Belgium's Voo Selects NSN + Juniper for Ethernet Backbone

Belgium's VOO, which provides TV, high-speed Internet access and fixed telephony services to more than 1.2 million subscribers throughout Wallonia and Brussels, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to supply and support Juniper Networks' MX-series Ethernet Services Routers and EX-series Ethernet switches for its network backbone. The new network will enable VOO to deliver fast, reliable and customizable multiplay services. Financial terms were not disclosed.Nokia Siemens Networks' worldwide capability in deploying operator infrastructure equipment...

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Corrigent Debuts MPLS-based Carrier Ethernet Transport Switch

Corrigent Systems introduced its CM-4140 cost-optimized, low-power and small-footprint MPLS-based Carrier Ethernet Transport switch. It supports Ethernet and TDM services for aggregating residential multi-play services, business connectivity and mobile backhaul applications.Corrigent's CM-4140 offers high density GE, 10GE and OC-n/STM-n interfaces supported by 168 Gbps non-blocking, fully redundant switching core in a modular architecture. The CM-4140...

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Isocore Integrates MPLS and Carrier Ethernet Services across Domain Boundaries

Isocore will host a public demonstration this week of the first ever interoperability of GMPLS controlled Ethernet label switching (GELS) enabling Ethernet transport of time-sensitive real-time services. The MPLS2008 public interoperability demonstration, taking place on October 23, at Isocore Interworking Lab in Reston, will also present the first ever demonstration of path computation across Autonomous Systems (Inter-AS) boundaries using the IETF...

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Service Availability Forum Releases its Latest Specifications

The Service Availability Forum (SA Forum), which is an industry consortium that fosters an ecosystem for commercial off-the-shelf building blocks used in high-availability network infrastructure products, systems and services, announced the availability of Release 6, an enhanced set of specifications that for the first time addresses the interaction between hardware events and software entities. Release 6 introduces a new service called Platform...

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Digicel Deploys Veraz's Network-Adaptive Border Controller

Digicel Group, the fastest-growing mobile telecommunications company in the Caribbean and new entrant into the Central American market, has deployed Veraz Networks' session border controller (SBC), the Veraz Network-adaptive Border Controller. Digicel is using the Veraz Network-adaptive Border Controller to extend security to 20,000 sessions distributed across three sites, centrally managed by the Veraz ControlSwitch. Financial terms were not disclosed.As...

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RadiSys Expands its AdvancedTCA Portfolio

RadiSys expanded its AdvancedTCA (ATCA) portfolio with the launch of two new products, including one designed for maximum subscriber density and another for lower-density subscriber areas. Both platforms are pre-validated with a variety of hardware and software components, thereby enabling Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs) to develop and deploy revenue-generating services more quickly and more cost effectively. The rollout includes:The Promentum SYS-6016 platform is a high-capacity 16-slot solution that provides the maximum number of billable...

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Broadcom Posts Q3 Revenue of $1.298 Billion, up 37% YoY

Broadcom reported Q3 revenue of $1.298 billion, an increase of 8.1% compared with the $1.201 billion reported for the second quarter of 2008 and an increase of 36.7% over the same period last year. Net income computed in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the third quarter of 2008 was $164.9 million, or $.31 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $134.8 million, or $.25 per share (diluted), for the second quarter of 2008, and GAAP net income of $27.8 million, or $.05 per share (diluted), for...

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Tellabs Posts Q3 Revenue of $424 Million, Down 7%

Tellabs' third-quarter 2008 revenue totaled $424 million, down 7% from $458 million in the third quarter of 2007. Revenue from outside North America rose 21% from the year-ago quarter to $160 million. On a GAAP (U.S. generally accepted accounting principles) basis, Tellabs recorded a loss of $999 million or $2.51 per share in the third quarter of 2008, including a non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $988 million, restructuring charges for plans announced in previous quarters of $9 million, other charges totaling $11 million, and a non-cash...

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Spirent Adds RF Video Troubleshooting to In-Home Network Test

Spirent Communications has added an RF video test module to its Spirent Tech-X Flex field test solution -- a handheld device utilized to identify and troubleshoot the deployment issues related to video services within a consumer's home. Spirent Tech-X Flex is now supports both the testing of IP video service quality of Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) networks as well as analog and digital RF-based video signals. Spirent said that with both dual MoCA and dual Ethernet interfaces, its Tech-X Flex offers field technicians an in-line IP video monitoring...

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AboveNet's 10Gbps Ethernet Services Certified To MEF Standards

AboveNet has attained Metro Ethernet Forums' MEF 9 and 14 certifications for its 10Gigabit Ethernet Private Line (EPL), Metro Area Network (MAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) services. AboveNet noted that it is the world's first provider to be certified for its 10Gigabit Ethernet services, under the MEF endorsed process.http://www.above....

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