Stories about: Telco Systems

Rad Data Communications and 23 other leading telecommunications industry vendors are participating in the largest and most diverse public Carrier Ethernet multi-vendor interoperability test ever staged.

At ITU in Hong Kong this week, IBM unveiled security hardware, software and services for the core of service provider networks that underpin new IP-based voice, video, push-to-talk and presence services.

Many of the network equipment vendors at the Supercomm show in Chicago are talking about delivering voice, video and data over a single telephone line -- the so-called "triple play." But while the goal is to bring these disparate services together on a single delivery platform, each of the vendors has their own way of doing it.

Honiara, we have a problem. A satellite leased by Telecom New Zealand has inexplicably died in the saddle and wiped-out international telecommunications services throughout the South Pacific islands in the process, forcing the Kiwi telco onto emergency back-up systems.

Hewlett-Packard on Thursday signaled its commitment to the Intel processor architecture and carrier-grade Linux for telecommunications infrastructure, announcing it will introduce a blade server based on those specifications as part of a new hardware, software and services strategy.

A modular, standardized network equipment specification being pushed by Intel as a time-saver and cost-cutter for vendors of carrier gear made a splash at last week's Supercomm trade show in Chicago.

ASX-listed Sirius Telecommunications has cemented the remaining three years of a five-year $20 million contract with BHP Billiton, signing on the dotted line to supply and manage BHP's telco systems at four key sites.

Telco Systems Inc. has begun shipping two products that could result in less expensive T-1 or T-3 lines for customers.

BellSouth Corp. has chosen Telco Systems' EdgeLink 300 integrated access device as a new customer premises equipment option for its MegaLink Channelized T-1 managed service. The BellSouth service concentrates voice, data and video traffic over a single T-1 link. The EdgeLink 300 also provides the option of a dual T-1 for up to 48 separate 64K-bps voice or data channels. Telco, of Norwood, Mass., is owned by World Access in Atlanta, but is in the process of being sold to BATM Advanced Communications, an Israeli internetworking systems company.

With the U.S. and the world escaping any major Y2K problems on the rollover date, federal officials began to relax and some companies shut down their Y2K command centers.