Sandvine released new VOIP figures based on data aggregated from its North American and European broadband service provider deployments

Cisco announced the appointment of Michael Capellas, former president and CEO of MCI, to its board of directors, effective January 31, 2006

Exalos extended its family of powerful Superluminescent Light Emitting Diodes (SLEDs) with the new 1300 nm Gaussian generation

OpVista announced the appointment of Bernd Schilp, an accomplished industry veteran, as vice president of sales for EMEA

Tecore unveiled its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) strategy with the introduction of its product line of IMS network elements

Nortel and Flextronics have agreed to reschedule the transfer to Flextronics of Nortel's manufacturing operations

TranSwitch has completed its acquisition of Mysticom

Zhone reported its results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2005

Google announced financial results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2005

OnFiber announced that in 2005 the company surpassed $50 million in annual revenue and recorded its fifth year of consecutive revenue growth

Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL) announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended 31st December 2005

Pineland Telephone Cooperative selected the company's Occam BLC 6000 System to deliver a full array of Triple Play services

Intrado will expand Intrado V9-1-1 Services to include offerings for the enterprise market

Finisar has launched its industry-leading dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) small form factor pluggable (SFP) transceivers

Metalink announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2005

Hammerhead closed a $30 million Series C round of funding, led by new investor Silver Creek Ventures and joined by new investor Apex Venture Partners

Fulcrum is sampling the FM2224, the first device in its breakthrough FocalPoint family of low-latency 10-Gbit/s Ethernet switch semiconductors

Espial and Amino have partnered to provide innovative IPTV set-top box technology for Allin Interactive

Telecom Italia Sparkle had trialed and replaced a competitive interconnect system with Telarix's iXTools solution

Portugal Telecom has extended its license of the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP)

Mobistar has selected Redback's SmartEdge Service Gateway platform to build a DSL network to deliver new broadband services across Belgium

Cbeyond is offering advanced communications services in the Los Angeles area to small and medium sized businesses

NexTone announced that Rocco DiCarlo has joined the company as vice president of product management

ARC Wireless Solutions announced the closing of the Ex-Im Bank guaranteed portion of financing totaling approximately $48 million

TeliaSonera, the leading telecommunications operator in the Nordics and Baltic, has selected Cramer’s award-winning OSS solution

Ericsson reports Q4 net income of SEK8.5 billion, up from SEK5.6 billion in 4Q04

NDS Group reports Q3 net income of $25.96M, up from $17.88M in the same quarter last year

TeliaSonera acquires YesIHotspot's WLAN infrastructure and customer relations in Denmark

NTT DoCoMo forms partnership with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company and acquires a 7% stake for 52.1 billion yen

Cable & Wireless announces changes to its structure and management and provides business update

Corning Cable Systems introduces series of intelligent handheld test equipment

Tut Systems wins $3M contract to expand IPTV headend with MPEG-4 AVC at Iowa Network Services

Intoto announces its iGateway security platforms will support Cavium's new Octeon processors

Applied Optoelectronics announces modular cooled laser for CATV applications

Sandvine study shows VOIP offered by broadband providers takes lead in Europe and North America

Tut Systems announced its fourth quarter and year end results for 2005

Optical Communication Products reported financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2005

AudioCodes announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2005

Fortinet and Trend have reached a settlement in a longstanding patent dispute

Intense announces two new partnerships designed to drive Intense’s patented Quantum Well Intermix technology into additional markets

BT Global Services will leverage EMC Smarts software to monitor the performance and availability of its MPLS network

AT&T expects cost synergies combined with solid progress in wireless, broadband, and business services to power double-digit adjusted earnings

Entone’s widely-deployed StreamLiner network video recorder (NVR) is integrated with the Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS)

Arthur J. Machia, an industry veteran with deep ties to the Eastern US, has been named Network Electronics’ North East Area Sales Manager

Didier Lombard, France Telecom's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has streamlined the Group's senior management organisation

Mu Security has secured a Series A round of funding totaling $4 million from Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital

Aeluros announced the immediate availability of its next generation 10-Gbit/s Ethernet PHY/SerDes devices

Amino announces its unaudited preliminary results for the year ended 30 November 2005

The handoff of a dual-mode phone call from a WiFi network to a cellular network now is in the early stages

Cavium unveiled ten new highly integrated single and dual core MIPS64 processors starting at under $20 price points

Warner Music will make available master recordings from WMG's roster of world-renowned recording artists as ringtones to 74 million Skype users

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced that the number of CDMA2000 operators reached 143 at the end of the last year

Terry W. Lewis has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of Sage Telecom

Korea Internet Data Center (KIDC) is increasing the reliability and predictability of its managed infrastructure services with Force10

Alcatel has licensed Jaluna OSware for use in network equipment products

Slovenian service provider T-2 d.o.o. has selected the Ciena's CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform

Roy Chestnutt, a former senior vice president of Sprint-Nextel and returning Austin resident, will become Grande's new CEO

Spirent has signed a contract with Telus to provide its CopperMax solution for advanced DSL-based service testing and diagnostics

Bob King and Chad Dunn have joined Tazz as Vice President of Global Services and Vice President of Marketing, respectively

Tazz announced the opening of a service and support office in Scotland, UK

Tandberg introduced products that deliver video 'anytime, anywhere and for anyone'

Warner Bros. announced the formation of a joint venture with arvato mobile, In2Movies

Optovia has named James Iuliano as the Company's new president and chief executive officer

Cavalier has completed the acquisition of Elantic Telecom

Pannaway's 2005 year-over-year customer growth exceeded 500% and that it is positioned for strong and consistent growth in 2006

LHS announced that over 10 customers worldwide have selected its leading billing and customer care system BSCS iX during the last six months

Vistula has partnered with HITL the first private telephony operator in Punjab to launch the first niche consumer VOIP service in India

AEP announced that Ken Araujo was appointed to the position of chief technology officer

Subex has registered a third quarter profit after tax of Rs. 118.7 Million (US $2.67 Million)

Nominum announced that Thierry Guenoun has joined the company as vice president of sales, EMEA

Alcatel has been awarded a series of contracts worth 10.4 million Euros by two operators in the Pacific islands

A broad range of Stratex Networks Eclipse wireless transmission solutions will become part of Alcatel's worldwide product offerings

Indian public sector carrier MTNL reports Q3 earnings

LightPointe adds new distribution partners for Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Latin America

Ålands Datakommunication chooses Latens to secure its IPTV content and revenues

TeleManagement Forum announces New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) users group

Telent wins £36M contract from O2 Airwave, operator of the UK's secure digital communications network for emergency and public safety organizations

Iskon Internet uses Cirpack voice switching platforms to deploy VOIP services in Croatia

Texas Instruments offer DSP-based carrier infrastructure platform for converged networks

AOL expands its broadband network in partnership with major DSL providers including BellSouth, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon

Wind buys new Adamind licence to broaden its mobile content services

PMC-Sierra introduces the PM4390 ARROW M8xFE carrier-class Ethernet over Sonet/SDH mapper

Option to supply Acer with its GTM351E embedded wireless module

Belgacom and Skynet expand their online music services with iTunes Music Store

BT awarded 2-year contract to manage Microsoft's global OneCall call center routing initiative

Shareholders files securities class action against Sonus Networks

Vodafone Malta selects Siemens Communications Group to build its 3G W-CDMA network

OSS Through Java Initiative releases Web Services integration profile

Jupiter Telecom increases subscriber numbers by 14% in 2005 to 2.1M

GSA survey finds 61 network operators are deploying or operating combined W-CDMA and EDGE networks, compared to 23 a year ago

Pakistani ISP SuperNet deploys broadband wireless equipment from Aperto Networks in Karachi

LightPointe expanded its international channel operations with distribution partners in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America

Fujitsu, Intel, and Lucent have joined forces to bring a technology to market that will broaden the range of 10-Gbit/s Ethernet applicatons

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced a component change in the Dow Jones Telecommunication Titans 30 Index

China Education and Research Network (CERNET) has successfully deployed the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System

Net Insight has received an order from Nexion regarding equipment based on Net Insight's Nimbra platform

I3 micro technology has developed a software development kit for accelerated integrations with Mood IP set-top boxes (STB)

Sprint Nextel is suing the parent company of four online data brokers that illegally obtain and sell wireless customer call detail records

3Com's Board of Directors has named R. Scott Murray President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has further expanded its network with Juniper

Cisco surpassed a new milestone in providing mobile operators content billing capacity to support 200 million mobile users around the globe

Amaru -- through its subsidiary M2B World and its company M2B World -- and Zentek launched a Global IPTV service offering 40 channels of VOD content

International Telecommunications Union (ITU) approves suite of CableLabs' PacketCable specifications

Openwave posts revenues of $104.5M, an increase of $11M, or 12%, over the year ago quarter

Slovenian carrier Voljatel deploys NetCentrex for VOIP services

Redback appoints Beth Frensilli as vice president and general counsel

NEC has started delivery of a new 3G (W-CDMA) Node B series RS381, RS880

Net Insight receives order from north European TV and radio transmission operator

