| v7n230 |
30-Nov-00 |
1. Verizon Terminates NorthPoint Merger Agreement
2. Spirent Introduces Multiprotocol Label Switching Performance Analysis System
3. Hitachi Pushes Native IPv6 Router Support to OC-48c
4. Microsoft Selects Exodus Hosting Services
5. Philips Demos MPEG-4 Streaming over HFC
6. Motorola and Geyser Show Optimized SONET Platform
7. Broadcom Shows Residential Gateway Reference Designs for Cable
8. Net2Phone Signs Broadcom and Motorola for VoIP over HFC
9. Tellabs and Riverstone Enter Worldwide Strategic Alliance
10. BellSouth Deploys Nortel's Shasta 5000 for IP Services over DSL
11. Clarendon Photonics Targets DWDM Components and CMOS-compatible Fabrication |
| v7n229 |
29-Nov-00 |
1. Level 3 Announces Dark Fiber Deals Valued at $700 Million
2. XO Communications Outlines European Broadband Strategy
3. Net2Phone Routes its Billionth IP Telephony Minute
4. CableLabs Releases PacketCable Specifications for Interdomain Services
5. OIF Elects Board Members, Forms Carrier Working Group, Advances OC-768 Specs
6. Broadcom to Acquire VisionTech for its MPEG-2 Chips
7. Cisco Systems Introduces Enterprise IP Phones
8. Digital Island Awarded US Patent for Content-Aware Routing
9. Integrated Micromachines Raises $45 Million for its 2nd Generation MEMs
10. Rhythms Raises $50 Million in Vendor Financing, Defers Dividends to Fund Rollout
11. ADC Reports Sales of $1.03 Billion, Up 63%
12. Broadcom Samples All-CMOS Bluetooth Radio Chip |
| v7n228 |
28-Nov-00 |
1. Excite@Home Introduces Online Software-Subscription Services
2. SBC and Cisco Offer Bundled Enterprise Networking Solutions
3. SBC Announces OC-192 Local Optical Service Availability
4. Agilent Acquires Objective Systems Integrators for $665 Million
5. Marconi Acquires AMTEC for its IP Encryption Systems
6. Covad Cuts Staff by 13%, Holds Network Expansion to 2,000 Central Offices
7. Cox Approves ADC's IP Access Switch for Cable Modem Termination
8. Raza Foundries Funds Pacific Broadband Communications for Last
Mile Platforms
9. Intel Invests in Zayante for 1394 Home Networking
10. Radiata and ShareWave Announce Partnership
11. BoostWorks Raises $21 million for its Web Acceleration Software |
| v7n227 |
18-Nov-00 |
1. PMC-Sierra Enters Wireless Infrastructure Market with DSP-Controlled Power Amplifier
2. AT&T Broadband Slows Deployments, Cites Excess Inventory
3. iBasis Reaffirms Internet Telephony Potential, Holds Back on Further Network Expansion
4. Zenastra Photonics Invests $40 Million in Manufacturing Facilities
5. Lenslet Labs Raises $26 Million for its Optical Signal Processing
6. Telesat Canada Launches World’s Most Powerful Communications Satellite
7. Ericsson Forms New Company Focused on Bluetooth |
| v7n226 |
18-Nov-00 |
1. MAYAN Networks Enhances Its Smart SONET Box
2. MSN/Net2Phone Service Completes 44 million calls in 90 days
3. Verizon Wireless Tests Lucent's cdma2000 1xEV at 2.4 Mbps
4. BT Invests in wcities for Location Based Services
5. Marconi Invests in Time Domain Corp. for its Ultra Wideband Wireless
6. Finisar Acquires 3 Companies: Demeter, Shomiti, and Transwave
7. Fujitsu Launches Multi-Service Access Controller For xDSL Enabled Set-top
8. Zaffire Names New CEO
9. e.spire Retains Credit Suisse First Boston, Considers Strategic Alternative
10. Lucent Reports $125 million Accounting Error
Conference Announcement: MPLS Next Generation Networking, 15-18 Jan 2001, London
