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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…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Net Insight, a leading provider of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, has delivered the Nimbra platform to Velister Ltd, the commercial DVB-T operator in Cyprus for a new all-IP DTT network.

Velister Ltd, a private broadcast operator in Cyprus selects Net Insight for a new all-IP Digital Terrestrial network. The network covers the whole of Cyprus and has been live since the 1st July 2011.

The DTT network carries three MUXes and consists of end-to-end provisioning, full-path protection architecture with multiple levels of redundancy from the head-end site to the individual transmitter sites. The network provides both contribution and distribution services based on the Nimbra platform, including the network management system, Nimbra Vision.

This order was won in partnership with Net Insight’s partner in Cyprus J&D Dynamic in June.

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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…

ELLIPTIC TECHNOLOGIES FIRST TO MARKET WITH HDCP 2.1 COMPLIANT CONTENT PROTECTION SOLUTIONS

Important Development in the “Connected Consumer” Era

November 30, 2011 – Ottawa, Canada: Elliptic Technologies, a global leader in security IP and content protection solutions has announced the release of its HDCP 2.1 Software Development Kit (SDK). The software suite is the first commercially available solution in the market that complies with the recently released standard HDCP 2.1 or High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection 2.1, a key security technology used to protect premium content.

The digital media market is booming and the demand for robust solutions to protect high-value content continues to increase. Elliptic is at the forefront of the security technology with a comprehensive portfolio of highly integrated DRM and content protection solutions which have been delivered to lead customers worldwide.

The Elliptic HDCP 2.1 SDK is a complete and cost-effective content protection solution 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…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Net Insight, a leading provider of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, today announces that its network of business partners and resellers has been extended with Brilliantel in South Africa.

Brilliantel, based in South Africa is a new premium partner for Net Insight to handle media business in the telco and network enterprises market. Brilliantel offers superior systems integration and maintanance for various ICT Products and Services. Brilliantel boast many years of proven success in rapid deployment and providing customers with best-of-breed technology integration solutions. The customer base spans from mobile and fixed line operators to goverment agencies and corporate clients and has resulted in proven expertise and unrivalled industry understanding.

“Brilliantel partners with global companies who are leaders in their fields to offer comprehensive integrated solutions that increase our clients’ productivity and Return On Investment (ROI).We have invested heavily more…