STMicro reports fourth-quarter revenues were up 6.3% sequentially to $2.39B

Andrew reported total sales of $515 million for its first quarter ended December 31, 2005

Terayon is restructuring to focus solely on its digital video applications and reduce its overall cost structure as a pure-play video business

GVC Networks has acquired IDT Corp.'s subsidiaries; Winstar Communications, Winstar Government Solutions, and Winstar Wireless

IDT Inc. announced results for the third quarter of its 2006 fiscal year, ended January 1, 2006

Oplink reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2006 ended January 1, 2006

Broadcom reported unaudited financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2005

Foundry reported financial results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2005

EXFO has completed its acquisition of the assets of Consultronics

Redback announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2005 results for the period ended December 31, 2005

Broadcom's board approved a 3-for-2 split of its common stock, which will be effected in the form of a 50 percent stock dividend

The Infinera photonic integrated circuit (PIC) has surpassed one million hours of successful field operations without a single PIC failure

Edgeware announced the successful conclusion of a Series A financing round with the leading Nordic early stage venture capital firm Creandum

BitBand is expanding its offering in the IPTV market space with the presentation of a new high capacity video streaming server at TVoDSL

Level 3 has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the membership interests of Progress Telecom

Vonage announced the availability of Virtual Numbers with area codes from Austria, France, Ireland, Italy, and Spain

Verizon reported strong fourth-quarter and year-end 2005 results

Hibernia Atlantic selects FutureWei to expand its North American network, which connects to its transatlantic submarine cable

Tellabs reported fourth-quarter 2005 revenue of $521 million, up 37% from $379 million in the fourth quarter of 2004

Open Source pioneer Larry Augustin has joined Fonality's board of directors

Deutsche Telekom reports broadband lines increased by 762,000 in Q4, around 40% year-on-year, to over 8.5M

NetCentrex offers VOIP starter kit for service providers

Chunghwa Telecom reports revenue of NT$183.4 billion, a 0.4% increase compared to NT$182.6 billion in 2004

Net income was €813M compared to €1.001B in the prior-year period

Companies offer integrated financial solution that combines Portal 7 Revenue Management with SAP for Telecommunications

Sonus appoints Howard Janzen, recently president of Sprint Business Solutions, to its board of directors

Revenues of $669.6 million were relatively flat compared to the fourth quarter of 2004

Verso offers hosted PBX for its softswitch platform

AudioCodes launches Open Solution Network (OSN) partner program

Liberty Global completes the sale of UPC Norge to Candover Partners for $542M

Extraordinary General Meeting approves sale of Spirent's HellermannTyton division

T-Mobile increases its customer base by 9M to 86.6M, of which 77.4M are served by companies in which T-Mobile has a majority share

Slovenian triple-play service provider T-2 selects Netcentrex's MyCall Residential Services suite and Business Services suite

Nokia reports Q4 net sales of €10.3B, up 16%, and earnings per share of €0.25, a growth of 20%

Revenues were $23.9M, an 18% decrease from $29.3M for the same period in the prior fiscal year

Revenue in the fourth quarter of 2005 was $21.2M, up 39 percent from $15.2M in the fourth quarter of 2004

Picolight appoints Doug Smidl as vice president of sales and customer service

Conexant reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2006, which ended Dec. 31, 2005

NetLogic will acquire all of the assets and intellectual property associated with Cypress's standard Network Search Engine products

PMC-Sierra today reported results for the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2005

TranSwitch posted fourth quarter, 2005 net revenues of approximately $8.6 million and a net loss of ($3.4) million

Four independent China-based IPTV trials and services are using the 4Caster Broadcast Series encoders to power IP applications for live TV

Juniper reported its results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2005

AMCC reported its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2006

Polycom reported its earnings for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2005

Newport has achieved ISO 9001:2000 quality management standard

LightEdge has selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks VOIP application platform to deliver its high-quality VOIP services

CSG has extended its agreement with Bright House to provide customer care and billing support to its Tampa, Fla. and Livonia, Mich. divisions

MCM Telecom has selected Ditech's PeerPoint C100 to provide reliable and secure VOIP service to its customers

NetCentrex and TomatoVine announced an 18-city VOBB deployment based on NetCentrex market-leading VOIP application servers

NTC's tender offer for all TDC Shares and TDC ADSs expired in accordance with its terms

Magnolia has closed its Series D financing of $14 million

Splunk has secured $10 million in a second round of funding

Maxim and Dallas Semiconductor, its wholly-owned subsidiary, are working with RAD to produce the TDM over Packet (TOP) chips

Avaya and Juniper announced joint standards-based solutions to deliver secure, reliable intelligent communications

ECI has celebrated its ongoing collaboration with one of the world's largest cellular operators

Telindus has signed a five-year contract with Amdocs to standardize its global customer help desk on Amdocs CRM software

BellSouth announced fourth quarter 2005 earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations of 34 cents, up 36 percent compared to Q4 2004

Shanghai Telecom will expand on its Cisco IIP NGN by deploying the Cisco CRS-1 multichassis carrier routing system

Corrent announced the Corrent SR770, a carrier-class security gateway for VOIP service providers

Airwide has secured $25 million in Series D funding

8x8 announced financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2006 ended December 31, 2005

Sirius Broadband selected the Salira 3000 Series to build the first GE-PON network in Bangladesh

CopperCom announced that six IOCs in Iowa have replaced their Mitel switches with the CopperCom CSX softswitch platform

Europe’s biggest trade event dedicated to future fibre-to-the-home technologies and deployments is launched in Vienna today

Broadbus announced the opening of its European office and the appointment of industry veteran Alkesh Patel

ADC Krone is set to present its OmniReach product portfolio at this year’s FTTH Council Europe conference in Vienna on 25th & 26th January

The data security company Norman increased total revenue by 14 per cent to NOK 231 million in 2005

Canal Digital is using Amino set-top boxes for IPTV services in Sweden and Norway

SR Telecom announces C$50M private placement and conversion of 10% convertible secured debentures

TeleWare adds Interactive Voice Response (IVR) to its intelligent application suite

I3 Micro offers software development kit to help vendors, system integrators, service providers integrate with Mood IP set-top boxes

Zhejiang Telecom selects Green Packet's Unified Mobility software to integrate Personal Handyphone System (PHS) wireless data and wireless LAN networks

Transmode selects Magdalene as UK network services support partner

Dutch cable operators UPC Netherlands, Casema, MultiKabel, Essent, and CaiW sign VOIP peering contract with XConnect

SK Telecom reports 4.7% increase in sales and 25.2% growth in net income year on year

TDC selects Alcatel and Microsoft's joint system for its IPTV deployment

Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) sees growth in number of WiMax members

Vodafone signs partner network deal with Telekom Malaysia to offer roaming and business services with Celcom in Malaysia, XL in Indonesia, and Dialog in Sri Lanka

NetCentrex says it has signed up 10 new customers and 6 new partners in Central and Eastern Europe in the last 12 months

E28, BCT Global, Convergin, FG Microtec, HelloSoft, Netrake, NewHeights Software, and tekVizion join fixed/mobile convergence group

Nokia wins 5-year managed services deal with Hutchison Essar in India

Convergin joins MobileIgnite alliance to help accelerate interoperability for fixed/mobile convergence

Higher education and research network SURFnet6 launches using optical equipment from Nortel

New customers signing up to WCDMA price plans in western Europe accounted for almost one third of the region's total mobile net adds in Q4 05

Strategy Analytics released, 'Mobile TV Germany: Failing Grades on Content and Network Performances'

Nortel, Qualcomm, and Orange have successfully completed UMTS and HSDPA calls

Brooktrout has dramatically simplified fax servers for VOIP networks by teaming with several of its partners

Cingular Wireless reported solid fourth-quarter results

Telenor strongly opposes a ruling by the High Commercial Court in Ukraine

ADC opened a new manufacturing facility in Brno, Czech Republic

NetLogic announced the launch of its new NETL7 family of Layer 7 content processors

Bookham signed a co-operation agreement with EM4 and its wholly owned subsidiary EM4 Defense

AT&T and Avaya announced a global strategic alliance to help businesses and government agencies manage the migration to VOIP

BroadLight announced that Anton Schaaf has joined BroadLight’s Board of Directors

Avanex received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market on Dec. 29 2005 indicating that the company has regained compliance

Extreme announced financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended Jan. 1, 2006

UTStarcom will supply its industry-leading NetRing(TM) 600 and 2500 optical transport solutions to RailTel of India Corporation

DataFlex announced a new agreement with innovative Spanish service provider Jazztel

FEW is building one of the world's largest and most advanced IP converged networks for KAEP based on Nortel technology in Mecca

Ixia has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the mobile video and multimedia test product lines of Dilithium Networks for $5.1M

Alcatel continues to demonstrate its leadership in triple play, including IPTV, through new solutions, demonstrations, and presentations

Alcatel announced the signature of a contract with Globalcom Data Services

Pactolus announced its selection and preliminary deployment by LatiNode, a rapidly growing global VOIP service provider

Blue River Management has signed an exclusive agreement to resell route analytics products from Packet Design in the South Africa

Azure announced the availability of Certo 2, the latest version of its automated revenue-assurance solution

RADhas announced the launch of a 'Smart SFPT,' a new series of patent-pending Ethernet First Mile access solutions

Caspian announced the successful deployment of its Media Controller solutions by Korea Telecom (KT) for the South Korean e-Government project

Dataflex announced a new agreement with innovative Spanish service provider Jazztel to use Dataflex Voice over DSL and VOIP access devices

Accenture and InfoVista have deployed a sophisticated network management system

COMTek has voluntarily adjusted nearly 600 broadband over powerline (BPL) devices in Manassas, Va.

