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ALCATEL
ADDS ADSL TO DIGITAL LOOP CARRIERS, EXTENDING SERVICE REACH
Alcatel introduced new ADSL
line cards for its large installed base of Litespan digital loop
carriers. Carriers
could use the Litespan + ADSL solution to provide DSL services to
customers more than 18,000 ft from a Central Offices (CO).
Alcatel will offer the solution as an environmentally
hardened mini-DSLAM package for low-density subscriber DLC
situations. Alcatel's
Litespan platform is being used by every US RBOC and is a key
building block in SBC's $6 billion residential broadband
initiative, Project Pronto. http://www.alcatelusa.com/press/2000press/pr040600.htm
Alcatel, April 6, 2000
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Alcatel’s
largest DSL accounts include Bell Atlantic, SBC (Southwestern
Bell, Pacific Bell and Ameritech), BellSouth, Telekom Austria,
Telia, BT, Belgacom, Telefonica in Spain, France Telecom,
Telecom Italia, Singapore Telecom, PT Telecom of Indonesia and
others.
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In
October 1999, SBC announced "Project Pronto," a plan
to invest $6 billion over the next three years to deploy DSL
in approximately 1,400 central offices, to lay more than
12,000 miles of fiber, and install or upgrade 25,000
neighborhood broadband gateways.
GTE
INTERNETWORKING (BBN) CHANGES NAME TO GENUITY, SPIN-OFF
GTE Internetworking,
which is the former BBN Planet network, will again become an
independent company, known as “Genuity.”
The spin-off will occur as a condition for the approval of
the proposed merger between GTE and Bell Atlantic.
Genuity’s Internet backbone will have access to 17,000
miles of dark fiber and significant network assets.
http://www.genuity.com/
Genuity, April 6, 2000
LEVEL
3 SELECTS LOGICTIER TO MANAGE HIGH TRAFFIC WEB SITES
Level 3 Communications
awarded a five-year, $100-million agreement to LogicTier to manage
the high-traffic Web sites of its customers.
LogicTier is a start-up founded by former Webmasters who
built and managed the Internet's earliest and most active Web
sites, including Netscape Netcenter, ABCNews.com, ESPN.com,
USATODAY.com, washingtonpost.com and CNN.com.
LogicTier plans to build large, private-access hard-wall
suites within Level 3 colocation facilities.
http://www.logictier.com/
LogicTier, April 6, 2000
XACCT
AND CONVERGYS TO INTEGRATE IP BILLING AND CRM SYSTEMS
Convergys Corporation
agreed to integrate its Convergys' Catalys billing and customer
care solution with XACCT Technologies' XACCTusage IP billing and
mediation system. The
companies said their combined solution would enable
service-specific, usage-based pricing models for a wide variety of
IP-based services and applications such as VPN, VoIP and
Video-on-Demand. http://www.xacct.com
http://www.convergys.com
XACCT Technologies, April 6, 2000
MIND
RAISES $15 MILLION FOR IP TELEPHONY BILLING
MIND CTI, a start-up
based in Israel, secured $15 million in funding for its IP
telephony billing and customer care solutions.
MIND's iPhonEX Billing software integrates with major
IP Telephony gateways, including: Cisco, Ericsson, Lucent,
Netspeak, Nokia, VocalTec and others.
Its PhonEX Call Accounting solution, which is compatible
major PBXs, records all calls to and from an organization in a
customized database. MIND's
new financing was led by Summit Partners.
http://www.mindcti.com
MIND, April 5, 2000
ARTEL
VIDEO SYSTEMS OFFERS VIDEO ACCESS DEMULTIPLEXER DELIVERING MPEG TO
ATM
Artel Video Systems announced a packet-based MPEG video
switching platform for access to ATM and IP networks.
The new Cross Stream products can accept feeds from
satellite receivers, disk servers, encoders, stat-muxes,
conditional access devices and trans-coders.
An integrated MPEG switching engine is capable of breaking
MPTS's (Multi-Program Transport Streams) from video feeds into
SPTS's (Single Program Transport Streams), allowing downstream
devices to switch, multi-cast, and `jitter compensate' the video
streams on a per-channel basis.
http://www.artel.com
Artel, April 6, 2000
INTERNAP
FORGES BANDWIDTH & INVESTMENT AGREEMENT WITH 360NETWORKS
InterNAP Network
Services will provide Internet connectivity services to
360networks (formerly Worldwide Fiber Inc.) and will make an
equity investment in the company.
In return, 360networks will provide InterNAP with local and
long-haul fiber. http://www.internap.com/html/news_04062000.htm
InterNAP, April 6, 2000
NEWBRIDGE
NETWORKS REPORTS STRONGER THAN EXPECTED SALES
Newbridge Networks
reported strong demand for its core broadband switches and access
products, highlighted by major new contracts with New Edge
Networks, BT Belgium, AT&T Canada and Korea's Hanaro Telecom.
http://www.newbridge.com
Newbridge Networks, April 6, 2000
IMAGICTV
AND BELL SOUTH TEST TV OVER DSL
iMagicTV and BellSouth
will demonstrate interactive television over a simulated DSL
networks at next week's National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
Conference in Las Vegas. iMagicTV's
DTV Manager is an open, end-to-end software solution that delivers
and manage interactive digital television and integrated Web
services via the TV or the PC.
IMagicTV is a start-up based in Saint John, New Brunswick,
Canada. http://www.imagictv.com
IMagicTV, April 6, 2000
HONG
KONG TELECOM DEPLOYS UNISPHERE'S EDGE ROUTERS
Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Telecom has deployed
Unisphere's Edge Routing Switch (ERX) to expand its DSL services.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.unispheresolutions.com
Unisphere, April 6, 2000
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