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m8 Capital, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners
Fund Round

June 16, 2011 – Boston, MA – Aylus Networks™, the leading provider of infrastructure software for enabling video communication services over mobile networks, announced today the closing of an equity financing round of $16 million. London UK-based m8 Capital led the financing, with existing backers, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, who fully participated their pro rata share. Joseph Kim, General Partner of m8 Capital, will be joining the Aylus Board of Directors.

“The dawn of video becoming the new voice is upon us,” said Mark Edwards, CEO Aylus Networks. “The emergence of powerful video-ready smartphones and tablets, high-speed mobile networks, and consumers becoming accustomed to video calling on the desktop establishes the ideal conditions for the mass adoption of mobile video calling. For video calling to be a mass-market phenomenon it needs more

NEW YORK, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — For the second consecutive year, Verizon Computing as a Service, the company’s flagship business-class cloud computing solution, has successfully completed a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard audit. Now, retailers and other organizations that process credit card transactions can move critical payment applications to the Verizon cloud with confidence, knowing that the cloud infrastructure they’re using is protected by an industry-recognized set of payment-card security standards.

In 2010, Verizon CaaS, delivered from company cloud centers in the U.S. and Europe, was the first cloud-based solution to successfully complete a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) audit for storing, processing and transmitting credit card information. To become PCI DSS-validated, Verizon CaaS’ physical and virtual infrastructure underwent a comprehensive third-party examination of its policies, procedures and technical systems, as well as an on-site assessment and systemwide vulnerability scan.

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PARIS, June 9, 2011 – DBSi, the Pennsylvania-based provider of disaster recovery, managed hosting, and data center services, has deployed optical networking equipment from Ekinops to connect its three data centers, maximizing network capacity and availability for their clients’ mission-critical data.

The DBSi network uses DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) equipment from Ekinops to provide numerous data-carrying channels over the fiber linking its existing data centers in Bethlehem and Valley Forge to the newest facility in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania.

Deployment of the 10 gigabit per second Ethernet DWDM equipment via the Ekinops 360 platform is the first phase of a two-phase network upgrade for DBSi. Later this year, the company will use Ekinops DWDM equipment to join the three data centers in a ring configuration network that will deliver the highest levels of network redundancy, reliability, and availability.

Christopher Black, DBSi’s Chief Technology Officer, said that many more

BETHPAGE, N.Y., June 8, 2011 – Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) today announced the expansion of Optimum Voice Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking from Optimum Business. The enhanced offering delivers a high-quality, reliable voice service to small businesses through a converged voice and data network that can scale as needed for up to 100 employees. The service is designed for customers that want to take full advantage of a small business IP PBX system, while avoiding the cost of an analog gateway and traditional T-1 solutions.

Optimum Voice SIP Trunking is now compliant with Avaya IP Office 6.0, adding to the growing list of technology partners working with Optimum Business to deploy an affordable, easy-to-manage communications system. Optimum Voice SIP Trunking is available through Optimum Business as well as third-party resellers in the New York Metropolitan Area.

“Small and medium-sized businesses recognize the superior value and more

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HP (NYSE:HPQ) today extended its Hybrid Delivery solutions portfolio so enterprises can improve their agility and quickly respond to changing customer and citizen needs.

Hybrid delivery environments, which combine traditional IT infrastructures with private and public clouds, enable enterprise agility by using flexible delivery models to best meet changing market demands.

Recent research conducted on behalf of HP reveals that 95 percent of business and government executives believe agility is important to the success of their organizations. Investments in technology were viewed as a key factor to increasing agility in the next five years.(1)

Building hybrid environments to enhance enterprise agility

HP CloudSystem – the most complete, integrated and open platform for building and managing services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments – now includes the industry’s first “dual bursting” capability to help clients manage uneven demands. This innovation allows clients to provision more

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — US Signal, a leading service provider of network infrastructure in the Midwest, today announced that its Managed Data Center, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), cloud offering, is now available. US Signal’s Managed Data Center is built with dedicated resource pools designed to rapidly provision and host Virtual Private Servers accessible through US Signal provided Wide Area Networks (WAN). Adding Managed Data Center to its Managed Services product suite makes US Signal one of the first service providers in the Midwest to offer customers the opportunity to build Virtual Private Cloud environments.

