Press Releases by Category Media & Telecommunications
Colocation America Announces Reliability Based on Highest Standards for Both Emp …
Los Angeles, CA (PRESS RELEASE) April 20, 2010 – Colocation America, a leading colocation server hosting company, announced today its rigorous standards for the employees they hire, the service partners they join, and the software and hardware they use in their data center locations. The company-wide standards ensure utmost reliability for all colocation, management, and consulting services Colocation America provides.
“Knowing that we – and our colocation customers – can rely…
Infiniti Research: Location Based Services Market in America 2008-2012 on report …
Location Based Services (LBS) applications leverage the user's physical location by providing services such as navigation & mapping of points of interests, weather information, tracking field force, etc.
Being in its early stage of development, the LBS market in America is undergoing a rapid transformation; mainly driven by navigation and family safety solutions.
According to TechNavio, the LBS market in America is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 43.1 percent over…
3CX receives Unified Communications Magazine 2009 Product of the Year Award
3CX Phone System for Windows Recognized for Exceptional Innovation
London, April 20 — 3CX announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®) has named 3CX Phone System for Windows as a recipient of its 2009 Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award.
Nick Galea, CEO, 3CX says “3CX excels at building an easy to use and easy to manage unified communications platform for any size business. We are delighted that the 3CX…
Astellia strides into the Middle East mobile broadband market
Rennes, France – April 19, 2010, Astellia, leading provider of monitoring solutions for the optimization of mobile network QoS and performance today announces four new contracts with major mobile operators and equipment vendors in the Middle East. With these new deals, Astellia strengthens its position in this highly influential region where it has been operating since 2006.
Astellia will provide its probe-based monitoring solution for the optimization of a new 3G…
Vision Experts and Mabeg Systems develop a solution for automatic carton sorting
Karlsruhe, April 19, 2010 - Vision Experts from Karlsruhe, Germany and Mabeg Systems from Mörfelden-Walldorf near Darmstadt, Germany have decided to collaborate in the field of automatic carton sorting.
The initial outcome of the cooperation was the integration of the Vision Expert 4000 Carton print inspection system into the Modular Blank Inspector by Mabeg Systems. The solution that emerged has been designed for manufacturers of cartons and cigarette packets, who…
Polystar joins Network Test Automation Forum
Polystar T&M, a major supplier of testing solutions to operators and mobile network manufacturers, announced today that it is joining the newly formed Network Test Automation Forum (NTAF). NTAF is an industry-driven forum consisting of service providers, network equipment manufacturers and test equipment vendors, working together to facilitate and promote the interoperability of commercial testing tools and test infrastructure for the data communications and telecommunications industry.
“NTAF is definitely a step…
mitcaps migrates WAN infrastructure of Messer in record time
After only 62 days project migration Messer works successfully on a new wide area network infrastructure.
The German Virtual Network Operator (VNO) mitcaps GmbH has achieved a new record in integrating and optimizing customer WAN-networks. The customer Messer Information Services (MIS) asked mitcaps to migrate 93 connections, 78 hardware-CPE’s in worldwide 54 Messer Group sites in less than 70 days. Mission accomplished was confirmed in only 62 days. In this context,…
Appia Continues Expansion, Hires New Regional Manager for Southwest US
VoIP veteran Rob Johnson will serve a growing base of Appia customers and channel partners in southern California and nearby states.
LOS ANGELES – April 14, 2010 – Appia Communications announced today that Rob Johnson has joined the company as Regional Manager for the Southwest U.S.
Appia, a nationwide provider of managed communication and networking services, began expanding its West Coast operations late last year. Based in Los Angeles, Johnson will serve…
Block 37 & Daktronics Video Displays Unite for Powerful Visual Advertising Impac …
BROOKINGS, S.D. – April 12, 2010 — Chicago’s Block 37 recently contracted and purchased four LED video displays from Daktronics, Inc. (NASDAQ-DAKT), the world’s leading manufacturer of LED displays. Bordered by State, Randolph, Dearborn and Washington Streets, Block 37 features a world-class collection of shopping, dining and entertainment unlike anywhere else in Chicago.
The new Daktronics-manufactured LED video displays are situated in the five-story atrium located inside Center Court of…
Dataxis predicts Mobile penetration to reach over 75% of Africa’s population by …
Africa, one of the fastest growing markets in mobile communications in the recent years is on track to maintain this key position at least for the next coming five years.
As a matter of fact, according to Dataxis Intelligence latest forecasts on the evolution of mobile telephony adoption worldwide, Africa emerges as a land of better future prospectives with its expected double digit growth rates for the forthcoming years.
