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Calix Introduces Five New Line Cards to its C7 Multiservice Access Platform, Significantly Enhancing Platform Capacity and Expanding Ethernet Services Over Copper and Fiber

New EXA Powered Line Cards Enable 10 Gigabit per Second Ethernet Transport, VDSL2 and GPON Services, and Gateway Functionality for Service Providers Embracing an All-Video World

PETALUMA, Calif. — Calix, a leading provider in North America of broadband communications access systems and software for copper- and fiber-based network architectures that enable communications service providers (CSPs) to connect to their residential and business subscribers, today introduced five new line cards that significantly enhance the capacity and Ethernet capabilities of the C7 Multiservice Access Platform (MSAP)—North America’s leading multiservice access platform (MSAP) (Infonetics Research, 11/2009). These new line cards bring 10 gigabit per second (Gbps) Ethernet transport and aggregation functionality, very high speed digital subscriber line 2 (VDSL2) and enhanced gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) services, more

About 212 Million ‘Smart’ Electric Meters in 2014, Says ABI Research

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — “Smart” electricity meters, which enable two-way communication between the meter and the utility, and may enable greater consumer control over consumption, are being deployed at an increasing pace, especially in North America and Europe. According to a new study from ABI Research, the number of smart electric meters deployed worldwide will rise from a 2009 level of 76 million to reach about 212 million in 2014.

“it has been suggested that China will replace 300 million electricity meters over the next five or so years.”

Practice director Sam Lucero says, “As momentum for infrastructure renewal grows, a number of factors are driving the process. High on the list are government regulators. In the US, $3.4 billion in federal economic stimulus funding was directed to smart grid development in November 2009. The more

Nokia Q4 2009 Net Sales EUR 12.0 Billion, Non-IFRS EPS EUR 0.25 (Reported EPS EUR 0.26)

Nokia 2009 Net Sales EUR 41.0 Billion, Non-IFRS EPS EUR 0.66 (Reported EPS EUR 0.24)
HELSINKI, January 28 — Nokia Board of Directors will propose a dividend of EUR 0.40 per share for 2009 (EUR 0.40 per share for 2008)

Nokia Corporation
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January 28, 2010 at 13.00 (CET+1)
The complete press release with tables is available at: http://www.nokia.com/results/Nokia_results2009Q4e.pdf
Non-IFRS fourth quarter 2009 results 1

Q4/ Q4/ Q3/ QoQ
EUR million 2009 2008 YoY Change 2009 Change
Net sales 11 988 12 665 -5.3% 9 810 22.2%
Devices & Services 8 179 8 141 0.5% 6 915 18.3%
NAVTEQ 225 206 9.2% 166 35.5%
Nokia Siemens Networks 3 625 4 340 -16.5% 2 760 31.3%

Operating profit 1 473 1 239 18.9% 741 98.8%
Devices & Services 1257 983 more

AT&T Reports Fourth-Quarter Earnings Growth with a 2.7 Million Net Gain in Wireless Subscribers, Continued Strong Growth in IP-Based Revenues, Record Full-Year Cash Flow

$0.51 diluted EPS for the fourth quarter versus $0.41 in the year-earlier period

$34.4 billion full-year cash from operating activities versus $33.7 billion in 2008, and $17.1 billion free cash flow, up 28.4 percent versus 2008 (free cash flow is cash from operations minus capital expenditures)

2.7 million fourth-quarter net addition in total wireless subscribers, the second highest quarterly net gain in the company’s history; full-year wireless net adds totaled 7.3 million, equaling the company’s best-ever annual total, to reach 85.1 million subscribers in service

Best-ever fourth-quarter wireless subscriber churn levels – 1.19 percent postpaid and 1.44 percent total
2.6 percent growth in postpaid wireless subscriber ARPU (average monthly revenues per subscriber), eighth consecutive quarter with a year-over-year increase

Continued robust more

Good Technology Acquires CloudSync

Acquisition of cloud-based device management provider further strengthens Good’s position as leader in mobile device management and security

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 27 — Good Technology today announced it has acquired CloudSync, a Denver, Colorado-based mobile device management company. The acquisition furthers Good’s mission of enabling device choice in the enterprise by providing enhanced device management for the broadest range of devices, including laptops, tablets, ruggedized handhelds, and leading smartphone platforms, all through a simple, secure, cloud-based service offering that does not require enterprises to deploy and manage additional hardware or software.

