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ITEXPO WEST, LOS ANGELES – September 30, 2010 – Addressing the growing demand for Enterprise Session Border Controllers (E-SBCs) among large enterprises Ingate® Systems announces the new Ingate SIParator® 96 E-SBC and Ingate Firewall® 2960, two high-capacity products that enable secure SIP communications such as SIP trunking and Unified Communications beyond the protected enterprise network.

The SIParator 96 and Firewall 2960 are the highest-capacity products offered by Ingate to-date. They are in addition to a complete refresh of the full line of award-winning Ingate Firewalls and SIParators.

“Businesses are accelerating their adoption of SIP trunking and are beginning to expand their use of SIP to Unified Communications,” said Steven Johnson, President, Ingate Systems. “This is generating a demand for proven solutions like Ingate’s E-SBCs that can handle the rise in SIP usage. Ingate’s new Firewalls and SIParators meet the capacity needs of businesses of every size at more

Wireless Markets Benefit from a Test System Capable of Testing Two ISM Products Simultaneously

Mountain View, CA – September 30, 2010 - Benetel, the wireless design and test company (www.benetel.com), today announced that it has launched the BTS-115, an ISM band mass production test system (MTS) based on National Instruments PXI modular compact test solution. The BTS-115 has been especially designed for use by OEM’s seeking to manufacture low-cost wireless sensors for emerging industries such as medical patient monitoring, smart metering, smart classrooms, asset location and RFID.

The BTS-115 can be configured to test any standard in the unlicensed Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) spectrum between 433 MHz and 2.4 GHz utilizing standards such as Zigbee, Bluetooth, WiFi (802.11b&g), UWB (802.15.4a), ActiveRFID and also combinations of these standards. Benetel has successfully deployed the BTS-115 in China at 868MHz and 915MHz with a 15 second more

With its new Chromatic product, Metrico revolutionizes mobile video performance evaluation by offering operators and manufacturers one tool to evaluate an end user’s actual video experience on any mobile device

Frederick, Md. – September 30, 2010 – It is the next big growth area for mobile carriers and manufacturers. In fact, it will represent almost 66 percent of the world’s mobile data traffic by 2014 according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index.

What is “it”? Mobile video services.

Today, mobile operators across the globe are scrambling to find new ways to bring in additional revenue through the delivery of mobile video services. But the bottom line is that they will not make money on these services if subscribers cannot watch the latest movie or their favorite sports team due to poor video delivery.

That’s where Chromatic comes in. Chromatic is the newest product from Metrico more

Voxbone Honoured as a Leading European TMT Company

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 30, 2010 – Voxbone, a leading provider of telephone numbers to communications service providers and businesses worldwide, was named as a Young Bulls winner for the inaugural 2010 Bully Award honouring the leading European technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies as presented by White Bull Summits.

A total of 60 European companies were named as finalists for the 2010 Bully Award, and 30 were honoured as winners. The deserving winners were selected from a pool of entries that included hundreds of nominated European TMT companies.

The winners fall into three categories:

• Yearlings: firms that seek or have received angel/seed rounds or equivalent; classic start-ups
• Young Bulls: firms that seek or have received Series A financing; early stage companies
• Longhorns: post Series A firms; growth stage companies

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Additional Interconnectivity Options Further Extend Ethernet Availability

ATLANTA, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Cox Business announced today that it is further expanding its award-winning Ethernet Services via its relationship with CENX, operator of the world’s first and most connected Carrier Ethernet exchange. Cox Business established an initial connection to CENX’s Carrier Ethernet Exchange in Los Angeles this month.

Cox Business has consistently been recognized by Vertical Systems Group as the fourth largest business Ethernet provider in the U.S. and a pioneer among multiple system cable operators in providing networking services. The new relationship with CENX creates additional options for wholesale and retail customers to connect locations throughout Cox’s extensive network footprint. Because Cox has already established dedicated fiber links to CENX, customers can seamlessly link to the Cox network without the cost and delay of establishing a dedicated interconnect. The CENX exchange also provides enhanced service level monitoring and more

Ottawa, Canada – September 30, 2010 Enablence Technologies Inc. (“Enablence” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: ENA), a leading supplier of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment for triple-play residential and business services and optical components and subsystems for access, metro and long-haul markets, received a US$12.4 million order for its advanced next-generation network solution from a Tier 1 Central Asian telecom services provider.

This order is from an existing Enablence customer that is rapidly expanding its network deployment for next generation services to provide triple-play broadband services that requires the replacement of existing aging systems with advanced systems from Enablence in new serving areas.

Enablence is providing its advanced Multi Services Access Gateway (MSAG) platform, the BroadAccess-1000E. The platform offers an ideal solution for this emerging market’s growing demand for enhanced services, through the implementation of high-speed Ethernet design, advanced VoIP, ADSL2+ and IP capabilities, and the support of a wide more

Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, today announced that it has been chosen by Vodafone to host and support the M-PESA platform.

“We’re excited to be working with Vodafone on this project and look forward to seeing how it develops across the world to support those people who currently do not have access to banks and in turn help them to become more economically active through the application of innovative technology.”

M-PESA is a platform designed to provide a fast, safe and easy way to transfer money from person to person and is a valuable service in emerging economies where there is little or no existing banking infrastructure outside the major cities. It is now available in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Afghanistan and Fiji and boasts over 16 million customers.

Neil Dwyer, Vodafone’s Senior Operations Manager said: “Rackspace has a more

To meet the increasing demand for the full range of cloud services, Verizon Business is enhancing its data centers around the globe. Within the next year, Verizon Business will expand its flagship cloud computing services suite – Computing as a Service (CaaS) – into centers in San Jose, Calif.; London; and Canberra, Australia. In addition, CaaS data centers to serve U.S. government customers will come online in Miami and Culpeper, Va., during the first quarter of 2011.

As part of this infrastructure enhancement project, more than 5,500 additional server cabinets for enterprise clients also will be added to Verizon Business premium Internet data centers in Paris, Dublin, London, Frankfurt, Belgium, Canberra, Hong Kong and throughout the U.S. The expansion further enables the delivery of private clouds via more than 200 global data centers connected to Verizon’s MPLS network, Private IP.

These moves bring Verizon another step closer more