Public Meetings Planned for Broadband Initiatives Under Obama Stimulus Bill

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Rural Development arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold a public meeting on March 10, 2009 to discuss the Broadband Initiatives funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.The meeting will be held at the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration in Washington, D.C. The Broadband Initiatives funded in the Act are intended to accelerate broadband deployment...

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Open-Plug Announces Telephony Capabilities for Intel "Moorestown"

Open-Plug, a company that specializes in software development environments for portable devices, is working with Intel to integrate its ELIPS Linux Telephony Stack to the Moblin Linux software stack for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) based on Intel's next generation "Moorestown" platform. Open-Plug is now bringing its advanced cellular telephony and messaging features to this new class of MIDs. http://www.open-plug....

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Verizon Business Receives Security Clearance in India

Verizon Business has received approval from the government of India's Department of Telecommunications to operate the company's two international gateways in Mumbai and Chennai, under its international long-distance license. The approval allows Verizon Business to offer its suite of private line services to multinational customers and to activate the company's wholly owned submarine cable capacity to India, providing direct connections to Verizon's global network, one of the largest such networks in the world.Verizon Business noted that is has...

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Deutsche Telekom Narrows Loss in Q4, Sees Stable Performance

Overall, Deutsche Telekom exceeded its financial targets in the 2008 financial year. The net loss narrowed in Q4 2008 to EUR 730 million compared to EUR 750 million a year earlier as revenue rose 2% to EUR 16.11 billion. "Our 2008 financial year is characterized by stable performance and sound financial figures," said Chairman of the Board of Management, René Obermann, at the annual press conference in Bonn. The development of earnings in the past...

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India's BSNL Rolls Out 3G with Ericsson

BSNL, India's second largest telecom operator, has launched 3G services in 11 cities across the northern and eastern parts of the country. As part of its roll-out strategy, BSNL plans to launch 3G services using WCDMA/HSPA technology across more than 700 cities in the first phase. Ericsson is BSNL's strategic partner for 3G roll-out in over 400 of these cities. This roll-out is part of the contract announced by the companies September 7, 2007."The...

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Alcatel-Lucent Wins 100 Mbps Fiber Access Project in Munich

M-net, a Munich-based regional network operator, has awarded a multi-million Euro contract to Alcatel-Lucent to deploy the first extensive fiber access network in Munich. In the future, additional Bavarian cities will be connected to M-net's high-speed access network that consists of a mixed fiber-to-the-building (FTTB)/fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) architecture. The network will support data rates of up to 100 Mbps and possibly higher in the future.Alcatel-Lucent...

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ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 to Focus on Solutions for Economic Recovery

ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009, which will take place in Geneva, 5-9 October, will include a global leadership summit to address the role of ICTs in economic recovery from the worldwide crisis and stimulating future investment and growth. ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré said, "ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 this October will be the right time to bring together all the key players in government and the ICT industry. We will be in a better position to assess...

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Obama Budget Adds Spectrum License Fee

A single line item in the new U.S. federal government budget proposes to raises $200 million in FY 2009, $300 million in FY 2010 and $425 million in FY 2011 for unspecified spectrum licensing conducted by the FCC. The budget does not mention which bands of spectrum are contemplated for licensing fees nor for which services. This item is posted on page 126 of the budget, which is online.The FY 2010 Budget also includes $1.3 billion in USDA loans and grants for the Department of Agriculture to increase broadband capacity and improve telecommunication...

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Infonetics Mobile WiMAX Market up 5% in 4Q08

The overall WiMAX equipment and device market held steady in 4Q08 over 3Q08 at $275 million, as the 802.16e mobile WiMAX segment increased 5% to counter a slight dip in the 802.16d fixed WiMAX segment, according to a new report from Infonetics Research."The WiMAX market will be leaner in 2009, leading vendors to rationalize their strategies: Nortel has exited, Alcatel-Lucent has transitioned its mobility R&D to its LTE program, and others will...

