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HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, today announced several key adoption milestones for the company’s flagship product, the Total Access® 5000. The Total Access 5000 has claimed a prominent spot in network access with market share growth of 136 percent in 2010, the highest increase in the global market according to market research firm Infonetics. It is the only access and transport platform that has been adopted by every U.S. Tier 1 and Tier 2 service provider, as well as a growing number of global, regional and rural ILECs, CLECs and alternative carriers. More U.S. Tier 3 and CLEC service providers have selected the Total Access 5000 for Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployments than any other platform since September of last year, according to Broadband Communities. This has enabled ADTRAN to take market share from incumbent vendors. In addition, with growing global penetration, the Total more

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – 07/18/11) – Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO – News) today announced additional details of its comprehensive action plan to simplify the organization, refine operations, and reduce annual operating expenses.

Workforce Reduction of Approximately 6,500 Employees
As part of the company’s $1 billion annual operating expense reduction, Cisco will reduce its global workforce across all functions by approximately 6,500 employees, which includes approximately 2,100 employees who elected to participate in a voluntary early retirement program. This also includes a reduction totaling approximately 15 percent of vice president level and above employees. This represents a reduction of approximately 9 percent of Cisco’s regular full-time workforce. All affected employees will receive severance pay and outplacement assistance.

Impacted employees in the United States, Canada and select countries will be notified during the first week of August. The remainder of the global workforce reductions are expected to occur at a later date more

LINTHICUM, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that the Romanian Educational Network (RoEduNet) has chosen Ciena’s high-capacity coherent optical technology for the first live 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network in Eastern Europe. The next-generation infrastructure, deployed together with Ciena’s BizConnect partner Felix Telecom, provides scientists and researchers from Romania the highest network capacity available on the commercial market for science and education projects.

RoEduNet, the Romanian National Research and Education Network (NREN), connects universities, schools, research centers and cultural institutions across the country, providing high speed data transport and Internet access services to them at no cost. Operating more than 4200 km of optical fiber to connect cities and academic campuses, RoEduNet forms part of GÉANT – the European education and research network linking academic and research institutions in more than 30 European countries.

The newly deployed 100 GbE link connects Bucharest, the capital more

Norcross,Georgia, USA and Martinsried/Munich, Germany. July 18, 2011. ADVA Optical Networking today announced that Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) has selected the ADVA FSP 3000 to enable the extension of high-speed broadband service to nearly every underserved area of Washington state. The ADVA Optical Networking solution affords NoaNet the long-term, cost-effective scalability to accommodate more users and continue a transition from 10Gbit/s to 40Gbit/s and, eventually, 100Gbit/s services.

“We’ve had a long-standing, true and tight partnership with ADVA Optical Networking,” said Mike Henson, chief security officer (CSO) with NoaNet. “We have trialed many other systems, but ADVA Optical Networking offers unmatched value and range of services. We like the cost, flexibility and ease-of-use of the FSP 3000. Additionally, ADVA Optical Networking’s engineering services and technical support have been instrumental to NoaNet’s ability to expedite reliable, advanced services across Washington state.”

NoaNet, a non-profit mutual corporation, was formed in more

Cisco announced that Polish Telecom (Telekomunikacja Polska, or TP Group) has selected Cisco Carrier Ethernet solutions for its Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network to meet the growing demand for video, mobile and cloud computing services.

This will provide the network infrastructure foundation for TP Group to deliver new revenue opportunities from hosted voice, video streaming, collaboration and premium cloud computing services (XaaS) while meeting its business objectives of reducing and optimizing total cost of ownership over the next five years.

Integral to supporting growth will be the deployment of the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System and Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers for enhanced capacity, high resiliency and robust IPv6 support.

Building a Converged Services Infrastructure

- TP Group is Poland’s leading telecommunications provider, operating in all segments of the Polish telecom market, including fixed-line voice, data, television and mobile networks. France more

Following the acquisition of Colibria in April of this year, Metaswitch Networks is demonstrating its continued commitment to investing and building its position in mobility with the release of an RCS-e 1.1 compliant Instant Messaging Server.

Just weeks after RCS-e standards were finalized, Metaswitch completed product development and extended testing with its primary channel partners. This partner ecosystem continues to lead the industry in providing operators with flexible solutions that guarantee open integration and interoperability between network elements and handset applications.

The enhanced Rich Communications Suite is a strategic initiative supported by five of the leading European operators: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Vodafone. It delivers a simplified extension to voice and text, enabling subscribers to send instant messages, video chat and exchange files in real time. Led by the GSM Association, RCS-e will help mobile operators meet the growing demands of subscribers for more

Cisco is continuing its tradition of innovation by announcing a simpler way for service providers to architect the next-generation Internet to be more visual, mobile and virtual.

Cisco announced major advancements in the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers, which will set new industry benchmarks and dramatically increase capabilities at the edge of the next-generation Internet and transform the broadband communications and entertainment industries.

New capabilities, performance gains and significant cost savings stem from Cisco’s latest innovation, nV (network virtualization) technology, which will be deployed first on the Cisco ASR 9000 system, then made available on other Cisco platforms in the future as networks continue to evolve.

The Cisco ASR 9000 system is positioned in the edge and aggregation sections of the network and complements the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) located in the core of the next-generation Internet. It will help enable compelling new experiences for more

Interop’s SMSC, MMSC, and WAP Gateway Will Meet Capacity Demands in Growing Brazilian Market

SAO PAULO, BR and FORT MYERS, FL–July 12, 2011–Bichara Tecnologia, a technology provider supporting the Brazilian telecommunications market, and Interop Technologies, a provider of core wireless solutions for messaging, device management, and connectivity gateways, today announced a partnership to provide Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Message Service (MMS), and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) solutions to mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Brazil.

The agreement enables Bichara to deliver wireless services to MVNOs with the capacity to manage high traffic volumes anticipated in the growing Brazilian wireless market. Legislation approved in 2010 by Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) has created conditions that are more favorable to the success of MVNOs in Brazil. Bichara is currently in advanced talks with a number of MVNOs planning to enter the Brazilian telecom business.

At 100,000 more

US Signal is upgrading its IP NGN to support faster virtual Carrier Ethernet services and increase the adoption of its new Managed Data Center service, also known as Infrastructure-as-a-Service, by its enterprise customers.

Driven by increased customer demand for greater bandwidth to handle video, cloud and advanced collaboration services, the new IP NGN will enable US Signal to offer virtual Ethernet services up to 100 Gbps and grow its data center customer base. Integral to this growth will be the deployment of the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers for enhanced capacity, high resiliency and robust IPv6 support.

Investment Enables New Managed Service Opportunities

The US Signal fiber optic network is one of the largest in the Midwest of the United States. With over 12,000 fiber route miles metro rings in 23 strategic markets, the US Signal optical backbone features advanced Cisco Dense Wavelength Division more

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