As shown on…
Advantech Introduces Record Density DSP ATCA Blade
22 Texas Instruments’ DSPs provide industry’s most powerful DSP farm for voice and video processing
Advantech, a global manufacturer of telecom computing blades and multicore network platforms, announced a new addition to its growing ATCA product range with the introduction of its MIC-5701E ATCA DSP blade (previously codenamed Tomcat) based on Texas Instruments’ (TI’s) TMS320TCI6486 6-core DSP. The blade is the first in a series of Advantech DSP products which…
Monetizing the value of CSPs network assets
Orga Systems presents real-time solutions at NGT Europe Summit 2010
Paderborn (Germany), 13 April 2010: An upswing in the market share of smart devices, along with an increase in applications will drive yearly app revenues from US$1.94 billion (2009) to US$15.65 billion in 2013. Due to the increase in usage of mobile data services, network load becomes an ever concerning problem for CSPs. Orga Systems, #1 choice in real-time charging and…
Alteva COO to Speak on Disaster Recovery at Annual ACUTA Conference
PHILADELPHIA, PA – April 12, 2010 – Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, today announced that COO David Cuthbert will speak at the 39th Annual ACUTA Conference & Exhibition (April 18-21) in San Antonio, Texas. Cuthbert will speak on the topic of, “Considering a Hosted IP PBX for Disaster Recovery,” on Monday, April 19th, 1:15-2:15pm.
According to a survey by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), 65 percent of businesses…
A&O Middle East supplied FALCONs for opening of a new Monument in Bahrain
In Sakhir, Bahrain the Bahrain National Charter Monument was inaugurated at a Royal ceremony marking the anniversary of the National Action Charter on 14 February. This significant occasion took place on the museum site which is set up in an amphitheatre style. Pico International (Bahrain) was responsible for the event concept, design, implementation and show production including the multimedia and lighting design, which marked the celebratory opening ceremony of one…
Portuguese TV market stabilizes in 2009
Overall Portuguese TV market remained flat in 2009, as the decrease in free TV revenues was offset by a growth in the pay TV market.
Portugal free TV market recorded a 4% year-over-year decrease in 2009, reaching €490 mln at the end of the year. However, Q4 results may indicate that the advertising market in Portugal is on its way to recovery, as free TV revenues increased 6% during the last…
Mobile penetration to reach 130% of population in Middle East by 2015
Dataxis Intelligence, the leading market research company in communications industry has recently released data of its latest forecasts for regional mobile telecommunications markets. It comes out that Middle East, which is one of the most penetrated markets on a regional basis is still a land of great potential growth for the forthcoming five years.
While the mobile penetration was at 53% of the population in 2005, it stood at 88% at…
Real-time policy control – way out of increasing data traffic and shrinking reve …
Orga Systems enables mobile operators to maximize data revenues
Paderborn (Germany), 06 April 2010: The number of smartphone users is growing steadily and thus data traffic is growing as well. Video and gaming applications as well as social networks are ranked top in smart devices usage. For service providers, the increase in data traffic is not just a problem but can also be an opportunity. Orga Systems’ solutions applying dynamic policy…
Integration of NEC Active Voice Division into AVST Strengthens Unified Communica …
FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. and IRVING, Texas, April 5, 2010 – Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) and NEC Corporation of America (NEC) today announced a long-term strategic technology relationship including the integration of Active Voice, a division of NEC, into AVST. In addition to seamlessly integrating AVST’s CallXpress® Unified Communications (UC) platform with NEC’s world class IP telephony and UC solutions, AVST will continue to manufacture, support and…
Virgin Media chooses Pixelmetrix Electronic Couch Potato™ (ECP) to monitor its d …
Pixelmetrix, the global expert in Preventive Monitoring for digital television and IPTV networks, has signed an agreement with Virgin Media to roll out the Pixelmetrix Electronic Couch Potato™ (ECP) across its digital TV network.
The ECP is a programmable test robot that monitors true customer viewing experience by providing measurements from the end point of the content delivery chain. The Automated Channel Package Auditing feature of the ECP proved effective for quality assurance and monitoring of…
Polystar is launching Solver LTE
This spring Polystar T&M will release Solver LTE, a high-performance test tool for load and functional tests of the EPC (Evolved Packet Core) in LTE networks. Solver LTE will share the same outstanding features that have made Solver a leading test tool for mobile systems:
• Rapid installation
• Low cost per session
• Ease of use
• Small footprint
Solver LTE is the first component in a suite of test tools for packet-based services.…
TELES VoIPBOX GSM brings FMC hub functionality to SMEs
TELES, the Berlin based Next Generation Networks and Access Gateway vendor, has advanced its range of successful gateways with new telephony interfaces and expanded features. The enhanced VoIPBOX GSM gateway represents a highly flexible and fully FMC and Unified Communications compatible solution for integrating home and mobile workers into a softPBX or legacy PBX system.
