Deutsche Telekom Reports 2004 Income of EUR 4.6 billion

Deutsche Telekom reported 2004 net income of EUR 4.6 billion, achieving its goal of continued profitable growth. Net revenue increased by 3.7 percent to EUR 57.9 billion in 2004 compared with EUR 55.8 billion in 2003.


Some highlights of the annual report:

• Free cash flow increased from EUR 8.3 billion to EUR 10.2 billion



• Net debt reduced by EUR 11.4 billion to EUR 35.2 billion. This was achieved primarily due to free cash flow and the sale of investments, such as the sale of a share in the Russian mobile communications company MTS.



• Total employee headcount was 247,559, compared with 251,263 a year earlier.



• DT's 2005 outlook calls for adjusted EBITDA to be between EUR 20.7 billion and EUR 21.0 billion

http://www.telekom.de

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Dust Networks Offers 802.15.4 Solution

Dust Networks, a start-up based in Berkeley, California, announced the addition of IEEE 802.15.4 compliant radio hardware to its SmartMesh wireless sensor networking product line. The new standards-compliant hardware operates in the 2.4GHz ISM band and can be certified for use in all of the world's major markets. Dust Networks will continue to offer SmartMesh networks based on 900 MHz hardware in the North American market.

The IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which was ratified in May 2003, was created to enable wireless communications for a wide range of applications. Dust Networks uses 802.15.4 radio hardware to deliver standards-based enterprise- class wireless monitoring and control applications for the building automation, industrial automation, and security markets.
http://www.dustnetworks.com

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Siemens and Nortel to Support BT's Global Client Voice Infrastructure

BT is working with Siemens Communications and Nortel to provide equipment, maintenance and support services for the voice systems and infrastructure used by BT's multi-national customers.


BT is responsible for the management and maintenance of a diverse range of PBX equipment and other customer voice systems in over 120 countries. BT's network of global and regional operation centres already provides multi-national customers with service management on a country-by-country basis. In conjunction with Siemens Communications and Nortel, BT will now offer increased global reach to help customers optimize their expenditure on voice infrastructure, and to prepare them for migration to IP Telephony and VoIP platforms.


Siemens will assist BT in providing maintenance and support for multi- vendor environments all around the world - leveraging its 60,000-employees across 150 countries. This local management of global relationships will help to simplify and accelerate the delivery of both ongoing maintenance and key client programmes - such as the convergence of communications systems.


Nortel has a 13 year history of working with BT in Europe to provide business-critical ICT solutions that help to secure, protect and power the operations of some of the world's largest, most demanding global organizations.
http://www.bt.com
http://www.siemens.com

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Global Broadband Surpasses 150 Million Subscriber Mark

The number of broadband subscribers worldwide has just passed 150 million mark, according to IMS Research. This represents an increase of 51 million since the beginning of 2004. IMS Research is forecasting that the number of broadband subscribers will surpass 400 million during 2009.

DSL continues to put distance between itself and cable as the most popular broadband technology, with total DSL subscribers passing the 100 million mark in early 2005.
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Telecom Execs Testify in Favor of Big Mergers

In testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the chief executives of AT&T, MCI, Nextel, SBC, Sprint and Verizon each said the mega-mergers currently planned their firms would be good for the industry and good for the national economy.


The committee's chairman, U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), pretty much consented, noting that "with an industry that has changed so much in ten years, it should come as little surprise that companies are looking at one another to determine whether partnerships will enable them to be stronger competitors in the new digital world. The combination of Sprint and Nextel will create a broadband giant in the wireless industry that has no affiliation with the Bells. We should not be wary of such a combined entity; we should welcome it. And the once "unthinkable" merger of AT&T and SBC is now very realistic.... The United States needs to have a vibrant communications industry with strong national players. "


Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), echoed similar thoughts: "These companies will be better positioned -- combined rather than separate -- to do battle in a world where the meaningful fight will be amongst inter-modal competitors -- as they aggressively seek to win the hand of residential, business, and governmental consumers in the offering of a suite of IP-enabled voice, data, and video services. Given the dramatic changes in the communications marketplace over the last 10 years, these mergers are not only logical, but they are integral to ensuring a vibrant and inter-modally competitive communications marketplace. I consider these mergers a necessary tune-up for the telecommunications industry, ensuring that the country's economic engine is geared up to compete globally."