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Thailand's CAT Telecom Selects ZTE for National Optical Backbone

Thailand's CAT Telecom has selected ZTE to construct a large-scale national backbone optical network covering the entire territory of Thailand. Financial terms were not disclosed. The two organizations have collaborated in previous projects.Under the agreement, ZTE will provide CAT Telecom with its DWDM ZXWM M900 backbone transmission platform that will deployed over a network spanning some 10,000 kilometers. ZTE will also supply multiple ROADM...

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Occam Networks Posts Q4 Revenue of $31.7 million, up 26% Sequentially

Occam Networks reported Q4 2008 revenue of $31.7 million, up 26 percent from the prior quarter and up 49 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Sequential revenue growth was primarily due to increased volume in the company's copper business.Gross margin for the fourth quarter of 2008 was $13.1 million, or 41% of revenue, compared with $10.8 million, or 43% of revenue, for the prior quarter. Gross margin for the fourth quarter of 2008 was impacted primarily by an inventory provision for certain product components. Gross margin for the fourth...

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Sonus Networks Posts Q4 Revenue of $89.5 Million

Sonus Networks reported revenue for Q4 2008 of $89.5 million, compared to $62.2 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2008 and $97.1 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007. The company's loss from continuing operations on a GAAP basis was $99.0 million, or $0.37 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2008, compared to a loss from continuing operations of $19.0 million, or $0.07 per share, for the third quarter of 2008, and income from continuing operations of $14.7 million, or $0.05 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2007."We continue to...

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Vonage Ends 2008 with 2.6 million Lines in Service

Vonage Holdings reported full year 2008 revenue of $900 million, up 9 percent from $828 million in 2007. Net loss excluding debt extinguishment costs narrowed to $34 million from $93 million excluding certain charges. GAAP net loss was $65 million or $0.41 per share in 2008.Marc Lefar, Vonage Chief Executive Officer, said, "We improved our financial position throughout 2008, and for the first time in Vonage's history, delivered adjusted operating profit and positive cash from operations for a full year. Vonage also delivered record level pre-marketing...

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JDSU Expands its CWDM/DWDM Line

JDSU released of new additions to its WaveReady product line of scalable optical transport solutions designed for access and metro optical networks. Added to the portfolio are a 10 Gbps tunable transponder with forward error correction (FEC), a power balancing system, and a 40-channel universal multiplexer/de-multiplexer. The WaveReady WRT-852, a compact C-Band or L-Band tunable transponder with Forward Error Correction (FEC) designed for reliable and cost effective transport of 10 Gbps services. The WRT-852 supports the transport of multiple...

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BroadSoft Enhances its BroadWorks Platform

BroadSoft introduced new product enhancements to its BroadWorks VoIP application platform that allow telecommunications service providers to simplify the deployment of hosted business communications solutions. New device management functionality that enables service providers to pre-configure end-user access devices. BroadSoft said the ability to pre-configure devices solves one of the most complex and time-consuming phases of delivering VoIP services....

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Deutsche Telekom Plans Tighter Mobile/Wireline Integration

Deutsche Telekom intends to adopt more of a regional focus with greater emphasis on integration between its wireline and wireless operations."The distinction between our fixed-line and mobile operations will be abolished. We intend to bundle product development, IT and technology across Europe in future," stressed Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann. "We have already proved with integrated mobile and fixed-network sales in Germany that we are capable...

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Telstra on "Upward Glide Path" Exiting 2008, But Calling Volume Slows

Noting that it continues to outperform domestic and global peers in key products and segments, Telstra reported a strong first half result with free cash flow growing by 44% to $1.9 billion. Telstra's Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Sol Trujillo, said: "We are on an upward glide path to hit our key targets for 2010 and beyond for free cash flow, margins, returns and top line growth. Telstra is seeing world class growth in core businesses such as wireless...

