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CRM Vendor IFS Gets Verizon Business WAN

TMCnet: Verizon Business has announced that it will provide Swedish CRM vendor IFS with a standardized Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructure, consolidating the management of 60 global sites.

BT Joins The Pepsi Generation

TelecomWeb: BT's U.S. subsidiary BT Americas landed a seven-year managed-services agreement with PepsiCo - its second major managed-services win in the last month.

MPLS, NAC shine at Interop

Network World: Although the New York version of the Interop conference didn't draw huge crowds last week, those that made the trek seemed pleased with educational sessions covering everything from network access control to MPLS (see complete Interop coverage).

The MPLS session was hosted by Network World columnist Johna Till Johnson, president of Nemertes Research, and featured speakers from Qwest, Sprint and Verizon

AT&T Links Southern Business Communications to its Parent Company

TMCnet: AT&T announced Tuesday it scored a networking contract from Southern Business Communications. The telecom giant was hired to link Southern Business Communications to its parent company Global Imaging Systems, as well as with nine of the company's other sites.

Telecom Firm Speeds Up Connections

Cayment Net News: Cable & Wireless has launched a new corporate data networking solution that utilizes MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) technology via a brand-new global IP network.

Light Reading Webinar: Ethernet Over MPLS: Technology Update

Light Reading - Networking the Telecom Industry: Tuesday, October 03, 2006. 12:00 PM EST / 5:00 GMT.

VSNL International opens MPLS PoP in Australia

iTWire: VSNL International, the international arm of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (NYSE: VSL), India's former monopoly international telco, has opened a global MPLS PoP in Sydney and has appointed Alan McCartney to head Australian enterprise sales operations.

AT&T Inks Networking Contract With EcoWater Systems

TMCnet: AT&T just inked a new networking contract with St. Paul, Minn.-based EcoWater Systems, a water treatment systems manufacturer.

The new, two-year agreement calls for the telecom giant to act as EcoWater's primary IP service provider by delivering MPLS Private Network Transport (PNT) services to the company's headquarters, as well as to its operations center in Mississippi.

Helly Hansen finds MPLS way to plain sailing on global communications

Manufacturing Computer Solutions: Outdoor clothing manufacturer Helly Hansen says it’s achieved twice the bandwidth and great technical support at lower cost by switching to Verizon Business for its global network provision

SingTel rides into next tech frontier with Ethernet wave

ANTARA News: Singapore telecommunications Limited (SingTel) today announced the availability of a new international Ethernet service for its global corporate customers.

US LEC to Connect Florida Rock's 120 Locations

IPCommunications.com: IP, data and voice service provider US LEC was tapped by ready-mixed concrete seller Florida Rock Industries as its communications partner to implement a combined data networking and disaster recovery system.

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Broadview Networks Deploys Next Generation IP-Centric Network; Technology Investment Increases Carrier's Efficiencies and Enables New Services

Business Wire: Broadview Networks, a leading facilities-based communications provider in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, today announced its IP-centric network now extends to approximately 80 percent of its target customer base, including the New York City and Boston metro areas. The MPLS-enabled IP infrastructure, with VoIP softswitch technology, facilitates the delivery of new IP-based business-class services, including Multi-Service MPLS Virtual Private Networks with exceptional Quality of Service guarantees, flexible Dynamic Bandwidth Integrated T1s, and versatile Hosted IP-PBX/Key Systems.

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KPN Selects Alcatel's Ethernet Solution to Deliver Business Services; Contract Is Part of Ambitious 'All-IP' Network Transformation

PRNewswire-FirstCall - Alcatel (NYSE: ALA - News; Paris: CGEP.PA - News) today announced it has been selected by KPN, the incumbent operator in the Netherlands, to provide the network equipment to extend KPN's nationwide Ethernet Virtual Private Network (VPN) services for business customers and Ethernet aggregation for residential services. The contract is part of a substantial IP network transformation project that will give KPN one of the largest MPLS-enabled networks in the world, which in turn forms part of its All IP program, whereby most of the current (legacy) platforms and services will be migrated to Next Generation Network platforms and Next Generation based Services.

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Juniper Networks Routers Deployed for Core of Yamanashi Information Highway; M-series Routers Enable Local Japanese Government to Create Next-Generation Backbone Consolidating Video and Data Networks Throughout Region

Business Wire: Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR) today announced that the Yamanashi Prefecture region of Japan has deployed Juniper Networks M-series multiservice routers to help create the Yamanashi Information Highway, a next generation communications backbone which connects local government offices, cable television providers, banks and other businesses within the region. The Yamanashi Information Highway, deployed in July 2006, consolidates all data communications and broadcasting networks on a single, converged IP/MPLS network, and leverages the JUNOS operating system to create a customizable management interface for connected institutions.

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