BT Employs Mu's Service Analyzer for Vendor Evaluation on DFTS Network

BT is using Mu Dynamics' Mu-4000 Service Analyzer to support the evaluation and testing of proposed services on the UK's Defense Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) network. The deployment aims to quicken the reliable deployment of new services -- from initial vendor and equipment evaluation through systems integration and testing. The DFTS network supports a broad range of services to the 230,000 users at the Ministry of Defence (MOD), who place more than 750,000 VPN calls a day and send two million emails per week through the DFTS EGS (Enterprise...

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Sprint Provides Visibility into Customer IP/MPLS Connections

Sprint has introduced a new online tool that provides its customers with a view into the performance of their IP and MPLS networks. The new "Compass" application provides visibility into a customer's network vital statistics previously available only to service providers. Key features include:Quickly locating network connections, and obtaining critical information and status by business location.Real-time reporting that allows customers to better...

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Stratecast and Innopath Quantify the Positive Billion-Dollar Impact of MDM

Using mobile device management (MDM) technology within mobile operators' customer care organizations could have a major impact on global operational and support costs in the range of $3 billion in 2009 to over $23 billion by 2013, according to market researcher Stratecast and InnoPath, a leading supplier of MDM solutions.Using MDM, customer care representatives both on the phone and in the store can view a customer's handset configuration and quickly understand what is missing, incorrect, or out-of-date. Following identification of the problem,...

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Tata Comm. Launches Global CDN Powered By BitGravity

Tata Communications announced the worldwide launch of a content delivery network (CDN) service powered by BitGravity. Tata Communications, which has more than 300 points of presence worldwide, is now offering the CDN service over its global IP network throughout Europe, Asia, North America and India. Tata Communications' next-generation CDN service aims to provide immediate access to content, including High-Definition Video, without delay or jitter,...

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JDSU Enhances its AON Super Transport Blade

JDSU has added protection switch technology for its AON Super Transport Blade, the new single-slot solution that integrates major optical network transport functions onto a single blade. Protection switch technology has been used for several decades to provide redundancy in networks, or backup pathways for network traffic in the event of a network failure, such as when a construction crew accidentally cuts through a fiber within the ground. When...

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Carbonite Raises $20 Million for Online Storage Services

Carbonite, a start-up based in Boston, closed $20 million in C round funding for its Online Backup service, which was originally launched in May 2006. So far, the company said it has backed up more than 4 billion files, has restored more than 300 million lost files for its customers and has a large data center where capacity is measured in petabytes.The funding round was led by Performance Equity of Stamford, Conn., with participation of all of Carbonite's existing institutional investors, including Menlo Ventures, 3i, and Common Angels Fund....

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Fusion-io Evolves Enterprise Flash Storage

Fusion-io, a start-up based in Salt Lake City, introduced its "ioSAN" networked enterprise solid state drive (SSD). The ioSAN can be deployed as networked, server-attached storage or integrated into networked storage infrastructure using the directly connected form factor.Fusion-io said its design allows an off-the-shelf server to be configured into a storage area network (SAN) with multi-terabytes of low-cost tiered storage, high-performance enterprise flash and high- performance enterprise networking, even building systems that can do millions...

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Denmark's TRE-FOR Bredbånd Selects Cisco for Video on Demand over Fiber

TRE-FOR Bredbånd A/S, the broadband network operator serving the Triangle Region in Denmark, has deployed the Cisco Content Delivery System (CDS) in its open access fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network to deliver advanced entertainment and interactive media. The solution is used to provide TRE-FOR's content provider partners with a highly extensible platform to support high-value subscriber services such as video-on-demand (VoD), program time-shifting,...

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Motorola Expands Global RFID Footprint

Motorola's Enterprise Mobility business introduced several new RFID product enhancements and an increase in geographic availability of its RFID portfolio for industry segments such as item-level inventory tracking in the retail industry, baggage tracking and MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) in aviation, IT asset management in the financial sector and high value asset management in energy. Specifically, Motorola introduced a new handheld RFID reader for the European market, the certification of its mobile RFID reader in six new countries in...

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AT&T Picks Yahoo! as the Default Mobile Search Engine

AT&T has selected Yahoo! "oneSearch" as the default mobile search engine for the AT&T MEdia Net portal. AT&T is the first U.S. carrier to integrate Yahoo!'s mobile search service directly into their portal. Specifically, Yahoo! oneSearch will provide customers who search AT&T MEdia Net with access to news, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr photos and Web images, as well as Web and mobile web sites. Yahoo! oneSearch...

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Korea Awards IPTV Licenses to KT, Hanarotelecom, LG Dacom

The Korean Communications Commission has awarded the first three IPTV licenses in South Korea to KT, Hanarotelecom and LG Dacom Corp. The companies are required to launch their services by next spring. Korea has one of the highest broadband penetration rates in the world.http://www.kcc.go.kr/http://eng.kcc.go...

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