Octasic Announces "Vocallo" Multi-Core Media Gateway DSP

Octasic introduced its "Vocallo" next generation, multi-core gateway DSP platform for voice, video and data over IP applications. The device, which is aimed at current and future media gateways, enables a flexible business model for OEMs designing media gateways. This business model enables an OEM to design a cost-reduced gateway to handle today's VoIP needs with licensable performance to accommodate future applications. This allows OEMs to defer...

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Octasic Announces Clock-less DSP Core Architecture

Octasic announced its Opus DSP architecture promising greater processing power and lower power consumption. Whereas other new DSP architectures deliver better power efficiency but break the traditional programming model, Octasic said its new asynchronous Opus architecture maintains a traditional programming model preserving customers' investment in applications and skill set. The ability to achieve 3 times more performance per watt than current designs...

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Motorola Introduces High Performance AdvancedTCA Processing Blades

Motorola announced its latest high performance AdvancedTCA (ATCA) processing blade featuring two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors LV, up to 32GB main memory and flexible on-board mass storage options. The blade is aimed at high-performance telecom server applications such as in-memory database and file servers, as well as increasing density for existing control plane applications such as IMS, soft switching and signalingOn-board mass storage options...

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Cavium's OCTEON Plus Breaks the 1 Watt per Core Barrier

Cavium Networks introduced the newest addition to its OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 Processor family: the OCTEON Plus CN58XX Low-Power (LP) 4-core to 16-core processors. The new design incorporates power management techniques and process optimizations, enabling the power of 16x MIPS64 cores while consuming less than 1 Watt per core. The OCTEON Plus CN58XX LP Processor family consists of 6 different software-compatible parts combining 4 to 16x cnMIPS...

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AT&T Offers 1 Gbps Optical Mesh Service

AT&T announced a 1 Gbps speed option for its AT&T Optical Mesh Service, which allows customers to reallocate bandwidth as needed by increasing or decreasing network capacity in near real time. Customers also can build and self-administer their own SONET networks using the AT&T "BusinessDirect" customer portal.AT&T Optical Mesh Service is currently available in 275 locations nationwide. http://www.att....

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Microsoft Releases its Next Gen Unified Communications

Bill Gates introduced Microsoft's next generation of unified communications software, predicting that impact of converged communications may be as significant as the adoption of graphical user interfaces."In the next decade, sweeping technology innovations driven by the power of software will transform communications," Gates said. At a media event in San Francisco, Gates and fellow Microsoft executives launched unified communications and VoIP software...

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Verizon Business Expands Global Ethernet Capabilities

Verizon Business announced the expansion of Ethernet service worldwide. Verizon Business Ethernet access is now available in almost 40 countries worldwide -- nearly double the availability since the start of 2007.Ethernet Access to Verizon Private IP has been extended to Canada and Latin America, and European availability has been enhanced. In Latin America, access is now available to Verizon Business customers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Columbia;...

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NetXen Adds to Executive Team

NetXen, a start-up making 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking chips for enterprise datacenters, announced that Walt Wallach has been appointed as vice president of software engineering and that Chuck Tybur has been appointed as vice president of worldwide sales.Prior to joining NetXen, Wallach was vice president of Software and Strategy at Penguin Computing, leaders in Linux clustering and management software. Prior to Penguin, he led the clustered database effort for Industry Standard Servers at Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Tybur joined NetXen from Intel Corporation,...

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Mintera Raises $19 Million for 40G

Mintera, a start-up based in Acton, Mass., raised a $19 Million in Series C funding for its high bit-rate optical transport systems for metro-core, regional, long-haul and ultra long-haul optical networks. The company will use the financing to complete the commercial launch of its new, 300-pin DWDM 40Gbps Adaptive-DPSK Module, to release new features on its MI 40000XS platform and to develop new solutions at higher bit-rates (100 Gbps) based on its proprietary technology. This latest round of venture capital financing was co-led by investors Polaris...

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JDSU Partners with Mintera for 40G DWDM Transponder

JDSU has formed a strategic partnership with Mintera to offer optical network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) products that combine Mintera's 40G transmission technology with JDSU's 40G-capable optical communications products and test and measurement solutions.Joint development will include a 40G DWDM transponder module that will be standardized according to 300 pin Multi Source Agreement (MSA) guidelines. The transponder will be available in the first half of calendar year 2008. The transponder will convert signals from electrical to optical formats...

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Level 3 Acquires BellSouth Assets Divested by AT&T

Level 3 Communications completed its acquisition of certain assets from AT&T that were divested as a result of the merger between AT&T and BellSouth. The acquired assets consist of indefeasible rights of use (IRUs) for dark fiber connections to 27 buildings as well as more than 450 metro fiber route miles in the nine markets where AT&T was required to divest assets.Level 3 has acquired divested fiber assets in Atlanta; Birmingham, Ala.; Charlotte, N.C.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Nashville, Tenn.; Orlando,...

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Rogers Rollout HSPA in Canada

Rogers announced the next phase of its 3G wireless network and Vision services in 22 Canadian markets. The rollout uses High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology.http://www.rogers....

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2Wire Acquires Kenati Technologies

2Wirehas acquired Kenati Technologies, a provider of home networking software products and services, for an undisclosed sum.br2Wire said the deal provides it with valuable intellectual property and the addition of a proven team of skilled software developers, located in both Silicon Valley and in Pune, India. http://www.2wire.com...

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Apple Confirms iPhone Deal in France with Orange

Orange, the leading wireless carrier in France, will be the exclusive French carrier partner for Apple's iPhone. Sales begin on November 29 through Orange's online and direct retail stores. http://www.apple.com http://www.orange....

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Plantronics Offers Wideband Audio for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007

Plantronics introduced a new "SupraPlus" Wideband USB professional headset is optimized for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007. Wideband utilizes more than twice the audio bandwidth of conventional telephony to greatly enhance intelligibility. Plantronics said its SupraPlus Wideband USB headset enables professionals using PC-based unified communications (UC) applications for VoIP to get the feeling of true "face-to-face" conversations, resulting...

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Polycom Offers Unified Communication Devices for MS Communications Server

Polycom introduced a range of unified communications devices for users of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Polycom now offers broad support for Office Communications Server 2007 through three additional high definition, wideband VoIP endpoints: the CX200, CX400, and CX700 models.The CX200 Desktop Phone is a USB peripheral for Office Communicator 2007 that features a full duplex speakerphone, handset and large presence status indicator. The CX400 Cordless Phone is a wireless handset with a desktop base station that connects via USB....

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Ericsson Cuts Financial Guidance, Shares Tumble

Citing weak mobile network upgrade sales, Ericsson trimmed its financial guidance for Q3, saying the it now expects sales of SEK 43.5 billion, an operating income of SEK 5.6 billion and a cash flow of SEK -1.6 billion. Sales for Q2 2007 were SEK 47.6 billion. The figures were below expectations. The decline in sales occurred most in Asia Pacific markets.Ericsson shares on NASDAQ closed at $31.33, down 23% for the day."The unexpected development in the quarter is mainly due to a shortfall in sales in mobile network upgrades and expansions which...

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Brazilian Authorities Accuse Cisco of Tax Evasion

Brazilian police and tax authorities raided Cisco Systems' offices in Brasilia and arrested several company executives, including the president of Cisco do Brasil, Pedro R�pero, and the ex-president, Carlos Roberto Carnevali. According to local media reports, the authorities are accusing the company of import tax evasion over the past five years and accumulating up to an estimated R$1.5 billion (US$826 million) in back taxes and fines.Cisco has not yet commented on the case. http://www.cisco....

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