Neighborhood America Expands Mobile Capabilities With DIDMO’s Magmito

MOVO and Magmito Bring Rich Social Software to Any Mobile Phone

DIDMO, the award-winning creators of the Magmito mobile content creation tool, and Neighborhood America, an award-winning provider of enterprise social software, have partnered to further extend Neighborhood America’s mobile offerings to clients. Under the terms of the agreement, Neighborhood America will be an authorized reseller of Magmito products in North America. Neighborhood America’s extensive roster of top brands and leading agencies will benefit from the Magmito’s groundbreaking ability to create customized mobile applications compatible with nearly every carrier and handset in the world.

“Our partnership with Magmito enables us to enrich our mobile offerings, opening new avenues for our customers and their constituents to engage each other,” said David Rippetoe, Sr. Director of Business Development, Neighborhood America. “Now our customers can more easily extend their online community strategies to the mobile phone, leveraging rich content from any Java enabled device.”

DIDMO’s Magmito is the mobile industry’s first user-generated mobile content creation tool that allows anyone around the world to create, publish and share content on mobile devices. With Magmito’s simple templates, customized applications can easily be distributed via SMS text message. The revolutionary service also includes the ability to implement polls, quizzes and forms, allowing consumer brands the ability to solicit feedback from customers while supporting peer-to-peer interaction and an enhanced social community via white labeling of the technology.

For years Neighborhood America has brought brands and customers together with rich, interactive social networking software. From Fortune 500 companies to the top names in entertainment and consumer products, Neighborhood America connects businesses and government agencies to the customers they depend on. Now with Magmito, Neighborhood America will be able to offer a more robust, integrated social media and mobile solution to their customers.

“When we created Magmito, we knew the potential would be incredible and that it would take creative companies and people to put the technology to good use,” said Roberto Chaves, CEO, DIDMO. “Neighborhood America immediately saw this potential in Magmito and their integration of our technology will extend their reach to the mobile device in innovative new ways.”

For more information on Magmito, please visit: http://www.magmito.com
For more information on Neighborhood America, please visit: http://www.neighborhoodamerica.com

About Neighborhood America
Neighborhood America’s ELAvate solution was named the software industry’s ‘Best Social Networking Solution’ for enterprises, honored with the 2008 CODiE Award. ELAvate enables companies to build online and mobile communities to engage consumers, facilitate ongoing dialogue around their brand, and gain continued business intelligence. Brands such as Scripps Networks, FOX News, and Adidas rely on Neighborhood America for its award-winning technology and commitment to guide them through the entire community-building process — from strategy, through implementation, to ultimate success. Learn how your company can gain a competitive advantage by visiting: www.neighborhoodamerica.com.

About DIDMO
DIDMO is a mobile technology and content provider that offers free entertainment and user-generated content supported by highly effective ad campaigns. The company launched its award-winning free-to-play mobile gaming service DIDMO Games in 2006, offering an extensive library of games that may be downloaded and played for free. Its latest offering, Magmito, empowers anyone to create and share their own content, delivered directly to the mobile device. DIDMO’s ad-supported content delivery platform serves to meet the needs of consumers, content publishers and advertising agencies worldwide. Please visit www.didmo.com for more information.

D-Link Now Shipping Next-Generation PowerLine Kit for Expanding the Home Network Using Existing Electrical Wiring

Equipped With D-Link Green(TM) Technology to Detect Data Transmissions and Power Down When Not in Use, Saves Energy and Costs

D-Link, the end-to-end solutions provider for consumer and business, today introduced its next-generation PowerLine adapter kit, an ideal solution for connecting computers, high-definition (HD) media players, game consoles, network attached storage (NAS), and Internet content throughout the home.

With the new D-Link® PowerLine HD Ethernet Adapter Starter Kit (DHP-303) anyone can take advantage of existing home electrical wiring to create or extend a network. The kit includes two PowerLine wall plugs/ adapters. The DHP-303 turns every power outlet in the home into a wall-to-wall network for connecting when connected to a switch or wireless access point.

