Verizon's Asian Ethernet

Verizon has laid a Metro Ethernet solution across Asia to boost its advanced data and enterprise services in Asia-Pacific, according to PC World.

Using Nortel Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 as a wideband digital cross-connect to deliver transport convergence for Verizon's TDM and packet services, these services are available in 17 European countries and four countries across Asia.

Verizon product director of international advanced data services Peter Konings said the Ethernet convergent platform is being used to help consolidate and expand the organisation's network to ramp up enterprise service offerings in the region.

Olive Media, specialising in convergence of digital music and high-end audio components, has released its Opus No5, according to Info Sync World.

The Opus No5 is an audio system that delivers music with better sound clarity, while also offering the flexibility to browse, rip, store, mix, match and burn music libraries, or listen to Internet radio.

Based on its audio purity specs, including a signal/noise ratio of 123dB, the new Opus No5 aims to deliver warm, full-bodied and spacious sound.

JP Morgan, chairman of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), spoke about telecommunications convergence at the fifth annual CTO forum in Jamaica, according to CTO.int.

"Convergence and the development of next-generation networks (NGNs) mark the single biggest change in national telecommunications sectors since liberalisation and bring with it the potential to significantly impact the development of even the smallest economies," he said.

The CTO forum included presentations on regulatory focus, the implications of convergence and NGN development and a look at the Jamaican perspective.

IT entrepreneur and CMD of Mastek Ashank Desai said constant learning, its intelligent application to work and related commercialisation will ensure success in convergence of technologies, reports Navihind Times.

Desai, who was the chief guest at the 40th engineers day celebrations in India, said convergence of technologies is about going beyond the acquired knowledge, applying it and discovering new things.

"There is an entrepreneur behind every convergence of technologies and its commercialisation," he said, adding that confluence of technologies cannot be viable unless and until it is a commercial success.