Telekomunikacja Polska to Sell Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX PBX

Telekomunikacja Polska will offer the Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Enterprise (OXE) system to its largest business customers. The agreement will enable TP's customers to take advantage of the operator's rich service portfolio as well as of Alcatel-Lucent's newest technological solutions. TP has already been using Alcatel-Lucent solutions for small and medium-size business customers.http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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Dilithium Offer Video Streaming Support for Android Handsets

Dilithium has added live video and Video On Demand (VOD) streaming support for Android handsets utilizing the Dilithium Content Adapter (DCA).

The DCA solution is an infrastructure offering that can be deployed by operators and service providers enabling their customers to access live or on demand video content through the standard players and browser of most handsets, including the iPhone. The DCA software solution supports live and pre-recorded clips in a wide range of video formats. DCA performs on the fly and on demand transport, media format, codec and bitrate adaptation. Android (e.g. T-Mobile G1) users can enjoy live and video-on-demand streaming without the need to install a special application, and may be on WiFi, WiMax, 3G, or 3.5G (HSDPA) networks.http://www.dilithiumnetworks.com

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Nortel Bundles ANDA CPE into its Metro Ethernet Solution

Nortel has expanded its relationship with ANDA Networks to include the provision of its Ethernet network termination equipment into the Nortel Metro Ethernet Networks portfolio. This will allow Nortel to provide an end-to-end solution for service providers to offer hosted E-VPN services to businesses.


Specifically, Nortel's Metro Ethernet solutions now include ANDA's EtherReach portfolio which provides an extension of E-VPN services over fiber and copper-based networks. The ANDA products can be bundled with Nortel's Carrier Ethernet portfolio -- which has over 100 customers globally. They can also be bundled with Nortel's Optical Ethernet portfolio which features the Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) -- which has over ten thousand units deployed.http://www.nortel.comhttp://www.andanetworks.com

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Nokia Reaffirms Commitment to TD-SCDMA

Nokia reaffirmed its commitment to TD-SCDMA. The company is developing a TD-SCDMA device for the Chinese market based on its S60 on Symbian OS, and plans to launch the product before the end of 2009.http://www.nokia.com

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Mobile manufacturers Launch Energy Rating Guide

LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson have launched a common energy rating system for chargers, making it easier for consumers to compare and choose the one that saves the most energy. Around two thirds of the energy used by mobile devices is lost when chargers are disconnected from the phone but left plugged into the wall socket.


The new rating system indicates how much energy each charger uses when left plugged into the wall socket after charging is completed. The ratings covers all chargers currently sold by the five companies, and range from five stars for the most efficient chargers down to zero stars for the ones consuming the most energy. If the more than three billion people owning mobile devices today switched to a four or five star charger, this could save the same amount of energy each year as produced by two medium sized power plants.


Nokia said that over the last decade it has reduced the amount of no-load energy consumption of the average chargers by 70 per cent and by 90 per cent in its best in class chargers.


In 2008, Motorola began incorporating "unplug alerts" in its phones to remind users to unplug the charger after it charges.http://www.nokia.com/chargerenergy

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Fanfare Launches iTest 3.3 Test Automation

Fanfare released an updated version of its test automation product. iTest 3.3 builds on earlier releases to integrate test assets and automate complex system testing using hardware and software from a variety of different vendors. iTest 3.3 also enables broader use across the quality chain, from the development stage through to customer testing sites.


New features of iTest 3.3 include:

• Intelligent Response Parser (IRP) -- allows pass/fail criteria to be determined in a single mouse click



• Automatic Response Map -- enables IRP pass/fail criteria to be easily maintainable across several releases, even when software changes



• iTest Assistant -- reinforces workflow for a particular company's quality process, and assists new users of iTest



• Serial Port -- a new functionality that automates testing of systems and devices accessed via the Serial Port



• Features to ease the testing of High Availability functionality in carrier-class devices

http://www.fanfare.com

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AT&T Announces First Super Internet Data Centre in Asia

AT&T will open its a super Internet Data Centre (IDC) in Singapore -- its first such facility in Asia. The super IDC, an expansion of AT&T's existing facilities, will act as a regional gateway to the Internet and the AT&T network to deliver AT&T Synaptic Hosting, its next-generation utility computing services.


