Verizon Business and McAfee Form Strategic Alliance

Verizon Business and McAfee announced a global strategic alliance to provide integrated security solutions to businesses and government agencies worldwide. Specifically, Verizon Business will offer McAfee's entire line of enterprise security products and services while McAfee taps Verizon Business' data center outsourcing and expert consulting and managed services capabilities. Additionally, the companies will jointly develop a suite of next-generation, cloud-based managed security services.The next-generation, cloud-based managed solutions that...

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AudioCodes and BroadSoft Integration Simplifies IP Voice Deployments

AudioCodes and BroadSoft announced a strategic initiative aimed at simplifying the deployment and installation of IP voice networks. The collaboration tightly integrates AudioCodes Media Gateways, Multi-Service Business Gateways (MSBGs) and IP Phones with BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform and VoIP Quality of Service (QoS) solutions -- eliminating many tedious configuration and maintenance processes, as well as quality of service issues that typically plague multi-vendor solutions. Through BroadSoft Device Management, providers can...

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Global Crossing Adds "EtherSphere" Services

Global Crossing introduced its "EtherSphere" family of services: EtherSphere Multipoint-to-Multipoint, EtherSphere Point-to-Multipoint and EtherSphere Point-to-Point solutions. They are available today as enterprise and wholesale offers in North America, Europe, the United Kingdom (UK), Asia, and Latin America.Previously available in the UK as a metropolitan Ethernet offer, the expanded EtherSphere Ethernet WAN transport family now offers customers ubiquitous, global Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS). The EtherSphere services support six classes...

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Metaswitch Networks Expands Leadership Team

Metaswitch Networks appointed to Stefan Knight to the newly-created post of vice president of strategic alliances and Steve Gleave as vice president of marketing, both in the company's Carrier Systems Division. Knight most recently served at Ericsson, driving product requirements and commercial strategies for telecom equipment manufacturers. Prior to Ericsson, Knight led product management, marketing and business development teams at Virata, CopperCom and Entrisphere.Gleave brings more than 20 years of marketing experience working with high-growth...

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Orange Uganda Outsources Mobile Net to Alcatel-Lucent

Orange Uganda has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build, operate and manage its mobile network, including technical support, repair, field maintenance and program management services. Alcatel-Lucent said this full Managed Services contract is the first ever in Uganda as well as in East Africa."Orange Uganda is looking to reduce costs by employing new business models for operating and maintaining a network which offers a comprehensive range of communications services across its territory," said Pierre Barnabé, chairman and CEO of Alcatel-Lucent France....

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Saudi Telecom expands GPON/ DSL with Alcatel-Lucent

Saudi Telecom has awarded a multi-million EUR frame contract to Alcatel-Lucent to expand, extend and upgrade its existing broadband network to serve an additional two million residential and enterprise customers by the end of 2010. The network upgrade is made possible by the enhanced aggregation and transport features of Alcatel-Lucent's broadband access, IP, optical and services solutions.Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will provide its packet...

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Alcatel-Lucent Kicks Off “Open Community Broadband�? for FTTH Projects

Alcatel-Lucent is launching a turnkey "Open Community Broadband" program to help operators of "citynets" around the world -- i.e. open access networks typically operated by municipal governments or utilities - manage the complexities that are typical of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments. Key elements of the program include:Training -- including how to build a successful FTTH business case Technology consulting -- which fiber technology makes sense in which circumstances Designing and deploying the network -- leveraging passive optical...

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NETGEAR Supplies DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Gateway for Japan's J:COM

Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM), the largest multiple system operator (MSO) in Japan, is the first customer to deploy NETGEAR's new DOCSIS 3.0 Wireless-N Cable Gateway for cable operators. NETGEAR's CG3200D enables J:COM to offer up to 160 Mbps data services as a compelling, differentiated offering in the highly competitive Japanese residential broadband market. http://www.netgear....

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Ceragon and Alvarion Collaborate OpenRange's 4G

Ceragon Networks will partner with Alvarion as the wireless backhaul equipment provider to deploy a network for Open Range Communications. The new network is planned to be the largest Rural Utilities Service (RUS) funded deployment in the United States, spanning 17 states, 546 rural communities, and reaching up to 6 million people.Alvarion was recently selected as the WiMAX solution provider for the Open Range 4G network. Alvarion is also acting...

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Ceragon Lands Contract with Leading North American WiMAX Operator

Ceragon Networks has received a significant equipment order from a leading WiMAX operator in North America (name not disclosed). Ceragon's FibeAir point-to-point microwave solutions will support the operator's ongoing network expansion and will be deployed initially in two major US cities. The current order is valued at several millions of dollars. http://www.ceragon....

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FCC Investigates Middle and Second Mile Access Market

The FCC is seeking comment on the market dynamics for middle and second mile access services. Specifically, the FCC is looking for information as to whether "backhaul costs . . . stand as impediments to further broadband deployments." The FCC says several entities have claimed that adequate, reasonably priced, and efficiently provided access to middle and second mile transport services and facilities play an important -- if not gating -- role in...

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