BBC Digital Media Initiative to Leverage Signiant's Media Distribution Solution

Signiant's Digital Media Distribution Management Suite (DMDMS) has been selected by Siemens as a core component for the forthcoming BBC Digital Media Initiative. Siemens is providing the integration and delivery services for the provision of the Digital Media Initiative within the corporation, and Signiant's technology will enable the Media Mover component. The Digital Media Initiative will provide the broadcaster with a flexible, multiplatform-enabled, digital production capability with the associated technology infrastructure. Financial terms...

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MetaSwitch Announces Sales Milestone -- 150th IOC Customer

MetaSwitch announced that with its deployment with Ontario & Trumansburg Telephone Companies (OTTC), it is now providing the core softswitch technology for 150 independent operating companies (IOCs) in North America. OTTC, the largest independently owned telephone companies in New York State, has invested in building a 300-mile fiber network, operated by subsidiary Finger Lakes Technologies Group, Inc. (FLTG), which extends from Ithaca to Rochester and towards the Western part of New York State. MetaSwitch's platforms enable IOCs to deliver...

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Pando's P2P Field Test Shows 235% Performance Boost across US cable networks

P2P content delivery can boost delivery speeds by up to 235% across US cable networks and up to 898% across international broadband networks, according to Pando Networks, which offers a managed P2P content delivery service. The data was gathered in a recent P4P field test by Pando from more than 3,000 ISPs worldwide. As part of the test that began February 21st, Pando Networks delivered video content to more than 1 million people across global broadband...

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Siemens Introduces Wave2 WiMAX Card

Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices (SHC) introduced its Gigaset SE68 WiMAX Express Card based on the IEEE 802.16-2005 standard. It complies with the Wave 2 specifications, including MIMO (Multiple Input / Multiple Output) A and B, and supports beamforming. The Express Card Gigaset SE68 WiMAX permits mobile broadband access at up to 20 Mbps. The card will be available in the summer of 2008 supporting the 2.5 and 3.5 GHz frequency bands....

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WiMAX Forum Certifies First 2.3 GHz Products

The WiMAX Forum has given its Certified Seal of Approval to the first eight Mobile WiMAX products following interoperability testing. The 2.3 GHz frequency band products, including four base station and four subscriber unit modules, that achieved WiMAX certification are from WiMAX Forum member companies POSDATA, Ransom Technologies Ltd, Samsung Electronics Co., LTD and Sequans Communications. The products were certified in collaboration with the...

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Qwest's Ed Mueller to Chair National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee

Qwest Communications' chairman and CEO, Edward A. Mueller, has been named by President Bush to chair the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).Since its inception by executive order in 1982, the NSTAC has advised the president and other White House leaders on issues pertaining to the preservation and utilization of the nation's communications infrastructure, specifically with regard to national security and emergency preparedness...

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Harmonic Improves Video Encoding at Low Resolutions for Mobile Video

Harmonic introduced a new approach to low resolution encoding for mobile video on DiviCom Electra MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) compression platform. Harmonic is now supporting ultra-low bit-rates in formats including QVGA and SIF with the Electra 5400 standard definition (SD) H.264 encoders. This solution is designed for lower resolution applications such as video delivery to automobiles via satellite transmission or IP-based streaming to the PC and handheld devices. Harmonic's Electra H.264 encoding platform employs a number of technologies, including video...

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Dell'Oro: Service Providers Spend Over $36 Billion on Wireline Gear in 2007

Telecom service providers worldwide purchased more than $36 billion of equipment to enhance their wireline networks in 2007, up more than 10 percent over 2006 levels, according to Dell'Oro Group. The largest increases in capex spend was on optical transport and routers, followed distantly by IP voice equipment (such as media gateways and softswitches), and carrier Ethernet switches. Spending on broadband access and multiservice switching declined. Dell'Oro said Cisco captured the bulk of spend on routers while Alcatel-Lucent captured spend on...

