Larry Roberts' Anagran Targets Flow-based Routing

Dr. Larry Roberts, who is known for his pioneering work on the ARPANET and his role in network equipment start-up companies, formally launched his latest innovation and new networking company, Anagran. The company announced the immediate availability of the Anagran FR-1000 Flow Router, a routing platform aimed improving media flows across the Internet.The Anagran router resides at or just before the network edge and is designed to work seamlessly...

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UNH-IOL Tests IPv6 for the Enterprise

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has completed a series of multi-vendor tests that assessed how well basic enterprise networking fares on Internet protocol version 6, the next incarnation of today's IP networking standard.Using the Moonv6 network, the largest permanently deployed multi-vendor IPv6 network in the world, 13 companies tested networking-intensive office applications such as Adobe's Dreamweaver and...

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Linux for Mobiles Foundation Adds Members

The LiMo Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit entity that strives to increase the adoption of Linux within the mobile industry, announced the following new Core members: Aplix, Celunite, LG Electronics, McAfee and Wind River. Additionally, ARM, Broadcom, Ericsson, Innopath, KTF, MontaVista Software and NXP B.V. have joined as Associate members.Founder members Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone announced the formation of the LiMo Foundation in January 2007. Its goal is to create the...

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Veraz Posts Q2 Revenue of $31.2 million, up 35% YoY

Veraz Networks posted Q2 revenues of $31.2 million, a year-over-year increase of 35% from the second quarter of last year. IP product revenues for Q2 were $21.4 million, an increase of 87% over the second quarter of 2006. Veraz recorded Q2 net income of $2.1 million, including $0.6 million in stock-based compensation expense, as compared to the second quarter of last year with a net loss of $6.2 million, including $0.2 million in stock-based compensation expense. http://www.veraznetworks....

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Time Warner Cable Offers Reward for Copper Thieves

Time Warner Cable is offering a $10,000.00 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person, or persons, responsible for vandalizing the company's equipment on June 19th and July 24th located at the 1-35 underpass near Dallas. Damage to fiber optic cable lines resulted when thieves attempted to steal the fiber's conduit, which appears similar to copper. The incident resulted in over 16,000 customers losing temporary access to phone, Internet and television. Previous damage suffered by the company resulted in the loss...

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Hanaro Reaches 1.25 million 100 Mbps Subscribers, 500,000 IPTV

Korea's hanarotelecom reported 32,000 broadband net adds and 66,000 voice net adds for Q2 2007. In addition, the company said that the number of 100 Mbps broadband subscribers exceeded 1.25 million in the 2nd quarter as 100 Mbps service coverage expanded to 9.8 million households as of the end of the 2nd quarter 2007 from 4.3 million as of the end of 2006.Meanwhile, the number of hanaTV subscribers exceeded 500,000 and hanaTV revenues recorded KRW...

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CNC-AT&T to provide Dedicated China-US Link during Beijing Olympics

China Netcom Group Company Ltd. (CNC) and AT&T have been selected to provide telecommunications services between China and the U.S. during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The dedicated link will be used by NBC to transmit digital television coverage of the Games, which will be held Aug. 8 - 24, 2008, to the U.S. market. In addition, AT&T is the Official Telecommunications Services Partner of the U.S. Olympic Team. AT&T provides a...

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CacheLogic Appoints CEO

CacheLogic, which offers content delivery network services, announced the appointment of Phill Robinson as Chief Executive Officer. Robinson has been part of the management teams for Oracle, Sybase, Siebel and most recently Salesforce.com. http://www.cachelogic....

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Motorola and Wind River Partner on AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA

Motorola and Wind River Systems announced a strategic alliance to provide integrated AdvancedTCA (ATCA) and MicroTCA communication platforms with Carrier Grade Linux and VxWorks runtimes. The companies are targeting bundled hardware and software solutions for next-generation networking designs for the telecom, military and aerospace, medical and industrial automation industries. The companies also will provide joint customer support, as well as collaborate on product development and on driving joint value for industry initiatives such as OpenSAF...