Several lawmakers questions whether the mega-mergers would lead to less competition and higher consumer prices. The industry execs argued that inter-modal competition is growing stronger.


Invited witnesses included Edward E. Whitacre Jr., Chairman and CEO of SBC Communications; David Dorman, Chairman and CEO of AT&T; Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon; Michael D. Capellas, President and CEO of MCI; Gary Forsee, Chairman & CEO of Sprint; Timothy Donahue, President and CEO of Nextel Communications; Dr. Mark Cooper, Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America; Jeffrey Halpern, Senior Equity Research Analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.; Jim Speta, Associate Professor at Northwestern University School of Law; and Phil Weiser, Associate Professor of Law and Telecommunications at the University of Colorado School of Law.
http://www.house.gov

• Last month, senior executives from Alcatel, Lucent, Motorola, Siemens and QUALCOMM testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on "How IP-Enabled Services are Changing the Face of Communications." A common theme of the testimony was that Congress should legislate a "light regulatory touch" when addressing IP-enabled services. The witnesses addressed the digital television (DTV) transition and advocated a "hard deadline" for the transition in order to reclaim the analog broadcast spectrum. They urged Congress to make this spectrum available as soon as possible to stimulate the economy.



• The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet is expected to hold four hearings this Spring on updating The Telecommunications Act of 1996. A new bill on telecom regulation is expected to be introduced following the four hearings by key committee members and it could be brought to the House floor for a vote by summer.

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Alcatel to acquire Native Networks for Optical Ethernet Transport

Alcatel agreed to acquire Native Networks for approximately US$55 million in cash. The companies have been jointly developing Ethernet Packet Ring technology since 2003.


Native Networks provides data-aware, Metro Ethernet plus SDH/SONET transport solutions designed for deployment in "first-mile" metro access infrastructure. Its switches transport and aggregate Metro Ethernet packets alongside legacy circuits/TDM services in their "Native" form over dark fiber, existing SDH/SONET infrastructure or DWDM.


Native Networks supports advanced layer-2 Metro Ethernet services such as Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS). The equipment leverages an advanced, patent-pending multiplexing scheme and unique traffic management technology to provide optimal use of optical or SDH/SONET infrastructure with guaranteed QoS per customer and the ability to engineer to strict SLAs.


Alcatel said the Ethernet Packet Ring Technology developed with Native Networks allows operators to introduce enhanced Ethernet features through a simple add-on engine to existing Alcatel optical multi-service networks or equip as needed in new installations. As a result, it optimizes the network's performance by aggregating multiple services such as triple play, DSL, 3G mobile and Ethernet Virtual Private Networks services, over an integrated optical data infrastructure.


Native was founded in 1999 and is based in Maidenhead, U.K. and retains extensive research and development facilities in Petah Tikva, Israel.


Recent Acquisitions by Alcatel

Native Networks	Optical Ethernet	US$55 million in cash	Mar 05
Right Vision	Software-based appliances that provide Internet access, email and Web applications	not disclosed	Nov 04
Spatial Wireless	a multi-standard mobile softswitch	US$250 million in stock	Sep 04
eDial	SIP-based platform and applications for conferencing of voice, data and video	US$27 million in stock and cash	Sep 04
WaterCove Networks	GPRS Gateway Support Node	not disclosed	Jan 04

http://www.alcatel.com
http://www.nativenetworks.com/

• In February 2003, Alcatel announced a partnership with Native Networks under which it is leveraging Native Networks' Metro Ethernet technology to introduce enhanced transport and aggregation of Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet services, along with Packet Ring functionality, for its Optical Multi-Service Nodes (OMSN) equipment. The companies said these new, managed Ethernet features could be introduced incrementally through an add-on card to existing OMSN networks, or equipped as needed in new installations.



• In July 2003, Native Networks raised $11.5 million in third round funding for its metro Ethernet over SONET/SDH solutions. The company's platforms can transport and aggregate Metro Ethernet packets alongside legacy circuits/TDM services in their “native�? form over existing optical networks. The equipment can support Layer-2 Metro Ethernet services such as Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS). The funding round was led by Infinity and JVP. Other existing investors taking part in the round were Alta Berkeley Venture Partners, Anschutz Investment Company, Apax Partners, Delta Capital Investments, Israel Seed Partners, SkyPoint Capital Corporation, and Soros Private Equity Partners. At the time, Native Networks' total funding stood at $39.5 million.

