California Broadband Task Force Seeks Action

California must construct next-generation broadband infrastructure in order to position itself as a global economic leader in a knowledge-based economy, according to a newly issued report from The California Broadband Task Force (CBTF), which was commissioned by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in November 2006 to recommend means to remove barriers to broadband access, identify opportunities for increased broadband adoption, and enable the creation...

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Alcatel-Lucent names Andy Williams to Head Services Business

Alcatel-Lucent named Andy Williams to become President of the company's Services Business, replacing John Meyer who is leaving the company to become the CEO and President of Acxiom Corporation. Andy Williams currently heads the Network Operations business globally for Alcatel-Lucent's Services group. Previously, he headed the former Lucent Technologies European business. He joined the company in 2005 from IBM, where he worked for 25 years and held a number of senior leadership positions.http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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FairPoint Selects Occam for Network Upgrade in New England

FairPoint Communications has selected Occam Networks as the lead access equipment provider for a major broadband upgrade of its network in northern New England once the proposed acquisition of Verizon's wireline business in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine is closed. The first phase of the upgrade will include building 10Gig redundant Ethernet rings to over 200 Central Offices throughout the three-state region. Phase two will add over 50,000 DSL lines to rural areas that previously did not have broadband service. A key equipment supplier of Occam's...

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The Cloud Acquires Germany's GlobalAirNet

The Cloud has acquired GlobalAirNet AG (Ganag), which provides Wi-Fi services to four and five star hotels in Germany. Financial terms were not disclosed.Ganag, based in Munich Germany, has over 5,300 Wi-Fi access points located in over 300 hotels, including Marriott, Swiss Hotel and Crowne Plaza, with further expansion contracted in the hotel sector. The Cloud is Europe's leading independent mobile wireless broadband service provider with over...

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NEC and Sumitomo to Supply Microwave Communication Systems to Italy's Wind

Italian mobile phone operator Wind has selected NEC and Sumitomo for the supply of advanced point-to-point wireless access systems based on the PASOLINK NEO platform. Italy has a prime mobile phone market, boasting a total of 80.3 million mobile customers, with market penetration of 136%. Wind serves more than 15 million mobile customers and holds more than 18% market share. NEC said one of the advantageous features of its PASOLINK NEO, as compared...

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Canada's MTS Allstream Selects Alcatel-Lucent for IPTV

MTS Allstream, a wholly owned subsidiary of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. selected Alcatel-Lucent for its upcoming IPTV deployment. The service will be based on Alcatel-Lucent's Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) and Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia platform. MTS Allstream currently has the largest installed base of telco digital TV subscribers in Canada and was one of the first providers in the world to launch this type of...

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Alcatel-Lucent Notes Milestone: 50 Customers for Its Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA)

Alcatel-Lucent noted a company milestone: 50 service providers worldwide have now selected or deployed its Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA). MTS Allstream, a leading Canadian service provider, is the latest to select the architecture following wins with Portugal Telecom, Vodafone Portugal, Kenya Data Network (KDN), Denmark's NRGi Fibernet and Sweden's Fiberdata in 2007.Alcatel-Lucent said its TPSDA provides an IP network foundation that leverages its broadband access, optics, Carrier Ethernet and service-aware IP technologies...

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TI Chairman Tom Engibous to Retire in April

Thomas J. Engibous, Chairman of the Board of Texas Instruments, will retire following the company's 2008 stockholders meeting on April 17. Richard K. Templeton, who has worked side-by-side with Engibous for the last 15 years, will become the company's new chairman, in addition to his current position as president and CEO.Since 1996, when Engibous became CEO, the value of the company's share price has increased almost 5X. Engibous, who turns 55 in January, joined the company in 1976 after graduating from Purdue University. He was named president...

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Arbor Networks to Acquire Ellacoya for DPI Systems

Arbor Networks, which specializes in secure service control solutions, agreed to acquire Ellacoya Networks, which supplies carrier-class broadband service optimization solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed.Ellacoya's e30 platform and e100 platform (a custom-designed 20 Gbps wire-speed DPI network hardware element) enable service providers to identify and manage network traffic dynamically by subscriber, service type, time-of-day, etc. Ellacoya's...

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