Daily News 2006/03/29

ADLINK earned N.T. 146,000,000 in Feb, an increase of 71%

ADLINK TECHNOLOGY, the world leading provider of high-end industrial computer CompactPCI and PXI techniques, announced that its sales income in Feb. of 2006 amounted to N.T. 146,000,000, an increase of 71% than that of the same period of the last year. On Asia market, including Taiwan, Japan and Korea, the industries of semiconductor, photoelectricity and communication equipment begun to warm up, and the sales income on this market increased by over 100% than that of the same period in the last year.

Avaya will build the world largest convergence telecom network for 2006 World Cup

Less than three months from the opening ceremony of 2006 FIFA World Cup (Germany), Avaya has finished the design of voice/data convergence telecom network for this great sports event.
Avaya (NYSE: AV), assigned to deploy convergence telecom network in Kola and Hamburg for this event, will go through the integration test by FIFA at the beginning of April.
At present, FIFA World Cup convergence telecom network is still in the Avaya World Cup Lab in Frankfurt. It has gone through a strict test on the configuration, reliability and safety performance of the network. Next, it will go through an application test on part of the network on a simulative site. At the beginning of April, FIFA and Avaya will make the final performance test together on the whole network. At the end of April, the network will be deployed in all the stadiums in Germany, and by April 29, the deployment and testing will be finished. On May 15 the network will be put into operation.
As the official provider of convergence telecom network of 2006 FIFA World Cup, Avaya has been cooperating with FIFA ever since 2001. it has built such telecom network for 2002 FIFA World Cup (Korea/Japan), 2003 FIFA Women World Cup, 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship (Holland) and 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup (Germany).

V2 Tone 2.0 challenging Skype

Recently, V2 Technology, the world leading provider of network-based video conference system, launched a new generation of free-of-charge VoIP software -V2 Tone2.0 to challenge Skype. Compared with traditional IM products such as QQ, MSN, the product has a powerful multi-channel video function.