Comsearch to Serve as Spectrum Manager at 4G World for Fifth Consecutive Year | CommScope

Comsearch to Serve as Spectrum Manager at 4G World for Fifth Consecutive Year

HICKORY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Comsearch, a CommScope company, has been chosen to serve as official spectrum manager at 4G World in Chicago October 24-27, the fifth consecutive year that it will perform its wireless spectrum management and frequency coordination duties at this event.

“Comsearch remains one of the wireless industry’s preferred experts for frequency coordination and interference mitigation,” said Chris Hardy, vice president and general manager, Comsearch. “With the advent of ever-more sophisticated mobile devices, bandwidth-intensive data applications and the growing dependence on wireless signal availability everywhere all the time, we are committed to helping ensure the show organizers and the thousands of attendees can enjoy another smoothly run event.”

In their role as spectrum managers, Comsearch® engineers will coordinate wireless operations and work to remediate interference issues among exhibitors, attendees and local service providers before, during and after 4G World.

“4G World has engaged Comsearch to serve as event spectrum manager for five consecutive years, and we are extremely pleased with Comsearch’s service level and the satisfaction level of our sponsors and exhibitors,” said Kate Mitchell, senior director of marketing, Events and Media Division, Yankee Group. The Events and Media Division of Yankee Group is the organizer of 4G World 2011, the largest event in the world covering the entire ecosystem of next-generation technologies.

Comsearch has been helping trade show organizers implement successful frequency coordination plans for their shows for nearly 15 years. The company has routinely performed spectrum management services at several major wireless industry events in North America in addition to offering strategic consultation, wireless engineering, frequency planning and administration, and monitoring and interference measurements to customers. Comsearch has almost 35 years of experience providing spectrum management and software and data solutions to the wireless markets.

T-Mobile USA Leverages iPass Open Mobile Platform for New Global Corporate Access Solution

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., October 19, 2011 — iPass Inc. (NASDAQ: IPAS), a leading provider of mobility services for both enterprises and service providers, announced today that T-Mobile USA, Inc. selected the iPass Open Mobile Platform and the iPass Mobile Network as key pieces in their new T-Mobile® Global Corporate Access (GCA) solution for multinational corporations (MNCs), U.S. enterprises, and government agencies.

The iPass Open Mobile Platform will give customers of T-Mobile’s GCA solutions both insight and control over definition and management of mobility services while providing users authenticated and seamless connectivity. These management features can be accessed by T-Mobile GCA customers from across the globe over the more than 600,000 domestic and international hotspots that are part of the iPass Mobile Network.

In combination with T-Mobile’s unique Wi-Fi calling features, the new T-Mobile GCA solution further helps business and government customers enhance coverage, improve productivity, and reduce domestic and international mobility costs when accessing available hotspots across the globe.

“Wireless carriers are looking to meet the unique demands of the mobile workforce to help manage access, security, and seamless movement between cellular and Wi-Fi networks around the world regardless of whether it’s connecting a laptop, smartphone or tablet device,” said Kevin Murray, vice president of product marketing at iPass. “With the unique combination of the platform management functionality and global Wi-Fi footprint of the iPass Open Mobile platform, the new T-Mobile GCA solution is a compelling offering for business and government customers looking to manage increasingly complex and costly enterprise mobility needs.”

“Today’s CIOs and IT executives are trying to grow their businesses while controlling the rising mobility costs incurred by a growing population of corporate ‘road warriors’ carrying multiple devices,” said Frank Sickinger, vice president, B2B, MNC and Federal Government Sales at T-Mobile USA. “Key elements in our new T-Mobile GCA solution, the iPass Open Mobile Platform and global network help these corporate and government decision makers better balance these objectives with robust visibility, delivery and management capabilities across a wealth of global access points.”

Ixia Raises the Bar for Cellular Offload Testing

CALABASAS, CA, (October 18, 2011) – Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), a leading, global provider of converged network testing solutions, today announced the availability of an innovative testing methodology that redefines the process for evaluating Wi-Fi cellular offload. Ixia’s IxVeriWave validates true Wi-Fi service capacity and quality, as opposed to current solutions that are limited to simply checking network availability. By expanding beyond traditional site surveys, operators can now gauge and fine-tune Wi-Fi networks to deliver a much higher quality of experience (QoE) for end users.

