Motorola Announces 2-slot AdvancedTCA Server

Motorola introduced a compact, 2-slot version of its Centellis AdvancedTCA platform. With integrated power and shelf management, and capable of reusing any of the AdvancedTCA payload from its larger peers, the Centellis 2000 is positioned for smaller scale deployments, such as rural and low-density subscriber locations, as well as self-contained applications such as security, media processing and telecom servers. Motorola is initially targeting the...

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Cisco to Acquire Cognio for Wireless Spectrum Analysis

Cisco agreed to acquire Cognio, a start-up specializing in wireless spectrum analysis and management for wireless networks. Cognio's spectrum technology can be used for detecting, classifying, locating and mitigating sources of radio frequency (RF) interference. Cisco said the acquisition provides it with complementary and differentiating technology, intellectual property and a core team to expand its leadership in unified wireless networking. Cognio...

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MetaSwitch Gains Traction with Telephone Cooperatives

MetaSwitch announced that its core switching solution is gaining market traction with leading telephone cooperatives, including two of the top 5 largest telephone cooperatives in North America: Horry Telephone Cooperative (HTC) and GVTC. Both carriers are comprised of members, each of whom has a vote in the services the cooperative offers and the equipment it deploys. Both HTC and GVTC began by installing the necessary facilities to deliver basic telephone service and have since grown to offer a variety of residential and business voice, data,...

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Verizon Business Gains Access to China Telecom's CN2 Network

Verizon Business can now provide its multinational customers with seamless connectivity to China Telecom's Next Convergence Network (CN2) network, which covers more than 200 cities and 600 routers within China. Verizon Business customers are among the first nondomestic customers to be granted access to the new China Telecom Next Convergence Network. CN2 has backbone core nodes located in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Xian.Verizon Business said its has been working with China Telecom on MPLS VPN since 2004, enabling full...

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Huawei Wins $150M Contract with Bharti Airtel Sri Lanka

Bharti Airtel awarded a managed networks deal valued at US$150 to Huawei Technologies for its Sri Lanka operations. The three-year deal includes telecom applications and software. Bharti Airtel was recently awarded the license to provide 2G and 3G mobile services in Sri Lanka. Under the agreement, Huawei will deploy and manage Airtel's core network, Node-Bs and BTSs and comprehensive end-to-end 2G/3G network solutions. http://www.huawei....

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ECI Extends its Optical Portfolio with AccessWave CWDM

ECI Telecom introduced its AccessWave compact, optical networking platform targeting access and edge C/DWDM (Coarse/Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) applications. The AccessWave is part of the company's BroadGate family of optical access solutions. Together, the XDM products and the BroadGate family now span from access to long-haul, all managed under a unified network management system - ECI's LightSoft network manager. LightSoft provides...

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Broadcom Demos B-Directional 10 GigE using PCI Express 2.0

Broadcom demonstrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) bi-directional line rate network performance utilizing only four lanes (x4) of PCI Express 2.0 (PCIe 2.0), thereby greatly reducing system resource requirements for 10 Gbps Ethernet controllers.The demonstration features the Broadcom BCM57710 converged network interface controller (C-NIC) in conjunction with the advanced PCIe 2.0 host bus interface on an Intel next-generation server platform. Using only four lanes of the PCI Express interface, Broadcom delivers bi-directional line rate performance...

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Ooma Launches a Premium Consumer VoIP Service

ooma, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, launched a new consumer VoIP service featuring designer-look CPE, unlimited US calling and premium features, including the ooma "Instant Second Line" and the ooma "Broadband Answering Machine" with no additional monthly fees.Direct sales of ooma systems are being offered at introductory pricing of $399 for each ooma Hub device and $39.95 for each ooma Scout device. The company plans to raise the...

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Samsung Invests in Picochip for Multi-core DSPs

picoChip, a start-up based in Bath, England, announced that Samsung made a strategic investment in the company as part of the $27 million investment D-round announced in July. The funding round, which was led Highland Capital Partners, brought the total company funding to $70.5 million.Samsung manufactures 3G base transceiver stations and basestation controllers, as well as basestations for WiMAX. picoChip has developed a high performance multi-core DSP, and is a supplier of femtocell, picocell and macrocell reference designs for WiMAX and HSPA....

