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News & Analysis 2005 P40
Idacomm sells Las Vegas private dark fiber rings to Mpower
June 16, 2005 Las Vegas, NV -- Idacomm today announced the sale of three redundant dark fiber rings in Las Vegas to Mpower Communications. The 141 miles of existing fiber are concentrated in the densely populated business areas of the greater Las Vegas valley. Consisting of three distinct dark fiber rings, the network connects the majority of the city's central offices, providing a platform for enhanced carrier products including metro Ethernet, SONET, and additional dark fiber networks.
General Cable announces plant closures
June 16, 2005 Highland Heights, KY -- General Cable today announced its decision to close its fiber-optic military and premise cable manufacturing plant in Dayville, Connecticut, and to relocate production from this plant to its recently acquired facility in Franklin, Massachusetts, which currently produces copper as well as some fiber-optic communications products. The Dayville plant employs approximately 30 associates.
India's BSNL deploys UTStarcom's multiservice optical platform
June 15, 2005 Alameda, CA -- UTStarcom today announced that it will be supplying its NetRing 2500 STM-16 optical transport platform to Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL), India's incumbent and largest provider of telecommunications services.
Telewest selects Cisco optical platform to enable TV-on-Demand services
June 15, 2005 London, UK -- Telewest, a UK cable broadband communications and media group, is accelerating its national core and edge network upgrade to converge its networks for voice, video, Broadband, and business data services onto a single platform using Cisco's Internet Protocol Next Generation Network (IP NGN) platform. The group says the optical platform will provide the broadband capacity required for the national rollout of its TV-on-demand (TVOD) services.
Japan's J:COM deploys Ciena optical Ethernet platform for VoD network
June 15, 2005 Linthicum, MD -- Ciena today announced that Japan's Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) is adopting the company's optical Ethernet platforms to enable transport of Video on Demand (VoD) services for the operator's "J:COM On Demand" digital services offering.
Corning fiber picked in Indonesia
June 15, 2005 Corning, NY and Jakarta, Indonesia -- Kabelvision , an Indonesian cable TV and data services provider and part of Indonesia's PT Broadband Multimedia Tbk, announced today that it will deploy Corning's NexCor singlemode fiber in the latest expansion of the provider's hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network. PT Communication Cable Systems Indonesia will provide the cable for the project.
FiberNet extends integrated co-location services to KPN
June 14, 2005 New York, NY -- FiberNet Telecom Group, a provider of metro data services, has been selected by KPN, the Netherlands' largest telecom company, to distribute KPN's traffic to its destination partners in the U.S. According to a press release, KPN will cross-connect with leading carriers through a customized, virtual presence at FiberNet's 60 Hudson Street "Meet-Me-Room," an integrated co-location facility.
Hammerhead picks Ample MAC device for metro Ethernet aggregation
June 14, 2005 Fremont, CA -- Hammerhead Systems has deployed Ample Communications' Harrier MAC device within the Hammerhead HSX 6000 Layer 2.5 aggregation platform. Hammerhead says it picked the device because of its large amount of on-chip packet RAM, which can support up to 20 km of fiber length, a critical factor in Ethernet aggregation applications.
OnFiber deploys Infinera's metro DWDM platform
June 14, 2005 Sunnyvale, CA -- OnFiber Communications has deployed Infinera's DTN optical platform to provide DWDM and bandwidth management capabilities in multiple metro optical networks throughout the U.S, supporting OnFiber's wavelength, Ethernet, and SONET services.
China NetCom picks Alloptic for urban FTTH deployment
June 14, 2005 Livermore, CA -- Alloptic, a provider of Gigabit Ethernet passive optical networks (GEPONs), announced that China NetCom (CNC) is deploying the company's access network platform to provide service to high-rise multi-dwelling units, as well as to provide backhaul services for CNC's WiFi and SCDMA wireless networks.
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