Metconnex announced closing of CDN$8.1 million (US$7.0) financing and the promotion of David King to the role of chief operating officer (COO)

UralSviazInform has successfully deployed Axerra’s Pseudo-Wire solutions

Netcentrex announced the launch of IPCentrex One, a turnkey solution for the deployment of hosted telephony services

Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) has selected FTS to provide it with the Leap NextGen Rating, Billing, and Customer Care platform

Sonus will provide key elements of its IMS-ready architecture to support Intrado's nationwide expansion of its VOIP E9-1-1 solution, V9-1-1 Services

Fujitsu has selected the new Interphase SlotOptimizer for its Primepower family of Solaris OS and SPARC®-based servers

World-Link has deployed the award-winning Mera VOIP Transit Softswitch (MVTS) on its VOIP network

AT&T has successfully implemented an Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) for General RV Center

US LEC Corp's Jeffrey Blackey will provide the keynote for the second installment of the GLOBALCOMM 2006 Master Class Series

Rochester Telephone has selected Tandberg Television as its video head-end provider for a new IPTV service over FTTP

PacketFront announces shipment of its 150,000th FTTH port

Dutch social housing association Portaal to deploy PacketFront equipment for FTTH triple-play network

Verizon Wireless reports Q4 customer growth of 2 million, a 20.5% increase over 4Q04, setting a quarterly record

Bharti Tele-Ventures to be renamed Bharti Airtel to reflect the activity of the company as a wireless operator

Bharti Tele-Ventures reports Q3 revenues of Rs. 30.26 billion, up 42% year over year and highest ever-net addition of 2.4 million customers

Lucent reports net loss of $104M, or 2 cents per share, for Q3, compared with net income of $174M, or 4 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter

IBM to integrate Cramer's Enterprise Inventory Management software into its Service Delivery Platform for Triple Play

Agilent Technologies introduces WireScope Pro handheld cable and fiber tester for 10-Gbit/s Ethernet networks

IBM's new collaboration platform includes a new version of IBM Lotus Sametime, new audio and video conferencing integration, and connectivity with several IM platforms

Telecom Italia signs agreement to offer Sky channels on its Alice Home TV service

Intec launches mobile charging, customer management and revenue management software for new operators and MVNOs

Vodafone reports organic growth of 8% for the quarter in total proportionate mobile revenue and reiterates guidance for the financial year

Westell acquires HyperEdge, provider of last mile access products

Verizon Launches FiOS TV in Massapequa Park on Long Island, its first rollout in New York

Verizon launches FiOS TV in Woburn, its first rollout in Massachusetts

Orca Interactive releases RiGHTv 4.5, introducing an IPTV service delivery platform

Allied Telesyn adds VDSL2 capability to its iMAP integrated Multiservice Access Platform

Allied Telesyn deploys triple-play IP network with GEPON fiber-to-the-home access infrastructure

Allied Telesyn announces availability of 10-Gigabit Ethernet transport capability for its iMAP Integrated Multiservice Access Platform

Agilent launches Wireless QoS Manager, combining hardware and software to measure service quality

Remaining Marconi business offically becomes telent plc; shares will trade in London under the ticker TLNT

Intel, Modeo, Motorola, Nokia, and Texas Instruments form alliance to promote mobile digital TV

Tello comes out of stealth mode with an instant communication and collaboration service for businesses

Ericsson's acquisition of key assets of Marconi completed on January 23

Avaya reported income from continuing operations of $71 million or 15 cents per diluted share in the first fiscal quarter of 2006

Keymile will be presenting its latest developments for telecommunications network operators at CeBIT

Mindspeed announced revenues of $33.2 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2006, which ended Dec. 31, 2005

Vitesse reported results for the first quarter ended December 31, 2005.

Widevine and Sigma have entered into a partnership agreement

Redline will be used to established the first commercial implementation of a certified WiMax broadband network in Europe

Wave7 announced that Jack Bryant has joined the company as the new VP of Worldwide Sales

Verizon Business unveiled new integrated wireless and wireline offerings

The Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization (IPDR.org) will host a meeting to focus on accounting and settlement standards for IPTV services

Foundry announced the NetIron MLX Series of ultra-high-performance MPLS-enabled switching routers

Cbeyond launched BeyondMobile, a mobile voice and data offering targeted specifically to small businesses

Tekelec announced the appointment of Frank Plastina as chief executive officer, president and a member of the board of directors

Conexant announced that President Matt Rhodes will transition out of the company over the next six months

Tazz announced a collaborative effort with BT on the design and delivery of a lab demonstration platform

AOL has formed a relationship with IBM to connect their dynamic instant messaging communities

Aastra and Allied Telesyn have entered into a business relationship for the development, marketing, and distribution of IP Telephony solutions

Spirent announced that Huawei-3Com tested SmartBits Test System using the award-winning Spirent SmartBits Test System and Global Services

UK-based ADSL2+ service provider Be raises £24.5M to roll out its 24-Mbit/s broadband service nationwide

Twin Valley Telephone, an ILEC located in central Kansas, has chosen Allied Telesyn's iMAP integrated Multiservice Access

Broadcom has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sandburst, a privately-held fabless semiconductor company

EXFO announced the release of the FTB-150 Compact OTDR for complete fiber characterization

Intec has launched its latest convergent offering, a Wholesale Business Management solution

According to recently released report from Dittberner the IPTV market for set-top-boxes, headend equipment and middleware will reach $1.5B in 2013

MagiQ Technologies, Silicon Graphics, Qucor, and the University of Melbourne form joint venture for next-generation quantum cryptography devices

Simac Broadcast integrates Latens's Content & Revenue Protection systems with its video distribution systems

3 appoints Bruno Duarte, previously a partner at management consultancy Arthur D. Little, as its UK Strategy Director

Amino Technologies acquires advanced video codec firm SJ Consulting for £1.3M

NRJ and Euro-Information select Highdeal to power mobile telephony services across Europe

Verizon Business launches with new integrated wireless and wired network access offerings

Providence Equity Partners to complete takeover of Kabel Deutschland

Amdocs signs new services contract as part of phase II of Svyazinvest's billing transformation program

Comverse and ZTE announce strategic partnership to offer value added services to the fixed and mobile markets in China

O2 reports UK revenues up by 12% year on year and German revenues up 17%; customer base grew by 18% to 27.4M

Spirent acquires wireless test and measurement firm SwissQual Holding for £27.7M

Telefónica completes the acquisition of UK wireless operator O2

Mobilkom Austria to launch HSDPA network, offers Vodafone Mobile Connect Card Broadband

Intec demonstrates new IPTV OSS/BSS software, which is being deployed by an Asia/Pacific carrier

Nareos introduces legal mobile peer-to-peer download service, PeerBox

UMA is emerging as a convergence transition technology from 2G to IMS, says Frost & Sullivan report

Option touts new GlobeTrotter 1.8-Mbit/s HSDPA card

Massillon Cable TV (MCTV) has selected the iGlass status monitoring suite for managing their service delivery infrastructure

AudioCodes has selected Coverity Prevent as part of a company-wide software quality initiative designed to improve its VOIP network

Tesco will launch an internet phone service that will revolutionise the way people make their phone calls

Tekelec's core convergence switching solution has been selected by Mirs, Israel's integrated digital enhanced network (IDEN) wireless operator

Infineon announced key figures for the first quarter of the 2006 financial year

Alltel achieved double-digit growth in revenues and net income during the fourth quarter and for all of 2005, driven by its wireless business

Progress Telecom named Ciena as a key supplier in the evolution and expansion of its existing network for next-generation services

Liekki is releasing the latest version of its simulation software, Liekki Application Designer

AsiaInfo constructs metadata management platform to support Hubei Mobile's Business Intelligence (BI) System Phase II expansion project

USCarrier Telecom signs agreement with a national wireless company to install an OC192 metro ring in Atlanta, and closes two Dark Fiber IRU sales

Telecom Italia signs agreement for the sale of 100% of mobile operator Digitel Venezuela for a total of $425M

Telecom halves the value of its Australian operations to between A$600 million and A$700 million; revises full year EBITDA outlook

Time Warner Telecom extends its fiber network to the greater Atlanta cities of Alpharetta, Smyrna, Norcross, Perimeter, and Roswell

