MARCONI ACQUIRES MARIPOSA TECH. FOR ITS ATM ACCESS DEVICES
Marconi will acquire Mariposa Technology, a privately held developer of ATM-based Integrated Access Devices, for $268 million in stock (priced based on Marconi shares prior to closing).  Mariposa's customer premise products are used to converge and switch voice, video and data onto packet WANs.  Marconi said the acquisition is a natural extension of its Service Edge strategy and complements is own IAD products.  Mariposa has approximately 60 employees and is based in Petaluma, California.
http://www.marconi.com/news_events/press_releases/current/4821.html
Marconi, September 21, 2000

• Mariposa's product line consists of three integrated access device models. The ATX 50 IAD for small to medium sized offices can handle from as few as four to as many as 60 voice channels, plus H.320 video, Ethernet and Frame Relay over a single scaleable ATM interface.  The ATX100 provides from 4 to 60 compressed voice channels, Ethernet 10/100 and Frame data (Frame Relay or HDLC), and fractional T1/E1 structured circuit emulation service over a single ATM T1 UNI. The ATX 150, which is designed for medium and large sites, handles up to 120 voice channels with the same video and data capabilities.  
  

• Mariposa's IADs use both ATM Adaptation Layer-1 (AAL-1) and AAL-5 protocols for establishing switched virtual circuits (SVCs), and can determine which protocol to use based on the telephone number dialed by the subscriber.  The devices could be used with ATM SVCs to offer customer re-configurable bandwidth options.
  

• Mariposa Technology was founded in 1997 with financial backing from Ericsson and private investors. The company recently named Woodrow B. Cannon (formerly CEO of Digital Transmission Systems) as its new chief executive.   In May, Marconi signed a global OEM agreement for Mariposa's IADs.  
  

• Last month, Nortel Networks acquired Sonoma Systems, also a developer of ATM-based integrated access products, for $540 million.

AT&T BROADBAND SELECTS LIBERATE FOR INTERACTIVE TV PILOT
AT&T Broadband agreed to use Liberate Technologies' software platform for an interactive TV market trial beginning later this year.  The interactive TV services, which will be delivered via a Motorola DCT-5000 set-top box, will provide TV viewers with e-mail, chat, enhanced television, and Web destination sites formatted for television.
http://press.liberate.com/archives/2000/092100_att.html
Liberate, September 21, 2000

• Last week, UPC, Europe's largest cable TV network operator, awarded a key contract to Liberate Technologies for its interactive TV software platform.
  

• In July, Cisco Systems made a $100 million investment in Liberate.
  

• Motorola's DCT-5000+ set-top platform features a 347 MIPS processor, 32-bit 3D graphics engine, an optional hard drive, integrated DOCSIS-compliant cable modem and large memory cache.  http://www.gi.com/products.html

FOUNDRY NETWORKS REPORTS MAJOR CUSTOMER WINS:  YAHOO!
Foundry Networks reported a number of new customer wins for its high-performance switch/routers, totaling 32 new accounts since the end of June.  Key customers now include Yahoo!, AOL, Earthlink, Yahoo!, Google.com, Evoke Communications and Telocity.  Yahoo! has installed Foundry's NetIron800 routers and ServerIron traffic and content management systems in its GeoCities unit.  Earthlink is deploying Foundry's NetIron400 Internet routers with OC-12c/STM4 Packet Over SONET/SDH interfaces to support their OSPF and BGP4 networks.  http://www.foundrynetworks.com
Foundry Networks, September 21, 2000

KMC TELECOM SELECTS COPPERCOM FOR MULTISTATE VODSL ROLLOUT
KMC Telecom, a facilities-based CLEC headquartered in New Jersey, selected CopperCom's CopperComplete Architecture for a rollout of Voice over DSL (VoDSL) service in 15 markets.  KMC Telecom will install CopperCom Gateways to deliver up to 16 phone lines plus high-speed data over a single copper loop.  CopperCom's NEBS-compliant Gateway sits between the DSLAM and a Class 5 Switch at the central office.  Financial terms were not disclosed.  http://www.coppercom.com/press/KMC.htm
CopperCom, September 21, 2000

• Earlier this week, KMC Telecom filed SEC papers for an initial public offering (IPO).  As of June 30, KMC had 197,721 local access lines in service, up by 49,282 (33%) over the prior quarter.  Lines served on-switch, either by means of direct connections to the company's network or via unbundled network elements, increased to 180,058, up from 130,114 at the end of Q1.   
  

• In July, KMC Telecom raised $182 million in private equity from Lucent Technologies, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Private Equity Partners, CIT Lending Services, Nassau Capital Partners and Hal Kamine, the founder of KMC Telecom.
  

• Last December, Lucent Technologies announced a three-year contract to supply KMC Telecom with its 7R/E Packet Solutions, the PathStar Access Server and Stinger DSLAMs.

FUZION COMMITS ADDITIONAL $100 MILLION TO ADAPTIVE BROADBAND'S WIRELESS PLATFORM
Fuzion Wireless Communications (Fuzion), a start-up service provider headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, signed a five-year, $100 million contract with Adaptive Broadband to purchase additional AB-Access fixed wireless broadband equipment.  The deal, which is in addition to $100 million in contract commitments with Adaptive Broadband to date, will cover Fuzion's planned expansion into selected cities in Latin America.  Fuzion will use Adaptive's 2.5 GHz AB-Access MMDS product in its Latin American networks.  Deployments are slated to begin in Q4.  The company also plans to deploy advanced versions of AB- Access early next year with increased data throughput reaching 100 Mbps.
http://www.gofuzion.com  http://www.adaptivebroadband.com/hot_news.htm
Adaptive Broadband, September 21, 2000

• Fuzion's point-to-multi-point wireless network in the US uses the unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) radio band, which consists of three frequency bands of 100MHz each in the 5.8 GHz range.
  

• Fuzion currently has networks active in Tampa, Denver and Toronto.  Last month, Fuzion launched its first international service in Panama City, Panama as a local loop connectivity service for ISPs.

ALCATEL SUPPLIES ITS LMDS TO RETEVISION, MOVICOM BELLSOUTH AND FARMERS TELEPHONE
Alcatel announced contracts to supply its LMDS broadband wireless platform to Spain's Retevision, Uruguay's Movicom BellSouth and Farmers Telephone Cooperative of South Carolina. Financial terms were not disclosed.  Alcatel claims to have more than 54% of the worldwide market for LMDS, with 100 commercial and trial broadband wireless network rollouts and 3,000+ base station sector deployments.  http://www.alcatel.com
Alcatel, September 21, 2000

AMCC TO ACQUIRE SILUTIA FOR CMOS TRANSCEIVERS
Applied Micro Circuits Corp (AMCC) will acquire SiLUTIA, a start-up developing digital and mixed-signal communications silicon, for an undisclosed amount.  SiLUTIA is focusing on high-speed CMOS transceivers and I/O protocol controllers.  AMCC said SiLUTIA's mixed-signal devices and cores would be integrated into future AMCC PHY, framer, switch fabric, and, following the completion of the merger with MMC Networks, network processor solutions.  SiLUTIA was founded in 1999 and is located in Fort Collins, Colorado.  http://www.amcc.com  http://www.silutia.com/
AMCC, September 21, 2000

• In August, AMMC announced plans to acquire MMC Networks for approximately $4.5 billion in stock (Aug 27 prices).  MMC Networks is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in network processors, traffic management and switch fabric technology.