Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...