Broadband Technology News articles from June 2000

Broadband Technology News archives from June 2000

DSL: Best In-Class Testing for Line-Shared Environments.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Turnstone Systems has unveiled a suite of solutions designed to address the testing and maintenance requirements for line-sharing environments. The new solutions, a product called the "S-108" integrated splitter card and another new...

Carrier-Class Voice-Over-DSL Solution.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Convergent Networks has launched the next release of service features for the company's Integrated Convergence Switch, and has announced detailed plans for a carrier-class voice-over-digital subscriber line (VoDSL) offering. This release,...

Integrated Narrowband and Broadband Services on a Single Shelf.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Siemens Information has debuted a DSL integrated access platform capable of delivering lifeline POTS, voice over DSL and xDSL data services on the same platform. The new platform, to be called the "Accession," is designed to ease the addition...

Multiplexer Triples Drop Capacity.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Fujitsu Network Communications has introduced a next-generation SONET (synchronous optical network) add/drop multiplexer that packs the industry's highest OC-48 drop capacity into a space- saving design. The product, called "Flash2400 ADX"...

Arrayed Wavelength Grating DWDM.(dense wave division multiplexing)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... E-Tek Dynamics has announced the availability of its 100-GHz Arrayed Wavelength Grating (AWG) mux/demux for DWDM applications. It uses a silicon chip based on Bookham's ASOC technology to deliver 40 channels in a small footprint with low...

Qwest Breaks Internet Land Speed Record.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Qwest Communications Intl. has announced that its North American broadband network has broken the world Internet land speed record using Nortel Networks' OC-768 (40-Gbps) global optical networking platform. This network trial is the industry's...

MICROPROCESSORS: Intelligent Optical Networking for Next-Generation Networks.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Intel Corp. has announced seven new optical networking chips that enable a new class of telecommunications equipment capable of supporting both voice and data applications. The new chips, used in the rapidly growing market segment for optical...

Industry's First 3.2-Gbps Laser Driver.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has introduced the "VSC7928," the industry's only 3.2-Gbps diode laser driver targeted at next- generation 10-Gbps Ethernet, SONET/SDH OC-48, fiber channel, and DWDM equipment manufacturers. With a maximum...

Software and Silicon Solution for DSL Voice/Data IADS.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Virata Corp. has unveiled the industry's first voice-integrated access device (IAD) chipset enabling the design of DSL IADS that provide combined voice and data services for the high-volume residential and small- to mid-size office markets....

World's Highest Performing 64-Bit MIPS Microprocessor Core.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... LSI Logic Corp. has unveiled the world's fastest 64-bit MIPS microprocessor core, the "EZ4021 MiniRISC." At 250 MHz, the EZ4021 targets a wide range of high-performance communications applications. Concurrently, LSI Logic introduced the...

Programmable DSP Chip for Multimedia Applications Development.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... BOPS, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of its 24- billions-of-operations-per-second (BOPS) Manta Digital, digital signal processor chip. The chip integrates the BOPS 2040XL DSP core with PCI, SDRAM, and MIPS SysA/D bus I/O....

Next-Generation Network Management.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... CacheFlow, Inc. has announced the beta availability of its "Cache Flow Control Manager," a software solution designed to simplify the management of content across a globally distributed network. Content Manager, according to the company, will...

Rapid Carrier Deployments of Voice over Broadband.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Jetstream Communications has announced the release of a comprehensive suite of service management products that, according to the company, address a number of unique challenges faced by competitive carriers when deploying voice over DSL...

World's First Implementation of MEGACO-Based VoIP Solutions.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Hughes Software Systems has announced the launch of its media gateway control protocol (MEGACO) based series of products designed to enable telcos, OEMs, and service providers to offer voice solutions over IP, integrated with existing...

High-Speed Network Controller Card for ATM.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Adax Corp. has announced the availability of its ANC-OC3/STM-1 solution for signaling used in gateways and next-generation wireless solutions where ATM signaling will require SSCOP/SSCF software. According to the company, Adax has...

H.323 Ported into Real-Time Operating System.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Enea OSE Systems and RADVision have announced that RadVision's H.323 enabling software has been ported to the OSE real-time operating system, providing, according to the companies, a high- performance solution that addresses a wide variety of...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Universal Broadband Initiative Launched to Educate Market on Broadband.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Advanced Fibre has announced the launching of the Universal Broadband Initiative (UBI) to educate the market on the company's broadband, multiservice access solutions for customers who live and work beyond the range of their carriers' central...

Nortel Completes Acquisition of Xros.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Nortel Networks has completed acquisition of Xros, a privately held company specializing in second-generation, large-scale photonic switching. According to Nortel, Xros' silicon-based micromirror technology will allow data to be switched...

CDMA Development Group Moves toward Next Step in 3G.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... The CDMA Development Group has announced an expanded effort to support the evolution of the CDMA 2000 standard to meet the needs associated with the new field of wireless data. The new proposed standard, referred to as "1XEV" (1X...

50% Increase in Channel Capacity for DWDM Optic Transmission.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2000... Scientific-Atlanta has expanded its current offering of forward- and reverse-DWDM (dense wave division multiplexing) transmitters from 16 to 24 wavelengths. This expansion, according to the company, is expected to enable network operators to...

