• Earlier this month, Broadwing announced a partnership to use metro fiber facilities from Sphera Optical Networks to carry traffic between customer locations throughout the nation's top metropolitan areas.  The companies will have connected networks in eleven cities by the end of the year, nine of which are the top MSAs for generating IP and data traffic in the US.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SHIPS 10 MILLION DSL PORTS IN 2001
Texas Instruments has shipped 10 million ADSL ports in 2001.  The deployment includes 750,000 ports to Japan, 1.5 million ports to Asia to support build-out in China and Korea, 1 million ports to PC, Modem and DSLAM OEMs in the Americas, and 6.75 million ports to Europe to leading carriers and OEMs.  TI’s technology is based on the company's programmable digital signal processors (DSPs) and analog expertise. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/2001/01129.htm
Texas Instruments, August 21, 2001

CONXION OPENS ITS TIER-1 NETWORK TO ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS
Conxion introduced a digital delivery service linking corporate data centers to its Tier-1 backbone.  The Conxion service is able to support the delivery of very large files or large libraries hosted on distributed storage utilities.  Its infrastructure can also distribute Web applications that are hosted across multiple data centers.  http://www.conxion.com/news/releases_36.asp
Conxion, August 20, 2001

• In July, Conxion announced major deals with Microsoft covering the online delivery of a beta version of the Windows XP operating system (600MB) to users in the US and Canada, and with Oracle, covering the electronic delivery of the new Oracle9i Database -- the largest business software file (1.5GB) ever delivered in volume over the Internet.
• Conxion operates US data hosting 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 23 Gbps 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.

AMERICA ONLINE ANNOUCES REORGANIZATION, SEEKS TIGHTER BRAND INTEGRATION
America Online announced a corporate reorganization aimed at integrating its multiple online brands and Web properties to capitalize on emerging growth opportunities in a new broadband era.  Highlights of the plan are:

• Create a new AOL Interactive Services Group, which will include the flagship AOL service, the company’s local Digital City businesses and a new Vertical Markets Group charged with developing new programming and cross-brand advertising and commerce opportunities in 10 key areas such as music, entertainment, personal finance, autos, travel, and others. 
• Consolidating multiple Web brands, such as Netscape, CompuServe, Moviefone, MapQuest, ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger services, into a new AOL Web Properties Group.
• Focus the new Interactive Marketing Group on partnerships and sales revenues for all of the AOL brands and properties.
• Expand the role of the AOL Broadband Group to drive consumer adoption of AOL services on cable, DSL, and satellite platforms.

As part of the plan, the company will reduce its work force by approximately 1,200 positions.  In addition, it will eliminate approximately 500 positions at the Sun-Netscape Alliance.  http://www.aoltimewarner.com
America Online, August 21, 2001

VERIZON LOBBIES FOR BROADBAND REGULATORY CHANGES
Tom Tauke, Verizon's top public policy executive told an industry group that “modest changes in current telecommunications policies would dramatically improve the climate for investment in new technology and have a major impact on the nation's economy.”  Verizon argues that rules written for traditional voice services should not be applied to high-speed data services and technology.
http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=60309
Verizon, August 21, 2001

NET.COM UPGRADES ITS SHOUTIP OPEN TELEPHONY PLATFORM
net.com released a major upgrade of its ShoutIP Open Telephony Platform, which integrates gatekeeper, gateway, media server, SS7/C7 signaling, time division multiplexing and IP functionality.  New capabilities improve a service provider's ability to monitor subscriber activity through an open database connectivity (ODBC) interface and collect incremental revenue with new time-of-day/day-of-week billing capabilities.  The ShoutIP system can now collect data from multiple existing databases in the service provider's network, in addition to the built-in SHOUTgate database for authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) and call detail record (CDR) collection and storage.  Additional capabilities in the upgrade include multiple Ethernet interfaces and IP addresses, SHOUTgate redundancy, quality of service call routing, and analog foreign exchange office (FXO) support.  net.com also recently added support for the H.323 and SIP protocols.  http://www.net.com/
net.com, August 21, 2001

NUANCE AND NET2PHONE BRING SPEECH RECOGNITION TO VOIP
Net2Phone added support for VoiceXML applications running on Nuance's Voice Web Server.  The new capability allows businesses to deploy their existing Nuance-based voice applications over Net2Phone's VoIP network and hosting platform.  Nuance’s software enables speech recognition, voice authentication, text-to-speech and voice browsing.  In addition to Net2Phone, a number of Nuance partners have been developing and deploying VoIP-based applications using Nuance speech software including iBasis, Indicast, SandCherry Networks and Voxeo. http://www.nuance.com/press/2001/20010821_nuance_bringsspeechrectovoipmarket.html
http://www.net2phone.com 
Nuance, August 21, 2001

NEC AMERICA RELEASES IP GATEWAY FOR REMOTE PBX CONNECTIVITY
NEC America released a new IP gateway that enables remote offices to share the feature set of the company's central site NEC NEAX PBX or Electra Elite Key Telephone System as though they were connected locally.  The new NEC Dterm IP Gateway supports 24 voice circuits; models released earlier this year support 8 and 12 ports.  Traditional voice traffic (plus call set-up and networking signaling) travels from the PBX to the Gateway where they are converted to IP packets.  The product is an "adjunct" gateway in that it resides outside the PBX or key system.  NEC also offers "internal" solutions like the NEAX 2400 IPX introduced earlier this year, which utilizes gateway cards that operate inside the PBX.  http://www.cng.nec.com
NEC America, August 21, 2001

AGILENT DEVELOPS HIGH POWERED SERDES ASIC
Agilent Technologies demonstrated a high-powered application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that integrates 16 multi-rate serializer/deserializer (SerDes) channels operating at up to 3.125 Gbps on a single CMOS chip.  In comparison, the current industry benchmark is only four channels per chip.  Development of the new device leveraged Agilent's earlier work in integrating over 50 2.5 Gbps SerDes transmit and receive channels on a test chip.  http://www.agilent.com/view/networking
Agilent Technologies, August 21, 2001

NEXTWAVE TELECOM RECEIVES $2.5 BILLION COMMITMENT FROM UBS WARBURG
UBS Warburg has committed to provide $2.5 billion in debt financing to fund the construction of NextWave Telecom’s 3G network.  Earlier this month, Next Wave filed and announced its plan of reorganization, which is now pending before the Federal Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York.  http://www.nextwavetel.com
NextWave Telecom, August 21, 2001

• Earlier this month, the US Justice Department and the FCC launched an appeal to the Supreme Court regarding the status of NextWave’s spectrum licenses.

SYCAMORE NETWORKS REPORTS REVENUE OF $50.9 MILLION
Sycamore Networks reported revenue of $50.9 million for the quarter ended July 31, 2001, compared to $54.2 in the previous quarter and $90.4 million in the same period last year.  The pro forma net loss for the quarter was $29.0 million or $(0.12) per share.  Sycamore cited the overall slowdown in telecommunications capital spending and a lack of available capital for emerging carriers as the main reasons for its disappointing quarter.  http://www.sycamorenet.com/corporate/news/pressrelease.asp?command=live&news_item_id=565
Sycamore Networks, August 21, 2001