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Sol Trujillo to Step Down as Telstra CEO on June 30

Sol Trujillo will step down as chief executive of Telstra effective 30-June-2009. Trujillo and the company's Board agreed that now was a suitable time for a transition to a new CEO. The company will now formally commence a wide-ranging search for a suitable successor. Prior to joining Telstra in 2005, Trujillo was CEO of London-based Orange, the first American to lead a CAC-40 company; President and CEO of US West Dex Inc.; President and CEO of...

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Cisco Names Rob Lloyd as EVP of Worldwide Operations

Cisco has named Robert Lloyd, 52 as its Executive Vice President (EVP) of Worldwide Operations, replacing Richard Justice, who is stepping down from his day-to-day responsibilities due to health reasons. Justice will remain at Cisco as a part-time executive advisor to Chairman and CEO John Chambers.In his new role, Lloyd will report directly to Chairman and CEO John Chambers, and will be responsible for oversight of Cisco's Worldwide Sales, Worldwide...

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Telefónica Posts Continued Growth Driven by Mobiles in Latin America

Driven by mobile growth in Latin America (+12.9%), Telefónica posted full-year 2008 financial results that were ahead of market expectations. Despite the prevailing operating environment, Telefónica posted growth in all income areas: topline growth was 7.3% (prior guidance range: 6%-8%), OIBDA growth was 10.6% (prior guidance range: 7.5%-11%), while growth in operating profit exceeded guidance at 20.4% (prior guidance range: 13%-19%). Telefónica's...

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Belgium's VOO Deploys ADVA's Optical+Ethernet

VOO, the leading provider of cable television service to Belgium'sBrussels and Wallonia regions, is interconnecting distribution networks and centralizing transport platforms with the implementation of a new Optical+Ethernet solution from ADVA Optical Networking, supported bysystem integrator Arcadiz Telecom.VOO serves more than 1.2 million business and residential customers. Following the merger of multiple sub-regionalnetworks, VOO found itself...

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Holland's Ziggo Selects ADVA's FSP 3000 Platform

Ziggo, the Netherlands' top provider of cable television, digital television, Internet services and telephony, has deployed a new 10 Gbps C/DWDM (Coarse/Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) network from ADVA Optical Networking, supported by system integrator Arcadiz Telecom. The network is built on the ADVA FSP 3000, which provides Ziggo a scalable platform for delivering voice, video and Internet services to its almost 8 million customers. In...

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Apparent Raises $12 Million for Network Path-based Mgt for Clouds

Apparent Networks, a start-up based in Wellesley Hills, Mass., raised an upsized $12 million in Series C funding for its performance management solution for cloud applications. Apparent Networks provides a means for assessing, measuring and diagnosing complex networks, including LANs, WANs and service providers' clouds. The company's patented path-based solutions deliver end-to-end insight into the entire application path, including areas previously...

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Ocarina Raises $20 Million for Storage Optimization

Ocarina Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California, closed a $20 million Series B round of financing for its online storage optimization technology.Ocarina's leverages patented content-aware compression and object deduplication technologies to reduce the space taken by online file data by up to 90%. This is accomplished in three steps: extract, correlate and optimize. As a result, the company claims this can drastically reduce capital and...

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Support Grows for ITU-T G.hn Standard

HomeGrid Forum, a non-profit trade group promoting United Nations' ITU-T G.hn standardization efforts, announced new agreements with the Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance (CEPCA), HomePNA Alliance, and Universal Powerline Association (UPA). These organizations include the world's top consumer electronics manufacturers, service providers, PC manufacturers, network equipment manufacturers, semiconductor, and software companies....

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Nokia Siemens Networks wins EUR 880 Million Contracts in China

China Mobile and China Unicom have signed framework agreements with Nokia Siemens Networks valued at 7.6 billion RMB (approx. EUR 880 million). Specifically, the carriers agreed to purchase 2G and 3G mobile equipments and services from Nokia Siemens Networks during 2009. Under the framework agreements Nokia Siemens Networks will roll out WCDMA networks for China Unicom in 11 provinces across China. In addition, it will provide China Mobile with...

