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Lucent spins for 100
January 30, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsDespite announcing laying off as many as 10,000 employees last week, Lucent is hiring. The company believes it will employ up to 100 people at InPhase Technologies, its new spin-off company. According to Lucent, the new company will develop high-performance holographic data storage media and systems with the potential to speed the evolution of entertainment, consumer products and information te...
The ties that bind
January 30, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsAOL Time Warner and TiVo are making sure subscribers don't miss a thing. Media conglomerate AOL Time Warner is promoting TiVo to AOL Time Warner customers across all its online, print and TV media. TiVo has made a name for itself in the entertainment world with its PVR (personal video recorder) technology that records on a hard disk subscribers' favorite TV entertainment, as well as patrols cha...
Agilent sees the light in fiber-optic growth
January 29, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsAgilent is extending its fiber-optic capability by purchasing Italy-based Silicon Microsystem, a fiber-optic-technology laboratory, for approximately U.S. $55 million in cash. The purchase is part of Agilent's ongoing plan to extend its reach into fiber optics. Agilent hopes the investment in Silicon Microsystem will improve Agilent fiber-optic products' speed-to-market.
Tellabs flips the softswitch
January 29, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsTellabs is introducing its SALIX 7600 softswitch control suite, which helps carriers increase revenue by building low-cost networks that deliver innovative new services quickly. The SALIX 7600 softswitch control suite helps communications service providers turn traditional voice networks into a broadband environment that can support enhanced voice, local, long-distance, multimedia and wireless ...
Tellabs purchases Future Networks
January 28, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsResponding to the need for a single network to deliver multiple services, Tellabs is buying Future Networks, a developer of standards-based voice and data cable modem technology. After the purchase is complete, Tellabs will be able to provide cable operators with an end-to-end multi-services system based on Internet protocol.
Pace and Sega playing games
January 28, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsPace Micro Technology and Sega will share their collective expertise in order to bring the world of online gaming to subscribers of cable TV and other networks. In order to fulfill the vision, Pace has integrated the Sega games platform into its digital personal video recorder (PVR) home gateway (set-top boxes), providing consumers on-demand access to hundreds of console-quality games with 3D g...
Try TriNexus' broadband set-top for an enhanced TV experience
January 28, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsFor its customers' viewing pleasure, TriNexus is using Tvia's CyberPro 5055 processor in its broadband set-top box. The TriNexus set-top lets subscribers see TV programs and Internet and interactive content seamlessly displayed on their standard TVs. The TV Postman uses the TriNexus architecture for next-generation set-top boxes for network operator branded applications.
New connections for Alaska
January 25, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsValdez, Alaska is getting cable modem service and joining its already connected cosmopolitan cousins, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau, in speedy 'Net surfing. GCI, Alaska's largest ISP, is delivering the service, which has the added feature of secure, digitally encrypted transmission. GCI says the service will appeal to the usual audience of telecommuters, i-gaming aficionados and, CED suspects...
CaritaSoft teams with Cable Bahamas
January 24, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsCaritaSoft has signed a multi-year contract with Cable Bahamas to provide its Customer Value Management (CVM) Suite solution to the island network provider. Cable Bahamas will use the suite to expand its support services. "Cable Bahamas is using our CVM Suite to increase customer retention and revenue per customer, reduce total customer churn and gauge the success of marketing campaigns in real...
Broadcom blazes a trail
January 24, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsBroadcom, today upgraded by Kaufman Brothers from hold to accumulate, has unveiled its BCM1100 Internet Protocol (IP) Phone Engine, the world's first single-chip solution for enabling Ethernet IP telephones. Broadcom manufacturers integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband digital transmission of voice, video and data.
iN Demand and Pathfire go to bat for cable
January 24, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsiN Demand and Pathfire, have blended their technologies and will transmit digitally compressed content to cable VOD file servers. The process will use iN Demand's existing network and satellite capacity and uplink facilities combined with Pathfire's pitch and catch server hardware and multicast software.
i-TV hungry for good content
January 24, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsWhere once the Web was content-hungry, now it's the development of i-TV that's being touted as the next big Web application. Meeting this new demand, interactive TV technology providers OpenTV and Mixed Signals Technologies (MST), have agreed to jointly market MST's interactive TV services and tools with OpenTV's enhanced TV platform.
WOW meets demand
January 23, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsWideOpenWest is meeting the demand of its entertainment-hungry customers with Video- On-Demand, DemandVideo's answer to immediate access to movies and other programming. WOW customers can order up that impulse movie purchase with the touch of a button on a simple remote. Customers also have 24 hours in which to view the movie, so they can start it on Friday night and finish it on Saturday.
Worldgate introduces i-TV enhancements
January 23, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsWorldGate knows its cable operator customers and their subscribers are always looking for the latest in i-TV. The interactive cable TV service provider is releasing enhancements for its interactive TV applications, and expects to roll them out in 1Q 2001. WorldGate is upgrading its Web browser to support SSL 3.
Who's that under there?
January 23, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsMotorola has gone Incognito, joining the IP and DNS solutions provider to create a dynamic host configuration protocol service (DHCP) for broadband IP networks. Motorola will distribute exclusively Incognito's IP Commander, a multi-platform DHCP and domain name service, to cable operators and vendors.
