BriefingRoom on Connected Planet Online

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Spirent Communications has partnered with cPacket Networks to offer products for the emerging high speed data center and cloud infrastructure markets. Spirent, a leading provider of network testing and service assurance solutions, will extend its live Ethernet network testing solutions with advanced products that incorporate cPacket technology and provide real time, on the fly, traffic aggregation/de-aggregation, and advanced packet filtering.

“High speed network infrastructure, data centers, and cloud computing are growing markets in which network and service reliability are critical to ensuring user satisfaction and maintaining SLAs, are important and growth markets,” said Sean Yarborough, senior director of Strategy & Business Development at Spirent. “cPacket’s real-time inspection, monitoring, and aggregation capabilities combined with Spirent expertise in data center and cloud computing testing ensures that we are offering the best solution to address customers’ needs.”

According to Spirent, cPacket’s Pervasive Network Intelligence™ technology makes it the more

ANN ARBOR, Mich. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Internet2, the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium, and the GENI Project Office announced today that Internet2 will donate bandwidth on its national backbone to support GENI subcontractors and the GENI Project Office. The GENI Project Office is located at Raytheon BBN Technologies in Cambridge, MA . Internet2’s connections will support the emerging GENI meso-scale prototype, which now spans over a dozen U.S. campuses, with direct connections at ten backbone locations.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) is a virtual laboratory for exploring future internets at scale, now rapidly taking shape in prototype form across the United States. It supports experiments on a wide variety of advanced research in communications, networking, distributed systems, cyber security, networked services, and applications. GENI facilitates a smooth transition path from “innovative experiment” to useful service at significant scale. GENI will enable “at more

Independent Research Firm: “We’ve Been So Worried about the Perimeter, We Forgot about the Malicious User on Our Internal Network”

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Nov. 30, 2010 – PacketMotion™, the leading provider of User Activity Management (UAM) solutions, today announced that its PacketSentry™ solution tightly aligns with the requirements for combating internal user threats highlighted in the new “Zero Trust Model of Information Security,” as defined by Forrester Research, Inc. In the Zero Trust Model, all internal network traffic is untrusted and security professionals must verify and secure all resources, limit and strictly enforce access control, and inspect all network traffic.

“In today’s network, companies have focused their controls on the perimeter, and now is the time to add controls on the internal network as well as the external network,” said John Kindervag, Forrester Research senior analyst. “In the Zero Trust Model, security professionals must assume that all traffic more

IT Decision-Makers Face Challenge of Finding the Right Cloud Solution for Their Companies

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Three-fourths of companies either currently employ enterprise-grade cloud computing solutions or plan to implement enterprise-grade cloud over the next five years, according to a new study commissioned by Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises.

IDG Research Services and CIO Custom Solutions Group surveyed 172 chief technology officers, chief information officers and IT managers from around the globe. Their report, titled “Enterprise-Grade Cloud Computing Adoption: Trends and Purchase Requirements,” can be downloaded at http://www.savvisknowscloud.com/information-center.

“This independent study validates the industry notion that enterprises want customizable cloud solutions that go beyond the application level and comprehensively address requirements such as security and service levels,” said Bryan Doerr, chief technology officer at Savvis.

The study found that IT usually more

LONDON, Nov. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — BT Global Services today announced it has been positioned as a “leader” in the IDC MarketScape: Asia Pacific Next-Generation Telecom Services 2010 Vendor Analysis.

The IDC vendor assessment for Asia Pacific next-generation telecom services market represents IDC’s opinion on which vendors are well positioned today through current capabilities and which are best positioned to gain market share over the next few years. Positioning in the upper right of the grid indicates that vendors are well-positioned to gain market share. BT is positioned in this category as a leader.

According to the IDC MarketScape Analysis, “In the past 12 months, BT has made a number of network IT services portfolio improvements within the Asia Pacific region, including increasing network services coverage, improvement in the area of unified communications (UC) such as interoperability, and increasing the efficiency of its contact center solutions with more

According to a new report from Juniper Research, worldwide service revenues generated by LTE mobile networks are forecast to grow quickly once networks are launched, reaching $100 billion by 2014. These revenues will be driven by laptops, smartphones and other devices.