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HP to Distribute Sun Solaris on HP ProLiant Servers

HP has agreed to distribute and provide software technical support for Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System on the HP ProLiant server and blade system platforms. Under the terms of a new multi-year original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and support agreement, Sun becomes a strategic HP ProLiant OS distribution partner and Solaris is now elevated to the lineup of key operating environments for the HP ProLiant platform. "The endorsement of Solaris on...

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Alloptic Selects Xelerated's Wirespeed Network Processor

Alloptic has chosen Xelerated's X11 network processor unit (NPU) for deployment in its Edge10 EPON system. Based on Xelerated's wirespeed dataflow architecture, the X11 is a high-function, low-cost processor that enables Alloptic to extend its access network portfolio into the next generation of GEPON and 10GEPON systems for network operators and enterprises. http://www.xelerated.com http://www.alloptic....

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Tata Communications Expands with London 2 Data Centre

Tata Communications announced it plans for London 2, a Tier-3 data centre, that will provide a state-of-the-art environment for supporting mission critical infrastructures, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that Tata Communications client's critical systems and applications are readily available while optimizing energy efficiency. The 21,400 square foot London 2 data centre will be ready for service during...

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BT Global Services Delivers "Laptop Protection" Powered by Alcatel-Lucent

BT Global Services will begin offering laptop data protection service based on Alcatel-Lucent's laptop security technology.Alcatel-Lucent's technology ensures that if a laptop is reported lost or stolen, all data held on the device can be immediately and automatically destroyed, even if the computer is turned off. It also enables organizations to take remote control of any laptop in order to apply security patches or track its location."Laptop Protection...

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Dominican Republic's Codetel Launches IPTV service with Alcatel-Lucent

Compania Dominicana de Telefonos (Codetel), the leading telecommunications operator in the Dominican Republic, launched a nationwide IPTV offering, providing subscribers across the country with TV programming, video on demand and other multimedia content services. Enhanced features include picture in picture, karaoke entertainment and digital video recording.The new IPTV service is supported by Alcatel-Lucent's end-to-end IPTV solution, including...

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Motorola Supplies Real Time Video Surveillance in Abu Dhabi

The Abu Dhabi police force has awarded a contract to Motorola to provide an end to end wireless mobile video surveillance solution for the force's vehicles and personnel. The contract will see Motorola supplying the latest from itsMOTOA4 mission critical portfolio and delivering innovative and reliable wireless solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed.The new service will enable control room operators to interact with the video system that delivers real time streaming of video from police vehicles and personnel; in contrast to previous solutions...

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Canada's Shaw Pick Motorola for DOCSIS 3.0-enabled services

Shaw Communications has committed to deploy a DOCSIS 3.0-qualified cable modem termination system (CMTS) containing Motorola BSR 64000 TX32 Decoupled Downstream Modules, and DOCSIS 3.0-certified SURFboard cable modems. Shaw is a long standing Motorola customer. Financial terms were not disclosed.The TX32 downstream module slides directly into one of the 16-slots of the Motorola BSR 64000 chassis, ultimately offering a five-fold increase in bandwidth capacity while reducing the cost per downstream channel. The Motorola TX32 supports 32 QAM channels...

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Nortel Announces Additional 3,200 Job Cuts

Nortel intends to reduce its workforce by an additional net 3,200 positions worldwide. The company expects to carry out these reductions over the next several months, in accordance with local country legal requirements. These new reductions are incremental to the 1,800 remaining reductions from previously announced plans that require completion. As previously announced, Nortel confirmed that it is working with several parties, including its creditors, to define the best plan forward to present to the bankruptcy courts. The company hopes to emerge...

