Reliance Globalcom Introduces Fiber-Optic Digital Distribution of Films over Global Network

Speed, Security and Reliability of Network Expedite Delivery of Movie Content to Digital Screens in the U.S. for Adlabs Films Limited

Reliance Globalcom, the leading global provider of managed network and communication services for multinational enterprises, carriers and consumers, announced today that Adlabs Films is using its global network to deliver movies to U.S. audiences. Adlabs, India’s largest entertainment conglomerate, is leveraging Reliance Globalcom’s network to efficiently, securely and cost-effectively transfer digitized movies to screens in the U.S.

Reliance Globalcom’s privately owned global fiber-optic network has enabled Adlabs to move its content more efficiently, dramatically reducing delivery times by 50-90 percent while securing the encrypted content during the transport process. Adlabs found the dedicated optical-fiber communication (OFC) network to be a superior transport method, as it exceeds the film industry’s requirements for speed, security and reliability.

“Reliance Globalcom’s global network acts as an international digital artery that allows Adlabs to offer content and media services globally,” said Anil Arjun, CEO, Adlabs Films. “With Reliance Globalcom’s extensive fiber assets, multi-metro connectivity and service assurance, we have the agility to serve the industry by moving film and media assets quickly and securely anywhere in the world. This means more movies and HD content like broadcasts of national sporting events and ceremonies can reach the big screen faster, more efficiently and in more locations around the world.”

Adlabs has successfully distributed many films over Reliance Globalcom’s fiber network, including the latest Indian hits such as Ghajini, Luck by Chance and Delhi 6. The films were all mastered in the DCI-approved 2K format in Mumbai by Adlabs Digital Cinema, sent over OFC to New York and screened in Adlabs’ BIG Cinemas digital cinemas in New Jersey and California. In comparison to the industry’s traditional method for delivering digitized films (i.e., physical shipments via a courier system), Adlabs preferred Reliance Globalcom’s global infrastructure for various key benefits:

• Time-to-Market / Time-to-Revenue: Transport time to a digital cinema is reduced by as much as 1.5 days for a full-length feature film.
• Content Security: The fiber network reduces the opportunity for piracy. Physical shipments that pass through multiple middlemen during the transport process may be subject to duplication or theft. Reliance Globalcom’s network supports technologies for digital encryption and content protection.
• Massive Bandwidth Allocations: Reliance Globalcom’s network provides the capacity to support the transport of large volumes of content simultaneously, including files as large as 2-3 terabytes, in full-resolution mode.
• Simplified Transport Logistics: Transferring content over OFC eliminates all types of transport and shipping intermediaries, as well as delays incurred by weather, customs agencies, couriers and airline carriers.
• Programming Flexibility: Adlabs can synchronize U.S. release with a film’s Indian release date and time to capitalize on homeland publicity campaigns and audience buzz. The company can also simultaneously release digital films in multiple regional languages, thereby catering to Indian audiences abroad.

“Reliance Globalcom’s network infrastructure is ideal for Hollywood studios, production houses, effects companies and broadcasters that require a high-speed network with the security and availability to move files that are often as large as 2-3 terabytes in full-resolution mode,” explained Ted Raffetto, president of the Americas region, Reliance Globalcom.

The largest singularly-owned cable system in the world, the Reliance Globalcom network touches both developed and emerging markets in the U.S., Europe, India, the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions.

Reliance Globalcom will be supporting Adlabs’ plans to expand to 166 digital screens in the U.S. in the coming months. Adlabs intends to continue to leverage the Reliance Globalcom network to bring more international content to audiences worldwide.

About Adlabs Films Ltd.
(MUMBAI:532399) (NSI:ADLABSFILM)
Adlabs Films Ltd., a member of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is India’s fastest growing film and entertainment services company. Adlabs has a dominant and comprehensive presence in Film Services: Motion Picture Processing and DI, Film Restoration, Digital Mastering, Studios and Equipment Rentals with facilities located at US and India.

Adlabs also operates BIG Cinemas, India’s largest cinema chain with about 430 screens spread across India, US and Malaysia. It has a significant presence in the film distribution space with a nationwide presence across India as well as offices in London, New York, Los Angeles and Malaysia. Adlabs’ television venture, Synergy Adlabs, is among the top players in the television programming industry.

About Reliance Globalcom
Reliance Globalcom, a division of Reliance Communications, spearheads the Global Telecom operations of India’s largest Integrated Telecom Service Provider. Reliance Globalcom brings together the synergies of Reliance Communications Global Business encompassing Enterprise Services, Capacity Sales, Managed Services and a highly successful bouquet of Retail products & services comprising of Global Voice, Internet Solutions and Value Added Services. The company serves over 1400 enterprises, 200 carriers and 2 million retail customers in 163 countries across 6 continents.

