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Fast, Secure, Free Wi-Fi for Patients, Visitors and Physicians

The North State Service Area within the Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) network, the nation’s eighth largest health system, today announced the launch of free wireless Internet access (Wi-Fi) for patients, visitors and physicians. The service is available now, at Mercy Medical Center Redding, Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta, and St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff.

The Wi-Fi service is enabled by 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.

The free Wi-Fi provides patients and their visitors with secure, easy-to-use high-speed broadband Internet access to help make their stay more comfortable. Using the Wi-Fi, patients can remain connected to friends and family with email, search the Internet, etc. from their hospital bed.

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Avenda’s eTIPS Platform Enables Common Enterprise-Wide Network Policy Services for Wireless and Wired Access

Santa Clara, Calif. – May 23, 2011 – Avenda Systems, the leader in identity-based network access security, today announced that it has partnered with Meraki to offer customers a cost-effective path for advanced network access policy services. The partnership expands customers’ ability to deploy enterprise-wide context-aware policy services, NAC, and advanced guest access across all access methods.

“The proliferation of tablets, smartphones, and web applications is causing IT departments to look at new infrastructure architectures that deliver increased capacity and security,” said Kiren Sekar, Director of Marketing at Meraki. “We are excited to partner with Avenda to provide customers with new tools to build these modern, secure enterprise networks.”

Avenda is recognized for delivering the first enterprise-class platform to include identity and device-based access policy services, NAC, AAA functionality, and compliance monitoring capabilities more

Lawrence Irving and Ray Smets Bring Business Leadership and Telecommunications Expertise to Bolster IntelePeer’s Company Strategy

SAN MATEO, Calif. – May 17, 2011 – IntelePeer, Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Lawrence Irving and Ray Smets to the company’s board of directors. Irving and Smets bring a combined 45 years of business and telecommunications expertise to the IntelePeer board.

“Lawrence and Ray are great additions to our board, given their achievements across a wide spectrum of business leadership positions,” said Frank Fawzi, IntelePeer chairman and CEO. “With their combined expertise, our board is well-positioned to guide IntelePeer to new heights.”

Irving, already serving as IntelePeer’s Audit Committee Chairman and CFO of Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., has more than 25 years of financial and telecommunications experience. He has an extensive background in management and business leadership, and working more

Cisco announced an agreement with Tiscali, one of the main telecoms companies in Italy, which entails the supply of technology to strengthen its backbone and rationalize its data center.

This agreement, which includes Cisco Gold Certified Partners, Sirti for networking devices and Maticmind for Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) blade systems, provides for the supply of three Cisco Carrier Routing Systems (CRS-1), the Cisco carrier-class routing platform, 16 Cisco UCS blade systems, and three Cisco Nexus 5000 systems for its Data Center upgrade.

Tiscali has established itself as one of the main independent telecommunication operators in the country, and today can offer its customers a wide range of services, from Internet access in narrowband and broadband mode, to more specific and technologically advanced products, such as voice services (landline and mobile), portal and multimedia services, to satisfy growing market requirements.

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Verizon has earned the federal government’s Personal Identity Verification Interoperable certification for the company’s Identity Managed Service Offering. This certification — issued by the Federal PKI Policy Authority — provides assurance that identity services are helping to improve security, reduce identity fraud, and protect the privacy of credentialed users and their organizations.

Verizon’s cloud-based identity offering allows federal agencies and organizations that interoperate with the federal government to create, issue and manage digital identity credentials for workers and contractors, via Verizon’s secure, high-performance identity services platform.

Verizon is the first and only provider with a credentialing solution to be certified as a PIV-I approved provider, a certified Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 provider, a Federal Shared Service Provider, and a cross-certified Certificate Authority with the FBCA (Federal Bridge Certification Authority).

