Comcast Selects Thomson for VoIP Cable Modems

Comcast awarded a contract to Thomson for VoIP cable modems (eMTAs modems) to support the continued rollout of its Comcast Digital Voice service. As a long-term supplier of data-only cable modems to Comcast, the agreement strengthens Thomson's relationship with Comcast beyond the current provision of pure cable modems.Comcast will use Thomson's DHG535 eMTA to connect its customers to both Comcast Digital Voice and Comcast High-Speed Internet through one integrated device.Thomson said the contract enables it to further address the worldwide market...

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Motorola Selected for WiMAX + IMS Network in Bahrain

Mena Telecom, an investment subsidiary of Kuwait Finance House (Bahrain), selected Motorola to plan, deploy and manage a nationwide 802.16e-based mobile WiMAX and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The deployment will enable Mena Telecom to deliver wireless broadband connectivity as well as advanced voice and nomadic broadband data services to both business and residential customers across Bahrain. Financial terms were...

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Harmonic to Acquire Rhozet for Mobile Video Creation

Harmonic agreed to acquire Rhozet, a start-up offering software-based universal transcoding solutions that facilitate the creation of multi-format video for Internet, mobile and broadcast applications. Harmonic will pay $15.5 million comprised of cash and the value of approximately 1.1 million shares of Harmonic stock.The Rhozet product line includes Carbon Coder, a stand-alone software transcoding application, and Carbon Server, an enterprise-level distributed transcoding management application. This highly scalable solution is designed to allow...

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European Commission Proposes to Open More Spectrum for New Services

The European Commission proposed opening more radio spectrum for advanced mobile data and multimedia services, such video streaming to mobile handsets. Specifically, the EC proposes to repeal the existing GSM Directive and replacing it with a directive that allows new technologies to coexist with GSM in the frequencies of 900 MHz and 1800 MHz, while preserving the continued operation of GSM in the EU.In the Commission's assessment, the proposed...

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Equinix Posts Q2 Sales of $91.8 million, up 8% Sequentially

Equinix posted Q2 revenues of $91.8 million, a 34% increase over the same quarter last year and an 8% increase over the previous quarter. Recurring revenues, consisting primarily of colocation, interconnection and managed services, were $87.9 million, a 35% increase over the same quarter last year and a 9% increase over the previous quarter. During Q2, Equinix announced plans to acquire IXEurope for approximately £270.1 million. http://www.equinix....

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Harmonic Posts Q2 Sales of $71.3 million, up 34%

Harmonic reported Q2 net sales of $71.3 million, up 34% from $53.3 million in the second quarter of 2006. GAAP net income for the second quarter of 2007 was $6.2 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, compared to a GAAP net loss of $2.9 million, or $0.04 per share for the same period of 2006. "We are pleased with our sales and earnings growth in the first six months of 2007, as well as our improved gross margins and inventory management, and our strong bookings in the second quarter of 2007," said Patrick Harshman, President and Chief Executive Officer....

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Kentucky's Foothills Telephone Selects Occam

Kentucky's Foothills Telephone Cooperative has selected Occam Networks' Broadband Loop Carrier system and remote terminal cabinets to upgrade its network. Specifically, Foothills has purchased Occam remote terminal cabinets, Gigabit Ethernet transport ring equipment, BLC 6252-02 ADSL2Plus Blades and BLC 6244 ADSL2Plus Blades. The BLC 6252 will provide 48 ports of ADSL2Plus with Lifeline POTS on the same physical interface to deliver voice, data and video services. The BLC 6244 will provide 24 ports of ADSL2Plus with Lifeline POTS to deliver high...

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DOCSIS 3.0 and PacketCable 2.0 Standards Advance at ITU

CableLabs announced that much of DOCSIS 3.0 and additional key elements of the PacketCable 2.0 specifications have been given "consent" status by a study group of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-T) placing the technologies on a pathway to become international standards. The meetings of Study Group (SG) 9 occurred in mid-June in Singapore and were chaired by CableLabs President and CEO Dr. Richard R. Green.The DOCSIS 3.0 specification establishes ways for cable companies to tie multiple 6MHz transmission channels together to deliver...

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AT&T Offers Mobile Backup for Handsets

AT&T is launching a Mobile Backup application that lets its mobile subscribers store, update and access the contact information on their wireless phones through a new downloadable handset application. AT&T Mobile Backup will be available on a variety of handsets, beginning with six Motorola devices: the Motorola RAZR V3xx, RAZR V3i, RAZR V3r, V365, SLVR L7 and KRZR K1. The service will be compatible with more handsets in the future."Most people have contact information on their wireless devices that they do not have stored anywhere else,"...

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EarthLink and SK Telecom Add Funding to HELIO

EarthLink and SK Telecom will each could provide up to $100 million in additional funding to HELIO, their wireless voice and data services joint venture.EarthLink and SK Telecom have each approved initial funding of $30 million. EarthLink and SK Telecom had each previously announced that HELIO would require additional funding in 2007. http://www.earthlink....

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Ikanos Partners with Atheros on VDSL2 Gateway with 802.11n

Ikanos Communications has partnered with Atheros Communications to develop a VDSL2 gateway reference platform based on Ikanos' Fusiv Vx180 processor and Atheros' dual-band concurrent and dual-band configurable XSPAN 802.11n draft 2.0 technology.The reference platform, which is aimed at Triple Play rollouts, supports 802.11n using less than one-half the processing power of comparable DSL platforms. This is accomplished by optimizing and running 802.11n drivers on Fusiv's distributed architecture, which includes a host CPU and multiple high-performance...

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ARRIS Posts Q2 Revenue of $252.7 Million, Up 15%

ARRIS reported Q2 revenues of $252.7 million, up 14.9% as compared to $220.0 million in the second quarter 2006 and up 7.4% as compared to $235.3 million in the first quarter 2007. Net income was $23.3 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, and compares to net income of $24.8 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, in the second quarter 2006. Broadband product revenues were $77.4 million in the second quarter 2007 as compared to $98.8 million in the second quarter of 2006 and as compared to the first quarter 2007 level of $80.2 million. These results...

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