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Citing lower-than-expected demand for DLP products used in televisions and projectors, Texas Instruments narrowed its 2005 expected ranges for revenue and earnings per share (EPS). The company’s new expectations for revenue are: Total revenue between $2910 million and $3030 million, compared with the prior range of $2900 million to $3140 million; Semiconductor revenue between $2550 […]
Marconi unveiled a new long-haul Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) radio system featuring very low power consumption and a footprint reduced by 70%. The Marconi Digital Radio System (MDRS) 155 EC digital radio relay system provides STM-1 or STM-4 signals over medium and long distances in the trunk and metro area of communication transmission networks. Marconi […]
8×8 and Uniden America Corporation introduced a fully integrated, service-ready whole house VoIP phone system. The Packet8-enabled UIP1868 is a 5.8GHz digital expandable corded/cordless phone with built-in VoIP. The unit is expandable with up to ten handsets. It incorporates Centillium Communications’ Voice Services Platform (VSP) and 8×8’s Internet telephony software to provide plug-and-play access to […]
Kagoor Networks introduced a new unique session border control capability designed for Tier 1 carriers and other large VoIP service providers. The new “On+Off the Path” functionality allows them to place Kagoor’s session border controllers within their chosen network design, rather than having to make material network changes to incorporate the session border controller. In […]
White Rock Networks, announced has acquired Seranoa Networks, a start-up based in Boxborough, Massachusetts, that supplies intelligent Service Edge concentrators. Financial terms were not disclosed. White Rock is provider of next-generation optical transport systems for metro markets. White Rock said the acquisition substantially broadens its market coverage “since their products reduce the costs of terminating […]
AudioCodes introduced its Mediant 1000 VoIP Media Gateway designed for carrier and enterprise applications. The compact media gateway interfaces between TDM & IP networks in enterprises or small-scale carrier locations. The open platform on the Mediant 1000 offers partners the option to host their own applications (e.g., IP-PBX or call center application) using a powerful, […]
Global Crossing launched a new VoIP LDS (local digital service) offer in the U.S., enabling enterprises to extend their local presence to more than 46 major business centers across the US. The new service allows enterprises to expand their addressable markets by offering their customers local numbers through a single connection from one provider. Customers […]
Vonage has selected Texas Instruments (TI) as its preferred provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) silicon and software. This agreement between the two companies encourages VoIP equipment manufacturers to use TI’s VoIP silicon and software technology when developing products for use on Vonage’s broadband telephony network. TI has been supplying solutions to the IP telephony […]
Texas Instruments is delivering fully functional wireless digital baseband devices from its advanced 65-nanometer (nm) CMOS process technology. TI said the 65-nm process and techniques effectively shrink the 90-nm design area by half, leveraging strained-silicon to boost transistor performance by 40 percent, and reducing leakage power from idle transistors by a factor of 1000. TI […]
Ditech Communications introduced a new voice processing platform designed to enable carriers to deploy universal transcoding and toll-quality VoIP services. Ditech’s new Packet Voice Processor incorporates the company’s high-density media processing subsystems. The system can be configured for up to 16 Gigabit Ethernet ports and can scale up to 50,000 transcoding and/or voice processing calls […]
Bell Labs has launched of a new research project that aims to use nano-textured surfaces to solve the extreme thermal management challenges of advanced electronic and photonic systems. The team will be spearheaded by researchers from Bell Labs’ new research laboratory in Blanchardstown, Dublin, who, in collaboration with three Irish universities and Bell Labs researchers […]
Colubris Networks, a start-up based in Waltham, Mass., secured $15 million in its third institutional round of funding for its WLAN systems. Colubris said it now has over 1,000 customers and 60,000 WLAN devices deployed worldwide and that it holds leading market share positions in the WLAN carrier, hospitality, transportation and retail segments. New investors […]
Coaxsys, a start-up based in Los Gatos, California, is supplying its IPTV in-home networking solution to McDonough Telephone Cooperative of Illinois. McDonough is the first member of the Western Illinois Video (WIV) group to achieve an in-home networking solution over existing wiring in the home. Coaxsys TVnet leverages in-home coaxial wiring to create an IPTV-ready […]