With simple plug-and-play installation, the DHP-303 is ideal for connecting an Ethernet-enabled digital media device such as TiVo® or Slingbox® to the home network and the Internet. It also allows users to connect gaming consoles like the Xbox 360®, Playstation® 3 or Nintendo Wii(TM) to the Internet. The device will automatically be displayed in Microsoft Windows Vista’s Network Map. Users also can check the DHP-303′s performance via a built-in LED.

“This latest addition to our PowerLine HD product family offers user-friendly, wall-to-wall networking so everyone in the household can enjoy a powerful, extended multimedia experience regardless of the location,” said AJ Wang, chief technology officer for D-Link.

The PowerLine Adapter, with simple push-button activation, implements Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) for securing connections and keeping data safe from intruders. To create a secure connection the user simply pushes a button on one adapter, then goes to another room and pushes a button on the other adapter. It also offers Quality of Service (QoS) support to help prioritize data and enable smooth video streaming and lag-free gaming.

Key Features and Benefits

--  Uses home's existing electrical wiring
--  Streams HD media across the network
--  Up to 200Mbps* throughput
--  Connects computers, game consoles and multimedia devices to the
    Internet
--  Plugs into existing power outlets
--  QoS support helps prioritize Internet traffic
--  Extends wireless LAN by connecting an access point to achieve stronger
    wireless signals in remote areas
--  Supports enhanced network security
--  Simple plug-and-play installation
--  Power-saving mode
--  Simple push-button security
--  LED for easy monitoring
--  Microsoft Windows Vista "network map" locator

Price and Availability
D-Link PowerLine HD Network Adapter Starter Kit is available through D-Link’s network of value-added resellers (VARs), solution providers and distributors, and at D-Link’s online store, www.dlinkshop.com, for the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $139.99.

About D-Link
D-Link is the global leader in connectivity for small, medium and large enterprise business networking. The company continues to strive for excellence as an award winning designer, developer, and manufacturer of networking, broadband, digital electronics, voice and data communications solutions for the digital home, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), Small to Medium Business (SMB), and Workgroup to Enterprise environments. With millions of networking and connectivity products manufactured and shipped, D-Link is a dominant market participant and price/performance leader in the networking and communications market. D-Link Systems, Inc. headquarters are located at 17595 Mt. Herrmann Street, Fountain Valley, CA, 92708. Phone (800) 326-1688 or (714) 885-6000; FAX (866) 743-4905; Internet www.dlink.com.

D-Link, D-Link Green and the D-Link logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of D-Link Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other third party marks mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright © 2009. D-Link Corporation/D-Link Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

* Maximum throughput based on theoretical transmission PHY rate. Actual data throughput will vary. Network conditions and environmental factors, including volume of traffic and network overhead, may lower actual data throughput rate. Interference from devices that emit electrical noise, such as vacuum cleaners and hair dryers, may adversely affect the performance of this product. This product may interfere with devices such as lighting systems that have a dimmer switch or a touch-sensitive on/off feature, short wave radios, or other powerline devices that do not follow the Universal Powerline Association (UPA) standard.

ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING’S FSP 3000 DEPLOYED BY P&TLUXEMBOURG TO OFFER NEXT-GENERATION BUSINESS STORAGE SERVICES

Solution delivers the power efficiency, flexibility and reliability needed to support demanding enterprise customers

ADVA Optical Networking today announced that P&TLuxembourg, the leading fixed and mobile telephone operator in Luxembourg, has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000 to offer competitive storage services to enterprise customers.

Enterprises have rigorous requirements for dedicated connections, especially for those based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology and needed to link remote data centers. With its huge installed base and experience with the FSP 2000, P&TLuxembourg sought a universal platform that enables the same level of functionality, including high power efficiency. P&TLuxembourg also sought new state-of-the-art features that can drive deployments over longer distances using Raman amplification, support transmission speeds up to 40Gbit/s, enable network automation via ROADMs (Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers) and offer improved security via sophisticated and powerful encryption technology. Important for P&TLuxembourg was also that new equipment be qualified with solutions from all major storage vendors.

