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Retailer’s One Week Savings Event Offers $100 Gift Card with Purchase of any BlackBerry(R) Device and Two-year Contract

BENTONVILLE, Ark., Nov. 11 — In another round of its promised weekly efforts to save shoppers more on holiday purchases this fall, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) announced today a one-week offer* starting Saturday Nov. 14 on its full assortment of BlackBerry devices from all four major carriers: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. With the purchase of any BlackBerry at Walmart Wireless and two-year contract from these major carriers, shoppers will receive a $100 Walmart Gift Card at purchase to use on a later transaction on anything in the store, adding more spending “money” to consumer wallets on anything Walmart carries. more

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Jessica Schafer (NTIA) 202-482-5670

Bartel Kendrick (USDA) 202-379-8400

NTIA AND RUS STREAMLINE PROGRAMS TO BRING BROADBAND, JOBS TO MORE AMERICANS

Agencies Plan to Consolidate Final Two Funding Rounds, Seek Comment on Program Enhancements

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2009 - The USDA’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced they are streamlining the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s broadband grant and loan programs by awarding the remaining funding in just one more round, instead of two rounds, to increase efficiency and better accommodate applicants. more

Black Box Network Services Partners with CoreDial to Offer Hosted Voice over IP Solutions

PITTSBURGH — Black Box Network Services has announced a strategic business relationship with CoreDial, LLC. The agreement allows Black Box Network Services to resell CoreDial’s hosted Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions to enterprise customers. more

MAHWAH, New Jersey, November 10, 2009 – RAD Data Communications, Inc., the North American subsidiary of RAD Data Communications Ltd., has announced the release of software version 2.3 for its high-capacity Airmux-400 broadband wireless multiplexer. While still offering up to 50 Mbps full-duplex throughput of Ethernet and/or up to 16 T1s in a variety of unlicensed bands (plus the 4.9 Ghz public safety band), version 2.3 of the Airmux-400 includes a quartet of important new features: a new spectrum view tool, hub site synchronization (HSS) capabilities, support for monitored hot standby (MHS), and the option to select between Diversity and MIMO antenna modes.

All new Airmux-400 orders will ship with version 2.3 at the same price of the previous version 2.1, and existing Airmux-400 customers can also acquire it as an add-on via a free software upgrade.

“By adding these four more

Storage Leader Turns to Fanfare for Strategic Testing Platform to Accelerate Product Development Lifecycle

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—November 10, 2009—Fanfare, delivering innovative testing solutions to service providers (SPs), network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), and enterprises, today announced that Pillar Data Systems has selected Fanfare’s iTest®, the company’s flagship test automation software, to automate the company’s end-to-end testing process. iTest will also be used to standardize the communication across teams.

Pillar Data Systems, which develops industry-leading, application-aware storage systems for mid-size and enterprise organizations, will replace its three, disparate automation solutions with iTest. iTest will provide a common platform from which test assets can be communicated across the developer chain for more effective documentation, test reproduction and defect resolution. Test cases can now be reused and referenced at any point during a product’s testing cycle. iTest will also eliminate the time-intensive process of manually recreating testbeds.

“Streamlining more

Today Oracle, in partnership with United Kingdom-based trends consulting group The Future Laboratory, launched the results of the “Capitalizing on the Digital Age” study, which explores how the digital world changes consumer behavior and the challenges that it will present for communications and media companies in the future.

Drawing from a panel of global experts – including Martin Lindstrom, author of Buyology; Hugh Garry from BBC Radio 1 Interactive and Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford – the study explored how current and emerging social, cultural, economic and technological forces would impact the future business models of communications and media companies.

The panel assessed influences such as the rise of “freemium” services, the increasing professionalism of the creative consumer, and technological advances such as semantic search to build a picture of consumers’ media consumption in the next five to more

Zeugma and Skitter Partner to Ensure High-Quality TV Services Over Broadband Connections

Joint Solution Enables Broadband Operators to Deliver IPTV-like Video Diversity and Quality at a Fraction of the Cost

TelcoTV 2009

Booths #315 & #945

ORLANDO, Fla.– Zeugma Systems and Skitter, Inc., today announced a partnership whereby broadband service providers can employ the combined solution to deliver a wide variety of live off-air broadcast TV over existing broadband facilities with guaranteed quality of service. Coupled with on-demand video content, the solution enables broadband operators to deploy compelling entertainment services at a fraction of the cost of traditional IPTV. more

Modular, extensible E7 introduces flexible new high-capacity option to Calix Unified Access portfolio

November 9, 2009, ORLANDO, FL (TelcoTV)— Calix, the largest communications equipment supplier focused solely on access solutions for broadband service delivery, today unveiled a revolutionary new approach to access networks: the E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP), a modular, chassis-based pure Ethernet platform architected for carrier class performance, deployment flexibility and management simplicity. Marrying an advanced 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) backplane with a one rack unit (RU), two slot chassis, the E7 can deploy any mix of GPON, point-to-point gigabit Ethernet (GE) or Active Ethernet (AE), and 10GE transport for business and residential services, allowing communications service providers (CSPs) to combine multiple E7 platforms as a single, manageable network element.

The E7 is a highly extensible standards-based, Ethernet platform that offers CSPs the flexibility needed to address the bandwidth more