RingCentral Enhances its Virtual Phone Service for SMBs

RingCentral, a start-up based in Redwood City, California has enhanced its virtual phone system for small businesses with VoIP service.RingCentral combines a toll-free and/or local number with advanced call management, PBX, voicemail and Internet fax, enabling customers to automatically screen, forward and place calls; take voicemail; send and receive faxes; and receive message alerts. Call routing rules enable the user to forward incoming calls...

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Italtel Debuts "The Service Box" SIP Applications based on BEA

Italtel unveiled its "The Service Box (TSB) product, a software package for creating advanced communications services and facilitating their development in NGNs independently of the end-user terminals. "The Service Box" targets applications including voice, Instant Messaging, location-based services, Smart Presence Services, Centralized Address Book and group list management. Italtel's TSB is based on BEA's WebLogic SIP Server. BEA is a technology...

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NEC Expands its Multi-Service Access Node Line

NEC launched two new additions to its AM3100 Series MSAN (Multi-Service Access Node) product range -- the AM3110 and AM3160 -- targeting deep fiber deployments. The AM3110 is designed for high density Central Office and large street cabinet deployments and delivers 280 Gbps backplane capacity, 10 Gbps capacity per slot and sophisticated service flexibility supporting multiple services. It supports POTS, VDSL2, GPON, PDH, FE, and GE service interfaces. The chassis uses industry-standard PICMG ATCA architecture.The AM3160 is for space-limited street...

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Bharti Airtel Installs Optibase IPTV Encoding Platforms

Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services (B&TS), India's largest private broadband and telephone service provider, has selected Optibase H.264 Media Gateway (MGW) 5100 IPTV encoding platforms for its planned IPTV service offerings. Financial terms were not disclosed.Bharti Airtel is currently undertaking IPTV trials in a thousand households and is planning to launch its IPTV services in the last quarter of the current calendar year. Optibase's carrier grade TV streaming platforms, incorporated in UTStarcom IP-based end-to-end networking solution,...

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Vodafone Netherlands Deploys Sycamore SN 9000

Vodafone Netherlands has deployed Sycamore Networks' SN 9000 Intelligent Multiservice Switch to optimize and scale its mobile broadband service infrastructure. The SN 9000 leverages Sycamore's high-availability optical mesh technology to increase operational efficiencies and accelerate service provisioning, while providing a scalable foundation for next-generation, high-value mobile communications. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.sycamorenet.comIn September 2007, Sycamore Networks introduced its new SN 9000 optical switching platform...

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Alvarion Announces its First Mobile WiMAX Trial in South America

Ertach Argentina will test Alvarion's Mobile WiMAX solution. Specifically, Alvarion's IEEE 802.16e 4Motion solution is to be tested in the city of Rosario, targeting SME and corporate users with primary fixed and nomadic broadband services, high-speed Internet and advanced voice services. This marks Alvarion's first mobile WiMAX trial in South America.In 2004, Ertach used Alvarion's award-winning BreezeMAX 3500 solution, to build the first commercial WiMAX network in South America. Shttp://www.alvarion....

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Neuf Cegetel Selects Redback's SmartEdge Router

Neuf Cegetel, the leading alternative telecom operator in France, has selected Redback's SmartEdge Router for its next generation fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) aggregation network. Financial terms were not disclosed.Under the new deal, Redback and Ericsson will deploy and maintain Redback SmartEdge 1200 multi-service edge routers to aggregate optical access nodes into a high speed, 10 Gbps metro Ethernet network. Redback noted that its platforms manage more than 54 percent of all broadband subscribers in France.http://www.redback.com http://www.eri...

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Verizon Business Selects Juniper for Managed WAN Optimization Service

Verizon Business has selected Juniper Networks' WXC platform for a new Managed WAN Optimization Service. Juniper's WXC platform can help distributed enterprises to accelerate application delivery over the WAN by recognizing and eliminating redundant transmissions; accelerating TCP and application-specific protocols; prioritizing and allocating access to bandwidth; and ensuring high application availability at sites with multiple WAN links. The WXC application acceleration platforms work end-to-end with a multitude of applications, including Web-based,...

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Centillium and Jungo Collaborate on Gateways

Centillium Communications has partnered with Jungo to develop an integrated software platform for Centillium's Palladia high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for residential and business ADSL and VoIP residential and business gateway applications. The integration brings together Jungo's OpenRG and OpenSMB) software with Centillium's Palladia SoC product.Centillium's Palladia 402 is an integrated VoIP solution for the ADSL markets. Palladia 402 integrates a network processor, as well as multiple dedicated hardware engines -- including...

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Bell Canada Standardizes on Avaya for Business IP Telephony

Bell Canada will standardize on Avaya's IP communication product line for delivering business IP telephony services.<>The standardization will allow Bell Canada to facilitate the migration of its customers who currently use Avaya DEFINITY Servers, INTUITY AUDIX, or Octel 250/350 voice and messaging platforms -- by far the most widely used traditional voice systems -- to Avaya IP-based communications solutions, which include telephony, messaging, conferencing, video and collaboration solutions that are accessible across a variety of devices....

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Broadcom Supplies VDSL2 for ZyXEL's DSLAM and CPE used in Chunghwa's NGN

Broadcom's VDSL2 and StrataXGS Ethernet chips have been qualified and selected by Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) of Taiwan for mass deployment in its next generation IP services network. ZyXEL Corporation will use the Broadcom devices in its ZyXEL VES-1600 and IES-5005 next generation access products. As a result of this successful engagement, Broadcom and ZyXEL will supply VDSL2 IP DSLAM and customer premises equipment (CPE) products to Chunghwa Telecom for its next generation VDSL2 access network.http://www.broadcom....

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Ericsson and Sony Ericsson Partner on Home IMS Gateway

At the Broadband World Forum in Berlin, Ericsson and Sony Ericsson are demonstrating in-home technologies that leverage IMS and DLNA standards to enable multimedia experiences between mobile handsets and home network devices. The companies are developing, and prototyping an interworking gateway based on the Home IMS Gateway concept.Specifically, the companies are demonstrating IPTV, remote media access and place-shift TV services. In the demonstration a Sony prototype TV connects into Ericsson's IMS-based service backend and IPTV Core via a home...

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Belgacom Extends IPTV Contract with Nokia Siemens Networks

Belgacom has extended its contract with Nokia Siemens Networks for the delivery and integration of an IPTV solution for another three years. Nokia Siemens Networks is also supporting Belgacom's plan to add HDTV to its existing portfolio of interactive TV services via IP-based broadband lines. Financial terms were not disclosed.As part of the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks also will be delivering and integrating MPEG-4 set-top boxes for high-definition...

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Belgacom selects Alcatel-Lucent's VDSL2 FTTN

Belgacom has selected Alcatel-Lucent as supplier for its fiber-to-the-node VDSL2 network, which will deliver full triple play services, including multiple IPTV channels on multiple TV sets simultaneously and HDTV to more than 60% of the Belgian households in spring 2008. Financial terms were not disclosed.Belgacom's Broadway infrastructure project will bring fiber down to the street cabinet level on a national scale. VDSL2 will provide the connection...

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