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Tektronix's Protocol Test Tool Selected by WiMAX Forum

The WiMAX Forum has selected Tektronix Communications' G35-WiMAX protocol test solution to verify the interoperability of WiMAX network nodes in Mobile WiMAX Forum Certified Test Laboratories around the world.As part of the WiMAX Forum Network Interoperability Test initiative, reference networks will be set up in all WiMAX Forum Test Laboratories, against which WiMAX component vendors can test their implementation. Tektronix said its G35-WiMAX protocol test solution will serve as the reference point to analyze the responses of individual devices...

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Global Crossing Extends IP Network to Latin America

Global Crossing has expanded its converged IP services in Latin America. Global Crossing is supplementing the core functionality of its MPLS-network backbone with "Supercore" routing platforms. In addition to the Supercore routers already installed in St. Croix, USVI and Fort Amador, Panama, the company now has installed these routers in Buenos Aires, Santiago and Sao Paulo, as well. This triples PoP-to-PoP core capacity and enables OC192 (10 Gbps SONET) connections on the company's South American Crossing (SAC) undersea fiber-optic cable system,...

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Nominum Offers DNS & DHCP Solutions to Large Enterprises

Nominum has begun offering its carrier-proven line of DNS and DHCP software solutions to the large enterprise market. These solutions include:Enterprise DNS package: It includes Nominum's Authoritative Name Server (ANS) and Caching Name Server (CNS). ANS is a dedicated authoritative name server purpose-built to scale to large number of zones and records. CNS is a dedicated caching-only name server designed for recursively resolve domain names while also protecting the DNS infrastructure against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and cache poisoning.Enterprise...

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Verizon Business to Offer Managed Data-Protection, Data-Loss-Prevention Service

Verizon Business plans to add two new managed security services to address the entire flow of data within the extended enterprise. The new services, available later this year, aim to prevent malicious requests that could compromise a company's databases. The new managed services are:Management and monitoring of software and appliances for database auditing and prevention/database activity monitoring. These software and appliances effectively act as a security buffer, preventing malicious requests that could compromise a database. Verizon Business'...

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France's Saclay 2 Research Net Deploys Alcatel-Lucent

France's higher education and research community, the Association Réseau Haut Débit du Plateau de Saclay, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to deliver a turnkey optical network operating at 10 Gbps and upgradeable to 40 Gbps. The network will build on a 30 Km optical infrastructure already deployed by Alcatel-Lucent in 2006. Under the project, Alcatel-Lucent will combine cabling, optical and IP networking solutions from its portfolio, with specialized service practices. The deployment includes the Alcatel-Lucent 1696 Metrospan, Alcatel-Lucent 7750...

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First International Telecom Deploys Motorola's WiMAX

First International Telecom (Fitel), a major telecom operator in Taiwan, is working with Motorola and UTStarcom to deploy a WiMAX network as a part of the operator's commitment to the M-Taiwan project. Fitel received its operator license to provide WiMAX services for northern Taiwan in July 2007. Motorola noted that this represents its third WiMAX project in Taiwan in the last eight months.Fitel provides mobile communications services through its PHS network to over 1 million subscribers. Fitel plans to start testing the WiMAX base stations in...

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Motorola Elects David Dorman as Non-Executive Chairman

Motorola's Board of Directors elected David Dorman to serve as non-executive Chairman of the Board. Dorman will succeed Ed Zander, the company's current chairman and former chief executive officer.Dorman, who joined Motorola's Board of Directors in 2006, is currently a managing director and senior advisor at the firm of Warburg Pincus and Co. He joined AT&T as president in December 2000 and served as chairman and chief executive officer from 2002 until November of 2005. Previously, Dorman served as chief executive officer of Concert, the global...

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Finland's Funet Upgrades Optical Network with NSN

The Finnish university and research network (Funet), which is operated by the Finnish IT center for science (CSC), is undergoing a major optical upgrade that will delivers connections to up 0 Gbps to the Finnish research community. The Funet network will also provide its users with high-quality connections to the international research network infrastructure, such as NORDUnet, the Nordic research network, and the European GÉANT research network.Nokia Siemens Networks will provide the optical transmission network and routers based on DWDM for the...

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