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YAHOO!
TO ESTABLISH INTERNET EXCHANGES IN EQUINIX CENTERS
Yahoo! will establish "Yahoo! Internet Exchange" (YIX)
points in Equinix's neutral Internet Business Exchange centers.
By locating in the Equinix centers, Yahoo! will be able to
choose from a variety of ISPs, carriers and other service
providers participating in Equinix's open marketplaces for
Internet infrastructure services.
It will also enable Yahoo! Broadcast to eliminate
intermediate backbone transit by peering with ISPs through
Equinix's Gigabit Ethernet central switching fabric.
Yahoo! Broadcast estimates it will be able to reach as much
as 85% of the Internet community directly through partners under
the same roof. The
new Equinix Exchange service will be available initially in the
Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley IBX centers, followed by other
Equinix centers in 2001. http://www.equinix.com
Equinix, December 7, 2000
- Yahoo! Broadcast streamed more
than 15 million hours of audio and video programming in
September 2000.
- For September, Yahoo! reported
that cumulative registrations for member services grew to a
record 185 million, up from 155 million in June.
Overall Yahoo! traffic increased to 780 million page
views per day on average during September, compared to an
average of 680 million page views per day in June 2000.
- Equinix's list of customers also
includes AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Charles Schwab, EYT
(formerly Ernst & Young Technologies), Excite@Home, IBM,
InterNAP, Loudcloud, NorthPoint Communications, Ogilvy &
Mather, StorageNetworks and WorldCom.
BROADWING
DEPLOYS CIENA'S OPTICAL CORE SWITCH
Broadwing will
deploy Ciena's MultiWave CoreDirector optical switches on its
nationwide fiber network to deliver next-generation communications
services supported by automated, real-time optical provisioning,
restoration, protection and switching.
Broadwing said it chose an intelligent
optical mesh rather a SONET design in order to simplify its
network architecture, lower costs and support customized service
offerings. The
CoreDirector platform provides high-capacity optical switching,
dynamic network protection and restoration, and real-time service
provisioning. Broadwing
expects to be the first network provider to deploy CoreDirector's
mesh capabilities. The initial
CoreDirector systems are being deployed in Fort Worth, Atlanta,
New York and Washington, D.C.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.ciena.com/news/archive/2000/12/12.07.2000b.html
Ciena,
December 7, 2000
- Ciena's
CoreDirector switch initially supports 256 OC-48/STM-16 or 64
OC-192/STM-64 interfaces in a single bay with the ability to
scale to multi-bay configurations.
The platform provides OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4,
OC-48/STM-16 and OC-192/STM-64 transmission, including
wavelength switching, and is designed to support
OC-768/STM-256 in the future. The optical interfaces may be
software-configured for full wavelength switching or
channelized STS-n granularity, down to STS-1.
- Broadwing
uses the Corvis all-optical platform for long-haul
transmission of optical signals without electrical
regeneration.
- In
July, Broadwing launched 10 Gbps optical wavelength
services as a standard offering to its customers.
Other telecom companies could use the service to link
their routers via 10 Gbps wavelengths over Broadwing's
18,500-mile fiber network.
CIELO
DEMONSTRATES 1.3 MICRON VCSEL-BASED OC-48 OPTICAL TRANSMITTER
Cielo Communications demonstrated a 1.3 micron
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) OC-48 Short-Reach
(SR) optical transmitter transmitting error-free data over 20 km
of single mode fiber. Cielo
and Sandia National Laboratories developed the SONET-compliant
device, which was built using commercially available integrated
circuits and proprietary optical packaging.
Cielo Communications said benefits of its technology
include faster modulation speeds, easier testing capability,
smaller size, lower power consumption and lower device cost.
http://www.cieloinc.com/
Cielo Communications, December 7, 2000
- In June, Cielo and Sandia
National Laboratories jointly announced a 1.3 micron VCSEL,
fabricated on Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) substrates.
VENDORS
TEST INTEROPERABLE VOICE OVER BROADBAND SERVICES
Members of the OpenVoB initiative completed a
multi-vendor interoperability test of ATM Forum AAL2 Loop
Emulation Service. The
Voice over Broadband initiative is aimed at enabling
interoperability between broadband gateways and integrated access
devices from multiple vendors.
The recent testing was held Nov. 27-30, 2000 at the
University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory in Durham,
N.H. The next test is
scheduled for March 2001.
http://www.openvob.org/viewOvobArticle.cfm?article_id=20
OpenVoB, December
7, 2000
AT&T
BROADBAND ANNOUNCES 500,000 LOCAL-PHONE CUSTOMERS
AT&T Broadband announced that 500,000 customers are
now using its digital local-phone service.