Reliance Globalcom owns the world’s largest private undersea cable system spanning 65,000 kilometers (km) seamlessly integrated with Reliance Communications over 175,000 rkms of domestic optic fiber provides a robust Global Service Delivery Platform connecting 40 key business markets in India, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the U.S. With its recent acquisition of eWave World, a pioneer in the global WiMAX space, Reliance Globalcom has the capability to launch 4G services in over 50 countries. It has also acquired Vanco Group, enabling the company to provide managed services to over 230 countries across the globe. For further information, please visit www.relianceglobalcom.com.

About Reliance Communications
Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 63,000 crore (US$ 14 billion), cash flows of Rs. 12,000 crore (US$ 3 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,000 crore (US$ 2 billion) and zero net debt.

Reliance Communications is India’s largest truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of over 74 million, including over 2 million overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.

Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, integrated (wireless and wireline) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting the full range of best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain. It offers the widest network reach, covering over 20,000 towns and 450,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world’s largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 175,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

Wilson Electronics Launches SignalBoost DB Pro for Unsurpassed In-Building Cell Signal Strength

Easy to Install Kit Delivers the Strongest Cellular Connection Possible for Mobile Phones and Data Cards in Any Building Experiencing Weak Cell Signals

Wilson Electronics, the leading provider of quality amplifiers and antennas for cellular phones and data cards, today announced the launch of the Wilson Electronics’ SignalBoost DB Pro™, the in-building wireless cellular amplifier kit that significantly improves voice and data performance of any cellular device, on any network, inside buildings or homes experiencing weak signals. Unique to the industry, the SignalBoost DB Pro is designed for simple installation without sacrificing the high quality performance Wilson Electronics is known for.

“Dependency on cellular signals is on the rise as more and more people choose to drop their landlines in favor of their cell phones, making the need for strong cellular signal connection in the home, office, or any other building more important than ever before,” said Joe Banos, COO of Wilson Electronics. “While most solutions on the market require complex installation or do not deliver the quality cellular signal enhancement promised, the SignalBoost DB Pro offers consumers, and professional installers, an easy to install, dependable solution, giving cellular users the confidence that their signal connections will be there when they need it most.”

At the center of the DB Pro kit is the dual band amplifier with a new high gain design. An external omni directional high gain antenna with multiple mounting options eliminates researching cell site locations and antenna pointing. The inside panel antenna which rebroadcasts the amplified signal inside the home is designed for easy installation. All components are interconnected using provided standard TV cable which is also easily available and often found pre-installed, simplifying cable runs.

The SignalBoost DB Pro has been tested in real world, weak signal environments ensuring that consumers receive cell signals that could go undetected by most cell phones and data cards. Wilson Electronics’ patent pending techniques monitor and prevent harmful interference to cell sites, allowing the amplifier to perform at the highest specifications for maximum performance. The kit increases power to the cell site up to 20 times over a typical cell phone and provides the bulk of the power needed for signal reception and transmission, allowing users also benefit from longer cell phone battery life. With minimal outside signal the DB Pro can typically provide coverage for an average 2,000 square foot home. If there is a stronger exterior signal, for example if the exterior antenna can be placed on the roof or above the tree line, the coverage could be up to 25,000 square feet.

The Wilson Electronics’ SignalBoost DB Pro kit includes:

• Dual Band bi-directional amplifier (62dB 75 Ohm)
• Power supply (110/220 V AC)
• Omni-directional exterior antenna with multiple mounting options (75 Ohm)
• Panel antenna (75 Ohm)
• 3 sets of standard TV Cable (RG-6 Cable in 50, 30 and 20 ft lengths)
• 30-day customer satisfaction money back guarantee
• One year warranty on all components

The SignalBoost DB Pro is now available through authorized Wilson Electronics’ dealers with an average selling price around $600. Visit the dealer locator page at www.wilsonelectronics.com to search for dealers by ZIP code, or to buy the product immediately from an online retail partner. For more information on how to become a Wilson Electronics’ dealer, visit www.wilsonelectronics.com/becomeadealer.php

About Wilson Electronics
Wilson Electronics, Inc., a leader in the wireless communications industry for over 40 years, pioneered the design and manufacture of a variety of cellular amplifiers, antennas and related components that significantly improve cellular communications in mobile or in-building installations. Wilson Electronics has consistently led the industry in performance standards and holds a number of patents including the industry’s fastest and most reliable method of oscillation prevention and carrier cell site protection. Wilson Electronics’ designs consistently outperform the competition in real world performance. All Wilson Electronics products are engineered, assembled and tested in the company’s headquarters in St. George, Utah. Wilson Electronics amplifiers fully comply with FCC regulations for cellular devices and are FCC and Industry Canada type accepted. For more information, visit www.wilsonelectronics.com.

