AppTrigger Positions its Application Session Controller for IMS Migration

AppTrigger announced new features in its Ignite Application Session Controller that enable service providers to ensure that their existing voice centric IN applications such as pre-paid and voice messaging are able to work within IMS and next generation networks. AppTrigger's platform resides between the application layer and the control plane with the purpose of delivering call/session control, signaling, switching and media capabilities to support multiple applications for both new and legacy networks. Specifically, Ignite Application Session...

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Nanochip Raises $14 Million for Ultra-High-Capacity Data Storage Chips

Nanochip, a start-up based in Fremont, California, raised $14 million in venture financing for its development of advanced microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) silicon data storage chips.Nanochip is developing a new class of ultra-high-capacity storage chips enabling the storage of tens of gigabytes (GB) of data per chip, or the equivalent of many high-definition feature-length videos. By coupling MEMS with nano-probe array technology that exceeds...

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Ciena to Acquire World Wide Packets, AT&T Selects Platform

Ciena agreed to acquire privately-held World Wide Packets, a supplier of Carrier Ethernet-based solutions, for approximately $200 million in cash and 3.4 million shares of Ciena common stock. In addition, Ciena will assume up to $15 million in outstanding World Wide Packets debt. Based on the closing price of Ciena's stock on Friday January 18, 2008, of $26.52, the aggregate value of the shares to be issued by Ciena is approximately $90 million.Worldwide...

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Tellabs Q4 Revenue Rises 3% to $469 Million

Tellabs reported Q4 2007 revenue of $469 million, up 3% from $455 million in the fourth quarter of 2006. For the year 2007, Tellabs revenue totaled $1.9 billion, down 6% from $2.0 billion in 2006. Tellabs earned $6 million or 1 cent per share in the fourth quarter of 2007 on a GAAP basis, down 78% from $29 million or 7 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2006. Tellabs also announced a plan to reduce operating expenses. Under this plan, together with the restructuring announced in September 2007, Tellabs expects to achieve $100 million in...

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SOFTBANK BB Names Ikanos as Exclusive VDSL2 Chipset Provider

SOFTBANK BB has named Ikanos as the exclusive provider of multi-mode VDSL2 central office (CO) and customer premises equipment (CPE) chipsets to power its new, Fiber to the Remote (FTTR) deployment in Japan. Specifically, SOFTBANK has selected Ikanos' Fx 10050-5 CO and Fx 10050S-5 CPE chipsets in both CO and CPE platforms. The new platforms are also backward compatible with deployed VDSL chipsets, thus facilitating a smoother infrastructure upgrade.http://www.ikanos.c...

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JDSU Introduces Smallest Widely Tunable Transmitter Optical Subassembly

JDSU introduced a widely tunable transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) for the DWDM transceiver market. The new TOSA brings full band tunability, or the ability for service providers to change to any wavelength on demand, to pluggable small form factor (XFP) transceivers that previously only supported one to two wavelengths. The pluggable small form factor can also be used in products that support 50GHz channel spacing.JDSU said its new TOSA represents...

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AT&T U-verse VoIP Service Debuts in Detroit

AT&T introduced its U-verse Voice digital voice service as part of its triple play package. The service is delivered over the AT&T U-verse IP network. Detroit is the first area in the nation where AT&T U-verse Voice is available. AT&T began a controlled launch in late December and has since expanded the service's availability. The service will continue to expand to more local customers and additional markets in 2008.U-verse TV customers...

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American Airlines Begins Installing Aircell Broadband

American Airlines completed the first aircraft installation of the Aircell Internet broadband connectivity solution at its Kansas City maintenance base. American, which will be the first U.S. airline to offer customers Aircell's Internet broadband solution, plans to install and test the technology in 2008 on all 15 of its Boeing 767-200 aircraft that primarily fly transcontinental routes.Aircell's air-to-ground broadband system will provide an Internet...

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SureWest Sells its Wireless Assets to Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless agreed to acquire SureWest Communications' wireless assets in northern California, operating as SureWest Wireless, for $69.0 million. The purchase includes SureWest Wireless' spectrum licenses, and network and operations assets in the greater Sacramento area. The licenses, which cover a population of 3.8 million people and overlap with areas currently served by Verizon Wireless, will expand the company's capacity in that area. Verizon Wireless plans to begin serving SureWest Wireless' more than 50,000 customers when the deal is...

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Brocade Unveils Massive 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Switch for Next Gen Data Centers

Brocade introduced its DCX Backbone platform featuring up to 896 ports of 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and aimed at next generation data center networks. Brocade said the new DCX provides more than five times the switching bandwidth of existing SAN directors and supports eight times as many virtual servers. Deployment options including the capability to support Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Data Center Ethernet (DCE), Gigabit Ethernet,...

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Amdocs Reports Record Quarterly Revenue

Amdocs reported that for the quarter ended December 31, 2007, revenue was $742.3 million, an increase of 7.4% from last year's first quarter. Net income on a non-GAAP basis was $123.3 million, or $0.56 per diluted share (excluding acquisition-related costs, which include amortization of purchased intangible assets, and excluding equity-based compensation expense, net of related tax effects, of $27.6 million). The company's GAAP net income was $95.7 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $93.3 million, or $0.42 per...

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TI Reports Q4 Revenue of $3.56 Billion, Growth of 3% YoY

Texas Instruments reported Q4 2007 revenue of $3.56 billion and EPS of $0.54, representing a revenue increase of 3 percent from the same quarter a year ago. This growth was led by demand for TI's digital signal processors and high-performance analog products, which were up 12 percent each. Gross profit increased 10 percent and operating profit increased 30 percent."It was a good quarter and a good year for TI. We delivered more value to shareholders and built momentum with customers. Perhaps most important to our future performance, we sharpened...

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Siemens Addresses Power Over Ethernet Challenge for 802.11n Deployments

Siemens Communications introduced its new HiPath Wireless 802.11n solution aimed at solving the Power over Ethernet (PoE) challenge for 802.11n deployments. Whereas 802.11n offers substantial benefits over previous wireless standards, with speeds up to five times faster than traditional WLANs, greater range and improved reliability, enterprises seeking to power 802.11n access points using their PoE infrastructure have discovered that additional...

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NextPhase Announces Approval for WiMAX License in 3.65 GHz Band

NextPhase Wireless of Anaheim, California, announced that it has received confirmation from the FCC that their application for a nationwide license to provide WiMAX wireless services in the newly released 3.65 GHz band (3650-3700 MHz) had been approved."In late 2007, the FCC acknowledged the challenges faced in deploying WiMAX services in the US, and opened up the 3.65 - 3.7 GHz band for Wireless Broadband Services in an attempt to 'encourage multiple entrants and stimulate the expansion of broadband service to rural and under-served areas'. Applications...

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Verizon Expands FiOS Fiber Rollout in Portland, Oregon

Verizon announced plans to deploy its FiOS fiber network to an additional 48,000 homes in the Portland, Oregon area. More than 8.5 million homes and businesses in parts of 16 states are now passed by Verizon's all-fiber network, and the company expects the network to pass about 18 million premises by the end of 2010. http://www.verizon.comVerizon had 1.3 million FiOS Internet customers and 717,000 FiOS TV customers at the end of the third quarter of 20...

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