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MICROSOFT
OPENS ITS PASSPORT AUTHENTICATION SERVICE TO BUILD AN INTERNET
TRUST NETWORK
Microsoft agreed to open its Passport authentication
service to interoperate with other enterprises, networks and
service operators. Microsoft
currently has 165 million Passport accounts.
Under the changes announced today, Passport will use the
Kerberos standard to provide open and federated authentication
among organizations. Microsoft
said its move is intended to facilitate a trusted, interoperable
authentication network across the Internet, bring universal single
sign-in to all users and provide interoperability among different
enterprise and service authentication systems.
Passport will support universal single sign-in next year
while the forthcoming Microsoft Windows.NET Server will allow
organizations of all sizes to participate in the Internet trust
network. Microsoft is
inviting the entire industry, including Web sites, enterprises and
competing service operators, to participate in the creation of the
broader Internet trust network.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Sep01/09-20PassportFederationPR.asp
Microsoft, September 20, 2001
- Kerberos authentication
technology, which was initially developed at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and standardized by the IETF, provides
a secure mechanism for creating trusted relationships across
otherwise distinct boundaries.
Kerberos performs authentication by using shared secret
key cryptography. The
third party authentication works without relying on assertions
by the host operating system, without basing trust on host
addresses, without requiring physical security of all the
hosts on the network, and under the assumption that packets
traveling along the network can be read, modified, and
inserted at will. More
information is available from the IETF’s Kerberos Working
Group: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/krb-wg-charter.html
WILLIAMS
AND WORLDCOM ANNOUNCE BANDWIDTH DEALS
Williams Communications and WorldCom signed a letter of
intent to enter a three-year commercial business transaction to
purchase network capacity. Under
the deal, WorldCom will have an additional option for increasing
its backbone capacity. Williams
will gain the option to purchase local network capacity from
WorldCom in more than 100 cities in the US, Europe and the Pacific
region. The deal is
expected to close within the next month.
http://www.williamscommunications.com
http://www.worldcom.com
WorldCom, September 20, 2001
@LIGHTSPEED
OPENS $100 MILLION INTERNET DATA CENTER IN DENVER
@Lightspeed opened a
huge data center in Denver, covering approximately five acres or
some 224,000 square feet -- about the size of five football
fields. The $100
million, privately-funded facility is designed for large
enterprises needing to store critical applications and data away
from their corporate headquarters.
@Lightspeed provides direct fiber connectivity to Level 3,
AT&T and Qwest. http://www.atlightspeed.com
@Lightspeed, September 20, 2001
YOTTAYOTTA
TESTS ITS NETSTORAGE ACROSS DISTANCE
YottaYotta, a start-up developing massively scalable
network storage, announced a major milestone in its product
development with the successful testing of cache
sharing, coherence and replication across a 200 mile (300 km)
Gigabit Ethernet link. YottaYotta
said its efforts to integrate storage and networks would create a
geographically distributed, real time disaster recovery NetStorage
array that is centrally managed as a single system.
Product specifics on the YottaYotta system have not
been disclosed. http://www.yottayotta.com/
YottaYotta, September 20, 2001
QUALCOMM
SHOWS STREAMING VIDEO THROUGH 3G AND BLUETOOTH CONNECTION
QUALCOMM demonstrated video-streaming through a CDMA2000
1X/Bluetooth connection. The
video stream was carried through a 3G CDMA2000 1X handset and
system software solution connected through a laptop via a
Bluetooth dial-up network. QUALCOMM’s
MSM5100 chip provided data rates exceeding 144 Kbps over the WAN,
with the Bluetooth connection providing comparable data rates over
the wireless personal area network (WPAN). http://www.qualcomm.com/cda/pr/view/0,1800,654,00.html
QUALCOMM, September
20, 2001
FOUNDRY
NETWORKS INTRODUCES 3 NEW GIGABIT ETHERNET OVER COPPER SWITCHES
Foundry Networks
introduced three chassis-based Gigabit Ethernet-Over-Copper
switches for servers and data center backbones connected via
standard Category 5 cables. The
products support full Layer 2 and Layer 3 functionality, including
Rapid Spanning Tree (802.1W STP) and dynamic VLANs.
http://www.foundrynetworks.com/about/newsevents/releases/pr9_20_01.html
Foundry Networks, September 20, 2001
MFN
SIGNS $231 MILLION IN VENDOR FINANCING COMMITMENTS
Metromedia Fiber Network signed an agreement for $231
million of vendor financing.
Conditions of the deal include the closing of the $150
million note facility led by Citicorp, USA, for which MFN has a
signed agreement subject to various other conditions, and the
closing of the $230 million of convertible notes financing, for
which MFN has commitments of $180 million from company affiliates
and $50 million from an investor.
http://www.mmfn.com
MFN, September 20, 2001
ORBIT
SELECTS CISCO FOR PACKET TELEPHONY NETWORK
Orbit, a leading Canadian IP service provider, will
partner with Cisco Systems to extend its VoIP network into the US.
Orbit will use Cisco's Open Packet Telephony technology to
offer next generation IP services such as video-conferencing,
virtual private networks (VPNs), and MPLS VPNs.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.cisco.com
Cisco Systems, September 20, 2001
ENGINEX
TO INSTALL SYSTEMS FOR LOOKING GLASS NETWORKS
EngineX Networks, a professional services firm
specializing in converged next generation public networks, was
selected by Looking Glass Networks to perform installation, test
and activation services on its optical equipment in Dallas,
Seattle and Atlanta. http://www.exn.com/
http://www.lglass.net
EngineX Networks, September 2001
- Looking Glass Networks is
building dense networks of 216 to 864 fiber cross-sections per
cable in major US cities. The network is designed to
deliver SONET, Gigabit Ethernet and wavelength services in
addition to dark fiber.
- Looking Glass is led by Lynn E.
Refer, who formerly served as Senior Vice President of Network
Planning and Engineering at MCI WorldCom. Refer
previously was Senior Vice President of Development for MFS
Communications.
- In February, Looking Glass
Networks raised an additional $275 million in debt capital to
fund its metro optical network build-out plan, bringing its
total funding to $475 million. In March, Looking Glass
executed interconnection agreements with all targeted
incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) in its Phase I
markets.
NEC
AMERICA TO ACQUIRE ACTIVE VOICE FOR ITS MESSAGING PRODUCTS
NEC America agreed to acquire the messaging products
business of Active Voice, a supplier of unified messaging,
computer telephony, and voice messaging solutions.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
NEC said the acquisition would support its ability to
deliver next generation computer telephony integration (CTI) and
unified communications solutions to enterprises.
http://www.activevoice.com
http://www.necamerica.com/
NEC America, September 20, 2001
MOTOROLA
ANNOUNCES TELECOM NEXT INITIATIVE
Motorola announced a re-organization intended to position
the entire corporation in future and emerging telecom
technologies, including full-scale IP and multi-service networks.
Leading the Telecom Next initiative will be Bo Hedfors,
Executive Vice President, Telecom Strategy.
Hedfors will report directly to Keith Bane, Executive Vice
President and President of Global Strategy and Corporate
Development. http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MOT&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=208053
Motorola, September 20, 2001
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