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AKAMAI
EXPANDS INTO MANAGED DATA STORAGE, PARTNERS WITH SCALE EIGHT
Akamai Technologies introduced a scalable, globally
replicated, storage management service capable of delivering
content to end users via its network of media streaming servers.
By combining managed data storage with its steaming media
delivery system, Akamai will provide media customers with the
ability to intelligently
replicate and synchronize content with servers at the edge of Web.
Akamai's
StorageFlow offering uses EMC's Symmetrix Enterprise storage and
software managed by EDS, Network Appliance F700 Series File
Servers, and Scale Eight Inc.'s MediaStore service. Akamai layers
its replication, data management, availability and network
performance on top of the storage platform.
Target customers include content providers from the media and
entertainment, publishing, financial and software industries. http://www.akamai.com/html/nr/press/press174.html
Akamai Technologies, October 13, 2000
- Akamai
currently has 4,200 servers directly connected to 225
different telecommunications networks in 50 countries.
- Scale
Eight, a start-up based in San Francisco, is building an
Internet storage infrastructure service based on parallel
systems that combine hundreds of processors with thousands of
disk drives. The service is designed to scale to hundreds of
terabytes of intelligent storage capacity.
Scale Eight has raised $31.5 million in venture capital
funding to date from Oak Investment Partners, InterWest
Partners, CenterPoint Ventures and private investors.
The company was founded by Joshua Coates, previously a
software engineer with Inktomi.
http://www.s8.com/
CONTENT
BRIDGE ALLIANCE TO ADDRESS DISTRIBUTION AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES
Alteon
WebSystems, Intel and Sun Microsystems are among the founding
members of the Content Bridge Alliance, a new industry group that
will propose standards to the IETF, The World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) and others to address Internet interoperability issues
related to the distribution, delivery and management of content.
The companies believe that open technical standards are
needed for content distribution across multi-vendor networks.
Additional members of the group include Adero, Digital
Island, Exodus Communications, Genuity, Inktomi, Madge.web, Mirror
Image Internet and NetRail. http://www.content-bridge.com
Content Bridge Alliance, October 12, 2000
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The
Content
Bridge Alliance will propose
a new model for cross-network delivery in which changes in
content are seamlessly passed between operators and usage
information for that content is returned to the content
provider.
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Broadband
Content Delivery Forum: In
April, More
than 30 carriers and network equipment vendors established a
Broadband Content Delivery Forum (BCDF) to foster open
architectures for delivery or multimedia content over
broadband networks. Specifically,
the BCDF will work on mechanisms for a 'network login,' and
for service advertisements, allowing service providers to
recognize their subscribers and offer highly personalized
content and applications services.
The effort focuses on broadband content mediation and
delivery technologies. http://www.bcdforum.org
NET2PHONE
REPORTS 30,000 WEB SITE CUSTOMERS FOR ITS CLICK2TALK
SERVICE
Net2Phone
has signed up 30,000 web sites for its Click2Talk service since
launching the VoIP application in June of this year.
Click2Talk uses a Java applet to initiate a free phone call
from a customer’s PC to a live customer service representative
over the Web. Sample
customers already using the C include Lands' End and FTD.com.
Click2Talk is free for web site operators, as well as web
site visitors to any phone in the US, Canada, the UK and
Australia. http://www.click2talk.com/
Net2Phone, October 13, 2000
FLEXION
PARTNERS WITH TACHION TO DELIVER BROADBAND VOICE AND DATA SERVICES
Flexion
Systems and Tachion Networks signed a joint cooperation agreement
to deliver an end-to-end, high-speed broadband services solution
combining Flexion's integrated communications platform and
Tachion's Collapsed Central Office
switch. Flexion's
BusinessGuardian X300 is an integrated communications platform for
small businesses with between
8 and 64 employees. The
unit provides Internet access, Voice switching and PABX
functionality, Unified voice/email messaging, faxing,
auto-attendant, Windows 2000 Server and Exchange functionality and
remote operation control. Tachion
Networks' Fusion 5000 is a central office platform that provides
integrated transport, switching, routing and signaling in a single
platform. The
companies said their packet-based broadband solution would extend
the benefits of ATM from the core of the converged,
packet-switched network down to the small office.
http://www.flexion.com
http://www.tachion.com
Tachion Networks, October 16, 2000
US
AUCTIONS FOR 3G LICENSES NOW EXPECTED IN SEPTEMBER 2002
President Clinton
directed executive departments, federal agencies and the FCC to
cooperate with industry to identify spectrum that can be used by
third generation (3G) wireless networks, whether by reallocation,
sharing, or evolution of existing systems.
The Department of Commerce, the FCC and other federal and
military agencies will issue an interim report by November 15,
2000 on the current spectrum uses and potential for reallocation
or sharing of the bands identified at WRC-2000 that could be used
for third generation wireless systems.
The goal would be for the US to auction 3G licenses to
competing applicants by September 30, 2002.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/hot_releases/October_13_2000_4.html
October
13, 2000
LEVEL
3 TO PROVIDE FRANCE TELECOM WITH TRANSPORT FOR US NETWORK
Level 3 signed a 20 year contract valued at more than $100
million to provide France Telecom with long-term transport
services, colocation space and operation and maintenance services
throughout the United States.
http://www.level3.com/us/news/newsreleases/0,1268,20001013,00.html
Level 3, October 13, 2000
- Last month, France Telecom
selected Alcatel to design, build, install and maintain it
DWDM network across North America.
Nortel Networks was selected to supply its 10 Gbps
SONET transmission platforms.
The installation will cover 28 points of presence and
270 intermediary sites across the continent.
Commercial services over the backbone will be offered
under the Global One organization.
France Telecom plans to invest about US$ 200 million in
the project.
ERICSSON
TO ACQUIRE MICROWAVE POWER DEVICES FOR HIGH POWER AMPLIFIERS
Ericsson agreed to acquire Microwave Power Devices, a
developer of radio frequency and microwave linear high power
amplifier products, for approximately US$100 million.
Ericsson said MPD's technical expertise and volume
production experience in microwave linear amplifiers would be
important for the development of 3G products.
The amplifiers are key components in wireless base
stations. MPD is
based on Hauppauge, Long Island, and has 370 employees.
http://www.ericsson.net/pressroom/20001013-0008.html
http://www.mpd.com/
Ericsson,
October 13, 2000
THAILAND
LAUNCHES PUBLIC IP TELEPHONE NETWORK
The state-backed Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT)
launched a nation-wide IP backbone for carrying telephony traffic.
NEC served as system integrator, supplying IP telephony
gateways, remote access servers, routers, LAN switches and various
servers. In its
second phase of expansion, TOT plans to implement VoIP over
ATM. The contract for NEC and Mitsui was valued at 400
million yen ($3.7 million). http://www.nec.co.jp/english/today/newsrel/0010/1202.html
NEC,
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