Telenor Deploys Ixia's IP Service Verification Platform

Telenor has deployed Ixia's IxRave IP service verification platform to measure the end-to-end performance of its enterprise layer 3 VPN (L3 VPN) networks and services in Scandinavia. IxRave permits Telenor to remotely perform end-to-end application testing to verify its customers' quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE). Inexpensive probes and virtual endpoints enable Telenor to quickly identify any issues and determine if a fault...

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Veraz Introduces I-Gate 4000 Session Bandwidth Optimizer

Veraz Networks introduced its I-Gate 4000 Session Bandwidth Optimizer (SBO) for helping service providers to reduce the bandwidth required for VoIP trunks by up to 67% while maintaining toll quality and high reliability. The I-Gate 4000 SBO is currently in trial with several service providers.Veraz said that in many cases, IP transport costs represent the single largest expense for operators offering VoIP services. The platform helps service providers and large enterprises to minimize the cost of bandwidth as they extend the reach of their VoIP...

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BT Plans 80% CO2 Reduction by 2020

BT announced a goal to cut its carbon emissions intensity by 80 percent across the globe by 2020 , setting one of the most aggressive corporate carbon reduction targets worldwide.The company also published a new model for measuring and tracking carbon emissions -- backed by the Carbon Disclosure Project. This represents an important step in measuring carbon emissions in a consistent way across the globe.BT said it intends to meet the 80 percent reduction...

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Bridgewater Selected for Sprint's XOHM WiMAX Network

Sprint has selected Bridgewater Systems as the network access control vendor for its forthcoming nationwide XOHM WiMAX Network. Bridgewater is the incumbent supplier of Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) services to Sprint's existing CDMA 3G network and will now extend its solution to support XOHM as well. Within Sprint, Bridgewater will provide concurrent support for 3G and 4G networks from a common infrastructure as Sprint begins...

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AT&T Study: One in Five U.S. Businesses Does Not Have a Business Continuity Plan

One in five U.S. businesses does not have a business continuity plan in place to maintain operations in the event of man-made and natural disasters, according to an annual study by AT&T.For the seventh consecutive year, AT&T's Business Continuity Study surveyed IT executives from companies throughout the United States that have at least $25 million in annual revenue to get their views on disaster planning and business continuity trends.To...

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Tatung Selects Alcatel-Lucent for WiMAX Deployment in Penghu

Taiwan's Tatung InfoComm has selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy a commercial WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (Rev-e) network in Penghu County, a rural area of Taiwan. For Tatung, which holds one of the commercial WiMAX licenses for Taiwan's southern regions, the initial deployment focuses on reducing the digital divide, with WiMAX providing most of the wireless broadband data and voice services across 70% of the county's territory. "Penghu County is one of the initial locations to benefit from our massive WiMAX deployment plan for Taiwan as we move to offer...

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Extreme Networks Prevails in Patent Litigation Against Enterasys

Extreme Networks prevailed in a patent case filed against Enterasys Networks. The jury found that Enterasys Networks had infringed all three of Extreme Networks' asserted patents. Extreme Networks also defeated Enterasys' challenge to the validity of the company's patents.Extreme Networks said these successful results followed Extreme Networks earlier defeat of Enterasys' claims for damages when the judge determined that the company did not infringe any of the Enterasys patents in the lawsuit.http://www.extremenetworks....

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Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) Cable Nears Completion

China Telecom expects the Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) cable to be completed in Q3. TPE is the first major undersea system to land on the U.S. West coast in more than seven years. It will be more than 60 times the overall capacity of the existing cable directly linking the United States and China, and, thus, will be a major enhancement to the current cable systems between the two nations. The five landing points for the TPE cable include two in China, Chongming in Shanghai, Qingdao in Shandong Province and one in the United States, Nedonna Beach...

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Virtela Launches Secure Video Extranet Service

Virtela introduced a Secure Video Extranet service that enables businesses to privately connect to video endpoints outside of their corporate perimeter to support telepresence and other videoconferencing applications with partners worldwide. Virtela said its Secure Video Extranet service overcomes the challenges typically associated with videoconferencing between partner communities, where endpoints often reside on different carriers and Internet...

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Cedar Point Names New CEO

Cedar Point Communications, which supplies carrier VoIP switching technologies, named John (J.C.) Murphy as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Curt Hockemeier, who was named Interim CEO in January. Hockemeier will remain on the Company's board of directors. Murphy joined Cedar Point in October, 2007 as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales. http://www.cedarpointcom.com In January, Cedar Point Communications announced that Curt Hockemeier, a member of the company's board of directors and a veteran telecommunications executive,...

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Brocade Settles Federal Securities Class-Action Suit for $160 Million

Brocade Communications reached an agreement in principle with lead plaintiffs to settle the federal securities class-action lawsuit originally filed in May 2005 in relation to the company's restatement of certain financial results in 2005 due to stock-based compensation accounting issues.Under the terms of the preliminary settlement, Brocade will pay $160 million to the plaintiff class in exchange for the dismissal with prejudice of all claims against all defendants in the litigation. The settlement is subject to final documentation and approval...

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AudioCodes Introduces Multi-Service Business Gateway

AudioCodes introduced its Mediant 1000 Multi-Service Business Gateway (MSBG) - a modular, all-in-one, networking device that combines a Media Gateway, enterprise class Session Border Controller, Data Router & Firewall, LAN Switch, WAN access, Stand Alone Survivability (SAS) and an on-board general purpose server. The platform enables secured SIP trunking using IP to IP session mediation, an integrated SBC and media transcoding. AudioCodes said...

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