Apart from its use as backup to existing infrastructure or as a landline replacement alternative, the…
DeutschlandAnrufen.com Lowers Rates on Easter
DeutschlandAnrufen.com is happy to announce a rate decrease for all calls to land lines in Germany. Starting today its customers can enjoy a new rate of 1.5¢ instead of 1.8¢. As Easter is near, everyone wants to spend more time with their families and friends. DeutschlandAnrufen.com provides an even more affordable service so that its customers can talk more with their loved ones.
One of the main goals of DeutschlandAnrufen.com is…
Polish TV market falls 22% in 2009
Overall Polish TV market saw a mitigated growth in 2009, as the collapse of free TV revenues was offset by a stabilization in the pay TV market.
In 2009, Polish pay TV revenues remained steady, reaching €945 mln at the end of the year, down from €950 mln in 2008, according to Dataxis Intelligence’s latest market data.
Pay TV revenues totaled 253 mln in Q4. Digital Satellite accounted for 70% of…
Jerasoft Development will be participating at the ITW 2010
Jerasoft Development is exhibiting the advantages of the latest software release – new VoIP billing system BillBery 3.0.5 at the International Telecoms Week (ITW) 2010 in Washington, DC, USA, on May 24-26th 2010 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
Jerasoft Development is pleased to announce their exhibition presence at the bilateral table C57 located in Hall C, Exhibit Level at ITW 2010, taking place in Washington DC on 24 - 26…
Challenges for future mobile markets
Orga Systems shows its view on future mobile markets at NGT MENA Summit
Paderborn (Germany), 30 March 2010: The need for sustainable growth will in the future not be met by more subscribers, but by increase of connections. This is due to today’s telecom markets experiencing fundamental changes. Data services and multimedia content will be the growth drivers in saturated markets like MENA. Real-time rating, charging and policy control can create…
Europe broke the 1 Billion mobile subscriptions milestone in 2009
Europe, one of the most advanced mobile communications markets in terms of technology deployment and services offered, has closed 2009 with more than a billion mobile telephony subscribers (SIM cards) according to Dataxis Intelligence last updates.
In fact, as the chart below shows it, the old continent, despite being a mature market with currently a penetration rate of 123% of the population- meaning virtually that every European has access to mobile…
Telepresence Consultancy Human Productivity Lab (HPL) expands to Europe
ASHBURN, VIRGINIA – March 29, 2010– The Human Productivity Lab (HPL), the world’s leading independent telepresence analysis, research and consultancy firm, today announced an expansion to Europe and the appointment of Thomas Kayser as Managing Director of the Human Productivity Lab’s EMEA Consulting Practice. The Lab also announced the launch of a new website in German and an update to their English language website.
Mr. Kayser has worked…
Poland added 1 million DTH subscribers in 2009
DTH market in Poland reached 5.694 million subscribers according to Dataxis Intelligence. There are 4 satellite operators : Polsat, Cyfra+, TVN and Orange. Polsat is leading this market with 3.202 million subscribers, followed by Cyfra+ (1.54 million), TVN (692.000) and Orange (260.000).
About 1 million subscribers were added in 2009, it represents a growth of 18.4% YoY. The last quarter of 2009 was a significant quarter in terms of subscriptions, satellite…
MOST150 Now Allows Safety Critical Applications
Driver Assist Applications to Be Included in MOST Network
Karlsruhe (Germany) March 23, 2010 - The MOST Cooperation welcomes the latest research results proving that MOST150 is ready to support safety-critical applications and may be available as the future network for driver assistance systems. By supporting the new domain of driver assist, the latest MOST Technology completes the major fields of in-car uses such as entertainment, information, mobile connectivity, and connected…
Polystar gave NSN Tunisia the all-clear
NSN Tunisia contacted Polystar when they needed help to verify their network’s performance towards a customer. They hired a traffic simulator from Polystar and ran tests to check the quality of their service. By using Solver, Polystar’s load and stress testing tool, NSN Tunisia could assure their customer that the network would work perfectly fine when running real traffic.
