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).


http://www.internet2.eduhttp://www.level3.com

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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.
http://www.sprint.com

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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.
http://www.geni.nethttp://www.bbn.com

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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.
http://www.ceragon.com

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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.
http://www.siverge.com

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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.
http://www.intellifiber.com

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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.
http://www.hatterasnetworks.com

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I.T.U. Ratifies G.hn as Standard for Wired Home Networks

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) ratified the key components of the G.hn specification at its meeting last week at the United Nations in Geneva. As a result of this agreement, ITU-T will publish an Approved G.hn Recommendation for the Physical Layer (PHY) and architecture portion of the standard. Also, Recommendation G.9972 achieved Consent, allowing coexistence between G.hn products and other wireline networking standards. In addition, the Data Link Layer (DLL) portion of the G.hn standard was deemed stable and is expected to reach Consent at the January 2010 ITU-T meeting. Through one worldwide standard, G.hn will unify the networking of content to devices over any wire -- coax cable, phone line, and power line.


The HomeGrid Forum, which is a global, non-profit trade group promoting G.hn, said the standard is now stable enough to allow silicon manufacturers to confidently move forward with their development programs and bring products to market. The outcome of this meeting marks another step in the steady adoption of G.hn and reaffirms the desire to unite a fragmented industry which currently uses a variety of incompatible technologies that typically address only single types of household wiring options -- coax, phone line, or power line.


"G.hn will empower service providers to deploy new offerings, including IPTV, more cost effectively; allow consumer electronics manufacturers to network all types of entertainment, home automation, and security products throughout the house; and greatly simplify consumers purchasing and installation processes," said Matthew Theall, president of HomeGrid Forum. "HomeGrid Forum and its member companies applaud the ITU-T for its success in developing a standard that will greatly simplify home networking, provide a platform for new services, and deliver the next-generation performance needed in the marketplace."


"The G.hn Recommendation provides a unified, international specification for home networking via all types of wiring in homes," said Tom Starr, ITU-T WP1/15 chairman. "The specification facilitates simplified installation and operation for high-performance triple-play services."


In addition to G.hn, ITU-T gave Consent to the complementary G.9972 Recommendation for coexistence between G.hn-based products and other networking standards. Recommendation G.9972 specifies the process by which G.hn devices will coexist with power line devices that also adopt the G.9972 coexistence standard.


"G.hn is a technology that gives new use to cabling that most people already have in their homes. The array of applications that it has the potential to enable includes energy efficient smart appliances, home automation, and telemedicine devices is remarkable," said Malcolm Johnson, director, ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. "The sheer weight of industry support behind this innovation is testament to the extraordinary potential of this standard to transform home networking."


HomeGrid Forum is also developing a certification program for G.hn that will aid semiconductor and systems manufacturers to build and deliver standards-compliant products to market by using the HomeGrid-certified logo.
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Verizon Business and McAfee Form Strategic Alliance

Verizon Business and McAfee announced a global strategic alliance to provide integrated security solutions to businesses and government agencies worldwide. Specifically, Verizon Business will offer McAfee's entire line of enterprise security products and services while McAfee taps Verizon Business' data center outsourcing and expert consulting and managed services capabilities. Additionally, the companies will jointly develop a suite of next-generation, cloud-based managed security services.


The next-generation, cloud-based managed solutions that are being developed under the agreement will leverage Verizon's leading managed security services platform, global IP infrastructure, advanced security operation centers, expansive footprint of data centers and McAfee's world-class security technology powered by its global threat intelligence.


The new security services will be managed by Verizon Business and operated in the cloud. The services will include a broad selection of security technologies, including firewalls, intrusion prevention services, anti-malware, content control and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) virtual private network (VPN).


Verizon and McAfee will offer these new solutions in North America, South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.