The company added 100,000 customers during the last 42
days. AT&T
Broadband provides television entertainment services to 16 million
customers nationwide.
http://www.att.com/press/item/0,1354,3532,00.html
AT&T, December
7, 2000
SINGAPORE
TELECOM EXTENDS ADSL CONTRACT WITH ALCATEL
Alcatel was awarded a multi-million US dollar contract to
supply additional ADSL lines to Singapore Telecommunications
Limited (SingTel). Alcatel
has been supplying ADSL equipment to SingTel since 1997.
http://www.alcatel.com/vpr/?body=/latestnews/07122000uk
Alcatel, December 7, 2000
- Earlier this week, SingTel
announced plans to spend US$242 million over the next 12
to18 months on upgrades to its domestic mobile and fixed line
networks.
- SingTel
also plans to invest US$288 million over the next 18-months to
build Internet Data Centers in major cities throughout Asia
GENUITY
LOWERS ITS CAPITAL EXPENDITURE TARGETS
Genuity announced plans to invest $7-9 billion in capital
expenditures for its network between 2001 and 2004, down from its
original target of $9-11 billion in spending over the same period.
Capital expenditures will be $2.5 billion for 2001, a
reduction of $500 million from previous estimates. The company
said new technologies would enable it to lower capital investment
while enabling it to deliver advanced services.
http://www.genuity.com/announcements/news/press_release_20001205-01.xml
Genuity, December 6, 2000
NOKIA
TO ACQUIRE RAMP NETWORKS
Nokia
agreed to acquire Ramp Networks, a vendor of access solutions
targeted at small offices, for $5.80 per share
(approximately $125 million).
Nokia said the acquisition would expand its portfolio of
network security solutions. http://press.nokia.com/PR/200012/801368_5.html
http://www.rampnetworks.com
Nokia, December 7,
2000
- Ramp Networks offers a series of
WebRamp routers that enable a small office to share Internet
access over a 56K modem line, ISDN, IDSL, SDSL or ADSL line.
The products feature user specific Access Controls, VPN
support, and Remote Dial-in for telecommuters.
- In November, Ramp Networks
announced a corporate restructuring and plans to transition
into the broadband security market, citing challenges and
difficulties in the market for customer premise DSL routers.
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Nokia's
Networking Acquisitions |
| Ramp
Networks |
broadband
security and access solutions targeted at small
offices |
$125
million |
Dec
00 |
| DiscoveryCom |
DSL
loop provisioning tools |
$220
million |
Aug
00 |
| Network
Alchemy |
IP
Clustering and Secure VPNs |
$335
million in stock |
Feb
00 |
| Telekol |
business
communications server with CTI, LAN and Internet
functionality
|
$56.5
million |
Oct
99 |
| Rooftop
Communications |
2.4
GHz multipoint radios and routing for wireless
access
|
price
not disclosed |
Sept
99 |
| InTalk
Corporation |
wireless
LAN access point operating in the 2.4GHz
unlicensed frequency band at data rates between
1 and 2 Mbps |
price
not disclosed |
Feb
1999 |
| Diamond
Lane Communications |
DSLAMs
and DSL systems |
$125
million |
Feb
99 |
| Vienna
Systems |
an
IP telephony developer |
approximately
$90 million |
Dec
1998 |
| Ipsilon
Networks |
IP
switching concept |
$120
million |
Dec
1997 |
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CIENA
BEATS QUARTERLY REVENUE
ESTIMATES, UNVEILS CONTRACT WITH DYNERGY EUROPE
Ciena
reported quarterly revenue of $287.6 million, up 23% over the
preceding quarter, and up 100% over the same period last year.
Net income was $41.3 million, or $0.14, earnings per
diluted share. Ciena
also announced a three-year agreement to supply its MultiWave
CoreStream systems to Dynegy Europe Communications for deployment
in its pan-European fiber network.
http://www.ciena.com/news/archive/2000/12/12.07.2000.html
Ciena, December 7, 2000
- Market
estimates for CIEN were $0.12 earnings per diluted share
- In November, Dynegy Global
Communications agreed to acquire iaxis Limited, which owns and
operates a 14,000-km fiber backbone throughout Europe, for
less than US$200 million.
In addition to the purchase price, Dynegy expects to
incur approximately US $160 million related to network
build-out costs and the payment of certain iaxis Limited
pre-existing liabilities.
The new Dynegy Europe Communications Limited (DEC) is
expected to be headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
http://www.dynegy.com
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