Service Management Portfolio to Bring Advanced OSS Solutions to Telecom Operators for Triple-play Services

MIAMI – EVOLVE 2009 – November 2, 2009 — Sigma Systems, an industry leader in Advanced IP Service Fulfillment solutions, today announced a global reseller agreement with leading telecom supplier Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) that will provide next-generation order management and fulfillment solutions to telecom operators worldwide. The agreement enables Ericsson to resell Sigma Systems’ Service Management Platform, a carrier-grade platform that allows rapid service creation, advanced order management and automated provisioning, and Sigma’s service management solutions for triple-play—including high-speed data, and IMS-based IPTV and VoIP—to its hundreds of telco customers.

The combination of Ericsson’s extensive expertise in delivering world-class technology, solutions and services to telecom operators and Sigma Systems’ powerful Service Management Portfolio— will bring the following benefits to the Next-Generation Operator (NGO):

• Increased profitability and accelerated time-to-revenue by deploying more

To help users automate expense reporting for cash transactions, Oracle has introduced the Oracle iReceipts® App and integrated it with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses.

Oracle iReceipts allows employees to capture cash transactions on the iPhone and iPod touch as they occur, then easily submit these transactions to Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses.

Oracle iReceipts allows users to capture receipt images with the iPhone Camera rather than having to deal with several paper receipts. The images are then processed as normal within the PeopleSoft Expenses solution. The app can also automatically tag transactions with a user’s location using location based features.

This solution will be available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/ for Oracle customers currently running Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses Release 9.0 and the soon to be released version 9.1.

Key Benefits

With the Oracle iReceipts App users can leverage the innovative more

ASSIA, Inc. Secures $10M in New Financing

Strategic DSL Service Provider Investment to Fuel ASSIA’S Advanced DSM Development

Redwood City, Calif. – November 2, 2009 – ASSIA, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance software tools for Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks, today announced that it has secured $10 million in strategic investment financing. New investors Mingly China Growth Fund and SFR Development joined previous investors Swisscom Ventures, Stanford University, and T-Venture in raising this round. ASSIA has more than 23 million lines under management with top tier service providers in North America and Europe and trials underway on those continents as well as Asia and South America. more

First solution to overcome the installation, operation and performance problems

with dense, overlapping small cell deployments; available now for demonstration

SAN DIEGO –AirHop Communications, a developer of systems software that enables the

deployment of high performance and highly differentiated 4G wireless networks,

today announced eSON (evolved Self-Organized Networking), the first solution

that solves the installation, operation and performance challenges of dense,

small cell deployments for 4G/LTE networks. more

HERNDON, VA–(11/02/09) - RCN Corporation (NASDAQ:RCNI) announced today that RCN Business Services is expanding its data product suite by introducing wideband cable modem offerings through the rollout of DOCSIS 3.0 technology to the Small, Medium Business (SMB) market.

RCN is a leading provider of all-digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium sized business customers, as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers.

RCN Business Services will take advantage of the next generation DOCSIS specification to introduce cable modems that deliver up to three times faster speeds than today’s highest speed services. The company plans to launch in more