Bookham Supplies Full-Band Tunable Pluggable Transceiver to Ciena

Bookham has begun shipping its TL8000 full-band tunable pluggable transceiver to Ciena. Ciena plans to use this 10 Gbps module across its high-end switching and transmission systems including its CoreDirector Multiservice Switch, CoreStream Agility Optical Transport System and CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform for both core and metro network applications.The LambdaFLEX TL8000 module utilizes fully Telcordia qualified Bookham components, including the Bookham tunable transmitter with indium phosphide Mach Zehnder (InP MZ) modulator...

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Verizon Business Consolidates Global Billing for Customers

Verizon Business has begun providing a Global Billing Report for its multinational customers, proving a more convenient way to view, monitor and analyze their expenses. The report is available through the Verizon Enterprise Center (VEC), to view worldwide communications expenses online in both the original billed currency and another currency selected by the customer.http://www.verizon....

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Verizon Inks Content Deal with NBC Universal

Verizon and NBC Universal have reached a content agreement that includes NBC Universal's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on all three Verizon platforms - TV, broadband and wireless. The content ranges from schedules and medal standings to news, photos and highlights. Also, in addition to Verizon's current carriage of NBC HD and Universal HD, Verizon will launch an high-definition (HD) offering with the addition of four new HD networks: Bravo HD, CNBC+ HD, USA Network HD and SCI FI HD. FiOS TV customers will see these four HD channels...

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GSM Tests Voice Calls based on the SIP-I Protocol

The GSM Association (GSMA), which represents the world's 750 GSM mobile phone operators across 218 countries, has completed trials of voice calls based on the SIP-I protocol between core networks supplied by Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks. SIP-I, or the Session Initiation Protocol with encapsulated ISUP, is a protocol used to create, modify, and terminate communication sessions based on ISUP using SIP and IP networks. Services using SIP-I include...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Revenues Rise 18% to EUR 4.1 billion

Nokia reported Q2 net sales of EUR 13.2 billion, up 4% year on year and up 4 % sequentially (up 11% and 7% at constant currency). The company's diluted EPS came in at EUR 0.36, up 13% year on year, excluding special items. Nokia operating margin was 14.7%, up from 11.1% in Q2 2007 and flat sequentially, excluding special items. Nokia estimates that the number of mobile device shipped across the entire industry in Q2 reached 303 million units,...

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Southeast Alaska Gets Undersea Fiber Cable

GCI, the largest telecommunications company in Alaska, has begun laying a new undersea fiber cable in south eastern Alaska. For residents in Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Angoon and Sitka this means high-speed connections for Internet, phone and video. These communities are currently served through microwave and satellite networks. The $33 million project will connect five more communities to the Alaska United West line that currently connects Alaska to the Lower 48. GCI expects the project to be complete by November.http://www.gci.c...

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Juniper Marks 10th Anniversary of JUNOS Software

Juniper Networks marked the 10th anniversary of its JUNOS software. The company noted that it has consistently designed, developed and delivered new releases of JUNOS software on a time-tested quarterly release cycle to address the evolving high-performance networking requirements of more than 30,000 service provider, enterprise and public sector customers around the world. http://www.juniper....

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PMC-Sierra's Q2 Revenue Rises 12% Sequentially, 34% YoY

PMC-Sierra reported Q2 revenue of $139.8 million, an increase of 33.6% compared with the second quarter of 2007 and 11.8% higher than the $125.0 million in the first quarter of 2008. Net income in the second quarter of 2008 on a GAAP basis was $137.2 million (GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.61) compared with a GAAP net loss in the first quarter of 2008 of $22.7 million (GAAP basic and diluted loss per share of $0.10). Non-GAAP net income in the second quarter of 2008 was $29.7 million (non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.13) compared...

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One Minute Video: What is Unified Communications?

One Minute Video presented by Tom Flanagan, Texas Instruments -- What is UC?Jargon Bus...

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