SEC Revises Proposed Worldcom Penalty

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an agreement that would provide for an additional contribution of $250 million in common stock in the new MCI for the shareholders and bondholders of the former Worldcom.
http://www.sec.govhttp://www.mci.com

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Terayon Sees Better than Expected Results for Q2

Terayon expects revenues for its second quarter (ended 30-June-2003) to be in the range of $30 million to $31 million. Net loss per share for the quarter is now expected to be approximately $0.18 to $0.20. Terayon attributed its better than expected performance to greater shipments of its DOCSIS 2.0 CMTS in Asia and in North America, a larger than anticipated order for its Multigate circuit-switched cable telephony system from a European customer, and higher sales of its legacy S-CDMA product lines. Full results are expected on 30-July-2003.
http://www.terayon.com

• Hanvit I&B, the second largest Korean cable operator with more than 2 million subscribers, is using Terayon Communication Systems' cable modem termination system to deliver DOCSIS 2.0 services. DOCSIS 2.0 in Korea has already begun. In addition to Terayon's DOCSIS 2.0 CMTS, Hanvit I&B is using Terayon's DOCSIS 2.0 cable modems at the broadband subscriber end. Terayon said its DOCSIS 2.0 system can deliver approximately 40 Mbps of content from the Internet to the subscriber, and allows the subscriber to transmit nearly 30 Mbps upstream to the Internet.



• Terayon's end-to-end DOCSIS 2.0-based solution features both the A-TDMA (Advanced Time Division Multiple Access) and S-CDMA (Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) advanced physical layer technologies that are included in the DOCSIS 2.0 specification.

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Redback Expects Lower Q2 Numbers

Redback Networks now expects revenue for Q2 (ended 30-June-2003) to be approximately $22.0 million, compared to $29.5 million in Q1. Redback cited extended and delayed testing cycles, and slower than anticipated implementations of new service delivery platforms for the decline. It also highlighted the much publicized bans and restrictions on travel to the Asia Pacific region as having a negative impact of its revenues. Final results are expected 16-July-2003.
http://www.redback.com

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ECI Telecom Updates Q2 Outlook

ECI Telecom now expects total consolidated revenues for its second quarter (ended 30-June-2003) to be approximately $101 million - $103 million. The company cited a revenue decline at ECtel and a slightly larger than expected decline in the revenues of its core businesses. ECI also announced plans to record charges associated with the recent restructuring of its Lightscape Optical Networks Division. It also said expects to make certain additional provisions with respect to a specific long term receivable reflecting the expected outcome of advanced discussions with a customer. As a result, ECI now estimates the total net loss for its Q2 to be between $30 million and $32 million or ($0.28)/share to ($0.30)/share. During the quarter, ECI continued to generate significant positive cash flow from operations and paid down $123 million of bank debt. At the end of the quarter, it had $170 million in cash, compared to an excess of $150 million at the end of the first quarter. Full results are expected on 06-August-2003.
http://www.ecitele.com

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Sandburst Announce Key 10 Gbps Design Win with Riverstone

Sandburst, a start-up based in Andover, Massachusetts, announced that Riverstone's XGS family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switches are the first to use its Sandburst SANDWORKS Foundation Architecture. Sandburst's HIBEAM chip set and SANDWORKS Foundation Architecture can be configured for different applications through the selection of application firmware, memory size and switching capacity options. Choices range from low cost, high-density GbE line card solutions to performance-optimized configurations that deliver wire-speed 10 GbE switching.
http://www.sandburst.com

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Infineon Pushes its Silicon Germanium ICs to 110 GHz

Researchers from Infineon Technologies demonstrated new peak performance values in high frequency integrated circuits developed using the company's advanced Silicon Germanium (SiGe) bipolar process technology. The measured circuit performances show 10 to 30% higher operating frequency compared to competing circuits from other vendors. Potential applications for such high-speed SiGe circuits include discrete components (transistors and diodes), 40 Gbps low-power wireline communication systems, high speed microwave radio links, ultra wide-band communication systems up to 60GHz and automotive radar systems at 77GHz.
http://www.infineon.com/news/

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PowerCOM to Distribute Octasic's Voice Processors in Korea

PowerCOM, Korea's leading semiconductor distributor, will begin offering Octasic's voice processing chips to equipment manufacturers in Korea. Octasic's product line includes echo cancellation and voice quality enhancement chips, which support from 128 to 672 voice channels in a single chip; a 1023 channel full-duplex packetization engine for VoIP and VoAAL2 applications; and a 255 channel ADPCM compression device.
http://www.octasic.com

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China Netcom chooses Alcatel 7770

