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With MAXROAM’s new global data roaming bundles, the message to travelers is clear: ‘Turn your data roaming back on!’
Mountain View, CA – December 5, 2011— Cubic Telecom (www.cubictelecom.com) today launched a new global data SIM card which allows users to travel the world without worrying about the high cost of data roaming or mobile Internet connectivity. The new MAXROAM (www.maxroam.com) card enables U.S. travelers to 44 countries to browse the web, tweet, use Facebook and Skype, or check email on their smart phones and tablets, like they do at home, for only 65 cents per MB with no monthly subscriptions or contract required.
The new global data SIM card rate works across 44 countries including Europe as well as the major global markets of India, Australia, South Africa and South East Asia. The cards are good until the data limit has been reached; there are no time restrictions or more

Paragould, AR, November 2011 - Infotech Enterprises America, Inc. has entered into a new multi-year engineering services agreement with a Tier 1 Telecommunications service provider in North America. The agreement includes OSP planning, survey, engineering, and drafting for multiple disciplines including BAU, FTTP, MDU, DS1, and high bandwidth circuit engineering (DS3 and above) covering each regional service area for the client. Infotech began the work on November 1, 2011 and it will continue over the next three years.

For more information on this service agreement, please contact Chuck Roming at croming@wellscoinc.com.

Infotech Enterprises, with over 20 years of experience, provides leading-edge engineering solutions including product development and life-cycle support, process, network, and content engineering to major organizations worldwide. Our clients span multiple industries such as Aerospace, Consumer, Energy, Medical, Heavy Equipment, HiTech, Transportation, Telecom, and Utilities and include 22 ‘Fortune 500′ and 27 ‘Global 500′ blue chip more

Singapore, December 2, 2011 – For the second time this year RAD Data Communications has won a Best Product Award at a Carrier Ethernet World Congress event.

This latest award, for Best Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Product in Asia-Pacific, was presented at the Carrier Ethernet APAC 2011 in Singapore. The winning product is RAD’s ETX-203A Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Device.

“The ETX-203A stands out among its peers by its incomparable price-performance advantage,” said Amir Karo, Vice President of Marketing at RAD Data Communications. “This is especially relevant in APAC, where, until now, high CapEx has slowed the introduction of premium Carrier Ethernet services.”

The award was determined by a panel of judges from leading industry analyst firms Informa, Infonetics, and Ovum and presented under the auspices of IIR Telecoms & Technology, organizer of the event, and in the presence of the Metro Ethernet Forum.
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The new feature enhances the performance of its native cloud desktop app for iOS devices

DENVER, November 30, 2011 - Cortado, the leading innovator of the business class of cloud desktop services, has expanded its free Cortado Workplace product with a web capture feature for iOS that saves web pages in a PDF format. Cortado Workplace is a free app that provides users with round-the-clock access to files and documents and true mobile cloud printing environments, allowing them to work on the go just as they would with a desktop PC. In the new version, Cortado Workplace enables iOS users to save and encrypt web pages locally as a PDF, access them offline, archive, send per email or print.

In situations when users know they won’t have coverage, such as with boarding a flight or while traveling, the new web capture feature allows them to save web more

Ranked as number 31 marks five years of exponential sales growth for Dispersion Compensation Module leader Kista, Sweden – November 29, 2011 – Proximion Fiber Systems AB, a leader in Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG)-based Dispersion Compensation Modules (DCMs), today announced that for the third consecutive year, the company was ranked among the Technology Fast 500™ EMEA companies. This year, Proximion ranked as number 31 in Deloitte’s prestigious annual ranking of the fastest-growing public and private technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and clean technology companies in the EMEA region. The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 recognizes technology companies that have achieved the fastest rates of revenue growth in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) during the past five years. Fast 500 companies—large, small, public and private—span a variety of industry sectors, and are leaders in hardware, software, telecom, semiconductors, Internet, media and entertainment, life sciences and emerging areas, such as clean technology. The 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

Allows IP-PBXs to Securely Connect with Microsoft Exchange Online UM

STOCKHOLM – November 29, 2011 – Ingate® Systems, a leading provider of Enterprise Session Border Controllers (E-SBCs) that enable SIP communications such as SIP trunking and Unified Communications beyond the protected enterprise network, announced today that the Ingate SIParator® E-SBC has completed successful interoperability testing with Microsoft Exchange Online Unified Messaging (UM), which delivers Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools in the cloud.

With the SIParator, any IP-PBX or VoIP gateway listed in the Microsoft Exchange 2010 Telephony Advisor can successfully connect with Exchange Online UM, enabling the secure use of the Microsoft Office suite of applications hosted on Microsoft Office 365. Information on the SIParator’s configuration with Exchange Online UM can be found on the Exchange Online Website.

“Exchange 2010 helps organizations of all sizes lower IT costs, boost user productivity and better manage risk,” said more

MAHWAH, New Jersey, November 29, 2011 – Dr. Yaakov (Jonathan) Stein has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at RAD Data Communications.

Dr. Stein has served as RAD’s Chief Scientist since coming to the company in 1999. In his new role as CTO, his responsibilities will include analysis of relevant technology trends, steering RAD’s participation in standardization forums, supervising IPR issues, research cooperation with academia, and special research projects.

Dr. Stein has authored numerous academic papers, standardization contributions, and patent applications. He has chaired and given invited lectures at international conferences and is an active participant in several telecommunication industry standardization forums. He has co-authored and contributed to many IETF RFCs, ITU-T Recommendations and MPLS Forum (now Broadband Forum) Implementation Agreements. He presently co-chairs the IETF’s Timing over IP Connection and Transfer of Clock (TICTOC) working group. His book, Digital Signal Processing – A Computer more

Multi-screen technology innovator partners with the leading cloud platform to enable TV without boundaries

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, November 22, 2011 – Envivio Inc., a leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, today announced its membership in Akamai’s NetAlliance Partner Program, which was recently expanded to cover the Akamai Digital Media ecosystem. Envivio’s software-based 4Caster™ appliances perform a variety of functions—including encoding, transcoding, packaging, encryption and publishing—that enable digital content providers to implement a converged headend for delivery of video to any screen, anytime, anywhere via Akamai’s leading cloud platform.

Envivio’s membership in Akamai’s NetAlliance Partner Program and close collaboration with Akamai means that digital media companies can benefit from optimized workflows and tools, ultimately providing their end-users with superior quality video services and high reliability. Envivio encoders are fully certified and compliant with the Akamai HD Network for HTTP streaming formats including more

November 22, 2011 – Westford, MA – Aylus Networks™, the leading provider of infrastructure software for enabling video communication services over mobile and between network-based and OTT video calling services, announced today that they have appointed Prakash Iyer VP of Products. Prakash Iyer brings to Aylus Networks almost 20 years of experience in mobile, digital media, Internet and telecom technologies, as well as the management of local and remote engineering teams.

“We are pleased to welcome Prakash to our management team,” said Mark Edwards, CEO of Aylus Networks. “Prakash has a very strong background in developing highly scalable and high-availability switching software, as well as mobile software for client and server solutions. His expertise in product development will be a great asset as we expand our suite of highly monetizable solutions for mobile operators and deliver interoperable video calling between disparate services.”

Prior to joining Aylus Networks, more