IntelePeer Raises $18 Million for its Appworx Open Platform

IntelePeer, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, raised $18 million in third round funding for its hosted on-demand rich media communications. The funds will be used to expand IntelePeer's global presence and to support business and technology development of its hosted on-demand rich media services and extensive voice peering grid. <IntelePeer has developed an "AppworX" open communications platform and voice peering grid network that gives...

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Cisco Debuts ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router

Cisco unveiled its ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router providing up to 6.4 terabits per second of total capacity and designed for the delivery of video services over next-gen access networks. The Cisco ASR 9000, which will be offered in 10- and six-slot models, leverages the same 40-core "QuantumFlow" processor that is featured in the smaller capacity Cisco ASR 1000 edge router introduced earlier this year. The QuantumFlow processor can be used...

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Mavernir Releases IP SMSC Converged Messaging Solutions

Mavenir Systems, a start-up based in Richardson, Texas, announced the commercial availability of its IP SMSC Converged Messaging solution. The solution has been in numerous trials, globally, and is currently deployed with a Tier 1 operator in North America.Mavenir's IP SMSC is an ATCA-based platform that offloads the traffic from SMSC and SS7 transport networks to cap the investments in legacy systems. Mobile operators get a system capable of handling both traditional SMS and next generation SIP/IMS Messaging on a single converged platform.htt...

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Microsoft Mediaroom-Powered Services Surpasses 2 Million Subscribers

In less than a year, subscribers to TV services powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia software platform have more than doubled, reaching over 2 million subscriber homes and powering services on nearly 4 million set-top boxes worldwide. In the past quarter alone, Mediaroom customers have connected 500,000 new subscribers across the globe.Microsoft noted that its customers are beginning to maximize the functionality of its Mediaroom...

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Motorola Teams with BlackArrow fon On-demand Advertising

Motorola is collaborating with BlackArrow, an independent provider of multiplatform ad-management systems, to deliver a SCTE 130-compliant addressable advertising solution. Through this integration, ads can be selected in real time by BlackArrow's powerful ad decision server and added dynamically to on demand content using the Motorola B1 on demand server.Motorola's B1 on demand video server provides a flexible, high performance platform for video on demand (VOD), time-shifted TV and network-based digital video recorder (nDVR) devices. One of...

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Verizon FiOS VOD Library Reaches 1,000 Titles

Verizon's is now delivering more than 1,000 HD video-on-demand (VOD) titles per month for its FiOS TV service. Originally promised for the end of the year, Verizon has expanded its HD VOD library with more great titles, including HD content from several movie channels: Starz, Showtime and Sundance Channel.http://www.verizon....

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Broadband Forum Outlines BroadbandSuite 3.0 Plan

The Broadband Forum, formerly the DSL Forum, unveiled its BroadbandSuite 3.0 plan. This includes specifications for triple-play delivered via GPON and bonded DSL over a QoS-enabled Ethernet architecture, and remote management beyond the gateway to address video and storage devices. BroadbandSuite 2.0, released in 2007, provided a roadmap for triple-play access via ADSL2plus, but over the past 12 months, the Broadband Forum has responded to an industry...

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Avaya Offers Proactive Contact Center Solutions

Avaya launched two new contact center solutions tohelp businesses use outbound communications and self service automation to drive new efficiencies, improve cost-savings and enhance customer experiences.Avaya's Proactive Outreach for Financial Services and Proactive Outreach for Healthcare enables companies to deliver important information to customers -- such as appointment reminders or bill payment requests -- and let them complete transactions using automated menus or speech commands. The Proactive Outreach capabilities help financial companies...

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Vodafone Revises its Growth Strategy

Vodafone reported first-half revenue of £19.9 billion, an increase of 17.1%. In Europe, revenue up 14.3%, with outgoing voice usage up 11.6%, while in emerging markets revenue growth was 25.7%, reflecting the acquisition in India. Meanwhile, group data revenue was up 48.6% to £1.4 billion. Vodafone's first half group adjusted operating profit was up by 10.5% to £5.8 billion and group EBITDA increased by 10.3% to £7.2 billion.Citing the more difficult...

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