China Netcom selected the Alcatel 7770 Optical Broadband Exchange (OBX) and the Alcatel 5620 Network Manager for the core of its IP network in Zhejiang province. The network will support value-added services such as video on demand, Internet access, video conferencing and MPLS-VPNs. The contract with Zhejiang Communication Company, a China Netcom subsidiary, was won through Alcatel Shanghai Bell. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.alcatel.com

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ETSI's VDSL Standard Allows for Either QAM or DMT Line Coding

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute's (ETSI's) TM6 sub committee has decided to support both Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) and Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) line coding in its VDSL standard. The decision to support dual line coding enables European service providers to choose for themselves which form of modulation they want for their VDSL network deployments. Infineon Technologies, which offers a QAM-based VDSL chip, said "the best way to accelerate VDSL deployment is to encourage true competition, in which component choice is based on price, performance, silicon size, and vendor reputation." Infineon claims to have shipped over 4 million QAM-VDSL ports, representing more than 2.5 million active lines.


The contribution in support of dual line code for VDSL can be found at the following URL:
ftp://ftp.t1.org/T1E1/E1.4/DIR2003/3E141761.pdf
http://www.etsi.orghttp://www.infineon.com

• Last month, the T1E1.4 committee, which is part of The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), decided to specify only Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) line coding in its American National Standard (ANS) for VDSL. The DMT modulation method will be specified in the American National Standard, and the Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) method will be specified in a Committee T1 Technical Requirement (TRQ). The decision followed the release of data from the "VDSL Olympics," a series of performance tests conducted by Telcordia Technologies and BT.
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  Separately, the IEEE's 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) Task Force selected DMT as its worldwide line-coding standard for VDSL.

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China Railcom Selects Nortel for Packet Network

China Railcom named Nortel Networks as its exclusive supplier of packet voice equipment for Chongqing Municipal City. The carrier plans to use Nortel Networks Interactive Multimedia Server (IMS), Succession Communication Server 2000-Compact superclass softswitches, and Passport Packet Voice Gateways (PVG) to deliver converged voice/data services over twisted pair lines, ADSL, HFC, Ethernet or wireless. The contract follows a one-year trial that included extensive field testing under the close supervision of technical experts from China Railcom and the Ministry of Information Industry (MII). China Railcom is a fully licensed operator in China and its fixed-line network registered a capacity of over 15 million lines at the end of 2002. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.nortelnetworks.com

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CIENA Tunes its MetroDirector K2 for Ethernet

CIENA released new features that enable its MetroDirector K2 platform to deliver Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet enterprise services directly over existing service provider networks. The MetroDirector K2 combines the functionality of add/drop multiplexers, digital cross-connects, ATM switches and 10/100/1000 Ethernet switches in a single platform. New Fast Ethernet Bridging (FEB) and Gigabit Ethernet Bridging (GEB) cards for the K2 enable a suite of new enterprise services, including Guaranteed Ethernet Private Lines (from 50 Mbps up to full line rate), Shared Ethernet Private Lines (securely combines traffic from multiple customers on one SONET/SDH channel with standardized VLAN tags), and Switched Ethernet (a shared multi-point service).


CIENA also announced the availability of E1 support on MetroDirector K2 in SDH environments, enhancing its range from DS-1/E1 to OC-192/STM-64.
http://www.ciena.com

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Cisco Builds Network Test Lab in Singapore

Cisco Systems has established a Networked Solutions Integration Test Engineering (NSITE) lab in Singapore to help customers test complex IP networking solutions in real world conditions. The other NSITE labs are located in North Carolina and California in the US, and in the UK, Belgium and Italy in Europe. The new Singapore lab is testing solutions for customers such as China Unicom, Japan's NTT and SingTel.
http://www.cisco.com

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Spirent Introduces Dual-Media Gigabit Ethernet Test System

Spirent Communications introduced its SmartBits TeraMetrics XD Gigabit test family, a platform that allows users to evaluate and test both copper and fiber-based Gigabit Ethernet implementations. Spirent's SmartBits TeraMetrics XD scales to 768 ports and supports four dual-media test ports for both fiber and copper. Users can connect 10/100/1000Mbps copper -- or one Gigabit Ethernet fiber -- on each port.