"This strategic agreement with McAfee enables us to drive even more complete and integrated IT solutions to enterprises across the world," said Kerry Bailey, senior vice president of Verizon Business global solutions. http://www.verizonbusiness.com
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AudioCodes and BroadSoft Integration Simplifies IP Voice Deployments

AudioCodes and BroadSoft announced a strategic initiative aimed at simplifying the deployment and installation of IP voice networks. The collaboration tightly integrates AudioCodes Media Gateways, Multi-Service Business Gateways (MSBGs) and IP Phones with BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform and VoIP Quality of Service (QoS) solutions -- eliminating many tedious configuration and maintenance processes, as well as quality of service issues that typically plague multi-vendor solutions.


Through BroadSoft Device Management, providers can quickly provision analog terminal adapters (ATAs), IP Phones, integrated access devices (IADs) and IP PBX equipment--any access device that uses XML/HTTP for profile management--at the customer site. A simple login process is used to retrieve the appropriate user-specific files directly from BroadWorks. Providers manage and control all aspects of device configuration centrally in the network, greatly reducing the time it takes to provision phones and eliminating the need for a technician visit.


"BroadSoft is committed to making the deployment process simple and scalable, and to drive down operational costs for our customers," said Ken Rokoff, vice president of business development, BroadSoft. "With AudioCodes' end-to-end customer premises solutions, coupled with BroadWorks' built-in device management capability, which is available across the entire line of AudioCodes devices, we eliminated the complex staging and configuration process."


"Simplification of the deployment of next-generation voice services is key to expanding the addressable market to cost conscious and risk-sensitive carriers," said Lior Aldema, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for AudioCodes.
http://www.broadsoft.com/connections/2009http://www.audiocodes.com

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Global Crossing Adds "EtherSphere" Services

Global Crossing introduced its "EtherSphere" family of services: EtherSphere Multipoint-to-Multipoint, EtherSphere Point-to-Multipoint and EtherSphere Point-to-Point solutions. They are available today as enterprise and wholesale offers in North America, Europe, the United Kingdom (UK), Asia, and Latin America.


Previously available in the UK as a metropolitan Ethernet offer, the expanded EtherSphere Ethernet WAN transport family now offers customers ubiquitous, global Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS). The EtherSphere services support six classes of service that enable users to prioritize traffic to maximize bandwidth use and efficiency. The service also offers a highly desirable usage-based billing component that helps enterprises more easily accommodate irregular and unpredictable bandwidth use, as well as more effectively manage their network costs. This is especially beneficial for backup and disaster recovery implementations. The service is provided over Global Crossing's dedicated MPLS backbone.


Global Crossing has achieved the Cisco Powered Carrier Ethernet designation for its EtherExtend Flex service.


"Global Crossing's EtherSphere Ethernet wide area transport solutions give enterprise IT managers a way to globally interconnect their locations in key regions around the world," said Dave Carey, Global Crossing's chief marketing officer. "Its genuine, global ubiquity sets our offer apart from the rest of the industry.
http://www.globalcrossing.com

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Metaswitch Networks Expands Leadership Team

Metaswitch Networks appointed to Stefan Knight to the newly-created post of vice president of strategic alliances and Steve Gleave as vice president of marketing, both in the company's Carrier Systems Division.


Knight most recently served at Ericsson, driving product requirements and commercial strategies for telecom equipment manufacturers. Prior to Ericsson, Knight led product management, marketing and business development teams at Virata, CopperCom and Entrisphere.


Gleave brings more than 20 years of marketing experience working with high-growth companies in the network technology sector, including senior marketing roles at Endace, SS8 Networks, Ubiquity Software and Jetstream Communications.


Andrew Randall, who previously held the role now occupied by Gleave, continues as a key member of the executive team, moving into a corporate-level position as senior vice president for marketing and business development. http://www.metaswitch.com

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Orange Uganda Outsources Mobile Net to Alcatel-Lucent

Orange Uganda has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build, operate and manage its mobile network, including technical support, repair, field maintenance and program management services. Alcatel-Lucent said this full Managed Services contract is the first ever in Uganda as well as in East Africa.