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Mobile broadband subscriptions experiencing an outstanding growth in Ireland
Since their launch in early 2007 by the country’s mobile network operators, Mobile broadband services have been experiencing an outstanding growth due to their increasing adoption by customers both businesses and residential. As a matter of fact, the number of customers using these services has more than quadrupled in the last two years according to Dataxis Intelligence last updates.
Mobile broadband subscribers rose from 110 thousands in 2007-end to nearly 467…
Portuguese Digital Pay TV market in 2009
Digital Pay TV market reached 1.823 million subscribers in 2009. The market is led by Zon Multimedia with 1.09 million subscribers split in Cable and DTH subscribers. It represents about 60% of the digital market.
The total market’s quarterly growth of 7.6% is driven by IPTV that ontinues to increase and added 65.500 subscribers in the last quarter (+18.7% QoQ). IPTV subscriber base approaches that of DTH and will probably exceed…
Frankfurt Music Fair 2010: Friedemann Tischmeyer is excited about using the Line …
After a long search mastering engineer, worldwide respected textbook author and successful lecturer Friedemann Tischmeyer who is booked by the most demanding clientele has finally found the headphone amplifier of his choice: the Linear Pro from Lehmannaudio. The Californian by adoption is particularly enthusiastic about the absence of artefacts and the relaxed listening even over prolonged working hours. Tischmeyer on the device: „The Linear ist phenomenal – a whole new…
Customer-Driven Applied Research targeting Qatar and the Gulf Region
The QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC) Collaborates with Orga Systems
Paderborn (Germany), Doha (Qatar), 23 March 2010: The QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC), and Orga Systems, #1 choice for real- time charging and billing, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreement to collaborate in wireless R&D activities targeting Qatar and the Gulf Region. QUWIC has chosen Orga Systems as a partner because it believes that Orga Systems’…
AVST Showcases CallXpress 8 at VoiceCon Orlando
Demonstrates Powerful Unified Communications Solution; Highlights Interoperability, Productivity and Resiliency
ORLANDO, Fla., March 22, 2010 – This week at VoiceCon® Orlando 2010, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), a leading developer of communications solutions, will be showcasing its flagship Unified Communications (UC) platform, CallXpress® 8. AVST can be located in booth #737 on the show floor at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center. In addition, AVST Chief Technology…
Argentina Music Sales reverse their trend of positive growth
Argentina music revenues have seen a slowing yet positive growth during the past few years. However, sales of CDs and Music DVDs reached a turning point in 2008 by recording a negative growth for the first time ever.
Sales decreased to 363.872 million Argentina Pesos ( $US94,291 million) in 2008, down from 374.794 million Pesos in 2007 (i.e -3% yoy) and 350.823 million Pesos in 2006 (i.e +7% yoy).
According to Dataxis…
Increase in SGS GS certifications through economical downturn
After starting back in 2005 with one GS certification awarded, the SGS Fimko division and its GS certifiers located in Europe and Asia registered, over three years, a remarkable increase in the number of companies applying for the GS certificate. This culminated at the end of 2009 with over 1,000 certificates granted in a single year.
Out of these, almost 90% were awarded to companies from the household appliance industry,…
Jerasoft announces Mobile Number Portability support in Billbery 3.0 VoIP Billin …
Jerasoft Development is pleased to announce the upcoming support for Mobile number portability (MNP) in Billbery 3.0 VoIP billing system release. New MNP feature release will be presented on Marсh 20th.
MNP is the great feature that allows the subscribers to retain their existing mobile phone number when they move from one access provider to another or from one cellular mobile technology to another within same access provider service area.…
Mobile phone users almost doubled during the last two years in Senegal
According to Dataxis Intelligence last updates, Senegal one of west African most dynamic mobile communications market, has closed 2009 with more than 6.9 million SIM cards users, which represents an uptake of 28% compared to 2008 level (see chart below). More interesting to notice is the fact that the country’s mobile market has been experiencing a substantial growth since 2007 leading the number of subscribers to nearly double up from…
Simfonics Selects LogNet Systems for MVNO Enabling Platform
MaxBill product suite to be deployed for pan-European operation
Yoqneam, Israel (March 17, 2010) – LogNet Systems, a global provider of customer management and billing solutions for multiple play service providers, today announced that the company has been selected to deploy its MaxBill product suite for Simfonics, a pan-European Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) offering a full managed service business model and service delivery platform.