AT&T said the new facility is part of its US$1 billion planned global network investment in 2008 to increase global data centre hosting capacity throughout the 38 data centres in its global Internet Protocol (IP) network. Other super IDCs are located in Piscataway, New Jersey; San Diego, California; Annapolis, Maryland and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, which will form the regional hubs in the US and Europe.


The AT&T IDCs allow AT&T to deliver consistent, highly scalable, enterprise-class Information Technology (IT) services around the globe. In addition to the hosting services available in all other centres, the super IDC supports large-scale computing and application infrastructure on demand that can be combined with other AT&T hosting services, such as managed networking, virtualized security, application acceleration and storage.http://www.att.com

• In August 2008. AT&T announced the global launch of its "Synaptic Hosting" -- a utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses. AT&T Synaptic Hosting uses the power of the AT&T network to manage applications, compute resources on servers and store data. It also provides designated account support all backed by a single end-to-end, service-level agreement that is unique within the industry. The network infrastructure supports large-scale computing and applications on demand via virtualized servers.
  
  
  The AT&T Synaptic Hosting service combines technology acquired from USinternetworking (USi) with five "super IDCs" (Internet data centers) in the United States, Europe and Asia. AT&T has a total of 38 IDCs in its global IP network. The super IDCs will be located in Piscataway, N.J.; San Diego; Annapolis, Md.; Singapore and Amsterdam and will act as regional gateways to the AT&T network "cloud."
  
  
  
  
  
  Over time, AT&T plans to add IDCs to the regional network infrastructure to deliver "enterprise-class" cloud capabilities to companies in the U.S. and abroad.
  
  
  AT&T said Synaptic Hosting will also be extended to deliver similar benefits to other services in its portfolio, including unified communication, content distribution, dynamic backup and restore, on-demand retrieval of high-resolution images such as X-rays and CT scans and many other subscription-based software services.
  
  
  The service is especially aimed at companies whose business needs are seasonal or unpredictable, or where end-user traffic spikes are a given. For example, the service allows online retailers gearing up for holiday sales, employers with annual open enrollment for employee benefits and game publishers running online games to manage their own applications — or let AT&T manage them — while paying only for the information technology (IT) capacity needed on a day-to-day basis.

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Sonic to Acquire CinemaNow for Online Movie Service

Sonic Solutions, which supplies digital media software for burning DVDs, agreed to acquire CinemaNow, a privately held online entertainment provider based in Marina Del Rey, California. Financial terms were not disclosed.


CinemaNow offers a library of over 6,000 Hollywood movies, TV shows and music videos to users across multiple platforms. The company has relationships with more than 250 content providers, including all major Hollywood studios, and supplies premium entertainment services to a host of PC and consumer electronics device manufacturers such as Dell, HP, Samsung, TiVo, DivX, and ARCHOS.


Sonic and CinemaNow recently announced a collaboration to enable the download and burn of DVD movies by integrating CinemaNow's content delivery system into new "Qflix" DVD drives. Qflix drives have recently become available from a number of companies including Dell, Pioneer and Plextor.


"The digital delivery of premium content is at a tipping point," said Dave Habiger, president and CEO, Sonic Solutions. "By providing consumers and OEMs user-friendly content services and software that works across multiple platforms, we will make it possible for any device or PC manufacturer to add an online movie store of Hollywood hits to its products."http://www.cinemanow.comhttp://www.sonic.com/

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Industry Initiative Targets 100 Gigabit Ethernet

Internet2, ESnet, Infinera, Juniper Networks and Level 3 Communications have agreed to work together to develop and test emerging 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technologies. The initiative aims to create a 100GbE testbed on the Internet2 and ESnet networks with an operational network capability soon thereafter.