Converge! Network Digest will not be published on November 23 and 24 in observance of Thanksgiving in the US. |
| v7n225 |
21-Nov-00 |
1. Agility Introduces Widely Tunable Lasers Covering 100 ITU Wavelengths
2. Teleglobe Signs US$400 Million Optical Deal With Nortel Networks
3. 360networks Installs Nortel Networks’ OPTera Long Haul 1600 Optical
4. Net2Phone Teams with CallWave for Free Internet Answering Machine
5. Time Warner to Allow Earthlink ISP over Cable, Pending AOL Merger Approval
6. QUALCOMM Expands NEC's CDMA License for 3G CDMA
7. Malibu Networks Outlines its OFDM Fixed Wireless Systems
8. Phone.com and Software.com Combine to Form Openwave Systems
9. TeraConnect Spins out of Lockheed, Targets Optical Components
10. Bravida Raises $33 Million for Optical Internetworking
11. Cable & Wireless Appoints CTO
Conference Announcement: FT World Telecommunications 2000, December 4th and 5th, London
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| v7n224 |
18-Nov-00 |
1. Deutsche Telekom Tests Record 160 Gbps Line Rate Transmission
2. Cable & Wireless to Carry Yahoo! Europe Traffic
3. WorldCom Launches its First MMDS Access Service in the US
4. Zama Networks Raises $17.5 Million for an IPv6 Backbone Network
5. Symmorphix Secures $25 Million for Optical Component Technology |
| v7n223 |
17-Nov-00 |
1. Spirent to Acquire Hekimian for its Network Service Assurance Systems
2. Sycamore Adds Dynamic Service Mapping to its Optical OS
3. Vodaphone Selects Sycamore's Optical Switching
4. FCC Issues 3G Wireless Report on Spectrum Reallocation
5. Band-X Appoints CEO – Reports First Web Trade of Coast-to-Coast Wavelength
6. Looking Glass Networks Orders Several Hundred Thousand Kms of Corning Fiber
7. Touch America Secures $400 Million for its Network Build-out
8. PSInet Retains Goldman Sachs, Contemplates Sale
9. BellSouth Targets 600,000 DSL Accounts in year 2001, a 200% Growth Rate
10. Samsung and GEO Show MPEG4 Video Cell Phone
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| v7n222 |
16-Nov-00 |
1. Broadwing's NY Web-Hosting Center Sells Out in First Day
2. AT&T Opens Internet Data Center in Chicago Area to Heavy Demand
3. Equinix Secures $150 Million in New Financing for its Internet Business Exchanges
4. Global Crossing Tests Lucent's 40 Gbps Transmission
5. Avanex Receives DWDM Patent, Tests 1,000 Wavelengths in the Lab
6. Southern Cross Cable Activates Service between Australia, NZ and US
7. Lucent Supplies SDH and Aerial Fiber for Russia's TransTeleCom
8. 3Com Acquires Alteon Websystems' Gigabit Ethernet NIC Business from Nortel
9. Cinta Raises $36 Million For Wavelength Switching and Transmission System
10. MeshNetworks Raises $26 Million for Peer-to-Peer QDMA Wireless Technology
11. Beijing Bell Selects Tellabs' SALIX 7000 Switching Systems
12. Riverstone and Sonus Form Marketing/Sales Alliance
13. Aeneas Selects Coppercom's Local Exchange Softswitch
14. ONI Systems and AMCC Sign Silicon Supply Agreement
15. Hughes Deploys CacheFlow Caches on its DirecPC Satellite Service
16. Radiant Photonics Names Joe Savage As CEO
Conference Announcement: MPLS Next Generation Networking, 15-18 Jan 2001, London |
| v7n221 |
15-Nov-00 |
1. NetPlane Adds Enhanced Traffic Engineering to its MPLS Software
2. 360networks Implements MPLS-based Global IP
3. PMC-Sierra Announces 2.5 Gbps ATM Layer Silicon
4. Metromedia Offers Dark Fiber Internet Connections
5. LuxN Selected By Metromedia for its New Virtual ISX Service
