Salira Names Former Nortel and Qwest Executive as CEO
Salira Optical Network Systems named Ross Bernard Lau as its new president and CEO. Prior to joining Salira, Lau was president and CEO of Qwest Asia. Before that, he was...
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Acme Packet Closes $15 Million for its Session Border Controllers
Acme Packet, a start-up based in Woburn, Massachusetts, raised $15 million in second round funding for its session border controllers for service providers. Acme Packet's Net-Net products solve the critical...
West Ridge Networks Raises $8 Million in Seed Funding
West Ridge Networks, a start-up based in Littleton, Massachusetts, closed an $8 million Series A round of funding. The company is developing technology to enable large network service providers to...
Ericsson to Resell Atreus Systems' Service Fulfillment OSS
Ericsson will market and sell Atreus Systems' "xAuthority" as the service fulfillment engine within its IP service solution worldwide. The Atreus platform unifies front-end, customer-facing self-service portals with the back...
TeleSym Secures Funding for Wi-Fi Phones
TeleSym, a start-up based in Bellevue, Washington, raised $12.5 million in second round funding for its Wi-Fi phone software. The TeleSym software enables voice calling from mobile computers or PDAs...
Pedestal Networks Names ADC Executive as its New CEO
Pedestal Networks, a start-up based in Fremont, California, named Greg Daily as its new CEO, replacing Dan Kohn, general partner of Skymoon Ventures, who served as the interim CEO during...
InfiniCon Secures $15 Million for its 10 Gbps Fabric Designs
InfiniCon Systems, a start-up based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, secured an additional $15 million in series C funding for its shared I/O and switching solutions for next-generation server networks....
Telica Unveils PLUS, its Second-Generation Softswitch Architecture
Telica unveiled its new PLexus Unified Service Architecture (PLUS), a second generation, carrier-grade softswitch supporting a mix of legacy TDM, packet, Class 4, Class 5, wireline and wireless services. Telica...
Nuasis Raises $17 Million for IP Contact Center Software
Nuasis, a star-up based in San Jose, California, secured an additional $17.4 million in funding for its software solutions for the IP contact center market. The Nuasis NuContact Center is...
SnowShore Secures $2 Million Investment from Japan
Bell Net Corp., a Japanese systems integrator and provider of wholesale SIP services, has invested $2 million in SnowShore Networks, a developer of advanced multimedia servers. The strategic investment comes...
Lumeta Secures $3.5 Million for its IP Net Discovery Software
Lumeta, a supplier of enterprise network management and security solutions, secured $3.5 million in new funding. Lumeta's IPsonar software discovers, analyzes and reports on the operational state of IP networks....
Atreus Secures $13 Million for Service Activation Software
Atreus Systems, a start-up based in Ottawa, Canada, raised $13.0 million in Series C venture financing for its software solutions for the creation and activation of IP network and application...
Confluent Photonics Raises $3 Million for DWDM Chips
Confluent Photonics, a start-up based in Salem, New Hampshire, raised $3 million in Series B funding for its development of DWDM products for CATV and telecom carriers. Confluent Photonics Corporation...
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