Cellular offload introduces new demands well beyond those of traditional Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi access has been viewed as non-mission-critical, and the network often saw relatively light use. Historically, Wi-Fi operators have optimized for network “coverage,” rather than capacity and service quality. In modern offload networks, however, service providers are using Wi-Fi networks as an extension of their 3G/4G networks. Cellular offload demands that the Wi-Fi network deliver a satisfactory experience to many concurrent users in high-density, high-demand locations. In this environment, the Wi-Fi access network becomes a critical infrastructure element for the cellular network, and unsatisfactory user experiences on Wi-Fi can result in the loss of high-margin smartphone customers.

“Wi-Fi is now essential to the future success of cellular operators everywhere,” said Craig Matthias, a Principal with the wireless and mobile advisory firm Farpoint Group. “Site surveys yield little useful information beyond coverage alone. Test and verification solutions like Ixia’s IxVeriWave are essential in fully understanding the capacity of carrier Wi-Fi networks and the QoE experienced by customers. Today, it’s all about capacity, which is truly the key to success.”

Ixia’s IxVeriWave is designed to test wireless LAN networks using a client-centric model. This approach delivers repeatable, large-scale, real-world test scenarios that are virtually impossible to create by any other means. By emulating large numbers of clients, traffic mixes, and Wi-Fi-connected devices rather than rolling hundreds of devices on carts, IxVeriWave's functional and performance analysis system reduces test cycles from months to days and delivers value unobtainable in any other alternative. As a result, IxVeriWave offers efficiency gains and cost reductions, along with the capability to identify problems early in development and QA cycles.

Ixia has developed a standardized methodology for testing Wi-Fi, outlined in Cellular Offload: Site Deployment Best Practices Guide. This comprehensive guide defines key principles and best practices for testing next-generation Wi-Fi deployments, including:

Using application traffic in addition to signal strength as measurement sources

Reporting customer satisfaction metrics

Using the same high-value client devices as network users

Testing network scalability prior to heavy usage at events

Isolating client behavior from network behavior

“Ixia’s Wi-Fi solution improves the customer experience by maximizing the capacity and performance of Wi-Fi cellular offload, while simultaneously lowering the cost to deliver data for the service provider,” said Joe Zeto, senior manager, marketing development at Ixia. “IxVeriWave introduces a new testing paradigm that highlights not just Wi-Fi availability, but service quality that affects users’ experience.”

Protect your iPhone! Lookout for iPhone Available Free from the App Store

You go everywhere and do everything with your iPhone – it’s your social calendar, your address book, your photo bragbook, your checkbook, and your touchstone to the outside world. As much as we love and rely on our iPhones we want to keep them safe, and keeping your iPhone safe should be simple. That’s why we built Lookout for iPhone as a single, easy to use app that keeps your iPhone safe and secure. Now you can download it for free from the Apple App Store.

When developing Lookout for iPhone, we focused on the issues most important to iPhone users. In a recent survey by Javelin Research, we found that 93% of iPhone users have concerns about the security of data stored on their phones. In addition, four out every ten users are unsure about the security of public WiFi and more than a third of users do not regularly sync their iPhone. So we made sure that Lookout can quickly find your phone if it’s lost or stolen, back up your precious data without syncing, and help you avoid connecting to unsecured WiFi or other actions that might expose the personal information on your iPhone. We can also restore your data to a different smartphone or even an iPad or tablet.

Mobē Selects CellTrust SecureSMS for Secure Mobile Banking Applications

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, USA - October 18, 2011- CellTrust Corporation, the recognized leader in secure mobile messaging, today announced that Mobē Inc, the leading global provider of mobile money movement solutions, will license CellTrust's SecureSMS 3.0 software to bring an added layer of security to Mobē's mobile banking products.

Mobē, the creators of mobile monē™, a proprietary peer-to-peer mobile money movement platform, will leverage CellTrust's SecureSMS 3.0 SDK for use in a secure mobile wallet application, that allows consumers to deposit, withdraw, send, spend or secure money from anywhere in the world, anytime of day, directly on their mobile phone.

"The mobile phone is one thing most people never leave home without, and that makes it the ideal tool for personal financial transactions," said Jim McLeod, President and Co-Founder, Mobē Inc. "At the same time, it is imperative to protect consumers from the security risks that come with mobile communication and transactions, and that's where CellTrust comes in. With CellTrust Secure SMS, we added an additional layer of security to ensure the companies and consumers we do business with that the information they share and the transactions they conduct using mobile monē™ are safe and secure, opening the doors to a variety of new mobile banking applications in the future."

