DASH CARRIER SERVICES AND VIXXI SOLUTIONS MERGE ASSETS

Combined Entity Emerges as Wholesale Carrier and Emergency Services Leader

Denver (November 3, 2009) – Dash Carrier Services (DASH), the leading provider of wholesale carrier products and services, and VIXXI Solutions, today announced an agreement through which the companies will merge assets and become a single-entity provider of Wholesale Carrier and Emergency Services under Dash Carrier Services.

Under the terms of this agreement, more

Japanese optical fibre giant in search of medical equipment partner to champion fight against infection

Fujikura – world leading optical fibre manufacturer - comes to next month’s Compamed exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany (18 – 20 November) with a mission to find a medical equipment manufacturing partner to develop synergies incorporating low-cost, single-use imaging devices in a bid to help reduce the spread of infection in hospitals throughout the world.

Fujikura’s Applied Optics Division, which focuses on medical sector applications, is looking to increase and enhance the range of single-use devices available to the medical sector by developing products in partnership with medical equipment manufacturers. It is at Compamed in Hall 08A (stand P20).

“There is undoubtedly a growing interest and increasing demand for single-use imaging medical devices because they remove any potential risk of patient cross contamination when autoclave sterilisation of a product is not possible,” said Robert Walker, Fujikura more

Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire DVN Set-Top Box Business

Acquisition Furthers Cisco’s Vision of the Global Connected Home

SAN JOSE, CA and SHANGHAI, CHINA and HONG KONG, Nov 02, 2009 — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the set-top box business of DVN (Holdings) Limited (SEHK: 0500). Listed in Hong Kong with major operations in China, DVN is a market and technology leader in digital cable solutions in China and shares Cisco’s vision of a high-performance, scalable and services-rich cable interactive platform extending into every home. more

Windstream to acquire NuVox

• Advances strategy to grow broadband and business revenues, which will represent more than half of total revenue after the transaction closes

• Drives free cash flow accretion in first full year through $30 million in annual expense and capital savings and lowers dividend payout ratio

• Adds approximately 90,000 business customers in complementary markets in 16 states across the Southeast and Midwest

Release date: Nov. 3, 2009

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Windstream Corporation (NYSE: WIN) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NuVox, Inc., a privately held competitive local exchange carrier based in Greenville, S.C., in a transaction valued at approximately $643 million. more

EQUINIX ANNOUNCES INITIAL CARRIERS PARTICIPATING IN ETHERNET EXCHANGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

AboveNet, Exponential-e, Hibernia Atlantic, Level 3, PCCW Global, Reliance Globalcom and Tinet Are Early Participants in First Carrier-Neutral Ethernet Exchange

New York, NY – November 3, 2009 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced AboveNet, Exponential-e, Hibernia Atlantic, Level 3, PCCW Global, Reliance Globalcom and Tinet, among others, as initial participants in the recently announced Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange platform, a development program to define enhanced solutions for the exchange of data traffic between carriers providing Ethernet services. more

Nokia Siemens Networks targets improved financial performance, return to growth

Company sets goal to reduce annualized operating expenses and production overheads by €500 million by end 2011 compared to end 2009

Nokia Siemens Networks today announced its plan to improve financial performance and return to growth. The plan includes reorganizing the company’s business units to better align with customer needs; extensive operating expense and production overhead reduction, including a global personnel review; ongoing purchasing savings; expanded partnering to ensure a full portfolio of world-class products and services; and potential acquisitions where assets would add scale to existing product areas or customer relationships. more

CENX OPENS WORLD’S FIRST CARRIER ETHERNET EXCHANGES

IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO

Creators of “Carrier Ethernet” & MEF to streamline Carrier Ethernet Global interconnect

NEW YORK (November 3, 2009) – CENX, Inc. (Carrier Ethernet Neutral eXchange) today announced the world’s first three Carrier Ethernet Exchanges in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago are open for business. Carrier neutral, co-location/data-center neutral, the CENX Carrier Ethernet Exchanges are accelerating the growth of the Carrier Ethernet market to projected $39b worldwide. Years in the making, CENX innovations address overwhelming technical and business issues that exist around Carrier Ethernet interconnection, and now make interconnect in Days not months. more

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