Intel Joins MoCA

Intel has joined MoCA, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance, which promotes the distribution of digital video and entertainment through existing coaxial cable in the home. Intel has joined as a contributing member. http://www.mocalliance.orgIn August 2007, CableLabs and MoCA formally established a cooperative relationship to share published and draft specifications as well as proposed documentation to ensure seamless integration of each other's technology within the home. CableLabs and MoCA have always operated separately but in parallel. Both organizations...

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MultiService Forum Launches NGN Test Bed at UNH-IOL

The MultiService Forum (MSF) is launching a permanent test bed at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) with the aim of testing NGN (Next Generation Networks) components and interfaces. A pilot trial gets underway this month and the first full tranche of testing will be initiated in Q1 2008 to address the interoperability of NGN media gateways. The MSF NGN Test Bed will support testing of all MSF Implementation Agreements...

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Allot Selects RMI's Multi-Core Processor for DPI

Allot Communications, a supplier of IP service optimization solutions based on deep packet inspection (DPI), has selected Raza Microelectronics' (RMI's) multi-core multi-threaded XLR Processor for its Allot Service Gateway.The Allot Service Gateway is an open, standards-based platform for broadband service control and optimization based on Layer-7 DPI. It features an AdvancedTCA-compliant chassis with modular, hot-swappable DPI blades. A single platform...

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Alianza Offers Hosted Unified Communications for Broadband Operators

Alianza, a start-up based in Utah, is now providing a hosted, fully integrated IP-based platform delivering API customizable Unified Communications Applications, such as IP Telephony, via SaaS for Broadband Service Providers. Alianza said its PowerPlatform v3.0 can be private labeled by broadband operators and launched within 30 days.Built on a multi-tenant Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and delivered via SaaS, Alianza's PowerPlatform v3.0 includes the following :APIs: Customizable Account Management Portal (AMP), and sections of the Alianza...

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Veraz Supplies its IMS-Ready Solution in Brazil

Veraz Networks is now supplying its IP softswitch and media gateway solutions to three of Brazil's major service providers. These include:Transit Telecom, has implemented a converged Next Generation Network (NGN) switched solution that allows for voice and data convergence over IP for services that are currently provided in 20 Brazilian cities, with an expansion to 80 cities expected by 2008.Telemig Celular, which has selected a Veraz solution for bandwidth optimization of the links between Telemig sites. Telemig Celular, the major Minas Gerais...

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Ericsson to Supply WCDMA/HSPA in Bhutan

Bhutan Telecom (BTL) selected Ericsson to supply a WCDMA/HSPA network in a move set to transform the mountain kingdom's communications. Specifically, Ericsson will supply an HSPA-enabled network, including WCDMA radio access equipment, all-IP core and transmission. Ericsson will also be responsible for network design, deployment and integration of BTL's existing GSM network. Rollout will begin in November, starting in the towns of Thimpu and Paro before going nationwide. http://www.ericsson.com http://www.druknet....

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TeliaSonera to Deliver 40 Gbps to UK's JANET

JANET, the UK education and research network, selected TeliaSonera International Carrier to be one of its IP Transit providers for the next two years, providing 4xOC-192 ports, a total of 40 Gbps of capacity for IP connectivity. The JANET network currently serves over 18 million end-users. http://www.teliasoneraic....

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Turk Telecom Deploys Juniper T-series Core Routers

Turk Telekom, Turkey's incumbent telecoms operator with four million customers, has deployed Juniper Networks T-series core routers to upgrade network capacity and accelerate the introduction of new revenue-generating services. The installation enables the service provider to consolidate its TDM (Time Division Multiplexing), IP and voice networks onto a single core IP MPLS network, supporting voice, video and data services with assured levels of...

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U.S. FTTH Rollouts Reach More Than Two Million Homes

More than two million U.S. households now have direct connections into high-speed fiber networks, according to a study released by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). This compares to 1.01 million connections as of September 2006, meaning that the annual growth rate has increased to 112 percent from the 99 percent that was measured last March. The study also shows fiber to the home networks...

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Motorola Supplies MPEG-4 Encoders for Smithsonian Channel

Motorola will provide a high-definition (HD) MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) encoding system for Smithsonian Channel, which plans to broadcast all programming in HD. Specifically, the new Smithsonian Channel system will employ Motorola's SE-5100 MPEG-4 AVC HD encoders to encode video content into the MPEG-4 AVC format for distribution over satellite. Smithsonian Channel's cable or telco affiliates will be able to install Motorola's new DSR-6050 Digital Satellite Receiver-Transcoder at their headends to receive the signals and, in some cases,...

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Verizon Wireless Unveils Venus, Voyager Phones

Verizon Wireless unveiled several phones that will be available for the 2007 holiday season: the Verizon Wireless Juke by Samsung, the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 smartphone, The Venus by LG and The Voyager by LG.Most notably, the Voyager by LG sports a large external touch-screen and opens laterally to reveal a QWERTY keypad. Capabilities include an HTML browser, full V CAST-capabilities -- including V CAST Mobile TV, V CAST Music, with the ability to...

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Verizon Appoints Millegan to Head Wholesale Unit

Verizon named Michael H. Millegan as president of the company's national line of business that serves wholesale customers. He succeeds David Small, who was recently named president of Verizon Wireless' Northeast area. Millegan currently serves as senior vice president and general manager for Verizon wireline operations in the Midwest.As president of Verizon Partner Solutions, Millegan will be responsible for leading Verizon's more than $11 billion wholesale business - including strategic planning, marketing and sales -- as well as ordering,...

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NYT: Unlike U.S., Japanese Push Fiber Over Profit

Nearly eight million Japanese have a fiber optic line at home, far out pacing fiber deployments in the U.S., where AT&T and Verizon Communications are under intense pressure from investors to justify their capital spending plans, according to a report published by The New York Times. The investment in fiber is seen by NTT and KDDI as a long-term strategy and a means of selling additional services, but an expansion into video services has been slowed by regulations that limits their role in the broadcasting business. http://www.nytimes.com/...

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Microsoft Zune Plays Recorded TV from Windows Media Center

Microsoft launched its new line of Zune media players, featuring a touch-sensitive button for navigating on the device, as well as wireless sync, a feature that allows Zune devices to automatically sync over the device owner's home wireless network when it is connected to an AC adaptor, in a dock or speaker dock accessory.The Zune software will now automatically import broadcast content recorded on Microsoft Windows Media Center for Windows Vista...

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