Sasken, developer of multimedia applications, wireless protocol stacks, and DSL software, reports 40.5% increase in profit during the first nine months

FastWeb reports 45% year-on-year increase in revenues to €287M during Q4

Carsten Schloter takes over from Jens Alder as Swisscom CEO following the change in international expansion plans prompted by the Federal Council

Harmonic reports net sales of $63.7M, compared to $85.6M in the fourth quarter of 2004

Nasdaq panel grants Terayon's request for continued listing following the company's failure to file its quarterly report on time

Appium launches test SIP/IMS platform to help telecom operators migrate to next generation networks

AOL announced its decision to make a substantial investment in a new telecoms infrastructure in the UK

Covad has announced Covad VoIP PBXi Plus, a business-class offering aimed at SMBs and distributed enterprises with existing on-premise phone equipment

Tekelec has entered into an agreement with Russian-based joint venture ZAO NEC Neva Communications Systems

Freescale reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2005

Harold (Hal) Covert, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Openwave, has joined the JDSU Board of Directors

Scientific-Atlanta reported second quarter sales of $495.2 million. Net income for the second quarter was $53.4 million, or $0.34 per share

Verizon announced the election of Clarence Otis Jr., chairman and CEO of Darden Restaurants, to the Verizon Board of Directors, effective today

Nortel President and CEO Mike Zafirovski today announced the appointment of Dennis Carey as executive vice president, Corporate Operations

Ixia announced the latest release of the IxVoice test system, its primary testing solution for unified VoIP and PSTN analysis

The latest report from Byte and Switch Insider examines the virtualization of today's heterogeneous storage environments

MaLigne TV, France Telecom's phone line-based digital television service, is expanding its offering to include new services

Sam S. Srinivasan has been elected to Centillium's board of directors and will serve as the audit committee chairman, effective Jan. 18, 2006

Two-thirds of Internet users have serious concerns about practices by Internet network owners to block or impair their access to information and services

Exponential-e has partnered with Yipes to provide connectivity and reciprocal support for implementation and remote on-site maintenance

Qualcomm has completed the acquisition of Flarion Technologies

Ace-Comm has signed two new contracts that extend current customer relationships for elements of its Convergent Mediation SDP

Mescalero Apache Telecom Inc. (MATI) has selected the company's Occam BLC 6000 System

C-COR reported its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2006, ended December 23, 2005

XO carried more than 2.2 billion minutes of VOIP traffic across its national IP network in the fourth quarter of 2005

Verizon and Yahoo announced the availability of their latest fully-integrated, co-branded broadband service, Verizon Yahoo! for FiOS

BEA Systems to showcase its communications platform and next-generation IMS services at 3GSM 2006

Releases PacketStorm4XG IP Network Emulator for multiple Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet applications

Teradyne reports 18% increase in sales to $345.2M during Q3, for net income of $224.1M, or $1.07 per share

BT appoints Bharat Savjani as vice president, Global Telecom Markets, Asia Pacific

Pace Micro Technology reports half-year revenues of £78.9M, compared with £150.5M for the same period the previous year

LogicaCMG, provider of wireless messaging products, reports 'significant improvement' in profitability over 2004 with revenue growth of 5%

O2 says Oxford mobile TV trial reveals strong consumer demand for multichannel broadcast TV onto mobile phones

Manitoba Telecom Services adds 50,000th customer to its video over DSL service supported by Motorola's multiservice access platform

Bouygues Telecom implements Comarch's InterPartner Billing and Partner Care platform

Google and SIPphone connect their instant messaging networks

Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, and Siemens launch Scope, an industry alliance to accelerate the deployment of carrier-grade base platforms

WiMAX equipment market may top $3B in 2010, projects In-Stat

Yak Communications launches unlimited VOIP calling plan

NetCracker appoints Sanjay Mewada, former head of OSS practice at Yankee Group, to lead its strategy and market initiatives

Buckeye CableSystem is deploying Camiant's PacketCable Multimedia (PCMM) policy offering

Portuguese mobile operator TMN chooses Tektronix's Unified Assurance suite for real-time services management

Wisor extends OSS solutions for VOIP, number portability order, and access circuit management to carriers who are not existing customers

Pacific Crossing awards Lucent $10M, four-year contract to manage PC-1 undersea communications link between US and Japan

Broadsoft touts customer wins and product launches in 2005, says it doubled revenues for the year

Westell, provider of briadband access products and conferencing services, reports 3% increase in Q3 revenues to $68.1M

EBay reports record Q4 revenues of $1.3B, up 42% year on year, for earnings per share of $0.20

Cisco appoints Susan Bostrom as CMO and executive officer to succeed James Richardson, who has been appointed to the new role of SVP, Commercial Business

Millicom International Cellular appoints Morgan Stanley for strategic review following 'a high number of unsolicited approaches'

Tut Systems to demonstrate its MPEG-4 AVC equipment at TVoDSL and Triple Play Showcase

NTT Communications and Telefonica Wholesale agree to interconnect data networks to provide enhanced global network capabilities for customers

European used test and measurement equipment market is poised for growth, says Frost & Sullivan

Cable & Wireless awarded five-year global IP managed services contract with Standard Chartered Bank

As VOIP enters next phase, worldwide market for semiconductor providers will reach $2.4B by 2009, IDC predicts

Pactolus introduces InService high availability software to prevent VOIP service session loss

Teknovus and KDDI announce development program for EPON with speeds up to 10 Gbit/s

Volantis introduces Mobile Content Applications and Mobile Content Framework

Mangrove Systems appoints Colin Doherty as president and CEO; Jonathan Reeves, founder and current CEO, will become chairman of the board

Smoothstone introduces IP communications platform for medium-sized enterprises

NEC America announces new line of SpectralWave GPON access equipment

SkyStream says it achieved 11 percent net income in Q4, and was profitable for the year on an EBIT basis

Masergy announced that telecom-industry veteran Royce Holland has been selected as chairman of the board

Metrobility has received certification for its Radiance family of products from the Russian RF Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications

The wholesale telecom market is now growing faster than the retail telecom market in Europe, according to Ovum

Fujitsu Ltd. and Fujitsu Labs announced the world's first commercial 10-Gbit/s Small Form Factor Pluggable (XFP)-type optical transceiver

BroadLight has signed a distribution agreement with Clavis Company in Japan

Kailight announced the first closing of a Series B of funding with an investment of $4.5M

Network Equipment Technologies reported its final results for the third quarter of fiscal 2006

Keopsys' 10W-KPS-SLM-PM is a single mode 10 Watt CW polarization maintaining (PM) amplifier in the 'eye safe' C-band spectral range

CSG's Professional Services Group designed to help CSG's customers optimize their use of the company's billing and customer care solutions

Telekom Austria has selected Synamedia, the NDS secure broadband IPTV and VOD solution and architecture

Celltick Technologies has appointed Stephen Dunford as its new CEO

Yahoo reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2005

Sprint Nextel plans to end the Convergys billing relationship over time by migrating subscribers off the legacy Precedent 2000 system

Strix announced the availability of the industry's first 802.11j wireless mesh products for the Japanese market

Sprint Nextel has made an additional $10 million strategic investment in IPWireless

Phyworks has partnered with MJL Technology, Korea, to distribute their next generation physical layer products for WAN, LAN, SAN, and FTTH apps

Yahoo announced key findings from a new survey commissioned by the National American Testing Organization

Sentito announced that technology veteran Stephen Crummey has joined the company as chief executive officer

Empirix announced the results of a survey conducted during Dec. 2005 on the topic of 'Service Provider VoIP Deployment and Service Delivery Challenges'

Opnext has shipped more than 100,000 10-Gbit/s transceivers

Time Warner Cable will integrate C-COR's Network Service Manager (NSM) solution in all TWC systems

World Wide Packets announced a new addition to the LightningEdge product family, the LE-135

Chuba Udokwu has joined Sonus as its new Vice President of Worldwide Engineering

Vaasa Telephone Company is relying on Extreme Networks to deliver voice, video, and data over a high performance Metro Ethernet ring

SiNett's board of directors has selected Richard H. Forte as its executive chairman

Indian IT services company Wipro reports 25% increase in net income during its third fiscal quarter

TDC announces its plans for triple play services in Denmark

Fiberxon selects Agilent's N2X multiservices testter to verify EPON triple-play service performance

Sprint Nextel selects Amdocs to provide single wireless billing and customer care platform

Centconet awards $23.3M contract to Calypso Wireless for its C1250i dual mode WiFi-GSM-GPRS VOIP phone, which features Skype calling functionality

VimpelCom acquires Bakrie Uzbekistan for $60M and Unitel for $200M; plans to merge the two GSM operators

Auspice releases version 5 of its TLX Real-Time Systems Integration and Operations Automation Platform

IPWireless launches TDtv technology that enables operators to provide mobile TV and multimedia services over existing 3G spectrum bands

Omron's Electronic Components unit acquires Aduro, manufacturer of precision high-speed optical subassemblies

Hutchison’s Geo expands into London through the acquisition of city-wide fiber network Urband from Thames Water and National Grid