“The increasing growth in data-intensive, high-speed networking applications, particularly in storage environments, drives the demand for Ethernet and Fibre Channel solutions at higher bitrates and longer distances,” said Carlo Richartz, head of backbone deployment at P&TLuxembourg. “ADVA Optical Networking understands this demand and with the FSP 3000 has developed an industry-leading solution that enables us to quickly respond to the demands of our customers.”

The FSP 3000, with its unique set of low-latency cards covering a large range of protocols, is now the main building block of the successful high-speed enterprise connectivity business services delivered by P&TLuxembourg. Fully managed from its Network Operations Center and tightly integrated into P&TLuxembourg’s data center offering, the FSP 3000-based solution has already drawn numerous customers from sectors like finance, transportation and public institutions.

“With the successful deployment of the ADVA FSP 150 in early 2008 for intelligent Ethernet services, the FSP 3000 constitutes another key element of our next-generation enterprise service offering. Our customers value the speed, stability and high availability of this WDM solution,” explained Frank Mathieu, head of enterprise solutions at P&TLuxembourg. “It was also critical for our decision-making process that ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 3000 holds all key vendor qualifications in the areas of open systems, including 1-, 2-, 4-, 8- and 10Gbit/s Fibre Channel and mainframe applications, including ESCON, FICON and InfiniBand.”

“P&TLuxembourg is always at the forefront of innovation, continually looking for advanced and competitive network solutions that ensure the highest customer satisfaction,” commented Fabrice Jean, vice president of sales western Europe and Latin America for ADVA Optical Networking. “By deploying the ADVA FSP 3000, P&TLuxembourg benefits from state-of-the-art optical features, providing a powerful and universal solution that is easy to manage and reduces operational expenses.”

ABOUT ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING
ADVA Optical Networking (FSE: ADV) is a global provider of telecommunications equipment. With innovative Optical+Ethernet transport solutions, we build the foundation for high-speed, next-generation networks. Our FSP product family adds scalability and intelligence to our customers’ networks while removing complexity and cost. With a flexible and fast-moving organization, we forge close partnerships with our customers to meet growing demand for data, storage, voice and video services. Thanks to reliable performance for more than 15 years, we have become a trusted partner for more than 200 carriers and 10,000 enterprises across the globe. For more information, please visit us at www.advaoptical.com.

ABOUT P&TLUXEMBOURG
P&T (Post and Telecommunications) Luxembourg is the number one postal and telecom carrier in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. P&T also offers financial services. With 2,900 employees, the company provides high quality services to residential and professional customers, including financial and European institutions. P&TLuxembourg also operates an international data network for its professional customers: www.teralink.biz. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg (www.pt.lu)

Prism Announces Mindspeed Technologies to License Interconnect IP

Licensed IP for TSMC 40G Includes DDR3/2 Combo PHY and Multi-Protocol SerDes

Prism Circuits, Inc., The Interconnect IP Company, today announced that Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. has licensed Prism’s multi-protocol SerDes (Serial/Deserializer) and DDR3/2 PHY solutions for its ASICs. Prism’s IP provides Mindspeed with a high-performance and low-power interconnect solution for implementation on TSMC’s 40G process technology.

“The SerDes requirements for our ASICs are demanding and cover many protocols,” said Anil Mankar, Mindspeed’s Senior Vice President of VLSI Engineering. “Prism’s DDR3/2 PHY and multi-protocol SerDes are top in class. They give us a flexible IP solution that simplifies the design process without compromising performance, power or silicon die area.”

Prism’s multi-protocol SerDes solution is a macro that leverages a scalable silicon proven architecture that offers datarates from 1.25 Gbps to 10.3125 Gbps. The protocols include, but are not limited to, SGMII, SRIO, PCI Express, USB 3.0, XAUI, SATA and 10G KR.

