EDIG is appearing in all sorts of trade rags! I like how this newsletter refers to EDIG as a "Internet sound specialist."
Date: Thursday, May 6, 1999
Source: Exchange Telecommunications Newsletter
Exchange Telecommunications Newsletter via NewsEdge Corporation : The ACCC has filed new proceedings in the federal
court in relation to Telstra's local call transfer process because the ACCC believes that Telstra has not complied with any of the
four competition notices, commissioner Rod Shogren said in a release.
Davnet managing director Stephen Moignard has announced that the company has signed 30 percent of the tenants in Perth's
prestigious St Martin Tower and Exchange Plaza after entering the WA market last December.
AT&T has disrupted MediOne's $US60b bid for Comcast with a $US62b bid comprising assumption of $US4.5b in debt and
preferred equity.
Newbridge Networks is again the subject of takeover speculation, according to Telecom Alerts which suggested Ericsson,
Nokia and Tellabs are all potential suitors since they lack ATM expertise, a Newbridge strong point. Last year Siemens was
rumoured to be interested in acquiring Newbridge.
Motorola and paging products specialist Glenayre Technologies have signed a MoU which would allow Glenayre to
manufacture and sell Motorola paging infrastructure products. In a release, the companies also said they would jointly invest to
support the growth and use of Motorola's Flex messaging protocols.
Lucent is working with Internet sound specialist e.Digital to create a digital sound player based on Lucent's Bell Labs
developed compression system, Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC), Newsbytes reports. Lucent says its superior
codec algorithm gives the same quality sound as MP3 (the current MPEG sound codec) with files one-third smaller.
CableLabs has issued its DOCSIS 1.1 specification for defining the guaranteed bandwidth capabilities of cable modems. The
1.1 specification is the foundation for PacketCable, a CableLabs-managed project aimed at identifying, qualifying, and
supporting Internet-based multimedia products over cable systems. Details at packetcable.com.
IXC Communications will deploy Ciena's MultiWave Sentry DWDM optical transport systems in its nationwide OC-192 (1
Tbit/sec) fibre network, IXC says.
Hewlett-Packard claims its four-way HP NetServer LXr 8000 system coupled with Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced
Server performs 12,969 HTTP operations per second -- "The highest throughput ever reported from any architecture or any
operating system", the company said.
Telia's VoIP Global Clearinghouse Service has begun pilot testing value-added messaging services between IP telephony
service partners based on Global Media Concepts application configuration, Telecom Alert reports. Details from
globalmediaconcept.com.
Level 3 Communications has announced plans to build its own transatlantic terabit cable system between the US and the UK.
The network will cost $US600- to $US800 million and is expected to enter service in September 2000 with upgradable
capacity to 1.28 Tbit/sec.
In May, Tribeca Software will ship Version 2.0 of its usage-based billing software NetCFO which uses up to six probes to
track corporate bandwidth usage across wide-area access points, the company said in a release.
Lucent has announced its IPWorx solution "for proactively managing large volumes of Web traffic in hosting centres and ISP
backbones."
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