One Minute Video presented by Aswath Mohan -- What is a Service Analyzer?Jargon Bus...
Sunday, May 18, 2008
One Minute Video: What is Service Assurance Testing?
One Minute Video presented by Thomas Maufer -- What is Service Assurance Testing?Jargon Bus...
One Minute Video: What is DOS/DDOS?
One Minute Video presented by Kowsik Guruswamy -- One Minute Video: What is DOS/DDOS?Jargon Bus...
Cisco/Ovum Study Projects Strong Growth for Managed Services
The market for the four leading managed IP-based services has a current compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18 percent and is expected to deliver revenues of US $66 billion by 2012, according to a new study commissioned by Cisco and carried out by Ovum. These four services are managed metro Ethernet, managed Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), managed IP voice and managed security.The multi-year study collected data from more than 1,300 individuals in companies using managed services in 14 countries across the Americas, Europe,...
ZyXEL Selects BroadLight's E2E GPON Technology
ZyXEL Corporation has selected BroadLight's BL3458 GPON Quad OLT controller for a 16-port pizza box style OLT-1500 series and its BL2338ONT SoC for its GPON + VDSL2 MDU pizza box style ONT. The new ZyXEL OLT takes advantage of the BL3458's ultra low-power and high density allowing GPON to be deployed in a variety of applications. This form factor and density of 16 ports in 1 rack unit significantly lowers first-in equipment cost incurred by service providers and increases the number of subscribers serviced per box to 2048.http://www.broadlight...
Cox Selects Juniper for Converged Metro Ethernet Infrastructure
Cox Communications has selected Juniper Networks' MX-series Ethernet Services Routers as part of a multi-year project to expand the capacity and scale of its metro regional networks. Financial terms were not disclosed.Cox is transitioning toward a converged network architecture hub design combining voice, video, and data traffic, and has selected the Juniper MX960 as the basis for this transformation. Specifically, the Juniper Networks MX960 Ethernet Services Router, which delivers up to 960 Gbps of switching and routing capacity, will be deployed...
Orange Launches Voice/Data Roaming Offers: Favourite Countries, Travel Data Daily
Orange launched two voice and data roaming offers for both consumer and business customers across its European network. The new voice roaming offer, Favourite Countries, is aimed at frequent international travelers or those that live or operate on borders. Customers are charged an upfront monthly fee - EUR5 (EUR4.18 ex. VAT) in France for example and there are no hidden charges. Customers simply select a country or countries of their choice from...
On2 Claims 40% Improvement for VP6 Video Quality for Flash
On2 Technologies announced significant improvements to the On2 VP6 video technology used in Adobe Flash 8 and 9 and Flash Lite 3. Achieving a substantial increase to the quality of encoded video, in some cases as much as 40%, content encoded with the new On2 VP6 technology is fully compatible with the existing decoder used in Flash player. The improvements will be introduced as a free upgrade to the On2 Flix suite of encoding and publishing tools for Flash video.On2 said the improvements follow the recent introduction of for the new VP6-S profile...
CableLabs Tests Switched Digital Video from TiVo, Motorola and Cisco
TiVo, Motorola and Cisco have submitted switched digital video equipment for formal testing at CableLabs. Motorola and Cisco have both developed external tuning adapters and are seeking qualification by CableLabs before being delivered to cable operators for deployment. The tuning adapters are expected to be offered in the coming months by cable operators including Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, and Cablevision in areas where switched digital technology...
Tektronix Offers Ultra-Wideband (UWB) WiMedia Test Expertise
Tektronix is introducing Ultra-Wideband (UWB) WiMedia PHY test methodologies to help developer capture, and analyze high speed RF signals. The company also released a new version of UWB Analysis software for its DSA/DPO70000 series oscilloscopes. The new WiMedia Methods of Implementation (MOI) offers a step-by-step test methodology for the new Ultra-Wideband (UWB) WiMedia PHY Test Specification Version 1.2 release. For UWB WiMedia radios using MB-OFDM technology for Certified Wireless USB, next generation Bluetooth, WiNet and Wireless FireWire...
Verizon Business Expands its Help Desk Capabilities
Verizon Business is opening a new customer service and support center in Tulsa, Oklahoma to accommodate growing customer demand for its end-user help desk services. Verizon Business 24 x 7 help desk services enable companies to outsource this function. The company is currently handling more than 2.5 million help desk calls per year and anticipates significant ongoing growth.The new center will boost Verizon Business' overall ability to handle calls...
Texas Instruments extends Puma 5 DOCSIS 3.0 Chipsets
Texas Instruments announced a new DOCSIS 3.0 chipset that supports cable set-top-boxes (STB) with both MPEG-TS (transport stream) and Internet Protocol (IP) capabilities. This provides equipment manufacturers with the ability to create a new breed of hybrid STB products. The new Puma 5 TNETC4820, which builds upon TI's current portfolio of DOCSIS 3.0 compliant products, is compatible with both legacy QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) cable video...
Seagate's "Showcase" Provide Terabytes of External Storage for DVRs
Seagate is introducing a line of "Showcase" external storage devices designed for use with DVRs and media centers. With initial capacities up to 1TB, consumers will be able to keep up to 200 hours of additional HD movies or 1,000 hours of additional standard definition television. The devices will feature USB 2.0 and eSATA interfaces. Seagate also announced that the Showcase family of products will be designed to be compatible with Motorola's...
Atheros and TI Collaborate on Wi-Fi Cable Modem Gateways
Atheros Communications' XSPAN 802.11n single and dual-band options and its popular 802.11g solutions now support Texas Instruments' (TI) next-generation, wireless-enabled cable modem gateway platform. The new reference designs are the first in a series based on Atheros' Wi-Fi and TI's Puma 5 family of DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem chipsets. Atheros' XSPAN system-on-chip solutions provide a rich set of features to the Puma 5 platform including an integrated, high-performance, wireless network processor (WNPU) 400 MHz subsystem, which gives significant...
Pace Announces MPEG-4 Set-Top Boxes for Cable
Pace Micro Technology introduced a new family of MPEG-4 advanced video compression set-top boxes for cable operators in North and South America. The new STBs support various video compression formats including MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, while enabling operators to deliver content via SDV (switched digital video), ADS (all digital simulcast) or a pure all-digital network. The gear offers embedded support for IP content delivery using DOCSIS channel bonding and support for "tru2way" (OCAP). Pace said it can ensure compatibility with existing networks, encryption,...
Mu Dynamics Targets Proactive Service Assurance, Raises New Funding
Mu Dynamics (formerly Mu Security), a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, closed $10 million in Series C funding for its work proactive service assurance for network operators and their vendors. Studies from Network Strategy Partners (NSP) and others put the cost of downtime for a large service provider network in excess of $100,000 per hour. Mu Dynamics is offering a service assurance analyzer at aimed at minimizing service/network downtime...
ShoreTel Refines Unified Communications with Release 8.0
ShoreTel has continued to refine its unified communications system with release 8.0, featuring new Scalable Video Coding (SVC) capabilities and other collaboration enhancements. ShoreTel also announced two new energy-efficient voice switches and the certification of several ShoreTel technology partners on the new version. Refinements to the company's ShoreWare Call Manager include tabbed windows that make users more productive by making it easier...
