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Tekelec (News - Alert) Releases Next Generation Signaling Platform
Tekelec recently announced their EAGLE XG, a new signaling and session control platform designed to enable operators to deploy hybrid, next generation networks (NGNs) while leveraging existing technology investments. Tekelec’s approach reportedly lowers capex and opex while delivering new services and improving network performance.

The EAGLE XG open hardware platform and applications give service providers a path forward from Tekelec’s current signaling platform, the EAGLE 5, with a migration path to IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) or Long Term Evolution (LTE (News - Alert)) networks.

The EAGLE XG SIP Signaling Router (SSR) serves as a SIP proxy, bridging SIP- and SS7-based architectures to gain access to all routing information. The SSR introduces SIP routing directly into the core network, and the system creates a centralized session framework that increases service and network flexibility and lays a foundation for cost-effective growth to support the increasing demand for voice over IP (VoIP) and multimedia services.
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Juniper, Nokia Siemens Networks (News - Alert) in Carrier Ethernet Deal
The Carrier Ethernet space got a bit more competitive with the announcement from Juniper Networks (News - Alert) and Nokia Siemens Networks that they are teaming up to offer their carrier customers an end-to end Carrier Ethernet solution designed to “provide resilient access and aggregation for service providers worldwide.” According to both parties, the joint effort will “bring the vision of a unified Carrier Ethernet solution supporting all services on a single network.” The solution comprises Juniper’s MX-series Ethernet Services Router, NSN’s A-series Carrier Ethernet Switch and the ASPEN “single click” network management system. The companies hope to enable service providers to enhance their mobile backhaul, enterprise and residential services. Juniper and NSN say the solution will be available in the second half of 2009.
www.juniper.com
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Cisco (News - Alert) Next-Generation Platform Empowers Digital Advertising
Feeva Technology, Inc., announced that it has integrated its addressable digital advertising application with the Cisco 7600 Series Router to improve performance for the entire online content and advertising value chain. Telecommunications and advertising industries as well as consumers benefit from this integrated solution: Advertisers gain access to previously unavailable audience metrics, improving the performance of their marketing campaigns using Feeva’s Real-Time Market Segmentation data. Carriers enjoy new revenue opportunities based on the value they add to the advertising ecosystem from the existing assets in their communications networks. Consumers benefit from more relevant online advertising with complete opt-in/out control and without sacrificing privacy levels.
www.cisco.com
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Nortel (News - Alert) Adds New Features to Carrier VoIP Solution for Regional Carriers
Nortel recently announced it had enhanced its portfolio of carrier VoIP services with the latest release of the Communication Server (CS) 1500 solution, which adds new communication services like a subscriber Web portal and on-demand conferencing. These new features are designed to help carriers increase customer satisfaction and retention.

The latest enhancements to Nortel’s CS 1500 offer bundled or a la carte applications to give regional households and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) the kinds of communication services that unify their communications and messaging across landline, mobile and Web platforms.

“We understand that our carrier customers are facing new economic challenges in today’s market and are looking for new ways to increase revenue and subscriber loyalty,” stated Samih Elhage, president, Carrier Voice and Applications Solutions, Nortel. “Applications such as unified messaging, on-demand conferencing or single number services can be deployed quickly and cost-effectively without disrupting the end user’s service.”
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Huawei (News - Alert) Releases End-to-End 40G Solution
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd., announced that its end-to-end (E2E) 40G Internet Protocol (IP) and optical transport solution is now ready for commercial deployment. The new E2E 40G solutions are designed to combine the strengths of IP and optical transport to enable carriers to provide more reliable and diverse IP-based ultra broadband services to their customers.

Zha Jun, who is the President of Huawei Router and Network Security Product Line said that Huawei is currently the only vendor able to deliver a full suite of 40G core technologies with proven deployment capabilities in both IP and optical transport areas. As part of this offering, Huawei’s flagship router NetEngine5000E works seamlessly with its 40G Optical Transport Network and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing system to create more open and reliable backbone networks. As Zha Jun said, “As the industry further moves towards fixed mobile convergence, Huawei’s E2E 40G solution will meet the growing transmission needs of operators worldwide.”
www.huawei.com



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Komatsu Selects Verizon (News - Alert) Business to Manage Global IP Network
Komatsu, one of the world’s largest mine- and construction-equipment makers, has selected Verizon Business to manage their global IP network. Verizon officials said that the company’s Private IP will provide voice and data links across Komatsu’s 25 key global sites in an effort to maximize network efficiency and scalability as well as to realize cost efficiencies.

Komatsu officials said that they would leverage Verizon’s Managed WAN to provide Komatsu with enhanced network visibility and management capabilities and thus help improve its operational efficiency. Komatsu has also co-located part of its European data centers with Verizon Business (News - Alert), and deployed Verizon Ethernet Private Line to provide high-speed connectivity from the data centre to the company’s global network.
www.verizonbusiness.com
www.komatsu.com



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MetaSwitch (News - Alert), Occam Deliver IP Communications
MetaSwitch and Occam Networks recently announced they now have surpassed a significant milestone — more than 100 joint service provider deployments in North America delivering voice, data and video services to a wide range ofcustomers.

As a pure IP-over-Ethernet multi-service access play, the Occam platform is compatible with MetaSwitch’s core session control, call feature server and media gateway products, working with different signaling protocols to ensure that the interaction is seamless. The combined solution enables carriers to take advantage of the migration to IP and deliver voice, data and video services to customers.

The tandem offering is expected to help service providers to deliver advanced IP voice and data services to any customer or any type of network more efficiently, while enabling carriers to take advantage of the migration to IP and deliver a host of innovative voice, data and video services to customers. www.veraznetworks.com



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Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) Brings Carrier Ethernet to the Edge
Alcatel-Lucent announced a new customer edge device — the 7210 Service Access Switch — which is designed to bring Carrier Ethernet to the enterprise site. Owned and managed by the service provider, the small-footprint 7210 SAS (News - Alert) was developed in response to continued growing demand from the enterprise for more (and more affordable) bandwidth for richer services and applications over Carrier Ethernet, together with high levels of quality of service. The 7210 SAS will be deployed at the enterprise customer site or multi-tenant unit (MTU), helping service providers to increase revenue with a full suite of highly available, fully managed Ethernet and IP virtual private network (VPN) services to support demanding enterprise applications. The new device utilizes the same operating system (Alcatel-Lucent’s Service Router Operating System, or SR OS) that has been deployed across the Alcatel-Lucent portfolio of switches and routers — numbering upwards of 30,000 switches and routers by 260 service providers in 100+ countries since 2004, according to the company’s own reckoning.



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Ericsson Launches Connected Home Gateway (News - Alert) Software
Ericsson recently launched its Connected Home Gateway software, designed to give consumers the freedom to access and interact with their home multimedia devices, services and media, wherever they are. The gateway is also designed to serve as a single entry point for IPTV and multimedia telephony services into the home.

Ericsson (News - Alert) Connected Home Gateway provides a secure connection between consumers’ digital home networks and the telecommunications network, and acts as a single point of entry for IPTV (News - Alert) and communication services, such as multimedia telephony.

Consumers can then use their mobile devices to communicate with their home networks, allowing them to access their media libraries while on the move, for example sharing photos and videos with their family and friends. As the central multimedia outlet in the home, the Connected Home Gateway serves as a single service-delivery platform and allows remote management for service provisioning and maintenance, helping to minimize operational costs.
www.ericsson.com

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