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Cisco and Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited — HKBN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of City Telecom (HK) Limited — announced a pioneering move in Asia.

HKBN, a leading service provider, has committed to the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System as the foundation for its core Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) to cope with the surging trend of bandwidth demand and to extend its network coverage.

According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, annual global IP traffic will exceed three-quarters of a zettabyte by 2014. Internet utilization by various forms of video such as TV, video on demand, Internet video, etc. is increasing and is expected to exceed 91 percent of global consumer traffic by 2014. To prepare for this rapidly growing demand, HKBN, a forward-thinking service provider, realizes the need for a core router with strong investment protection to support its world-class voice, video and Internet services.

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Industry Visionary B.V. Jagadeesh Joins Virtela to Drive Next Phase of Global Growth and Cloud IT Services Innovation

DENVER, Jan. 26, 2011

Key Takeaways:
-Jagadeesh brings proven record of innovating and leading successful market transitions
-New Cloud Accelerator service extends Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC) benefits to applications hosted in public clouds, such as Amazon EC2
-Company’s cloud-based application acceleration service, introduced last year, achieves strong adoption and business results from customers

Virtela, the world’s largest independent managed network, security and cloud services company, announced today that highly regarded business leader and industry visionary B.V. Jagadeesh has joined as president and chief executive officer as the company builds upon its continued growth. Jagadeesh comes to Virtela with a proven record of building and managing IT market leaders, and is best known for spearheading major market transitions such as the Web Hosting and Application Delivery markets.

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Revenue up 38 percent, network traffic rose 40 percent over year-ago levels

BRUSSELS – Jan. 26, 2011 – Voxbone said its growth and market acceptance continued apace in 2010, with revenue and network traffic climbing significantly and customers indicating high levels of satisfaction.

The company reported that revenue rose 38 percent from 2009; minutes of use for inbound traffic grew to 2.1 billion, up 40 percent; the number of employees increased to 58, up 53 percent; and its core network experienced no downtime.

This growth reflected service expansion and strong customer satisfaction for the market-leading wholesale provider of geographical, toll-free and iNum® worldwide telephone numbers.

The rising demand from global carriers and mobile and fixed national network operators for innovative and high-quality inbound solutions accounted for much of Voxbone’s 2010 growth. The quest by these service providers for new revenue streams and the more

HICKORY, NC–Passive intermodulation (PIM) continues to be one of the top causes of quality and performance issues faced by wireless operators in their networks. In 2011, CommScope’s Andrew Solutions is targeting PIM in an all-out assault.

PIM is the result of two or more wireless signals mixing together to create additional, undesired frequencies that cause interference or degrade transmission of desired signals in wireless networks. Recognizing that conquering PIM requires a broad and comprehensive approach, Andrew Solutions, the CommScope, Inc. division that is a global leader in wireless communication systems and products, has introduced a new five-level PIM program–“PIM Happens, Just Not on Our Watch”–for the wireless industry.

“RF engineers are aware of PIM, but may not fully appreciate the degree of damage it causes to a wireless network, lumping PIM together with other performance metrics,” said Stan Catey, senior vice president and general manager, Cable more

Cloud-Based Enterprises Can Now Automate Vulnerability Management and Server Firewalls in the Cloud with Unique Security SaaS Product

MENLO PARK, Calif. – Jan. 26, 2011 – CloudPassage™, Inc., a pioneering security SaaS company, today introduced the Halo™ SVM (Server Vulnerability Management) and Halo™ Firewall products, the industry’s first server security and compliance products purpose-built for elastic cloud environments. These products deliver fast, easy and highly accurate server exposure assessment, configuration compliance monitoring, and network access control – automating the three most fundamental practices for securing servers in public and hybrid clouds.

With today’s Halo product introduction, CloudPassage also emerges from stealth mode. See accompanying company launch announcement issued by CloudPassage today at www.cloudpassage.com/about/press-releases .