Telekom Austria reports net growth of 48,500 DSL customers and 82,700 new mobile customers in Q4

Service Availability Forum releases new system management interfaces

Point Topic finds the broadband divide in the UK is 'deeper than was thought and may be getting even deeper'

The average price of cable modem services rose in the last quarter of 2005, according to Point Topic's Broadband Tariff Benchmarks

In-Fusio will continue to develop and publish games, while its games channel management services will be re-branded as a separate division, Mobile Scope

Transaction processing management firm Infozech joins the OSS through Java (OSS/J) Initiative

Hutchison Telecom Indonesia awards contract to Siemens to build, implement, operate, and maintain its GSM/W-CDMA network

Sony Ericsson reports 28% year-over-year growth in units shipped and a 15% increase in sales to €2.31B

Cox Communications signs five-year deal to extend its use of BigBand's FastFlow Broadband Provisioning Manager for Internet and VOIP services

MVS Net and NextNet Wireless deliver broadband and VOIP bundled services in Mexico

Google's Google Talk service is now fully interoperable with other communications services that support the server-to-server XMPP protocol

Michael P. Sauer has joined Reliance as President

IBM announced fourth-quarter 2005 diluted earnings per common share of $2.01 from continuing operations

Intel announced fourth-quarter revenue of $10.2 billion, operating income of $3.3 billion, net income of $2.5 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of 40 cents

Pacific LightNet has teamed with MetaSwitch to make the next-generation infrastructure transition

DiCon is releasing a new Low-Cost MEMS 8x8 Matrix Switch Module

Teknovus announced the availability of its TK3713 Optical Network Unit (ONU) chip

Teknovus and KDDI announced a Next Generation Ethernet Passive Optical Network (NGEPON) roadmap with speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s

One of India’s largest GSM operators has deployed a Short Messaging Service (SMS) centre based on technology from TeleDNA and powered by NMS

An open-standard specification providing end-to-end encryption for IPTV and other rich media is now available for public comment from ISMA

Avanex, CyOptics, Eudyna, Mitsubishi, Oki Electric, Opnext, and Sumitomo released new common specifications for optical devices

Ubiquity has entered into a three-year agreement with AT&T Services, a subsidiary of AT&T

Atreus has been selected by Level 3 Communications to participate in its VOIP Technology Alliance Program (TAP)

Knology is deploying Riverstone's 15008 Ethernet Edge Routers to enhance its offering of Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS)

FiberNet has deployed Force10's TeraScale E-Series in its metro Ethernet backbone to power its new Phonomenum VOIP peering service

Siemens has accepted Vierling as an 'Advanced Partner' in the Technology category of its Enterprise Partner Program

ITV will continue using Narrowstep’s technology to broadcast its new local broadband TV services following the extension of the three month trial

Google has agreed to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based digital solutions provider for the radio broadcast industry

The amount of voice traffic being carried over Sonus' industry-leading solutions exceeded 17 billion minutes per month at the end of 2005

Tundra announced the Tundra Tsi110 Host Bridge, the industry's highest performing host bridge for PowerPC

After 35 years as President and CEO at Rohde & Schwarz, Friedrich Schwarz has retired from day-to-day operations

Mindspeed introduced a highly integrated passive optical networking (PON) solution

Applied Optoelectronics Inc. announces the commercial availability of 1310-nm lasers with enhanced industrial-grade temperature ratings

NeoPhotonics has shipped 1 million Bi-Directional (Bi-Di) transceivers for FTTH applications, primarily for networks in Japan

SMC is shipping the industry's first 10-Gbit/s Ethernet over CAT-5e transceivers

Finisar announced plans to demonstrate a 40 Gbit/s transponder at Asia's largest fiber optical communication exhibition, FOE 2006

Broadcom has shipped over 100 million Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) controller chips to date

Texas Instruments (TI) unveiled Piqua, a new system of Internet Protocol (IP) quality management elements

012 Golden Lines has selected Juniper for its new VOIP network

Azea Networks completes 20-Gbit/s upgrade to subsea Southern Cross Cable Network and receives order for an additional 50-Gbit/s capacity in Phase 2

The Telephone Service of the Vatican State deployed a series of Ethernet access solutions from RAD

Motorola acquire set-top platform developer Kreatel Communications to boost its European telco TV presence

VimpelCom deploys its 1,000th optical platform from ECI Telecom for its Beeline GSM network

TDS Metrocom launches commercial broadband wireless services using Alvarion's BreezeAccess VL equipment

France Telecom launches fiber-to-the-home pilot program

Swisscom Solutions acquires customers and employees from Siemens as the companies increase their collaboration on convergent enterprise networks

Rad to unveil its new Vmux-420 A-bis (BTS to BSC) and A-ter (BSC-to-MSC) standalone optimization gateway at 3GSM

Seven Norwegian companies enter a new partnership called Movation to encourage mobile innovation

Frost & Sullivan expects European mobile music markets to grow rapidly, driven by GPRS and 3G network deployment

Hutchison Essar announces it has completed the acquisition of BPL Mobile Cellular

Visual Networks signs distribution agreement with South Korean VAR SJTek for its network and application performance management products

Almost three quarters of global enterprises expect to migrate to a fully converged network by the end of 2008, according to IDC research

City of Burlington, Vermont installs ADC next generation fiber frames for its point-to-point fiber optic network

BT and New Venture Partners (NVP) showcase companies spun out of their partnership, including iO and Azure Solutions

BT offers flat-rate calls package for BT Business Broadband Voice customers

Antitrust Division concludes review, enabling Qualcomm's merger with Flarion to go ahead

Infogate Online to participate for the first time in TVoDSL Conference and Triple Play Showcase 2006

Aperto to exhibit live PacketMAX product demonstrations, deliver keynote and panel presentations on WiMax technology and markets at WCA 2006

ZTE to showcase UMTS/HSDPA equipment and IMS converged services at 3GSM World Congress

Cal-Ore Telephone selects FiberPath's fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) system to deliver triple-play services to a new residential development

Joins Level 3's (3)VoIP technology alliance program; now maintains connection with Level 3's VOIP network to provide interoperability testing services

Announces it achieved 2005 sales growth of 35% over 2004 while introducing new products, expanding its operations globally, and adding new clients

Terayon receives notice of default from bondholders following delay in filing its 10-Q form for the quarter ended Sept. 30

Fujitsu signs agreement to resell, deploy, and support ThingMagic's Mercury4 RFID readers

Allied Telesyn announces its integrated multiservice access platform enables carriers to offer Ethernet services over T1/E1 transport and DS3 facilities

Allied Telesyn introduces 10-Gbit/s modular Layer 3+ QOS switching platform

MRV Communications and EdenTree Technologies expand partnership for automated test lab software

Arthur Mutual Telephone Company selects Pannaway's IP access gear to deliver converged triple-play broadband services in Northwest Ohio

Flextronics Software Systems introduces IPv6-ready switching software for Ethernet equipment

Fibernet provides bespoke optical network service to Cable & Wireless for a customer in Scotland

President of Linux to form advisory board for UnifiedRoot, which has created an Internet addressing system for corporate and public top-level domains

New Edge Networks annoucnes three-month trial of flat-rate national pricing for wide-area business networks

Optimum Lightpath selects Atrica's carrier Ethernet systems to deliver Ethernet services in the New York metro area

Golden Telecom completes constructionof its Federal Transit Network in compliance with Russian telecom rules for long distance services

Tele2 appoints Anders Olsson, currently market area director for Central Europe and CEO of Tele2 Germany, as executive VP of sales and marketing

Cable and Wireless expands agreement with cVidya to include usage-based revenue assurance software for its main network operations and global subsidiaries

RFID is still in early stages in Western European vertical markets, but adoption is increasing, says IDC

Mobile Top Level Domain, the registry behind the new '.mobi' (dotmobi) Internet domain, opens its headquarters in Dublin

BT adds content deals with National Geographic Channel and children's TV programmers HIT Entertainment and Nelvana to its IPTV lineup

Huawei announces its global contract sales for 2005 reached $8.2B, up 40% year on year

Outsmart appoints Jeremy Deaner, previously VP of EMEA sales at Geneva Technology, as vice president of European sales

Net Insight appoint Fredrik Trägårdh as new CEO; current chief exec Tomas Duffy to take the position of Teligent

Silicon Laboratories introduces jitter attenuating 10-Gbit/s XFP transceiver IC

Telenor has today sold 21 894 877 shares in Inmarsat at GBP 3.48 per share

Samsung announced its financial results for 2005 fourth quarter ended December 31, 2005

Pac-West and VeriSign to provide services that enable communications providers to offer converged IP, voice, and data communications

Choice One announced an agreement with Access Point to provide Integrated T1, PRI, and broadband data in Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets

Vistula has completed a deal with IUSACom Networks to deliver feature-rich telephone services to its subscribers

Cell Wireless will launch its new mobile WiFi Cell VoIP phone in the first quarter of 2006

Empirix's Hammer was used to perform a comprehensive multimedia assessment of Juniper's Netscreen ISG2000 SIP-aware firewall

