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LONDON and NEW YORK, July 7 — OpTier has announced today that Amdocs will resell the OpTier Business Transaction Management (BTM) system, to offer its customers visibility into all end-user transactions.

To compete effectively in today’s market, service providers are undertaking transformation and consolidation projects across their Business Support Systems (BSS) and Operational Support Systems (OSS) in order to lower costs; reduce time-to-market and improve customer service. By partnering with OpTier, Amdocs will enable service providers to proactively manage the end-user transactions that run through critical business and operational support systems. As a result, providers will be able to introduce targeted marketing initiatives and increase the efficiency of customer care, including the ability to support self-service portals – all helping to reduce customer churn.

By managing IT at the business transaction level, OpTier BTM™ gives service providers comprehensive insight across their IT environment, end-to-end, in real-time. For example, more

Fall Show Returns to San Diego in 2011

WASHINGTON, July 6 — CTIA–The Wireless Association announced the CTIA Enterprise & Applications trade show will return to the San Diego Convention Center October 11-13, 2011 and October 10-12, 2012.

CTIA Enterprise & Applications demonstrates the benefits of wireless technology across vertical segments, including enterprise and cloud computing, media, content, health, energy, retail and transportation. The show attracts more than 15,000 enterprise users, application developers, service providers, content owners, device manufacturers, retailers and engineers.

“CTIA and our show attendees had a great experience in San Diego in 2009, and we’re excited about returning there next year,” said Robert Mesirow, CTIA vice president for business operations and show director. “San Diego is a recognized world center for innovation in communications technology and a thriving community that supports emerging technologies and start-up companies. It’s an ideal location for our fall show.” more

Plans to offer advance broadband services to “underserved” and “unserved” rural communities in Texas; Calix customers eclipse $100 million milestone in aggregate value of Broadband Stimulus projects underway

PETALUMA, CA—July 7, 2010—Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Broadband Stimulus award winner XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative (XIT) has selected the Calix Unified Access portfolio to address its “Fiber Forward” initiatives in rural Texas. XIT will leverage advanced fiber and copper access technologies to deliver a superior broadband services experience to underdeveloped parts of its access network. This vendor selection by XIT pushes the total number of Calix Broadband Stimulus award winner selections to nine, which in aggregate represent over $100 million in Stimulus-related grants, loans, and private investment for plant engineering, materials, labor, and other costs, including access equipment.

Serving subscribers across the northwest Texas panhandle, XIT’s Round One Broadband Stimulus award consists of a $3.1 million grant more

Red Bend® Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), today announced that SoftBank has selected Red Bend to provide over-the-air software updating and device management for more than 50 percent of its summer lineup of mobile phones. With the inclusion of Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile® and vDirect Mobile™ software, Softbank can easily and reliably deliver new firmware updates over the air (FOTA) and provision new services to mobile consumers consistently across multiple platforms.

Red Bend’s mobile software management solution is available for SoftBank consumers in 10 summer models from leading manufacturers Sharp and NEC. The phones will provide many new and updated services and features, including a Twitter widget. The Red Bend-Enabled™ summer models are:

• Sharp – mirumo2 944SH, AQUOS SHOT 945SH, SOLAR HYBRID 842SH, THE PREMIUM6 more

WALTHAM, Mass.—July 7, 2010—Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), today announced that more than 50 percent of the new mobile phones introduced by NTT DOCOMO this summer rely on Red Bend’s software for over-the air updates and device management. With Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile® and vDirect Mobile™ software in the phones, NTT DOCOMO can easily and reliably update firmware over the air (FOTA) and provision new services to mobile consumers consistently across platforms.

Red Bend software is featured in 12 new NTT DOCOMO phones from Sharp, NEC, Fujitsu and LG Electronics. To support the new handset lineup, NTT DOCOMO is introducing many new and updated services and features, including high-definition video recording, Wi-Fi access, designer-collaborated styling and a new healthcare support service. The Red Bend-Enabled™ phones are:

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Internap’s Performance IP™ premier connectivity and Managed Hosting ensure real-time access to DigitalGlobe’s earth imagery

ATLANTA – July 7, 2010 – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a leading provider of end-to-end internet business products and services, today announced that DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading content provider of high-resolution earth imagery, is using Internap’s Managed Hosting and route-optimized Performance IP network to power DigitalGlobe’s web services offering. This solution enables rapid web access to DigitalGlobe’s collection of earth imagery delivered through three content distribution nodes in Colorado, Hong Kong and London.

DigitalGlobe’s constellation of industry-leading commercial high-resolution satellites and aerial network allows it to collect more than 500 million square kilometers of earth imagery every year. Leveraging Internap’s solutions, DigitalGlobe’s content can be integrated and embedded into geospatial applications for defense and intelligence used by civil governments and commercial customers across desktops, more

IntelePeer Quick Start Program Ensures Fast Deployment of SIP Trunks
To Support Microsoft OCS-based Telecom Services

SAN MATEO, Calif. – July 7, 2010 – IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, today announced a deployment with Mayer Networks to deliver hosted telecommunications services for Campus Habitat.

IntelePeer provides a comprehensive suite of on-demand communications services delivered via SIP trunks, and backed by deep communications expertise and a proven Quick Start program to ensure partners’ Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) deployments are successful. Mayer Networks, a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, uses OCS 2007 Release 2 (R2) combined with IntelePeer’s Microsoft-certified Cloud-based Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) network infrastructure to deliver advanced voice features that include high-quality local, long-distance and international calls, Direct Inward Dialing (DID) connections, and other innovative capabilities. Campus Habitat provides high-quality, off-campus housing for college and university students across the United more