*The SignalBoost DB Pro works with all carriers except those on the iDEN frequency. Contact Wilson Electronics for specific iDEN/Nextel Solutions

Dust Networks Launches Developer Kit to Speed Time-to-Market for WirelessHART Devices

SmartStart™ Evaluation and Developer Kit Set New Industry Standard For Ease-of-Integration

Dust Networks®, the leading supplier of wireless sensor networking products, announced its new WirelessHART SmartStart Kit today at INTERKAMA 2009, the world’s largest industrial automation exposition. The SmartStart Kit supplies everything needed for industrial automation vendors to design, develop and test new WirelessHART-based field device solutions.

“Our kit provides a complete, intelligent mesh network designed to be up and running within minutes of opening the box,” said Dust Networks’ Vice President of Marketing, Steve Toteda. “OEMs leveraging the SmartStart Kit can dramatically shorten development time—often going from concept to product in half the time required by most WirelessHART development cycles,” Toteda added.

The SmartStart Kit includes a preconfigured SmartMesh IA-510 intelligent network manager with dynamic bandwidth to demonstrate multiple processes, 15 wireless mote modules, software libraries, sample WirelessHART command definitions and extensive documentation to simplify mote integration into WirelessHART field devices.

“WirelessHART preserves the investment in HART-enabled devices, tools and work procedures in use today, while extending the scope of monitoring and automation to areas which were previously in the dark,” said Ron Helson, Executive Director of the HART Communication Foundation. “Dust Networks’ SmartStart Kit will help accelerate the introduction of new WirelessHART devices from a wide range of vendors,” Helson added.

About Dust Networks
Dust Networks, the leader in standards-based intelligent wireless sensor networking (WSN), provides ultra low-power, highly reliable embedded systems to industrial automation vendors in a range of markets. Dust Networks enables OEMs to offer monitoring and control solutions that provide unprecedented access to information from the physical world, resulting in improved operations, safer work environments, and increased competitive advantage. Dust Networks partners with industry and standards groups such as the IETF, the HART Communication Foundation, and ISA to ensure the broad adoption of interoperable wireless sensor networking products. For more information visit www.dustnetworks.com.

Aruba Networks Releases New Technical Brief on Campus E9-1-1 Emergency Call Handling Over Wi-Fi

Document Explains How Aruba’s Wireless LANs Interface With Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager and Emergency Responder for a Complete E9-1-1 Solution

Aruba Networks, Inc. (NasdaqGM:ARUN – News), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, today announced the availability of a new technical brief on using adaptive wireless LANs for Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) emergency call handling in campus environments. Wi-Fi phones present unique challenges for E9-1-1 systems because they are untethered from the wired connections typically used to identify physical location. “Looking for Trouble” explains how Aruba’s solution feed data on Wi-Fi phone location to Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager (UCM) and Emergency Responder (CER) systems for delivering a complete E9-1-1 solution

“The popularity of Wi-Fi devices, including PC-based soft phones, in campus deployments presents a challenge to emergency response services because these highly mobile devices are difficult to locate using conventional 9-1-1 services,” said Peter Thornycroft, author of the technical brief. “‘Looking for Trouble’ discusses the challenges of designing a wireless LAN for E9-1-1 services, and explains how Aruba’s best-in-class centralized architecture interfaces with UCM and CER to meet the needs of campus deployments.”

Emergency services calls must be processed and acted upon quickly if they’re to be effective. Enterprise PBXs incorporate sophisticated, dependable emergency call handling features to meet this need with stationary wired phones, associating a phone’s extension number with a specific physical location on a one-to-one basis.

When voice over IP (VoIP) technology was first introduced it broke the one-to-one model. A VoIP extension number moves with the telephone, and is not tied to the location of the phone jack into which it’s plugged. If a VoIP phone is moved, location identification is lost. To overcome this problem, technology was developed that identified the Ethernet edge switches to which VoIP phones were connected, and then extracted pre-configured location data from the switches. All IP PBX vendors incorporate some variant of this locationing methodology to deliver E9-1-1 services.

Wi-Fi phones present a problem in this scheme because they are untethered from the wired network. Upon power-up Wi-Fi phones connect to wireless access points, which in turn connect to Ethernet edge switches, and then register with the IP PBX. Once registered, Wi-Fi phones can and do roam anywhere within a building or campus — moving from access point to access point, switch to switch — without a fixed physical connection to the network.

The job of identifying the location of Wi-Fi phones falls to the Wi-Fi network itself, which must ensure that the IP address of the phone originating an emergency call accurately reflects its location. Aruba’s centralized architecture is designed to allocate the IP address of each Wi-Fi phone when it associates with an access point. The identification of the access point is then associated with the virtual LANs available within network. These data are passed in real-time to the UCM and CER.