Interlink will provide a point to point video product, as well as a multi-participant video conferencing product, through its existing VOIP network

The Community of General Local Health Funds (AOK) in Germany will in future be relying on BT voice services

BT announced a major transformation of its customer facing capabilities by creating a new global organisation in charge of CS&NO

Ixia announced a number of enhancements to its industry-leading IxANVL conformance and interoperability test solution

The Telus TV service has been chosen by major Hollywood film studio Twentieth Century Fox

Emcore has acquired privately-held K2 Optronics in a merger transaction

Goodrich's unique indium gallium arsenide/indium phosphide (InGaAs/ InP) near-infrared APD is designed for single-photon counting

Bookham has entered into a series of financing transactions

Sky takes a significant step in its drive to offer customers more choice with the launch today of new ways to enjoy Sky content on computers and mobile phones

DDD Group announces the appointment of Hans Snook to the company's board of non-executive directors

Fixed operators can buy time to manage their transition from voice-centric to broadband-centric strategies

C-COR to sell its DV6000 line of video systems to Newfound Technology

Lucent downgrades fiscal 2006 guidance from a mid single-digit increase in revenues to be essentially flat or increase in the low single digits

Lucent appoints executive vice president and CFO Frank D'Amelio as chief operating officer

Pipex reports 30% increase in revenues in 2005, updates on plans for WiMax and local loop unbundling

Telecom and TelstraClear sign agreement on several longstanding issues including interconnection, wholesaling, and Unbundled Bitstream Service (UBS)

Carphone Warehouse reports 40.9% growth in fixed-line revenue and 20.1% growth in mobile during Q3

Swisscom hikes up broadband speeds for its Bluewin customers

Swisscom Solutions to take over Winterthur Group's worldwide voice and data services

Net Insight receives order from European Media Company for HDTV switch

VOIP company i2Telecom International raises $1.75M in financing from Capital Partners

IBM has received notice of a formal, nonpublic investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission

Starz Entertainment Group chose thePlatform Media Publishing System (MPS) to deliver subscription and pay-per-view based digital video downloads

Shaw's Board increased the equivalent annual dividend rate on its Class A Participating Shares and Class B Non-Voting Participating Shares by $0.13 per share

DiCon is announcing availability of the world’s smallest MEMS 1x36 Optical Switch Module

Ikanos has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the network processor product line of Analog Devices Inc.

Vonage has turned up emergency 911 service in over 1900 PSAPs across the country

Concurrent nnounced the launch of their MediaHawk 4500 high density server for video-on-demand (VOD) applications

360networks has selected MetaSolv’s inventory management solution to manage its comprehensive optical and IP network

Ibsen Photonics has been granted United States Patent # 6,978,062, titled 'Wavelength Division Multiplexed Device'

New Focus is introducing a suite of Simply Better products, solutions and services at Photonics West later this month

Juniper's SDX-300 Service Deployment System has been awarded qualification status for the PCMM specification from CableLabs

Consolidated Communications is deploying Entone’s Hydra IP video gateway to support the telco’s IPTV service launch

Today, Google announced two new Google Minis

Foundry announced two new ultra-high-performance ServerIron Layer 4-7 switches with 10-Gbit/s Ethernet

PMC-Sierra has established a new technology center in Bangalore, India

UTStarcom introduced the new brand name for its commercially deployed, end-to-end IPTV solution -- RollingStream

Heinz Sundt resigns as CEO of Telekom Austria; will be replaced by Boris Nemsic, who will also retain his position as CEO of mobilkom Austria

Magyar Telekom and T-Mobile offer discount scheme for calls between fixed and mobile phone numbers

Magyar Telekom takes out an EIB loan of HUF 47.4 billion for its broadband projects

Jazztel signed up 35,422 new ADSL2+ customers in December, updates on central office deployments

SeaChange International, provider of digital video systems, debuts memory blade at Emerging Technologies conference

Dittberner reports finds IPTV worldwide services revenues to reach $12.6B by 2013, incremental network equipment market increase only $336M

BT says results from its pilot Movio mobile TV service demonstrate clear consumer demand for broadcast digital TV on the move

Nordic Telephone Company receives tenders for 85.5% of TDC's share capital; reduces minimum condition to 85% and extends offer period to Jan. 20

Agilent to name its new semiconductor test spinoff Verigy

Morten Tengs appointed new CEO of Telenor Satellite Services to replace Tore Hilde who will be leaving the company at the end of January

TDC continues to back Nordic Telephone Company's offer, which will now accept 85% of share capital and votes, and a deadline of Jan. 20

Matti Alahuhta and Phil Hodkinson join as non-executive directors; Lou Hughes to step down as a non-executive director and join BT's Americas advisory board

VeriSign acquires CallVision, provider of online analysis applications, for $30M

Following resignation of Theodore Schell, TWT violates Nasdaq rule requiring companies to have an audit committee of at least three independent directors

3Com's President and CEO, Bruce Claflin, will retire at the conclusion of an executive search for a replacement, which currently is underway

Pioneer's new report, 'All-Optical Switches: PON & FTTx Networks Bring New Focus,' highlights an emerging opportunity for manufacturers

Sylantro announced the ongoing success of its alliance with Microsoft, and the second major customer win for their integrated solution at Softbank

France Telecom has confirmed the slowdown in growth already reported in Q3 2005

CacheLogic announced the appointment of a new non-executive Chairman and the addition of an additional non-executive director to its board

Belgacom and Telindus announce that the public offer on all outstanding shares and warrants of Telindus has been successfully closed

The new Dynatel advanced modular system 965AMS from 3M provides full-featured testing for the triple play -- voice, video, and data

The Universal Powerline Association (UPA) today unveiled its work program for 2006 at its annual general meeting

Convergin announced several strategic accomplishments in 2005 that has established the company as an early leader in the FMC market

Blue Wireless is now offering business and residential VOIP telephony service

NetEx has teamed with Telstra to deliver a high-performance, end-to-end data transmission solution for a Fortune 1000 customer

ArrayComm's Network MIMO software will be incorporated into the PHY of picoChip's flexible wireless solution

Zarlink introduced the first two devices in its new ClassSwitch platform of single- chip, full-service Layer 2 Ethernet switches

BroadSoft announced the appointment of Gary M. Ford as vice president and general counsel

The Multimedia over Coax Alliance announced that Alcatel has joined as an associate member

Air Surprise has successfully deployed a local number portability solution built upon the Performance Technologies AMP offering

Anam Mobile announced full availability of its Smart Services platform for WAP, SMS, and MMS

AOI is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Chien-Yu Kuo to the position of Senior Vice President

Cybera announced the closing of a $12.8 million equity round of financing led by Adams Street Partners of Chicago

BroadLight has successfully sampled the BL2000 GPON system-on-chip solution

ADC announced an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Overture to supply the new LoopStar 700 next-gen Ethernet access and transport system

Optiwave announced the release of OptiFDTD MAX

Broadwing and Hutchison Global Communications Limited (HGC) announced the joint establishment of a new inter-carrier international Ethernet network

Fujitsu announced today a series of significant service, functionality, and density enhancements to its flagship Flashwave 4500 MSSP

Openreach from BT was created to deliver installation and maintenance services on behalf of Britain’s telephone and Internet service providers

Consolidated Communications deploys Entone's Hydra IP video gateway for new IPTV services

Global Crossing's UK operation implements an interconnect rating system from Azure Solutions

Terabeam expects Q4 revenue will be in the upper range of the previously-provided guidance of $23M to $27M

SKY Italia selects personal video recorder (PVR) set-top box from Pace Micro for its MySKY TV service

BT adds the Motorola V3b handset to its Fusion fixed/mobile service

NEC boasts world's smallest DWDM optical transceivers with high power output

Optus acquires remaining 74.15% stake in Virgin Mobile Australia for A$30M; receives 15-year license to use the Virgin brand

KPN acquires Dutch Internet and business service provider Attingo, which offers hotspots at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport

Swisscom Fixnet Wholesale to triple ADSL bandwidths for residential and business customers over the next few months

Completel delivers first colocation sites in Paris and Nantes, and plans to expand its footprint to 110 metro areas instead of 80 as previously announced

Softbank uses Sylantro and Microsoft to deliver VOIP services to businesses in Japan

Infonetics finds broadband, metro Ethernet, and IP VPNs are the top drivers for investment in convergence

Aperto networks announces availability of TDM equipment for wireless broadband networks

Google introduces Google Earth for Mac

Telcordia launched Telcordia Ringback Tones and Telcordia Location-Based Services

StockerYale announced a realignment of operations into three core growth businesses: lasers, LEDs, and specialty optical fiber

EXFO reported today sales growth for a ninth consecutive quarter

Adelphia filed the 'Plan Supplement' to the company's fourth amended plan of reorganization with the US Bankruptcy Court

OpVista announced deployment of its OpVista transport system by Service Electric

Ample announced that its new device, Redhawk, is now sampling to customers

Siemens announced the addition of a new regional broadband customer, Oxford Networks

