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Updated: Wednesday 14 May 2008 - 18:00 est 23:00 gmt
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NB: A number of these headlines will be covered in more detail in the next edition of OND.
Business Wire carries a number of current releases.
Vendors
1BTI secures C$5.5m in debt funding from Wellington Financial for product development, working capital
2Salira develops GEPON solutions for cable industry, appoints Rob Solon, formerly with ARRIS, as VP of Sales, N America
3Agilent reports Q2 revenue of $1.46bn, up 10% yr/yr, net income of $173m or 47c per share, sees Q3 sales of $1.44-1.49bn
4Edgewater Networks EdgeMarc VoIP VPN gateways compliant with Avaya IP telephony solutions
5JDSU enhances FST-2802 TestPad product to facilitate installation and maintenance of Carrier Ethernet / IP services
6Allied Telesis to offer Extricom wireless products supporting delivery of converged services to enterprise customers
7Teak unveils R3000 AZ-10GE 'top-of-rack' switch for distributed / virtualised server and storage applications
8Optiwave releases OptiSystem 7.0 communication system design suite with support for OCDMA-PON framework
9Bell Labs partners with NTT Photonics Labs to develop optical packet switching technology
10Accedian enhances Ethernet demarcation devices with Fast-Thru zero-latency traffic shaping feature
11EZchip notes forthcoming NP-4 processor enables line card video processing for enhanced switch/router performance
12Xilinx unveils Platform Flash XL configuration / storage device, PCIe 1.x / 2.0 embedded processor board for Virtex-5 FPGAs
13ADC adds in-building and outdoor wireless solutions to PACE program
14mimoOn, provider of software defined radio solutions, implements 3GPP LTE protocol stack on Wintegra WinPath2 access processor
15RadioFrame plans second generation OmniRadio processor for LTE, WiMAX compatible femtocell products
16CoreOptics, supplier of 10/40 Gbit/s subsystems, closes $25m funding round for cumulative $90m  more ...
Service Providers
1Deutsche Telekom to acquire 25% interest in OTE via share purchase, including 3% stake from Greek government for $685m
2Virgin Mobile USA confirms preliminary discussions relating to possible strategic agreement with SK Telecom
3Verizon extends Private IP coverage via nodes in Asia, E Europe, Latin America, enhances DSL / Ethernet access capabilities
4Verizon gains authorisation from Mexican regulator for direct service delivery, deploys MPLS nodes in Mexico City, Monterrey
5TeliaSonera International Carrier extends IP backbone network to Bulgaria with PoP in Sofia
6SAVVIS to open new data centre facility in Slough, UK in Q4 '08 as part of $400m investment program
7Interxion completes expansion of data centre facility located in Zaventem area of Brussels
Contracts
1Verizon to deploy global IP network for U.S. Department of Homeland Security under 10-year, $678.5m Networx Universal contract
2Sumitomo deploys FutureFLEX air-blown fibre at NASA John F Kennedy Space Centre to support Constellation Program
3California Department of Parks and Recreation selects Verizon Private IP solution to serve 32 locations
4XO provides MPLS-based IP VPN solution linking 7 U.S. sites for engineering services firm Smith Seckman Reid
5Nissan Motors selects Limelight to provide content delivery services for Japanese website
6Bharti Airtel deploys Redback SmartEdge 400 routers, NetOp policy management soution to support on-demand broadband services
7Globacom of Nigeria selects Alcatel-Lucent to expand national GSM/EDGE and WCDMA/HSPA mobile + fixed network capacity
8Swisscom Broadcast picks NEC DTL-10 transmitter, PASOLINK NEO wireless access system for DVB-H mobile TV network
9Germany's Teleconnect selects Rim Semiconductor Cupria processor for GBE transport systems as alternative to VDSL2 chip
10Trenton picks IDT PCIe switching products for server-class PICMG 1.3 backplane for telecom, storage, computing applications
Markets
1ABI forecasts mobile carrier expenditure on 4G base stations / gateways + FMC solutions of $850m by '13
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