Ekinops Raises $20 Million for Optical Transport

Ekinops, a start-up headquartered in Lannion, France, raised US$20 million in venture capital for its optical transport and DWDM solutions.Ekinops offers optical transport, WDM and aggregation solutions for service providers and enterprise networks. It uses TDM technology to enable the wire-speed aggregation and transport of multiple high-speed data channels over standard 2.5G and 10G wavelengths. Ekinops' carrier-grade solutions leverage expertise...

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Motorola introduces ADSL2+ Gateway by Netopia

Motorola introduced its Netopia 2210 ADSL2/2+ Gateway, featuring small size (under one pound) and ease of use. On first connection to the network, the 2210 gateway "phones home" to the service provider's hosted NBBS broadband server, enabling automated service provisioning, software updates, and service activation, all without subscriber intervention.An integrated Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) client further reduces operational costs by eliminating additional software licensing costs. The gateway is powered by an Infineon Technologies...

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Bolloré Télécom Selects Motorola for WiMAX Pilot in France

Bolloré Télécom, which holds 12 WiMAX licenses in France, selected Motorola for a pilot deployment in Paris. Complying with the IEEE standard 802.16e-2005 and operating in the 3.5 GHz band, the nomadic WiMAX network is already live on two of Bolloré's sites in Paris. For the trial, Motorola is providing deployment, integration and support services to Bolloré Télécom in addition to WiMAX equipment such as WiMAX access points, Customer Premises Equipment...

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BT Plans Wind Farms to Generate 25% of Electricity by 2016

BT plans to develop wind farms aimed at generating up to 25% of its existing UK electricity requirements by 2016. The company expects to invest up to £250m in the project. BT is one of Britain's biggest consumers of electricity, with an annual requirement of around 0.7% of the UK's entire consumption. The company said its wind farms could generate a total of 250MW of electricity -- enough to meet the power needs of 122,000 homes or a city the...

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Akamai's CDN to Support iTunes/Starbucks Content Deal

Akamai will serve as the exclusive content distribution provider in the U.S. for the unique partnership announced last month between Apple and Starbucks. The deal will see the deployment of Akamai-enabled content delivery servers within thousands of Starbucks stores to provide fast and reliable wireless delivery of digital music. http://www.akamai....

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Zhone Posts Q3 Revenue of $41.6 million

Zhone Technologies reported Q3 revenue of $41.6 million compared with $44.1 million for the second quarter of 2007 and $43.1 million for the third quarter of 2006. Net loss (GAAP) was $1.5 million or $0.01 per share compared with a net loss of $4.6 million or $0.03 per share for the second quarter of 2007, and a net loss of $121.0 million or $0.81 per share for the third quarter of 2006. "As expected, revenues declined due to the divestiture of one of our legacy product lines and the seasonally slow international market," said Mory Ejabat, chairman...

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PMC-Sierra Reports Q3 Revenue of $118 Million

PMC-Sierra reported Q3 net revenue of $117.5 million, compared with $104.7 million in the second quarter of 2007, and $116.5 million in the third quarter of the prior year. Net loss (GAAP) was $5.9 million or a loss per share of $0.03, compared with GAAP net loss of $22.3 million or a loss per share of $0.10 in the second quarter of 2007. "In the third quarter, we experienced strong growth in our telecom business, particularly in Asia, as well as positive trends in our enterprise storage business," said Bob Bailey, chairman and chief executive...

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PMC-Sierra's Bob Bailey to Step Down as CEO

Bob Bailey will be retiring as PMC-Sierra's president and CEO once a replacement has been named. A search for a replacement is underway. Bailey will continue to serve as chairman of the board through his current term. Bailey joined PMC-Sierra in 1993 and has served as the company's president and CEO since July 1997. He's been chairman of the board since May 2005 to now, and also served as chairman from February 2000 until February 2003. http://www.pmc-sierra....

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Integra5 Cites "Stickiness" of TV Caller ID for Customer Loyalty

TV Caller ID plays a significant role in subscriber retention and positively influences subscribers' overall perception of their service provider, according Integra5, which supplies a Converged Services Platform for carriers.A survey of some 3,500 residential subscribers of Comporium, a South Carolina-based quintuple play provider, polled subscribers who are already using a converged service.Respondents ranked interest in future real-time converged communications and content services that incorporate advanced interactivity, personalization and...

Agito Develops Location-Aware Enterprise FMC Platform

Agito Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, unveiled its "RoamAnywhere" Mobility Router, an enterprise-class platform that uses RF-based, location-aware technologies to better mobilize voice and data applications, while remaining agnostic to enterprise customers' choices of mobile carriers and equipment vendors. Agito Networks' RoamAnywhere is an enterprise mobility solution delivered on a network appliance and mobile client for Nokia/Symbian...

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Microsoft's Popfly Builds on Silverlight for Media Mashups

Microsoft released the beta version of Popfly, a tool built on Microsoft Silverlight media streaming technology. Popfly provides a way to build and share "mashups," gadgets, Web pages and applications. For instance, it could be used to spice up a Facebook profile, blog or personal Web page by adding games, slide shows, "Halo 3" stats or eBay auctions.Microsoft also announced that its Silverlight initiative continues to grow -- it now has over 50...

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Alcatel-Lucent and Sagem Communications Team on Fax/IP

Alcatel-Lucent and Sagem Communications launched an embedded version of Sagem-Interstar's Fax over IP server technology within the Alcatel-Lucent OmniTouch Unified Communication suite. This enables users to send/receive faxes directly from their email client. http://www.alcatel-lucent.com http://www.sagem....

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Alcatel-Lucent Contributes Voice Quality Algorithm to ATIS Standard

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved a new voice quality monitoring standard based on Alcatel-Lucent algorithm. This new ATIS standard (ANSI ATIS 0100005-2006) addresses the challenge of how to implement a non- intrusive speech quality test that can be done in live networks in real time without requiring human listeners and that will not interrupt actual calls.Alcatel-Lucent's ANIQUE+ (Auditory Non-Intrusive QUality Estimation Plus), which is machine based, overcomes the challenges present in today's subjective approaches...

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Avaya Posts Q4 Sales of $1.429 Billion, Confirms Pending Privatization

Avaya's Q4 2007 revenues increased 4.8 percent to $1.429 billion compared to $1.364 billion in the same period last year. Net income was $35 million and earnings per share of 8 cents for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2007 on a GAAP basis. Avaya shipped a record number of IP lines and over one million IP lines for the sixth consecutive quarter. Sales of products increased 7.8 percent, including a 9.5 percent increase in converged voice applications revenues. Services revenues increased 5.4 percent and rental and managed services revenues declined...

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Nokia Posts Q3 Sales of EUR 12.9 Billion

Nokia Q3 net sales increased 28% to EUR 12.9 billion, compared with EUR 10.1 billion in the third quarter 2006. At constant currency, group net sales would have increased 32%. Q3 operating profit grew 69% to EUR 1.9 billion (including the EUR 26 million net negative impact of special items), compared with EUR 1.1 billion in the third quarter 2006 (including the negative impact of the EUR 128 million special item).Some highlights:Operating margin of 14.6%, up sequentially from 11.0% in Q2 2007, excluding special items.Nokia device volumes reached...

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