CACHING/DATA STORAGE: Network-Centric Storage System For Multi-Vendor Host Environments.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... SunMicrosytems, Inc. (Website:_ HYPERLINK http://www.sun.com __ www.sun.com_ , Tel: 650/960-1300) has introduced a family of network storage solutions designed to support multi-vendor host environments. These solutions include Sun Solaris and...

First Managed Private Storage Utility.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Compaq Computer Corp. (Website:_ HYPERLINK http://www.compaq.com __ www.compaq.com_ , Tel: 800/AT-Compaq) has announced what the company describes as the first enterprise storage solution delivering storage on demand without the usual expense...

Storage System Offers Heterogeneous File Sharing.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... LSI logic storage systems (Website:_ HYPERLINK "http://www.lsilogic.com" __ www.lsilogic.com_ , Tel: 408/433- 8000) has introduced a family of scalable, high available, network-attached storage systems (NAS) designed to provide data access and...

FIBER OPTICS/OPTICAL NETWORKS Enterprise-Wide Optical Networking for Storage.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Computer Network Technology (Website:_ HYPERLINK "http://www.cnt.com" __ www.cnt.com_ , Tel: 763/268-6000) has announced optical networking products for extending storage area network (SAN) applications. The new product family, to be called the...

Plastic Optical Fiber for Short-Distances.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Lucent Technologies (Website:_ HYPERLINK http://www.lucent.com __ www.lucent.com_ , Tel: 908/582-5866) has announced plans to develop a new plastic optical fiber using CYTOP material made by the Asahi Co. of Japan. The new plastic optical fiber...

Common Standard for Channel Switch Vendors.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... The fiber channel industry associations fiber channel standards work group has unanimously voted on one interswitch routing protocol proposal to be submitted to the National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCTIS) T11. The...

MICROPROCESSORS: Lucent's High-Performance DSP Chip Family.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Lucent Technologies has announced a system on a chip solution for next-generation Internet and wireless networks, which, according to the company, will provide a doubling of Internet chip capacity. The product family, to be called the StarPro...

First Device Based On Power-Efficient DSP Core.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Texas Instruments, Inc. (Website:_ HYPERLINK http://www.ti.com __ www.ti.com_ , Tel: 800/336-5236) has unveiled the first device in its next-generation of power efficient programmable digital signal processors (DSPs). The new chip, introduced...

NEXT GENERATION NETWORK MANAGEMENT Portability Across Heterogeneous Networks.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... A consortium of telecommunications companies led by Sun Microsystems and Lucent Technologies, but encompassing 55 other companies, has endorsed a new JAIN application programming interface (API). The interface is specifically designed for call-...

Local Loop Solution For Multimedia Access.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... CS Telecom (Website:_ HYPERLINK http://www.cstelecom.com __ www.cstelecom.com_ , Tel: + 33(0)1 41 82 7800) has unveiled a next-generation multimedia access network offering designed to provide the necessary features for new services. These...

First Test of ISDN Primary Rate over V5.2.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Zarak, Inc. (Tel: 408/541-1010, Website:_ HYPERLINK http://www.zarak.com __ www.zarak.com_) has released bulk call generation and switch stimulation of ISDN primary rate traffic over the V5.2 interface, via comprehensive telecom testing...

Interoperable IAD Access Design.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Virata Corp. (Website:_ HYPERLINK http://www.virata.com __ www.virata.com_) has announced that it has licensed CopperComs Voice Over ATM transport specification to ensure the interoperability of its Azurite IAD chipset with CopperComs voice...

WIRELESS: Voice Calls and cdma Achieved.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Nortel Networks (Tel: 800/4-NORTEL, Website:_ HYPERLINK http://www.nortelnetworks.com __ www.nortelnetworks.com_) and Telstra (Tel: 800/266-000, Website:_ HYPERLINK http://www.telstra.com __ www.telstra.com_) have been conducting joint efforts...

Nokia Toolkit Enables WAP 1.2 Applications.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Nokia (Tel: +1 972-894-6146, Website:_ HYPERLINK "http://www.nokia.com" __ www.nokia.com_) has announced the newest version of its WAP toolkit for network operators, application developers, and content providers. The toolkit is a software tool...

Acceleration Software to Turbocharge Wireless.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 28, 2000... Nortel Networks has announced a new software that will allow service providers to offer wireless Internet and other services at speeds rivaling those of wireline modems. The acceleration software, to be called e-mobility acceleration software,...

XML-Based B2B Collaboration.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Sequoia Corp. (Tel: 410/715-0206, Website:_ HYPERLINK http://www.sequoiasoftware.com __ www.sequoiasoftware.com_) has announced the release of a next-generation XML portal server designed to provide businesses with personalized content delivery...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Lucent Acquires Hermann Technology.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Lucent Technologies has acquired Hermann Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of devices for next generation dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) networks. The acquisition, according to the company, will strengthen Lucents ability to...

Cbl Systems Acquires Raytheon Fiber Unit.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... CBL Systems (Tel: 508-435-9740, Website:_ HYPERLINK "http://www.control-by-light.com" __ www.control-by-light.com_) has announced that it has completed its acquisition of a business unit of Raytheon Co. that manufactures fiber-optic automated...

Motorola, MoreCom Jointly Develop ITV.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2000... Motorola, Inc. (Tel: 215/323-1873, Website:_ HYPERLINK "http://www.motorola.com" __ www.motorola.com_) and MoreCom have announced that MoreCom will join Motorolas Horizon developers program. The program is designed to foster creativity by...