12 November 2009 – Russia’s largest broadband Internet provider Comstar-UTS has chosen MiriATE, the industry-leading set-top box testing system from Mirifice, for all its future IPTV service and set-top box deployments.
MiriATE is an automated testing system, enabling Comstar to achieve far superior results in the reliability and robustness of both its IPTV services and set-top [...]

BT develops a new “lifestyle approach” strategy for BT.com
Broadband Life is the first area to launch
www.bt.com/broadbandlife
BT.com has changed the way it communicates with its customers online by helping them to understand how BT products fit into their lives.
By tailoring products and messaging to individuals’ interests, and refreshing the content to keep it inspirational [...]

11 November 2009 – The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) today announced that it has signed a liaison agreement with the Broadband Forum that will lead to close collaboration by both organisations on the development of standards and specifications for broadband networks worldwide.
The comprehensive agreement is designed to enhance the already active cooperation between HGI and [...]

LBi has made number one in the ‘Top 100 Marketing Agency league tables 2009/2010′ in both Marketing and New Media Age. Founded in 1995 LBi currently employs 350 digital specialists in the UK and provides marketing and technology solutions to a raft of stellar clients including BT, HMV, Waterstone’s, Lloyds Banking Group, Unilever, Electrolux, The [...]

HTK launches new SaaS multi-channel media platform for inbound and outbound automated customer contact
26 October 2009: The UK leader in public mass-notification solutions, HTK, is expanding into customer service and marketing automation with the launch of its new web-based digital media platform that provides a unified, personalised and micro-targeted approach to customer interaction. HTK [...]

Balance shifts towards FTTP
Fibre all the way to the premises (FTTP) will play a much bigger and earlier role in next-generation broadband in the UK than was assumed even a few months ago. That means that Britain could be getting the full benefits of superfast broadband years earlier than expected.
In fact, FTTP is already ahead [...]

LONDON, UK – 07 October 2009: NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announces it will provide the storage infrastructure to support BT’s new Virtual Data Centre (VDC). BT, one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services, is offering a multi-tenanted service aimed at mid-sized and larger businesses that are looking to move all or [...]

Communications software development company IPFX today announced availability of its Unified Communications software solutions on the Nortel CS1000 platform. This is the most cost effective and least complex Unified Communications software available on Nortel platforms with a single server.
IPFX software solutions are now available for use with Nortel systems in the United Kingdom through BT [...]

Leading Switching Platform Upgraded with OTN, FlexiPorts, 1000 Node Scale and Tighter Integration with CN 4200 for Automated, end-to-end Service Creation

Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, announced its CoreDirector® FS Multiservice Optical Switch, a comprehensive enhancement of the company’s core optical switch that delivers substantial new hardware and software features, including data, control and [...]

· Combines fixed and mobile voice services in a single service to help business customers manage their communications faster and more effectively
· Greater cost control – Vodafone One Net can reduce total cost of communication by up to 20%
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