The acquisition of CloudSync complements Good’s robust Good for Enterprise™ solution and reinforces Good’s position as the only solution enterprises need to meet all of their mobile security, management, collaboration and application access needs. Good for Enterprise is comprised of three components:
Good Mobile Control™ for mobile device management
Good more

New Program Designed to Expand Presence of Level 3’s Services in Content Markets

BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced the launch of its new Content Delivery Partner (CDP) program aimed at strengthening and expanding the reach, visibility and value of the company’s international portfolio of broadcast and content delivery services.

Level 3’s CDP program will advance the company’s content delivery strategy by allowing direct resellers, value-added resellers (VARs) and solutions partners (such as developers of online media players) to leverage the Level 3 CDN and Vyvx® broadcast platforms to enable an outstanding experience for online and broadcast end-users. Level 3 will work closely with partner companies to customize value-added solutions that better enable services that link content creators with content consumers.

“Microsoft is pleased to be an inaugural member of Level 3’s new Content Delivery Partner program,” said Steve Sklepowich, director for more

BT Introduces One Source for TANDBERG

QUINCY, Mass., Jan. 25 — BT Conferencing today launched a fully-managed automated service for TANDBERG solutions called BT One Source for TANDBERG.

One Source combines TANDBERG’s award-winning telepresence and video conferencing solutions with BT Conferencing’s comprehensive management services to provide customers with an easy-to-use, reliable and cost-effective visual communication solution.

BT One Source for TANDBERG is a service portfolio that allows customers to tailor TANDBERG telepresence and video conferencing solutions to meet their specific business requirements. It includes planning, design and implementation services such as BT’s One Care Preferred “white glove” services. Support levels can be tiered to provide producer assisted or automated call launching using BT’s Engage suite of software tools (EndPoint Connect and Bridge Connect), which are available to fully automate a customer’s telepresence and video conferencing experience.

To provide further flexibility, customer-owned bridging infrastructure can be located more

Blue Coat Introduces Industry’s First IPv6 Secure Web Gateway Solution for Seamless Application Migration from IPv4 to IPv6

ProxySG Appliances Enable Organizations to Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiencies by Leveraging Technology Advantages of IPv6

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today introduced the industry’s first IPv6 secure Web gateway solution to enable the secure and seamless migration of applications, services and content between IPv4 and IPv6 environments. As a secure IPv6 application migration platform, the Blue Coat ProxyS appliance enables enterprises, government agencies and service providers to reduce costs and increase efficiencies by leveraging the technology advantages of IPv6.

“By bridging the applications and services gap between the two domains, the Blue Coat solution affords organizations the same level of visibility, acceleration and security regardless of whether the content is delivered over IPv4 or IPv6.”

“While the more

Digium Launches AsteriskExchange, the Official Online Asterisk Community Marketplace
New website, www.asteriskexchange.com connects Asterisk users, developers, integrators, service providers and manufacturers with customers worldwide

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Digium Inc. the Asterisk Company, today launched AsteriskExchange, the official online marketplace featuring products built or integrated with Asterisk, the world’s most popular open source communications engine. Asterisk is a free software toolkit that integrators and developers can use to transform computers into advanced communications systems, radically improving business productivity while reducing the cost of business communications. With thousands of new downloads per day, millions of deployments worldwide, and a community of 65,000 members, the acceptance and growth of Asterisk has spawned an ecosystem of developers, integrators, resellers, service providers and manufacturers in more than 170 countries around the world. AsteriskExchange capitalizes on the popularity of Asterisk, helping ecosystem participants to market their products to the growing Asterisk community.

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Herzlia, Israel, January 19, 2010 – Flash Networks, a global provider of intelligent mobile Internet solutions, announced today that, following successful deployment of its Harmony Traffic Management solution last year, leading Russian CDMA operator SkyLink, has chosen to expand its deployment of Flash Networks’ solutions with an upgraded version of Traffic Management and the addition of the Harmony Web & Optimization solution, both part of the Harmony Mobile Internet Services Gateway.

The Harmony Web & Media Optimization solution provides Skylink with advanced data optimization capabilities, enabling faster and smoother network browsing and reduced network load. Flash Networks’ intelligent Traffic Management solution was implemented last year to enable content-oriented pricing plans that encourage consumers to join the mobile broadband service and at the same time ensure fair bandwidth usage and protect the network from traffic congestion.

“Flash Networks’ data optimization and traffic management capabilities have provided us with more