6. Cisco Systems to Acquire Radiata for its 54 Mbps Wireless LANs
7. Cisco and Corning Enter Optical Alliance
8. Ericsson, SmarTone and BT Test IPv6 in Mobile Networks
9. IP Communications Selects Lucent's Voice/Data
10. Europe's DANTE Backbone Deploys Juniper's M40 Routers
11. Inkra Networks Raises $26.5 Million for Data Center Systems
12. DISH Passes 5 Million US Customer Milestone for Direct Broadcast Satellite TV
13. UPC's Chello Reports 264,000 Cable Modem Users on its European Networks
Conference Announcement: MPLS Next Generation Networking, 15-18 Jan 2001, London |
| v7n220 |
14-Nov-00 |
1. Cogent Launches its 100 Mbps Ethernet Access Service at $1,000/month
2. Korea's Hanaro Telecom Reports 531,039 ADSL Users, 299,245 Cable Modem Users
3. Agilent Announces 12-Channel Parallel Optical Link Modules
4. Vendors Form OSS through Java Initiative
5. GTS to Sell Voice Business and Central Europe Operations in Restructuring
6. iBasis and IPirion AG Interconnect Their VoIP Networks
7. France Telecom Selects net.com's Service Creation Manager
8. Lucent Introduces Provisioning Software for Broadband Services
9. Asante Offers Desktop Gigabit Ethernet Adapters for $150
10. Western Multiplex to Acquire Adaptive Broadband
11. Spike Broadband Secures $47 Million for its Spectral Reuse Broadband Wireless
12. Malibu Networks Garners $30 million for its OFDM Wireless
13. Codeon Names CEO, Targets 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps Modulators
14. Blaze Network Products Raises $40 Million for Optical Subsystems
15. SS8 Networks Brings in $25 million for its Internet Signaling Platform |
| v7n219 |
13-Nov-00 |
1. Microsoft Targets Web services with Visual Studio.NET
2. Microsoft and SAGEM Launch First Pocket PC with GSM/GPRS
3. Gateway Launches Consumer Touch Pad with Instant AOL
4. Gateway and Broadcom Partner for Internet Appliances
5. Netpliance Shifts Business Model for its Internet Appliances
6. Intersil Offers Silicon Design for Small Wireless Gateways
7. Cisco to Acquire Active Voice for its Unified In-box Application
8. IRI, NEC and Matsushita Form Broadband Exchange Inc.
9. Canada’s Shaw Communications to Develop Ka-Band Satellite Access |
| v7n218 |
10-Nov-00 |
1. BT Announces Restructuring, New Wholesale Services Carrier
2. FCC Seeks Secondary Market for Radio Spectrum
3. Pluris Raises $100 Million for its IP Core Router
4. Bandwidth9 Secures $80 Million for Tunable "Wavelength-on-Demand" Components
5. Reliacast Garners $35 Million for its Content Delivery Management Software
6. Global Crossing to Test Lantern's Resilient Optical Packet Rings
7. AMCC Supplies Silicon for Alcatel's New Core Router |
| v7n217 |
09-Nov-00 |
1. Alcatel Introduces Core IP Platform, Edge Services Router
2. McLeodUSA Outlines Move to Mesh-Switch Fiber Architecture
3. AT&T Offers Private Label Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) Dial Services
4. 3Com and Copper Mountain Target VPNs over DSL
5. Lucent Launches Environmentally-hardened DSLAMs
6. AudioCodes Introduces cPCI Media Gateway
7. Lumentis AB Secures Funding for Optical Solutions
8. ATEN Shows USB 2.0 Hub for Peripheral Connectivity at 480 Mbps |
| v7n216 |
08-Nov-00 |
1. Quantum Bridge Extends its Passive Optical Access to In-Building Copper Networks
2. IBM and Kymata to Jointly Develop Optical Components
3. Servecast.com Raises $35 Million for European Content Delivery Network
4. XO Communications Selects Softswitching from Sonus Networks
