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ADTECH
INTRODUCES CORE NETWORK MONITORING AND ANALYSIS SOLUTION
Adtech introduced a new
Service Level Agreement Monitor (SLAM) system to measure service
levels and guarantee performance contracts over carrier-class
networks. The active
monitoring system uses Adtech’s AX/4000 Broadband Test System in
the customer premise as a probe for injecting test cells into the
network and then logging trip delay and other SLA parameters.
Data is gathered continuously and reported regularly to a
centralized server. The SLAM monitors Layer 2 traffic sources such
as ATM or Frame Relay or Layer 3, IP traffic sources.
Adtech is partnering with Quallaby to match the SLAM system
with software for network management and service assurance.
Quallaby's newly released PROVISO 2.0 platform provides for
distributed data collection and data import of SNMP and non-SNMP
data into a centralized database.
Integrated software modules offer scalable data management,
aggregation, storage, and retrieval capabilities.
Quallaby also provides a web-based portal for on-demand
network reports for both customers and network operators.
http://www.adtech-inc.com/pages/news.asp
http://www.quallaby.com
Adtech, June 2000
QUALLABY
RECEIVES NEW BACKING FOR ITS NETWORK PERFORMANCE DATABASE
Quallaby,
a start-up developing network performance management software,
raised $15 million in new venture financing.
The company recently released a new version of its network
monitoring and service assurance solution featuring the Sun
Solaris platform and Oracle 8i scalable databases.
Investors include HarbourVest Partners, Brinson Partners,
Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Commonwealth
Capital Ventures. Quallaby
was founded in 1996 in Paris, France and now has its headquarters
in Lowell, Massachusetts.
http://www.quallaby.com
Quallaby, June 12, 2000
CHINA
MOBILE, THE WORLDS LARGEST WIRELESS CARRIER, SELECTS IBASIS FOR
INTERNET TELEPHONY
China
Mobile Telecommunications, which ranks as the world's largest
mobile carrier with 46 million customers, selected iBasis to
provide global Internet telephony for its users.
In
addition, iBasis will be able to terminate its international
traffic onto China Mobile's network.
China's Ministry of Information Industry predicts the
number of domestic mobile phone users will reach 160 million in
2005.
http://www.ibasis.net/News/pr06122000.htm
iBasis, June 12, 2000
GLOBAL
CROSSING DEPLOYS NORTEL'S QTERA LONG HAUL TRANSPORT PLATFORM
Global
Crossing will begin deploying Nortel Networks' OPTera Long Haul
4000 Optical Line System in the west coast portion of its US
network. The platform
transports 10 Gbps signals up to 2,500 miles (4,000 km) without
opto- electronic regeneration.
The initial installation will occur across a 1,450 km route
from Seattle to Sacramento. http://www.nortelnetworks.com/
Nortel Networks, June 12, 2000
- Nortel
Networks acquired Qtera in December for up to US$3.25 billion
in stock.
FRANCE
TELECOM'S GLOBECAST SELECTS GDC'S APEX PACKET SWITCHES
GlobeCast,
which provides end-to-end transmission and production services for
video, audio and business TV in markets worldwide, selected the
GDC APEX packet switch to build its new broadband network.
The company leases professional video interconnections on a
permanent or bill-per-usage basis.
GlobeCast's current network reaches 43 countries through
24-hour-a-day bookings on 60 satellites in 15 systems.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.gdc.com/corporate_news/cni_pr/global000612.shtml
http://www.globecast.com
GDC, June 12, 2000
LUCENT
INTRODUCES HIGH CHANNEL DENSITY, MODULAR DSPs
Lucent
Technologies Microelectronics Group unveiled its latest DSP
product family featuring more than four times today's typical
voice and data channels per chip for wireless switches, voice over
IP gateways and remote access servers.
The devices are based on the StarCore architecture
developed in partnership with Motorola.
