GLOBAL CROSSING SELECTS ALCATEL TO BUILD ITS SOUTH AMERICAN NETWORK
Alcatel was awarded a $700 million contract by Global Crossing to build its 18,000 km South American Crossing (SAC) cable. The undersea and terrestrial network will link seven countries by 2001 -- Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama, the US Virgin Islands (St. Croix), Brazil and Argentina. Alcatel will also be building the terrestrial link, called the Trans-Andean Crossing, between Las Toninas and Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago and Valparaiso in Chile. Global Crossing previously selected Alcatel to build the 6000 km Mid-Atlantic Crossing (MAC) off the east coast of North America (completion expected at year-end 99), and the UK to Belgium link of the Pan-European Crossing (completion expected at year-end 99). http://www.alcatel.com/press/current/1999/08_17.htm
Alcatel, August 17, 1999

U S WEST ADDS 10K ADSL LINES PER MONTH, 65% CHOOSE ITS ISP SERVICE
U S WEST said it is now adding an average of 500 new ADSL customers every weekday, or about 10,000 new accounts per month. The company now has nearly 60,000 DSL customers -- including 12,000 businesses. About 65% of the subscribers select U S WEST.net Internet access service. Its network has more than 1,000 DSLAMS deployed in nearly 250 central offices. Cisco Systems supplies equipment for the network.
http://www.uswest.com/news/081799.html
U S West, August 17, 1999

* 1.1 million simultaneous users at peak times (compared to 718,000 last year)

* nearly 475 million instant messages sent per day (283 million a year ago)

In addition, more than 50% of AOL accounts now log on at least five days weekly and nearly one-third (29%) are using the service every day of the week. http://www-db.aol.com/corp/news/press/view?release=723
America Online, August 17, 1999

CHELLO CABLE MODEM SERVICE REACHES 52K SUBSCRIBERS
United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) chello's residential cable modem business grew some 50% during Q2 to reach 52,677subscribers.  The company's Austrian network accounts for 21,338 Internet subscribers. chello also completed its first non-affiliate agreements with cable operators in Austria, Belgium and recently in France representing some 165,000 homes. During Q2, UPC's consolidated cable TV subscribers increased from 2,395,091 to 2,776,273.  
UPC, August 17, 1999

EXCITE@HOME ANNOUNCES SET-TOP BOX APPLICATIONS
Excite@Home will offer a suite of broadband, IP-based applications tailored for television set-top boxes of its cable partners. The set-top applications, which will provide navigation through television channels, interactive services, and Web content, will use Excite@Home's national IP backbone and regional caches of web content. http://www.home.com
Excite@Home, August 17, 1999

RCN SELECTS CIENA'S 40-CHANNEL DWDM PLATFORM
RCN Corporation will deploy Ciena's 40-channel MultiWave Sentry DWDM system in East Coast network. RCN currently provides Internet access to more than half a million customers -- nearly all strategically targeted in the Boston to Washington, D.C. corridor. The first order was valued at $7 million. http://www.ciena.com/news/archive/1999/08/08.17.1999pr.html
Ciena, August 17, 1999

WINSTAR GRANTED 18 ADDITIONAL 38 GHZ LICENSES BY FCC
WinStar Communications was granted 18 additional licenses in the 38 GHz spectrum by the FCC in regions adjacent to the top 60 markets in which its is building its local broadband network, including New York, Minneapolis, Kansas City, San Diego, San Jose and Norfolk. The new licenses cover in excess of seven million new channel pops and were obtained at no cost to the company. http://www.winstar.com/indexNews.htm
WinStar Communications, August 17, 1999

CYPRESS CHANGES FOCUS TO DEVELOP MEMORIES FOR BANDWIDTH RATHER THAN DENSITY 
Cypress Semiconductor will change its strategy to develop and optimize specialty memories for increasingly fast multiport and first-in, first-out (FIFO) memories used in networking applications. The company recently introduced its first "Internet" memories, a dual-port SRAM with two 36-bit-wide ports each operating at 100 MHz. The device offers bandwidth up to 7.2 Gbps.  Cypress expects to announce a new bandwidth optimized product within the next two months. It aims to break the 10 Gbps barrier in the first half of next year and to achieve 25 Gbps later next year.  http://www.cypress.com/press/releases/990817.html
Cypress Semiconductor, August 17, 1999

LARA TO INTEGRATE MIPS-BASED PROCESSOR CORES FOR VOIP SYSTEMS
Lara Technology announced an agreement with MIPS Technologies to integrate 32-bit MIPS-based cores into the Lara MediaExpress processor. The device would provide a very high performance VoIP switching element. http://www.laratech.com/whatsnew.frameset.htm Lara Technology, August 17, 1999

TELSTRA DEPLOYS 100TH NORTEL PASSPORT SWITCH
Telstra installed its 100th Passport switch from Nortel Networks in its national Switched Data Network (SDN). The network is currently transporting more than 40 terabytes of data per month. Nortel Networks noted that 12,000 Passport switches have been shipped to Frame Relay service providers around the world. http://www.nortelnetworks.com/corporate/news/newsreleases/1999c/8_16_9999524_telstra.html
Nortel Networks, August 17, 1999

RAYTHEON DEMONSTRATES TWO-WAY, KA-BAND SATELLITE CONNECTIVITY
Raytheon's commercial SatCom terminal business unit demonstrated multimedia connectivity using a one-meter dish and a two-way Ka-Band satellite link. The tests used NASA's Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), the only non-military Ka-Band satellite currently deployed over the Western Hemisphere. A DS-1 ATM link across the ACTS satellite was used to simultaneously support LAN to WAN connectivity at greater than 700 Kbps, video conferencing at 512 Kbps, ISDN at 192 Kbps and dual 64 Kbps telephony. Next-generation, two-way satellite communications networks are expected to use Ka-Band satellites. Raytheon and its network of partners are developing low-cost broadband satellite customer premise equipment. http://www.raytheon.com/
Raytheon, August 17, 1999

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