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Cisco announced that NTT Communications Corporation has deployed the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution for its cloud-based Unified Communication Service (UCaaS).

The Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution will enable NTT Com to provide customers with voice and video calling, unified voicemail messaging, presence and instant messaging, and a wide variety of mobility features and options. This as-a-service offering is well suited for customers who aren’t able or don’t want to deploy or manage these technologies themselves.

Buying applications this way helps customers deploy communications and collaboration services more quickly, with more flexibility, and more efficiently in terms of budget and personnel resources. Even though the technology and applications do not reside on customer premises, NTT Com will be able to provide customers with a highly consistent end-user experience, as well as high security and control.

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Telcentris®, Inc., a cloud communications leader and creator of VoxOx® and VoxOx In Business™, today announced that the company is donating hosted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone services and phone equipment to this year’s Art San Diego event – the largest art fair in San Diego, held annually around Labor Day weekend. The art fair donation is being provided through the company’s VoxOx In Business division, which offers a variety of VoIP business phone solutions for small and medium-sized companies.

“We are proud to support Art San Diego and its mission to foster the arts and culture in our community,” said Bryan Hertz, CEO of Telcentris. “We hope that by providing VoxOx In Business phone services for the duration of the fair, we will enable organizers and supporters to enhance their communication experience, as well as contribute to the event running smoothly.”
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Growing business demand for high-speed broadband in emerging markets spurs network expansion

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Paris and Sao Paulo, August 29, 2011

Orange Business Services will increase the capacity of its Latin American network by ten times due to growing demand from its multinational enterprise customers. Implementation will begin in October 2011, covering Brazil and Chile, followed by Argentina, Peru and Panama. The upgraded network will accommodate customers’ needs for expanding high-speed broadband services, including MPLS (IP VPN and Business VPN), International Ethernet Link and video services, such as Telepresence.

The new network ring will connect Latin America to the East Coast of the United States via Brazil and to the West Coast of the United States via Chile (through Peru and Panama). The upgrade will enhance quality of service for customers with improved latency to the West Coast, more

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Paris, August 25, 2011

three network accesses can share Ethernet Local Loop

As the leading global provider of Ethernet Services, Orange Business Services offers multiservice Ethernet access through the Integrated Access option to its International Ethernet Link customers. Integrated Access allows companies to optimize network access costs and complete their architecture with hybrid solutions. According to the Vertical Systems Group’s Full-Year 2010 Global Provider Leaderboard, Orange Business Services is the Ethernet Services global leader for the second consecutive year.

Businesses of all sizes are becoming increasingly dependent on Ethernet to provide a high-bandwidth, multipoint network connecting geographically dispersed locations. By mutualizing the Ethernet Local Loop between three network accesses from Orange Business Services – International Ethernet Link, IP VPN and Internet Direct – Integrated Access provides companies a way to control costs while enabling better, more efficient data sharing and collaboration.

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Industry veteran Thomas L. Cronan III takes on global role as company accelerates growth

Metaswitch Networks, a leading supplier of infrastructure and applications to communications service providers, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Thomas L. Cronan III as chief financial officer of the company.  Stephen Halstead, currently in the role of chief financial officer, will report to Mr. Cronan. 

“We are extremely pleased to have Tom join us at this important stage of our expansion,” said Kevin DeNuccio, CEO at Metaswitch.  “I am confident that his background and demonstrated success in financial leadership, along with his experience in legal counsel and financial analyst relations, adds to Metaswitch’s leadership team, and will contribute significantly to the company’s continued success.”

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Calabasas, CA, August 25, 2011 – Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), the leading global provider of converged IP and wireless network test solutions, will unveil IxLoad-VM – a unique solution for testing virtualized data centers and their infrastructures. IxLoad-VM measures the quality and capacity of cloud data center components, applications, and networks to deliver effective cloud-based services. At VMWorld 2011, Las Vegas from August 29 to September 1 at booth #1347, Ixia will use IxLoad-VM and other Ixia products to demonstrate the testing of a fully virtualized data center with virtual security elements, virtual router/switch nodes, and actual web infrastructure.

Application virtualization in a cloud environment is a compelling solution with economic, flexibility, and capacity benefits for enterprises of all sizes. The shared and distributed nature of cloud computing components, however, makes it extremely difficult to predict requirements and optimize performance. In order to measure the true capacity and quality more

Multichannel service disruption time (SDT) is key to enhanced testing for labs and network development environments

QUEBEC CITY, CANADA, August 25, 2011 — EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO, TSX: EXF) announced today the addition of multichannel testing capabilities to its FTB/IQS-8120NGE/8130NGE Power Blazer Next-Generation Multiservice Test Modules and FTB/IQS-8140 Transport Blazer 40/43 Gigabit SONET/SDH/OTN Test Modules. These newly launched capabilities provide leading 10G/40G labs and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) with the ability to test all channels simultaneously, accelerating testing time and improving the efficiency of their development environments.

In today’s competitive market, multichannel test capabilities are key to speeding up verification in labs and network development. With these new test capabilities, it is now possible to simultaneously perform SDT measurements on multiple channels and to monitor in real time errors and alarms on all channels for SONET/SDH and OTN signals.

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PHILADELPHIA & CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services, has expanded the Comcast Business Class Solutions Provider Program with Metro Ethernet services, adding new partners and providing more ways for mid-sized businesses to access fast, reliable and cost-effective Ethernet services.

As more mid-sized businesses utilize bandwidth-intensive applications such as cloud computing, business continuity and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Ethernet services will continue to grow as organizations look to streamline the cost and performance of their wide area networks (WAN). Metro Ethernet offers a significant performance increase – and often at less cost – over legacy technologies such as T1 lines, Frame Relay and ATM. Comcast Metro Ethernet can quickly scale in increments from 1 Megabit-per-second (Mbps) up to 10 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) with the flexibility of three different classes of service.

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BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Strategy Analytics shows why the mobile broadband policy and traffic management industry is ripe for partnerships and mergers in a new report from its Mobile Broadband Opportunities (MBO) service, “Mobile Broadband Policy and Traffic Management - Industry Consolidation Coming?” This report examines major tactics for vendors, and demonstrates where industry consolidation is most likely.

Sue Rudd, Director, Service Provider Analysis, noted, “Many of these players already partner with each other — and with traditional equipment manufacturers – in order to deliver complete solutions for mobile operators. As service providers race to optimize capacity that will satisfy mobile broadband demand, policy management has changed from a passive network tool to a strategic business weapon. To meet operator needs, players may need to team up permanently to integrate and test high performance solutions that can increase capacity by 50 percent at a fraction of the cost of new infrastructure.”

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DALLAS, Aug. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The network is the cloud. AT&T* has embedded cloud computing capabilities directly into its network, allowing it to manage, distribute, and deliver them to enterprise customers as a total solution straight down to nearly any device. Now, industry analyst firm Current Analysis is recognizing certain AT&T cloud capabilities in a recent report.

In the ‘AT&T Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)’ product assessment(1) Current Analysis pointed to AT&T’s proven track record and acknowledged the following strengths:

* Integrated network security, service level attainment, and a track record of serving corporate and government clients and enterprise hosting clients.
* AT&T’s flexible and scalable suite of on-demand cloud offers a cost-saving alternative to many conventional hosting services.
* Security capabilities that are embedded and integrated into the core of its network, with physical and network authentication, firewall management, intrusion detection and protection, denial of more