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VERISIGN
TO ACQUIRE ILLUMINET, TARGETING SECURE IP COMMUNICATIONS
VeriSign announced plans to acquire Illuminet, a provider
of intelligent network and signaling services, as part of a
strategy to extend
digital trust services to Internet telephony and other advanced
services. Illuminet’s
SS7 network provides carriers with access to the
system of signaling networks for nearly the entire US
public-switched telecommunications infrastructure.
The acquisition
would enable VeriSign to use its global
infrastructure for new services such as secure short messaging,
local number portability and Voice Over IP bridging.
Illuminet will also enable VeriSign to deliver data-voice
offerings such as WebNum, a navigation service that enables
wireless phones to link specific numbers directly to Internet
domain names; services using ENUM, which combines phone numbers
and domain names to create one contact point for businesses and
individuals; and a Global Voice Registry service, which enables
callers to reach a business by speaking the company's name.
The deal was valued at approximately $1.2 billion, based on
VeriSign's closing stock price of $38.30 per share on September
21, 2001. http://www.illuminet.com
http://www.verisign.com/news/index.html
VeriSign, September 24, 2001
NUVOX
RAISES $87 MILLION FOR ITS NETWORK DEPLOYMENTS
NuVox Communications, a facilities-based CLEC serving the
Midwest and Southeastern US, raised $87 million of additional
equity in a private placement.
NuVox was formed by the merger of Gabriel Communications
and TriVergent in November 2000. The new equity funding increases
NuVox's total capital to more than $775 million, including its
$225 million senior secured credit facility.
The company plans to use the money for continued rollout of
its broadband network in 30 markets and as a cushion in the
uncertain economic environment.
The investors include private equity funds associated with
Goldman Sachs & Co., Whitney & Co., JP Morgan Partners,
Meritage Private Equity Fund, Moore Capital, Richland Ventures,
Brooks Investments, Centennial Funds, Don Investment Group,
Norwest Equity Partners, Telecom Partners, Boston Millenia
Partners, Toronto Dominion Capital, OneLiberty Ventures, CIBC WMC
Inc. and Bank of America Capital Investors.
http://www.nuvox.com
NuVox Communications, September 24, 2001
AGILITY
SECURES $83 MILLION FOR ITS WIDELY TUNABLE LASERS
Agility Communications, a start-up based in Santa Barbara,
California, secured $83 million in third round funding for its
highly-tunable lasers. The
funding was led by General Motors Investment Management Corp and
brings the total amount of funding, including lease lines, to over
$186 million. Strategic
investors include CIENA and Tellabs.
Agility said it has already shipped production quantities
of its widely tunable lasers to multiple customers and samples to
more than 35 customers. http://www.agility.com/news/092401-funding.cfm
Agility Communications, September 24, 2001
- Last
November, Agility introduced a high-power laser capable of
tuning to more than 100 ITU (International Telecommunications
Union) channels in less than 10 milliseconds.
It provides 4 mw of optical output power, supporting
the entire "C" band of 1525 nm to 1565 nm with
50-GHz spacing. The
device is based on an indium phosphide laser chip manufactured
at the company’s wafer fab in Santa Barbara, California.
- Agility Communications
was founded in October 1998 by Dr. Larry Coldren, a professor
at the University of California at Santa Barbara and
co-founder of OCI (now Gore Photonics), and Greg Fish, a
researcher specializing in InP photonic circuit design at UC
Santa Barbara.
CITY
OF PALO ALTO TESTS MARCONI’S FTTH
The City of Palo Alto, California, is building a trial
Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) network based on Marconi’s FTH-1000
system. The field
trial will provide up to 75 homes with voice and data services
delivered through a passive optical network (PON) linked to a
Marconi FTH-1000 host digital terminal located at the City of Palo
Alto’s Municipal Service Center.
The FTTH network will provide each household with downloads
of up to 7 Mbps as well as up to 3 separate phone lines. The city
is also considering the delivery of broadcast quality video over
the same network using Marconi equipment. http://www.marconi.com/html/news/marconitobuildftthnetworkintheheartofsiliconvalley.htm
Marconi,
September 24, 2001
MARVELL
OUTLINES ITS SIXTH GENERATION ETHERNET SWITCHING SILICON
Marvell announced plans for its sixth generation of
Ethernet switching chips designed to serve a wide range of
applications, including metropolitan terabit systems and
enterprise switches that deliver high-density Gigabit Ethernet to
the desktop. Marvell's
Prestera architecture will perform Layers 2/3/4, MPLS and other
higher-layer features at full-wire speeds of 10 Gbps.
Chips developed for enterprise switching will require only
0.5 Watts per Gigabit Ethernet, eliminating the heatsinks and
large fans often required in high density switches.
The chips will also integrate Layer 3 IP routing
functionality while eliminating the need for external memories and
Content Addressable Memories (CAMs).
For core networking equipment, Marvell’s Ethernet
switching chips will offer native support of MPLS and forward
compatibility with IPv6. http://www.marvell.com/Internet/News/Show_News_File/1,2410,238,00.html
Marvell, September 24, 2001
STARGUS
RAISES $10 MILLION FOR MONITORING OF DOCSIS NETWORKS
Stargus, a start up based in Andover,
Massachusetts, raised $10 million in second round funding for its
plans to provide real-time monitoring and automated management of
DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) networks.
The systems would provide monitoring of faults, congestion,
security, availability and overall performance of cable networks.
