T-Online France Deploys Visionael's Network Resource Manager

T-Online France has selected Visionael's Network Resource Manager (NRM) to automate delivery of its triple play services to residential customers. Visionael's Network Resource Manager (NRM) provides open interfaces to T-Online France's CRM, Billing and activation systems. The NRM includes tools necessary to capture and maintain a database of the network infrastructure. Visionael's solution also enables T-Online's France customers to go directly to the website to subscribe for services. Now, T-Online France users can select IPTV or VoIP services...

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Wave7 Optics Adds GPON Capability

Wave7 Optics announced support for ITU-T G.984 Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) standard networks via its Trident7 Universal Access Platform. The Trident7 FTTP platform also supports standards-based EPON (IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile) It incorporates fully standards-compliant chipsets to ensure interoperability, and features a diverse selection of "ONTs" (Optical Network Terminals, or customer premise equipment) designed to fulfill the needs of both residential and business customers. Wave7 Optics has been shipping the...

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Cisco's Scientific Atlanta Previews D-PON Architecture

Cisco's Scientific Atlanta announced a new DOCSIS Passive Optical Network (D-PON) architecture designed to enable operators to deploy cable-centric/cable-friendly fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology.The D-PON solution, which is especially designed for greenfield developments, features a 32-way split PON infrastructure. Scientific Atlanta said its design enables cable operators to create an effective optical budget in both directions. Downstream, the D-PON uses 1550nm technology to provide cost-effective forward optics to get to the side of the...

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Cisco Unveils Universal Edge QAM Solution

Cisco announced the first of a new RF Gateway (RFGW) series of Universal Edge QAM (U-EQAM) products for cable video on demand (VOD), switched digital video (SDV) and high-speed data (HSD) services. The Cisco RF Gateway Series products are fully integrated and tested as part of the Scientific Atlanta Digital Broadband Delivery System (DBDS) and the Cisco Modular CMTS (M-CMTS) solution.The Cisco RF Gateway 1, the first product offering from the Cisco RF Gateway Series, delivers up to 48 D-RFI-compliant QAM channels in a compact 1RU chassis with...

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Alcatel-Lucent Enhances Mobile Content Platform

Alcatel-Lucent released an enhanced Mobile Content Platform that mobile operators can use to create a personalized mobile shopping experience for targeted subscriber segments based on individual interests and behaviour. The Alcatel-Lucent 5965 Mobile Content Platform is a software platform that can be added to mobile networks without replacing existing content systems .Alcatel-Lucent said its enhanced platform, along with an operator's existing content systems (e.g. video, music, games, etc.), can be used to drive marketing campaigns and gain...

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Navini Partners with ASUS for WiMAX Certified Modems

Navini Networks and ASUS will jointly develop certified Mobile WiMAX subscriber modems to be marketed under Navini's Ripwave brand. These modems will use chips from several vendors and will support key Mobile WiMAX features such as Beamforming and MIMO Matrix A (Space-Time Coding). The agreement includes a commitment to Mobile WiMAX interoperability certification by the WiMAX Forum certification test labs.The companies said they plan to bring the initial selection of Ripwave Mobile WiMAX modems to market with desktop portable data modems in late...

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Cedar Point Supports Cable VoIP Launch by Mexico's Grupo Hevi

Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) Multimedia Switching System has been selected for delivery of telephony services to Grupo Hevi subscribers. Cedar Point and Grupo Hevi will work together to deploy VoIP service initially in the Zapopan, Jalisco market. http://www.cedarpointcom.com/http://www.grupohevi.com....

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Internet2 Completes 100 Gbps Coast-to-Coast Span

Internet2 has completed deployment of the first East to West Coast span on its new nationwide 100 Gbps network and is providing production IP and circuit services to the research and education community in the United States. Internet2 is now working to transition traffic from the Abilene Network onto the new platform.In April 2007, Internet2 announced that the first major phase of the deployment was complete which included nodes in the Northeast...

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Motorola Debuts 10Gbps AdvancedTCA Blade Based on Multi-core Cavium Processor

Motorola introduced an AdvancedTCA (ATCA) blade that leverages two sixteen-core processors with built-in hardware acceleration engines to deliver 10Gbps packet forwarding throughput. The blade uses Cavium Networks' Octeon processors and Wind River's Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition (PNE-LE) operating system. The many-core processor with a standard Carrier Grade Linux programming environment allows both conventional programs and packet processing tasks to be handled on the same hardware. Target applications include data plane elements...

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