According to Neil MacDonald, VP and Gartner Fellow, the number one concern preventing enterprises from adopting public cloud computing is security. “As organizations shift workloads to cloud-based providers, it is imperative that security more

LINTHICUM, Md. – January 26, 2011 – Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that President Obama has appointed Gary Smith, Ciena’s president and CEO, as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), effective as of January 7, 2011. Mr. Smith joins an elite group of industry leaders from major telecommunications companies, network service providers and information technology, finance and aerospace companies, whose mission is to provide the President collaborative advice and expertise regarding telecommunications national security and emergency preparedness issues.

“I am honored by this appointment and am proud to be part of an esteemed membership with a focus on securing and protecting the United States’ telecommunications infrastructure,” said Mr. Smith. “Ciena builds customer relationships with the highest levels of integrity and transparency, and I look forward to leveraging that experience in continuing the trusted public/private partnership as part of more

Fastest-growing mobile communications and technology provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will enhance network capabilities with Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet and optical technologies

LINTHICUM, Md., U.S.A. and RIYADH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – January 25, 2011 – Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced it was selected by Saudi Arabia’s telecoms operator Mobily to build a highly resilient, adaptable and scalable nationwide network to effectively address dramatic traffic growth and support the roll out of new services while reducing overall operational costs. Mobily selected solutions from across Ciena’s portfolio – including Carrier Ethernet, optical transport and switching, as well as management and maintenance services – to bring Ethernet services to the network edge and integrate packet-optical switching and transport through the network core.

The Middle East is driving major growth across the telecommunications landscape, with significant increases in mobile and fixed broadband penetration, regional more

ISCO INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES PROTEUS, A NEW PRODUCT ENABLING MAXIMUM USE OF 3G SPECTRUM FOR WIRELESS CARRIERS

ProteusTM with PurePassTM RF Digital Signal Processing enables mobile users to connect
more effectively with the base station, benefiting both consumers and carriers

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL – January 25, 2011 – ISCO International, LLC, a leading provider of flexible spectrum conditioning solutions for wireless service providers, today announced Proteus, a new product that “clears the air” of radio interference that infringes upon users trying to connect to a base station for voice or data service. PurePass, the new all digital technology in Proteus, passes an RF signal free of unwanted co-channel and adjacent RF power that comes from a variety of sources such as adjacent wireless operators, wi-fi transmitters and random, unpredictable sources such as: CATV equipment, bi-directional amplifiers, cross-border transmissions and even baby monitors. This ensures the cleanest more

Tango Telecom Recognized for Outstanding Innovation with Dynamic Pricing Solution for Airtel Africa

January 20, 2011 – Tango Telecom (www.tangotelecom.com), announced that it has been shortlisted for the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Global Mobile Award 2011. MWC has named Tango Telecom as one of the finalists in the Best Customer Care and CRM Solution category for its successful implementation of dynamic pricing with Airtel Africa. At MWC, Tango Telecom will showcase its technology at the Enterprise Ireland Pavilion, Hall 1, Stand 1 F17.

Tango Telecom’s Dynamic Pricing Service gives operators the ability to price voice services dynamically based on cell load, location, time of day, subscriber type and/or subscriber activity. The service was launched as Zain Flexxy with Airtel Africa in Uganda, and was the most successful launch ever measured by the operator with service uptake exceeding 65% in the first two months.

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Tigerpaw to help New Partners with Data and Application Integration

BELLEVUE, Neb., (January 24, 2011) — Tigerpaw Software, Inc., developer of the most comprehensive business building software for technology providers has launched a new initiative to reach out to more than 1,000 telecommunications vendors across North America.

“We are engaging our telecom customers to show them how we can help them quickly, easily and profitably make the move to IT,” said James Foxall, president of Tigerpaw Software. “We’ve already met with several telecom leaders with the intent to strengthen our partnerships, the vastness of our integrations, and to explore new opportunities as our large telecom customer base adds data to their offering.”

Tigerpaw is working with mutual vendors to design several key enhancements aimed at facilitating additional partner interaction to create a powerful public API with the most comprehensive back-end more