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Today from BroadSoft Connections in AZ, LogiSense broke the news that it has been selected by Momentum, a leading provider of cloud-based communications solutions, as its new billing provider.

Momentum selected LogiSense because of its proven track record of successful deployments and cost-effective IP billing solution.

Momentum currently offers wholesale digital voice services to more than 350 cable operators, municipalities, value-added resellers (VAR) and managed services provider (MSP) partners throughout the United States. By leveraging its fully redundant telecommunications infrastructure and back-office capabilities, Momentum is able to provide turnkey residential and business solutions that give operators the ability to incorporate high-quality telephony services into their service portfolio.

“In delivering exceptional digital voice service to providers across the country, it is imperative that we have trusted partners who deliver a significant value-add in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace,” said Kelly Windham, director of billing, Momentum. “Working with LogiSense more

Crossbeam Systems, Inc. announced today that it has expanded its family of X-Series network security platforms with the X50 to address growing requirements for high-performance security within mid-size data centers and branch offices. The new platform also enables larger IT organizations with multiple X-Series deployments to easily expand their security infrastructure across the business, while maintaining centralized control over security policy and management.

The X50 platform benefits from Crossbeam’s new sixth-generation network processing blades and newly enhanced operating system (news also announced today). The new platform takes advantage of the massive scalability and best-of-breed architecture provided by the X-Series to deliver a highly consolidated security infrastructure that is capable of delivering 160 Gbps of full duplex network connectivity and 20 Gbps of real-world IMIX performance.

“As enterprises transition their data centers to private clouds, security infrastructures must deliver new levels of flexibility, performance and scalability to accommodate these more

STERLING, VA., October 11, 2011 – Neustar, Inc. (NYSE:NSR) and Targus Information
Corporation, or TARGUSinfo, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under
which Neustar, a global leader in network addressing, routing and policy management, will acquire
TARGUSinfo, a leading, independent provider of real-time, on-demand information and analytics
services including Caller ID, for approximately $650 million in cash.

TARGUSinfo’s services help its customers identify, verify, score and locate their customers and
prospects. It processes over 100 billion transactions per year. The company generated approximately
$149 million in revenues for the twelve months ended September 30, 2011, representing 20% year-overyear
growth, with an adjusted EBITDA margin of approximately 45%, excluding the impact of expenses
associated with a 2010 TARGUSinfo recapitalization event.

“This transaction is a significant and logical step in our growth strategy,” said Lisa Hook, president and
chief executive officer of Neustar. “Neustar has long more

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MATRIXX Software, developer of the next generation of online charging and subscriber policy management solutions, today announces another round of funding, totaling US$12m, led by Innovacom with participation from new investor Adams Street Partners.

Funds will be used to continue the expansion of the MATRIXX Software technology footprint, increase sales presence in Europe and the US, and also expand sales presence to the Southeast Asia and Pacific regions.

Bruno Dizengremel, Partner at Innovacom, has been appointed to the MATRIXX Software Board of Directors. Mr. Dizengremel has an extensive background in telecommunications, previously serving as a Vice President at France Telecom Mobiles International. He also served as Technical Director for Panafon and Head of Business Development for a subsidiary of the Ericsson Group specializing in network management applications.

“This round of funding will further drive our penetration of the global market,” said Dave Labuda, Founder more

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Spirent Communications, for the fifth consecutive year, played a key role in the European Advanced Networking Test Center AG (EANTC) Carrier Ethernet interoperability testing event. The test event examined and assessed solutions from leading equipment manufacturers that are offering the latest solutions for Carrier Ethernet. The outcome of this comprehensive undertaking is being highlighted at Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Amsterdam, October 11 -13.

The growing demand for high bandwidth applications and always-on mobile connectivity is driving deployment of Carrier Ethernet technologies in backhaul networks. However, Carrier Ethernet presents critical challenges such as distributing timing and maintaining synchronization in the backhaul, validating interoperability of Ethernet OAM procedures among vendors, and testing the performance of 100G Ethernet modules in the presence of high scale traffic.

“After months of preparation and two weeks of hot staging, we concluded a successful event validating Carrier Ethernet innovations,” said Carsten Rossenhövel, more

BERLIN, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Communication service providers (CSPs) worldwide have a common need: the ability to create and deploy profitable, market-differentiating services in a matter of days or weeks rather than months. To meet that need, Telcordia, (Booth T05) a global leader in the development of Mobile, Broadband and Enterprise communications software and services, today announced Service Innovation for SDPs solution, which enables CSPs and their business partners to develop and deploy a new generation of voice, data and content services available to customers on multiple networks and devices and from the cloud.

Powered by the Telcordia® Converged Application Server, the Telcordia Service Innovation for SDPs solution is a key enabler of the Telcordia convergence strategy. This initiative provides the solutions that enable CSPs to offer voice, data and multimedia services that are converged across networks, access types, customer segments and screens. For example, CSPs and their more

Los Angeles, CA, (September 19, 2011) – Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), the leading, global provider of higher speed Ethernet (HSE) test solutions, announces an optical transport network (OTN) test solution for 40 and 100 gigabit OTU3/4 rates. Ixia’s “XOTN” solution extends the company’s position as the foremost supplier of test solutions for HSE, as recently reported by Frost & Sullivan. Ixia’s XOTN solution meets the extraordinary performance and protocol scale test needs of evolving dynamic, packet-switched core transport networks, including advanced MPLS and MPLS-TP protocol implementations. In conjunction with the announcement, Ixia will participate in the panel discussion “Packet Optical Transport/Test and Measurements”at the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2011), in Geneva on Wednesday, September 21 at 12:20 p.m.

Ixia’s higher speed test solutions enable service providers and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) to validate the performance and protocol scalability of higher speed network equipment – for both more

Calabasas, CA, September 19, 2011 – Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), the leading global provider of converged IP and wireless network test solutions, announces a next-generation version of its award-winning higher speed Ethernet (HSE) test interfaces. Ixia, the leader in HSE testing according to a recent Frost & Sullivan market report, has built upon its Xcellon architecture experience and success to develop the next-generation HSE test interface: Xcellon-Lava™. Xcellon-Lava offers two 40/100 gigabit Ethernet (GE) interfaces in a single-slot configuration, with enhanced capabilities for routing, switching, and application-layer testing. In conjunction with the announcement, Ixia will participate in the panel discussion “Packet Optical Transport/Test and Measurements”at the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2011), in Geneva on Wednesday, September 21 at 12:20 p.m.

HSE use has moved past the basic interoperability stage to incorporation of HSE interfaces into full service core network platforms and application layer devices. Public, small-port-count more

Across the board, today’s Telephony service providers face more challenges than ever before. For converged IP and related offerings, such as hosted VoIP, video, IPTV, cable, ISP, etc., selecting the correct partner for billing & OSS is critical and should provide the differentiation needed to stand out in an ever-increasingly crowded market.

We caught up with Ryan Susanna, Director of Sales for LogiSense (www.LogiSense.com), a hosted billing and OSS software and services provider, who shared his insight on what works – and what doesn’t – in today’s marketplace.

Q: We hear a lot of jargon coming from vendors as to their respective positions as “industry leaders.” Can you cut to the chase for us and describe what, in your opinion, is most important for service providers to think about before selecting a billing & OSS partner?

RS: The most successful companies we work with that enjoy more

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