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International and Domestic Wi-Fi Calling to All Vopium Users is Free,
Including to Those with Android, iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile Phones

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 19, 2011 – Although calling apps for the BlackBerry are widely available, they suffer from limitations and carrier-imposed requirements that undermine the benefits. Vopium, which has established an industry first with its BlackBerry Wi-Fi calling app, eliminates those drawbacks and provides consumers and business users with free international and domestic Wi-Fi calls, as well as international calls over GSM and CDMA for as little as less than 1 cent per minute.

Vopium is the first VoIP service provider to offer a Wi-Fi calling app through BlackBerry App World. The Vopium app does not require users to connect with a local call – a major limitation of many other Wi-Fi calling apps. Unlike UMA-based Wi-Fi calling services provided by a few mobile operators, more

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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If 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

Cisco announced that Advanced Telecommunications Ltd. has launched Ukraine’s first Public Cisco TelePresence service.

Combining innovative real-time video, audio and interactive technologies, Cisco TelePresence provides a face-to-face meeting experience and helps companies in Ukraine improve their productivity and global communications, reduce carbon footprint and lower travel expenses.

Ukrainian Companies Connect and Collaborate Worldwide

Advanced Telecommunications Ltd. implemented a Cisco TelePresence System 3210 suite at its premises in central Kiev. The meeting room can seat up to 18 people and is ideal for large team meetings, business meetings, trainings and classroom events.

The system is connected to Tata Telecommunications’ Global GME Telepresence network, which includes 36 public systems around the world. Customers can also connect to Cisco TelePresence rooms through the networks of leading international service providers, including AT&T, BT, Orange, Verizon, Telefonica and National Lambda Rail.

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Federation Interconnection and ENUM Registry Services
Promote More Rapid Adoption of Video Communications

LONDON – Dec. 5, 2011 – With VoIP now a mature, dependable service capability for users and service providers around the world, one of the next big milestones on the global communications horizon is widespread adoption of IP-based video communications.

But unlike attaining the delivery of consistently high-quality voice services worldwide – which service providers, equipment manufacturers and exchanges reached fairly quickly by agreeing on SIP – achieving broad, global interconnectivity of video calling of acceptable quality for conducting business anywhere in the world at any time is exponentially more complicated.

XConnect helps service providers, and ultimately their users, see their way through bewildering choices by enabling secure and multi-protocol interconnection and interworking between disparate video communities, networks and devices. The company’s services make video calling as simple and ubiquitous as traditional voice more

In the inaugural Global Cloud Index (2010 – 2015), Cisco estimates global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015 — that’s a 66 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

One zettabyte is equal to a sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes — 1.6 zettabytes is approximately equivalent to:

- 22 trillion hours of streaming music.
- 5 trillion hours of business Web conferencing with a webcam.
- 1.6 trillion hours of online high-definition (HD) video streaming.

Cloud is the fastest growing component of data center traffic, which itself will grow 4-fold at a 33 percent CAGR to reach 4.8 zettabytes annually by 2015. Cloud is also estimated today to be 11 percent of data center traffic, growing to more than 33 percent of the total by 2015. Cloud is becoming a critical element for the more

NeoPhotonics Doubles Capacity of Narrow Linewidth Tunable Lasers for Coherent DWDM Systems

Narrow Linewidth Tunable Lasers are Critical Components for High Speed 40 and 100 Gbps Coherent Systems

San Jose, California – November 22, 2011 – NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit, or PIC, based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced that the company is in the process of doubling capacity for production of narrow linewidth tunable lasers. NeoPhotonics offers these lasers in an OIF MSA standard ITLA form factor and the products are designed to provide the low noise and narrow linewidths required for 40 and 100 Gbps coherent applications.

The NeoPhotonics products are compact, widely-tunable laser assemblies designed to be optimized for narrow linewidth with up to 35mW launch power in the C band and 20mW in the L band. The products’ narrow more

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry association focused on driving the next generation Wi-Fi experience, published a report on the state of the global public Wi-Fi hotspot market compiled by analyst firm Informa.

This insightful market study includes a comprehensive survey of 259 service providers and Wi-Fi vendors.

The report reveals that global public Wi-Fi hotspot numbers are set to grow from 1.3 million in 2011, to 5.8 million by 2015 — a 350% increase. The number does not include ‘community hotspots’, where users share their own Wi-Fi access point with others, which add an additional 4.5 million worldwide.

China Mobile alone plans to deploy a million hotspots and Japan’s KDDI plans to grow its 10,000 Wi-FI hotspots to 100,000 within six months. The survey found that that this growth will be concentrated in three types of location: wide-area outdoor hotzones (e.g. parks); local-area outdoor hotzones more

KT Corporation, Korea’s leading telecommunications service provider, and Cisco announced a global strategic collaboration to bridge the IT and communications markets.

The collaboration, which combines KT’s communications infrastructure and expertise with Cisco networking and communications innovations, is based on an extensive relationship which spans across Smart+ Connected Communities, business to business (B2B) services, and cloud computing.

The first initiative of this strategic collaboration is a minority investment from Cisco in kc smart service Co. (kcss), a KT subsidiary, which will offer managed services for smart buildings and smart city projects. kcsmart service is expected to be fully operational by January 2012. The companies have executed agreements that establish the framework for their collaboration, enabling kcsmart service to have the ability to incorporate the technologies and tools of KT and Cisco.

KT chairman and CEO President Suk-Chae Lee said: “This isn’t a one-off release or consulting partnership, more

Route1 Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ROI), a security and identity management company, announced today from the ACFEA TechNet Asia-Pacific Conference and Expo the release of its TruOFFICE 3.5 software application.

One of the industry’s most comprehensive secure remote access solutions, TruOFFICE 3.5 comes with improved security features and protocols, including the following:

— The TruOFFICE application software data sessions now utilize the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.1 protocol by default
— The TruOFFICE application software now includes enhanced protection mechanisms while operating in hostile environments
— The MobiKEY Fusion device now supports SHA-2 smart cards and data sessions to 64-bit Host computers
— Performance of the MobiKEY Fusion device’s communication with the smart card has been significantly improved.

“TruOFFICE 3.5 is another strong example of how Route1 continues to deliver secure remote access technology that provides government and enterprise personnel more