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El Camino Hospital Case Study Highlights Video Collaboration Benefits for Healthcare Industry

HILLSIDE, N.J. Oct. 19, 2009 - Glowpoint, Inc. (OTCBB: GLOW), a leading provider of managed services for telepresence and video conferencing, today announced the issuance of a case study that highlights three video collaboration applications in use at El Camino Hospital, a not-for-profit organization with hospital campuses in Mountain View and Los Gatos, California. The case study is available at
http://www.glowpoint.com/telemedicine.

In one of the applications, El Camino Hospital utilizes Glowpoint’s Telepresence interExchange Network (TEN) service for secure, high-quality network connectivity to provide patients with remote access to as many as 14 expert opinions. In addition to enabling more diagnosis options, the service also reduces travel costs for doctors and patients while increasing the overall quality of patient care.

“Since establishing the Glowpoint video-conferencing connection with City of Hope, a cancer institute more

Richardson, TX-based Lab Tests CDMA/LTE Dual-Mode Platform; Showcases ZTE’s Global LTE Technology Leadership

Richardson, TX - October 19, 2009 – ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that it has opened an LTE (Long Term Evolution) testing laboratory at its U.S. headquarters in Richardson, Texas. In the lab, ZTE will demonstrate and test its dual-mode CDMA/LTE platform, which enables carriers to lay the foundation for the delivery of LTE services in the U.S. Using the platform, ZTE can demonstrate an FTP downloading rate up to 52 Mbps at 10 MHz bandwidth and conduct CDMA voice service and LTE HD (High Definition) video demonstrations simultaneously.
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Initial deployment of CN 4200 platforms for Panama City security video network expanded nationwide for transport of all residential and enterprise customer traffic

LINTHICUM, Md. – October 19, 2009 – Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that Cable & Wireless Panama has upgraded its nationwide backbone network using the family of CN 4200® FlexSelect® Advanced Services Platforms. The new network provides efficient transport for a variety of TDM and transparent Ethernet services using advanced Optical Transport Network (OTN) and software-programmable port technologies that maximize the operator’s flexibility for offering multiple services to its residential and enterprise customers.

Cable & Wireless Panama is the leading provider of mobile, broadband and fixed line services in Panama and a subsidiary of CWI Group, the London-based owner of telecommunications businesses in 38 countries. After a competitive review, Cable & Wireless Panama initially selected the CN 4200 more

PARIS, October 16, 2009 – Ekinops, a leading optical transport vendor for service providers and enterprises, has introduced a multi-protocol/multi-rate ADM (add/drop multiplexing) capability that will dramatically reduce the cost of aggregating converged traffic in business Ethernet, triple-play, wireless backhaul, and broadband backhaul applications.
This solution allows for many different protocols (uncompressed video, Fibre Channel, Ethernet, SONET/SDH) and many different rates (ranging from as low as 10/100 or OC-3/STM-1) to be aggregated over a single 10G wavelength from multiple sites. In addition, this capability can utilize Ekinops’ high-density single fiber capability to cut infrastructure costs in half.
This capability can be used in ring and linear configurations. In addition, the Ekinops solution requires far fewer service cards to achieve aggregation of multiple service types.
Alternative transport solutions require as much as an additional wavelength for each service type, but thanks to Ekinops’ unique DynaMux® dynamic multiplexing capability, the Ekinops more