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Telecom Equipment

Polycom Completes Acquisition of HP Visual Collaboration Business Unit

July 30, 2011 Polycom News (Nasdaq: PLCM)

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), a global leader in unified communications (UC), today announced the close of its acquisition of HP’s Visual Collaboration business, and the agreement under which Polycom will serve as an exclusive partner to HP for telepresence and certain video UC solutions, including both resale and internal HP deployments. The acquisition and agreement [...]

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Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM and Sony now Own Nortel’s remaining pattents

July 29, 2011 Nortel News

Nortel Networks Corporation [OTC: NRTLQ] announced that it,its subsidiary Nortel Networks Limited (NNL), and certain of its other subsidiaries, including Nortel Networks Inc. and Nortel Networks UK Limited (in administration), have completed the sale of all of Nortel’s remaining patents and patent applications to a consortium consisting of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion [...]

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Polycom RealPresence Ready Launched

July 18, 2011 Polycom News (Nasdaq: PLCM)

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) today announced new video offerings designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that make it easier than ever to purchase, install, and operate high-quality, business-grade video collaboration solutions from Polycom. Today, Polycom introduced Polycom RealPresence Ready, its new comprehensive open video collaboration solution optimized for SMBs that delivers the highest quality [...]

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Avaya in Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure Worldwide

July 7, 2011 Avaya News (NYSE:AV)

Avaya announced that the company was positioned as a Leader in the recently published 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure, Worldwide.(1) In the annual report, Avaya was cited as a contact center infrastructure leader based on two key criteria: ‘ability to execute’ and ‘completeness of vision.’ Gartner defines contact center infrastructure as “the [...]

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Comcast Selects Cisco ASR 9000 for Business Metro Ethernet Services

June 20, 2011 Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

Comcast has deployed the Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series (ASR 9000) as part of its next-generation network that is delivering advanced business services in more than 20 major U.S. markets, with expansion into new markets planned in the months ahead. Comcast is working with Cisco on this deployment based on Cisco’s technology, services, and [...]

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Johnson Controls & Avaya Aura Unified Communications Platform

May 23, 2011 Avaya News (NYSE:AV)

Avaya today announced that Johnson Controls (JCI) will be upgrading to Avaya Aura as the company’s new global IP telephony platform. This will provide new capabilities and a solution that supports the company’s commitment to state of the art communication technologies and lower costs. Avaya Global Services will design, deploy and manage the entire operation, [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent Testing LTE Serving Gateway

May 18, 2011 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Sunnyvale, Calif. – May 17, 2011 – A live demonstration this week at TIA 2011 in Dallas, Texas will showcase how the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR) Mobile Gateway performs under the most demanding conditions in a 4G/LTE environment while maintaining the highest Quality of Service (QoS), even for bandwidth intensive video applications. Using Landslide [...]

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ALU Q1 2011 – Particularly Pleasing says Ben Verwaayen, CEO

May 6, 2011 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent continues its momentum into 2011 with a strong start to the year: 15% top line year-over-year growth in Q1’11 & positive adjusted operating profit   KEY NUMBERS FOR THE FIRST QUARTER 2011 Revenues of Euro 3.740 billion, up 15.2% year-over-year Adjusted2 gross profit of Euro 1.354 billion or 36.2% of revenues Adjusted2 operating income1 of Euro [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent OpenPlug Studio Toolkit License Now Free

April 27, 2011 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced two initiatives to fuel the growth of applications that work across platforms and devices. Effective immediately, OpenPlug Studio (formerly OpenPlug ELIPS Studio) will now be available to application developers free of charge. OpenPlug Studio is a development toolkit that allows developers to efficiently create native applications for [...]

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