TELIA
NAMED AS MAIN SUPPLIER FOR EUROPE’S NEXT GENERATION
RESEARCH NET
Telia
International Carrier was appointed one of the main
suppliers for GEANT, a four-year, 220-million Euro project
co-funded by the European Commission to connect over 3,000
research and education institutions in over 30 countries.
Telia will provide connections ranging from 34 Mbps
to 10 Gbps. GEANT
is expected to be fully operational in November 2001.
http://www.telia.com
Telia, July 5, 2001
NTT
FORMS BROADBAND
CONTENT SERVICES COMPANY
Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) formed a wholly owned
subsidiary to offer broadband services such as secure
control, billing and electronic settlement, CDN (content
delivery network) services, video chat and other
customer-to-customer communications.
NTT Broadband Initiative Inc. aims to be a Content
Marketplace Provider (CMP) linking corporations (content
holders, business partners) with consumers.
The new company will begin offering a streaming
service for video, music, and other broadband content on a
trial basis in Tokyo and Osaka starting this autumn.
Full service will start in spring of 2002.
http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news01e/0106/010629.html
NTT, June 29,
2001
NTT,
SHARP AND DNP TO DEVELOP APPLICATIONS FOR FTTH NETWORKS
NTT
formed a joint research partnership with Sharp and
Dai Nippon Printing Company (DNP) targeting high-bandwidth
content and services designed for future 100-Mbps class
optical connections to the home.
The "HIKARI Market Creation" effort aims
to stimulate demand for high bandwidth services by
matching state-of-the-art networks, terminals and content.
Sharp is developing a 28-inch, large-screen
super-high definition LCD (SHD) display capable of showing
photographic-quality images of 5.25 million (2560x2048)
pixels with 16.7 million colors.
DNP has produced over 500 HDTV programs.
The HIKARI project is also testing an in-home
network based on IEEE 1394a-2000 optical connections.
"HIKARI " is a Japanese word meaning
"optical."
http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news01e/0107/010704.html
NTT, July 4, 2001
ORACLE
TOPS ONLINE DELIVERY SIZE WITH 1.5 GB ORACLE91 SOFTWARE
DOWNLOAD
Oracle
has chosen Conxion as its preferred and currently sole
delivery partner to host electronic delivery of its new
Oracle9i Database, which at 1.5GB is the largest business
software file ever delivered in volume over the Internet.
The companies expect to deliver over a million
copies to application developers in the US and Europe
during the next six months.
Previously, downloads from Oracle’s data center
were averaging 3 terabytes per day.
http://www.conxion.com/
Conxion,
July 3, 2001
- Earlier
this week, Microsoft selected Conxion to provide
online downloads of the first full-featured trial
release of the forthcoming Microsoft Windows XP
operating system to users in the US and Canada.
The file is 600 MB in size, requiring an
estimated two hours and 40 minutes of download time
using a DSL/cable connection to less than 3 minutes
using a full T3 line.
- Conxion
operates US hosting data centers in Santa Clara,
Chicago, Herndon, Virginia, and Seattle, Washington.
European data centers are located in Amsterdam,
Brussels, and London.
It has additional POPs in Atlanta,
Dallas, Los Angeles, Denver, New York, Portland and
Sacramento. Conxion
claims over 20Gbps in Tier-1 network capacity.
Its bandwidth providers include Williams, Qwest
and Versatel. Conxion
also notes that 87% of its traffic moves through
private peering sessions.
OPTISHERE
TO RESELL ALIDIAN’S METRO OPTICAL PLATFORM
Optisphere
Networks, a subsidiary of Siemens Information and
Communication Networks, agreed to resell Alidian Networks'
OSN 4200 and OSN 4800 add/drop multiplexer platforms under
a non-exclusive OEM agreement.
The Alidian products, which scale support up to 10
and 80 Gbps of service-bearing capacity, respectively,
will be sold under the name OptiPack.
Interface choices will include ATM,
ESCON, FICON, fiber channel and Gigabit
Ethernet.
http://www.optisphere.com
Optisphere
Networks, July 5, 2001
- Optisphere
Networks’ portfolio includes systems for long haul
transmission of up to 160 wavelengths at 10 Gbps. The
platform also can offer 320 wavelengths at 10 Gbps,
and the next release of the multi-haul system is
expected to transport 80 wavelengths at 40 Gbps.
GERMANY'S
NETCOLOGNE SELECTS ALCATEL'S 7670 ROUTING SWITCH AND 7300
DSLAMS
NetCologne, a
regional fixed-line operator serving Cologne, Germany,
will deploy Alcatel's 7670 Routing Switch Platform
and 7300 ASAM to provide DSL services.
NetCologne will install nine Alcatel 7670 Routing
Switch Platforms (RSP) to aggregate DSL traffic over ATM.
It will also use Alcatel’s voice gateway product
to support multiple voice lines over the same copper pair.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.alcatel.com/vpr/?body=/latestnews/05072001uk
Alcatel, July 5, 2001
MARCONI
CUTS ITS FINANCIAL FORECAST, YEARLY REVENUES EXPECTED TO
FALL 15%
Marconi
requested a halt in trading of its shares in London on
July 4 in order to give the market an urgent update of its
financial guidance. Citing
a weakening market for telecommunications products,
particularly in Europe, Marconi now expects sales
for its fiscal year ending 31 March 2002 to be around 15%
lower than the previous year and operating profit before
exceptional items to be down by approximately 50%.
Marconi has already reduced its global workforce by
4,000 people since cost-cutting measures were announced in
April. The
company plans a reduction of an additional 4,000 jobs.
Marconi will withdraw from a number of its existing
facilities and concentrate its activities on a number of
major sites. Marconi
said it remains confident in the medium-term outlook and
expects to see some signs of recovery in the first half of
2002. http://www.marconi.com/html/news/tradingstatementandrequestforresumptionoftradinginshares.htm
Marconi, July 5, 2001 |