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NeoPhotonics Acquires Stake in China's Largest Optical Supplier

NeoPhotonics, a developer and manufacturer of PLC-based (planar lightwave circuit) integrated optical modules and subsystems , has become the largest shareholder in Photon Technology Co., (Shenzhen) following the acquisition of all of the formerly state-owned, shares, or approximately one-third of all outstanding shares, for consideration of cash and stock. Terms were not disclosed.


Founded in 1993 as a majority state-owned enterprise, Photon has become China's largest manufacturer of "active" optical components for broadband access and backbone optical networks. Products include a vertically integrated line of cost effective component and subsystem solutions, from active component diodes and subassemblies through modules, subsystems and broadband equipment.


The companies said their merger would create "the broadest and deepest optical component capability in the industry today, with advanced solutions that combine active and passive components into products and modules." Specifically, the two companies combine next generation passive PLC technology with high volume laser and transceiver manufacturing capability.


Numerous new product collaborations already are underway, including the integration of active lasers with passive filtering and alignment on a PLC substrate for low cost triplexers for FTTP, as well as transceiver modules and integrated ROADMs.
http://www.neophotonics.com
http://www.photontec.com

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Intel Founder Gordon Moore to Receive Marconi Lifetime Achievement Award

Gordon E. Moore, who in 1968 co-founded Intel, has been named the Marconi Society's 2005 Lifetime Achievement recipient. Moore is widely known for his 1965 prediction which stated that the number of transistors the industry would be able to place on an integrated circuit would double every year. In 1975, the timeline was updated to once every couple of years.


Gordon Moore is the third person to receive the Marconi Society's Lifetime Achievement Award during the organization's 31-year history. In 2000, the award was presented to mathematician Claude E. Shannon, the founder of modern information theory who invented the concept of the bit, and in 2003, to William O. Baker, who, as director of research and later president of Bell Laboratories, oversaw the development of a wide array of technologies that earned its researchers eleven Nobel Prizes during his tenure at the helm.


The Marconi Society (formerly, the Marconi Foundation) is named for 1909 Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi, whose early experiments with Hertzian waves led to the wireless revolution of the 20th century. http://www.marconifoundation.org

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Sweden's Citylink Selects Juniper's J-series Router

Citylink, the fifth largest Swedish alternative operator providing business services, is upgrading its customer premises equipment with the Juniper Networks J-Series Services Router. Working with local channel partner, Imtech Sweden, the upgrade will enable Citylink to deliver premium managed IP services, including voice, video and VPNs with QoS from the core of the network to the customer premise.


Citylink's core IP/MPLS network was built using Juniper Networks M-Series routing platforms in early 2003. The J-Series uses the same modular JUNOS operating system as the network's core. Financial terms were not disclosed.


Citylink was founded in 2001 by Industrikapital and six local energy companies.
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Ericsson Tightens Employee Stock Option Program

The Board of Ericsson has, after discussions with major shareholders, decided to increase the upper threshold of the performance target in the Performance Matching Program for senior managers. The change means that maximum matching shares will be allocated if the average annual growth of Earnings Per Share (EPS) between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2008 is at or above 15 percent, instead of 12 percent as previously proposed.

Ericsson's Long Term Incentive Plan 2005 has 3 parts:


1. The Stock Purchase Plan for all employees, under which participants invest in Ericsson shares during a 12 months period and after three years of holding are matched with one share for each one purchased (1+1).


2. The Key Contributor Program for up to 5,000 key contributors (approximately 10 percent of the total number of Ericsson employees), under which selected participants in the Stock Purchase Plan receive one extra matching share for each one purchased, totally two matching shares (1 + 1 + 1).


3. The Performance Matching Program for up to 220 senior managers, under which up to 170 selected senior managers can receive up to four extra matching shares for each one purchased (1 + 1 + 0-4), and up to 50 top senior managers up to six extra matching shares (1 + 1 + 0-6), totally up to five or seven matching shares, depending on the outcome of the performance target.
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ZigBee Alliance Expands Activities

The ZigBee Alliance, an industry group promoting low-cost, low-power wireless networks based on the ZigBee specification, announced a new level of membership, the Adopter Class, designed for companies looking to quickly and cost-effectively bring ZigBee-based products to market.



