Fujitsu Integrates 40G Wavelengths on Flashwave 7500

Fujitsu Network Communications has integrated 40 Gbps transmission capabilities into its FLASHWAVE 7500 Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM), enabling 10-Gbps metro DWDM networks based on the platform to grow from 400 Gbps to 1.6 Tbps of total capacity.Fujitsu has developed an advanced modulation scheme and per-wavelength variable dispersion compensation (VDC) to support the 40 Gbps rate. Optical performance requirements such as optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), chromatic dispersion, polarization mode dispersion (PMD), and spectral...

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MetaSwitch Launches MetaSphere App Suite and Service Delivery Platform

MetaSwitch introduced a service delivery platform (SDP) and suite of applications aimed at helping carriers migrate toward next generation service-oriented networks.The MetaSphere service delivery platform, which is designed specifically for telecommunications applications, is pre-integrated with MetaSwitch's session control, PSTN emulation server and media gateway technologies. Based on core technology from MetaSwitch's parent company Data Connection, the MetaSphere SDP includes a graphical service creation and personalization environment (SCAPE),...

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Motorola Boosts Broadband Services Router with DOCSIS 3.0

Motorola introduced a DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding module supporting 32 QAM channels in a single slot within the fully redundant, Motorola BSR 64000 router chassis. The downstream channels on the TX32 module can be coupled with the downstream and upstream channels on existing 2:8 CMTS modules to provide up to 138 downstream channels and up to five gigabits of aggregate downstream capacity in a single chassis. The module supports new DOCSIS 3.0 as well as legacy DOCSIS 1.X and 2.0 cable modems and can support channel bonding and load balancing across...

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Level 3 Completes Internet2 Optical Network Implementation

Level 3 Communications confirmed that it has completed deployment of the new, 100 Gbps Internet2 nationwide, dedicated network services backbone, which is now operational. Under a multiyear agreement, Level 3 is providing dedicated backbone facilities comprising 13,500 long-haul route miles, multiple customer colocation suites and newly deployed metro fiber. Under the agreement, Level 3 is also providing wavelength and high-speed IP services to Internet2 with options for private line, metro and long-haul dark fiber services to interconnect the...

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BT Joins Forces With Extricom for Converged Wireless

BT iNET will integrate Extricom's "Interference-Free" Enterprise Wireless LAN System into BT's wireless and mobility convergence solutions. The first joint customer to benefit is Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire, where BT iNET designed and deployed a wireless network, using Extricom's WLAN system at its core, to cover pupil boarding houses located on the 130-acre campus of the independent school. http://www.bt.com/btinethttp://www.extricom....

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Verizon Introduces Three Business FMC Services

Verizon is introducing three new fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services to help on-the-go professionals seamlessly bridge wireline and wireless networks. These services are Wireless Office, PBX Mobile Extension and Mobile Conference Connection. Key capabilities include: a single phone number that simultaneously rings to an office, home and cell phone; a unified mailbox that consolidates voicemail from multiple devices; and instant conference calls that can be organized and initiated with just a few clicks on any Research in Motion BlackBerry...

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Yahoo! Signs Six Mobile Deals in AsiaPac

Yahoo! has signed partnership agreements with six major mobile operators across Asia for distribution of its mobile search service, Yahoo! oneSearch, which launched in Asia in May of this year. The six mobile operators are Globe Telecom (Philippines), Idea Cellular Limited (India), LG Telecom (Korea), Maxis Communications Berhad (Malaysia), PT Telekomunikasi Selular "Telkomsel" (Indonesia) and Taiwan Mobile (Taiwan).These carriers represent a combined subscriber base of nearly 100 million. http://www.yahoo....

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Motorola Enhances Web Based Support for Broadband Service Operators

Motorola released a new version of its web-enabled support software, eCare, for broadband service operators. Motorola eCare is a web-enabled interactive support solution that enables technical support staff to reach out over the Internet and resolve customers' problems through the end-user's desktop. Motorola is offering the software as both a hosted solution and as a licensed server. http://www.motorola....

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AT&T Launches HD Homezone Service

AT&T has added HD video to its Homezone service, which integrates AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet, AT&T | DISH Network satellite television and AT&T Home Networking services via a single device. It also features digital videorecording technology and remote access to the system through Web-enabled PCs or WAP-2.0 compatible wireless phones.The upgrade includes more than 30 national HD channels -- and additional local HD channels for...

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Motorola Introduces Enhanced CWDM

Motorola introduced its Enhanced Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (E-CWDM) solution designed for increasing the downstream service delivery capacity of cable networks by transmitting multiple CWDM optical signals over a single fiber optic connection, enabling operators to segment serving areas into three, four or five discrete areas. Each optical signal can carry a full 1 GHz loading of broadcast and narrowcast content over distances up to 25 kilometers between the hub and optical node.Motorola says that by increasing bandwidth through greater...

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Sonus Networks and PCTEL Team on IMS-based FMC

Sonus Networks and PCTEL have completed interoperability testing between the customized PCTEL Roaming Client - Voice Enabled (VE) solution and the Sonus Broadband-Mobile Convergence (BMC) solution. The joint solution will enable the seamless handoff of mobile calls between Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and traditional cellular networks and delivery of broadband-mobile converged services through dual mode handsets. Sonus' BMC solution is IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-ready and is based on standard protocols as defined by the 3rd Generation...

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Verizon Reaches One Millionth FiOS Internet, 500,000 FiOS TV Customers

Verizon has exceeded the one million customer milestone for its FiOS Internet service and has nearly 500,000 FiOS TV customers. Verizon expects its FiOS FTTH network to pass 9 million homes by the end of 2007 and 18 million by the end of the decade. The subscription TV service was first introduced in September 2005.In a keynote address at the Nxtcomm tradeshow in Chicago, Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg said that by the end of the decade - when cable competitors say they'll be transitioning to DOCSIS 3.0 - Verizon will be preparing...

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