ADC to Acquire LGC Wireless for In-Building Wireless Extensions

ADC agreed to acquire LGC Wireless, a provider of specialized in-building wireless coverage and capacity solutions, for $169 million.LGC Wireless offers platforms for extending in-building wireless voice/data coverage for GSM and CDMA networks. The company has also announced an in-building WiMAX extension solution. LGC Wireless had sales of $83 million in the last 12 months ended September 30, 2007 compared to sales of $43 million in the year ended...

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Riverbed Enhances WDS for Disaster Recovery Acceleration

Riverbed Technology released version 4.1 of its Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), adding application-specific optimization for large-scale data transfers. Specifically, Riverbed has enhanced its RiOS software with disaster recovery intelligence and is introducing a new Steelhead appliance model 6120, which is optimized for disaster recovery. In addition, Riverbed has introduced optimizations for Oracle11i applications.In RiOS 4.1, Riverbed is...

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Sycamore Elects Craig Benson to Board of Directors

Sycamore Networks has added Craig Benson to its Board of Directors. Benson is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cabletron Systems, which he co-founded in 1983. In 2002 Benson was elected the Governor of New Hampshire. http://www.sycamorenet....

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Thailand's DTAC Deploys Nokia Siemens Networks' Gateway

DTAC Network, a subsidiary of Thailand's second largest mobile operator, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks' International Gateway solution. Nokia Siemens Networks has been in collaboration with DTAC since the early 1990s and has been its sole network supplier since October 2003. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com http://www.dtac.co...

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China Telecom Reaches 33.89 Million Broadband Users

China Telecom added more than 500,000 DSL access lines in September, giving it an installed base of nearly 34 million. For 2007, China Telecom has now added some 5,570,000 broadband access lines.Some performance indicators released by the company.http://www.chinatelecom-h.com/eng/ir/kpi....

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Guangdong Telecom Chooses Redback/Ericsson

Guangdong Telecom selected Ericsson to upgrade its broadband network using Redback's SmartEdge router platform for data, voice and video services. Financial terms were not disclosed.Guangdong Telecom is the largest provincial carrier in China with more than 40 million customers. Under the deal, Redback and Ericsson will help Guangdong Telecom expand its residential and business services for more than 5 million broadband customers. Redback and Ericsson said they are managing 43 percent of fixed broadband subscribers for telephone carriers in...

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Hong Kong's PCCW Selects Redback

PCCW, the incumbent operator in Hong Kong, has chosen Redback Networks' SmartEdge multi-service edge router platform to help deliver video-on-demand and other broadband services. PCCW currently ranks as the largest IPTV service provider worldwide, serving more than 800,000 subscribers. It is also one of the largest broadband carriers in China with more than 1 million customers. Financial terms were not disclosed.Redback said the PCCW deal puts...

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Nominum Enhances IP-application Routing Directory (IPRD)

Nominum announced the release of Navitas 3.0, an IP-application Routing Directory (IPRD) that integrates legacy telephony numbering plans and IP routing identifiers. Additionally, the directory enables the consolidation and simplification of routing plan management processes, improves telecommunication margins, and optimizes usage of profitable and reliable routes.Nominum said its Navitas 3.0 enables carriers to transition to an IP telephony business...

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Siemens Debuts HiPath OpenOffice Unified Communications Appliance

Siemens Communications introduced a new HiPath OpenOffice ME unified communications appliance aimed at companies with 20-150 workers. Each user license includes the Siemens OpenScape Office unified communications suite, which provides presence awareness of other users among many other capabilities. In addition, HiPath OpenOffice supports HiPath Wireless Access Points and the new HiPath Wireless C20 Controller.Key Features of the HiPath OpenOffice ME include:Presence statusDrag and drop conference managementMicrosoft Outlook Plug-inMobilityCall...

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Siemens Introduces HiPath Wireless Controller for FMC

Siemens Communications introduced its HiPath Wireless C20 Controller for extending fixed-mobile convergence into small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The C20 offers features that were previously available on the HiPath Wireless C2400 Controller - a large-enterprise, high-volume appliance. The new C20 controller supports end-to-end QoS, enabling prioritized traffic handling from the Access Point (AP) all the way to the end destination. On the network side, it integrates with the existing wired network.The C20 also boasts an increase in throughput...

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MobiTV Tops Three Million Subscribers

MobiTV has surpassed three million subscriptions for its services worldwide; adding one million in six months. MobiTV also noted the appointment earlier this month of Charlie Nooney as its new chairman and CEO. Nooney joins MobiTV from his role as president for Technicolor Network Services, a global consultancy and managed services division of The Thomson Corporation focused on the preparation, management, and distribution of content. Nooney was responsible for supporting a wide range of media companies, content owners, channel operators and out-of-home...

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VSNL Selects Ditech's Transcoding

VSNL has selected Ditech's transcoding solution to handle the rapidly growing number of codecs deployed by its carrier customers. The transcoding solution leverages Ditech's Packet Voice Processor (PVP) platform, offering VSNL a way to handle hundreds of calls per second and thousands of active sessions with little or no delay. Ditech's Packet Voice Processor supports a range of codecs, including G.711, G.721, G.722, G.722.1, G.722.2 (GSM-AMR WB), G.723.1, G.726, G.727, G.728, G.729/a/b/ab/e/g, Speex, iLBC, iSAC, GSM-AMR, GSM-HR, GSM-FR, GSM-EFR,...

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MobiTV Wins Long-Term Agreement to TV on Sprint

MobiTV announced a multi-year agreement to offer its mobile television and video experience to Sprint customers. Under the deal, Sprint and MobiTV will continue to work together to advance and extend the Sprint TV, Sprint TV Xtra, and Sprint TV en Vivo services to customers throughout the U.S. http://www.mobitv....

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Time Warner Telecom Appeals FCC Partial Grant of AT&T Forbearance Petition

Time Warner Telecom filed an appeal in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals of the FCC's October 11th partial grant of the AT&T forbearance petition concerning business broadband services. The appeal was filed on the grounds that the FCC Order violated the conditions of previous FCC approvals for the AT&T/BellSouth merger and that the Commission erroneously granted wholesale broadband special access relief based on analysis only of the retail market."The retail and wholesale markets are separate and distinct," explained Paul Jones, Executive...

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Apple Ships 1.1 Million iPhones in Q3

Apple sold 1,119,000 iPhones in Q3 2007, bringing cumulative fiscal 2007 sales to 1,389,000. http://www.apple....

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One Minute Video: What is MDM?

One Minute Video: What is MDM?Presented by Matt BancroftMformat...

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Multimedia over Coax Alliance Tops 175 Mbps, PQoS

A new version of the Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) in-home networking standard has been ratified adding PQoS (parameterized quality of service) for bandwidth management and prioritization of multiple streams of HD content. MoCA Version 1.1 features packet net throughputs of 175 Mbps over existing coax wires in consumer homes. MoCA 1.1 also includes an increase in network size from the current eight nodes to 16 nodes.The new net throughput number is a significant increase over MoCA's previously stated performance metric of 100 Mbps.The MoCA Alliance,...

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TANDBERG Television Showcases UltraCompression Transcoding

TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson Group, is showcasing its iPlex UltraCompression IPTV video processing platform and debuting new high performance integrated transcoding capabilities. The new iPlex UltraCompression transcoder supports multi-format MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC SD and HD input streams and uses TANDBERG Television's next generation AVC platform to transcode them to either MPEG-4 AVC SD or HD output.Up to 4 UltraCompression transcoders are supported in the 1RU iPlex video processing platform. TANDBERG Television said its iPlex video...

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