The Alliance is looking to expand its activities following the ratification of the final ZigBee specification in December 2004.



Adopter Class membership provides companies access to all final, approved ZigBee specifications. As these members develop, deliver and receive certification for their ZigBee products, they can use the ZigBee logo and marketing collateral to promote them. In addition, Adopter Class members will be able to attend interoperability events and ZigBee Alliance-sponsored workshops and developer conferences.



More than 27 companies are expected to demonstrate 802.15.4 and ZigBee-ready products at the Alliance's upcoming meeting in San Francisco. These companies include: Airbee, Atmel, Cirronet, Chipcon, Crossbow, CompXs, Daintree Networks, Dust Networks, Ember, EnOcean, Figure 8 Wireless, Freescale, Frontline Test Equipment, Helicomm, Integration Associates, Jennic Inc., Korwin, Luxoft, Microchip, Nanotron, OKI, Renesas, Sensicast, Silicon Laboratories, Software Technologies Group, UBEC, and ZMD. http://www.zigbee.org

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Heliocomm Debuts ZigBee Modules

Helicomm, a start-up based in Carslbad, California, announced its 8051-based IP-Link Embedded Wireless Module Family. Each module includes an IEEE 802.15.4 radio, a Silicon Laboratories 8051 microcontroller, programmable digital and analog I/O, flexible antenna solutions and choice of ZigBee or IP-Net networking software.


IP-Link Modules are available in both 2.4GHz and 915MHz frequencies, with three choices of FlashROM/RAM combinations.
http://www.helicomm.com

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China Telecom Deploys VPLS with Alcatel

Zhejiang Telecom, the second largest provincial subsidiary of China Telecom, is using Alcatel's 7750 Service Router to offer a Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) solution to deliver high-quality Ethernet services for enterprises. Alcatel believes this is the largest VPLS network in China, with more than 200 customers from the medical, transportation, and retail markets. The project was won through and implemented by Alcatel Shanghai Bell.


Zhejiang Telecom is using the Alcatel 7750 Service Router (SR) and Alcatel 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) to provide its customers with multipoint connectivity between corporate and subsidiary sites across the Zhejiang metropolitan area. Financial terms were not disclosed.


The Alcatel 7750 SR has also been chosen by China Telecom to be deployed in the operator's nationwide IP/MPLS network: ChinaNet2. It has also been deployed in the networks of all key China carriers including China Netcom, China Mobile and China Unicom.
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NTT's 2006 Plan Sees Shift from ADSL to Optical Access

Noting
the effect of wireless substitution, the rapid rise of VoIP, and
increased competition in both residential and business markets
from fixed line competitors, NTT East said it would accelerate
efforts to offer optical IP phone services. The company will
devote itself "to efficiently building optical access
networks as an infrastructure for broadband services and to
ensuring reliability in the field of telecommunications. "



In the coming year through March 2006, the actual number of ADSL
contracts at NTT East is expected to fall, while B-FLETS optical
connections reach one million circuits. For the ongoing optical
access build out, NTT East forecasting CAPEX of 170 billion yen,
up from 130 billion in the preceding year.

NTT East
-- Service Profiles though March 2006



Source:
NTT

Similarly, NTT West sees the fiscal year ending in March 2006 as
critical to its strategy to achieve a dramatic increase in users
of its optical access and IP services. NTT West will also push
its Fiber-optic IP Connection service, aiming to have 800,000 B-FLET's
optical access subscribers by next March, up from 400,000 today.
Its number of ADSL subscribers is also forecast to fall due to
the move to optical access.



NTT West plans to spend 160 billion yen for the optical access
build-out through March 2006, up from 150 billion yen this year.

NTT
West -- Service Profiles though March 2006

 

Source:
NTT

http://www.ntt.co.jpIn November 2004, Japan's NTT Group outlined its plans to migrate a majority of its customers to a next generation optical access and IP telephony network by 2010. This "medium-term management strategy" is aimed at advancing the company's long-term "Vision for a New Optical Generation," which NTT first disclosed in November 2002. Some specifics of the plan included:

• NTT intends to migrate the majority of its customers to an optical access network by 2010, taking into account the interests of customers and operators of related businesses. The company said maintaining both metal wire and optical fiber access and fixed telephone networks, as well as IP networks, is a burden on business operations and increases the cost to society.