When a Wi-Fi phone makes an emergency call, its location is mapped to the emergency response location on a floor plan and the IP address is converted to an extension number. The correct location and phone number then appear on the emergency dispatcher’s screen. This solution is scalable from a single campus up to multi-site locations.

“E9-1-1 has been of particular interest to college campuses where wireless LAN coverage is more pervasive in-building than cellular, and is better integrated with campus safety operations,” continued Thornycroft. “Having direct control over the wireless LAN allows IT to set network priority in favor of emergency communications, ensuring that voice calls are allocated network resources ahead of all other traffic. Aruba’s solution is ideal for E9-1-1 because it works with all standard Wi-Fi-capable telephones, recognizes application type and user role, and is designed to expedite emergency calls.”

“Looking for Trouble” can be downloaded from Aruba’s Web site at http://www.arubanetworks.com/pdf/technology/TB_EMERCALL.pdf.

About Aruba Networks
People move. Networks must follow. Aruba securely delivers networks to users, wherever they work or roam. Our mobility solutions enable the Follow-Me Enterprise that moves in lock-step with users:

--  Adaptive 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networks optimize themselves to ensure
    that users are always within reach of mission-critical information;
--  Identity-based security assigns access policies to users, enforcing
    those policies whenever and wherever a network is accessed;
--  Remote networking solutions ensure uninterrupted access to
    applications as users move;
--  Multi-vendor network management provides a single point of control
    while managing both legacy and new wireless networks from Aruba and its
    competitors.

The cost, convenience, and security benefits of our secure mobility solutions are fundamentally changing how and where we work. Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000® Index, Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com. For real-time news updates follow Aruba on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ArubaNetworks.

© 2009 Aruba Networks, Inc. AirWave®, Aruba Networks®, Aruba Mobility Management System®, Bluescanner, For Wireless That Works®, Mobile Edge Architecture, People Move. Networks Must Follow., The All-Wireless Workplace Is Now Open For Business, RFprotect, Green Island, and The Mobile Edge Company® are trademarks of Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

TODAYshow.com and Zumobi Launch New iPhone and iPod Touch Application

Free App Delivers the Day’s Top Video and News Stories from the Online Home of America’s #1 Morning Program

TODAYshow.com and Zumobi today unveiled the official TODAY application for the iPhone and iPod touch, offering millions of consumers access to the program’s leading news, entertainment and lifestyle content, right from their mobile device. This application is a first-of-its-kind for the morning news program category and represents a compelling new way for TODAY viewers to enjoy content from America’s number-one morning program for 13 years running. The free application, available now in the iTunes App store, delivers videos, top stories and photos from popular TODAY topics, including interviews with newsmakers and features on health, food and wine, entertainment, relationships and fashion.

TODAY, America’s #1 morning program
(Photo: Newscom)

“This fun new app lets millions of consumers stay connected to the lifestyle content they love, even when they’re on the go,” said Catherine Captain, general manager of TODAYshow.com. “The mobile app also presents another way for marketers to reach our highly engaged audience on another platform.”

“For years, the Today Show has been the undisputed leader in morning television, drawing an incredible loyal audience of TV viewers day in and day out,” said Ken Willner, CEO of Zumobi. “We are absolutely delighted to bring both the high-quality of TODAY’s programming and the power of the Today Show brand to The Zumobi Network.”

TODAY is presented in a vibrant design with an innovative zooming user interface that is engaging and simple to navigate. The iPhone and iPod touch application brings TODAY’s digital content to the next level by putting it in the pockets and purses of the show’s viewers. The TODAY mobile app is free, and iPhone and iPod touch users can download it from the iTunes App Store at http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=309546027&mt=8.

The TODAY app is part of The Zumobi Network, which offers a variety of entertaining, informative and useful mobile media applications to enjoy on next-generation smartphones.

About TODAYshow.com
TODAYshow.com is the online home for America’s #1 morning show. The site is the first stop for consumers interested in news, advice and lifestyle information of all kinds. In addition to interviews and tips from NBC’s TODAY show, the site offers a behind-the-scenes blog with anchors and regular expert columns on everything from food and wine to travel, fashion and relationships. TODAYshow.com also offers original web-only reporting and interactive features to help make sense of the latest news and trends. The site’s message boards, blogs and user-generated content connect members of the TODAY community and allow visitors to share advice and opinions.

About Zumobi
Zumobi is a leading mobile media company that designs, develops and distributes branded applications for next-generation smartphones. Zumobi’s portfolio of mobile applications comprises The Zumobi Network, which provides innovative and comprehensive solutions for brands, media properties and consumers to connect and engage. For more information, please visit www.zumobi.com.