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DEUTSCHE
TELEKOM NAMES ALCATEL AS SUPPLIER OF CHOICE, SELECTS 7670 RSP
Alcatel signed an
exclusive Global Master Purchasing Agreement (GMPA) to supply
broadband switching products and services to the Deutsche Telekom
Group, including all of its international subsidiaries and
affiliates. Under the
contract, Deutsche Telekom will deploy the Alcatel 7670 Routing
Switch Platform (RSP) to expand its national ATM data network
backbone in Germany. The
contract also includes the Alcatel 5620 Network Manager, which
will allow Deutsche Telekom to integrate the new backbone network
into their existing ATM edge/access network and provide advanced
functionality including configuration, performance management,
accounting, reporting and network security.
With the 5620 NM, Deutsche Telekom AG customers will also
be able to self-manage their VPNs.
The contract also includes the Alcatel 7470 Multiservice
Platform, Alcatel 7270 Multiservice Concentrator and Alcatel's
MainStreet 3600+. Financial
terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel.com/vpr/?body=/latestnews/15102001_1uk
Alcatel, October
15, 2001
ALCATEL
TO SCALE 7670 ROUTING SWITCH PLATFORM TO 450 GBPS
Alcatel announced
a second release of its 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP)
providing in-service scalability to 450 Gbps for converging
IP/ATM/MPLS edge and core networks.
Key features of
the platform include redundant control and switching fabrics,
management interfaces, line cards and power/cooling systems.
The system provides both IP/MPLS and ATM control
planes. A
single shelf configuration supports up to 224 OC3/STM-1/DS3 ports
or 56 OC-12c/STM-4 ports or 14 OC-48c/STM-16 ports or 56 Gigabit
Ethernet ports. When
expanded to a fully configured multishelf system, the system could
support up to 1,706 OC-3c/STM-1 ports or 440 OC-12/STM-4
ports, 124 OC-48c/STM-16 ports or 31 OC-192c or 440 Gigabit
Ethernet ports. Specifications
for the Alcatel 7670 Release 2 are online. http://www.cid.alcatel.com/doctypes/product/pdf/a7670.pdf
(requires Adobe Acrobat)
Alcatel,
October 15, 2001
- Since the launch the Alcatel
7670 RSP a year ago, Alcatel has installed 350 systems
worldwide for service providers that include Deutsche Telekom,
Telekom Austria, Bell Canada, Guangdong Corporation, and
Belgacom.
PHOTONEX
LANDS $90 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR 40 GBPS OPTICAL SYSTEMS
PhotonEx Corp., a start-up based in Maynard,
Massachusetts, received
$90 million in third round funding.
The company is developing 40 Gbps and faster photonic
systems for long haul and ultra long haul networks, and says that
its system is designed to work with service providers’ existing
components and fiber. PhotonEx
has said that it will ship its first optical transport system
before the end of 2001. The
company believes that its latest round of funding will support its
operations through late 2003, and expects to be generating revenue
prior to that time. Investors
include 3i, Axxon Capital LP, Boston Millennia Partners, Castile
Ventures, JP Morgan Investment Management,
Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Oak Investment
Partners, Essex Investment Management, Silicon Valley BancVentures
LP, Intel Capital and the Photonics Fund.
http://www.photonex.com/
PhotonEx,
October 15, 2001
- In June, PhotonEx
announced a laboratory test of its optical transport
technology that demonstrated the ability to carry 16
wavelengths of 40 Gbps traffic over a 1,500 km span of
ordinary fiber. The
test used commercially available components and non-zero
dispersion shifted fiber, based on terrestrial fiber spans of
100 km. Raman
amplifiers were used on only every fourth span and no signal
conditioners were required.
In addition, PhotonEx’ demonstration used a 100 GHz
channel separation, providing a spectral efficiency of 0.4
bit/s/Hz.
- In May, the company unveiled its
Ultrafast Dynamic Core architecture, which would enable
granular bandwidth services drawn from a pool of available
capacity, rather than delivered as 2.5 Gbps or 10 Gbps
wavelengths. The
company will offer a DWDM transport system that uses GMPLS-based
dynamic provisioning to provide service creation through the
core of the network. The
platform will also use an open control plane for deployment of
simplified network-wide services across multi-vendor networks.