The deployment of MaxBill will improve…
Colocation America Names Shawn Jacobs as New Marketing Director
Los Angeles, CA (PRESS RELEASE) March 16, 2010 – Colocation America, a leading colocation server hosting company, announced today its appointment of Shawn Jacobs as marketing director. Jacobs has shared his expertise with Colocation America since its founding in 2000, immersing himself in colocation hosting services and establishing Colocation America as a leading colocation server hosting company.
“Shawn’s high degree of experience and knowledge regarding the unique needs of the hosting…
Comarch Completes the Implementation of Comarch’s Field Service Management solut …
At the end of 2009, WildBlue Communications, Inc., a leading high-speed satellite Internet service provider, signed a master technology and services agreement with Comarch, Inc.
Comarch has now completed deployment of the Field Service Management (FSM) solution. The FSM solution is designed to efficiently manage the end-to-end work order fulfillment process, from initial scheduling and dispatch, through onsite work and final completion. The Comarch FSM implementation for WildBlue is a…
Cutting-Edge Logistic Services based on the Software-as-a-Service Principle
Orga Systems enables personalized services in real time
Paderborn (Germany), 16 March 2010: Orga Systems, #1 choice for charging and billing, is significantly contributing to EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr. This cluster has won the top-level cluster competition of the German Federal Government and will thus receive public funds to the amount of approximately 40 M Euro over the coming five years. The objective of the cluster is to achieve future challenges on…
Advantech Delivers 6 and 12 Core ATCA Blades based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor …
Advantech, a global manufacturer of telecom computing blades and multi-core network platforms, announced its single and dual processor ATCA blades based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series that Intel is introducing today.
The MIC-5320 and MIC-5322 AdvancedTCA Blades with 10GbE connectivity combine single or dual processor computing performance with high-speed I/O flexibility in power efficient designs for Network Equipment Providers (NEPs). Several Tier-1 NEPs have been developing and deploying both…
Advantech 10GbE OEM-Ready Appliance Ships with Dual Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 …
Advantech, a global manufacturer of telecom computing blades and multi-core network platforms announced first shipments of its FWA-6500 dual processor appliance based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series which Intel is introducing today.
The FWA-6500 features dual processor computing performance for high-speed modular I/O processing of multiple GbE and 10GbE links. Purpose built for high-end network security and packet processing applications, the system takes advantage of the Intel® AES New…
Morocco faces a collapsing Cinema Market
Moroccan cinema market has been suffering a severe decline during the past years. Box office revenues were nearly reduced by half in less than 10 years. In 2009, cinema revenues reached barely 68mln DH ($US 8.32 million dollars), down from 117mln DH ($US 14.32 million) in 2001, according to Dataxis Intelligence’s market data.
With movie admission reaching less than 2.6mln in 2009 (down 19% from a year earlier) and a population…
Media award 2010 for pedagogic valuable movies
“Special pedagogic award” of the KdL goes to three movies in 2010, application of the material in all ranges of the educational work, national film services takes over distribution
The media award 2010 – distributed by the Conference of National film service (KdL) – share three winners this year. Within the scope of the film competition "The Golden City-Gate", on the stage of the ITB Cinema during the international tourism…
Punchkick Interactive Launches Full-Featured Mobile-Web Site for ASPCA
CHICAGO, IL – Punchkick Interactive®, a Chicago-based mobile marketing firm, today announced the launch of the mobile Web site for the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®). The site delivers a full-fledged mobile experience by allowing users to search pet shelters, browse profiles for cats and dogs available for adoption, make donations directly to the ASPCA, and learn how to recognize and report animal cruelty.…
Swiss Digital Pay TV market in 2009
Swiss Digital TV market represents almost 841 thousands subscribers. There are 3 platforms available in Switzerland: Cable, IPTV and Satellite. Cablecom is the leader of Digital Pay TV market with 379.200 subscribers, followed by the successful IPTV offer from Swisscom with 230.000 subscribers. Swisscom TV, formerly Bluewin TV, registered a 23.7% growth compared to Q3 2009 (186.000 subscribers), while Cablecom increased by 4.7%.
Launched in October 2008, Canalsat Switzerland is…
PolyNet announces its Carrier Class Network Time Protocol Server
PolyNet expands its network synchronization portfolio into the IP and packet based technology space, supplementing its existing product offering. The new GPS-based Stratum 1 Network Time Protocol Server enables a precise, high performance and maintenance-free time synchronization solution for network operators.
The telecommunications network operators and service providers are challenged on many fronts to find a common time reference solutions for their entire network to satisfy the growing consumer demands for…