Voice Mobility is integrating NMS's media processing technology with Voice Mobility's messaging solution

MIND CTI will release financial results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2005 on Monday, February 20, 2006

INS announced the release of IPControl software version 2.2

Five major countries in Asia comprise the fastest developing regional broadband market including the adoption of advanced FTTx

Virtela is delivering managed global DSL connectivity to its private network via an unparalleled industry footprint of more than 120 countries

ETT and Virtela announced a partnership that enables ETT to expand its network service offerings and extend global reach for ETT customers through Virtela

Willcom has selected Sonus Networks as the foundation for its new nationwide long-distance network

Telkom South Africa (TSA) has selected Verso to provide Verso's Clarent Edge Access softswitch solution as it expands its VOIP services

Azimuth announced several recent milestones that demonstrate the company's significant growth and sales momentum

Harmonic announced a multi-channel digital mosaic system

Online consumers seeking the best video search engine will now find it on the leading free portal on the web -- AOL.com

Veraz announced that Telecom New Zealand International (TNZI) selected Veraz's VOIP softswitch to be the preferred solution for TNZI's telecom switches

Ryder has been awarded a contract by MCI to provide an online bill management solution to much of its European operations

The Ethernet Alliance announced its formation with a scope that includes all IEEE 802 Ethernet standards

AppearTV have integrated AppearTV’s DC1000 professional receiver with the Latens CAS family of broadband conditional access products

Juniper announced key changes to its management team as part of a structured succession plan

RAD will exhibit its unique portfolio of cellular backhaul access solutions for 2G and 3G networks at the 3GSM World Congress

EXFO announced the introduction of the AXS-100 Access Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) for fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) test applications

Amdocs expands partnership with CompuCom Systems to help deliver support to its enterprise customer base

Motorola acquires next-generation cable network technology assets from Broadband Innovations

Appeals court upholds ruling that SeaChange 'willfully' infringed C-COR's patent for a video server system architecture

Ghana Telecom expands its broadband wireless network with approximately $3M of Alvarion equipment

Nareos launches P2P monitoring service PeerMind to provide analysis of digital entertainment trends

Vodafone appoints Matthew Kirk, currently British Ambassador to Finland, as director of external relationships

NeuStar projects full-year 2006 revenues in the range of $296M to $306M; reports 40% annual growth to 171.6 million transactions

Snom transfers rights for its multimode, SIP-based 4S IP communications software to newly founded 4S newcom

Kyocera signs patent license agreement with Nokia relating to CDMA, PHS, and PDC standards to resolve patent dispute

Alcatel deploys metro CWDM network in Paris for Global Crossing

AT&T expands its BusinessDirect customer portal with global network management and online collaboration tools

ConVisual, provider of multimedia messaging and mobile entertainment services plans its IPO on the Frankfurt exchange for Jan. 13

Equant has won a two-year, $4.4 million contract extension to continue managing an IP VPN for law firm Baker & McKenzie

Patapsco Communications announces its PacketBand systems enable ISDN codecs to use IP networks

Unisys wins £1.6M in new contracts from BT Wholesale to include a flexible converged fixed and mobile voicemail service, and a new messaging platform

Billing Services Group combines is re-branding Billing Concepts and the former EDS Interoperator Services to BSG Clearing Solutions

Kingston Communications selects CopperEye for communications data retention platform

Arroyo Video Solutions supplies Arroyo OnDemand to support Charter's rollout of video on demand services in Alcoa, Tennessee

ISPs such as Cable & Wireless, Savvis, Belgacom, and Hydro One use Arbor's Peakflow SP to provide security services to their enterprise customers

McLeodUSA completes financial restructuring and emerges from Chapter 11; appoints Royce Holland, founder of Allegiance Telecom, as CEO

Starent Networks, provider of mobile multimedia gateways, secures strategic investment from T-Mobile Venture Fund

TelCove expands its fiber optic network infrastructure in the Syracuse-Utica-Rome region

Brooktrout teams with providers of network fax applications to offer a software-only fax platform for IP networks

Teligent incorporates Performance Technolgies' Advanced Managed Platform products in its P90/E service creation platform

Virgin Mobile USA and MTV extend partnership to include program sponsorship and mobile content

Nortel appoints former GE executive Don McKenna as vice president of Global Manufacturing Services

Introduces Release 3.0 of its optical switches, which non-blocking, all-optical switching for up to 320 single-mode fibers in a rack-mountable 8 RU chassis

C-COR introduces ITU G.695-compliant CWDM transmitter with 1 GHz technology

Multikabel Netherlands selects C-COR's Converged Headend Platform (CHP) for network upgrade

Axiom Systems and Wipro implement AxiOSS for TeliaSonera's next-generation services

Telenor appoints Arve Johansen as executive vice president in Asia and Jan Edvard Thygesen as EVP in eastern and central Europe

IP Telesis selects General Bandwidth G6 Universal Media Gateways for integrated voice and data services

Eagle Broadband reports Q1 earnings of $1.9M, up 27% from revenues of $1.5M during the same period last year

NTT Leasing expands its investment in Glimmerglass, provider of intelligent optical switches

Details of a new music service enabling subscribers to access music to suit their preferences, have been unveiled by Vodafone Group

EXFO announced today the launch of the FTB-200 Compact Platform, a lightweight and portable test platform

Accton and Sandburstintroduced the newest member of the MetroBox product family: the MetroBox-Access Switch (MetroBox-AS) or the ES4826 from Accton

On Jan. 9, 2006, a fiber cut between Phoenix, Ariz. and Palm Springs, Calif. has impacted Sprint Nextel’s service along the West Coast

MRV announced the 4800 Power Control Series, an intelligent power distribution and remote power control solution to maximize operational uptime

Fonality has secured $5 million in Series B financing in a round led by Azure Capital Partners with participation from individual investors

Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg today told investors he sees sustainable shareholder value creation in 2006 and beyond

Telecom Italia and Intel will deploy innovative applications and services for home entertainment, healthcare, and for R&D of new tech

Tech Data as established a distribution agreement with Mitel, a leading provider of IP communications solutions

Oplink expects revenue for the second quarter of fiscal year 2006 to be in the range of $12.5 to $12.6 million

BTI Photonic Systems has closed a USD$12.25M Series C financing

Pacific Internet appoints Teck Moh Phey, VP for Motorola in Asia/Pacific, as its president and CEO

Askey Computer of Taiwan has selected BroadLight’s BL2000 system-on-chip solution

Dutch food and health company Sovion selects AT&T as global network provider

TDC upholds its recommendation to shareholders to accept NTC's offer

Alcatel appoints Charles Matthews to the newly created position of chief compliance officer

Nordic Telephone Company encourages TDC shareholders to accept its offer scheduled to expire Jan. 12

Yahoo launches Go TV service for PCs connected to televisions

Yahoo! to launch Go Mobile service with AT&T and Cingular in the US, and Nokia in several international markets

Aeon Digital announces distribution agreement with Protron USA for its DV-220 PVR and IPTV set top box

DivX and Google team to make Google Video accessible on consumer electronics devices

Google announces plans for online video store

Google offers free software package of security and communications programs

Cesky Telecom reports 175% increase in ADSL users in the Czech Republic to 275,000

Schema releases version 1.5 of its GSM Network Dimensioning Manager, which enables operators to forecast network traffic

Vodafone and Sony NetServices partner to offer interactive, personalised radio channels streamed to 3G mobile phones and PCs

Redback announced the addition of William Sherry as vice president of finance

John D. Schanz will join the Comcast as Executive Vice President, National Engineering and Technical Operations

DirecTV will enable remote viewing of DirecTV's entertainment services and programming to PC screens, laptops, portable media players and STBs

Verizon and MCI closed on their merger, enhancing Verizon's ability to deliver converged communications, information, and entertainment

ITC^DeltaCom announced the availability of its MPLS Service offering

Cable TV execs discussed elements of their pending plans for system preparation and early trials of advanced-interactive digital video tech

8x8 and CounterPath unveiled 8x8's latest VOIP service, Packet8 Softalk, a co-branded, video-enabled SIP softphone

Devicescape announced its central role in enabling Sharp to design and develop wireless devices that are compatible and operate easily on home networks

Avanex announced preliminary financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31, 2005

Vidanti uses Conexant media and voice processing chips for its BBTV4000 IP Entertainment Gateway (IPEG) set-top box

Subscribers to NTT DoCoMo's 3G FOMA service surpass the 20M mark

ntl wins voice contract for Spectrum Interactive's payphones across the UK

SunRocket expands footprint of its residential VOIP service to 75% of US households

NDS introduces new entertainment server system and DVR, as well as Xspace and content protection software, at Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

WebDialogs introduces secure sharing plug-in for Skype voice conferencing

Panasonic to address IPv6 applications for security and home networking at CES 2006 'New Internet' track

8x8 signs agreement with Brightpoint to offer Packet8 Internet phone services through its Value Added Reseller and System Integrator channel

NDS and Thomson showcase new OpenCable Application Platform set-top box at Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

