Zeugma Systems, a supplier of open telecommunications solutions for broadband service providers (BSPs), today released a software development kit (SDK) for its flagship product, the Zeugma Services Node (ZSN). The SDK leverages the scalable and fully federated compute grid which is inherent to the ZSN, allowing service providers and third parties to quickly and easily develop custom applications capable of running directly within the ZSN. This capability provides visibility and control over network resources heretofore not possible in a carrier-grade broadband aggregation, subscriber management, and edge routing device.

The Zeugma SDK provides APIs that give applications direct access to the subscriber management, routing, traffic management, and compute capabilities within the ZSN. Using these APIs, applications can “push” rules down into the data plane, instructing deep session inspection (DSI) technology to copy or intercept certain traffic flows up to the application for analysis and processing. Applications are also able more

Eighteen percent of adults in the UK with a mobile phone would be interested in a mobile VoIP service offered by their mobile phone operator, and 11 percent of people who have downloaded a VoIP application onto their mobile phone use it daily, according to a YouGov omnibus survey of 2,255 adults in the UK. The survey was commissioned by Kineto Wireless, Inc., the key innovator and leading supplier of solutions that enable delivery of mobile services over broadband.

Additional highlights from the online survey conducted Aug. 28 - Sept. 1, 2009, include:

— 39 percent who have downloaded a mobile VoIP application use it for low-cost international calling; 19 percent use it to bypass international roaming charges when traveling.

— Of the respondents who have downloaded a VoIP application, 11 percent of people living in London have downloaded VoIP, the largest metropolitan area included in the survey.

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Nominum, the leader in intelligent network naming and addressing today announced that it has extended its business through a new and independent business unit called SKYEâ„¢. SKYE offers a suite of cloud-based services to address infrastructure and new service needs, such as web services that connect to and augment Nominum’s installed base of Intelligent DNS systems worldwide, and provide enhanced navigation, safety, and security for end-user subscribers. SKYE also makes Nominum’s Intelligent DNS available to new markets by delivering fast, secure, and reliable hosted DNS services via a cloud infrastructure based on the same software currently serving over 170 million broadband households.

“DNS has evolved from a simple name resolution protocol to a policy-based system that provides essential availability, auditing and security services for the entire ecosystem of web-based applications,” said Eric Ogren, principal analyst at the Ogren Group. “Since the first step of any Internet request is more