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PARIS, July 7, 2011 – Managed video transport provider Hibernia Media is now using optical transport equipment from Ekinops to carry uncompressed, high-definition video signals for major broadcasters and content providers, as well as other customers, at its New York City Content Exchange Center (CEC).

Hibernia chose the system from Ekinops, leading designer and supplier of next-generation optical equipment, because of the importance of assuring reliable, high-capacity transport of high-definition and standard-definition signals over fiber. Ekinops has installed its Ekinops 360 platform, with video and multiprotocol modules, at Hibernia’s CEC. The Ekinops 360 enables DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) transport, providing numerous high-capacity channels over a single fiber.

The Hibernia Content Exchange Center, at 60 Hudson Street, provides a secure, centralized location for content owners to deliver uncompressed, high-definition content directly to cable, direct broadcast, satellite, IPTV, and new media distributors.

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NEW YORK, June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — When leading marketing services firm Epsilon wanted to further bolster the security of its global email platform, it tapped Verizon for an innovative cloud-based security solution that will help it stay a step ahead of cybercriminals.

Epsilon will be among the first enterprises to deploy a set of new Verizon security technologies, which provide a significant improvement over conventional methods of data-breach detection. The new capabilities will enable Epsilon to identify and mitigate so-called “electronic crimes in motion” in a way that has not been possible until now. (See Epsilon’s related announcement.)

To accomplish this, Epsilon tapped into Verizon’s expertise and data to establish a baseline for normal network behavior. With that baseline in place, the company now is alerted by Verizon to incidents that are not normal, and receives near real-time notification of other indicators of behaviors of an attack. more

Industry’s first solution to offer bundled 4G and 3G wireless WAN connectivity, with secure and reliable access to Sprint Global MPLS; Explorer Pipeline experiences significant cost savings and improved productivity

Overland Park, Kan. – June 27, 2011 – Sprint (NYSE: S) now offers businesses Sprint 4G Enterprise WAN (wide area network), a fixed wireless access solution that provides speed, reliability and secure wireless connectivity to the Sprint Global MPLS network. Not only can wireless connectivity open a world of possibilities by allowing people to work virtually anywhere, now Sprint 4G can enable businesses to replace or improve on traditional “wired” options with a solution that is cost-effective, fast and flexible to deploy without compromising bandwidth and network reliability, available within all Sprint 4G markets.

“Sprint understands the critical challenges facing businesses today, which demand innovative solutions to address higher bandwidth needs, business continuity, and cost reduction in a more

SAN DIEGO – June 28, 2011 – Telcentris®, Inc., a cloud communications leader and creator of VoxOx®, today announced that Rob Lewis, VP of product management at Telcentris, will speak at eComm America 2011, a key communications industry event held in San Francisco June 27-29, 2011. At the event, Lewis will present on the future of communications, discussing how communications technology will evolve by 2025.

Who: Rob Lewis, VP of product management, Telcentris

What: Presentation – “Telepathy by Machine: Fact or Fiction in 2025?”

When: 4:35 - 4:50 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Where: eComm 2011, San Francisco Airport Marriott, Salon E

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Overland Park, Kan. — June 23, 2011 – Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced that it will now offer its enterprise customers a comprehensive range of Managed Telepresence services from Tata Communications. The relationship will combine Sprint’s award-winning Global MPLS network and expertise in converged solutions with Tata Communications’ leadership in global Managed Telepresence.

Telepresence delivers life-like, high-definition conferencing with superior audio, video and environmental qualities that provide an ideal alternative to traditional face-to-face meetings. With Tata Communications’ Managed Telepresence, powered by the Sprint Global MPLS network, businesses can further strengthen collaboration between employees, customers and suppliers. They can also simplify, scale and extend communications with a global reach while lowering travel costs and at the same time, reducing their carbon footprint.

Sprint’s Telepresence customers will also be able to seamlessly connect to Tata Communications’ Global Meeting Exchange which is one of the broadest public and private Telepresence networks more

Telmex, working with Cisco as a technological partner, will offer new collaboration solutions for the enterprise market — such as Cisco Unified Communications, Cisco WebEx and Cisco TelePresence.

These services will be available in Mexico at a national level on the 30 August, 2011 — and later on in Latin America.

In the area of unified communications, Telmex will integrate Cisco’s technology in two of its main offers:

Managed Unified Communications: Addressed to middle and large businesses from hundreds to thousands of users, the service will be based on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager platform, allowing customers to deploy a collaboration integrated strategy that includes IP telephony, unified messaging, mobility, presence, collaboration via web and conference. All these services will be managed and supported by highly qualified experts and accessible through the payment of a monthly fee per user or site.

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Industry to Honor Four Individuals at October 10 Event in San Diego

AUSTIN, TX–June 22, 2011–The Wireless History Foundation (WHF) announced today the names of four accomplished individuals who will be inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame during the Foundation’s Oct. 10, 2011 dinner in San Diego. The 2011 inductees are:

• Nick Kauser — Former Chief Technology Officer of four major wireless carriers including Rogers Cantel, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless Services, and Clearwire Corporation, which he also co-founded. Kauser built the first nationwide network across both Canada and the United States. He led U.S. standards processes, aggressively explored new technologies, and laid the basis for nationwide automatic roaming.
• Robert Marino — Former President and first employee of United TeleSpectrum (now Sprint), also former President of cellular companies including Compania de Radiocomunicaciones Moviles (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Houston Cellular Telephone Company (now more

NEW YORK, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — To help enterprises analyze the effectiveness of their data security measures and determine whether they need to be strengthened, Verizon is offering a new evidence-based risk management service that takes the guesswork out of security decision making while putting to work the insight gained from “Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report” series.

The offering, Incident Analytics Service (IAS), enables customers to describe, track, analyze and benchmark data breach incident metrics via a Web application that provides access to data from Verizon’s extensive historical and ongoing incident analysis research, one of the largest information risk repositories in the world.

Sources of this data include the anonymous and aggregated data from all IAS participants; Verizon’s annual “Data Breach Investigations Report”; and information shared freely through the Verizon Enterprise Risk and Incident Sharing (VERIS) application. The application is a repository for information collected from more

Cisco announced that Comcast has deployed the Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series (ASR 9000) as part of its next-generation network that is delivering advanced business services in more than 20 major U.S. markets — with expansion into new markets planned in the months ahead.

Comcast is working with Cisco on this deployment based on Cisco’s technology, services, and experience helping network operators scale services to meet business customer demands.

Designed to deliver massive scale and accommodate the projected explosion in global Internet traffic, Cisco’s ASR 9000 provides Comcast with a converged infrastructure that optimizes service delivery through its flexibility, wide array of features and its emphasis on Carrier Ethernet.

Comcast’s Metro Ethernet services, which provide access to the company’s next-generation fiber optic network for businesses with high-bandwidth needs in multiple locations, are part of an ongoing strategy to expand Comcast’s portfolio of business services to more

Colt uses Nevion solution to deliver channels for Viacom International Media Networks brands to Sky

London, UK, June 20, 2011 – Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, has used products from Nevion’s Ventura line to deliver cost-effective and high-quality contribution facilities for Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) brands including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. The fiber routing links VIMN’s play-out hub in Camden, North London with BSkyB in Osterley, West London, to deliver four of the broadcaster’s channels uncompressed in a single fiber.
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