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Lucent buying Chromatis for
$5.7Bil Lucent buying Chromatis for $5.7Bil But sources and analysts quoted by Reuters said the potential $5.7 billion price tag may be high, because Chromatis' Metropolis product is still undergoing trials with several carriers and will not be commercially available until later this summer. Chromatis did say on Friday that it had successfully completed the first phase of a comprehensive lab trial of Metropolis with broadband Internet concern Qwest Communications. Chromatis described Metropolis as being the "first integrated optical transport solution in the market and represents the most complete, scalable, and manageable metro solution available."
Britain defends plan to snoop on Web surfers Source: Digitalmass Plans to allow British security services to monitor Internet traffic will not create an all-seeing cyberspace spy, the government said on May 26. Civil liberties groups have said the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) bill would give police free rein to snoop on Internet users and could lead to people being jailed for forgetting their computer passwords. But the government said the bill only updates police powers to intercept and monitor communications, bringing them up to speed with increasingly techno-savvy criminals. The bill had its second reading on May 25 in the House of Lords, Britain's upper chamber of parliament, and should go to a final reading in mid-June, the spokesman said. Home Secretary Jack Straw introduced the bill earlier this year to a chorus of disapproval, mainly over its power to force Internet service providers (ISPs) to grant police access to a huge amount of information on internet users. Civil liberties groups said the bill would make it far easier
for police to access web surfers' personal and banking data, lists of Web sites
visited, and even allow real-time monitoring of people's Internet activity.
But the Home Office insisted the bill gave no new powers to
security services, and that they would need a special warrant to access
information from ISPs. The government wanted the bill
passed before October when British law is due to become fully compliant with the
European Convention on Human Rights. The module is part of AudioCodes' strategy to provide high-density solutions that enable the NextGen Access network. OEMs are currently designing carrier class solutions to support this NextGen Access network. These solutions include the second generation of VoDSL equipment as well as Packet Switches with CLASS 4/5 switch capabilities. The value of integrating the TPM-800 into Access equipment enables greater utilization of the Service Provider's local copper loop infrastructure. Industry experts cite that compression will become increasingly important as bandwidth demand exceeds the capacity offered by the copper plant. telic.net teams with satellite company to offer PC-to-PhoneSource: iLocus telic.net has announced an agreement with InterPacket Networks, a satellite-based Internet network, to provide PC-to-phone connections around the globe. InterPacket is licensing telic.net's Softphone, a PC-to-phone client that can be embedded in Web sites or downloaded to customers' computers. The satellite network provider will offer the Softphone under
a private label to its customers - most of them Internet Service Providers -
located in 100 countries on six continents. InterPacket
has built a global Internet network linking 11 geostationary satellites through
the company's operations centers in London, Singapore, New York, Los Angeles and
San Francisco.
The pilot program is the result of a partnership between the renowned cancer research facility and the Virtual Worlds Group at Microsoft Research. It was discussed in detail at the Washington Software Alliance's annual Online Advantage conference here May 25. Microsoft Corp. donated funds to cover the project costs and networking, and the Virtual Worlds Group at Microsoft Research helped with design issues of the virtual environment. HutchWorld, the community for cancer patients, is based on
Microsoft's Virtual Worlds Platform, which provides synchronous and asynchronous
communication and Web integration. It is further built on Microsoft's COM,
ActiveX, and DirectX technologies. About 15 scientists working for the software
company are looking into methods for using virtual worlds in areas besides
purely social interaction, such as distance learning and e-commerce.
Nortel and Bouyues
team up on 3G
Hondas to carry GM's OnStar IBM computer: 1 trillion calculations a second IBM Corp.'s answer to human intelligence in a box takes a big leap when the company unveils a monster of a supercomputer capable of handling a trillion calculations a second. The $4.5 million unit, to be installed in October in a Finland research and business center, will be the most powerful commercial computer in Europe, and one of the most sophisticated in the world. The machine's scheduled introduction comes three years after Deep Blue, an ultra-smart supercomputer dwarfed by its present-day cousin, defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In December, IBM announced that it would build the supercomputer of supercomputers to unravel the complexities of genetics as it handles one quadrillion -- one million billion -- calculations a second. Put all together, experts say the developments will lead to breakthroughs in science and business as machines, guided by humans, unravel thorny issues by almost instantly examining vast amounts of data. The IBM supercomputer to be introduced will be housed at the Finnish Supercomputing Center in Helsinki, a nonprofit agency with 90 scientists. The center is run by the Finnish Ministry of Education, and the supercomputer is named ``White Cap'' for the white caps Finnish students receive upon graduation. The machine will link 512 processors, the brains of computers, in four towers that together weigh four tons. Although the unit will be the most powerful commercial computer in Europe, it will be only the second fastest on the continent. The fastest is a machine France is building for its defense establishment. |
