Industry Reaction to Genachowski's Third-Way

In FavorFCC Commissioner Copps: "Frankly, I would have preferred plain and simple Title II reclassification through adeclaratory ruling and limited, targeted forbearance--wiping the slate clean of all question marks. The quicker we can bring some sense of surety and stability to the present confusion emanating from the Comcast court decision, the better off consumers--and industry, too--will be."But we should welcome this step toward bringing broadband back under the Title II framework where it belongs. It was a travesty to move it in the first...

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Telegent Ships 80 Million Mobile TV Chips, Withdraws IPO

Telegent Systems announced a company milestone for its mobile TV chipset -- 80 million units shipped since it first launched its mobile TV receiver technology in mid-2007. Telegent is preparing to broaden its product portfolio of 'converged TV' solutions with silicon solutions for new geographies while exploring new forms of delivery and new methods of interaction with television content. "We have seen very rapid adoption of free-to-air TV handsets...

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Metaswitch Tunes its Service Broker

Metaswitch announced a series of enhancements to its Service Broker, which is a network element that a network element that resides between the service layer and the converging network. The Service Broker's new capabilities ease the transition from legacy intelligent network (IN) to next-generation environments. These enhancements include:Additional Prepackaged Inter-working Support: Further enhances the Service Broker IM-SSF /Reverse IM-SSF functionality...

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Calix Posts Q1 Revenue of $48 Million, up 30% YoY

Calix reported Q1 revenue of $48.2 million, an increase of 30% from revenue reported for the first quarter of 2009 of $37.1 million. GAAP net loss for the first quarter of 2010 was $10.2 million, or $(0.32) per share, compared to a GAAP net loss of $12.7 million, or $(0.50) per share, reported for the first quarter of 2009 (assuming the conversion of preferred stock into common stock as of the beginning of each quarter)."First quarter results were...

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Harmonic to Acquire Omneon for $274 Million

Harmonic agreed to acquire Omneon for approximately $274 million in cash and stock. The proposed acquisition would combine Harmonic's video delivery infrastructure with Omneon's technology for the production, management and distribution of digital media.Omneon's customer base includes the BBC, BSkyB, CBS, Comcast, Discovery Communications, Echostar, NBC Universal, News Corporation, Televisa, Turner Broadcasting System, Viacom and many other leading...

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DragonWave Posts Revenue of CAD$64 Million, up 14% Sequentially

DragonWave reported quarter revenue of C$63.8 million, compared with C$11.3 in the same period last year. Gross margin for the fourth quarter was 43%, compared with 26% in the fourth quarter of the prior fiscal year, and 43% in the preceding quarter. http://www.dragonwaveinc....

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ICANN Launches Internationalized Domain Names

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) officially inserted the first non-Latin script domain names into the DNS root zone today. This is the first time that non-Latin characters are being used for top-level domains in the history of the Internet. The associated countries operating such domains are Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. In addition to Arabic, there will soon be domain written in Chinese Russian,...

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Aepona Raises US$10 Million for Mobile NaaS

Aepona, a software company based in Belfast, announced US$10 million in new funding to support its "Network as a Service" (NaaS) engine for mobile operators. The technology enables collaboration between mobile operators and application providers. Aepona's solution enables the mobile operator to monetize important assets and functionality within its network - such as billing, location, messaging and voice communications. It can expose and share...

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Alcatel-Lucent Posts Revenue of EUR 3.247 billion, Sees Recovery in Some Markets

Alcatel-Lucent reported Q1 2010 revenues of Euro 3.247 billion, down 9.8% year-over-year and 8.2% at constant currency. There was an adjusted gross profit of Euro 1.058 billion or 32.6% of revenues, compared to 31.5% in the year ago quarter and 36.7% in the fourth quarter 2009. First quarter adjusted operating income came in at Euro (195) million or (6.0)% of revenue. "We are witnessing a recovery in the telecommunications equipment and related...

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Australia's VERNet Tests Ciena's 40G and 100G

Australia's VERNet Pty Ltd, a multi-million dollar statewide fibre optic network that will link up to 200 research and education sites throughout Melbourne and regional Victoria, has completed a successful trial of Ciena's 40G and 100G optical networking solutions on its live DWDM network. Conducted over two weeks in April 2010, the trial leveraged VERNet's existing network based on Ciena's Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) 6500 and Common Photonic Layer (CPL) platforms and added 40G and 100G wavelengths alongside existing live 10G wavelength services....

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Level 3 Sees Stabilizing Trend in Mid-Market Enterprise Services

Level 3 Communications reported consolidated revenue of $910 million for the first quarter 2010, compared to consolidated revenue of $924 million for the fourth quarter 2009 and $980 million for the first quarter 2009. Total Communications Revenue for the first quarter 2010 was $900 million, compared to $906 million for the fourth quarter 2009. Total Communications Revenue for the first quarter 2009 was $962 million. The net loss for the first quarter...

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FCC Chairman Outlines "The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework"

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined a "Third Way" for regulating Internet traffic and services -- a new legal framework aimed at restoring the status quo consensus that existed prior to the court decision that vacated the FCC's authority to regulate the way Comcast manages peer-to-peer traffic on its network. Genachowski said he supports a light-touch regulatory approach that encourages investment in network infrastructure but that gives consumers...

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