• H.R. 1542, which Tauzin introduced in April, argued that since the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the FCC’s prohibition on Bell operating company provision of interLATA services has impeded the development of advanced telecommunications services, thereby limiting consumer choice.  At that time, WorldCom warned that allowing the RBOCs to provide long distance data services within their regions without first opening their monopoly local markets to competition would sound a death knell for the Internet industry by giving an unfair advantage to monopolists.

INTERNAP INTRODUCES SERVICE LEVEL GUARANTEE FOR ITS INTERNET OVERLAY
Internap Network Services, which provides intelligent routing services over a broad array of Internet backbones, introduced a Service Level Guarantee that covers latency, packet loss and network availability to the Internet.  Internap also plans to introduce a Service Quality Measurement Portal later this summer that will allow its customers to assess Internap Overlay Network performance and comparative backbone performance between Internap Service Points and specific locations on the Internet by hour, day, week and month.  The company aims to provide a customized global map of performance metrics for the federation of networks that make up the Internet.  http://www.internap.com/newsroom/viewPressRelease.html?id=165
Internap, June 13, 2001

VERIZON REGROUPS MANAGED ENTERPRISE SERVICES INTO NATIONWIDE OFFERING
Verizon has regrouped its various enterprise network services into a nationwide group offering installation, maintenance, upgrades, monitoring and management of customers' networks anywhere in the US.  The national product offering combines and enhances similar services offered by Bell Atlantic and GTE prior to their merger.  Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group has network operations centers in Pennsylvania and Texas, as well as nearly 5,000 field personnel nationwide.  http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=56228
Verizon, June 13, 2001

BOEING AND PARTNERS TO LAUNCH BROADBAND INFLIGHT CONNECTIVITY VENTURE
Boeing, American Airlines, Delta and United announced a joint venture to provide fast Internet service and streaming media services to airline passengers.  The key enabling technology is a Boeing proprietary phased array receive and transmit antenna that responds to directional changes by steering signals electronically versus mechanically, permitting instantaneous and continuous connections between satellites and customer aircraft.  Initially, “Connexion by Boeing” will provide two-way broadband data services to the aircraft at 5 Mbps downlink and 1.5 Mbps uplink using leased satellite capacity.  The capacity is shared among passengers connecting to the service.  A minimum of 56 kbps per user is guaranteed.  The service will be installed in 1,500 aircraft beginning in mid-2002 for service launch across the contiguous US.  The technology is currently in use on large business jets and government planes.  Additional partners include CNN Inflight, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (MELCO), Alenia Aerospazio, (Italy), Loral Skynet, CNBC, and ScreamingMedia.
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2001/q2/news_release_010613a.html
Boeing, June 13, 2001

MOBILE SERVICES INITIATIVE TARGETS MOBILE INTERNET APPLICATIONS
The GSM Association announced the creation of the Mobile Services Initiative (M-Services), an effort to develop synergy between handset manufacturers and software developers.  M-Services will leverage other key standardization efforts like WAP, SMS, EMS, MMS and SyncML to bring a consistent user experience for digital content.  Vendors supporting M-Services include Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Sagem, Samsung and Siemens.  http://199.170.226.112/news/press_2001/press_releases_24.html
The GSM Association, June 13, 2001

• The latest Nokia Mobile Browser 3.0 (announced this week) natively supports both WML (Wireless Markup Language) 1.2.1, including push, the telephony features of WTAI (Wireless Telephony Application Interface), and XHTML (Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language) with Cascading Style Sheets.  The design is adaptable to the GSMA M-Services proposal.

FASTVIBE BUILDS CANADIAN MEDIA DISTRIBUTION NETWORK WITH JUNIPER M20 ROUTERS
FastVibe, a Canadian content distribution provider, is deploying Juniper Networks’ M20 Internet backbone routers across Canada to deliver broadband multimedia content such as near-DVD quality video and audio content over IP.  The first phase of the deployment includes a total of 30 Juniper Networks M20 routers in Toronto, Montreal and a third major city in western Canada.  Phase two continues the deployment from central Canada to the East Coast. FastVibe is based in Toronto.  Financial terms were not disclosed.  http://www.fastvibe.com  http://www.juniper.net/
Juniper Networks, June 13, 2001

• FastVibe’s partners also include 360networks, Microsoft and Leitch.

