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THE
LIBERTY ALLIANCE PROJECT SEEKS OPEN SOLUTION FOR NETWORK IDENTITY
Thirty-three major companies in the networking,
communications, finance and travel industries announced the
formation of the Liberty Alliance Project, a standards initiative
dedicated to developing and deploying an open solution for network
identity. The Liberty
Alliance vision is to create a ubiquitous, single network sign-on
that ensures decentralized authentication and open authorization
from any device connected to the Internet, from traditional
desktop computers and cellular phones to TVs, automobiles, credit
cards and point-of-sale terminals.
The Liberty Alliance Project cited three main objectives:
1.
To allow individual consumers and businesses to maintain
personal information securely. This encourages a
decentralized approach to garnering personal or proprietary
information, and promotes interoperability or service delivery
across networks.
2.
To provide a universal, open standard for "single
sign-on," which users and service providers can rely upon,
and leverage to interoperate.
Internet single sign-on would allow users to log in once,
and be authenticated for a spectrum of network services
supporting the Liberty standard, between and among web sites, as
well as network services even if those services are provided by
different businesses.
3.
To provide an open standard for network identity spanning all
internet-connected devices.
This would allow providers of network services, and the
infrastructure that enables them, to adopt a neutral, open
standard, available wherever the Internet is available, to
enable secure and reliable identity authentication across
handsets, automobiles, credit cards -- literally any device
attached to the internet.
Founding
members of The Liberty Alliance Project include some of the
world's largest businesses and industries, claiming to represent
over a billion customers, employees and business partners. http://www.projectliberty.org/
The Liberty
Alliance Project, September 26, 2001
- Last
week, Microsoft announced plans to open its own
Passport authentication service to interoperate with other
enterprises, networks and service operators.
Microsoft currently has 165 million Passport accounts.
Microsoft said its intention was to make its Passport
service into a trusted, interoperable authentication network
across the Internet, bringing universal single sign-in to all
users and provide interoperability among different enterprise
and service authentication systems.
- The Liberty Alliance Project is
not to be confused with The American Liberty Partnership, a
recently formed alliance of charities benefiting the victims
of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
To date, The American Liberty Partnership has collected
over $91 million in online donations.
http://www.libertyunites.org/
DANTE
CHOOSES JUNIPER M160 ROUTERS FOR EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORK
DANTE, the organization responsible for planning the next
generation Pan-European research and education (R&E) network
known as GEANT, selected Juniper Networks’ M160 Internet
backbone routers. The
equipment will be supplied and installed by Juniper Networks’
systems integration partner Dimension Data in the main POPs in the
GEANT network, including Vienna, Brussels, Geneva, Prague,
Frankfurt (two), Madrid, Paris, Budapest, Milan, Amsterdam, Poznan,
Stockholm, Brastislava and London.
Previously installed M40 Internet routers will be
re-deployed in locations where there are no gigabit-speed
circuits. DANTE plans
to have nine trunk circuits each operating at 10 Gbps and a
further 11 trunk circuits operating at 2.5 Gbps from the start of
service. At least 10
national R&E networks will access this backbone at 2.5 Gbps.
http://www.juniper.net/news/pressreleases/2001/pr-010926.html
http://www.dante.net/
Juniper Networks, September 26, 2001
- In
July, Telia International Carrier was appointed one of
the main suppliers for GEANT.
Telia will provide connections ranging from 34 Mbps to
10 Gbps.
ADC
UNVEILS NEWNET SIGNALING GATEWAY FOR CONVERTING SS7 TO IP
ADC
introduced a new signaling gateway platform for moving and
managing voice communications between circuit-switched and
IP-based networks. The
NewNet SG signaling gateway converts SS7 signals into IP packets,
extending the PSTN's call control features and intelligent network
elements to an IP domain. The
system uses the IETF SIGTRAN protocol to convert SS7 MTP traffic (ISUP,
SCCP and TCAP) to M3UA/SCTP.
It concentrates up to 255 SS7 links for the redundant
configuration of client applications.
The NewNet system is available on NEBS-compliant Sun
Microsystems servers. http://www.adc.com/main_template/1,1034,138,00.html
ADC, September 26, 2001
VOICESTREAM
WIRELESS SELECTS NORTEL NETWORKS FOR US$300 MILLION NETWORK
UPGRADE
VoiceStream Wireless, which operates a GSM network across
the US, signed a three-year agreement with Nortel Networks
valued at approximately US$300 million.
The next generation upgrades will include radio base
station equipment, switching and professional services for
evolution of the VoiceStream Wireless network to provide EDGE
(Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution) voice and high-speed data
services. It also
includes Intelligent Network (IN) equipment to support billing and
location-based services. VoiceStream
Wireless is a member of T-Mobile International, a subsidiary of
Deutsche Telekom's wireless operations. http://www.nortelnetworks.com
Nortel Networks,
September 26, 2001
DEUTSCHE
TELEKOM DEPLOYS ACTERNA'S REMOTE FIBER TEST SYSTEM
Deutsche Telekom is installing Acterna’s remote fiber
test system (RFTS) to provide 24-hour monitoring of its fiber
network in six key regions across Germany.