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ECI Now Supporting One Million IPTV Users Worldwide

ECI Telecom's flagship Hi-FOCuS MSAN platform now supports over one million IPTV subscribers worldwide, including deployments in Europe, Israel and Taiwan. The company expects the IPTV market to grow from 7.9 million subscribers globally at the end of 2006 to 70 million at the end of 2012, according to research from TelecomView. http://www.ecitele....

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Sprint Offers CDMA Femtocell Base Station in First Two Markets

Sprint began offering a consumer femtocell base station in its first two markets as a means of enhancing in-home wireless coverage. The Sprint AIRAVE, which is supplied by Samsung, works with any Sprint CDMA phone and a broadband Internet connection. When in range, calls are carried over the broadband network rather than the CDMA network.Sprint is offering unlimited wireless incoming and outgoing calls and nationwide long distance over the femtocell...

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Microsoft and Show GPS-aware Mobile Search

Sprint and Microsoft introduced a fully integrated GPS location-aware mobile search service for the U.S. The service enables Sprint customers to:Search the entire Web, local listings and maps, and Sprint's mobile content catalog using the same familiar search box powered by Live Search, on the Sprint mobile Web home page.Use Sprint's built-in GPS capabilities to automatically find local businesses and listings nearby quickly and easily without...

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iPhone to Debut in UK on Nov 9 with O2

Apple picked O2 as its exclusive carrier partner in the UK for its iPhone. The unit will be priced at £269 under an 18-month contract when it debus on 09-Nov-07. http://www.apple....

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AT&T U-verse Adds Interactive Features

AT&T has enhanced its U-verse IPTV service with a suite of new features -- currently available for all local U-verse TV customers at no extra charge -- to differentiate the service from cable, including:AT&T U-bar, which brings Internet-like content to the television screen in the form of local weather, stock, sports, and traffic information. Customers who also subscribe to AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet U-verse enabled have the option...

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Telanetix Acquires AccessLine for Hosted VoIP

Telanetix completed its $34.9 million acquisition of AccessLine Communications, a provider of hosted VoIP services.AccessLine provides hosted VoIP services for the business market nationwide and has over 100,000 VoIP users nationwide. AccessLine's gross revenues for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and the six-month period ended June 30, 2007 were $24.3 million and $12.5 million, respectively. Telanetix expects the AccessLine business will contribute monthly revenues of approximately $2 million per month through 2007 and expects the combined...

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Tellabs Supplies Metro Ethernet in Ecuador

Grupo TVCable, the leading cable operator in Ecuador with presence in 12 cities, has selected Tellabs to create and deploy its new Metro Ethernet network. The Tellabs 8600 managed edge system and the Tellabs 8000 network manager, part of the Tellabs "AssuredEthernet" solution, enable CableNet to guarantee quality of service for its customers. The Tellabs solution increases network bandwidth and enables CableNet to offer a variety of technologies,...

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WiMedia Alliance Announces Second Round of Registered PHYs

The WiMedia Alliance today announced the registration of six additional Physical Layer chipsets (PHYs), bringing the total number of approved chipsets to 13. These chipsets have been verified as compliant with the WiMedia PHY specification, and approved for use with the Alliance's Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Common Radio Platform.WiMedia PHY registration is the first of two parts comprising the Alliance's certification program. At a recent registration...

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USB 3.0 Targets 10X Speed Improvement

A new USB 3.0 Promoter Group, backed by Intel, HP, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Corporation, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments, announced plans to create a superspeed personal USB interconnect that can deliver over 10 times the speed of today's connection. The companies said the boost becomes necessary as digital media file sizes increase up to and beyond 25 Gigabytes.USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 will create a backward-compatible standard with the same ease-of-use and plug and play capabilities of previous USB technologies. Targeting over...

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