“Government agencies and interoperable organizations can now use Verizon’s identity services with the high assurance that comes more

New PacketSentry Virtual Probe Appliance Enables Visibility and Control Across VMware® Data Centers Without Impacting Flexibility and Benefits of Virtual Environments

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – April 18, 2011 – PacketMotion™, the leading provider of User Activity Management (UAM) solutions, today announced the release of the PacketSentry Virtual Probe, which extends PacketMotion’s comprehensive security solution to virtual and cloud environments. The PacketSentry Virtual Probe monitors and secures access to sensitive data in VMware® clusters by delivering PacketSentry’s application and identity-aware solution as a guest VM that does not require administrators’ knowledge of IP addresses and with minimal resource impact. Applications monitored include databases, fileshares, web applications and document management, among many others.

Gartner identifies the lack of visibility and controls on internal VM-to-VM communications as the top virtual security issue for organizations.1 Lack of visibility and control within a virtual cluster can result in unauthorized communication between VMs, mixing of more

San Mateo, Calif. – April 12, 2011 – IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, today announced that it has joined the Cisco Developer Network as a Registered Developer within the Unified Communications technology category. In addition, IntelePeer successfully completed interoperability testing* between the Cisco Unified Border Element, version 8.5, and IntelePeer’s Cloud Communications Services, including IntelePeer Specialized SIP Trunking for Cisco Unified Communications and IntelePeer’s Hosted Intercompany Media Engine (IME) services. IntelePeer’s Hosted IME services offer cloud-based federation that connects to diverse Unified Communications platforms for rich multimodal communications.

The Cisco Developer Network unites Cisco with third-party developers of hardware and software to deliver tested interoperable solutions to joint customers. As a Registered Developer, IntelePeer offers a complementary product offering and has started to collaborate with Cisco to meet the needs of joint customers. With offerings such as IntelePeer’s SIP Trunking and more

Partners Including Accunet Solutions and DirSec Join Company’s Security Partner Program to Meet Growing Demand for User Activity Management Solutions in Various Vertical Markets

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 30, 2011 – PacketMotion™, the leading provider of User Activity Management (UAM) solutions, today announced that it grew its Security Partner Program membership by more than 250 percent over the past quarter, and continues to add security channel partners to its expanding channel partner program. PacketMotion’s focused and growing channel efforts helped the company achieve record revenue growth in 2010, increasing revenues by 115 percent over 2009 and more than tripling its customer base of Fortune 500 customers.

“There are many point solutions in the market today that address different aspects of monitoring and enforcement,” said Alan Dumas, President of Accunet Solutions. “PacketMotion is unique in that it centralizes these point solutions into one consolidated platform. In this sense, PacketMotion more

Now Generally Available, Service Offers Hosted PBX / IVR / CRM Combo
with Full Functionality via Desktop and Mobile Interfaces

MIAMI, March 16, 2011 – To enhance collaboration and communications for small and medium-sized businesses, InPhonex today announced the general availability of Televate, a cloud-based telephony system that combines the business-communications capabilities of a hosted PBX, hosted IVR and hosted CRM.

Televate, to be sold through channel partners, is designed to help SMBs appear larger than they actually are and ramp up productivity to compete more effectively.

The service works anywhere inside or outside the office, enabling SMBs to support global operations and customer bases. Unlike other cloud-based telephony solutions, Televate empowers every employee with full call-center functionality, including CRM integration, content-rich screen pops, and caller and customer history.

Features of Televate include:

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ShowingTime’s Appointment Center Integrates IntelePeer’s Cloud Communications Services to Schedule Thousands of Real Estate Showings for Agents

PHOENIX, AZ – March 15, 2011 – Today at the ATA Convention and Expo 2011, IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, announced that ShowingTime, a technology and service provider for the real estate industry, has selected IntelePeer’s cloud communications services for its Appointment Center, which enables real estate agents to schedule showings, serve more homeowners and increase sales.

The Appointment Center, one of several products ShowingTime has deployed to help its customers manage 1.5 million showings each month, integrates IntelePeer’s on-demand cloud communications infrastructure so it can cost effectively help real estate agents schedule showings, collaborate and increase sales. With IntelePeer’s cloud communications, ShowingTime’s Appointment Center is scalable without the company needing to invest in and manage expensive and complex telecommunications and network infrastructure.
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