The system will provide monitoring of 800 dark fibers for
early warning of problems such as network failure or cable damage.
http://www.acterna.com/about_us/newsroom/pr01/092601.html
Acterna, September 26, 2001
EQUIPE
ANNOUNCES OSS TRANSITION
STRATEGY
Equipe
Communications, a start-up based in Acton, Massachusetts,
announced its Operations Support System (OSS) transition strategy
for integrating ATM and MPLS infrastructure.
Equipe’s forthcoming Multi-Layer Optical On-Ramp platform
will use an Application Programming Interface (API) based on the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard to provide a migration
path to interoperability architectures like CORBA (Common Object
Request Broker Architecture).
http://www.equipecom.com/press092601.html
Equipe Communications, September 26, 2001
- Equipe’s Multi-Layer Optical
On-Ramp (E3200) platform will provide IP/MPLS,
ATM and SONET/SDH
optical cross connect functionality in a modular, distributed
architecture that scales to 320 Gbps. Services would be
groomed and multiplexed by the cross connect and then
transported across optical networks utilizing optical
signaling. Equipe
will also feature high-availability software based on a
microkernel design.
- Equipe is led by Dennis
Rainville, who formerly served as VP of Hardware Engineering
at Lucent/Ascend Communications/Cascade Communications.
Equipe's engineering group includes Chris Noel
(Ascend), Terry Pearson (Nortel/Bay/Wellfleet), and Joe
Whitehouse.
- In May 200, Equipe received $51
million in second round financing.
SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA
TEAMS WITH PACIFIC BROADBAND FOR ITS NEXT GEN CMTS
Scientific-Atlanta announced plans for its next generation
Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTS) based on high density ASICs
developed by Pacific Broadband Communications.
The carrier class CMTS supports 32 downstream channels and
128 upstream channels, enabling cable operators to support more
cable modem traffic with less bandwidth.
Specifically, Pacific Broadband’s custom-built chips
allow existing networks to use 16 QAM transmissions within 3.2 MHz
segments, effectively doubling or quadrupling the upstream data
throughput. This is
combined with the ability to allocate multiple channels per port.
The increase in throughput supports more cable modems per
port, thus significantly lowering the cost of the CMTS on a per
cable modem basis. The
companies have also collaborated on an IP CMTS Line Card that is
integrated with Scientific-Atlanta's Prisma IP optical transport
platform. Scientific-Atlanta
has exclusive marketing and distribution rights for North America
and non-exclusive world-wide distribution rights for Pacific
Broadband’s CMTS technology.
http://www.scientificatlanta.com
http://www.pacificbroadband.com
Scientific-Atlanta,
September 26, 2001
RED-M
TO INTEGRATE BLUETOOTH AND 802.11 NETWORKS, ATTRACTS INTEL
INVESTMENT
Red-M, a start-up based in Wexham Springs, UK, announced
plans for an enterprise wireless architecture that bridges
Bluetooth and 802.11 technologies.
Red-M’s Genos wirelessware technology would provide
security features – such as secure user authentication, access
control and session management – in addition to advanced
networking functions including service provisioning, quality of
service, centralized network management and an application program
interface (API) for third party mobile applications.
Separately, Red-M announced a strategic investment from
Intel Capital. Financial
details were not disclosed. The
companies will collaborate to advance the ease of use of Bluetooth
and 802.11 wireless in notebook and PDA platforms.
http://www.red-m.com
Red-M, September 26, 2001
- Red-M’s products include
Bluetooth access servers, access points, and personal digital
assistant (PDA) expansion modules.
- In April 2001, Red-M closed $35
million in second round funding.
Investors include Apax Partners, Amadeus Capital
Partners and Madge Networks.
STORAGENETWORKS
ENHANCES ITS OUTSOURCING SERVICE
StorageNetworks announced major software enhancements that
provide more comprehensive reporting and alerting, expanded
technology support - including support for virtualization
technology - and integration with customer management information.
The new features, which are intended to help large
enterprises and service organizations to centrally manage their
multi-vendor storage infrastructure, include support for host
agents that capture detailed utilization statistics for both
direct-attached and networked storage environments.
Support for virtualization engines enable new storage
resources to be provisioned as a logical pool.
http://www.storagenetworks.com/
StorageNetworks, September 26, 2001
SIEMENS
APPOINTS PATRICIA HOSEK TO HEAD SIEMENS ACCESS SOLUTIONS US
Siemens Information and Communication Networks
named Patricia Hosek as president of Siemens Access Solutions US.
Hosek previously served as executive vice president of
product operations at Efficient Networks, a company acquired by
Siemens ICN in April 2001. http://www.icn.siemens.com
Siemens ICN,
September 26, 2001
SONUS
CUTS BUSINESS OUTLOOK FOR Q3, Q4
Citing recent
deterioration of the telecommunications market,
Sonus Networks cut its business forecast and now expects
revenues to be approximately $40 million for Q3, down from earlier
estimates of about $54 million.
The company expects to report an adjusted net loss of
approximately $0.05 to $0.07 per diluted share for the quarter.
Sonus will take a one-time restructuring charge of up to
$31 million and will record additional non-cash charges of up to
$435 million in the third quarter as it accelerates write-downs
and write-offs. http://www.sonusnet.com/News/press_detail.cfm?edit_id_press=132
Sonus Networks,
September 26, 2001
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