StarCore DSPs use an efficient variable-length execution
set (VLES) architecture model that allows up to six executable
16-bit RISC instructions, and two prefix instructions to be issued
simultaneously with no alignment restrictions or space wasting NOP
(No Operation) padding. http://www.lucent.com/micro/NEWS/PRESS2000/061200a.html
http://www.starcore-dsp.com
Lucent Technologies, June 12, 2000
SOUTHAMPTON
PHOTONICS TARGETS OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Southampton Photonics, a start-up with roots in the
Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of
Southampton, UK, attracted first-round funding of $55 million to
develop optical components. The
company said its planned product range can be divided into three
categories; DFB fiber laser arrays which will provide closely
packed channels for DWDM and which will offer significant
advantages over semiconductors lasers; optical filters with
enhanced performance allowing more channels per optical fiber; and
broadband optical amplifiers. Investors include Quantum Technology
Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Interwest Partners and Sevin
Rosen.
http://www.southamptonphotonics.com
Southampton Photonics, June 12, 2000
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ORCHID
LIGHTWAVE RAISES $4.4 MILLION IN SEED FUNDING
Orchid
Lightwave Communications, a start-up based in Palo Alto,
California and Israel, raised $4.4 million in seed funding to
develop new kinds of advanced Integrated Optics devices and
subsystem level products. Plans
include ultra high frequency
modulators and transmitters that will use a technology that
enables transmission speeds up to four times that of present day
laser diode transmitters. Investors
include Ridgewood Capital, Global Catalyst Partners and Vertex.
http://www.ridgewoodcapital.com
Orchid Lightwave, June 12, 2000
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UCENT
AND SIROS DEVELOP VERY
SMALL APERTURE LASERS FOR DATA STORAGE
Lucent Technologies and
Siros Technologies, a start-up based in San Jose, California,
expanded their cooperation for commercializing Very Small Aperture
Laser (VSAL) technology. VSAL
focuses light into spot sizes as small as tens of nanometers in
diameter without the use of complex lens systems or more expensive
short wavelength lasers. The
technology offer the capability for two-way operation as both a
write and read element. Lucent
said VSAL lends itself to application in other optical and
electronic devices and systems beyond those in data storage.
Siros has demonstrated the
ability to write and read-back data in multiple thin layers within
the depth of a single optical phase change disk.
Using the three dimensional recording technology, a DVD
could hold 18 GB on a single-sided or 36 GB on a dual-sided disk
– the equivalent of 6 to 9 hours of HDTV programming (current
DVD-RAM recording capacity is 2.6 GB per side).
http://www.lucent.com/press/0600/000612.coa.html
http://www.sirostech.com/
Lucent
Technologies, June 12, 2000
ARES,
GLOBAL CROSSING, INTEL AND QUESTMARK INVEST IN TORNADO FOR UNIFIED
MESSAGING
Tornado
Development received $28 million in funding to support is rollout
of a Unified Messaging system providing access to voicemail,
email, fax and pager messages through one phone or Web inbox.
Global Crossing recently selected the Tornado UM platform
for its outsourced, value-added network services.
Investors include QuestMark Partners, Ares Management,
Global Crossing and the Intel Communications Fund.
Tornado, June 12, 2000
TRW
INVESTS IN SPACEBRIDGE NETWORKS
TRW
has taken a 10% equity stake in SpaceBridge Networks, a start-up
based in Quebec, Canada, and agreed to jointly develop broadband
wireless access products. The
deal also provides TRW with an exclusive license to SpaceBridge's
proprietary technology for extremely fast digital data switching
aboard spacecraft. TRW
is currently developing a Global Extremely High Frequency (EHF)
Satellite Network capable of providing high capacity connections
to locations not served by fiber.
http://www.spacebridge.com/
SpaceBridge, June 12, 2000
- SpaceBridge
was founded in August 1997, originally as a joint venture of
Newbridge Networks and COM DEV, an industry leader in
communication payload subsystem design.
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