Press Releases by Category Media & Telecommunications
Advantech and 6WIND Pack 80 Gbps Throughput into Packetarium™
6WINDGate™ multi-core packet processing software maximizes performance on Advantech’s scalable Packetarium™ network processor platform
Advantech and 6WIND today announced the availability of the latest 6WINDGate™ multi-core packet processing software on Advantech’s award-winning Packetarium™ NCP-7560 network processor platform. Based on Cavium's 12-core OCTEON® Plus network processor, the NCP-7560 represents the high performance end of the Packetarium™ product line. It integrates up to eight powerful, multi-core Packetarium™ network processing boards for…
New Case Study Features Appia Video Communication for Businesses
A busy dental practice deploys Appia Video Communication to improve collaboration between its four offices.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – May 19, 2010 – Appia Communications has released a new case study demonstrating the advantages of video communication and collaboration for small and midsize businesses and organizations.
The study features Snodgrass-King Pediatric Dental Associates, a growing dental practice serving the Nashville, Tennessee area. With four busy locations spread up to 40…
dtac selects Polystar OSIX for Global Roaming Quality and IDD Call Performance M …
Stockholm, Sweden, 18 May 2010 – Polystar OSIX, a leading supplier of OSS/BSS solutions, today announced, that Total Access Communication Plc (dtac), telecommunications service provider in Thailand, has successfully deployed Polystar’s market-leading network management solution for Global Roaming Quality and IDD (International Direct Dialling) Call Performance Monitoring to enhance dtac’s dSmart efficiency of its network and service quality.
In 2009, Polystar was awarded a contract for the Network and Service Assurance…
InfoCom says mobile music service is going towards the mobile music experience.
Stuttgart, Germany and Manila, Philippines — In a constant effort to encourage mobile users to use their mobile phones more, the mobile industry is transforming mobile music applications into a richer user’s experience rather then just a simple download.
According to the latest report published by InfoCom about mobile music applications, carriers and service providers encourage subscribers to become more active in the process of downloading music, providing additional services…
TERRAPIN SOLUTIONS & TOTAL CARRIER SOLUTIONS INK RECIPROCAL MASTER AGENCY AGREEM …
SAN RAMON, CA, May 18, 2010 – Terrapin Solutions, LLC, the leading Cloud Services Master Agency has entered into reciprocal Master Agency agreements with Houston-based, Total Carrier Solutions, Inc. (TCS), a leading Master Agent specializing in global MPLS, VPLS, & DIA networks.
TCS agents will now be working closely with Terrapin’s Channel Directors who are expert in designing winning Cloud Services solutions, including Cloud Telephony (Hosted VoIP) and Cloud Computing. …
DISH Network Tops Satellite and Cable in American Customer Satisfaction Index
Subscribers most satisfied, most loyal and have fewest complaints
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 18, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- DISH Network L.L.C., America's fastest-growing pay-TV provider, is now No. 1 in customer satisfaction among satellite and cable companies, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).
In this year's survey, DISH Network scored a 71 for customer satisfaction - a significant seven-point increase from 2009 and well above the 2010…
Next Generation Mobile Life – enabling the services of tomorrow
Orga Systems delivers future driven real-time charging and billing
Paderborn (Germany), 18 May 2010: Mobile phones have developed into a mini PC and, against many forecasts, users have adopted enthusiastically to the variety of functions. Nowhere does digital convergence show up as rapidly and as clearly as in the range of these days’ mobile communication. In the light of growing services and use, Orga Systems, #1 choice for real-time charging and…
Advantech First Out with Freescale QorIQ™ P4080 AMC
P4080 AdvancedMC debuts at LTE World Summit, Amsterdam, May 18th - 19th and will showcase at ISS World, Prague, June 2nd - 4th
Advantech, a global manufacturer of telecom computing blades and multicore network platforms, announced today the expansion of its AdvancedMC product range with the introduction of the AMC-4201, based on Freescale Semiconductor's QorIQ™ P4080 multicore processor. Aimed at further increasing Advantech's presence in Tier-1…
cVidya Wins Price Plan Analytics Project for Tier 1 Mobile Operator in Western E …
cVidya will deploy BusinessView® for Price Plan Optimization – BusinessView is part of cVidya’s Integrated Revenue Intelligence Solutions (IRIS) Suite
London, May 17, 2010 – cVidya Networks (cvidya.com/), a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for telecom, media and entertainment service providers, announced today that they have won a Price Plan optimization project for a Tier 1 mobile operator in Europe. As part of the project cVidya…
Smaato Metrics: Symbian and Feature Phones buck the trend and see growth in CTR …
Symbian dominates US CTR – 2.7x higher than iPhone
Europe's best mobile advertising performer is Windows Phone
Redwood Shores, CA/Hamburg, Germany – May 17, 2010 – Today, Smaato Inc., the leading mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company revealed data looking at the global, mobile advertising market in terms of click through rates and ad network fill rates for April (http://metrics.smaato.com/).