"Orange Uganda is looking to reduce costs by employing new business models for operating and maintaining a network which offers a comprehensive range of communications services across its territory," said Pierre Barnabé, chairman and CEO of Alcatel-Lucent France.
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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Saudi Telecom expands GPON/ DSL with Alcatel-Lucent

Saudi Telecom has awarded a multi-million EUR frame contract to Alcatel-Lucent to expand, extend and upgrade its existing broadband network to serve an additional two million residential and enterprise customers by the end of 2010. The network upgrade is made possible by the enhanced aggregation and transport features of Alcatel-Lucent's broadband access, IP, optical and services solutions.


Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will provide its packet optical transport solution for DSLAM traffic aggregation and Ethernet business services, along with its DSL and GPON /MSAN technology. The company will also leverage its services expertise in the areas of project management, network analysis, software integration, integration services and technical support services to deliver a true turnkey services solution.
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Alcatel-Lucent Kicks Off “Open Community Broadband�? for FTTH Projects

Alcatel-Lucent is launching a turnkey "Open Community Broadband" program to help operators of "citynets" around the world -- i.e. open access networks typically operated by municipal governments or utilities - manage the complexities that are typical of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments. Key elements of the program include:

• Training -- including how to build a successful FTTH business case



• Technology consulting -- which fiber technology makes sense in which circumstances



• Designing and deploying the network -- leveraging passive optical networking (PON) or point-to-point (P2P) fiber



• Managing the network -- dealing with all operational and maintenance aspects of running a multi-vendor fiber network, leveraging best-in-class capabilities in network management, deployment, maintenance and installation.

"Most citynet operators do not have the necessary experience or workforce to deploy and run a fiber network," says Dave Geary, President of Alcatel-Lucent's wireline networks activities. "That is why Alcatel-Lucent offers them the possibility to engage in an end-to-end partnership, helping them to reap the benefits of FTTH -- whether they are interested in PON or P2P fiber. Our customers know they can count on Alcatel-Lucent, with its lengthy track record in the FTTH space, to complete their project successfully."http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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NETGEAR Supplies DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Gateway for Japan's J:COM

Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM), the largest multiple system operator (MSO) in Japan, is the first customer to deploy NETGEAR's new DOCSIS 3.0 Wireless-N Cable Gateway for cable operators.


NETGEAR's CG3200D enables J:COM to offer up to 160 Mbps data services as a compelling, differentiated offering in the highly competitive Japanese residential broadband market.
http://www.netgear.com

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Ceragon and Alvarion Collaborate OpenRange's 4G

Ceragon Networks will partner with Alvarion as the wireless backhaul equipment provider to deploy a network for Open Range Communications. The new network is planned to be the largest Rural Utilities Service (RUS) funded deployment in the United States, spanning 17 states, 546 rural communities, and reaching up to 6 million people.


Alvarion was recently selected as the WiMAX solution provider for the Open Range 4G network. Alvarion is also acting as the prime system integrator of the project. Ceragon's high-capacity platforms will be used for backhauling rich voice and multimedia content over a newly constructed wireless IP network.
http://www.alvarion.com
http://www.ceragon.com

• In January 2009, Open Range Communications announced an investment of $100 million from One Equity Partners (OEP), the private equity arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co.



• In March 2008, the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Program (RDUP) approved a $267 million Broadband Access Loan for Open Range, with the prerequisite that private financing also be secured.



• Openrange is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

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Ceragon Lands Contract with Leading North American WiMAX Operator

Ceragon Networks has received a significant equipment order from a leading WiMAX operator in North America (name not disclosed). Ceragon's FibeAir point-to-point microwave solutions will support the operator's ongoing network expansion and will be deployed initially in two major US cities. The current order is valued at several millions of dollars.
http://www.ceragon.com

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FCC Investigates Middle and Second Mile Access Market

The FCC is seeking comment on the market dynamics for middle and second mile access services. Specifically, the FCC is looking for information as to whether "backhaul costs . . . stand as impediments to further broadband deployments." The FCC says several entities have claimed that adequate, reasonably priced, and efficiently provided access to middle and second mile transport services and facilities play an important -- if not gating -- role in the economics of broadband deployment, particularly in rural, unserved, and underserved areas. Public comment, which is due by November 16, will held shape the FCC's National Broadband Plan.