Paradoxically several operators are ending flat rate tariffs, whilst at the same time the number and variety of connected data-hungry devices is multiplying. Tablets are a recent example. Whilst Juniper found that 90% of respondents questioned believe that today’s pricing models will have to change, there is a lack of consensus about the structure of new pricing models.

4G LTE Business Models report author Howard Wilcox noted: “In the new report, our business modeling evaluated three scenarios. The most optimistic view revealed scope for higher revenues and ARPU if network operators adopt premium pricing strategies for enterprise users.”

However, the report warns that whilst there continue more

AT&T U-verse Adds More Than 1,200 Hours of HBO and Cinemax Programming Online, Continues Growing Content Selection Across Screens

DALLAS, Nov. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — In another move to make TV content available in more places, AT&T* today announced that AT&T U-verse® TV customers now have full access to HBOGO.com and MAXGO.com, HBO and Cinemax’s online video destinations featuring more than 1,200 hours of streamed programming.

Beginning today, U-verse TV residential customers who subscribe to HBO and/or Cinemax will automatically receive free, unlimited online access to HBO and Cinemax programming, respectively, at any time, from any U.S. location. You can access HBO GO and MAX GO with your U-verse TV log-in ID and password at HBO GO, MAX GO, and soon, U-verse Online.

“We’re proud to deliver more value to U-verse TV subscribers by offering compelling content from HBO and Cinemax online,” said Dan York, more

Trial users will be able to make everyday mobile payments, including bus and train fares, with their existing mobile handsets
Singapore - Nov. 29, 2010 - Some 1, 000 DBS customers with StarHub mobile plans will be the first in Singapore to use the NFC Mobile Payment Solution trial service for everyday mobile payments. The trial will commence in December 2010 and will last for eight months. The project, which was collaboratively organized by DBS Bank, EZ-Link, Gemalto, MasterCard and StarHub, will involve adding an N-Flex solution enabling to turn conventional handsets into NFC-enabled mobile phone without any change to the device.

The N-Flex solution functions on SIM cards across multiple mobile handsets hence helping to accelerate the ubiquity of handsets supporting NFC. The solution is also the first-of-its-kind conforming to the Single Wire Protocol (SWP) as endorsed by the GSM Association (GSMA).

The NFC trial user more

Alteva’s Hosted VoIP Honored for Delivering Exceptional IP Communications Solutions

PHILADELPHIA, PA – November 29, 2010 – Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named Alteva’s Hosted VoIP as a recipient of the 2010 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

The Sixth Annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Awards are presented to companies that provide case studies of IP Communications success experienced by one of their clients after implementing the nominated product/service. Awards are based on demonstrated improvements that the winner’s product/service has made in its client’s businesses. Through an extensive application process, their customers have verified this outstanding achievement.

PTR Baler and Compactor Company (PTR), a manufacturer of cardboard balers and waste compactors for the retail industry, implemented Alteva’s Hosted VoIP as part of its ‘green’ initiatives more

Fiber optics specialist with experience building networks throughout Maine chosen as prime contractor

PORTLAND, Maine – November 29, 2010 – Maine Fiber Company, Inc. today announced that it has selected nextGen Telecom Services Group, Inc. as the prime network infrastructure construction contractor for the Three Ring Binder project, an 1,100 mile fiber optic network spanning 100 Maine communities that encompasses 110,000 households, 600 schools, libraries and other anchor community institutions, and 38 government facilities. NextGen has also been selected by Maine Fiber Company, Inc. to provide on-going maintenance and emergency restoration services.

Maine Fiber Company, Inc. was formed to manage the construction, maintenance and leasing of the Three Ring Binder network that is being built using a combination of federal grant money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and private investment. Maine Fiber Company, Inc. provides access to its high-capacity network more