- PhotonEx
was founded in September 1999 by Dr. Kristin
Rauschenbach and Dr. Katherine Hall, both of whom previously
held executive positions at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, as well
as Dr. Nanying Yin, who previously served as Director of
Nortel Networks' Internet Core Router Group.
PhotonEx has raised a total of $178 million in funding.
GOOGLE
TO ESTABLISH POPS IN EQUINIX CENTERS
Google will
establish a point of presence (POP) for its global search engine
network in Equinix's Washington, D.C. area and Silicon Valley IBX
centers. The
deployment will enable Google to bring its search engine content
closer to end users and eliminate intermediate backbone transit by
interconnecting directly with major carriers and ISPs. http://www.equinix.com/press/2001/10-15-01.htm
Equinix,
October 15, 2001
SPEECH
APPLICATION LANGUAGE TAGS FORUM TARGETS STANDARD FOR SPEECH
TELEPHONY
A new Speech
Application Language Tags Forum announced plans to develop
a royalty-free, platform-independent standard that will make
possible multimodal and telephony-enabled access to information,
applications and Web services from PCs, telephones, tablet PCs and
wireless PDAs. The
Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) would extend existing
markup languages such as HTML, xHTML and XML.
Founders of the initiative include Cisco Systems, Comverse,
Intel, Microsoft, Philips Speech Processing and SpeechWorks
International. http://www.saltforum.org/
SALT Forum, October
15, 2001
“INTERCONNECT
WITH ENUM” ALLIANCE SEEKS SIP SIGNALING
NetNumber, a
start-up developing ENUM services that translate telephone numbers
into Internet addresses, formed an alliance program to encourage
the use of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling for
interconnecting VoIP networks over the Internet.
The company is offering its own Global ENUM service as a
global address registry for cross-domain SIP server lookups based
on telephone numbers. The
alliance also seeks to resolve technical issues such as Network
Address Translations (NATs) and firewalls.
Alliance members include Webley, Voxeo, Vonage, Tellme,
TalkingNets, Siply Speaking, Exario, Denwa, Centile and Aventura.
http://www.netnumber.com
NetNumber, October
15, 2001
- ENUM is
an IETF protocol that resolves international telephone numbers
into a series of URLs using a Domain Name System
(DNS)-based architecture. The system would allow a phone
number to serve as the basis for an email address or other
Web-enabled service. The official ENUM
Public Trial website provides extensive resources on the new
protocol and allows registered users to subscribe to
provisioning services. http://www.enum.org
- The IETF Telephone Number
Mapping (enum) working group is online at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/enum-charter.html
CAVIUM
PROCESSOR PROMISES 15X IMPROVEMENT IN SSL, 3X BETTER FOR IPSEC
Cavium
Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California, introduced a
new processor optimized to deliver a 15x improvement in SSL
processing and a 3x improvement in IPsec processing over
conventional chip designs. NITROX
is a programmable, highly integrated, single chip solution
designed to combine IPsec and SSL protocol security capabilities,
including extensive secure packet and record processing, bulk data
encryption and public key processing.
Multiple bulk encryption algorithms are supported including
DES, 3DES, AES, ARC4 at peak performance rates up to 7 Gbps for
minimum size packets. Public
key processing algorithms are supported at a sustained rate of up
to 60,000 1024-bit RSA operations/sec that enables 50,000 SSL
transactions per second (TPS) or up to 40K 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman
operations/sec. Applications could include routers, switches,
web-servers, server load balancers, firewalls, SANs, and VPN
gateways. Sampling
will begin in Q4. http://www.cavium.com
Cavium Networks,
October 15, 2001
- Cavium
Networks is headed by Syed
Ali, who previously was a founding management team member and
VP Marketing/Sales at Malleable Technologies, a communications
chip company focused on developing Voice over Packet
processors. Malleable was acquired by PMC-Sierra in June 2000.
Investors include Alliance Venture, Diamondhead
Ventures, and Beachhead
Capital among
others.