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Juniper Outlines Next Gen Silicon and Data Center Visions

Juniper Networks is uniquely focused as a "pure play" in high-performance networking said company CEO Kevin Johnson, speaking at Juniper's Analyst Day conference in San Mateo, California. While the downturn has impacted the company's near-term sales visibility, Johnson said Juniper remains focused on its the long-term margins and the value proposition of high-performance networking, a segment it believes must rebound to handle the challenges of...

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Juniper Adds 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Juniper Networks is expanding its EX Ethernet switching product portfolio with a new EX2500 line of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switches targeted at high-density 10GbE deployments. The EX2500 line of 10GbE Ethernet switches offer twenty-four 10 GbE SFP+ ports that deliver wire-speed performance and 700 nanosecond latency. The EX2500 line of Ethernet switches will be offered as fixed-configuration Ethernet platforms. Key features include:Wire-rate Performance: The EX2500 Series will support 480 Gigabit per second (Gbps) throughput (full duplex)...

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Ikanos VDSL2 Chipsets Selected by Alloptic for GigE PON Terminals

Alloptic has selected Ikanos Communications' VDSL2 central office (CO) and customer premises equipment (CPE) chipsets for integration into the Xgen7500 gigabit Ethernet passive optical network terminal (ONT). The Ikanos chipsets enable the Xgen7500 to deliver 24 ports of up to 100 Mbps voice, data and video services over traditional copper wiring.Ikanos' multimode FxTM100100-5 VDSL2 CO and FxTM100100S-5 VDSL2 CPE chipsets are optimized for IPTV and triple play offerings -- offer service providers a seamless migration path on which they can maximize...

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VISTO to Acquire Good Technology From Motorola

VISTO, which offers a mobile push and synchronization platform for service providers, will acquire Motorola's Good Technology division. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close by the end of February.Good Technology specializes in offering wireless messaging, mobile VPN data access, device management and handheld security for enterprise customers worldwide. The addition of Good's service offerings in the U.S. Europe and...

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Motorola Reinforces Commitment to TD-LTE

Motorola re-confirmed its pursuit of Time Division Duplex Long-Term Evolution (TD-LTE) commercialization, saying it has agreed to collaborate with operators on TD-LTE trials to be conducted during 2009. As one of the leaders in LTE RAN contributions, Motorola supports both TD-LTE and Frequency Division Duplex LTE (FDD-LTE). Motorola is planning an LTE ecosystem to support the early deployments from Q4 2009 to mid-2010.Motorola noted that it is a member of the LTE/System Architecture Evolution (SAE) Trial Initiative (LSTI). This industry group is...

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Motorola Hits 1 Million TETRA Terminals Milestone

Motorola announced the shipment of its one millionth TETRA terminal. The customer receiving this milestone terminal is the Jordan Armed Forces (JAF).Motorola will supply TETRA portable devices, including MTH800 terminals, MTM800 Enhanced mobiles and CM5000 TETRA Gateway repeaters for use on JAF's TETRA network, providing increased security across Jordan. Motorola shipped its first TETRA terminal in the late 1990s.http://www.motorola....

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Global Crossing Pursues Multiple-Partner Content Delivery Network Services

Global Crossing plans to enter the market for content delivery network (CDN) services by forming relationships with several vendors. The company's entry into the CDN market would enable the company to offer customers industry-leading solutions for the delivery of rich media content and enterprise applications.Global Crossing said its strategy to partner with multiple CDN partners promises to improve customer satisfaction by allowing its customers to select the right CDN solution for the appropriate business requirement. Businesses often employ...

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Marvell Introduces SheevaPlug for Mini Home Server

Marvell announced its Plug Computing initiative to make high-performance, always on, always connected, and environmentally friendly computing. A Plug Computer is defined as something that is small enough to plug directly into a wall socket and is designed to draw so little power that it can be left on all of the time. Unlike other embedded devices in the home, it contains a gigahertz class processor to offer PC class performance. Such a device could...

