Archive for December, 2008
Cisco helps Trust National Bank upgrade its telephony network
Trust National Bank, a commercial banks in Russia, has completed the upgrade of its country-wide communications network with Cisco Unified Communications to offer a secure, multi-functional digital telephony services. The bank now boasts a resilient multiservice network infrastructure that helps reduce management and operational costs. Trust National Bank selected NVision Group, a Cisco Gold Certified [...]
BroadSoft acquires Sylantro
BroadSoft, a provider of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications, has acquired Sylantro Systems, a provider of VoIP applications based in Campbell, California. The acquisition is expected to help boost BroadSoft’s position in VoIP applications. To serve its customer base, BroadSoft now has development and customer operations centres in Montreal, Canada; Dallas, Texas; Bangalore, India; Sydney, Australia; [...]
Ericsson launches spare parts management service with TMIB in Bangladesh
Ericsson has launched spare parts management services (SPMS) to support TM International Bangladesh’s (TMIB) mobile network. Under the agreement, Ericsson will provide TMIB with hardware support for routine as well emergency maintenance. Ericsson will also take over the responsibility of the spare parts and provide TMIB with local support, enabling immediate response to the customer’s [...]
Playtech launches ‘Play for Real’ mode on Italian poker network
Playtech, a designer, developer and licensor of software for the online, mobile and land-based gaming industry, has informed that it has launched a ‘play for real money’ poker network in the Italian poker market. Following licence agreements, announced earlier in the second half of this year, with Italian operators Snai, Gala Coral’s Eurobet Italia, Sisal [...]
Bharti Airtel partners with VIRTELA to boost its MPLS connectivity
Bharti Airtel, an integrated telecom service provider in India, has signed a strategic agreement with Virtela, a global managed service provider, to enhance its international managed MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) connectivity outside of India to more than 5,000 PoPs (Point of Presence) across 190 countries. Under the agreement, Bharti Airtel and Virtela have integrated [...]
Viettel, Alca-Lu and RIM launch BlackBerry solution in Vietnam
Viettel, a mobile operator in Vietnam, Alcatel-Lucent and Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced the launch of the BlackBerry wireless solution in Vietnam. Using BlackBerry smartphones, Viettel customers will be able to wirelessly send and receive e-mails, make phone calls, browse the internet, send text messages and access corporate and lifestyle applications when on the [...]
China Mobile selects Alca-Lu, Datang for TD-SCDMA mobile network trial
Alcatel-Lucent, through its Chinese flagship company, and Datang Mobile – has announced that their consortium has won the largest share in China Mobile’s tender for the second phase of its TD-SCDMA mobile network trial. The TD-SCDMA offering from the two companies is expected to help China Mobile address the growing demand in China for broadband [...]
Dassault Aviation to acquire Alca-Lu stake in Thales
Alcatel-Lucent and Dassault Aviation have signed a definitive agreement regarding the acquisition by Dassault Aviation of Alcatel-Lucent’s shares in Thales, namely 41,262,481 shares. This transaction will be based on a price of E38 per share, representing a total value of about E1.57 bn. The closing of the transaction, foreseen for spring 2009, is in particular [...]
Ericsson, Intel to bring theft protection to Mobile Broadband notebooks
Ericsson is collaborating with Intel to enable Ericsson’s Mobile Broadband Modules to be interoperable with Intel Anti-Theft PC Protection Technology for notebooks to offer an anti-theft solution for mobile broadband users. The collaboration is aimed at addressing solutions to minimise the negative consequences when notebooks are lost or stolen, and in conjunction independent encryption software [...]
Chunghwa Telecom, Alca-Lu to deploy Taiwan’s first femtocell network
Chunghwa Telecom, Alcat-Lu to deploy Taiwan’s first femtocell network Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded a Femtocell bid from Chunghwa Telecom, a telecommunications provider in Taiwan, to deploy Taiwan’s first femtocell network, which is expected to improve the coverage of Chunghwa Telecom’s mobile network inside homes and offices. Chunghwa Telecom plans to launch its femtocell service with [...]
