MLB Network Launch Powered by Motorola Encoders

MLB Network, which is the new 24-hour cable network devoted to Major League Baseball and other baseball programming , has selected the Motorola modular uplink system and Motorola integrated receiver/decoders (IRDs) to distribute its lineup of new sports programming. MLB launched in approximately 50 million cable and satellite homes on January 1, 2009.Motorola is supplying its top of line HD and SD MPEG-2 encoders as part of a complete end-end system for MLB Network which will compress, multiplex, encrypt, modulate and receive satellite-delivered...

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XO Communications Launches Carrier-Grade MPLS IP-VPN

XO Communications officially launched its XO Carrier MPLS IP-VPN, a wide area networking service engineered to deliver secure, multi-point IP transport of VoIP, video, data applications and "in the cloud" computing services over one network, In addition to offering the standard IP-VPN services such as Class of Service (CoS) traffic routing, the carrier-specific product provides customers with:Multiple VPN support across the same interface (up to 10Gbps); The ability to create global private networks through an inbound Network-to-Network Interface...

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ICO Global Communications Completes Satellite Space Testing

ICO Global Communication's ICO G1 satellite has completed In Orbit Testing (IOT) and testing of its Ground Based Beam Forming (GBBF) system. ICO Satellite Services has accepted the Space Segment from Space Systems/Loral. Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 14, 2008, ICO G1 is the world's first satellite to utilize a two-way GBBF system. The satellite has 250 fully configurable transmit and receive beams. With GBBF, spot beams can be added,...

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TerreStar Demonstrates First Satellite IMS VoIP Call

TerreStar Networks and Comneon, which develops protocol stack software for mobile communications, announced that the integrated satellite-terrestrial multi-mode handset designed by EB (Elektrobit Corporation) for TerreStar has successfully demonstrated VOIP connectivity using satellite simulation in a Comneon test lab. TerreStar expects to be North America's first integrated satellite-terrestrial communications network to utilize an IP Multimedia...

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Yahoo! Advances its Widget Engine for Broadband-enabled TVs

Yahoo! unveiled its vision for Internet-connected televisions and announced related technology distribution partnerships with Samsung, Sony, LG Electronics and VIZIO. Specifically, Yahoo! is aiming for wide distribution of its Widget Engine in next gen televisions. TV Widgets enable popular Internet services and online media to reach viewers with applications specifically tailored to the needs of the television watcher.In August, Yahoo! and Intel...

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Global Wireless Develops Femtocell-based Gateway with Ikanos

Ikanos Communications and Global Wireless Technologies announced a femtocell-based VDSL2 residential gateway platform. The GlobalWireless femtocell base station, combined with Ikanos' Fusiv Vx180 integrated gateway processor, has been designed to extend mobile coverage indoors, while providing flexible service options and reductions in cost and power consumption to the consumer and mobile operators. Ikanos' Fusiv Vx180 gateway processor supports all current VDSL2 profiles. In addition, the Vx180 reduces space and power requirements by combining...

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Cisco Announces The Consumer Channel Network

Cisco launched a new channel initiative in the United States and Canada to provide resellers with resources, tools and training for selling the Linksys by Cisco product line of Connected Home Products. These resources include training, tech support, sales tools and other programs and promotions. http://www.cisco....

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Starz Upgrades its Content Delivery with TANDBERG TV

Starz Entertainment has selected TANDBERG Television's next generation MediaPath Secure Content Delivery System to deliver the content for its on demand services. The upgrade provides Starz with DVB-S2 satellite delivery and other enhanced features, enabling Starz to deliver more content to its affiliates at faster rates. Starz On Demand, Encore On Demand, and MoviePlex On Demand provide hundreds of movies each month to subscribers viewing on cable, satellite, and broadband platforms. Financial terms were not disclosed.TANDBERG Television's next...

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India's BSNL Expands Broadband Rollout with Redback

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) of India will use Redback's SmartEdge family of multi-service edge routers as a part of its expansion plan to deliver broadband services to more than 5 million business and residential users. Currently, BSNL uses Redback's SmartEdge 800 multi-service edge routers to support 2.5 million broadband subscribers. Under the expansion, BSNL plans to deploy additional Redback SmartEdge 800 multi-service edge routers to support...