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VUDU Expands its Rental Model by Selling Movies in HD

VUDU has begun to sell high definition movies via download to own on its 1080p Internet Movie Player. Until now consumers have been restricted to renting HD movies from on- demand services, including VUDU's library of over 1,400 HD movies. VUDU has unveiled a collection of over 50 HD movies from top independent studios that are available for both rental and download to own. High definition titles purchased from VUDU can be stored on the consumer's...

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ZTE Announces EV-DO Rev B VoIP Call on CDMA2000 System

ZTE announced a technological milestone -- achieving the world's first EV-DO Revision B (Rev.B) VoIP Call on its CDMA2000 system, marking the first time in the industry that a CDMA vendor achieved a 9.3 Mbps download rate and 5.4 Mbps upload rate. Specifically, ZTE completed the first stage of achieving EV-DO Rev.B and adopted 3-carrier bundling technology, with each carrier having a bandwidth of 1.25 MHz. Compared with mature commercial EV-DO Rev.A, ZTE said its implementation of EV-DO Rev.B upgrades EV-DO Rev.A's software with no additional hardware...

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Verizon Business Completes Examination of Internet Data Centers

Verizon Business has completed its annual SAS 70 Type II examination for the company's five IP Application Hosting Centers (Smart Centers) in Germany, Japan, the U.S. and the U.K., and its 15 Premium Internet Data Centers in North America. All the facilities are used to deliver IT services to large-enterprise and government customers. Specifically, Ernst & Young LLP performed the yearly examinations, reviewing control objectives and controls at the company's managed and Internet colocation data centers. Specific areas of examination, which...

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Microsoft Research Show Cloud Computing, Data Center Innovations

Two data center technologies are among the research projects on display at this the Microsoft Research TechFest 2009 this week:Closed-Loop Control Systems for the Datacenter, a project aimed at improving the energy efficiency of datacenters by selectively putting idle servers into a low-power state while maintaining service response timesLow-Power Processors for the Datacenter, an experiment to build a server from low-power processors and evaluate...

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euNetworks Selects Infinera for 15-City Network

euNetworks has deployed an Infinera Digital Optical Network in a fiber-rich network connecting 15 major cities throughout the heart of Western Europe. Xantaro Deutschland GmbH, an internationally focused service integrator, carried out planning and implementation of the optical network for euNetworks. Working closely together, Infinera and Xantaro deployed the initial phase of the pan-European network, reaching 14 cities, in just six weeks. Financial...

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Accenture and Cisco Expand Strategic Alliance

Accenture and Cisco have expanded their strategic alliance to form a virtual group to help large enterprises embed collaboration and data center virtualization capabilities into their key business processes. The Accenture & Cisco Business Group will design, build and run solutions that integrate unified communication and collaboration tools into multiple applications across companies' IT infrastructures. The group will provide the strategy, architecture design and implementation services to integrate technologies such as unified communications,...

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Exar to Acquire HiFN to Address Deduplication and Secure Backhaul Apps

Exar will acquire Hifn, a supplier of high-performance network, storage and security processors, in a stock swap deal valued at approximately $59 million. Hifn (NASDAQ: HIFN), which is based in Los Gatos, California, supplies a line of Applied Services Processors (ASPs) to network OEMs. Exar (Nasdaq: EXAR), which is based in Milpitas, California, said the acquisition brings valuable intellectual property related to Ethernet, embedded processors,...

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BT and Corvil Offer Low Latency to Global Capital Markets

BT has joined forces with Corvil, a specialist in electronic trading latency management systems, to provide financial institutions with a network latency management solution. As a part of the agreement, BT will leverage CorvilNet, a leading latency management system developed by Corvil that monitors, analyzes and optimizes electronic trading infrastructures against ultra-low latency objectives encompassing market data feeds and order execution traffic. In addition to CorvilNet, BT will provide a dedicated team of business consultants and IT specialists...

