Occam Announces Gigabit FTTH Deployment in Alabama

New Hope Telephone Cooperative, which is headquartered outside Huntsville, Alabama, has selected Occam Networks for the upgrading of its entire service network to point-to-point (P2P) Gigabit Ethernet fiber to the home (FTTH) network. New Hope Telephone has purchased multiple components of Occam's Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC) system, including the BLC 6312 active FTTH Blade, the 6450 10-Gigabit Transport Blade and 2342 FTTH ONTs. This next generation technology upgrade is made possible through funding provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's...

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Comstar Double is Broadband Base to 695,000 in Moscow

Comstar, the leading fixed-line telecommunications company in Moscow both in terms of revenues and subscribers, announced that its broadband Internet subscriber base almost doubled year on year to 695,000 users in Moscow by the end of 2007. A total of 228,000 net new subscribers were added in the fourth quarter alone, which was nearly five times as many net additions as in the fourth quarter of 2006.The 651,000 residential subscribers accounted...

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SFR and Alcatel-Lucent Test DVB-SH Mobile TV Terrestrial Network

SFR, the second largest mobile telecommunications operator in France serving some 18 million users, and Alcatel-Lucent completed a six month DVB-SH pilot in December 2007. The pilot used pre-commercial low-power terrestrial repeaters for the broadcast part, co-localized with several SFR's 3G+ operational sites. The broadcast signal from a satellite was emulated by a transmitter located in a high-altitude helicopter perceived as a fixed point. The mobile terminals used were pre-commercial terminals provided by Sagem Mobiles and Samsung Electronics...

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Arcor Selects NDS VideoGuard to Secure IPTV in Germany

Arcor, the second largest telecommunications provider in Germany, has selected NDS VideoGuard content protection to secure its new IPTV service. Arcor-Digital TV will initially be available in 51 German cities and communities offering digital TV and advanced entertainment services such as VOD. Arcor, which is a subsidiary of Vodafone, operates a nationwide broadband network with a DSL subscriber base of over two million connections. The NDS solution features VideoGuard CA and DRM technology, which now provide security in over 50 Pay-TV platforms...

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Strix Introduces In-Vehicle Mobile Wireless System

Strix Systems introduced an in-vehicle Mobile Wireless System (MWS) 100 that enables on-board video surveillance, VoIP and critical data applications for in-vehicle wired or wireless client connectivity in public safety, railway, municipal, strategic and tactical wireless broadband mesh networks.The MWS 100 is designed for any vehicle type and works in concert with Strix's Access/One Outdoor Wireless Systems (OWS) to create an end-to-end mobile broadband...

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Ixia Appoints VP of Marketing

Ixia has appointed Anupam Sahai as vice president of Marketing. He previously served as Senior director and general manager, Software Products and Applications for the Voice division at Polycom. Sahai will report to Atul Bhatnagar, Ixia's president and COO.http://www.ixiacom....

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Oracle to Acquire BEA Systems

Oracle and BEA Systems reached an agreement under which Oracle will acquire all outstanding shares of BEA for $19.375 per share in cash. The offer is valued at approximately $8.5 billion, or $7.2 billion net of BEA's cash on hand of $1.3 billion. Oracle said the proposed merger with BEA would accelerate the development of a world-class suite of middleware for business applications. Oracle Fusion middleware has an open "hot-pluggable" architecture...

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Alcatel-Lucent Gains JITC Approval on Two Metro Optical Products

The Alcatel-Lucent 1665 DMX Data Multiplexer and 1665 DMXtend Multiplexer have been certified as interoperable with the Defense Switched Network (DSN) by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC). As a result, these two metro optical products have been added to the DoD Approved Products List (APL). Both platforms are next-generation multiplexers designed for high-capacity voice, data and video transport. LGS designs and delivers Transformed Communications and R&D-based technology solutions to the U.S....

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Qualcomm Announces Marketing Changes

Qualcomm announced an executive reorganization including the creation of a chief marketing officer (CMO) position.Jeff Jacobs, executive vice president, has been named CMO. Over the past several years leading global business development, Jacobs has built an organization that has played a significant role in the globalization of Qualcomm and the expansion of the business. In the newly formed CMO role, Jacobs will oversee global marketing, external communications and standards- related efforts.Qualcomm will evolve the structure of its global business...

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XO Expands IP Services Portfolio and Offers Bandwidth-Based Pricing

XO Communications announced several significant enhancements to IP services offerings, including the launch of XO IP Flex, the nationwide availability of XO SIP, and the introduction of a bandwidth-based pricing offering for converged IP services. Highlights of the announcement include:Bandwidth-based Pricing-- XO Communications claims to be the first major nationwide service provider to offer a pricing concept for converged IP services that eliminates...

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