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STOCKHOLM – January 4, 2011 – Aptilo Networks, the global leader in pre-integrated solutions for control of billing, user services and access in wireless networks including Wi-Fi, WiMAX™ and LTE, announced today the company has signed an agreement to acquire Service Factory, a division of Birdstep Technology listed on Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker BIRD.

The company also announced that Norvestor V L.P., a leading private equity company, has invested in Aptilo Networks, acquiring the shares of previous financial investors and becoming the majority shareholder.

With the acquisition of Service Factory, Aptilo Networks strengthens its leading position in the field of
wireless service management and policy control with the addition of large service provider customers like TeliaSonera, 3 Scandinavia, DU, Eircom and TDC.

“Already a profitable company, Aptilo represents a solid platform for further expansion within the more

TEL AVIV, Israel, December 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — RADCOM Ltd. (NASDAQ: RDCM), a leading network Service Assurance provider, today announced that it has been selected by a tier-1 telecommunications company in Latin America. This company is a major player in the Latin American market, and this new transaction is another step in RADCOM’s continued penetration into this region. The deal is valued at $4 million US Dollars.

This major operator is the largest provider of long distance call services in Latin America. Its high-quality network provides data and voice services to more than 40 million customers. This operator purchased RADCOM’s Omni-Q Service Assurance solution to monitor their huge network. RADCOM was chosen due to its ability to provide a unified solution for all of the customer’s requirements.

“We are delighted that this major operator will benefit from Omni-Q’s comprehensive Service Assurance and troubleshooting solution,” said Mr. David Ripstein, more

New Test Capability Helps Ensure a Positive End User Experience of Smartphones in the Presence of Multiple Simultaneous Services

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Spirent Communications, a leading provider of testing solutions for wireless devices, networks and services, today announced the availability of the industry’s first automated R&D solution for testing smartphone performance in the presence of simultaneous voice, data and location-based services (LBS). Built on Spirent’s 8100 Development Library solution, this new service interaction test capability is the latest innovative Spirent tool designed specifically to test 3G UMTS device performance.

Although today’s smartphones are running an ever-increasing number of applications, these applications must share the device’s limited resources, and this can lead to performance challenges. For example, the use of A-GPS location on smartphones for navigation or other location-based applications can disrupt the reception of business e-mail, reduce data download speeds and can also cause important calls to drop, even more

NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon Global Wholesale is introducing Web-based Quick Functions to give its wholesale customers additional tools and flexibility for handling business transactions with the company.

Quick Ticket and Quick Status are two online tools that allow wholesale customers to submit and track their own trouble tickets round-the-clock. These easy-to-use, secure Web portals complement the 24-hour toll-free number customers can use to submit and track trouble tickets.

“Verizon Global Wholesale understands the need to deliver advanced tools that simplify the process and give our customers the freedom they need to succeed in a fast-paced business world,” said Mike Yancey, director, wholesale voice product management. “We strive to deliver self-service capabilities such as Quick Functions that add value to our customer relationships.”

Wholesale customers access Quick Functions through Verizon’s award-winning Verizon Enterprise Center (VEC) customer portal. Unlike other VEC processes, Quick Functions require more

Boston, MA and Dublin, Ireland (December 7, 2010) - Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT ), a leading supplier of service optimization and revenue generation solutions for fixed and mobile broadband service providers worldwide and Openet , the most innovative provider of Subscriber Optimization Software to tier one communications and media service providers, announced today their joint policy management solution. To date, the companies have achieved successful integration and interoperability testing between Allot Service Gateway , acting as Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF), and Openet’s Policy Manager , acting as Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF). This joint solution enables mobile operators to optimize the monetization of their mobile broadband networks.

The integrated PCEF-PCRF solution, based on 3GPP Policy and Charging Control (PCC) standards and policy enforcement standards for mobile networks, is scalable to fit any network. It is designed to enable intelligent service more

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, BMC Software (NASDAQ:BMC) announced significant new capabilities including the enablement of the cloud-ready Proactive Operations solution for the modern data center, built on a single, unified Business Service Management (BSM) platform for managing physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. BMC now enables a Proactive IT Operations management approach that couples planning, predictive analytics and preventative automation. This allows IT to increase responsiveness to business demand, while eliminating costly and risky reactive processes.

As organizations adopt virtualization and cloud technologies in their hybrid data centers, they’re seeing significantly increased complexity, an explosion of resources and users to manage and significant increase in the volume of changes required. Without a transformative approach to proactively managing IT operations, organizations will not be able to improve service quality and cost management. Instead, IT will spend more time reacting to costly outages, have less visibility into their complex infrastructure and thus be more

Leading Provider of Network Management Software Will Enhance Cisco’s Ability to Rapidly Provision Network Services

Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held LineSider Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of network management software that helps customers build the network services necessary to securely create and deploy cloud computing infrastructure. Based in Danvers, Mass., LineSider will enhance Cisco’s ability to rapidly provision network services.

“Cloud computing represents a significant opportunity for Cisco customers to create more effective business models and increase the operating efficiency of the network,” said Jesper Andersen, senior vice president of Cisco’s Network Management Technology Group (NMTG). “With the acquisition of LineSider, Cisco will gain a key component to helping customers make this shift. LineSider’s advanced network management software integrates both physical and virtual network services with a policy-based approach and makes networks more flexible and responsive to change.”

LineSider’s software is designed to more

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

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

Actsoft’s GPS based Solutions Now Available Directly from AT&T

DALLAS, Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T* business customers will now be able to manage their mobile resources – field employees, vehicles, inventory, and more – using Actsoft, now available directly from AT&T. The Actsoft solution utilizes the latest advances in GPS, mobile and web technologies to improve workforce productivity, better manage assets, control operating costs and mitigate risk, using various mobile devices AT&T offers for businesses.

The newest addition to AT&T’s Mobile Resource Management portfolio, Actsoft’s suite of applications benefits any-sized business, across a range of industries. Location-based software (LBS) solutions combine the strength of GPS and wireless technology, which enables location and time tracking, vehicle and asset mapping, direct job dispatching, wireless invoicing, and barcode scanning. Businesses that purchase Actsoft through AT&T will have the added convenience of consolidated billing. All charges for Actsoft applications will appear more