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Global Crossing announced an upgrade to its 10,000-km UK backbone that paves the way for an eight-fold increase in core network capacity. Lucent Technologies implemented a DWDM core upgrade based on its LambdaUnite Multi-Service Switch (MSS) and the Navis Optical Management System (OMS). This will raise the potential capacity of each of the seven core […]
AudioCodes announced new analog VoIP media gateways as additions to its existing MediaPack product line. The MediaPack 112, MediaPack 114 and MediaPack 118 are the latest members of AudioCodes analog media gateway product line addressing the requirements of service providers and enterprises. The MediaPacks enable a range of applications including converged access, IP Centrex, fixed-mobile […]
BT will become Reuters supplier of network services in a contract under which Reuters is expected to spend in the region of $3 billion over eight and a half years. Under the deal, BT will provide and manage secure data networks for Reuters products and services worldwide. BT will also acquire Radianz, a leading financial […]
The FCC issued a waiver permitting radiated emissions from ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitters to be measured while the transmitter is in its normal operating mode. This waiver responds to the petition filed by the Multi-band OFDM Alliance Special Interest Group. The waiver provides greater flexibility and innovation in designing UWB devices. The FCC previously established regulations […]
The FCC adopted rule changes for cognitive, or “smart,” radio systems. The Commission modified and clarified certain authorization requirements for software defined and cognitive radios to facilitate the development of these technologies. It required that radios that incorporate software designed to be, or expected to be, modified by a party other than the manufacturer provide […]
The FCC adopted rules to open access to new spectrum for wireless broadband in the 3650-3700 MHz band (3650 MHz), implementing a hybrid approach that draws from both the Commission’s unlicensed and licensed regulatory models and providing for nationwide, non-exclusive licensing of terrestrial operations in the band using contention-based protocols. The FCC believes a streamlined […]
The Lake Washington School District, near Redmond, Washington, has selected Marconi’s ViPr Virtual Presence System for high-resolution video telephony and multimedia communications between remote school sites. The school district’s existing Wide Area Network is based on Gigabit Ethernet. Using ViPr’s always-on and virtual presence capabilities, team leaders from different schools can collaborate on academic projects […]
Global Crossing is continuing to decommission legacy switches in four additional cities throughout its MPLS network. The company’s first TDM switch was decommissioned in Chicago last year and replaced with Sonus VoIP switches. Since then, the company has decommissioned switches in its San Francisco hub and moved the traffic to VoIP switches in Sacramento. It […]
BroadVoice, an Internet telephony service provider, has selected UTStarcom’s F1000 Wi-Fi handset for deployment to its VoIP subscribers. Customers will be able to make VoIP calls from anywhere there is a Wi-Fi hotspot. UTStarcom said its F1000 handset has a standby time of up to 80 hours and talk time of 3 to 4 hours. […]
SaskTel has gone live with a video-on-demand (VOD) service offering Hollywood content secured by Widevine Technologies. Among the content being secured are movies provided by top Hollywood studios Warner Bros. International Television Distribution, Twentieth Century Fox and Sony Pictures Television International. SaskTel recently announced multi-year Video-on-Demand distribution agreements with all three studios. SaskTel introduced its […]
Spirent Communications announced availability of the Distributed Abacus IP Telephony Rollout Platform designed to assess and validate signaling performance and call quality in pre-production networks. The Distributed Abacus platform allows for centralized testing of service provider or enterprise pre-production networks, rather than consuming time and resources with site-by-site testing. Spirent’s Distributed Abacus platform treats multiple […]
Spirent Communications has enhanced its Abacus 5000 IP Telephony Migration Test System with H.235 VoIP gateway message encryption test capability. This enables network operators and equipment manufacturers to validate the effectiveness of signaling encryption for VoIP gateways and gatekeepers within a multi-zoned H.323 environment. VoIP architectures employ gateways to carry traffic from one network to […]
Passave, a supplier of FTTH chipsets, releasing a sophisticated forward error-correction (FEC) mechanism for Ethernet-based passive optical networks (EPONs). The FEC capability enables the use of low-cost, low-power lasers for delivering Ethernet over low-quality transmission lines, such as lines using aging fiber. Passave said the use of FEC doubles the reach of a FTTH network […]