Stories about: Bellcore

Researchers have created an optical network component that they say can encrypt data traveling at 100G bps (bits per second), far outpacing current electronic encryption technologies.

What 2006 stories surprised the author of the popular book Silicon Dreams? Google buying YouTube and Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop.

Citrix made its name with a specialized software product, Citrix MetaFrame, now called Presentation Server. It was used by a blue chip list of Fortune 500 companies to run Windows applications on servers, accessed by PCs via Citrix's communications protocol ICA. For several years, Citrix has been positioning its product line around a theme that company executives recite like a refrain: application access management. John Cox speaks with Michael Cristinziano, Citrix vice president of strategic development and finds out what keeps him busy.

At the Pacific Telecommunications Council's 28th conference in Honolulu, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf declared that major Internet growth will now come from Asia, which represents 56 percent of the world's population.

Sonus Networks Inc. this week introduced a Web-based system for unified management of all the distributed elements in its packet telephony suite for service providers.

Verizon Corp. (formerly Bell Atlantic Corp.) has been ordered by New York regulators to cut business and residential rates by US$50 million starting Sept. 1, accelerating an earlier state Public Service Commission rate-reduction plan. Originally, the cut was to be $25 million, but because Verizon sold its share in telecom software and research company Bellcore, another $22.7 million in net proceeds is being passed along to customers, as well as $2.3 million in other revenue.

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Intel Corp. will enter the home-appliance market later this year when it plans to release a simplified computer allowing consumers to make telephone calls over the Internet, the company announced today.

Bellcore, the time-honoured communications company that helped design the modern US telecommunications network, relaunched itself with a new name last week and set its sights on the emerging market for data-voice integration networks.

How are you going to be sure that your Y2K conversion works? First, test and document - then test and document some more.

A new alliance of several telecommunications carriers and equipment makers could bring the innovation and low prices of open systems to service providers' central offices. Cisco Systems, MCI WorldCom, and Bellcore are spearheading the Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF), which last week presented an impressive line up of vendors and carriers that also included Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, and AT&T.