Investors include Castile Ventures, Pilot House Ventures,
ADC Telecommunications, Still River Fund, Lauder Partners and YAS
Broadband Ventures. http://www.stargus.com/
Stargus, September 24, 2001
- The Stargus executive team is
comprised of Russell H. Stephens, president and CEO
(previously senior
vice president of Media One's Northeast Region);
William J. O'Brien, vice president and CFO (previously vice
president/CFO for AT&T Broadband/MediaOne); Robert
F. Cruickshank III, co-founder and vice president of business
development (previously VP and CTO of RoadRunner); Jason K.
Schnitzer, co-founder and CTO (previously a developer of the Shaw@Home
network); Lawrence Derany, vice president of
engineering and operations and Raphael A. Leeman, vice
president of marketing.
POLYCOM
BEGINS SHIPPING ITS FIRST VOIP PHONES
Polycom announced its first shipment of enterprise
IP desktop phones. One
model features a large 160x80 display that delivers messaging,
call progress, directory access and other content from
applications. IETF
MGCP v1 and H.323 with H.450 supplementary services are standard
protocols supported in the first release. Polycom is working
with leading IP PBX and softswitch partners to support all leading
VoIP platforms and protocols. http://www.polycom.com/newsEvents/pr_archive/pr_news.html?release=3810
Polycom, September 24, 2001
PROXIM
DELIVERS FIRST 802.11A MINI PCI CARD
Proxim began shipping its first IEEE 802.11a-compliant
product, a Mini PCI Card module for OEMs to integrate wireless
capabilities seamlessly into laptops and other mobile devices.
Proxim's 802.11a Mini PCI Card is based on the industry
leading AR5000 chipset from Atheros Communications.
http://www.proxim.com/about/pressroom/pressrelease/pr2001-09-21a.html
Proxim, September 24, 2001
8E6
TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPS FILTER TO BLOCK TRIANGLE BOY CONTENT
FORWARDING
8e6 Technologies announced an IP filtering solution
designed to disable “Triangle Boy” software.
Triangle Boy is designed to help users get around an
Internet filter that would otherwise block content from specified
IP addresses. Triangle
Boy uses a type of peer-to-peer network to "mask"
incoming Web pages as content sent by a member of the Triangle Boy
network (open to anyone) rather than from the blocked IP address.
8e6 said its
answer to Triangle Boy would be available as a software patch for
its R2000 Internet Filtering server.
http://www.8e6technologies.com
8e6 Technologies,
September 24, 2001
ENTRIDIA
RELEASES ITS DUAL OC-48C EVALUATION PLATFORM FOR METRO/BACKBONE
AGGREGATION SYSTEMS
Entridia, a start-up based in Irvine, California,
introduced dual full-duplex OC-48c configurable wire-speed
packet-forwarding ASICs designed for optical multi-service
backbone aggregator line cards and multi-service
aggregation/backbone routers.
Entridia’s OPERA/E48 IP/MPLS
Metro edge platform performs wire-speed packet forwarding of
back-to-back 40 byte packets at OC-48c speeds. The dual
configurable 2.5 Gbps full-duplex ports support any combination of
OC-3c, OC-12c, Gigabit Ethernet, or a single OC-48c interface.
Entridia also announced a lookup table controller companion
device that provides an interface between its packet processing
engine and external table memory (CAMs).
http://www.entridia.com
Entridia, September
24, 2001
- Entridia is led by Terry Holdt,
who formerly served as President and CEO of S3 Inc.
The company was founded by Emil Chao, Paramesh Gopi and
Ram Krishnan.
IPVERSE
TESTS ITS SOFTSWITCH WITH SIP-BASED APPLICATION SERVERS
ipVerse completed interoperability testing between its
open softswitch platform and session initiation protocol
(SIP)-based application servers from Pactolus Communications
Software and White Pajama. The
solutions could be used to offer SIP-based IP call centers, IP
conferencing and prepaid calling card services.
ipVerse has created a SIP-based application server toolkit
which includes an interoperability specification, SIP call flows
for interoperation between application servers and the ipVerse
ControlSwitch, and an interoperability testing process that
supports remote testing via the Internet followed by in-lab
testing of the complete solution.
White Pajama operates its own data centers as well as
licenses its CRM application to other carriers.
http://www.ipverse.com/news/pr092401SIPBASED.html
ipVerse, September 24, 2001
LUXN
TO SUPPLY OPTICAL TRANSPORT FOR MID-ATLANTIC CROSSROADS (MAX)
The Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX), a multi-state
meta-point-of-presence (POP) consortium founded by Georgetown
University, George Washington University, the University of
Maryland and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
has selected LuxN to provide Gigabit Ethernet, OC-12 and OC-48
optical transport equipment.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
LuxN also announced a separate
contract to supply its WavSystem (WS
3200) to the University of Washington for connecting campus data
centers to a carrier hotel in downtown Seattle. http://www.luxn.com/
LuxN, September 24, 2001
COSINE
ANNOUNCES EBONE DEPLOYMENT OF ITS IP SERVICE SWITCH
Ebone is using CoSine Communications’ IPSX 9000
service processing switch to offer IPSec VPNs and Gauntlet
Application Proxy Firewalls. Ebone is already providing Real
Media, the world's second-largest on-line advertising company,
with its new IP intranet solution.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.cosinecom.com/news_events/pressreleases/pr_092401.html
CoSine, September 24, 2001
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