Mexico's Alestra Expands its Sonus-based VoIP Network

Alestra, an advanced data and voice telecommunications services operator, majority owned by Mexican leading industrial conglomerate Alfa and 49 percent-owned by AT&T, plans a large-scale expansion of its Sonus-based network. Alestra has been a Sonus customer since 2001. Financial terms were not disclosed.Alestra is planning to increase teledensity in its markets without installing new traditional last-mile telephone connections. In addition, Alestra is partially relying on Sonus Networks as well as other IP technology partners to help meet...

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Internet2 Demonstrates Dynamic Optical Circuit Interoperability

At this week's SC07 high-performance computing conference in Reno, Internet2 participants are demonstrating interoperability of its Dynamic Circuit (DC) Network with multiple regional and international networks as well as an equipment provider. Dynamic optical circuits provide on-demand or scheduled dedicated point-to-point bandwidth.The Internet2 Dynamic Circuit (DC) Network, unveiled earlier this year, is a nationwide optical circuit network that...

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Qualcomm Tests First 3G Chips Based on 45 nm Technology

Qualcomm completed the first phone call on a 3G chip manufactured with 45 nanometer (nm) process technology. The device was produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Qualcomm recently taped out on its low-power-optimized 45 nm process using advanced immersion lithography and extreme low-k inter-metal dielectric material.Qualcomm said 45 nm technology will enable chips that feature higher speeds, lower power consumption and enhanced integration, all with reduced die cost by providing more die per wafer. Qualcomm is preparing to introduce...

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European Commission Proposes Single European Telecoms Market/Regulator

The European Commission officially adopted proposals for a reform of the EU telecoms rules with the aim of creating a single European telecom market with a consistent set of regulations covering consumers in all 27 EU Member States. The plan calls for a new European Telecom Market Authority to govern national telecoms regulators in ensuring that market rules and consumer regulation are applied consistently, independently and without protectionism....

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Fulcrum and Luxtera to Demo 40 Gbps Datacenter Ethernet Switch

Fulcrum Microsystems and Luxtera have developed a low-latency, 40-Gigabit Ethernet switch/router reference design for datacenter backbone applications. The reference design is composed of a card developed by Luxtera using its nanophotonic "Blazar" 40-Gigabit optical active cable that fits into the Fulcrum "Reno" low-latency, 10-Gigabit Ethernet router platform for datacenter applications.Luxtera's Blazar is a 40-Gigabit optical active cable (OAC) that leverages the company's CMOS photonics technology. Blazar binds four 10-Gigabit Ethernet channels...

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Nortel, Northwestern University Build Digital Media Optical Network

Nortel and Northwestern University have developed a global test bed for digital media-optimized networking in order to evaluate new technologies for high-bandwidth applications like high-definition (HD) movies, immersive HD video conferencing, telemedicine, collaborative aeronautic design and other very-high bandwidth operations.The test bed, which is being demonstrated at this week's SC07 conference in Reno, links to Amsterdam, Chicago, Barcelona and Ottawa. The work is spearheaded by Northwestern University's International Center for Advanced...

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Korean National Supercomputing Center Selects Force10 Switch/Routers

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea's national supercomputing center, has deployed Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers and the S2410 data center switch to build a massively parallel processing (MPP) supercomputer with a peak performance of 250 Teraflops or 250 trillion calculations per second. The supercomputer has four Force10 TeraScale E1200s at its core supporting 240 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports to interconnect more than 3,000 nodes. Additionally, the Force10 S2410 provides the...

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Open Grid Forum Sees Adoption of its HPC Specification

The Open Grid Forum (OGF) said its High Performance Computing (HPC) Basic Profile specification will be adopted in product releases planned by several commercial providers including Microsoft, Altair, and Platform Computing. The HPC Basic Profile will enable users of Microsoft's Window's HPC Server 2008, Altair's PBS Professional, and Platform LSF products to achieve interoperability and manage resources across multi-site, multi-vendor grids. The...

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Voltaire Delivers , 96-port20 Gbps InfiniBand Switch

Voltaire introduced a new 20 Gbps, 96-port InfiniBand switching platform for high-performance unified fabrics in the data center. The Grid Director ISR 2004 delivers nanosecond latencies to enable high-performance applications to run on distributed server, network and storage resources. Voltaire said the switch could be combined with its recently introduced 10 Gigabit Ethernet line board and 4 Gigabits/second Fibre Channel storage router to enable a unified fabric in the data center. Unified fabrics provide seamless, high performance networking...

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Occam Posts Q3 Revenues of $15.7 Million

Occam Networks reported Q3 revenue of $15.7 million, representing a decrease of 19 percent over the second quarter of 2007, and a 25 percent decrease over the same third quarter of 2006. Revenues for the first nine months of 2007 were $53.9 million, a 17 percent increase over the same nine months for 2006. Net loss for the third quarter of 2007 was $4.9 million as compared to $946,000 for the second quarter of 2007 and net income of $1.6 million for the third quarter of 2006. "It was a challenging quarter for Occam on many fronts," said Bob Howard-Anderson,...

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Siemens Releases Outdoor AP and Latest WLAN Software

Siemens Communications released a new HiPath Wireless Outdoor Access Point (OAP) and V5 of the HiPath Wireless Convergence Software supporting Voice over WLAN and mobility-enabled FMC applications.The Siemens HiPath Wireless OAP is designed for outdoor and industrial environments and supports Wireless Distribution Service (WDS) technology, which enables the OAP to operate without a wired Ethernet network connection. Siemens said its access point...

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Hammerhead Bridges MPLS and PBB-TE Networks

Hammerhead Systems introduced its Carrier Ethernet Multicast Framework, an advanced control plane capability designed to bridge MPLS and emerging PBB-TE based networks by enabling E-LAN and E-Tree services for PBB-TE networks, and at the same time enabling multicast E-Tree services for MPLS. This enables seamless multipoint-to-multipoint and multicast PBB-TE networks alongside their existing MPLS and VPLS networks. Specifically, Hammerhead's Carrier...

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