In support of the development, Juniper Networks plans to leverage its T1600 core router, which offer 100 Gbps of capacity per slot. Infinera plans to develop the 100 GbE interfaces for the existing Internet2 and ESnet optical networks.


The companies said the development of standards for 100 GbE is a key part of the process to support widespread cost-effective deployment of 100 GbE technology. The IEEE is currently targeting mid-2010 for industry agreement on a 100 GbE standard. The parties will support the effort to create a standard and look forward to implementing that standard.


"Today, researchers have shifted from working in local laboratories to collaborating on a global scale. Massive data streams generated by this new environment are driving exponential growth in the networking needs of our community that could require 100 GbE services by as early as 2010," said Rob Vietzke, Internet2 executive director of network services. "Together with our collaborators we are working to make 100 GbE a reality so researchers will never be bound by their geographic location or bandwidth requirements." http://www.internet2.eduhttp://www.es.net

• In 2006, Internet2 announced an agreement with Level 3 Communications to deploy a new nationwide network, designed to seamlessly add capacity as Internet2 members' needs evolve. Internet2 and the Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) also announced a partnership to build the next-generation of ESnet on the shared Internet2 infrastructure. Both networks have already experienced rapid growth and as global collaborations continue to expand to nearly every research discipline making the path towards 100 GbE a natural next step.

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Telstra Deploys Ericsson's Blade-based Softswitch

Ericsson has delivered the world's first mobile softswitch using blade technology, to Telstra, which has already activated the new MSC Server Blade Cluster in its commercial NextG network.


The Mobile Switching Center (MSC) Server is the main node in a mobile core network used to control the switching of voice traffic. Ericsson said its new MSC Server Blade Cluster allows network capacity to be increased by more than half a million subscribers by simply inserting a new blade (electronics board) in the MSC Server cabinet. The architecture enables a number of MSC-S servers to act as one "Mega MSC Server," providing very high capacity and unsurpassed network level redundancy for mobile core networks. A fully operational pool allows changeover during planned and unplanned outages.


Telstra is providing voice-switching capacity for all its mobile subscribers via a single national mobile core network where the MSC Servers are deployed in a combined GSM and WCDMA MSC pool. By 2010, Telstra intends to have replaced the current 18 regional MSC Servers by one MSC Server Blade Cluster pool deployed at two sites in eastern Australia. This rationalization will reduce equipment floor space by 85 percent, cut energy use by 75 percent and proportionately reduce greenhouse gas emissions.


Telstra Executive Director for Wireless Mike Wright says: "By deploying the MSC Server Blade Cluster, we continue to invest in our Next G network to enhance its capacity and robustness. Ericsson's mobile softswitch allows us to streamline our core network while increasing voice capacity as we add subscribers. This simplification of our operations will make it easier and faster for us to operate, maintain and expand the core network."http://www.ericsson.com

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Ericsson Debuts 320G Packet Optical Switch

Ericsson introduced its 320 Gbps optical packet transport switch designed to help operators as they transform their transport networks for new bandwidth-hungry services like high-definition IPTV and fixed-mobile network convergence.


Ericsson's carrier-class SPT 2700 platform integrates several technologies, including WDM, TDM and packet switching including the new MPLS-TP standard. Specifically, the SPT 2700 offers high-speed, high-capacity packet transport via a 320G packet switch (scalable to 800G), transport of legacy TDM traffic via a 120G SDH switch and optical scalability via integrated OTN switch and DWDM ROADM/WSS (Wavelength Selective Switch). The SPT 2700 will be commercially available from Q1 2009, with further feature upgrades scheduled for the second half of 2009. SPT 2700 is complemented by Ericsson's ServiceOn Optical OSS platform.


Andrea Spaccapietra, Head of Broadband Networks at Ericsson, says: "SPT 2700 is a perfect complement to our existing optical transport and Redback portfolio. This launch, following our demonstration of 100GbE transport technology in October, also highlights Ericsson's technology leadership in the new optical arena."http://www.ericsson.com

• In October, Ericsson demonstrated 100GbE transport technology on its existing WDM solution, Marconi MHL 3000, to several customers in Italy.

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