Unlike consumer-grade SMS, CellTrust's SecureSMS 3.0 software allows companies and consumers to exchange confidential information in a trusted and safe environment on mobile devices, in compliance with financial services industry regulations. CellTrust SecureSMS 3.0 deploys communication over an SMS control channel supported by all global operators. Mobile users can send fully encrypted SMS messages up to 5,000 characters in length, as well as receive delivery, open and delete acknowledgement, and remote data wipe in the event a handset is lost or stolen. CellTrust has access to 200+ countries and is certified with major operators and handset manufacturers worldwide.

"Over the last year, a number of mobile banking security risks and failures have been publicized, illustrating the need for more secure mobile communication and transactions," said Sean Moshir, CEO, CellTrust. "In partnership with Mobē, we offer consumers and businesses the ability to conduct mobile banking transactions safely and securely, with the flexibility, auditability, simplicity and convenience their mobile phone affords."

CommScope Supplies Active Antennas in North American 4G Network Trial | CommScope

CommScope Supplies Active Antennas in North American 4G Network Trial

HICKORY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CommScope Inc., a global leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks, has supplied the first active antennas in use in an LTE network field trial, a major step toward the promise of better, more cost effective ways to transmit broadband signals to mobile customers using next generation networks.

CommScope’s new active antennas, part of the company’s expanding portfolio of solutions for 4G wireless networks, are installed as part of a multi-site LTE trial being conducted by a prominent North American wireless network operator. Active antennas are considered the next stage in the evolution of cellular site architecture, in which the radio is integrated into the antenna and the radio functionality is distributed across the antenna elements. This digital architecture reduces the need for certain cell site equipment, which can reduce energy consumption, site maintenance and leasing costs.

“We believe this trial is a significant step toward the eventual wide-spread deployment of active antenna solutions in LTE networks,” said Kevin Linehan, vice president and chief technology officer for base station antennas, CommScope. “Through our 10-plus years of pioneering research and development on active antenna systems, combined with our vast experience in designing and developing advanced antenna and remote radio head systems for global operators, we think CommScope is uniquely positioned to help wireless operators experience the many benefits of the world’s first digital, antenna-integrated radio system.”

The CommScope antennas, featuring breakthrough antenna-embedded radio technology developed with technology partner Ubidyne, are designed to enable mobile operators to deliver optimal wireless coverage and quality of service to subscribers while reducing capital expense and operating expense. The antennas feature Ubidyne’s modular digital circuits that attach directly to individual antenna radiators, with unique electronic beam-forming features that increase network capacity. Previous testing in operator networks shows that active antennas deliver the highest level of integration possible and can offer significant savings in total cost of ownership, in addition to enhancing service performance.

Like its entire antenna portfolio, the CommScope active antennas deployed in the network trial have undergone rigorous testing for radio performance, safety and reliability at the company’s advanced antenna testing centers.

CommScope also offers a dynamic fiber optic transmission line solution for active antenna site architectures. Remote Fiber Feeder™ cable combines power conductors and fiber into a single high performance cable that delivers efficiency, capacity and savings for next generation networks. It is offered in single-mode or multi-mode configuration, with two to six fibers per component, offering built-in redundancy.

“CommScope has invested more than $1 billion in research and development over the past decade in order to help customers evolve to new technologies,” Linehan said. “Our active antenna and fiber feeder solutions are examples of how that investment results in valuable intellectual property and delivers tremendous benefits to our customers and the industry.”

BT One Voice Anywhere Launches in US Market

BT One Voice Anywhere Launches in US Market

GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo, Orlando, FL., October 18, 2011 – BT today announced the availability in the U.S. of BT One Voice anywhere, its next generation voice application service. The service offers flexibility for global travelling employees by allowing them to take their telephony with them via a softphone and use speech to text voicemail translation. In addition, One Voice anywhere helps to significantly reduce spend on mobile roaming costs through access to the corporate virtual private network (VPN). BT made this announcement from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011, where it will be demonstrating One Voice anywhere and other products and services from the BT global portfolio at Booth #515 in the Enterprise Networking/Communications Pavilion.

