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QWEST
AND AOL TIME WARNER ANNOUNCE DSL, NETWORK AND ADVERTISING
DEAL
America Online agreed to purchase services
including DSL lines, network transport and other network
services from Qwest Communications, under a strategic
allegiance that extends an existing wholesale network and
DSL agreement signed in 1999.
In return, Qwest agreed to advertise on AOL Time
Warner's media outlets.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.qwest.com/about/media/pressroom/1,1720,714_archive,00.html
Qwest, July 26, 2001
- Earlier this month, AOL
Time Warner selected Samsung Electronics to develop a
next generation AOLTV set-top box featuring
functionality from the TiVo service.
In return, Samsung agreed to an advertising
campaign through AOL Time Warner’s media properties.
COMPETISYS
CARRIES TV/VOICE/IP OVER HOME GIGABIT ETHERNET CONNECTIONS
Competisys Corporation, an integrated
utilities company based in Irvine, California, activated
its first multiservice network using Gigabit Ethernet
connections to the home.
The new housing development located in the Northern
California city of American Canyon uses a fiber-optic
connection to the home to deliver IP phone service, cable
TV, video-on-demand movies and high speed Internet access.
Pricing for a packaged service, which includes IP
phone service with unlimited local toll calling, caller
ID, and call waiting, premium television service and 1
Mbps Internet access, is $114.95.
Equipment suppliers for the network include World
Wide Packets for the home Gigabit Ethernet connection,
Extreme Networks for its Ethernet switches, Minerva
Networks for its IP multicasting and video-on-demand
content system, Nuera Communications for its VoIP gateway
and Syndeo for its Class 5/Local Exchange softswitch and
service platform. http://www.competisys.com
Competisys, July 26, 2001
ITXC
PASSES 2 BILLION PAID MINUTES INTERNET TELEPHONY MILESTONE
This past week ITXC routed its two
billionth minute of paid voice traffic since launching its
service in April of 1998.
The company said almost all of its traffic consists
of phone-to-phone international calls, which it carries
over the Internet. Traffic
from Tier 1 carriers represented 29.1% of ITXC traffic in
Q2, compared with 3.6% of total traffic in the same period
last year. http://www.itxc.com/indexA.tmpl?info=pressreleases/pr277.html
ITXC,
July 26, 2001
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In
Q1, ITXC reported a
significant decline in PC-to-phone calling, noting
that many companies stopped offering it all together
due to declines in advertising. The company refocused
its efforts on paid Internet telephony phone-to-phone
transport service.
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ITXC
Internet Telephony Minutes
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Quarter
Ending
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Traffic
in
minutes
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Growth
over previous quarter
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|
2001
Q2
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406
million
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13%
|
|
2001
Q1
|
358
million
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1%
|
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2000
Q4
|
355
million
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31%
|
|
2000
Q3
|
270
million
|
34%
|
|
2000
Q2
|
201
million
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53%
|
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2000
Q1
|
131
million
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204%
|
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1999
Q4
|
43
million
|
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IBASIS
CARRIES 337.6 MILLION MINUTES OF INTERNET TELEPHONY IN Q2,
UP 9% OVER Q1
Minutes of use for Internet telephony
traffic over the iBasis network rose to 337.6 million
minutes in Q2, a 182% increase over the 119.4 million
minutes carried in the same period last year and a 9.2%
sequential increase from Q1.
Revenue per minute increased from pro forma 8.90
cents per minute in Q1 2001 to 9.01 cents per minute in Q2
2001. The
company reported increasing traffic from Tier One carriers
(now at 53%), which reduces collections risk.
iBasis also continued to increase the percentage of
overseas-originated voice traffic it carries (33%), which
improves network utilization and generally produces higher
margins than US-originated voice traffic.
Q2 revenue was $34.3 million. Net loss before
acquisition, non-cash compensation and restructuring
charges for the second quarter 2001 was $21.7 million, or
$0.49 per share. http://www.ibasis.com/
iBasis,
July 26, 2001
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iBasis
Internet Telephony Traffic Growth
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Quarter
Ending
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Traffic
in
minutes
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Growth
over previous quarter
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2001
Q2
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337.6
million
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16%
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2001
Q1
|
309
million
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36%
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2000
Q4
|
227
million
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35%
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2000
Q3
|
168
million
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41%
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2000
Q2
|
119
million
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40%
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2000
Q1
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85
million
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33%
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1999
Q4
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64
million
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MSN
INTERNET ACCESS REACHES 6.5 MILLION SUBSCRIBER MILESTONE
Microsoft’s MSN service now reaches 6.5 million
Internet access subscribers in the US.