April’s metrics show that Symbian and Feature Phones have bucked…
Orlando Auto Accident Medical Clinic Hires InBusiness, Inc. as Internet Marketin …
Orlando, FL - First Choice Medical Center announced today that InBusiness, Inc. will be their internet marketing provider. InBusiness will work with marketing manager, Ruth Libert, to develop online marketing campaigns and increase company awareness through the internet. This will be the first full-service internet marketing company to work with First Choice Medical Center.
InBusiness is an Orlando-based internet marketing company that focuses on small business online exposure. "We chose InBusiness…
Phillip J. Bond of The Doctors Bank Joins Coleman's Medical Professional Small B …
PRESS RELEASE:
Phil Bond, Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer of the Doctors Bank joins Tom Wallace, President, IDS Corp and Bob Coleman, Publisher of the Coleman Report on the panel of the Medical Professional Small Business Financing Audio Conference.
The Main Street credit crisis has closed off access to capital for many medical professionals practices-- dentists, physicians, optometrists, veterinarians. With shrinking credit boxes at many banks, borrowers are searching for…
Polish Free TV market sees a slight rebound in Q1 2010
Polish Free TV market is starting to rebound, with leading commercial broadcaster TVN reporting upward sales trends. The company said its advertising revenue for Q1 was in line with pre-crisis levels.
TVN, which operates in digital satellite pay television and online as well, reported a net profit of 64 million zlotys ($20.5 million) in the first quarter of 2010, after it posted a net loss of 29 million zlotys in the…
InfoCom says mobile voice shows first signs of stagnation.
Stuttgart, Germany — According to InfoCom latest release of the Mobile Traffic Quarterly Monitoring, mobile voice traffic volume in Western Europe is giving first signs of stagnation as growth starts to slowdown.
Total traffic volumes in the region increased only 2% (3Q09, YoY, in average) reaching 195bn minutes, compared to over 5% in the previous period. In the 5 largest Western European countries, the growth of mobile voice traffic volume…
North Africa: Advertising market grows 2.4% while reflecting heterogenous realit …
North African advertising markets tend to show very dissimilar patterns of progress, a heterogeneity that highlights different realities in terms of competition policies and media openness.
Dataxis Intelligence analyzes the structure of the market, its evolution, as well as the impact of the crisis on advertising in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
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In 2009, advertising expenditure increased 4.3% and 7.6% in Morocco and Tunisia respectively. This growth was offset by a 6% decline…
ECT Secures Funding for the Establishment of a Partner Program for their ECTXML® …
Munich – ECT (European Computer Telecoms AG), leading provider for value-added services in the voice and multimedia domain, has been awarded funding from the ERP Innovation Program of the German KfW Bank Group. This year, one million Euros will be utilized to fund the development of a service creation environment for the programming language ECTXML®. Another million Euros are slated for the founding of a third-party partner program in 2011.…
RTP monitoring for the Benelux region: C.N.Rood and VOIPFUTURE become partners
Hamburg, Germany – 12th May, 2010
VOIPFUTURE is a technology company that is specialized in the rapidly growing market for VoIP monitoring and test equipment, offering innovative solutions for voice service monitoring and network performance analysis in IP-based networks. In order to make the RTP monitoring solutions available on the market in the Benelux countries, VOIPFUTURE has now entered into partnership with the company, C.N.Rood. C.N.Rood provides a variety of communication…
New Report from CIR Sees $3.5 Billion Market Opportunity in 2015 for Optical Int …
Glen Allen, Virginia: CIR, an industry analyst firm based here, has just issued a new report that examines the market potential for optical interconnects. The report titled, New Revenue Opportunities for Optical Interconnects: A Market and Technology Forecast predicts that revenues from optical interconnect products will exceed $3.5 billion ($US) revenues by the year 2015.
Additional details are available at the CIR website at http://www.cir-inc.com/products/prod_detail.cfm?prod=1&id=236. …
ECT Group Founds US Subsidiary to Strengthen Market in the Americas
The ECT Group now includes a wholly-owned US subsidiary, the European Computer Telecoms Inc. The new subsidiary is supporting sales and service with ECT’S strategic partner Ericsson. It is located in direct proximity to the headquarters of Ericsson Inc in Plano, Texas.