Spirent's SmartBits TeraMetrics XD uses Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs. Spirent also used Xilinx Design Services for development of the product.
http://www.spirentcom.com/http://www.xilinx.com

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Level 3 Prices $325 Million in New Bonds

Level 3 Communications has priced the offering of $325 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.875% Convertible Senior Notes due 2010 in an underwritten public offering. The underwriters (Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch & Co. and Morgan Stanley) also have an option to purchase up to an additional $48.75 million aggregate principal amount of the notes solely to cover over-allotments. Level 3 said the money would be used for working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes, including new product development, debt repurchases and acquisitions.
http://www.Level3.com

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Siemens Supplies Brasil Telecom with Juniper's E-series Routers

Brasil Telecom has deployed Juniper Networks' E-series platform for its Vetor Project throughout Brazil. Siemens' Fixed Telephony Division is the consultant and system integrator for Brasil Telecom. Vetor, which provides advanced services over broadband access, is already available in Brasil Telecom's entire concession area in the South and Center West, and in the states of Acre, Rondonia and Tocantins.
http://www.juniper.nethttp://www.siemens.com

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Scandinavian Airlines Signs on for Connexion by Boeing

Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) plans to equip eleven of its long-haul aircraft for providing Connexion by Boeing's passenger Internet access service. SAS passengers will have the ability to use Wi-Fi enabled laptops or personal electronic devices for Internet access, email and VPNs. An undisclosed number of options for expansion of the service onto additional SAS aircraft also are part of the agreement. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.boeing.com/connexion

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Verio Introduces Jitter Service Level Agreement, Tightens Other SLAs

Verio introduced a jitter service level agreement (SLA) for North American dedicated access customers on the NTT/VERIO Global IP Network. Network jitter is the variation of latency over time and is critical to customers who use real-time applications, including content delivery networks, IP videoconferencing and VoIP. Verio is offering a performance guarantee of average jitter of 0.5 milliseconds and maximum jitter of 10 milliseconds.


In addition, Verio is reinforcing its performance guarantees on packet loss, improving its service level agreements on intra-US, trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic traffic to 0.1%. Verio has also lowered its latency guarantees, ensuring that customers' North American roundtrip transport will not exceed 55 milliseconds. For trans-Atlantic traffic, Verio guarantees that transport times will not exceed 90 milliseconds, and trans-Pacific will not exceed 130 milliseconds. Verio also offers a goal of 100% availability on all of the NTT/VERIO Global IP Network for North American, trans-Atlantic, and trans-Pacific traffic.
http://www.verio.com/sla

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Nokia Extends High-End of its Security Appliance Portfolio

Nokia unveiled a high-availability network security platform specifically designed to provide intrusion protection and robust firewall and VPN traffic performance. The Nokia IP1260 integrates Check Point Software's VPN-1/FireWall-1 Next Generation with Application Intelligence, which defeats and prevents both network-level and application-level attacks. Together, the companies are ensuring the Nokia IP1260 meets the demanding Internet traffic mix needs of today and tomorrow. The Nokia IP1260 supports 7,400 connections per second and will deliver 30,000 connections per second once a software upgrade is release in September 2003. Other product specifics:

• 4.2 Gbps of large packet firewall throughput
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  400 Mbps of small packet firewall throughput
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  1 million simultaneous firewall connections
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  800 Mbps of large packet VPN throughput
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  Support for up to 12 10/100 Ethernet Ports and 8 Gigabit Ethernet Ports.

http://www.nokia.com

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ITC^DeltaCom and BTI to Merge, Creating Largest CLEC in Southeast

ITC^DeltaCom and BTI Telecom Corp. agreed to merge in a transaction that will establish the combined company as the largest CLEC in the southeastern U.S. Entering into 2004, the combined company, which will retain the name ITC^DeltaCom, is expected to have a total revenue run-rate of approximately $630 to $660 million and an improved free cash flow positive position. The combined company will maintain branch offices in approximately 40 markets in the southern U.S. and will serve more than 50,000 customers. At the merger closing, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (Welsh Carson) will invest $35 million in the company. Welsh Carson currently is a significant stockholder in ITC^DeltaCom and a majority stockholder in BTI.
http://www.itcdeltacom.com

• BTI Telecom is a privately-held company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It owns and operates a network covering 4,400 route miles of lit fiber for extensive regional penetration, with 14 Lucent Technologies 5E 2000 digital local switches to serve local markets, as well as four network operations centers with Alcatel 600E digital long distance switches. BTI claims 32,000 customers.
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  ITC^DeltaCom is a public company based in West Point, Georgia. It operates 35 branch offices in nine states, and its 10-state fiber optic network of approximately 10,088 miles reaches approximately 188 POPs. ITC^DeltaCom claims 20,000 customers and reported 2002 revenues of $415 million.

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D-Link Delivers One-Port Wireless Print Server

D-Link introduced an 802.11b Wireless Print Server that connects any standard parallel- port printer into a WLAN. The device features integrated 64/128-bit WEP encryption and has an MSRP of $149.99.
http://www.dlink.com

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