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Linksys Debuts Cisco Media Hub

Cisco's Linksys division introduced a Media Hub that gathers, organizes, and presents all the digital video, photos and music that users have spread amongst various devices in the home. The Media Hub features iTunes server capabilities. It automatically searches the network for other media devices to present all available digital media to the user in a single location. Music albums are consolidated and presented together with the appropriate Album...

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Broadcom Demonstrates 6-Band VDSL2 Chipset

Broadcom is demonstrating working silicon supporting all G.993.2 VDSL2 bands at this week's 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show. The featured chipset includes the existing Broadcom BCM6368 VDSL2/ADSL2+ gateway SoC (announced in September 2008) and the new BCM6306 analog front-end (AFE) companion chip that delivers up to 30 MHz bandwidth to support telecommunications applications ranging from ADSL to 6-band VDSL2.Broadcom said its BCM6306 is a single-line VDSL2/ADSL2+ multimode AFE chip that is optimized to work in conjunction with the...

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Cisco Backs Home Network Administration Protocol for Consumer Electronics

Cisco is backing the Home Network Administration Protocol (HNAP) as the means to provide a simple, secure and open approach for devices to be set up and configured with other devices on a home network.Cisco will provide open licensing of its HNAP technology. The Cisco Device Connections Program provides manufacturers of networkable devices, such as PCs, cameras, routers/gateways, storage, media players, printers and others access to Cisco's Home Network Administration Protocol (HNAP) to license into their products. Cisco said its Device Connections...

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Broadcom Announces DOCSIS/Euro-DOCSIS 3.0 Silicon

Broadcom announced its second generation DOCSIS/Euro-DOCSIS 3.0 silicon. The new design supports up to eight downstream DOCSIS channels. Broadcom said its new BCM3380 family is the first set of DOCSIS 3.0 silicon solutions that are truly single-chip, requiring only memory to provide complete DOCSIS functionality. The new SoC family integrates a flexible QAM receiver with split wide-band tuners that do not have the channel lineup limitations of single frequency window solutions. An integrated multi-channel upstream power amplifier eliminates the...

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NETGEAR Unveils Internet-Connected Set-Top Boxes

NETGEAR introduced an Internet-connected set-top box for playing online content on HDTV screens. NETGEAR's Internet TV Player (ITV2000) is a compact "plug in and go" Internet set-top device with a remote control that enables viewers to catch up on the world of Internet videos including YouTube, live Internet TV, popular Internet video websites, premium video-on-demand and online video searches.It supports streaming of live TV broadcasts from Internet...

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Fujitsu Signs AT&T for Telepresence Deployment

Fujitsu has signed a two-year contract with AT&T for a fully managed IP VPN supporting a High Definition Telepresence system that will link facilities in Sunnyvale, California, and Kawasaki, Japan. The two Telepresence sites supported by the AT&T IP VPN will reduce the amount of travel required by Fujitsu employees, while allowing more frequent interaction and maintaining the same level of collaboration needed between the two sites. http://www.att....

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Verizon Cuts IP Backbone Prices for Content-Delivery Networks

Verizon announced significant price cuts for connecting content owners like online movie services, as well as content delivery network providers (CDNs) to its Internet backbone network.The new pricing initiative - the Verizon Partner Port Program - gives content owners and CDNs the benefit of a direct connection from their content storage devices to the Verizon Internet backbone network. This allows content owners and CDNs to bypass the traditional backbone peering process, which involves multicarrier delivery systems, when delivering content...

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France's Axione selects Alcatel-Lucent for IP/MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, FTTH

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Deutsche Telekom: DSL Coverage Reaches 96%

Deutsche Telekom can now supply 96 per cent of households with DSL lines. Compared to the previous year, this is an increase of two percentage points. The Group invested EUR 300 million in the broadband expansion in 2008, of which around 100 million was specifically poured into closing up the broadband "white spots" in the countryside."Unlike other providers, we are investing not only in lucrative metropolitan areas but are also promoting broadband...

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Telefónica Wins EUR 350 Million Contract with Deutsche Post

Telefónica has won what is believed to be the biggest pan-European combined fixed and mobile contract to date -- worth nearly EUR 350 million -- to provide all mobile, fixed voice and data services to Deutsche Post World Net over the next five years.Under the contract, Telefónica will provide secure telecommunications services for 125,000 employees and 2,400sites in Europe, and will transform Deutsche Post World Net's IP network services. The service...

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