Munich,Germany / Plano (TX) - ECT (European Computer Telecoms AG), vendor of complete solutions for value-added services in the voice and multimedia domain, has opened a wholly-owned subsidiary…
Mobile Money – key for successful new services
Real-time solutions for mobile services delivered by Orga Systems
Paderborn (Germany), 11 May 2010: The capability to use a mobile device to execute financial transactions provides an unprecedented level of flexibility and convenience to an increasing number of subscribers worldwide. A transaction may be anything from transferring funds to your kid’s mobile account, withdrawing funds from an account or receiving a remittance from an overseas relative. Orga Systems, #1 choice for…
Spain’s entertainment market continues to reflect gloomy outlooks
Spain music market has suffered a severe decline over the past few years as revenues dropped 43% from 2006 to 2009 according to Dataxis Intelligence’s market data. Although digital sales have been increasing, they still account for only 15% of the market. In a country where illegal file-sharing was more than double the average European rate in 2009, the rise in digital sales did not prevent revenues to fall…
NACT Solutions and VOIPFUTURE Announce Alliance to Deliver VoIP Monitoring Capab …
Partnership Forms the Next Step in NACT’s Plans to expand its Product Portfolio
Orem, UT/ Hamburg, Germany – May 10, 2010: NACT Solutions and VOIPFUTURE today announced an agreement that establishes NACT as the exclusive distributor of VOIPFUTURE’s Voice Services Monitoring capabilities in the United States and Canada. VOIPFUTURE’s technology forms a new building block in NACT’s product portfolio, enabling NACT customers to fully control the voice…
Smartphones specialists gaining ground in the global mobile handsets market
According to Dataxis Intelligence latest updates, global mobile handsets shipments for the first quarter of 2010 have reached 320 million units signing up a nearly 26% yearly uptake while on a quarterly basis, it was 2% decrease.
As usual, the top largest vendors maintained their strong positions in the market accounting for up to 70% of the overall shipped units in the referred period.
As shows the figure below, Nokia the…
dtmMANAGER supports .NET
With its latest version the M&M development toolkit dtmMANAGER supports .NET and thus enables a flexible development and efficient design of user interfaces. With the scalable Tools dtmMANAGER, dtmDEVPACK, basicDTM or the direct DTM generation with the dtmGENERATOR, together with a comprehensive service package, M&M Software offers an all-in package for the DTM development. In addition to this and starting in 2010, all M&M customers, who purchase a DTM development…
Telkom Indonesia exceeds 1 million DSL subscribers in 2009
In 2009, Telkom Indonesia’s ADSL subcriber base exceeded 1 million subscribers for the first time. It reached 1.145 million subscribers exactly, which represents a significant growth of 78% YoY. Revenue grew by 81% in 2009 compared to 2008, despite a declining ARPU.
Telkom Indonesia published results for the first quarter of 2010, which show that the operator continues to grow its ADSL subscriber base. The company had 1.281 million subscribers (+79%…
Taiwanese vegetable seller among TIME 100 heroes
“There’s a kind of joy that I can’t express in words. I don’t know where it comes from. But every time I help others, I feel very happy and certainly will sleep well that night. Nothing else makes me feel this way, and words cannot do justice to what a joyful thing it is to help others.” So said vegetable seller Chen Shu-chu, a resident of eastern Taiwan’s Taitung County,…
Marcus Englert joins media and telecommunications consultancy Solon Management C …
Munich, 6 May 2010: Dr. Marcus Englert, age 44, will become Associate Partner at Solon Management Consulting as of the 1st of August 2010. Until the end of April, he was Chief New Media Officer at ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.
Marcus Englert will strengthen Solon in its Europe-wide media and telecommunications consultancy activities while maintaining his engagement as an investor and a partner for a fund focusing on media and technology.
As Chief…
Digital music: a sustainable cure for the recording industry?
In a sluggish music market, global digital sales rose 9.2% to US$4.3 bn, more than ten times the digital market value in 2004, according to the latest figures released by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Hence, the question arises as to whether or not the strengthening digital music income will make up for the fall in physical format sales.
Dataxis Intelligence breaks down the digital music numbers and…
Asia-Pacific: Smaato predicts $1.5 B mobile advertising spend in 2010
South East Asia is a potential powerhouse for mobile advertising
Singapore, Mobile Squared Road Show, May 6, 2010 – Today, Smaato Inc., the leading mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company published a whitepaper, written by Nick Lane, Chief Analyst at MobileSquared, on the mobile advertising market in South-East-Asia.