SYLANTRO
INTRODUCES COMOFFICE SUITE FOR HOSTED PBX SERVICES
Sylantro Systems introduced an XML Web-type application
that allows users to access Hosted PBX services using Microsoft
Outlook. Sylantro's
ComOffice enables service providers to offer features such as find
me/follow me, click-to-call, call logs, and synchronized and
integrated directories from a desktop environment.
The application is designed to operate securely through
corporate firewalls utilizing HTTP. http://www.sylantro.com/news/releases.html
Sylantro
Systems, October 15, 2001
MICROSOFT
PROMOTES BROADBAND ACCESS, LAUNCHES MSN VERSION 7
Microsoft will
release a major overhaul of its MSN
service next week and launch a marketing campaign to promote
broadband access. MSN
currently has 7 million Internet Access subscribers, which are
primarily dial-up accounts. By
the end of the month, MSN Broadband access will be available in 25
cities, and that will expand to 49 major markets and some 29
million households by the end of the year.
By the first quarter of 2002, Microsoft hopes to make MSN
Broadband available in over 90% of DSL-capable households in the
US. The re-designed
MSN service will use Microsoft's new .NET Alerts technology to
contact users via email, pager, cell phone, or other device when a
specified event occurs, for instance a traffic update or when an
automated stock quote target is reached. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/oct01/10-15MSN7pr.asp
Microsoft,
October 15, 2001
XO
OFFERS NEW VPN SERVICE BUNDLES
XO Communications
introduced a new set of VPN service bundles with a choice of
high-speed Internet access solutions.
The choices include a stand-alone VPN package, VPN with DSL,
and VPN with dedicated Internet access (DIA) options available at
T1 or T3 speeds. XO
is also providing a pre-packaged security solution that includes
the main networking firewall components and encryption technology
supporting up to 2,000 user tunnels.
http://www.xo.com/news/93.html
XO
Communications, October 15, 2001
- XO Communications is using
SmartPipes' policy-based software services and technology as
an element of its internal management platform for the newly
enhanced VPN offering. The
SmartPipes policy-based Global IP Services provisioning and
management software is based on Microsoft's Active Directory
and allows XO engineers to easily make simple or complex
changes to end customer VPNs.
http://www.smartpipes.com
DIRECTV
BROADBAND EXPANDS DSL AGREEMENT WITH VERIZON
DIRECTV
Broadband announced a multiyear contract under which Verizon will
provide last mile DSL service in Dallas, Los Angeles, Portland,
Seattle, and Tampa. The
original contract, signed in September 1999, allowed DIRECTV
Broadband to offer DSL service, with Verizon as a last-mile
carrier, to major East Coast cities from Maine to Virginia.
http://www.directv.com
DIRECTV
Broadband, October 15, 2001
- DIRECTV Broadband (formerly
Telocity and a subsidiary of the Hughes Electronics
Corporation) is deploying Juniper Networks’ M-160 routers in
more than a dozen POPs to upgrade its North American backbone
to OC-192c/STM-64.
IP
DYNAMICS RAISES $15 MILLION FOR SOFTWARE VPN OVERLAYS BASED ON
DOMAIN NAMES
IP Dynamics, a
start-up based in Campbell, California, secured $15 million in
third round funding for its development of Software VPN Overlays
based on domain names. The software systems are being designed to
complement the offerings of other VPN vendors.
Investors include Intel Capital, SUNeVision Ventures;
Technology Associates Management Co. (TAMC); and private investors
Patrick Gelsinger, CTO, Intel.; David Sun, co-founder of Kingston
Technology; and Dong Kwan Kim, president of DaeHong Corp., Korea.
http://www.ipdynamics.com/
IP
Dynamics, October 15, 2001
- IP Dynamics' VP3 Software Suite
enables users to define an arbitrary community on the
Internet: (e.g. arbitrary.mydomain.com) and then inform its
members of the location of the community's VP3 Server.
Users from across the Internet can enter this community
by downloading the VP3 Member Software, and registering on the
community's server. The VP3 Member Software resolves the
domain name into the actual routing address, be it a private
IPv4 address and its gateway address, an IPv6 address, or some
other arbitrary address.
The company has been granted a patent for its Domain
Name Routing technology.
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