Other major milestones for MSN include reaching 250
million unique users worldwide per month for its Web
sites, and surpassing Yahoo! in advertising revenue for
the first time. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Jul01/07-26GlobalLeaderPR.asp
Microsoft, July 26, 2001
FRANCE
TELECOM REPORTS 177,000
ADSL CUSTOMERS
As
of June 30, France Telecom was serving 177,000 ADSL
customers (including Wanadoo ADSL customers), up from
68,000 at the end of last year.
Overall, the Wanadoo Internet access service had 5
million active customers at June 30, 2001, including 2.3
million in France and 2.0 million in the UK via Freeserve.
http://www.francetelecom.com/vanglais/whats_in_the_news/home_f.html
France Telecom, July 26, 2001
CORVIS
ANNOUNCES FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT WITH TELEFONICA
Corvis announced a preliminary agreement to
supply its CorWave XF repeaterless link optical networking
product to Telefónica
for initial deployment along an undersea route
linking the island of Mallorca with Telefónica’s
backbone network in Spain.
Financial terms are still being finalized.
The CorWave XF product is capable of transmitting
up to 800 Gbps per fiber for distances up to 350 km
without the use of in-line amplifiers.
Eliminating in-line amplifiers in festoon, regional
point-to-point and spur network applications cuts capital
expenditures and operational costs.
http://www.corvis.com/news/release.cfm?num=141
Corvis,
July 26, 2001
- Earlier
this week, Juniper Networks announced that Telefónica
Data had selected its M160 Internet backbone
routers for its domestic IP network infrastructure and
for connections into its international network nodes.
- Telefónica
operates in 48
countries, has 71 million customers and
130,000 employees.
The company’s largest telecommunications
operations are in Spain, Argentina,
Brazil,
Chile
and Peru.
STORM
RAISES $35 MILLION FOR CONTINUED ROLLOUTS OF OPTICALLY
SWITCHED SERVICES
Storm Telecommunications announced $35
million in additional financing commitments from
investment affiliates of Soros Private Equity Partners,
Merrill Lynch Ventures and others.
The company has announced $400 million in funding
commitments to date.
http://www.stormtel.com
Storm Telecommunications, July 26, 2001
- In
June, Storm Telecommunications introduced its
unmetered, “Lightning” optical access service over
its new European backbone.
The service promises flexible, scalable
access over an optical mesh of 16 routes linking
London, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin,
Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Copenhagen, Oslo and
Stockholm. Pricing
is based on flat-rate bandwidth increments, rather
than distance or usage.
- Storm Telecommunications
has previously announced a long-term, US$100 million
dark fiber lease with Telia, giving it access to
substantial fiber across Scandinavia and the rest of
Europe, and a US$13 million lease of fiber-optic
infrastructure from Metromedia Fiber Network in key
European cities.
- Sycamore Networks
supplies optical switching and transmission equipment
to Storm under an agreement now valued at up to US$100
million. Sycamore
also provides lease financing to Storm.
KPNQWEST
TURNS UP SYCAMORE’S SN 10000 ULTRA LONG HAUL TRANSPORT
PLATFORM
KPNQwest turned up services on a key route
in the company's Nordic ring with Sycamore's SN 10000
high-capacity transport platform.
KPNQwest will use the equipment to offer up to 160
OC-192/STM-64 wavelengths of fully-lit capacity across six
Nordic cities, along with seamless connections to other
points on the KPNQwest European network and Qwest’s
North American network. http://www.sycamorenet.com/corporate/news/pressrelease.asp?command=live&news_item_id=541
Sycamore
Networks, July 26, 2001
SYCAMORE
NETWORKS ADDS ENHANCEMENTS TO SN 10000 PLATFORM
Sycamore
Networks announced a number of enhancements for its ultra
long haul transport platform, including a high-density
OC-192/STM-64 service card with integrated Super Forward
Error Correction (SuperFEC), a new automated wave
management capability, and new flexible/unlimited all
optical add/drop capabilities.
The new OC-192/STM-64 service card doubles the
density of the previous design, enabling the SN 10000 to
support 64 OC-192/STM-64 waves in a single bay.
http://www.sycamorenet.com/corporate/news/pressrelease.asp?command=live&news_item_id=542
Sycamore Networks, July 26, 2001
360NETWORKS
DELISTED FROM NASDAQ
360networks will be de-listed from Nasdaq
effective July 27th.
The last trading price was US $0.21.
360networks’ stock continues to trade on the
Toronto Stock Exchange under the TSX trading symbol.
http://www.360.net
360networks, July 26, 2001
- Last
month, 360networks filed for bankruptcy protection
under Canada’s Creditors Arrangement Act and under
Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code.
Its European subsidiaries will also initiate
insolvency proceedings.
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