Metro-Photonics chief executive resigns (06/25/04)
David Clark, the chief executive of Ottawa photonic grating specialist Metro-Photonics, has resigned, citing personal reasons. Adrian O'Donnell, a founder and chief technology officer, has been named acting president and COO.

Force moves ATCA platform to production (06/24/04)
Force Computers has tweaked its AdvancedTCA demo platform in order to provide a production system for networking and wireless applications.

IEEE approves RPR spec (06/24/04)
After dealing with infighting and delays, the IEEE announced at Supercomm that it has approved the Resilient Packet ring (RPR) specification.

Calient develops stand-alone switching controller (06/23/04)
Calient Networks Inc., which has been exploring new markets for its photonic switch technologies, came to Supercomm with the industry's first generalized multiprotocol label switching controller.

Teradiant in system development deal with Sanmina-SCI (06/23/04)
Traffic-management IC specialist Teradiant Networks Inc. announced a deal here at the Supercomm show with electronics manufacturing giant Sanmina-SCI Corp. to jointly develop an open network processing platform called Teramina.

Forum releases DSLHome specs (06/23/04)
The DSL Forum unveiled a suite of technical reports at Supercomm that will help accelerate the forum's DSLHome initiative.

Native launches Ethernet nodes for access, aggregation (06/23/04)
Startup Native Networks is looking to expand the reach of its metro Ethernet systems with the release of two Ethernet service nodes at this week's Supercomm trade show.

SBC's Whitacre calls for mix of services (06/22/04)
Job growth in some vertical industries over the past few months is good news for telecom carriers trying to determine whether increased demand for services will hold up through the second half of the year, a senior industry executive said.

Agilent combines systems for network testing (06/22/04)
Agilent Technologies Inc. has combined three systems — its Series 900 router tester, its OmniBER XM tester for Sonet and its storage-area network tester — to create a new type of platform for testing multiple services in carrier networks.

Agere net processor adopts 'unbreakable' algorithm (06/22/04)
Agere Systems Inc. will implement the so-called Unbreakable Access algorithm suite, developed at British Telecom, in the Agere Payload-Plus (APP) family of network processors.

Passave extends fiber access partnerships (06/22/04)
UTStarcom, Inc. has teamed with fabless chip group Passave to develop Ethernet passive optical networking equipment for fiber-based access networks.

Motorola pushes AdvancedTCA strategy (06/22/04)
Motorola Computer Group this week will release an AdvancedTCA chassis and a series of communications boards.

ST rolls ADSL, CPE chip sets (06/22/04)
STMicroelectronics is delivering an end-to-end ADSL2+ solution for broadband equipment designers with the release Tuesday (June 22) of chipsets for both central office and customer premise equipment (CPE) designs.

Xilinx demos 9-Tbit ATCA architecture (06/22/04)
Xilinx will demo an AdvancedTCA platform at the Supercomm show here Tuesday (June 22) that will tap 10-Gbit I/O technology and a low-loss backplane to push overall backplane performance into the 9-Tbit range.

Corrigent builds MPLS, TDM modules for RPR system (06/21/04)
Corrigent Systems announced Monday (June 21) that its CM-100 resilient packet ring (RPR) add-drop multiplexer (ADM) can now directly interwork with a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) backbone.

Boxes aggregate T1, Ethernet links into DS3 (06/21/04)
Overture Networks has developed two access boxes that will allow designers to take Ethernet and T1 traffic and pass it an existing DS3 link to connect into an add-drop multiplexer for transport over a Sonet/SDH network.

Motorola pushes AdvancedTCA strategy (06/21/04)
Motorola Computer Group released an AdvancedTCA chassis and a series of communications boards at this week's SuperComm show.

Centillium bids for a piece of VoIP CPE market (06/21/04)
Broadband chip designer Centillium Communications Inc. will take on Texas Instruments Inc. and Broadcom Corp. in the customer-premisess voice-over-Internet Protocol sector with the release this week of a VoIP-enabled DSL router chip and a standalone VoIP processor.

Freescale integrates BPON chip (06/21/04)
Freescale Semiconductor Inc. has combined a PowerPC processor core with its broadband passive-optical-networking (BPON) technology to create an integrated controller for Ethernet-only connections.

