Level 3 and Internet2 to Carry LHC Data Trans-Atlantic

Level 3 Communications and Internet2 will provide trans-Atlantic data transport from Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to more than 1,700 scientists at 94 institutions across the United States. Under a newly announced agreement, U.S. LHCNet, Internet2 and Level 3 will connect a major network hub in New York City to the LHC in Switzerland. This connection will link to the Internet2 national backbone, ESnet and many regional networks to make LHC data accessible to U.S. scientists.


Specifically, the U.S. LHCNet provides dedicated, high-bandwidth connectivity between CERN and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Science Network (ESnet). The network also shares support in connecting the U.S. and Europe to many universities and laboratories -- called Tier 2 and Tier 3 sites -- where researchers will analyze LHC data. U.S. LHCNet is funded by the DOE Office of High Energy Physics and managed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).


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Sprint Establishes Partner Interexchange for Wholesale VoIP Customers

Sprint has established a Partner Interexchange Network (PIN) to provide business-to-business wholesale exchange of voice traffic. The Sprint PIN service sets up a community of partners who can directly exchange VoIP service between themselves while operating on Sprint's global Tier 1 IP network. Because there is a direct exchange between partners, access termination fees and LEC tandem fees can be lowered or eliminated.


Sprint said its Partner Interexchange Network will allow direct exchange between voice network operator partners using VoIP on the international Sprint IP network. Using a switchless routing framework based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), minutes that cross the PIN architecture are charged at a lower rate than traditional PSTN networks and drive down transport costs.
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BBN Announces $11.5M in NSF Funding for GENI

BBN Technologies has been awarded an $11.5 million National Science Foundation grant for 33 academic/industrial research teams to accelerate prototyping of a suite of infrastructure for the GENI project, which supports experimental research in network science and engineering.


The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is envisioned as a national data communications laboratory, supporting experiments on a wide variety of advanced research in communications, networking, distributed systems, cyber-security, networked services, and applications


"GENI is making significant progress," said Chip Elliott, GENI Project Director. "Now we are ready to begin an intensive campaign of research experimentation, which will enable us to refine and extend today's prototypes, with a particular focus on security, architecture, workflow tools, user interfaces, and thorough instrumentation."


Companies and institutions engaged in this effort include AT&T Battelle; Brown University; CA Labs (the research division of CA Inc.); Columbia University; ETRI-Korea; IBM; Indiana University Global Research NOC; Jeffrey Hunker Associates, LLC; KISTI-Korea; Radio Technology Systems, LLC; Rutgers University; Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris; University of California, San Diego; University of Illinois, Chicago; and University of Tokyo.
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Ceragon Elaborates on Open Range Project With Alvarion

Commenting on its news announcement last week, Ceragon Networks confirmed that it has shipped 19 links of its high-capacity backhaul solution in collaboration with Alvarion for Open Range Communications' network deployment in rural America.


In a press statement, Ceragon said it has become aware of a new evaluation process for backhaul network equipment for the Open Range network and regrets any confusion.
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Siverge Unveils Wireless Universal Gateway Chip + FPGA

Siverge Networks, a start-up based in Herzliya, Israel, introduced its high-performance, Wireless Universal Gateway chip for next generation mobile backhauling infrastructures.


The new SivGate chip, which extends Siverge's "Griffin" family of products, consists of an ASIC and an FPGA core. The chip is designed to replace the combination of framers, mappers, and complex processors currently used in most wireless gateways.


Siverge's SivGate is compliant with required physical interfaces (Ethernet, PDH, SONET/SDH), as well as complete set of associated Layer 2 data and bundling protocols (i.e. ATM/IMA and HDLC/MLPPP) along with CES and PWE3, QoS and TM. Siverge said its SivGate solutions could be used in linecards designed to fit any existing or new network equipment.


"By enabling our customers with a powerful, high performance solution that exceeds their requirements, we are in turn helping to evolve the network infrastructure which will pave the way for a new set of high-margin services and applications," said Moshe De-Leon, President and Chief Technology Officer for Siverge Networks. "Our advanced wireless universal gateway solution is designed with the customers' requirements in mind and addresses their need for a comprehensive high-performance solution that delivers increased capacity at a lower cost."


Siverge's Wireless Universal Gateway is currently sampling with leading system manufacturers worldwide and has already been selected for designs by major customers.
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Intellifiber Ethernet over Copper with Hatteras

Intellifiber Networks, which interconnects with major data, carrier and hosting facilities in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington DC, has enabled Ethernet over Copper (EoC) capability throughout its entire network. Intellifiber has more than 400 central offices directly connected to its fiber network, providing dense EoC coverage in markets from Norfolk to Philadelphia to Cleveland.


