Sprint to Employ Mformation for WiMAX Device Management

Sprint has selected Mformation Technologies' mobile device management (MDM) solution to provide seamless device management capabilities for new WiMAX-capable mobile devices as part of the XOHM WiMAX mobile broadband initiative. Device management ensures that WiMAX devices can be remotely activated and provisioned irrespective of their source, ensuring they work seamlessly and deliver a true mobile Internet experience. Financial terms were not disclosed.Specifically,...

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Ariston Global to Acquire ACE*COMM, Taking it Private

Ariston Global, a portfolio company of the private equity firm Spire Capital Partners, agreed to acquire ACE*COMM for $19,500,000, less deductions for the repurchase of ACE*COMM's senior secured convertible notes, amounts associated with the repurchase of outstanding warrants, transaction expenses, and change in control expenses. The resulting per share merger consideration is expected to be in the range of $0.54 and $0.56. This represents a premium of roughly 54% to 60% over the closing price of the company's shares on July 11, 2008. ACE*COMM...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Works with NSN on 3G Upgrade

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom has awarded a EUR 72 million contract to Nokia Siemens Networks for a 3G network upgrade project aimed at facilitating speeds of up to 2 Mbps in the uplink and 14 Mbps in the downlink.Specifically, Chunghwa Telecom will trial Nokia Siemens Networks' Internet High Speed Access (I-HSPA) network. Nokia Siemens Networks will deploy its Flexi Base Station and mobile softswitching solutions, along with a high capacity/connectivity...

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BT to Install New Cisco ASR 1000 Aggregation Services Routers

BT Global Services intends to deploy the new Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. BT Global Services has been involved in testing the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers prior to the product's launch in March this year. Financial terms were not disclosed.The new Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 is powered by a 40-core "QuantumFlow" processor and designed for massive scalability in packet intelligence in both service provider...

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Juniper Unveils its Next Gen WAN Application Acceleration Platforms

Juniper Networks unveiled its next generation WXC application acceleration platforms -- the WXC 1800, WXC 2600 and WXC 3400 appliances -- featuring higher disk capacities and performance in a smaller form factor. The platforms are designed for helping businesses increase the efficiency of their existing WAN resources and improve application response times by providing a more LAN-like experience for branch office users accessing centralized applications.Target...

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ECI Shows GPON with a High Bandwidth Network Processor

At the Broadband World Forum Asia Conference in Hong Kong, ECI Telecom, will showcase its high-bandwidth GPON optical line termination (OLT) with a built-in network processor . The next-gen GPON OLT features a built-in network processor in the GPON line card. The integrated network processor provides operators with unique service-enabling intelligence, such as advanced quality of service and security. It also allows for added flexibility, easily adapting to different network designs while providing system agility with the processing headroom...

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A10 Networks Secures $23 Million for its Web Balancers

A10 Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California with offices in Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan, secured $23 million in Series C funding for its Web Application Delivery solutions. Since the beginning of 2008, A10 said it has won over 100 new customers for its AX Series Advanced Traffic Manager family, which are server load balancers, EX Series bandwidth management appliances with identity and ID Series network identity management appliances. The new funding, which was led by Mitsui & Co. Ltd., brings A10's total funding to $39 million....

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comScore: 12 Billion Videos Viewed Online in US in May 2008

U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during May 2008, according to comScore, representing an increase of 45 percent versus year ago. In May, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with 4.2 billion videos viewed (representing a 35 percent share of all videos viewed), with YouTube.com accounting for more than 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 778 million videos (6.4 percent), gaining 1.3 share points versus April. Yahoo! Sites ranked third with...

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COLT Selects Sonus Networks for its Next Generation Network

COLT has selected Sonus Networks to deliver the core IP-voice infrastructure for the next phase of its next-generation network (NGN) deployment. COLT, which delivers data, voice and managed services in 100 cities in 13 countries across Europe, is deploying a complete edge to edge Sonus IP-based session control network with gateways in six major European cities. The solution includes centralized routing, and session border security for IP access...

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iPhone App Store Downloads Top 10 Million in First Weekend

Apple iPhone and iPod touch users downloaded more than 10 million applications from the new App Store since its launch late last week, according to the company. The selection of applications ranges from games to location-based social networking to medical applications to enterprise productivity tools. The company noted that more than 800 native applications are now available on the App Store, with more than 200 offered for free and more than 90 percent priced at less than $10."The App Store is a grand slam, with a staggering 10 million applications...

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UTStarcom Wins IPTV Deal with India's Aksh Optifibre

UTStarcom announced a contract to supply its RollingStream IPTV solution to Aksh Optifibre, a leading optical fibre cable manufacturer in India. The company produces a variety of cables, including singlemode and multimode cables; duct cables; armored and aerial cables; indoor and outdoor cables; and ribbon fiber optic cables. Aksh was one of the first companies in India to set up its own fiber optic manufacturing units. The company is now targeting IPTV services in India. Financial terms were not disclosed.Aksh originally selected UTStarcom in...

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