AirWalk Introduces its CDMA Femtocell

AirWalk Communications, a start-up based in Richardson, Texas, introduced its "EdgePoint" CDMA femtocell for home and small office use. By deploying the compact (7 by 7 by 2 inches) femtocells at customer sites, cellular carriers can reduce the customer churn typically associated with poor reception. At the consumer end, the unit plugs directly into a DSL or cable broadband connection. The femtocell is programmed for their existing handsets and...

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CommuniGate Launches UC Suite with HD Media on Adobe AIR

CommuniGate Systems, a start-up based in Mill Valley, California, announced the availability of Pronto! 2.0 unified communications platform featuring a lightweight client interface built with Adobe Flex 3, deployed in the browser with Adobe Flash Player and to the desktop with Adobe AIR.CommuniGate's Pronto! 2.0 brings together email, voice, messaging, and groupware along with high definition multimedia entertainment applications. With Pronto! 2.0,...

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Eni Deploys Italtel and Cisco for Global Communications Network

Eni, one of the world's leading companies in the energy sector, has deployed an integrated communication network linking over 100 sites using technology from Italtel and Cisco. The new Eni network, which is based on the Italtel i-SSW Softswitch multiservice platform, is described as one of the world's largest fully-converged enterprise networks in terms of size, performance and technologies used. Italtel served as the supplier and system integrator...

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3Com Seeks Break-up Fee from Bain Capital

3Com will pursue a $66 million merger termination fee from Bain Capital Partners. In a press release, 3Com said it does not believe that Bain Capital Partners' attempt to terminate its merger agreement with 3Com is valid. Subsequently, 3Com's shareholders on Friday voted to approve the take-over from Bain, even though the deal was already off the table. This move is expected to help 3Com in its bid to secure the $66 million break-up fee. In February, 3Com, along with affiliates of Bain Capital Partners and Huawei Technologies, withdrew their...

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Redback Announces 68 Joint Carrier Wins with Ericsson

Redback Networks a division of Ericsson, said that its IP-based broadband routers reached 68 joint carrier wins in 45 countries with Ericsson in 2007. Redback and Ericsson won joint deals with fixed and mobile carriers in North & South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and greater Asia. Two of the joint deals are with top 20 fixed operators; three other wins are with top 10 mobile operators. Several of the joints wins are in fast-growing emerging markets.http://www.ericsson....

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Charter Closes on $500 Million in Loan Financing

Charter Communications, the third largest publicly traded cable operator in the U.S., has closed on $500 million principal amount of incremental term loans (the "Incremental Term Loans") under the Charter Operating credit facilities. The funds will be used for general corporate purposes.http://www.charter....

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HTC Shift Rides Sprint's CDMA-EVDO

HTC Corp. announced U.S. availability of its "Shift" device, a compact device that is half the size and a fraction of the weight of a standard notebook and uses Windows Vista and Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0. The HTC Shift operates over the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network. The company claims up to three days of battery life. It also features HTC's new "SnapVUE" technology, which provides instant access to emails, calendar, SMS messages and...

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Ceragon Announces Backhaul Contract with CellularONE of Arizona

Ceragon Networks announced a follow-on order from CellularONE of Arizona valued at over $1 million, as part of CellularONE's further expansion into the Navajo Nation. Ceragon's FibeAir solutions will be used to transport flexible data and voice services to CellularONE's new subscribers. Ceragon's carrier class FibeAir product family provides backhaul for IP, SONET and PDH on a single platform. Phase III of CellularONE's network utilizes the 6,11 and 23 GHz frequency bands in 1+0, 1+1 (non-protected/protected), and space diversity configurations...

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City Telecom, M1 and StarHub to Submit Joint Bid for Singapore's NBN

Hong Kong's City Telecom (CTI) and Singapore's M1 and StarHub will form a consortium and jointly submit a bid to design, build and operate Singapore's next generation broadband network, as specified by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore's Request-for-Proposal (RFP) for the Network Company (NetCo).Next Gen NII comprises complementary wired and wireless networks to ensure Singaporeans enjoy seamless connectivity.''Currently, CTI, through its...

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Packeteer Advises Stockholders to Take No Action in Response to Elliott Associates Offer

Packeteer's Board of Directors recommended that the company's stockholders take no action at this time in response to the announcement by Elliott Associates, L.P. that it has made an unsolicited conditional tender offer to acquire all of Packeteer's outstanding shares of common stock for $5.50 per share in cashPacketeer said it will review and consider the Elliot Associates offer, and within 10 business days, will advise Packeteer's stockholders of the Board's position regarding the offer as well as its reasons for that position.http://www.packeteer.comOn...

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Broadcom Demos Single-Chip HD Set-Top Box Solution with China AVS Support

Broadcom demonstrated a single-chip solution for high definition (HD) digital set-top boxes that is compliant with China's audio video coding standard (AVS) standard. Broadcom's BCM7405 combines a fast 1100-DMIPS MIPS32/MIPS16e-class CPU, high-speed graphics processing (including video scaling and motion adaptive de-interlacing), a very flexible data transport processor, an MPEG-4/VC-1/MPEG-2/AVS-compliant video decoder, a programmable audio decoder, six video DACs, stereo high-fidelity audio DACs, dual Fast Ethernet ports (one with an integrated...

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Incumbents AT&T and Verizon Wireless Among Winners in 700 MHz Auction

Incumbents AT&T and Verizon Wireless were among the biggest winners in the recently concluded auction of 700MHz spectrum in the United States. Frontier Wireless (EchoStar), a new entrant, also won a sufficient number of licenses to establish a near nationwide footprint for its services for consumers.AT&T said its winning bid provides it with 700 MHz spectrum covering 100 percent of the top 200 markets in the U.S. Combined with the spectrum previously purchased in the AWS auction, AT&T will have quality spectrum available for new services...

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