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Nevion appoints Geir Bryn-Jensen CEO

Sandefjord, Norway and Oxnard, California, December 15, 2011 – Nevion chairman Per Otto Dyb has announced the appointment of technology and business development veteran Geir Bryn-Jensen as Nevion CEO. Bryn-Jensen, who previously served as executive vice president of sales and marketing, joined Nevion in 2010.
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Route1 Answers the Call for Secure, Remote Access

Route1 Answers the Call for Secure, Remote AccessIf you were to ask Tony Busseri, CEO of Route1, on five separate occasions what is company’s mission is, his answer will never change.

“Route1’s philosophy on data security is simple: “Protect the Fortress. All data and internal files remain should remain safely within an organization’s confines, so they are not exposed to unauthorized access or unnecessary risk.”

Route1 (TSX V: ROI), a security and identity management company, is in a very unique position to help government agencies and private companies quickly and easily cope with the escalating need for secure remote access and identity management.

As Busseri will convincingly tell you, “Only Route1 solutions are founded on the principle of assuring the identity of an individual, not a PC, tablet, smartphone or other device.”

Without question, Route1’s track record is quite impressive; it has a diverse, distinguished customer base comprised of government more

Telcentris’ Rob Lewis to Speak at eComm America on How Communications Technology Will Evolve by 2025

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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Nevion appoints Leonardo Emilio Gañán to head up Latin American sales

Nevion appoints Leonardo Emilio Gañán to head up Latin American sales  Sandefjord, Norway and Oxnard, California, January 17, 2010Nevion, formerly Network/VPG, a leading video transport solutions provider for broadcasters, service providers and government entities worldwide, today announced the appointment of Leonardo Emilio Gañán as sales manager for Latin America and the Caribbean. Based in Miami, FL, Gañán will work closely with Nevion’s local partners to build on Nevion’s successes in these regions.                   
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Secure Wireless and Wired 802.1X Networks Made Easy Using Avenda Systems’ Quick1X

Customers leveraging cloud-based endpoint configuration tool that works with today’s latest Windows, Mac, and Linux-based devices

Santa Clara, Calif. – Sept. 21, 2010 – Avenda Systems, the innovation leader in identity-based network access security, today announced that its eTIPS Quick1X configuration tool is helping customers ease the configuration requirements and deployment of secure 802.1X networks.

Configuration headaches and lack of integration support of devices have hampered the widespread growth of 802.1X security. Avenda’s cloud-based Quick1X configuration tool allows IT organizations of any size to easily streamline how users configure required network settings on their laptops and other mobile devices.

With growing concerns to further secure campus and enterprise wireless networks, Quick1X provides an easy way for IT departments to manage the deployment of WPA2 and 802.1X protected networks. The ability to provide a web portal to distribute the Quick1X wizard through removable media allows users to pre-configure more

Wireless History Foundation Announces 2010 Wireless Hall of Fame Inductees

The Wireless History Foundation (WHF) has announced the names of four individuals who will be inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame during the Foundation’s Oct. 5, 2010 dinner in San Francisco. The 2010 inductees are (in alphabetical order):

• LeRoy T. Carlson—founder and chairman emeritus of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. and founder of U.S. Cellular, Chicago, IL

• Edward Samuel “Ted” Rogers, Jr. (posthumously)—president and CEO of Rogers Communications, Inc., who built Canada’s largest communications company, Toronto, ON

• Stanley T. Sigman—retired president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility , San Antonio, TX

• Raymond C. Trott—RF engineering pioneer and founder of Trott Communications Group, Irving, TX

The dinner will take place at the Palace Hotel the evening before the CTIA Enterprise and Applications™ 2010 tradeshow Oct. 6-8. In addition to honoring the new inductees, the program will also more

TM Forum’s Management World Moves to Dublin for 2011

TM Forum’s Management World: Destination Dublin

New state-of-the-art venue to host the world’s leading communications and digital services management conference in 2011

MORRISTOWN, NJ—September 3, 2010—TM Forum announced today that after eleven years in Nice, France, its flagship Management World conference will move to Dublin’s new, state-of-the-art Convention Center - the CCD - May 23-26, 2011. Dublin and the CCD will provide the perfect business environment for Management World attendees—a leading capital city that is easy to get to, easy to do business in and with a reputation for hospitality that is second to none.

As a vibrant European hub for global technology companies, including major communications service providers, IT organizations and large online businesses such as Google, Facebook and eBay, Dublin is a natural fit for the increasing scope of the industry’s premier conference.

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Wireless History Foundation Announces Inaugural Wireless Hall of Fame Dinner

AUSTIN, TX.–August 2, 2010–The Wireless History Foundation (WHF) will hold its inaugural Wireless Hall of Fame dinner in San Francisco on Oct. 5, 2010. At this first-ever event, industry leaders will honor newly named members of the Wireless Hall of Fame and recognize previous honorees from the early years of wireless. The dinner will take place at the Palace Hotel, the evening before the CTIA Enterprise and Applications™ 2010 tradeshow Oct. 6-8.

Wireless History Foundation “Induction in the Wireless Hall of Fame is one of the wireless industry’s highest honors,” said Denny Strigl, retired president and chief operating officer of Verizon Communications and former president and CEO of Verizon Wireless. Strigl, a Wireless Hall of Fame member, is Chairman of the October 5 event. “I am proud to be associated with individuals whose contributions and achievements launched the wireless industry and to honor them at the inaugural Wireless more

US Signal’s Virtual Ethernet Service Helps Customers Do More With Less

How Thomas Cooley Law School benefits from Virtual Ethernet Services

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 13 — Grand Rapids-based US Signal Company has been a pioneer of connectivity for more than a decade. The leading provider of data bandwidth in the Midwest, the company recently announced its expansion into four Ohio markets: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, and Columbus.

“We have created technologies that make Virtual Ethernet Service affordable, simple, and stable — making a fully meshed network accessible from point A to B almost anywhere,” says Trevor Bidle, vice president of engineering for US Signal. “Virtual Ethernet Service allows our customers to control the routing and flow of their own networks.”

How VES Works

In 2008, Thomas Cooley Law School migrated from a hub and spoke arrangement to Virtual Ethernet Service (VES) to connect its campus locations. Virtual Ethernet Service provides Cooley with high-speed connectivity to each more

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T-Systems and Alcatel-Lucent deploy industry-first commercial 100 Gb/s link spanning optical and IP routing technologies

High Leverage Network architecture facilitates a leap forward in collaboration and cloud-based services for leading Universities and research institutions in Germany

Paris and Stuttgart, 14 June 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customer arm, today announced they have achieved an industry first by connecting high-performance data centers of the Dresden and Bergakademie Freiberg technical universities with a 60 km link using commercial 100 Gigabit/second (100G) connectivity that leverages both IP and optical technologies. This unique combination enables unmatched end-to-end scalability, performance and compatibility across core, edge and metro networks. The data on the 100G link between the two universities are processed in real-time and are being transmitted on a single wavelength – an industry first.

The extremely high bandwidth of 100G communications technology will improve the cooperation between research facilities and will be used to facilitate more advanced cloud service delivery more

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