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AT&T Partners with "The Cloud" for Wi-Fi Access

AT&T announced a Wi-Fi roaming deal with The Cloud, giving its customers access to over 9,000 new Wi-Fi locations in the UK, Germany and Nordics. The Cloud's 9,000 hotspots are split 7,600 across the UK, 900 in Germany and 500 in the Nordics.AT&T's total global Wi-Fi service area now exceeds more than 57,000 hotspots in 83 countries. More than 28,000 Wi-Fi access points are located across Europe, Middle East and Africa. http://www.thecloud.net/http://www.att.comIn...

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Metalink Raises $19.2M for DSL + WLAN Silicon

Metalink announced deals with institutional investors for a $19.2 million private placement of its ordinary shares and warrants to purchase its ordinary shares. Headquartered in Yakum, Israel Metalink offer an 802.11n-draft-compliant silicon solution as well as a range of symmetric DSL and VDSL products.http://www.metalinkdsl....

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Alcatel-Lucent Highlights Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) Spectrum Relocation Services

Alcatel-Lucent is providing relocation solutions to clear the 2.1 gigahertz (GHz) frequency band to make way for service providers that will be introducing mobile voice and data services following the recent auction of Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum. Alcatel-Lucent expects that many incumbent 2.1 GHz microwave communications network operators will choose to relocate to other microwave bands.Alcatel-Lucent is introducing a new microwave radio that can operate in unlicensed spectrum at 2.4 GHz or licensed spectrum at 2.47 GHz, enabling...

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Bush Administration Upholds ITC In Favor of Broadcom

The Bush Administration decided to let stand the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) order barring the importation of QUALCOMM chips and certain cellular phones containing those chips that infringe a Broadcom patent. Broadcom said it was gratified by the decision.QUALCOMM issued a statement saying it will appeal and renew its request for a stay of the International Trade Commission (ITC) ban on imports of future 3G mobile broadband handset models. http://www.broadcom.com http://www.qualcomm....

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"Protect America" Act Extends NSA Wiretapping

President Bush signed into law the "Protect America Act" aimed at updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and giving law enforcement authorities greater leeway in intercepting foreign electronic communications without a specific court order. The law targets telephone or Internet communications in which one party is "reasonably believed to be located outside of the United States" or that transits a communications hub in the United States. Such surveillance is conducted by the National Security Agency. Under the law, telecommunications...

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Sonus Enhances Network Border Switch

Sonus Networks launched the latest version of its Network Border Switch designed to deliver secure connectivity between enterprises and operators, as well as secure connectivity between disparate operators' networks. Sonus' Network Border Switch (NBS) is based on the company's GSX9000 platform and provides IP-to-IP border control and PSTN media gateway capabilities -- integrating security, session control and media control. It supports government required capabilities, such as Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), Government...

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Sony Pictures Imageworks Deploys Gear6 Centralized Caching Appliances

Sony Pictures Imageworks is using Gear6's "CACHEfx" scalable caching appliances to accelerate image rendering for digital film production. The centralized caching solution delivers I/O response times under one half of a millisecond for applications running on thousands of processors. Digital effects and animated film production require rapid processing of terabytes of data to create high quality visual effects. In particular, rendering applications involve millions of random I/O Operations per Second (IOPS) that can generate a heavy workload for...

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Incognito Announces DOCSIS 3.0-IPv6 Interoperability Program

Incognito Software, a supplier of device provisioning and network resource management systems, has created a DOCSIS 3.0-IPv6 Interoperability (interop) Program to help customer premise equipment (CPE) and Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) vendors to test the provisioning of their products in a multi-vendor, IPv6 environment. Incognito said the need for this type of interop program is underscored by the fact that the provisioning of DOCSIS 3.0 compliant equipment differs significantly from DOCSIS 1.x and 2.x equipment, since it relies on IPv6...

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