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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) recently deployed immersive telepresence solutions from Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) to improve operational efficiency, interagency collaboration and enhance its ability to support out of area operations.

“Information flow is vital to fulfilling our goals and mandates, as well as maximizing the productivity and efficiency of personnel and ensuring the success of operations,” said Malcolm Green, Chief of the NATO C3 Agency’s Capabilities Area Team 9 (CAT 9), Networked Information Infrastructure Communication Services. “Polycom telepresence addresses these challenges by enabling our teams to collaborate more effectively over distances.”

Deployed in six international locations, the Polycom immersive telepresence solutions join an existing large deployment of Polycom video conferencing systems in use today at NATO headquarters and in outposts around the world. The standards-based systems also interoperate securely and seamlessly with video conferencing systems in use by NATO allied partners.

The technology is used daily for central command communications, emergency management, critical needs assessment, crisis communications, intra/interagency collaboration, workgroup collaboration and project management. [click to read the rest…]

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Former Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs researchers get Nobel price

October 6, 2009 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Dr. Willard Boyle and Dr. George Smith, both former researchers at Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
The two former Bell Labs scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize for their invention and development of the [...]

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AboveNet Agility Guarantee

September 29, 2009 AboveNet News (NYSE:ABVT)

AboveNet, Inc., (NYSE:ABVT)has announced its industry-leading low latency guarantee. The program, called the Agility Guarantee, will offer customers ultra-low latency performance across the entire array of metro wave and Ethernet services that AboveNet provides in the top 15 U.S. markets.
AboveNet Chief Technology Officer, Rajiv Datta, said, “We are offering this guarantee of ultra-low latency performance [...]

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Fighting Swine Flu with Polycom

September 17, 2009 Polycom News (Nasdaq: PLCM)

As the world braces for the coming winter flu season, health officials in Mexico expect to battle an anticipated rise in H1N1 flu cases with interactive visual communication systems from Polycom, (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions.
During April and May, Mexico’s National Center for Health Technology Excellence (CENETEC) [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent Converged Backbone Transformation solution

September 16, 2009 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent today introduced an innovative converged IP/Optical backbone network solution designed to relieve the strain on service providers’ core networks caused by the explosive growth of video and other bandwidth-intensive applications. The Converged Backbone Transformation solution is a key component of Alcatel-Lucent’s High Leverage Network™ strategy, key elements of which have already been selected by [...]

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Level 3 makes 2009 InformationWeek 500 List

September 15, 2009 Level 3 News (Nasdaq: LVLT)

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT), made the 2009 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation’s most innovative users of business technology. The 2009 InformationWeek 500 companies were revealed on Sept.14, 2009 at an awards ceremony held during the InformationWeek 500 Conference at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, Calif.
“Over [...]

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Covad Increases Bandwidth Offerings upto DS3

August 4, 2009 Covad News

Covad Communications Company has completed the next phase of its broader network transformation strategy by building out its access portfolio with the introduction of DS3 service for performance-intensive applications and enterprise connectivity, as well as higher-bandwidth bonded T1 offerings up to 12.0 Mbps. Covad has also introduced network-wide Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities to enable [...]

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XO SIP and NEC Interoperability SV8100 and UX5000

July 14, 2009 XO Communications News

XO Communications (OTCBB: XOHO) and NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. (NEC), a leading communications solutions integrator, today announced that NEC’s UNIVERGE® SV8100 and UX5000 communication platforms have been certified to work with XO’s award-winning Session Initiation Protocol trunking solution, XO SIP.
Today, more than 15,000 businesses and more than 600,000 customer employees benefit from VoIP services offered [...]

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Russian Synterra and Verizon Business

July 8, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Synterra, a national telecommunications service provider of the Russian Federation, and U.S.-based Verizon Business  have signed a master services agreement that will provide significant benefits to customers of both companies. The signing occurred in Moscow on Wednesday (July 8th) during the week of the U.S.-Russian Presidential Summit.
The joint agreement will allow Synterra customers in [...]

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