5. BayRing to Deploy Convergent Networks’ Broadband switch
6. Zhone Debuts Compact Voice Gateway, IAD Products
7. Hybrid to Develop Non-Line-of-Sight Wireless Modems Using Conexant Chip
8. NetVoice Carries 328 Million in Q3, Up 150% Over Q2
9. Telekom Malaysia Deploys Juniper's M40 Routers |
| v7n215 |
07-Nov-00 |
1. Marconi Announces its Next Generation IP/MPLS/ATM Switch Router
2. Broadcom to Acquire SiByte for its MIPs Network Processors
3. Cambrian Selects Cisco for End-to-End IP+Optical Network
4. Corvis and Juniper Complete OC-192c Optical-IP Tests
5. Motorola to Resell Geyser Networks' Multi-service Optical Platform
6. Spirent Partners with KPN Research on DSL Testing
7. OFDM Forum Submits Fixed Wireless Access Standard
8. StarBand Launches its 2-Way Satellite Internet Access for the US
9. NARUS Raises $26 Million for its IP-Usage System
10. Alcatel Ships 5 Million DSL Central Office Lines, Including 1.7 Million in Q3
11. Intel Introduces DSL Network Processors
12. Turnstone Issues Earnings Warning, Cites Weakness from CLECs
13. Cisco Reports Quarterly Sales $6.52 billion, up 66% |
| v7n214 |
06-Nov-00 |
1. NGN2000: Breakthroughs in Optical Switching, Is it all Done with Mirrors?
2. Sprint Cuts Forecasts, Focuses on Wireless and Internet Services
3. Intel Online Services to Offer Akamai Content
4. GN Netcom Introduces DSP-powered Digital Headset with USB port for VoIP
5. Metaswitch and Woodwind Test ATM Forum’s BLES Spec
6. UPC Selects Sorrento’s Regional DWDM |
| v7n213 |
03-Nov-00 |
1. NGN2000: Bandwidth to Burn
2. NGN2000: Gigabit Ethernet in Public Networking
3. NGN2000 Keynote: Juniper Networks’ Scott Kriens on the Emerging IP Infrastructure
4. PSINet Issues Earnings Warning, President Resigns
5. Genuity Reports Accelerating Revenue Growth of 70%
6. Dialpad Secures $50 Million Investment, Reports 10 Million Registered Users
7. Sonus Networks to Acquire Telecom Technologies for its Softswitch
8. Astral Point Wins Contract From Advanced Telcom Group
9. ADVA Offers SCSI Over IP For SAN Interconnect Gateways |
| v7n212 |
02-Nov-00 |
1. NGN2000: Super Carrier Strategies…
2. NGN2000 Keynote: Excite@Home’s George Bell on the Future of Broadband Portals
3. WorldCom Lowers Forecasts, Confirms Tracking Stock Split
4. AT&T Broadband Launches Cable ISP Choice Trial
5. Covad CEO Resigns Following Disappointing Quarter
6. Q3 DSL Deployments for the US
7. IBM to Manufacture EZ Chip’s 10 Gbps Network Processors, Acquires 5% Stake
8. Chorum Technologies Files for IPO
9. Shaw Ventures Invests In Terawave for its Passive Optical Networking
10. VocalData Nets $32 Million in Funding for its Softswitch
11. YAFO Networks Names Paul J. Finke CEO
12. Sony Announces 5.25-inch Recordable Disk with 40 GB of Storage |
| v7n211 |
01-Nov-00 |
1. NGN2000: Where the Net is Going Next
2. NGN2000: The Internet Scalability Crisis
3. NGN2000 Keynote: UUNET’s John Sidgmore
4. Alcatel Invests $1 Billion in 360networks, Signs Undersea Cable Projects
5. EPIK Taps Sycamore Networks for Transport Equipment
6. BellSouth Selects Cisco To Develop Optical-Based Internet Exchange
7. Qwest Signs Wholesale Contract Worth $600 Million with McLeodUSA
8. Centerpoint Closes $130 Million for its Subcarrier Multiplexing Optical Transport
9. Kymata Secures Additional $67 Million for its Planar Optical Components
10. AT&T to Test NEC 160 Channel DWDM System
11. Cinta Names Tellabs Exec as CEO
12. Integral Access Names Lucent Exec as CEO |