Xelerated, Infineon to collaborate on transport chips (06/21/04)
Swedish network processor vendor Xelerated Inc. has signed a unique pact with Infineon Technologies AG under which they will collaborate on chip set solutions.

Startups explore realm between edge and core (06/21/04)
The no man's land where edge access meets core transport is fertile ground for ideas on how to get data-aware Sonet, Gigabit Ethernet and multiprotocol label-switched (MPLS) traffic flows to work together. Scores of OEMs and startups at Supercomm 2004 this week will be busy seeding this field in an attempt to lower the cost of the edge boxes while enhancing their service capabilities.

Aware to demo bonded ADSL2+ solution (06/18/04)
DSL intellectual property (IP) provider Aware announced late Friday (June 18) that they will demo a bonded ADSL2+ solution at next week's Supercomm 2004 show next week in Chicago.

AFC, CopperCom team for 'triple play' platform (06/17/04)
CopperCom is teaming with AFC to develop switching systems for independent operators looking to offer complete 'triple-play' solutions.

ST sampling ADSL2+ chip sets with integrated cell processors (06/17/04)
STMicroelectronics has started sampling chips and reference boards for its CopperWing12 device, a 12-channel ADSL2+ part that supports up to 24-Mbit/s downstream and embeds an Internet Protocol/Asynchronous Transfer Mode cell processor.

Parama partners with Finisar; rolls reference design (06/14/04)
Startup Parama Networks, which has developed 10- and 40-Gbit ADM-on-a-chip designs, is partnering with Finisar to provide a reference platform that will allow designers to flexibly configure their boards to support OC-3, OC-12, OC-48 and Gigabit Ethernet services.

Routing rides to application layer (06/14/04)
Sarvega Inc. is fulfilling an earlier promise to bring routing to application-layer uses of the Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Startup rounds out BPON offerings with CO controller chip (06/14/04)
Startup BroadLight is rounding out its broadband passive optical networking (BPON) product line with the release Monday (June 14) of a controller chip for central office (CO) equipment that supports 155-, 622-, and 1244-Mbit/s downstream rates.

Anda delivers EoS plug-in for existing Sonet/SDH ADMs (06/14/04)
Anda Networks will unveil an application for its Ethernet access box solutions Monday (June 14) that will allow these boxes to link up with existing Sonet/SDH add-drop multiplexers (ADMs) to deliver Ethernet services over existing Sonet links.

Centillium rolls chip set for passive optical nets (06/07/04)
Centillium Communications Inc. hopes to make up for a relatively late entry into the passive-optical-networking market by offering a more complete chip set than competitors. The company is releasing chip sets this week that include PON protocol processors, transceivers and a broadband service processor.

Copper Ethernet systems gear up (06/07/04)
Hatteras Networks Inc., the copper-wire Ethernet pioneer that has been largely silent since its founding in 2001, has introduced its first products for carriers. The company's Ethernet access products, offered as single-box systems and as expandable central-office stackable systems, meet the 2Base-TL standard of the IEEE's 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile group.

Infineon, Agere diverge on Layer 2 strategy for Vcat mappers (06/07/04)
Agere Systems and Infineon will pitching different approaches Monday (June 7) for integrating Layer 2 capabilities into Ethernet-over-Sonet (EoS)-enabled equipment designs with the release of two mapper designs that each support 128 virtually concatenated groups (VCGs).

New edge architectures target smaller carriers (06/07/04)
Edge routers that emphasize the streamlined services of smaller carriers will debut this month at Supercomm 2004 in Chicago.

White Rock expands Sonet platform's reach, functionality (06/04/04)
White Rock Networks ( Richardson, Texas) has made it easier for carriers to optimize bandwidth and add features cost effectively by adding VT1.5 grooming functionality to its Sonet transport platform.

Broadcom, BroadLight collaborate on FTTP chip set (06/01/04)
Startup chip developer BroadLight announced Tuesday (June 1) that it is partnering with Broadcom in order to provide a unified fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) chip set that delivers voice, video and data capabilities to residential users.