Voice is a significant cost for businesses in an environment where expenses are being looked at under a microscope and there is continuous pressure to contain or reduce costs and find savings.

BT One Voice anywhere couples technology from the acquisition of Ribbit with the One Voice global VPN service, extending the benefits of the VPN to users anywhere, using any device, including SIP phones. This delivers unified communications and collaboration (UCC) capabilities to all users regardless of legacy environment and can help significantly reduce call charges, with even more cost savings for roaming charges.

Using the BT One Voice VPN, One Voice anywhere helps reduce mobile spend for businesses with employees who travel internationally by extending organizations’ phone networks. Users set up their preferences so when a call is received, it is routed over the One Voice VPN network, saving toll costs from local service providers or mobile roaming fees. For example, if an employee is travelling, instead of receiving a call on their mobile phone, which can incur significant roaming charges, they can set up their preferences to take the call on a softphone or a landline of their choosing.

“Mobile phones and smartphones are increasingly used for business voice calls. Costs can increase because businesses are charged as employees roam, retrieve voicemails and accept incoming calls, especially for international travellers,” said Neil Sutton, vice president, Portfolio, BT Global Services. “One Voice anywhere can help reduce voice costs for our One Voice customers.”

One Voice anywhere can integrate with new IP based platforms as well as older TDM systems and allows a transparent, feature rich, fully managed and integrated UCC environment. This helps leverage existing investments and drives down additional costs. In addition, One Voice anywhere is delivered from the cloud, and is embedded in the enterprise grade VPN solution, so there are no heavy upfront investments or on premise equipment required.

Peravsip Now Offering Free Use of its Android Internet Calling App

Pervasip Corp.'s wholly owned subsidiary, VoX Communications, a leading provider of wholesale Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone services and cloud based computing, is now allowing free usage of its mobile VoIP app for all Android mobile phones and Android tablets.

Pervasip's Chief Executive Officer, Paul Riss, noted, "We have updated our Android VoIP app so that any Android user can download it, make free calls and send free text messages to others who have our app. Earlier this month, we launched our Android app and required a fee of $4.95 to sign up for services and receive a telephone number. We had more than 1,000 downloads in the first week, and many people want to try the free calling before they use our service for inexpensive calls to landlines or other mobile phones. We have adjusted the product so that anyone who downloads the app can now try it without making a payment."

A VoX subscriber can subscribe entirely on the phone without leaving the interface. For consumers who wish to call a phone number outside the VoX network, the mobile VoIP plans start at $4.95 per month. VoX also offers 500 minutes of calling for $9.95, and $29.95 for unlimited calling to the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.

Riss continued, "Free calls are also available from the Android device to an Ojo Vision Video phone that runs on the VoX network. We are very excited about the quality and multiple uses provided by the app, and we have already met with a tablet manufacturer to demonstrate how well the app works on an Android tablet."

Mindspeed Announces Stephen N. Ananias as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that Stephen N. Ananias will assume the role of senior vice president and chief financial officer of the company effective October 31, 2011. Ananias joins the company from Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), where he served for more than 11 years in various finance positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as controller, Broadband Communications Group, a $2 billion semiconductor division of Broadcom. Ananias will report directly to Raouf Y. Halim, Mindspeed's chief executive officer.

"We are delighted to appoint a new chief financial officer of Stephen's caliber with a demonstrated management track record in the semiconductor industry. Stephen has a compelling combination of strategic planning and corporate development expertise, with a proven record of driving operating profitability," said Halim. "I look forward to working closely with Stephen as we pursue the growth opportunities ahead of us in next generation communications infrastructure markets."

"Mindspeed is undergoing an exciting transformation, with its successful entrance into the wireless infrastructure market," said Ananias. "I am grateful to join the high-performance team at Mindspeed at this stage of its growth, and will focus on improving the company's financial position and operating leverage."

Ananias has a 14-year track record of financial management responsibility at Broadcom and at LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI). During his career at Broadcom, Ananias served as director of corporate development and strategic planning for five years before assuming the role of controller, Broadband Communications Group.