Verimatrix and InfoValue announce integrated IPTV deployment at a resort in the Caribbean

SeaChange showcases new applications for on-demand television at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

Ixia introduces Multi-Services Modules for testing next-generation Sonet

Ixia expects to report Q4 revenues in the range of $37M to $38M, a 5% to 8% increase over 4Q04 but below the company's guidance

MCI restates financial statements for first three quarters of 2005

Intel plans to bring Google Video and AOL's video service to the living room on the Intel Viiv platform

China Telecom awards Huawei a contract for 1.2 million ADSL2+ lines

USRobotics introduces Skype-certified USB Internet Speakerphone

Broadcom's MPEG-4/AVC silicon has been selected by both DirecTV and by EchoStar

Broadcom announced the industry's first front-end cable TV set-top box chip with integrated channel bonding technology

Finisar reported that Jerry Rawls, Finisar's President and CEO, has been elected Chairman of the Board

EXFO has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Consultronics

Ubicom has introduced the industry's first family of communications and media processors (CMPs)

Verizon launched FiOS TV today in seven more North Texas communities

Verimatrix and i3 announced the Mood 300 as the industry’s first IP set-top box (STB) to be fully integrated with Verimatrix’s VideoMark

GigaBeam announced today a sale of its WiFiber wireless fiber links in the amount of $243,000 to the Grant Joint Union High School District

USDTV has selected Norfolk, Va. as the fifth rollout market and first on the East Coast of its all-digital wireless TV service

Uniden and 8x8 announced the extension of their strategic partnership and introduced a new co-branded VOIP product

Broadcom announced the world’s first WiFi video phone chipset for wireless handsets and desktop video IP phones

Dave.tv and Capitol announced the formation of a Strategic Alliance

2Wire unveiled the world's first outdoor broadband home gateway

PMC released a VOIP Phone reference platform that enables PPSTN-like performance with toll-quality voice services and enhanced security

CA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wily Technology for $375 million in an all-cash transaction

CopperGate announced that Motorola Ventures made an investment in the company

Brix expanded its existing IPTV monitoring capabilities targeted at providing the required visibility into channel change times and network performance

Linksys announced a new line of SIP-based telephony products for Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs)

ZTE is to provide China Telecom with its largest metropolitan intelligent fixed-line NGN network

Freescale has introduced a 3.3V single-chip CMOS broadband silicon tuner designed for a wide range of home entertainment appliances

Buffalo introduced another addition to its family of products designed to DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) Guidelines

France Telecom had launched a friendly tender offer on Telindus at a price of €15.80 per share

Qualcomm has acquired Berkana Wireless, a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor company

Telenor completes acquisition of Vodafone Sweden for €1.04 billion including debt

BT Radianz appoints Rick Snape, GM of its Extranet unit, as CEO and Mark Akass, VP and head of engineering, as CTO

NTL wins £10 million contract to supply National Ethernet services to Opal Telecom

Netcentrex appoints David Michaud as CEO of operations in the Americas

Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) predicts industry growth, venture funding opportunities

Amino to port advanced software stack for IPTV set-top boxes to STMicroelectronics semiconductor family

Philips and Microsoft to launch cordless Internet telephone for Windows Live Messenger users

In-Stat forecasts network-based IP VPN equipment worldwide sales revenues will grow strongly from $347M in 2004 to $658M in 2009

Focus Enhancements says its video convergence processors will appear in multiple set-top boxes and media players showcased at CES

mFormation Technologies acquires Aepona's device management system business

Sigecom deploys Terawave BPON optical access systems to provide Ethernet and DS1 services for SMEs

Sprint and its cable partners appoint John Garcia president of their quadruple-play joint venture

Network Equipment Technologies expects Q3 revenues in the range of $16M to $16.5M, representing a loss of $0.25 to $0.30 per share

ANT will demonstrate its Galio TV Application Manager and client software at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

Thomson showcases IP devices at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and signs licensing agreement with CableLabs for the CableCARD removable security interface

Ericsson awarded two-year contract to build and manage Natrindo's 3G network in Indonesia

Net.com expects revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2006 to be in the range of $16.0 to $16.5 million, a loss of $0.25 to $0.30 per share

Level 3's second VOIP consumer research study found that VOIP awareness has continued to grow

Packet Design has named Steve Ruddock director of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA)

Anritsu announces the promotion of Don Bradley to the position of Senior Fellow at Anritsu Company

Sigecom has deployed Terawave BPON optical access systems to provide Ethernet and DS1 services to SMBs

Focus Ventures is leading a $25M Series C round of financing in Entropic bringing total investment in the company to $78M

Ikanos' Fx100100-4-EX chipset has been selected to support VDSL2 services in Tellion's new 8/16/24-port solution

Verso has been selected to provide its Class 5 softswitch solution to Belgium-based company IPness

Alcatel has acquired GMK, a leading provider of contact center voice self-service solutions in Brazil

ZTE is deploying TranSwitch's Envoy-CE2 Ethernet controller in Fast Ethernet (FE) service interface cards

Ace-Comm has signed a contract to provide its N-Vision mediation solution to Vivodi

Vonage uses Sonus VOIP equipment to expand its voice over broadband network in the U.S.

Satellite telecom company Orbcomm raises $110M in equity funding

Mississippi operator Telapex uses Tut Systems's Astria content processors to deploy a converged IPTV network

Evoxus launches VOIP service for multisite enterprises in the UK over Broadsoft's BroadWorks VOIP application platform

Corrigent appoints Suhas Patil to head its new office in Mumbai, India

Chunghwa Telecom selects Terayon's DM 6400 Network CherryPicker to expand its multimedia-on-demand service

Voyence, provider of automated change and configuration management solutions, joins EMC Smarts Technology Alliances Program

Telenor Pakistan implements Azure's interconnect billing software for its long distance international services

Computer Associates certifies Fluke Networks's OptiView network analyzers as 'ca smart'

PrairieWave president Bruce Herman takes on additional role of CEO; Craig Anderson remains chairman and VP Scott Schroeder becomes CFO

Yankee Group names NetContinuum as first traditional Web application firewall vendor to stake a claim in the new application assurance platform market

Yankee Group issues rankings of the top wholesale data providers; BellSouth and Sprint lead overall quality while MCI leads network performance

SIPfoundry releases version 3 of its open source PBX, sipXpbx

UK has now overtaken France as the biggest broadband country in Europe according to Point Topic estimates

FastWeb expands its use of Portal Software to support new IP-based services

Motorola introduces digital set-top products with home media networking capabilities

Skype announces seven deals with consumer electronics makers

Panasonic and Skype collaborate on line of cordless phones

West Central Wireless selects Telsasoft's GSM CDR (Call Detail Record) reports

UK-based IP software provider Exony opens North American headquarters in Boston

Verizon signs licensing agreement with Belkin to produce Verizon-branded home networking gear

BellSouth to trial SES Americom's IP-Prime satellite-based video distribution system

ECI Telecom chosen to expand Beijing Subway's communications network for the 2008 Olympics

American Stock Exchange (AMEX) to suspend trading of DSL.net shares from Jan. 9 due to the low selling price of its stock

C-COR will streamline its corporate structure and key manufacturing operations into functionally aligned groups

RadiSys expects fourth quarter revenue to be approximately $62 million and diluted earnings per share to be between $.13 and $.15.

The waiting period for US antitrust review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 was terminated on December 30, 2005

Teligent is pleased to announce today a substantial order from T-Com, Deutsche Telekom's fixed-network unit

Hercules Technology Growth Capital provided $5.0 million of debt financing to Pathfire

TelCove recently completed a major network upgrade in the Buffalo, NY metro area

Airspan has deployed the first-ever Russian WiMax network for MetroMax

Global Crossing has completed the sale of its small business group (SBG) to Matrix Telecom

BigBand has released version 6.0 of its BigBand Cuda CMTS (cable modem termination system)

D-Link and Skype introduced the D-Link Skype USB phone adapter

Vonage and Uniden announced the retail availability for the Uniden UIP1869V

Telefónica de España has met its target of over 200,000 Imagenio subscribers in its first year of life in Spain

Telefónica SA’s Board of Directors has approved the restructuring of the Company’s senior management

Verizon Wireless completes $400M New York network enhancements in 2005

Starz Entertainment launches Vongo, its video download application and service for broadband

Pacific Internet forms equity joint venture with Chinese ISP Zhong Ren Telecom to market integrated IP communication applications in southern China

COO Berndt Baumgartl promoted to president and CEO of Siemens Communications

Ascalade Communications signs development agreement with Skype; introduces PC-based VOIP cordless phone

Jean-Louis Constanza, Market Area Director for Tele2 in Southern Europe and CEO of Tele2 France, resigns and will be replaced by Andrea Filippetti and Olivier Anstett

Siemens licenses ANT's Galio TV application manager for consumer electronics devices

Comptel completes integration of EDB Telecom businesses; plans layoffs in Finland and Norway

Exponential-e today announced the roll out of its VPLS-enabled next generation network (NGN)