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Brings 25 Year Track Record in Building Market Leaders
to Aylus Networks

July 28, 2010 – Westford, MA – Aylus Networks™, a leader in helping mobile operators manage and monetize the explosive growth of broadband video and rich communications traffic on their networks, announced today that they have appointed Mark Edwards CEO. Mr. Edwards brings 25 years of senior executive experience in building market leaders in the computing and telecommunications industries to Aylus Networks. Most recently he was CEO of Mformation Technologies Inc., which he built from the ground up to become the global market leader in mobile device management (MDM) software with over 40 mobile operator customers, and over 160 million devices managed.

“Mark Edwards did a fantastic job for North Bridge at Mformation so we were very pleased when Shamim and he decided to join forces with the goal of building the leader in video more

KOM Networks now Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP) Member

Ottawa, ON Canada – July 28, 2010 – KOM Networks™, creator and world leading provider of storage management solutions for secure archiving compliant data protection and retention today announced the certification of KOMpliance with Symantec Enterprise Vault, the industry leader in email and content archiving. This Technology Partnership enables Symantec Enterprise Vault customers and partners to deploy KOMpliance; a certified, unified secure archive storage solution, to manage the explosive storage requirements of emails and attachments from Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino; Microsoft SharePoint and other file-based systems common in today’s businesses without changing day to day operations.
“Today’s enforcement of compliance through litigation and the increase in corporate investigations poses a significant challenge to businesses in all industries. Couple that with the ever-increasing volume of electronic information and more

SMobile Portfolio Will Be Integrated Into Junos Pulse to Deliver Robust Security for Smart Phones and Tablets

SUNNYVALE, CA, Jul 27, 2010 — Juniper Networks today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Columbus, Ohio-based SMobile Systems, Inc., a privately held software company focused solely on smart phone and tablet security solutions for the enterprise, service provider and consumer markets. The total transaction consideration at closing will be approximately $70 million in cash.

SMobile’s product portfolio protects devices running on Android, Apple iOS (which powers iPhones and iPads), Symbian, Blackberry and Windows Mobile operating systems from viruses, spyware, identity theft and other threats, while providing parental and enterprise controls. Juniper will integrate this portfolio into Junos(R) Pulse, an innovative software platform that brings ubiquitous connectivity, security and acceleration to smart phones, tablets, netbooks and notebooks.

According to industry analyst firm Infonetics Research(1), the more

Regional fiber provider builds into Internap’s premium data center at 111 8th Avenue in New York City

ATLANTA and BOXBOROUGH, MASS. – July 28, 2010 – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a leading provider of end-to-end Internet business products and services, today announced its alliance with Lightower Fiber Networks, a leading metro fiber network and bandwidth service provider in the Northeast. Through the relationship, enterprises in buildings and data centers connected to Lightower’s all-fiber network can now optimize network performance and availability through the use of Internap’s Performance IP™. Businesses can also benefit from Internap’s Managed Hosting, CDN and Colocation services.

As a result of the agreement, Lightower has installed a point of presence in Internap’s Manhattan data center facility located at 111 8th Avenue. Lightower’s all-fiber network is strategically and diversely connected to financial exchanges, carrier hotels, more

And up to Triple Free Minutes

Virtual PBX®, inventor and leading supplier of hosted PBX services, today announced new features for all VPBX standard plans. Every plan will now include an unlimited number of extensions and users. In addition, most plans will also include an increase in the total number of minutes, with the company’s entry-level plan getting triple the number of free minutes. The new packages are available immediately to both new and existing clients.

“Virtual PBX is dedicated to provide the best overall solutions to our customers, and with recent technological advances by the company, we are now in the position to provide even more features and functionality without raising prices,” said Greg Brashier, COO of Virtual PBX. “Today’s announcement allows customers to now base their purchasing decision on the number of minutes needed for the month. Our users can customize their plans and take more

The Wireless Internet Service Providers Association and Spectrum Bridge Inc., Demonstrate How Database Technologies Can Be Used to Increase Efficient Use of Spectrum While Mitigating Interference.

Lake Mary, FL – July 27, 2010 – Spectrum Bridge, Inc., in partnership with the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) today announced the release of U-NII Device Interference Advisor (UDIA)—an online database that reduces potential interference issues between unlicensed wireless devices operating in a frequency band shared with Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) systems. Wireless ISPs (WISPs) operating near TDWR facilities can voluntarily register certain technical information into an online database. In the unlikely event of interference with a TDWR system, the database can help identify the source. The UDIA database was developed to promote cooperation between the federal agencies including the National Telecommunications and Information Association (NTIA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the more

Two European Operators Select Accanto iCSA for Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Service Analysis and Optimization of their Cable Networks

HELSINKI, Finland, July 22, 2010 - Accanto Systems, a leader in Customer Service Assurance solutions for today’s converged networks, announced today that it has been selected by two European Cable service providers to supply integrated network monitoring, troubleshooting, service analysis and optimization to their networks with its intelligent Customer Service Assurance (iCSA) advanced monitoring system.

The first operator, located in South Europe, offers a full range of voice and video services to its customers. They use VoIP in their internal network, which interconnects with the PSTN for inbound and outbound communications. This operator needed to monitor their nationwide network, which consists of SS7, SIP, MGCP and COPS protocols, and also monitor traffic at a service-level to gain a better understanding of how network issues were impacting the customer experience. Accanto’s iCSA more

Helps service providers meet the increasing demand for mobile backhaul networks

Milpitas, Calif., July 27, 2010 – JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU and TSX: JDU) today introduced a new jitter feature for the JDSU Optical Network Tester series (ONT-503, 506 and 512) that establishes the ONT as the first and only jitter analysis solution able to conduct both jitter and wander measurements on 10GE Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) devices and systems. These capabilities help to ensure reliable signal and network performance of mobile backhaul networks for the delivery of high-quality bandwidth-intensive services such as video.

As telecommunications networks continue the transition from time division multiplexing (TDM) to packet technology, synchronization and its evolution in these converged networks is critical to high-quality, reliable network performance. The new JDSU ONT jitter solution helps address the essential tasks of characterizing both the jitter and wander performance of SyncE circuits so that critical timing and more

Scalable, Compact Platform Consolidates Functions to Ease Delivery of High-Density Services, Apps and Sets New Benchmark for 10G Density

OTTAWA, July 27, 2010 // BTI Systems, the company that redefines metro service delivery, introduces the 7200 Metro Services Platform, a new metro networking solution specifically designed to meet the needs of service providers burgeoning traffic growth requirements for wireless backhaul, video and Ethernet business services. The 7200 Metro Services Platform simplifies packet-based services deployment in the metro by consolidating packet-optical functions in a scalable, compact 7RU platform. With its release, the 7200 Metro Services Platform sets the benchmark for 10G density for optical private line and packet aggregation to deliver high-density services critical for service providers in Metro markets.

“We engineered the 7200 Metro Services Platform to be the highest density packet-optical system in the market,” said Jean-Charles Fahmy, vice president of Product Management for BTI more

Skype Voice and Video Calling Features Available for MIPS® Architecture through New SkypeKit™ Developer Tools

MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, announced that support for the MIPS® architecture is included in new SkypeKitTM developer tools available now from Skype. Through the SkypeKit closed beta program, MIPS Technologies has developed a Skype reference implementation for the MIPS® architecture-the leading architecture for the digital home.

Skype is software used by individuals and businesses to make video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Developers now have the ability to build Skype functionality into MIPS-BasedTM devices such as DTVs, set-top boxes and digital media adaptors.

According to Art Swift, vice president of marketing, MIPS Technologies, “We are pleased to offer our licensees yet another key piece more