Ananias received a bachelor of business administration degree and a bachelor of science degree from the University of Kentucky, and a master of business administration degree from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Research In Motion Offers Free Premium Apps to Customers Following Service Interruptions

Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced today that a selection of premium apps worth a total value of more than US $100 will be offered free of charge to subscribers as an expression of appreciation for their patience during the recent service disruptions. The apps will be made available to customers over the coming weeks on BlackBerry® App World™ and will continue to be available until December 31, 2011.*

“Our global network supports the communications needs of more than 70 million customers,” said RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. “We truly appreciate and value our relationship with our customers. We’ve worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years, and we’re committed to providing the high standard of reliability they expect, today and in the future.”

Mobile Marketing Association releases new privacy policy guidelines for mobile-apps for public comment

New York, NY, 17 October, 2011 – The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), the leading global trade association for the mobile industry, today announced the release of the MMA Mobile Application Privacy Policy, the first guidelines document of its kind that addresses the core privacy issues and data processes of many mobile applications, for public comment.

“These new privacy policy guidelines fill an urgent need for all companies doing business in the mobile marketing industry. The guidelines are intended to provide ways to give the mobile application developer with clear and transparent policy language that can be quickly and completely understood by the consumer,” said MMA Global CEO Greg Stuart. “Today’s release is the first in series of privacy policy guidelines that the MMA will create with the input of industry leaders across the mobile ecosystem.”

The guidelines address key issues including:

Annotated guidance on core privacy principles and consumer-friendly language for developers to consider using.

- Ways to inform users on how data is obtained and used

- Guidance on security and confidentiality of information

Privacy policies are an important consumer disclosure tool for app developers; not meant to be a one-size-fits-all document and should be customized to fit the needs of each company and each jurisdiction. The MMA urges app developers to consult with their legal counsel when adapting these guidelines for their purposes.

“Having a privacy policy is a good first step, compliance and supporting processes are also very important,” said Alan Chapell, Co-chair of the MMA Privacy & Advocacy Committee. “With more than 58% of U.S. mobile users worried that their data can be easily accessed by others, a privacy policy that helps establish and maintain consumer trust is absolutely essential.”

The MMA Mobile Application Privacy Policy was created by the MMA Privacy & Advocacy Committee -- co-chaired by Alan Chapell, President of Chapell & Associates, and Fran Maier, President of TRUSTe -- in response to the massive upsurge in mobile app popularity among smartphone users and mobile marketers. There are now billions of apps downloaded per year; as of June 2011, over 425,000 individual apps were available via the Apple App Store and more than 200,000 were available for Android devices.

Ixia Demonstrates MPLS-TP Services at MPLS 2011

CALABASAS, CA, (October 16, 2011) – Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), a leading, global provider of converged network testing solutions, participated in an MPLS 2011 interoperability demonstration with Isocore, successfully validating several advanced MPLS and MPLS-TP functionalities in a live test scenario using IxNetwork, Ixia’s award-winning and comprehensive protocol testing application. The results from these tests will be presented as part of a white paper released at the convention, taking place from October 16 – 19th, in Washington, DC. Ixia will also be part of a joint MPLS-TP panel discussion with Verizon and Cisco on Tuesday, Oct 18th from 11am to 12:30pm. The comprehensive interoperability event includes network elements from Alcatel-Lucent, Brocade Communication Systems, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and NEC Corporation.

Ixia’s solutions successfully validated the MPLS-TP and carrier Ethernet tests against the participating vendors. This event is the first interoperability test to include some of the more advanced MPLS-TP features. Ixia was able to test the following MPLS-TP functions:

Single Hop BFD LSP

Single Hop Y.1731 LSP

Multi Hop BFD LSP

Multi Hop BFD PW nested LSP

Multi Hop Y.1731 LSP

In addition, Ixia verified interoperability with several vendors’ 100 Gigabit Ethernet implementations. Using its higher speed Ethernet (HSE) testing solution, Ixia performed:

CFM (802.1ag) testing

L2oMPLS (Martini) services testing

VPLS services testing

MPLS-TP is expected to be a low-cost L2 technology that supports connection-oriented packet transport services with a similar degree of predictability, reliability, and OAM found in existing transport networks. As such, it has garnered tremendous interest from the service provider community and will be a key area of product development for network equipment manufacturers over the next several years.

Test equipment will play a critical role in the functional, interoperability, and performance validation of MPLS-TP implementations. Ixia's IxNetwork is the only test application that supports new MPLS-TP technologies. IxNetwork helps to accelerate the development and deployment of MPLS-TP features and functionality.