NATIVE NETWORKS NAMES CISCO EXEC AS CEO, TARGETS ADD DROP STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXERS
Native Networks, a start-up developing optical access solutions, named Stephen Harbour as its new CEO.  Harbour formerly served as the Marketing Director of Cisco Photonics, a division of Cisco that was formed after the acquisition of Pirelli's WDM systems business in February 2000.  Co-founder and former CEO of Native Networks, Dr. Gilad Goren, will assume the position of President and concentrate on the development of the next generation of products.  Native Networks is developing a new breed of Add Drop statistical Multiplexers (ADsM) that efficiently aggregate traffic onto metro optical networks.  The company claims its Asynchronous Packet Transfer multiplexing scheme provides 500% to 1,500% better utilization of infrastructure compared to SONET/SDH.  QoS algorithms enable the use of common Ethernet interfaces to transport packets and circuits in their native forms while preserving SONET/SDH ring-based transport mechanisms.  The architecture will use dynamic “Virtual Trunk” MPLS-based pipes to carry multiple flows from a single customer, with each flow tagged by its class of service.  Native Networks is headquartered in London and has R&D offices in Petah Tikva, Israel. http://www.nativenetworks.com/
Native Networks, June 13, 2001

KESTREL TO ACQUIRE TEON OPTICAL NETWORKS, CEO STEPS DOWN
Kestrel Solutions plans to acquire TeON Optical Networks, another start-up developing a common technology for a new generation of advanced optical networking transport equipment.  Financial terms were not disclosed.  In addition, Brian Jervis has resigned as President and Chief Executive Officer of Kestrel.  John Barter, Kestrel’s CFO, also has resigned for personal reasons.  Marty Kaplan, currently the President and CEO of TeON, was named interim CEO of Kestrel.  Kaplan formerly served as Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer for Sprint.  http://www.kestrelsolutions.com
Kestrel Solutions, June 13, 2001

• TeON was formed in December 2000 as a spin-off from MILCOM Technologies, which commercializes technologies originally developed for the military.  The company is based in Maitland, Florida.  http://www.teon.com
• Kestrel's TalonMX platform combines frequency division multiplexing, digital signal processors (DSPs) and optical modulation to serve as a bandwidth enhancer for metropolitan networks.  The single-fiber, single-wavelength optical transport system is designed to deliver up to 10 Gbps with less than 20 GHz bandwidth space.  Key advantages of the platform over conventional DWDM include the ability to operate over any quality of fiber, including older fiber common in many RBOC infrastructures.  Kestrel was founded in 1997 and is based in Mountain View, California.

TELLABS AND TOLLBRIDGE TEAM ON CABLE TELEPHONY
Tellabs will combine TollBridge's telephony gateway products with its own CABLESPAN product portfolio to provide a cable telephony solution based on DOCSIS 1.1 and PacketCable 1.0 industry standards.  The joint solution connects telephone subscribers to a local central office using a voice-over IP infrastructure that includes Tellabs' embedded multimedia terminal adaptors, the Tellabs CABLESPAN 2700 cable modem termination system (CMTS) and the TollBridge TB300 voice gateway.  http://www.tellabs.com/news/01news/nr061301.shtml
Tellabs, June 13, 2001

TOLLBRIDGE SECURES $25 MILLION IN FOURTH ROUND FUNDING
TollBridge Technologies secured $25 million in fourth round venture funding for its development of voice over broadband solutions.  The company has raised $92 million in venture funding to date.  Investors include Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, TeleSoft Partners and Worldview Technology Partners.  http://www.tollbridgetech.com
TollBridge Technologies, June 13, 2001

• Tollbridge claims 40,000 phone lines in active service.  The Tollbridge technology offloads voice from an IP network to Class 5 switches using NCS, GR 303 or V5.2 interfaces.  Current customers and partners include Adelphia, Arris, iCable, Mpower and Nortel.  Tollbridge was founded in March 1998 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

QUALLABY CLOSES $14.5 MILLION FOR ITS SERVICE ASSURANCE SOFTWARE
Quallaby, a start-up offering carrier-class network monitoring and service assurance software, secured $14.5 million in late stage financing.  The company has raised $42 million in funding to date.  Current investors North Bridge Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, HarbourVest Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Adams Street Partners (formerly Brinson Partners), Partech International, and Galileo were joined by RSA Ventures, a new investor in Quallaby.  http://www.quallaby.com/061201.html
Quallaby, June 13, 2001

• Quallaby was founded in 1996 in Paris, France and now has its headquarters in Lowell, Massachusetts.