Alcatel-Lucent Acquires Tamblin for Interactive TV Apps

Alcatel-Lucent has acquired Tamblin, a privately held software company that provides applications and tool kits enabling IPTV users to find, connect and interact with brands and entertainment they care about. Financial terms were not disclosed.Tamblin's primary product suite, i-ZoneTV, is an application creation and management system developed for the TV broadcast industry. Clients include broadcasters, network operators, brands and media and advertising agencies such as the BBC, ITV, BSkyB, Channel Five, Sky Media, Flextech/Telewest, Disney Channel...

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NTT DoCoMo Establishes Office in Hanoi

NTT DoCoMo has established an office in Hanoi, Vietnam to explore potential business opportunities. This is the company's fourth overseas office, joining existing facilities in Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore. http://www.nttdocomo....

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Pakistan's Mobilink selects Alcatel-Lucent for WiMAX Rev-e

Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited (Mobilink), the leading mobile operator in Pakistan and a wholly owned subsidiary of Orascom Telecom Holding, awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent participate in deploying Pakistan's first live network based on the Universal 802.16e-2005 WiMAX solution. The network will cover major cities in Pakistan, including Karachi, the nation's financial capital and the major business center.Based on the latest IEEE 802.16e-2005 standards (also called Rev-e), the new WiMAX network will be deployed in the 3.5 GHz spectrum...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Signs R&D Deal with Devoteam in Belgium

Nokia Siemens Networks will transfer its R&D team and Development Center in Herentals, Belgium to Devoteam Group, an IT consulting group specializing in telecoms, systems infrastructure, IT security and e-business applications. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part of the deal, all development activities in Herentals with the exception of Open Transport Network (OTN) will be transferred to Devoteam Group. This includes the Development Center's current R&D activities in the Service Core and Applications Business Unit, Operations and...

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ABC to Feature Primetime Line-up on AOL Video

Disney-ABC Television Group agreed to feature full-length episodes of its primetime TV shows on AOL Video. The agreement marks the first time ABC's primetime programming has been made available on a major portal and is also the first time a major portal has offered a full feature version of a broadcast network's online video player. http://www.aol.comhttp;//www.disney....

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NetScout to Acquire Network General for $205 Million

NetScout Systems agreed to acquire Network General, a supplier of software and appliances that proactively monitor and manage IT infrastructure and network elements, for approximately $205 million in cash, stock, and debt transactions. Network General is a privately held company based in San Jose, California.NetScout (NASDAQ: NTCT) specializes in network and service assurance solutions for large enterprises, government agencies, and service providers....

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NRTC and NTCA Launch IP-PRIME

The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) are now offering IP-Prime's IPTV solution to their rural telco members.NRTC and NTCA members are being offered two models: 1) an end-to-end IPTV service using SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME(R), a centralized, satellite-delivered IPTV distribution solution content transport, headend, and set-top box solutions and 2) a programming-only solution for telcos with existing headend facilities or other transport arrangements.IP-PRIME originates...

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Allied Telecom Deploys Hatteras Mid-Band Ethernet

Allied Telecom Group, a facilities-based Internet service provider, has selected Hatteras Networks' Mid-Band Ethernet solution as the preferred platform for its last-mile business Ethernet service roll-out throughout its Washington, DC metro-area footprint. Allied Telecom is rapidly deploying Ethernet-based business services in the 2 -- 90 Mbps range that address the current T1 to T3 service gap for enterprises not connected to the public network via fiber. http://www.hatterasnetworks.com http://www.alliedtelecom....

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Nokia Debuts its Second UMA Handset

Nokia introduced its second mobile handset featuring Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology for providing seamless voice and data mobility across GSM cellular and WLAN networks. The Nokia 6301 phone enables the consumer to use the GSM network or a broadband Internet-connected WLAN network for mobile services. For the network operator, UMA enables better in-home coverage and decreased costs related to network deployment.The new model weighs 93...

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Cedar Point Adds Voice-over-WiMAX to Safari C(Cubed)

Cedar Point Communications is positioning its SAFARI C(CUBED) Multimedia Switching System for voice-over-WiMAX applications. SAFARI C(CUBED) is a fully integrated voice switching platform that supports TDM, packet and SIP-based telephony services. SAFARI C(CUBED) simplifies the network by integrating all of the elements of the VoIP switching architecture into a single unit. It scales from 2,500 lines to upwards of 250,000 lines on the same platform. The switch's integrated architecture combines voice applications, lawful intercept (CALEA), e911...

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BT's Carbon Impact Assessment Service Measures Net Usage Impact

BT has launched a service to help large corporates and public sector organizations reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint. The carbon impact assessment enables organizations "to accurately calculate the amount of CO2 emissions produced as a result of the use of networked IT services."BT said its carbon impact assessment takes into account the way people's work patterns (such as their travel and IT use) contribute to CO2 emissions, and how business operations, shared services, and building infrastructure add to an organization's carbon...

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Two Years After Launch, Verizon FiOS TV Claims 25% Penetration

Two years after launching FiOS TV service in its first market, Texas, more than 25 percent of the customers there who could subscribe to FiOS TV have done so. Penetration for FiOS Internet, launched in August 2004, exceeded 35 percent in Texas as of June 30, 2007.Verizon launched FiOS TV in Keller, Texas, on Sept. 22, 2005, delivering the service on the nation's largest fiber-optic network that extends all the way to customers' homes. As of June 30, 2007, Verizon FiOS TV had 515,000 subscribers and was available to more than 3.9 million households...

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Raza Supports Intel Geneseo and QuickAssist Initiatives

Raza Microelectronics announced its support for Intel's Geneseo (next generation PCI Express) technologies through the integration of RMI's XLR and XLS Processors into Intel-based products. The company said that for future RMI Scalable Processor Solutions, the addition of Geneseo (next generation PCI Express*) technologies will provide the next level in high performance. RMI will include this capability in its next generation high-end XLR Processor...

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