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COGENT
TO PROVIDE METRO ETHERNET ACCESS FOR BCONVERGENT’S VIRTUAL PBX
Cogent Communications,
a next-generation ISP offering metro Ethernet access, will provide
bandwidth services to bConvergent, another start-up targeting
hosted PBX and voice-enabled Virtual Private Networking services.
bConvergent’s bVirtual PBX would eliminate an on-site
telephone system for companies with up to 100 phones.
bConvergent’s virtual PBX will use 3Com’s business
feature phones connected via IP and existing LAN wiring to the
Cogent access. bConvergent
is planning a flat fee of $25 per month per phone for customers
signing a long-term (36-60 month) service agreement.
bConvergent also plans to provide its virtual PBX customers
with long distance rates of less than 3 cents per minute and
unlimited local calling for $15 per month. The offering will be
available immediately in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, and
Washington, D.C., where Cogent is equipping multi-tenant office
buildings with its optical infrastructure.
bConvergent is based in Rockville Maryland.
http://www.bConvergent.NET
http://www.cogentco.com/home.html
Cogent Communications, January 22, 2001
- Cogent Communications launched
its metro Ethernet services in November, promising
non-oversubscribed 100 Mbps Internet access capability at
$1,000 per month. The
company has a 20-year agreement with Metromedia Fiber Network
(MFN) valued at more than $100 million for dark fiber in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta,
Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco/San Jose, and
Los Angeles. Last
year, Cogent awarded a $280 million supply contract to Cisco
Systems.
IBM
AND LSI LOGIC ANNOUNCE DSP LICENSING AGREEMENT
IBM agreed to license LSI Logic's ZSP400 digital signal
processor (DSP) core and software development tools for
integration into custom ASICs for next-generation networking
equipment, wireless handsets and other communications products.
LSI Logic's ZSP400 is a four-way superscalar,
high-performance dual-MAC (multiply-accumulate) DSP.
IBM will first make the ZSP400 core available as part of
its advanced Blue Logic Cu-11 ASIC design system, which will be
will be manufactured with its 0.13-micron process technology using
copper wiring and low-k dielectric insulation.
http://www.lsilogic.com
http://www.zsp.com/main.html
LSI Logic, January
22, 2001
CAMBRIDGE
BROADBAND ANNOUNCES 3.5 GHZ POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT WIRELESS
Cambridge Broadband, a start-up based in the UK, announced
a point to multipoint system that operates in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band
and delivers up to 60 Mbps full duplex to a single subscriber.
The design offers a 480 Mbps cell capacity and supports a
range of up to 20 km.
http://www.cambridgebroadband.com/
Cambridge
Broadband, January 19, 2001
- Cambridge Broadband is headed by
Dr Andy Hopper, Professor of Communications Engineering at the
University of Cambridge, Managing Director of AT&T
Laboratories Cambridge, and CTO of Virata.
The company was founded in January 2000.
NEXTNET
WIRELESS UNVEILS MMDS PLATFORM COMBINING OFDM AND TDD
NextNet Wireless, a start-up based in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, unveiled a non-line of sight broadband fixed wireless
system that combines Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
technology and Time Division Duplex (TDD)
frequency modulation over MMDS frequencies.
The company says its cellularized/sectorized technology
provides for in-building penetration, low-cost subscriber
equipment and ease of deployment. NextNet Wireless is
currently conducting field trials.
http://www.nextnetwireless.com
NextNet Wireless,
January 15, 2001
- NextNet Wireless is led by Ralph
Muse, formerly executive vice president of engineering,
manufacturing, and operations at Metricom, and previously
president and general manager of Zeitnet, (acquired by
Cabletron).
MATSUSHITA
LICENSES QUALCOMM'S CDMA FOR 3G CARDS
Matsushita Electronic Components licensed QUALCOMM's CDMA
technology for developing and manufacturing modem cards for
current and third-generation (WCDMA, cdma2000, TD-SCDMA) and
cdma2000 1xEV applications. Matsushita’s
CDMA-enabled devices will be optimized for Internet connectivity.
http://www.qualcomm.com/cda/pr/view/0,1800,493,00.html
QUALCOMM, January 19, 2001
TOSHIBA
INTRODUCES MPEG4 VIDEO CODEC FOR MOBILE HANDSETS
Toshiba introduced an MPEG-4 video
compression/decompression chip designed for mobile videophone
handsets. The device,
which uses 0.18-micron process technology, also incorporates a
speech codec, an audio and video multiplexer and 12 megabit (Mb)
of DRAM on a single chip. http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2001_01/pr1501.htm
Toshiba, January 15, 2001
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