP settings, simple and intuitive menus guide the user to input these settings for rapid configuration. Up to...

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Level 3 Provides Fiber to Library of Congress

Level 3 Communications has delivered fiber optic links to the Library of Congress to support the National Audio Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC). The NAVCC ensures the preservation and digitization of the national copyright collection of films, television, radio, and recorded sound. The facility will house over one million theatrical films, newsreels and television programs, in addition to educational, industrial and advertising material, including over 150,000 reels of nitrate film.Under the multiple-year agreement, Level 3 has installed and...

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RadiSys Introduces Convedia Software Media Server

RadiSys introduced a software-only IP audio and video media processing server for Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) and Linux-based platforms.The Convedia Software Media Server is available on the company's Promentum ATCA-4300 dual-core dual Xeon compute processing module as well as the IBM System x3550 server. The platform, which is based the same technology used in the company's existing hardware media servers, provides equipment manufacturers and independent software vendors with an entry-level enterprise solution that...

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RadiSys Debuts 10-Gigabit ATCA Blade for High Performance Media Processing

RadiSys introduced an Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) Digital Signal Processing (DSP) blade that hosts up to 20 multi-core MSC8144 DSPs from Freescale Semiconductor, providing a major boost in processing power required in next-generation VoIP, media processing and media gateway solutions. The new Promentum ATCA-9100 Media Resource Module features a mezzanine design to host a farm of up 20 of these quad-core, Freescale...

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Juniper Unveils the T1600, its Next Gen Core Router

Juniper Networks unveiled its next generation, T1600 core router featuring 1.6 Tbps of throughput in a single half-rack chassis. Juniper is aiming the platform at "new, rich-media, experience-based services" which require core routers to feature much higher performance, openness and the ability to support customized service delivery.Significantly, the T1600 offers 100 Gbps per slot, a capability driven by new, dual 50 Gbps ASICs. This capacity...

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Qwest's Notebaert to Retire

Richard C. Notebaert, Qwest chairman and chief executive officer, announced plans to retire from both positions upon the selection of a successor, for which a formal search is under way.Notebaert has served in these positions since 2002. Formerly, he Notebaert was president and chief executive officer of Tellabs, a position he had held since August 2000. Prior to that, Notebaert retired from his position as chairman of the board of Ameritech Corporation in December 1999. http://www.qwest....

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Oversi Raises $8 Million for P2P Caching for Carriers

Oversi, a start-up based in Israel, raised $8 million in an extended second round of funding. The funding was led by Carmel Ventures together with StageOne Ventures and TempoPark Fund. Cisco was one of the investors.Oversi develops P2P caching solutions that enable service providers to deliver more bandwidth on their existing infrastructures while optimizing network performance. The same Oversi platform provides a critical building block for supporting the emerging services of P2P VOD (Video on Demand) and P2P TV. http://www.oversi.c...

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Neuf Cegetel Deploys Cisco 7600 and CRS-1 Routers

Neuf Cegetel has chosen the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture to transform its network to deliver both residential and corporate IP services over the next three years. Financial terms were not disclosed.Neuf Cegetel's residential network comprises approximately 200 points of presence (POPs) connected to around 1,200 central offices (COs) throughout France. The company currently serves 4 million residential customers,...

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Yipes Names VP of Network Architecture

Yipes named Shankar Narayanaswamy as VP of Network Architecture, reporting to Dr. Kamran Sistanizadeh, chief technology officer and co-founder of Yipes. Narayanaswamy was most recently with Covad Communications, where he led the design and development of VoIP, IPTV, and Video on Demand (VoD) services. He also initiated and drove the evolution of Covad's nationwide network from ATM to MPLS. In this new position, Narayanaswamy will further develop the architecture and drive the expansion of Yipes' next-generation Ethernet VPLS platform. http://w...

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AppTrigger Pioneers Application Evolution to IMS with IN-SCS Functionality

AppTrigger announce IN-SCS (Intelligent Network -- Service Capability Server) functionality in the latest release of its Ignite Application Session Controller (version 7.0). The new capabilities are key for evolving large scale legacy IN applications into IMS network architectures. AppTrigger's Ignite 7.0 Application Session Controller delivers IN-SCS functionality that enables service providers to evolve their existing voice centric IN applications, such as pre-paid and voice messaging, to work within the IMS networks. Service providers would...

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