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China's Communication Standards Association Adds 2.5G EPON

China's Communications Standards Association (CCSA) has added 2.5G EPON as a standard specification for fiber-based broadband access networks. CCSA's adoption of 2.5G EPON enables service providers to offer more bandwidth per subscriber for MTU (Multiple Tenant Units), including residential and business subscribers.Teknovus, which supplies GEPON chips) hailed the news, noting that China is poised to surpass Japan with the largest number of fiber subscribers by year-end. China ended 2008 with more than 8 million FTTx subscribers and is expected...

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Dell'Oro: VDSL Port Shipments Are Silver Lining for the Declining DSL Market

DSL port shipments on infrastructure equipment fell more than 10 percent in 2008, according to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group. Within total ports, ADSL port shipments fell almost 20 percent while VDSL port shipments grew 40 percent. The report also predicts this trend will continue in 2009 with a larger rate of decline in shipments for ADSL and a higher growth rate for those of VDSL.The report shows Alcatel-Lucent, the leader in the...

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FiberLight Deploys Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 9500 in Texas

FiberLight, which provides metro optical transport services including Ethernet, Wavelengths, IP, SONET and Dark Fiber within major U.S. cities, has begun a statewide deployment of Fujitsu's FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet Optical Networking Platforms (Packet ONPs) across Texas. The network will bring premium managed communications services -- including Ethernet, SONET and wavelength connectivity options -- to enterprise, government, content providers, and...

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Lockheed Martin Joins Juniper's Open IP Program

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company has joined the Juniper Networks' Open IP Solution Development Program (OSDP). As a member of the OSDP, Juniper Networks provides Lockheed Martin with access to the Partner Solution Development Platform (PSDP), which enables customers and partners to develop specialized applications on its JUNOS software.http://www.juniper....

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Spirent and IneoQuest Join Forces on Video Quality Test Suite

Spirent Communications and IneoQuest Technologies announced an exclusive global partnership to offer an end-to-end video quality test suite for network equipment manufactures (NEMs). The partnership combines Spirent's network testing suite with IneoQuest's bulk, live video test and analysis solutions, thereby covering the Triple Play ecosystem, including encoders, multiplexers, routers, switches and set-top boxes.The companies said their technology will specifically help NEMs to effectively address IP network scalability and reliability issues...

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Spirent Partners with Endace for High Speed Ethernet Probes

Endace, which specializes in high speed packet capture networking technology, announced a technology partnership with Spirent Communications to develop the next generation of high speed service assurance probes for service providers. The companies said that while the need for Ethernet services has grown quickly, the management of these multi-vendor IP networks has become more complex. Hence the need for next generation Ethernet Assurance probes. http://www.spirentfederal....

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Covad Deploys Nationwide 10 Gbps MPLS Backbone

Covad Communications has completed a nationwide MPLS deployment and network capacity upgrades that will enable its partners to deliver advanced video, voice and data services. The upgrades include metro optical rings with up to OC-192 (10 Gbps) capacity and will allow Covad and its wholesale partners to meet the demanding needs of small businesses and distributed enterprises."Businesses are increasingly using broadband to deploy IP-based services...

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AT&T to Invest $1 Billion in Global Network in 2009

AT&T will invest approximately $1 billion in 2009 to continue building out its global network. AT&T said its investment is focused on the network infrastructure, services and support for companies requiring "anytime, anywhere" access to the systems, suppliers, customers and employees needed to successfully run their businesses. Specifically, AT&T said it is capitalizing on the ongoing shift in network traffic from voice to data and video-- and more importantly to IP-based data and video-- as customers migrate from legacy data networks...

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Nielsen: TV, Internet and Mobile Usage in U.S. Keeps Increasing

the average American watches more than 151 hours of TV per month, an all-time high, according to Nielsen's latest "A2M2 Three Screen Report". Meanwhile, Americans who watch video over the Internet consume another 3 hours of online video per month and those who use mobile video watch nearly 4 hours per month on mobile phones and other devices. Some highlights of the report:Digital video recorded (DVR) and other time shifted television is watched...

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