• NTT will promote IP telephone services as an alternative to fixed line service and provide a variety of ubiquitous broadband services emphasizing high-speed and interactive features in order to shift 30 million customers from the existing metal wire and fixed telephone network to optical fiber access and next-generation network services by 2010.


• NTT will move to a flat-rate pricing structure which is not based distances, that gives customers service options that meet their requirements for quality, speed (data volume), reliability and security levels, and with varied rates depending on service content.


• NTT is currently reevaluating its existing fixed-telephone rates (basic rate, call rates, equipment installation rates) in light of the eventual move to IP telephony. It plans to announce a revision to its basic rates and other fees as a first step in this direction.


• NTT will promote Fixed-Mobile Convergence, whereby high-speed interactive video communications over optical fiber will be combined with mobile communications services to provide ubiquitous services that can be accessed from PCs, TV sets, mobile telephones or information appliances. Its next-generation network will be based on a common service foundation that merges mobile and fixed communications. Each NTT group company will fill a role that plays to their strengths.

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Agilent Shows 10 Gbps XENPAK Over 300m of MM Fiber

Agilent Technologies will demonstrate a 10 Gbps XENPAK fiber optic transceiver transmitting network traffic over 300 meters of multimode fiber at next week's OFC/NFOEC 2005. The demonstration will show Agilent's XENPAK fiber optic transceiver module, featuring EDC, transmitting a 10 Gbps data stream error-free over a distance of 300 meters using legacy multimode FDDI grade 62.5/125 micron fiber. The fiber optic cable will be flexed to vary optical signal polarization and stress the EDC's ability to accommodate a variety of incoming signal characteristics.


In addition, Agilent's Fiber Optic Products Division and Input/Output Solutions Division will demonstrate a 4 Gb/s optical link using its 4G multimode (MM) and single-mode (SM) Fibre Channel optical transceivers and 4G Tachyon Protocol ICs. The demonstration will showcase a PC server generating 4G traffic through an HBA initiator (using Agilent's 4G IC and 4G MM and SM transceivers) to a loop switch (using Agilent's loop switch IC and 4G MM and SM transceivers) that will send 4G traffic to an HBA target.


Agilent is leading the IEEE 802.3aq task force, which is defining a standard for using electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) with 10 Gbps serial Ethernet fiber optic transceivers to economically drive short-range transmissions over legacy multimode fiber. Corporate IT departments are demanding a cost-effective solution for the existing enterprise LAN infrastructure before widespread upgrades to 10 Gb Ethernet are implemented.


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Intel Outlines I/O Acceleration Technology

Intel outlined a set of silicon technologies that speed the interaction between network data and server applications by up to 30%. Intel also announced an agreement with Microsoft to support the technology in forthcoming operating systems. The Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAC) takes a platform approach to address the application performance issues -- such as Web commerce, messaging, storage and server clustering, which are beginning to overwhelm servers' responsiveness.


Intel said that while server CPU performance and network bandwidth has improved over the years, the primary method for moving data has not changed. Today, the processor in a server shoulders the total burden of processing, accessing memory and making protocol computations on every piece of data or packet. As a result, much of the processor's operation is diverted and response time, reliability and the end-users' experience can suffer.


The Intel I/O Acceleration Technology would break up the data-handling job among all of the components that make up the platform -- the processor, chipset, network controller and software. This would reduce the workload on the processor while accelerating the flow of data. The chipset and network controller would be given responsibility for moving data in and out of memory.


Intel has also optimized the TCP/IP protocol for Intel-based servers, which cuts the processor's workload in half, further freeing it to work on other jobs.


Intel said this new platform approach would remedy inadequacies in existing technologies, such as TCP offload engines (TOE), designed to offload the processor of TCP/IP processing. TOE dedicates a specialized and costly chip to offload the protocol computation, but it does not fully address system overhead or memory access, the two largest burdens on the CPU. As a result, TOE is effective only when packets payloads are large, such as those in high-performance database and data-warehousing applications.