The whitepaper, based on new research from MobileSquared, reveals information on the mobile Internet boom in Asia. In 2010 more than 400…
World Press Freedom Day and Way to Transform Shridhar University Rajasthan
Press freedom is considered to be a cornerstone of human rights and a guarantee of other freedoms. No one may be able to change the latitude and longitude of a place but media can definitely change the altitude of the place.
World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1991 as a day "to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom…
Growing earns by green IT
Orga Systems contributes to future-driven green logistic solutions
Paderborn (Germany), 04 May 2010: Ovum estimates that the telecoms industry could reduce global CO2 emissions by up to 10%. 183 million tons of CO2 per year, which is about 0.7 per cent of global emissions, are generated by the global telecoms industry itself. The telecoms quota is about as high as that of the automotive and aviation sectors. According to Deloitte, telecoms…
Comarch and Verecloud Partner in Cloud Services Aggregator Strategy
Comarch, a leading global supplier of COTS solutions and managed services for T1 Communications Service Providers (CSP) and Multiservice Operators (MSO), has been chosen by Verecloud, a U.S.-based company helping communications service providers in the cloud computing services market, as a key partner in delivering technologies to support NIMBUS, its cloud services aggregation platform.
Comarch has been selected by Verecloud due to its reliability and the strength of its BSS/OSS portfolio,…
Ethiopia, the untapped mobile market
Ethiopia, one of the most populated countries in Africa with nearly 80 million inhabitants is one of the least penetrated mobile markets as less than one Ethiopian out of ten has access to mobile communications services according to Dataxis intelligence latest market analysis. The country which was home to an estimated 6.4 million mobile users at the end of 2009 is a monopoly market operated by state-run incumbent telco…
Mobile Video and Super HDTV – Video Coding technology of HHI adopted for the Nex …
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute takes the lead in development of the future video codec HEVC
On 23 April 2010 the Joint Collaborative Team (JCT) on Video Coding of the ITU and ISO/IEC adopted the video coding technology proposed by Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute as part of its starting point for the next-generation video coding standardization project, also referred to as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The first test model of HEVC…
Polystar to acquire Xperior
Stockholm, Sweden, May 1, 2010 - Polystar has today entered into an asset purchase agreement with Xperior AB. The purchase is structured as an asset sale on a cash and debt free basis.
With this acquisition Polystar strengthens its organization with top notch expertise in the fields of Service Assurance, Test and support services.
"Acquiring Xperior's assets allows us to further increase our momentum as we continue to gain market shares in…
German national broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) decides in favour of the pr …
Flensburg/Germany, 29.04.2010 – After evaluation process the HR selected 2wcom’s Digital Satellite Receiver DRS01 for statewide implementation. The DSR01 provides highest technical standard combined with flexibility.
“Besides the outstanding quality of the 2wcom professional digital audio satellite products, which are especially designed for professional program distribution, we do appreciate the excellent customer service and the exceptionally co-operation with 2wcom when it comes to product innovation and enhancement. The DSR01 includes…
Trilogy Communications Ltd gets another VOTE of confidence
Trilogy Communications, a world leader in broadcast intercom has been chosen once again by the BBC to provide communications for the much anticipated 2010 UK general election. It will be the latest milestone in a 13 year relationship with other recent successes including the 2008 US Presidential and 2009 European Parliamentary and UK County Council elections.
With a 10 strong team of presenters including David Dimbleby, Jeremy Paxman and Fiona Bruce…
Hungarian mobile broadband subscriptions grew ten folds in the last three years
Hungary, one of the key mobile markets in Central Europe, is experiencing a steady growth in the adoption of mobile broadband services offered by the three national operators Pannon, T-Mobile, and Vodafone. In fact, the number of subscribers to these services has reached 972,000 in March 2010 according to the National Telecommunications regulatory Agency latest report.
As the figure below features it, the mobile broadband subscriptions that were just 85,000 in…
ND SatCom to Launch Partner Program
Satellite Router Manufacturer Targets Satellite Service Providers and System Integrators in Telco, Enterprise, Government, and Defense Markets
Friedrichshafen, April 28, 2010 – ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, announced today the launch of its new global ‘Valued Partner Program’ aimed at resellers of its satellite router brand SkyWAN®. Through the three-tiered Valued Partner Program, ND SatCom will provide committed partners of telco, IT, enterprise, government, and defense vertical markets with customized…
Trilogy contributes audio communications capability to Brunei JOC C4ISR System
Trilogy, a world class supplier of voice communications technologies for the defence sector has been selected as a key sub-contractor to provide the complete voice communications element of the recently announced Joint Operations Centre command and control capability for the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF).