“US Signal is the first carrier to deliver an end-to-end, ubiquitous, Ethernet solution to compliment a secure, highly functional Virtual Private Cloud offering,” says Dan Olrich, chief operating officer. “Because we have mastered these network technologies, US Signal’s Managed Data Center is literally an extension of our more

DALLAS, May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T* today announced the availability of three leading mobile transportation and dispatch management applications from Complete Innovations and Xata Corporation, enhancing AT&T’s portfolio of fleet management solutions. Available directly from AT&T, these services are designed to streamline operations, optimize fleet and mobile workforce performance and facilitate fleet operators’ adherence with the CSA 2010 (Compliance, Safety, Accountability) initiative.

With these new applications, businesses can get valuable insight into fuel consumption, vehicle maintenance needs, asset location and more, while drivers can find destinations more easily to deliver products on time.

“Challenged by rapidly increasing operating costs, companies that routinely use vehicles need to manage their fleets more effectively than ever,” said Chris Hill, vice president, Advanced Mobility Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions. “That’s why we’re adding three new, efficiency-boosting solutions to our Fleet Management portfolio. Courier Complete from AT&T, Fleet Complete from AT&T and Xata more

TAIPEI, Taiwan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: VTSS), a leading provider of advanced IC solutions for Carrier and Enterprise networks, announced an expansion of its Carrier Ethernet physical layer (PHY) portfolio with new Gigabit Ethernet (GE) devices that offer a straightforward upgrade path for network equipment requiring IEEE 1588v2 timing synchronization and Ethernet/MPLS Operations Administration and Maintenance (OAM) features. The new SimpliPHY™ 1G devices, the dual-port VSC8572 and quad-port VSC8574, are the first-in-class to deliver this functional integration, essential for supporting accurate timing distribution in wireless backhaul, data center, industrial automation, smart grid and other applications that leverage real-time services over newer packet-based networks.

Mobile data and video applications continue to drive ever expanding bandwidth needs across the network. As demand grows, legacy E1/T1 PDH basestation, backhaul, and access platforms are being upgraded to lower-cost packet based systems deployed with Carrier Ethernet technology. These next-generation networks require increasingly accurate phase more

Cisco will host a virtual international forum from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to announce the latest findings of the Cisco Visual Networking Index forecast on global Internet traffic growth.

The company will also host a panel discussing the impact of this surge in bandwidth demand on service providers networks, consumer and business services, regulatory policies and government transformation.
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Who:
Suraj Shetty, Cisco vice president of global service provider marketing, will unveil new, groundbreaking data on trends in global Internet Protocol (IP) traffic through 2015, as projected by a new release of the Cisco Visual Networking Index.

Dr. Robert Pepper, Cisco vice president of government affairs, will then host a roundtable discussion with the following international policy leaders:

Blair Levin, Aspen fellow and author of the U.S. National Broadband Plan (2009)
John Horrigan, vice president, Policy Research, TechNet
Carlos Rodriguez, manager of more

FAIRPORT, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PAETEC Holding Corp. (NASDAQ GS: PAET), a nationwide provider of comprehensive communications solutions, today announced the launch of an expanded portfolio of cloud-based products and the planned deployment of new data centers coast-to-coast.

As part of its overall cloud and data center strategy and leveraging its breadth and depth of experience in the cloud and data center space, PAETEC plans to add 13 data centers coast-to-coast by the end of 2012 to its current set of seven centers which will result in the company operating 20 centers nationwide. Additionally, the company released new cloud-based products and enhanced existing products for businesses including Dedicated Server, Virtual Server, Managed Storage, and Hosted Exchange. Cloud-based services refer to applications being housed, managed, and maintained in highly secure and fault-tolerant data centers, relieving day-to-day responsibilities from IT staffs allowing them to focus on more strategic initiatives.

“With the advent of more