Clearwire Signs Distribution Deals with DirecTV, Echostar

Clearwire announced distribution agreements with DIRECTV and EchoStar Communications, enabling each of the satellite companies to offer Clearwire's high-speed Internet service to their customers. Clearwire will also be able to offer the video services of one or both satellite companies to its customers. The launch is planned for later this year."We're pleased to partner with these two satellite companies as they both share our commitment to offering a superior customer experience by enabling customers to enjoy the benefits of unwired services,"...

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American Fiber Systems Deploys Atrica's Carrier Ethernet

American Fiber Systems (AFS), which operates metropolitan fiber networks and offers wholesale transport services, has deployed Atrica's Carrier Ethernet platform. AFS has over 1,200,000 miles of its own metro fiber deployed. It provides Ethernet, wavelength, and TDM private line services, as well as dark fiber infrastructure, to operators and large enterprises in nine U.S. metro markets, including Atlanta, Cleveland, Kansas City, Minneapolis/St....

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Atrica Announces Multi-port Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Device

Atrica introduced a Multi-port Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Device designed to enable end-to-end service delivery across third-party networks - as well as Atrica-based networks - with Quality of Service (QoS) control for each individual service.The A-1180 Multi-port Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Device has eight 10/100Base-T Ethernet interfaces on the customer network side, each of which provisions an Ethernet Virtual Circuit (EVC) that corresponds...

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Acme Packet Enhances its Net-Net Session Border Controllers

Acme Packet announced over 40 new features and enhancements that further extend the capabilities of its Net-Net session border controllers (SBCs) for controlling access to IP voice (VoIP), video and multimedia networks. The enhancements include new capabilities in the areas of security, service reach maximization, SLA assurance, revenue and profit protection and regulatory compliance.The new access border control features in Net-Net OS Release 5.0...

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Cisco to Integrate IBM's Tivoli Software

Cisco and IBM announced an expansion of their existing strategic alliance to deliver new standards-based telecommunications service assurance and fault-management solutions. Beginning in July 2007, Cisco will introduce a service-management solution that combines Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA) technology with IBM Tivoli software to help service providers centrally manage new services. The new offering, Cisco Assurance Management Solution, will provide network fault monitoring, trouble isolation, and real-time service-level event management...

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Verizon Business Activates Node in Cairo

Verizon Business has expanded its next-generation global IP network into Egypt with the activation of a private IP node in Cairo. The IP node is managed in partnership with TE Data, the data communications and Internet unit of Telecom Egypt. Verizon Business is now accepting Private IP Service orders. http://www.verizon....

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UTStarcom to Supply Multiservice Access Node to Tiscali Italia

UTStarcom will supply its iAN8K B1000 Multiservice Access Node / Gateway (MSAN / MSAG) to Tiscali Italia S.p.A.. The contract builds on earlier deployments. To date, UTStarcom has supplied more than 300,000 ports to Tiscali Italia. Financial terms were not disclosed.Under the deal, Tiscali Italia will deploy over 350,000 lines of UTStarcom's iAN8K B1000 to support the delivery of high-speed data, VoIP and IPTV services to all major markets in Italy. http://www.utstar....

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Bell Labs' Alfred Cho Awarded U.S. National Medal of Technology

Alfred Y. Cho, Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, has been chosen as a recipient of the 2005 U.S. National Medal of Technology. The U.S. National Medal of Technology is the highest honor awarded by the President of the United States for technological innovation. Cho, a 39-year veteran of Bell Labs, is being recognized for his contributions to the invention of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and his continuing work to refine it into a commercial process. MBE "grows" ordered materials one atomic layer at...

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Tiscali Expands North American Wholesale IP Business

Tiscali International Network (TINet), the carrier arm of Tiscali Group, is ramping up its network infrastructure, its network capacity as well as its sales & marketing organization to further establish itself in the North American wholesale IP Transit market. TINet ranks as Europe's third largest IP network, having overtaken many incumbent operators in terms of traffic. The company provides International Wholesale Products (IP Transit, MPLS...

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Broadcom Introduces Impulse Noise Protection for ADSL and VDSL Modems

Broadcom introduced an impulse noise protection technology that provides a significant improvement in residual bit error rate (BER) on ADSL2+/VDSL2 lines. The new impulse protection solution, marketed as Broadcom "PhyR" (pronounced "Fire") technology, incorporates Broadcom's ADSL2+/VDSL2 firmware. In contrast to previous impulse noise protection techniques, Broadcom said its PhyR technology provides a number of key advantages:As much as a ten times higher impulse noise resilienceSignificantly lower residual BER or packet-lossAn extended network...

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Mersive Technologies to Develop "Ultra Definition" Stingray Standard

Mersive Technologies, a start-up based in Lexington, Kentucky, is partnering with the National Science Foundation to define a new standard for how media can be transmitted, manipulated, and displayed on Ultra Definition (UD) devices. Ultra definition display devices will support hundreds of millions of pixels of resolution. Mersive and its partners plan to look beyond traditional video broadcast and transmission standards to develop Stingray, a standard that is hardware independent yet will address the challenge of managing media on displays...

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FBI Launches Operation Bot Roast -- One Million Compromised IP Addresses Identified

The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI announced OPERATION BOT ROAST, a national initiative to disrupt and dismantle "bot-herders" and elevate the public's cyber security awareness of botnets. Ongoing investigations have identified over 1 million victim computer IP addresses. The FBI is working with the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University to notify the victim owners of the computers. To date, three individual have been charged or arrested in this operation with computer fraud and abuse in violation of Title 18 USC 1030. http...

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Aware Develops IP-Bonded VDSL2, Enabling 40 Mbps at 5,550ft

Aware will conduct the industry's first public demonstration of bonded VDSL2 with its new StratiPHY IP-Bonded VDSL2 reference design for copper line bonding. Aware's new StratiPHY IP-Bonded VDSL2 enables service providers to use the existing and unused second telephone line to bond two VDSL2 links into a single aggregate connection. Aware claims that by using the VDSL2 8d profile common in North American FTTN deployments, a service provider can use IP- Bonded VDSL2 over two lines to deliver an effective data rate of 40 Mbps to subscribers up to...

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