The prime contractor, Northrop Grumman UK, will supply an integrated Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) headquarters system and a deployable Joint Operations…
Real-time charging for all subscribers - essential for earns
Orga Systems’ convergent real-time solutions enable future growth
Paderborn (Germany), 27 April 2010: The introductions of new services and new technologies have driven the simple game of billing to enhanced complexity. This puts additional load and emphasis on the billing systems. The only way for CSPs to still collect revenue and work profitably are real-time charging and billing systems operating for their whole subscriber base. For more than 15 years, Orga…
Italian TV market slides in the face of an ailing advertising market
Italian TV market experienced a mitigated growth in 2009, as the collapse of free TV revenues was offset by a rise in the pay TV market. Total Pay and Free TV revenues fell slightly, reaching €7.7 bn at the end of the year, down from €7.8 bn in 2008, according to Dataxis Intelligence’s latest market data.
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During 2009, advertising market continued to plague media companies’ top lines. The largest commercial broadcaster…
InfoCom says Carrier Ethernet has a bright future despite some initial hurdles
Stuttgart, Germany — After investigating the Carrier Ethernet market, InfoCom found out that EoMPLS is seen as having several advantages, as compared to EoSDH.
Carriers prefer EoMPLS first of all because it allows finer bandwidth granularity, whatever bandwidth they may ask for, whereas EoSDH is constrained by the bandwidth of the SDH VCs (Virtual Containers). “A second relevant advantage often quoted is that EoMPLS scales better, i.e. it is easier…
State of mobile telephony adoption in North Africa
The North African region which consists of five countries (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) is the most advanced market in terms of mobile telephony adoption compared to the Western, Eastern and even Southern part of the continent. As a matter of fact, according to Dataxis Intelligence’s latest market review, while North Africa accounts for only 13% of the continent’s population in 2009, it proved to be home to just…
Tunisian ADSL subscribers grew by 73% in 2009
In Tunisia, the broadband market is still growing. There were 367.000 ADSL connections, compared to 313.000in Q3 2009 and 212.000 in 2008. It represents a 73% growth YoY.
With 3.5 million internet users in 2009, the potential of the market is significant. Tunisie Telecom is the incumbent operator that provides broadband services to Tunisian households. ISPs available in Tunisa are : Globalnet, Hexabyte, Planet, Topnet and Tunet. Monthly rates are…
TelcoBridges and TELES certify media gateway and softswitch interoperability
TelcoBridges Inc., a leading supplier of telecommunications hardware and software for solution developers and service providers, and TELES, a leading provider of solutions for Next Generation Networks, today announced that they have successfully completed interoperability testing between TelcoBridges' Tmedia™ family of media gateways and TELES family of Class 4 and Class 5 softswitch solutions. In addition, the companies announced that they intend to collaborate closely on the evolution of each…
ND SatCom Launches New Corporate Website
Easy User Navigation, Clear Structure and More Topical Downloads on Demand
Friedrichshafen, April 20, 2010 – ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, launched its new website ndsatcom.com. The platform with fresh design and easy navigation offers users quick access to the company’s global product and solution portfolio. The start page will regularly feature new products in addition to coverage of the company’s military, government, enterprise, and broadcast vertical markets. The IT…
Mobile subscriptions to grow by more than 80% between 2009 and 2015 in Nigeria
Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country and second largest economy is a promising land for potential growth in mobile communications market, at least in the next five years. In fact, according to Dataxis Intelligence latest publications, the country’s mobile market is expected to grow by 82% between 2009 and 2010, thus adding up roughly 60 million new customers to the currently 73 million mobile subscribers as highlighted in the chart…
MeinSchreibservice.de counts the days to the World Cup kick-off
Cape Town, 20 April 2010 – MeinSchreibservice.de is experiencing the preparations for the FIFA World Cup up close in Cape Town.
Fifty days remain to kick-off and the sale of tickets in South African venues has entered a new round. MeinSchreibservice.de is closely following the preparations for the FIFA World Cup. „The construction workers at the Cape Town Stadium are working at full speed daily to complete the stadium on…
High service availability to retain customers
Orga Systems uses unique data streaming technology
Paderborn (Germany), 20 April 2010: For mobile network operators availability of real-time convergent services with relevance to the turnover stream is essential. The target addressed
to real-time experts as Orga Systems is a reduction of planned downtimes hand in hand with
a higher overall availability. With its fully convergent billing system OPSC Gold Orga Systems, #1 choice for real-time charging and billing provides the leading…
