Avaya Communication Manager 5.0 Support End-to-End SIP

Avaya announced a series of enhancements to its IP Telephony portfolio, including support for end-to-end, full-featured Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) delivered through the latest version of its telephony software -- Avaya Communication Manager 5.0.Avaya Communication Manager 5.0 now features embedded SIP, allowing co-residency on a single server (initially with the Avaya S8300C Server) -- eliminating the cost and management issues associated with multiple servers. New SIP trunk alternate routing -- a key capability for redistributing voice,...

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Deutsche Telekom plans up to 4,000 new jobs in Germany

Deutsche Telekom plans to add up to 4,000 new jobs in Germany for 2008. The company also expects to offer up to 3,800 traineeships. The areas for recruitment span information technology (IT), high-tech product development, business management as well as sales and service. In addition, another 3,800 new traineeships will be offered this year in trendy fields. Deutsche Telekom said its job offers are focusing increasingly on young university graduates. http://www.telekom...

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Verizon Expands Availability of 7 Mbps DSL

Verizon has expanded the availability of its 7 Mbps DSL tier to additional communities in Indiana and Texas. Prices start $39.99 a month when ordered with an annual service plan. Verizon now offers the new service in some 400 communities across the country.http://www.verizon....

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IBM, Intel and Cisco Open High-Performance Computing Center

IBM, Intel and Cisco opened a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center in Montpellier, France, offering mutual customers a comprehensive test-bed to simplify the set-up and operation of their high performance infrastructure. The center aims to combine the world's fastest cluster computers from IBM with the high-performance InfiniBand and Ethernet networking technology from Cisco and Intel's most advanced multi-core processors. The center will be equipped with a mix of 45nm and 65nm based Quad-Core Intel Xeon microprocessors on 32 IBM BladeCenter...

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Bharti Airtel Awards $150 Million Services Deal to IBM

India's Bharti Airtel awarded a six-year services deal valued at US$150 million to IBM to help bring a unified customer experience across its services, including beaming television content over the Internet. Working with IBM, Bharti plans to launch IPTV and DTH (direct to home) broadcasting offerings and penetrate into prepaid rural market segments. Through its partnership, IBM will implement IT systems that will enable it to launch differentiated...

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Alcatel-Lucent Selected for GO-1 Mediterranean Cable System

Alcatel-Lucent, along with Elettra - a Telecom Italia Group company specialized in survey, installation and maintenance of submarine cable networks - for a turnkey project with GO p.l.c. (GO), xto deploy a new submarine network between Malta and Italy on behalf of GO p.l.c. (GO), Malta's leading telecom operator. Named GO-1 Mediterranean Cable System, this high-speed network will provide GO with extra capacity to further enhance the delivery of its quadruple play services to businesses and consumers. The cable is designed for an ultimate capacity...

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iamba Networks Introduces its GPON ASICs Family

iamba Networks, a start-up based in Cupertino, California with R&D based in Israel, released its new iSN1000 family of GPON ONT ASICs. The iSN1000 family includes three SoCs for three types of ONTs: the iSN1000F for Single Family Units (SFU), the iSN1000T for small office, home offices (SOHO), and the iSN1000D for Multi Dwelling Units (MDU).Iamba said its new silicon delivers 1 Gbps wire speed throughput, WT-156 compliant VLAN processing, QoS,...

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FiberTower's CEO Quits

FiberTower, which provides wireless backhaul services to mobile operators across the U.S., announced that Michael Gallagher has resigned, effective immediately, as President, CEO and Director of the company to pursue other interests. The Board of Directors has begun a search for a new CEO and has retained Heidrick & Struggles to assist in its recruiting efforts.http://www.fibertower.c...

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Malaysia's iZZinet Selects Harris Stratex for Base Station Network Roll-out

Malaysia's iZZinet has selected Harris Stratex' "Eclipse" radios for its nationwide wireless broadband network roll-out program. Formerly known as MoBif Wireless Broadband, iZZinet is in the process of adding more than 100 base stations throughout Malaysia to support its rapidly expanding iBurst wireless broadband network. Harris Stratex Networks worked with iZZinet engineers to design the network around an Eclipse all-IP core, with all radio links...

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ShoreTel's Unified Communications Deployed by Big Brothers Big Sisters

Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas has deployed ShoreTel's UC system to interconnect its regional offices, presenting a unified face to the community, driving down communications costs and improving service delivery. Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas is the largest U.S. mentoring organization that provides children with support, guidance, friendship and fun by matching them to adult role models. The organization has increased the number of mentoring relationships by more than 34 percent over a two-year period, while cutting almost in half...

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Dune Debuts Programmable Metro Ethernet and Access Traffic Manager Devices

Dune Networks, introduced two new chips that offer enhanced Traffic Management functionality, addressing edge functionality of Metro Ethernet and Access Networks. The new FAP21V and FAP11V devices provide 20 Gbps and 10 Gbps full duplex programmable traffic management with an integrated SAND fabric interface. The devices provide one (FAP11V) or two (FAP21V) SPI4.2 interfaces to the line side, DRAMs for deep packet buffering and serial links for fabric and mesh interconnection.Dune Networks said its new FAP devices can interconnect and communicate...

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Texas' Grande Communications Explores Strategic Alternatives

Grande Communications, which has been building deep fiber networks in communities across Texas, has engaged Waller Capital to assist the company in exploring strategic alternatives. The Board of Directors will work with the Company's management team and its legal and financial advisors to evaluate the company's available alternatives.http://www.grandecom....

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Caltech Selects Ciena for Dynamic Lightpath Provisioning

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has selected Ciena's CoreDirector Multiservice Optical Switch for use in its multi-national research networking efforts. Caltech is the driving force behind the U.S. Large Hadron Collider Network (U.S. LHCNet).The U.S. LHCNet network interconnects the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland with key access points in Amsterdam, New York (32 Avenue of the Americas) and Chicago, Illinois (Starlight). Onward connections to research facilities throughout the U.S. involve the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s...

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Cisco to Invest Up to $1.6 Billion in United Arab Emirates

Cisco plans to invest up to AED 5.8 billion (USD $1.59 billion) on information and communications technology (ICT) in the United Arab Emirates over the next five years. As part of this investment, which is expected to create up to 650 new jobs at Cisco by December 2010, Cisco will open a new regional headquarters office in Dubai in April 2008. The regional office will host one of Cisco's most advanced customer briefing centers allowing Cisco to showcase the latest innovations in Internet Protocol (IP) networking technology, such as Cisco TelePresence....

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