Customers with multiple locations or a variety of end users can take advantage of Intellifiber's Ethernet Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) to leverage a single interconnect to deliver Ethernet services over any Intellifiber access circuit (e.g., EoC, SONET, fiber). Wholesale customers can also establish one or more Ethernet NNIs with Intellifiber to drive down access charges region by region.


Intellifiber Networks is an independently run, wholly-owned subsidiary of Cavalier Telephone.
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Hatteras Networks Extends its Ethernet-over-Copper for Mobile Backhaul

Hatteras Networks unveiled a new modular, multi-service platform designed to enable carriers to offer business Ethernet services and mobile backhaul solutions using their existing copper infrastructure.
The rollout includes a new central office platform, pseudowire capabilities that can be extended to base stations, and a low-cost CPE device that can bond eight T1/E1 signals over a single Ethernet connection.


The new 40 Gbps HN6100 is a two-rack-unit Ethernet switching platform that delivers Ethernet-over-Copper, Ethernet-over-TDM and Hatteras' PWE3-plus (native TDM & Ethernet for Mobile Backhaul). Line card options include 16 port EFM, 16 port T1/E1, 3 port DS3 (Clear & Channelized). For EFM, the HN6100 is capable of 32-pair bonding, which could deliver up to a 480 Mbps pipe (15 Mbps per pair X 32 pair bonding). The same HN6100 multi-service chassis will also support Ethernet over Fiber in the future. The HN6100 is suitable for deployment in a central office, controlled environmental vault or outside plant remote-terminal, and it can be deployed at a cell site or customer location, as well. The HN6100 is now commercially available.


The product rollout includes a new HN600 Series CPE device, which can be terminated at the central office with the HN6100. Significantly, the HN600 Series features support for PWE3-plus, Hatteras Networks' patented method of simultaneously transporting native Ethernet and native TDM with embedded network timing over the existing copper infrastructure for mobile backhaul. PWE3-plus natively transports Ethernet and TDM traffic with full network timing while running across existing copper pairs. Traffic is spread across all pairs at the bit level. Hatteras calculates that the HN600 delivers 10 times more bandwidth at one-tenth the cost of existing mobile backhaul solutions.


Hatteras Networks said that unlike traditional PWE3, which suffers from the delay, jitter and timing impacts of packetization, its PWE3-plus perfectly emulates a T1 and precisely passes timing synchronization information. Furthermore, with the Hatteras Networks mobile backhaul solution, carriers simply "Turn-the-Dial" to adjust to any mix of TDM and Ethernet services, to be simultaneously transported unaltered in their native format. In the case of voice services, PWE3-plus spreads and prioritizes voice timeslots across bonded copper pairs, dynamically reassigning remaining bandwidth to augment allocated data-traffic capacity. Ethernet traffic never interferes with TDM traffic. The HN600 Series with PWE3-plus is available today.


"Existing backhaul technologies have hindered the profitability of carriers around the world despite the phenomenal growth in demand for mobile broadband services. Our new HN600 Series with PWE3-plus transforms the equation, enabling mobile network operators to cost-effectively scale and harvest significant new revenues from existing infrastructure," said Kevin Sheehan, CEO of Hatteras Networks. "We have engineered an innovative, purpose-built mobile backhaul solution that conveys the best of both Ethernet and TDM transport and delivers resilient, low-latency, scalable access to the mobile wireless tower today and moving forward."


Hatteras Networks also introduced its HN500 Series compact customer premise equipment (CPE) for enabling Ethernet over Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and Ethernet over NxT1/E1 services. The carrier-class HN500 Series can bond up to eight T1/E1 signals over a single Ethernet connection and provide services of up to 12 and 16 Mbps respectively.


The HN500 Series connects to Hatteras Networks' new HN6100 at the carrier central office to extend Ethernet business services to any location served by copper. The plug-and-play demarcation device features Hatteras' "zero-touch" technology, providing standards-based operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) and carrier-class reliability and troubleshooting. It can be automatically and remotely updated, configured and monitored, reducing a carrier's number of truck rolls. Support for flexible virtual local area network (VLAN) manipulation, traffic shaping, traffic policing and hierarchical traffic management allows a carrier to ensure delivery of multiple services competing for limited access bandwidth.
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