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Broadband Multimedia Router delivers up to 150% more HD advertisements and up to 140% more HD program streams with significant space, power and cost savings

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 16, 2010— BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND), a leader in digital video networking, today announced the availability of its Broadcast Video Services Software 3.0, which supports the increasing demand for advertising on high definition (HD) content and growing HD program line-ups enabled by Switched Digital Video (SDV). The upgrade to the large installed base of Broadband Multimedia Routers (BMR®) enables customers to deploy up to 150% more HD advertising and process up to 140% more individual HD program streams on deployed and highly reliable network infrastructure.

The BMR is a field proven and high performance solution supporting in excess of 60 million subscribers worldwide and delivering over 700 million advertising transactions a year.

“The BMR has the more

Washington, D.C., March 16, 2010 – International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® today announced the E-Tech Awards finalists in 15 categories in the areas of mobile CE, applications, enterprise, green solutions, luxury mobile and network infrastructure. International CTIA WIRELESS will take place March 23-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Partner events will begin Monday, March 22.

“We received a record number of submissions for the E-Tech Awards this year, a true testament to industry innovation and the pervasiveness of mobile technology,” said Heather Lee Landers, assistant vice president of marketing for CTIA. “We congratulate all of the E-Tech Awards finalists for demonstrating the talent and vision that will lead us into the mobile decade.”

E-Tech Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA and Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, on Wednesday, March 24 at 2:00 p.m. on more

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, CTIA-The Wireless Association® President and CEO Steve Largent issued the following statement after the FCC and the Broadband Team released “Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan” to reporters this afternoon.

“CTIA and our member companies are extremely pleased that spectrum is recognized as being pivotal to the National Broadband Plan. We appreciate the FCC’s and the Broadband team’s focus on making ‘500 MHz of spectrum for broadband within 10 years, of which 300 MHz should be made available for mobile use within five years.’

“Based on the executive summary, it is clear the Broadband team recognized the importance of the mobile Internet to the economy and to meeting many national priorities. We applaud their commitment to providing everyone equal access to the most advanced wireless communications.

“We look forward to working with the Chairman and Commissioners, the Broadband Team, Congress and other policymakers more

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) today announced that it will highlight solutions from its optical communications and communications test and measurement portfolios at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) in San Diego, California from March 23 - 25. Conference attendees are invited to visit JDSU at Booth #2015 during the event to see its latest technology offerings.

JDSU will showcase a variety of innovative and industry-leading solutions, including:

Vertically integrated 40/100G and GE optical solutions including the first 100G components to carry live traffic and live demonstrations of a 100GE transmission using JDSU test equipment. A range of new optical products including 40/100G transponders and modulators, a coherent optical mixer, and new ITLA products will also be previewed.
Newest ROADM products for evolving colorless and directionless architectures, including a live demo of the industry’s first 1X23 WSS platform.
Portfolio of lab and manufacturing test more

Solution Helps Service Providers Accelerate Revenue in the Rapidly Growing Ethernet Market

SAN JOSE, Calif. and CHICAGO, March 15, 2010 — Cisco today announced that Neutral Tandem (Nasdaq:TNDM - News) — a leading provider of tandem interconnection services to wireless, wireline, cable and broadband telephony companies — has selected the Cisco(R) ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers to support its new Ethernet eXchange service.

The proliferation of Internet Protocol (IP) to deliver various services, including rich video content, is expected to lead to massive traffic growth, increasing the Internetwork connectivity needs of service providers. However, a lack of available internetwork connectivity solutions presents a major challenge for Ethernet service providers, often forcing them into complex and time-consuming customized interconnection agreements.

The addition of Neutral Tandem’s Ethernet eXchange fills the void in the Ethernet market by providing Ethernet service providers a more efficient and simplified method of more

Ethernet Augmentation Increases Network Efficiency and Performance

BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced delivery of a significant phase within its Ethernet Expansion Program. As part of this initiative Level 3 will expand the number of Ethernet switches on its U.S. network by almost 400 percent. Level 3 also will make additional feature enhancements that will expand the company’s already comprehensive Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)-certified Carrier Ethernet services portfolio.

“This expansion demonstrates Level 3’s continued commitment to industry leadership in Ethernet services.”
”It’s encouraging to see that Level 3 is delivering on its promise to expand its Ethernet network and provide a comprehensive Ethernet solution that is a true competitive alternative,” said Stan Hubbard, senior analyst at Heavy Reading. “Ethernet is clearly the one-port solution for a wide range of business services, and Level 3’s commitment to the space demonstrates that they are building more

Spirent Brings to NTAF its Unique Customer-Centric, Device-Agnostic Approach to Promote Test Product Collaboration and Interoperability

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Spirent Communications, a global provider of network, devices and services testing solutions, today announced that it has joined forces with other leading companies from across the communications and networking industries to form the Network Test Automation Forum (NTAF). Spirent will work alongside other NTAF founding members to promote interoperability between test tools and simplify lab automation efforts, ultimately reducing time, complexity, and cost of product test cycles.

“The emergence of NTAF is a validation of these efforts and will result in the creation of a customer-centric and device-agnostic framework that meets the automation needs of our customers and the industry as a whole.”
“Spirent has been committed to these goals for quite some time as evidenced by our efforts within the Test Automation Alliance,” stated Andrew Armstrong, senior manager more

Spokane, Wash.: – Fuel cell provider ReliOn’s E-200™ hydrogen fuel cell system has been named a finalist in the Green category in the CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) more

Over 26 Irish Companies Unveil Key Technologies for U.S. Wireless and Telecoms Industry

PALO ALTO, Calif., – March 16, 2010 – Enterprise Ireland, the trade and technology agency of the Irish Government, announced today that over 26 telecoms and wireless companies will participate in this year’s CTIA Wireless Conference in Las Vegas on March 23-25. At the Ireland Pavilion (Central Hall, Booth #1727). Altobridge, Accuris, Benetel, FeedHenry, Fifth Province Ventures, Mingoa, NewBay Software, Openet, Tango Telecom, and Yougetitback.com will demo their technology to Enterprise Ireland’s global network of suppliers, distributors, customers and industry experts. Enterprise Ireland has also launched a Web site especially for CTIA at http://americas.enterprise-ireland.com/ctia2010/ctia-company-showcase-2010/ that includes a blog with the latest CTIA and telecom market news.

“There is a lot of market opportunity for Irish companies at present in the U.S.,” said David Smith, senior vice president (telecoms), Enterprise Ireland. “The quality and more

Focus on Ease of Use and Rapid Time-to-Value are Hallmarks of AppDynamics’ Innovative Approach

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 16, 2010 – AppDynamics, the next-generation Application Performance Management (APM) company, today announced at the Cloud Connect conference that it now offers its APM solution via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery option in addition to its on-premise offering. By providing a choice of deployment options, AppDynamics allows enterprises to manage performance of their mission-critical applications running across cloud, virtual and physical environments with unprecedented ease-of-use, and without compromising their security or integration requirements.

The AppDynamics 2.0 solution will be publicly demonstrated for the first time during this week’s Cloud Connect conference in Santa Clara, Calif., in AppDynamics’ booth No. 409.

AppDynamics distinguishes itself from other APM vendors through its ability to easily and accurately manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments, and has contributed to the success of key more