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BBN gets $5.7M to build the next Internet
Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology - Mass High Tech
BBN Technologies
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has landed $5.7 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency
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for work on developing a multi-terabit optical network.
The Cambridge company, which specializes in acoustic technology, speech
recognition and data mining, is well-known for its role in the
development of the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet.
This week's DARPA deal finds BBN agreeing to perform work on the DARPA
Dynamic Multi-Terabit Core Optical Networks: Architecture, Protocols,
Control and Management (Coronet) program. BBN executives said the goal
of the Coronet program is to upgrade the operation, performance,
survivability, and security of the United States' global IP-based
inter-networking infrastructure through improved network architecture,
protocols, and control and management software.
BBN said it plans to collaborate on the project with RTI International
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Renaissance Computing Institute
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Verizon Federal Network Systems
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Photon Futures LLC
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Optoelectronic Consulting LLC
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the University of California Davis
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and LabN Consulting LLC.
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BBN said the ultimate goal of the project is to make the Coronet
technology available to commercial telecommunications carriers, the U.S.
Department of Defense and other U.S. government networks
Last week, the privately held Cambridge company landed $13 million from
DARPA to fund development of software technologies to translate both
speech and text.
Founded in 1948, BBN recently has also been busy spinning out consumer
technologies such as EveryZing, a media merchandising platform designed
to help web producers and publishers create searchable multimedia content.
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