Microsoft will provide native support for Intel I/OAT in future Windows Server releases. Those releases also will include technology that balances network TCP/IP traffic streams across multi-core CPUs.
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Microsoft Hires AT&T Wireless Executive to Lead Windows Team

Microsoft named former AT&T Wireless and E*TRADE executive Michael Sievert as corporate vice president for Windows product management.
Sievert will be responsible for marketing, product management and product planning for the Windows Client, including the next version of Microsoft Windows, code-named "Longhorn," slated for release in 2006.


Sievert comes to Microsoft via AT&T Wireless Services Inc., where he had served as executive vice president and chief marketing officer since 2002. In that post, Sievert was responsible for product management for the company's $15 billion core business.
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TiVo Granted Eight New Domestic and Foreign Patents

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued new patents to TiVo covering important aspects of DVR software and hardware design. TiVo also announced that it has obtained an exclusive license to an early DVR-related patent and has been granted Japanese and Chinese patents. Today's announcement brings TiVo's patent portfolio to 70 granted patents (domestic and foreign). In addition, TiVo has 106 domestic and foreign patent applications pending. Some of these include:

• U.S. patent number 6,850,691, entitled Automatic Playback Overshoot Correction System, describing a system that compensates for a user's reaction time when the user stops fast-forwarding or rewinding through program material.



• U.S. patent number 6,847,778, entitled Multimedia Visual Progress Indication System, which describes, among other things, methods for displaying a trick play bar to a user which visually indicates the amount of stored program material or the length of a recording session as well as the user's current position within the stored program material.



• U.S. patent number 6,792,195, entitled Method and Apparatus Implementing Random Access and Time-Based Functions on a Continuous Stream of Formatted Digital Data, which describes methods of controlling streaming media in a digital device, including the functions that enable DVRs to pause live TV as well as rewind, fast-forward, play, play faster, play slower, and play in reverse television signals cached by the DVR.



• TiVo has also acquired the exclusive right to license and enforce U.S. patent number 5,241,428 entitled Variable-Delay Video Recorder known in the industry as the Goldwasser Patent. Filed in March 1991, the Goldwasser Patent is one of the earliest patents regarding digital video recorders of which TiVo is aware. This patent covers devices that permit the simultaneous recording and playback of video material with a variable time delay between recording and playback of a given video program segment.

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Broadcom Introduces New PCI Express GigE Controller

Broadcom announced the latest chip offering in its NetXtreme II family of Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) converged network interface controllers (C-NICs). The new NetXtreme II C-NIC is the first to support the PCI Express bus architecture and its supports a TCP/IP offload engine (TOE), iSCSI, and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) on a single-chip platform.


Broadcom's C-NIC technology enables network protocol processing to be offloaded from the host to the C-NIC, thereby saving the server's CPU and memory I/O resources to perform their primary tasks.


The new chip represents the second generation of C-NIC silicon solutions from Broadcom. The first generation C-NIC is now in volume production. The new C-NIC is sampling to early access customers. Since PCI Express is the preferred LOM connection interface on most servers being designed today, Broadcom has enabled major server OEMs to incorporate the BCM5708 C-NIC into industry standard high-volume servers currently under development.

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Tekelec Notes Sales of Class 5 Switch to Two IOCs

Tekelec announced two new customers for its Tekelec 7000 Class 5 Packet Switch: Bloomingdale Telephone Company and Noxapater Telephone Company.


Noxapater Telephony Company, an independent operating company (IOC) in northern Mississippi, is deploying the Tekelec 7000 by the end of this year to provide a seamless migration to next-generation architecture while increasing capacity and satisfying local number portability requirements.


Bloomingdale Telephone has served the Bloomingdale, Mich., area since 1904 and today provides a diverse suite of services, including business and residential telephone and long distance services, cable and satellite television, wireless phone services and networking. The operator is growing rapidly to deliver services to the entire South West Michigan region. To support its expansion, Bloomingdale will install the Tekelec 7000 in a "cap-and-grow" deployment over its legacy switch. Bloomingdale plans also to deploy Tekelec's Packet Interface Card to provide IP connectivity for advanced multimedia services. Bloomingdale is also deploying Tekelec's Meritus and TelAssist solutions to offer hosted business voice services with enhanced features while leveraging its existing network equipment.
http://www.tekelec.com

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