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FORT MYERS, FL—March 23, 2010—Interop Technologies, a provider of core solutions for messaging, device management, and connectivity gateways, today announced that it has achieved interoperability with Red Bend® Software’s market-leading Mobile Software Management (MSM) solutions for firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updating and standards-based mobile device management (MDM). As a result, wireless network operators benefit from lower customer care costs and simplified remote management of mobile phones and connected wireless devices.

Following the Open Mobile Alliance Device Management (OMA-DM) standards, the two companies have ensured interoperability between the Interop Technologies SCOPE™ (Subscriber Capability Originated Provisioning Environment) Device Management solution and Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile® and vDirect Mobile™ client software, deployed in 680 million mobile devices worldwide. Red Bend’s software has been adopted by eight of the top 10 mobile phone manufacturers to improve the mobile user experience of smartphones, wireless modems, machine-to-machine (M2M) modules and netbooks.

“Achieving interoperability of more

FORT MYERS, FL.—March 23, 2010—Interop Technologies, a provider of core solutions for messaging, device management, and connectivity gateways, today announced that it has once again broken a messaging throughput record with its innovative Short Message Service Center (SMSC) 4 Series. The improved technology solution now can provide a throughput level of 100,000 Message Delivery Attempts (MDAs) per second, which surpasses the 53,000 MDAs per second that Interop achieved in April 2009. Still the fastest messaging solution in the industry, the SMSC 4 Series now is even further ahead of the competition.

Leveraging knowledge gained from hosting messaging services for multiple network operators, as well as listening to customers’ requests, Interop optimized the code base of the SMSC 4 Series and enhanced required services and system components to ensure maximum throughput and efficiencies. The resulting leap in throughput is expected to help operators relieve messaging capacity constraints. more

Oakland, CA — March 23, 2010 — Zhone Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZHNE), a global leader in network access solutions for fiber, copper and wireless broadband infrastructures, today announced EFM line cards for its new flagship MXK multi-service access platform (MSAP). Zhone also cited global shipments for the MXK in excess of 325 systems since announcing the platform just over two quarters ago, with growth of its global customer base to 750 telecom providers worldwide.

MXK with EFM – An Elegant Migration Path to Fiber
Over the next several years, in the U.S. alone, cell site base stations are projected to grow from 200,000 to 300,000. While fiber has made considerable inroads over the past year, approximately two-thirds of Radio Access Nodes (RANs) are still copper fed. Though the gold standard for backhaul is fiber, even if operators could afford to run fiber to every tower, the required labor more

March 23, 2010 – Las Vegas – Aylus Networks™, a leading manufacturer of products for the management of mobile broadband data, announced their Media Switch product family at the CTIA Show today. The product is designed to help mobile operators better handle the explosion in demand for mobile bandwidth on their networks coming primarily from video and iPhone/smartphone apps. It is available in two hardware configurations, the MSX1200 stackable server and the configurable MSX8200 chassis with capacity for multiple server blades. Aylus Networks is the only vendor that provides a vertically integrated, full suite of infrastructure solutions including hardware, software, service enabling interfaces, and applications to support advanced mobile services.

“Our offerings are built from the ground up to support mobile video services and allow the carrier to not only efficiently cope with the current tidal wave of data but to monetize this data as well,” said more

Washington, D.C., March 16, 2010 – International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® today announced the E-Tech Awards finalists in 15 categories in the areas of mobile CE, applications, enterprise, green solutions, luxury mobile and network infrastructure. International CTIA WIRELESS will take place March 23-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Partner events will begin Monday, March 22.

“We received a record number of submissions for the E-Tech Awards this year, a true testament to industry innovation and the pervasiveness of mobile technology,” said Heather Lee Landers, assistant vice president of marketing for CTIA. “We congratulate all of the E-Tech Awards finalists for demonstrating the talent and vision that will lead us into the mobile decade.”

E-Tech Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA and Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, on Wednesday, March 24 at 2:00 p.m. on more

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, CTIA-The Wireless Association® President and CEO Steve Largent issued the following statement after the FCC and the Broadband Team released “Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan” to reporters this afternoon.

“CTIA and our member companies are extremely pleased that spectrum is recognized as being pivotal to the National Broadband Plan. We appreciate the FCC’s and the Broadband team’s focus on making ‘500 MHz of spectrum for broadband within 10 years, of which 300 MHz should be made available for mobile use within five years.’

“Based on the executive summary, it is clear the Broadband team recognized the importance of the mobile Internet to the economy and to meeting many national priorities. We applaud their commitment to providing everyone equal access to the most advanced wireless communications.

“We look forward to working with the Chairman and Commissioners, the Broadband Team, Congress and other policymakers more