The FCC defines "middle mile transport" refers generally as the transport and transmission of data communications from the central office, cable headend, or wireless switching station to an Internet point of presence. "Second mile transport" refers generally to the transport and transmission of data communications from the first point of aggregation (such as a remote terminal, wireless tower location, or HFC node) to the point of connection with the middle mile transport.



The public inquiry seeks input in the following areas:


1. Network Components of Broadband Connectivity. On a per-end user connection basis, how much middle mile capacity is needed to provide adequate broadband Internet access to that end user connection? How does this vary? What technology options are coming in the next 5-10 years for middle mile and second mile connections?



2. Availability and Pricing of Middle and Second Mile Connectivity. What is the price of purchasing middle mile and second mile connectivity, broken down by relevant geographic area and technology (e.g., DS3, microwave, OCn, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet)? How much do these prices vary by length of the circuit? How large are discounts from tariffed rates for middle mile and second mile connectivity obtained from incumbent local exchange companies? Given current and projected demand and supply conditions, what portion of the overall cost of providing broadband Internet service to an end user is attributable to middle mile and second mile transport? How do these vary?



3. Pricing and Availability of Internet Connectivity. What is the current price per megabyte per month for a dedicated Internet access (DIA) port charged by a Tier 1 Internet backbone service provider? Likewise, what is the current price for other forms of Internet backbone connectivity available to Internet service providers, such as a transit agreement?


4. Economics of Deployment. Is the provision of a high-capacity fiber optic middle mile or second mile connection to a particular location a natural monopoly in some locations? To what extent do providers self-provide or integrate components of middle mile and/or second mile transport? Are certain types of providers--such as cable operators -- more likely to self-provide these services, perhaps because they can utilize that bandwidth not only for broadband Internet access but also for the delivery of video programming? If some government subsidy or action is necessary to facilitate construction of second mile and middle mile facilities, please identify the type of government action that would be adequate, such as the proposed regulatory action, explicit funding, or tax credits.


5. Nature of Competition and Availability of Alternatives. a. How do firms compete in providing middle mile transport services? What is the effect on price of the presence of a second or third facilities-based provider of middle mile or second mile transport service?


Additional questions in each of these areas is online.
http://www.fcc.gov

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Ciena Bids to Acquire Nortel's Metro Ethernet for $521 Million

Ciena agreed to acquire all of the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business for $390 million in cash and 10 million shares of Ciena common stock. Based on the closing price of Ciena's stock on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, the full deal is valued at $521 million. The deal is subject to a competitive bidding process and higher offers could emerge. It also requires the approval of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.


The deal includes Nortel's long-haul optical transport portfolio; metro optical Ethernet switching and transport solutions; Ethernet transport, aggregation and switching technology; multiservice SONET/SDH product families; and network management software products.


Ciena is expected to make employment offers to at least 2,000 Nortel employees. In addition, The proposed acquisition would significantly enhance Ciena's existing Canadian-based development resources, making Ottawa the company's largest product and development center. Ciena currently has development facilities in Alpharetta, Georgia; Linthicum, Maryland; Ottawa, Ontario; San Jose, California; Spokane, Washington; and Gurgaon, India. As of July 31, 2009, the end of its fiscal third quarter, Ciena employed 2,110 employees globally.


"This is a unique and exciting opportunity for us to accelerate our existing strategy and the pace of our growth plans by two to three years," said Gary Smith, Ciena's CEO and president. "We believe this transaction will position us for faster growth by giving us greater geographic reach, broader customer relationships and a deeper portfolio of solutions. We believe we are best positioned to leverage these assets, thereby creating a significant challenger to traditional network vendors."http://www.ciena.com

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