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Spirent Communications announced the SmartBits 10GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) Test System designed for testing 10GbE wide area equipment and networks. Spirent’s SmartBits 10GbE Test System provides detailed testing of WAN/LAN interface Ethernet, IPv4/v6 and MPLS, as well as SONET Frame and other metro network protocols. The system offers a suite of up to 12 ports of […]
AT&T Government Solutions and its team of subcontractors have been chosen by the Treasury Department to build and deploy the largest civilian agency network, serving more than 1,000 domestic locations and tens of thousands of users in the U.S. and overseas with an IP VPN. The Treasury Communications Enterprise (TCE) contract calls for three base […]
G2 Satellite Solutions, a subsidiary of PanAmSat, plans to launch a fully managed IP-networking service in the African and Middle East regions for government and military customers by using New Skies’ NSS-7 satellite. The service is designed to support ongoing humanitarian, diplomatic and military efforts throughout the region by offering highly secure IP-based enterprise networks. […]
The research laboratories of the Siemens Communications Group set a world record for mobile transmission capacity by transferring real time data at the rate of 1 Gbps (1,000 megabits per second), To achieve its record-setting high speed, Siemens combined an “intelligent antenna system” consisting of three transmitting and four receiving antennas with Orthogonal Frequency Division […]
Voiceglo will begin offering 14 new Canadian area codes for its Glophone service, with numbers for Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec. Voiceglo is also adding 31 new area codes available for cities in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Virginia and Wisconsin. Currently, more than 219 […]
Citing the rapid decline in the value of the U.S. dollar, Zarlink Semiconductor lowered financial guidance for its fiscal quarter ending December 24, 2004. In October, Zarlink had projected revenues of between US$49 and US$52 million and a net loss of US$0.01 to US$0.03 per share. The company anticipates that revenues will be near the […]
Infonet Services Corporation introduced new additions to its managed security services portfolio, including four new firewall options and a number of new layered security services to help enterprises eliminate risks resulting from employee use of the Internet. Infonet said its upgraded managed firewall (MFW) security controls are specifically aimed at a new generation of threats […]
Ikanos Communications unveiled two highly programmable chipsets supporting VDSL2, VDSL, VLR, ADSL2+, and ADSL, while providing interoperability with existing DSL equipment. Ikanos’ new suite of chipsets, which build on the company’s existing 100 Mbps broadband solutions for MxUs and Fiber Extension on carrier networks in Asia, are aimed at triple play deployments requiring multiple channels […]
Verilink announced the appointment of Timothy R. Anderson as Vice President and CFO. He previously served as CFO for Carrier Access Corporation. Verilink also announced plans to move its corporate headquarters to Centennial, Colorado (in the metro Denver area) from its previous location in Madison, Alabama. http://www.verilink.com
Broadcom announced an advanced video decoder/audio processor chip that supports H.264 advanced video compression technology, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10/Advanced Video Coding (AVC). The new Broadcom BCM7411 video processor chip, which is the company’s third- generation silicon implementation to support the H.264 video compression specification, could be used to significantly reduce the bandwidth required […]
Strix Systems, a start-up based in Calabasas, California, introduced a Wi-Fi cellular system designed for outdoor deployments in public safety, rural and metropolitan area networks. The Access/One Network OWS (Outdoor Wireless System), which builds on Strix’s indoor mesh system, utilizes multiple radios, multiple channels and multiple radio frequency (RF) technologies to build high performance mesh […]
The Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) has decided to deploy the Riverstone 15008 Ethernet Edge Router in the network’s core. Riverstone began shipping its RS routers to UTOPIA in August 2004. The entire UTOPIA project is expected to take three years to build at an estimated cost of $300 million. Upon completion, the UTOPIA […]
Fujitsu Limited and Cisco Systems announced a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches for the Japanese markets. Specifically, the companies agreed to jointly develop high-end routers and will collaborate on development of Cisco’s IOS-XR operating system for multi-terabit routers. This is the first time Cisco has joined with another communications equipment manufacturer in router […]