Rodopi's Web-based Billing Supports Broadsoft's Hosted VoIP

Rodopi Software, which supplies web-based billing and provisioning for converged broadband services, announced its Rodopi OSS solution now supports the latest version of BroadSoft's BroadWorks' VoIP application platform. The companies have integrated their flagship products to provide hosted telephony solutions for wireline and wireless service providers. Rodopi OSS V5.5 seamlessly provisions and bills business and residential end-users, whose VoIP services are delivered over BroadWorks.http://www.rodopi.com http://www.BroadSoft....

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Orange Business Services Announces IPVPN Protected

Orange Business Services announced worldwide availability of IPVPN Protected, a new managed security offer integrated in the Cisco Integrated Service Router and encompassing a firewall and intrusion prevention system.Orange said its IPVPN Protected provides four key benefits:Effective security: IPVPN Protected embeds effective security capabilities such as a bi-directional zone-based Firewall and an intrusion prevention system (IPS) to protect against...

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Alcatel-Lucent Bundles Integrated Communications for Mid-Size Companies

Alcatel-Lucent introduced its new Business integrated Communication Solution (BiCS) for mid-sized enterprises with 100-500 employees. The solution bundles the following in a single server:Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Enterprise IP telephonyAlcatel-Lucent OmniTouch Contact Center standard editionAlcatel-Lucent My Instant Communicator Unified CommunicationsXML APIs for simplified third-party application integrationAlcatel-Lucent OmniVista 4760 managementHigh reliability hard disk mirroringhttp://www.alcatel-lucent....

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Firetide Raises $14.4 million for Mesh Wireless

Firetide, a start-up based in Los Gatos, California, secured $14.4 million in Series D financing for its wireless mesh networking solutions. Firetide's wireless mesh infrastructure and access products have been deployed by scores of municipalities, law enforcement agencies, hospitality businesses, and industrial and commercial enterprises. The funding round includes existing investors plus the addition of Coral Capital Management, the lead investor...

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Nortel Reaches Settlement with the SEC

Nortel announced a settlement on all issues with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with the SEC's investigation of certain prior accounting practices at Nortel. Nortel agreed to pay a civil penalty of US$35 million and consented to injunctions against it from violations of certain provisions of federal securities laws. Further, Nortel will provide to the SEC quarterly written reports detailing its progress in implementing its remediation plan and actions to address its outstanding material weakness in internal controls."We...

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Cisco Delivers Mobile Government Solution

Cisco unveiled a Mobile Government solution that provides local authorities with a suite of products and applications to help public safety and mobile workers through the use of collaborative wireless mobility technologies.The Cisco Mobile Government solution includes the following new products, applications and partner contributions:Mobile Networking: Enhancements to the Cisco 3200 Series Wireless and Mobile Routers, which include integrated video security, a 5 GHz card for radio interoperability, incorporation of Cisco Unified Communications...

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Danaher To Acquire Tektronix

Danaher Corporation, which makes professional instrumentation products, agreed to acquire Tektronix for $38.00 per share. The aggregate purchase price is approximately $2.8 billion, including debt, transaction costs and net of cash acquired. This represents a premium of approximately 34% to Tektronix's closing price on October 12, 2007. Tektronix, which has annual revenues of approximately $1.1 billion, is a leading supplier of test, measurement,...

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UTStarcom to Supply Optical Transport to BSNL in India

UTStarcom announced a contract to supply its NetRing 10000i STM-64 optical transport solution to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), the incumbent and largest telecommunications operator in India. This contract represents the third deployment of UTStarcom solutions in BSNL's nationwide ADSL 2+ network as the operator has already deployed UTStarcom's iAN-8000 and Total Control 1000 multiservice access solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.utstar.com http://www.bsnl.co...

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Microsoft Signs Multiyear Deal for Use of NAVTEQ Data

NAVTEQ announced a multi-year extension of its agreement to provide real time and historic traffic information to Microsoft. NAVTEQ Traffic will remain Microsoft's preferred provider of traffic information for its web properties and the agreement extends Microsoft's right to use NAVTEQ's traffic data in online products and services, desktop and mobile applications and appliances.Microsoft's MSN Direct service, Streets & Trips desktop applications, Windows Live Local, Microsoft Automotive and Live Search for Windows Mobile services currently...

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DIRECTV Boosts its HD Line-up -- Currently 72 Channels

DIRECTV is now offering 72 national HD channels and plans to boost its line-up to 100 HD channels by year-end. http://www.directv....

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Maven Launches Internet TV Advertising Platform

Maven Networks launched its Internet TV Advertising Platform, which aims to increase video advertising inventory and revenue via new ad formats, an intelligent and dynamic video ad insertion engine, and video ad inventory management tools. Maven said its platform introduces a series of new, non-proprietary formats that take advantage of in-video interactivity through the use of transparent overlays and video telescoping, and are intelligently placed...

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BBC Adopts Adobe Flash Player Software

The BBC is adopting Adobe Flash Player software to power its free catch-up TV service -- BBC iPlayer, which will now be available as a streaming service across Macintosh and Linux, as well as Windows, by the end of the year. The BBC iPlayer on-demand streaming service will complement the download service currently available.The strategic relationship will also allow the BBC to provide a single consistent user experience for the majority of streamed video and audio content on www.bbc.co.uk. http://www.adobe....

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Starent Announces Proposed Public Offering

Starent Networks (Nasdaq:STAR), which supplies infrastructure solutions to mobile operators, has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement for the offering of shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. The number of shares of common stock to be sold in the proposed offering has not yet been determined, but Starent Networks currently expects that the offering will consist of an aggregate of 8,000,000 shares, of which approximately 4,000,000 shares are expected to be offered by Starent Networks...

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Broadcom Unveils First "3G Phone on a Chip" HSUPA Solution

Broadcom announced a new single-chip HSPA (high-speed packet access) processor that integrates all of the key 3G cellular and mobile technologies on an extremely low power, single 65 nanometer CMOS die. Broadcom said its new "3G Phone on a Chip" solution enables manufacturers to build next generation 3G HSUPA phones with breakthrough features, sleek form factors and very long battery life, all at a fraction of the cost of today's solutions.Phones enabled by the new Broadcom HSUPA processor will support download speeds up to 7.2 Mbps, and upload...

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Acme Packet Enhances SBCs for Large Enterprises and Contact Centers

Acme Packet has enhanced its "Net-Net" session border controllers (SBCs) for large enterprises and contact centers with new features that deliver new security, session control, quality assurance and regulatory compliance capabilities. The enhancements are aimed at further optimizing the delivery of IP interactive communications -- voice, video, and multimedia collaboration -- across enterprise and contact center IP network borders.Specifically,...

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