Prism’s DDR3/2 Combo PHY solution is available in both wirebond and flipchip configurations. Offering a choice of 1.8V or 2.5V IO FETs, the DFI Compliant DDR PHYs support datarates up to 2133Mbps.

“Our customers are faced with design challenges that call for both high performance and low power in order to meet their application requirements,” said Sundari Mitra, Prism’s CEO. “Mindspeed is renowned for its cutting-edge chip designs, and we are pleased to provide our innovative Interconnect IP for its chip designs.”

Prism’s SerDes and DDR3/2 solutions are available for licensing in 65nm and 45nm processes at Fujitsu and TSMC. Availability at other process nodes and foundries will be announced shortly.

About Prism Circuits, Inc.
Prism Circuits, a privately held company, is a leading supplier of high quality parallel and serial interconnect IP. Prism’s silicon proven portfolio includes DDR3/2 Combo PHYs as well as SerDes IP that support datarates from SGMII (1.25Gbps) to 10G KR. These also include XAUI (3.125Gbps and 6.25Gbps), USB 3.0 (5Gbps), PCI Express Gen1 (2.5Gbps) and Gen2 (5.0Gbps), SATA I, II, and III.

For more information please see http://www.prismcircuits.com

Opto 22 Breaks New Ground in Wireless Networking

Company’s SNAP PAC Programmable Automation Controllers and I/O Are First to Offer 802.11a/b/g Wireless Networking Along With Standard Ethernet Networking

Opto 22, developer and manufacturer of the award-winning SNAP PAC System(TM) family of programmable automation controllers, I/O, and accessories, has developed a unique offering for the automation industry by providing both wireless and wired Ethernet networking options on its standard SNAP PAC programmable automation controllers (PACs) and I/O systems. Now using wireless for programmable automation controllers and I/O is as easy as it is for PCs and laptop computers, rather than the hodgepodge of proprietary and incompatible technologies typically found in the industrial automation industry today.

Wireless local area networking (WLAN) capabilities have been added to all of Opto 22′s Ethernet-based SNAP PAC System components, including its full line of intelligent SNAP I/O processors (“brains”) and all standalone and rack-mounted programmable automation controllers (SNAP PACs). Control system designers can now architect systems with traditional Ethernet wiring, Wi-Fi (also known as wireless Ethernet), or any combination of the two, delivering a new level of networking flexibility not available from any other industrial automation vendor.

“Similar to the way you use your laptop, our SNAP PAC controllers and I/O allow you to choose wired and wireless networking based on your environment and other factors,” explains Nick Riley, Design Engineer at Opto 22. “Engineers now have an effective, lower-cost way to provide ‘proof-of-concept’ for their projects — before investing in costly permanent wiring or building a wireless infrastructure throughout their factory or facility. It also gives them flexible options for segmenting their network.”

Opto 22′s new wireless technology in the SNAP PAC devices is based upon the industry-standard IEEE-802.11 specification with support for a, b, and g networks operating in the license-free 5 GHz (802.11a) and 2.4 GHz (802.11b/g) frequency bands. In this way the controllers and I/O brains can be used in the most common wireless infrastructures deployed in the world today. Wireless access points, wireless routers, and wireless repeaters from nearly any vendor can co-exist with SNAP PAC wireless technology. The 5 GHz (802.11a) option is particularly significant — and unique in industrial I/O systems — because it allows users to deploy SNAP PAC wireless in a frequency other than the typically crowded 2.4 GHz band, where interference from other 2.4 GHz devices, such as microwave ovens, could reduce performance.

Security is provided via the latest and most secure transmission algorithms — including WPA (TKIP) and WPA2 (802.11i/AES) — to help build the robust and secure wireless communications system typically required for any wireless implementation today. In addition, SNAP PAC wireless supports either “infrastructure” mode, where communication among devices is routed through an access point, or “ad hoc” mode, where each device can detect and communicate with any other similarly configured network device within range.

These wireless capabilities provide numerous benefits to users, beginning with the significant savings achieved through the reduction in wiring and termination costs. Wireless networking also makes it possible to deploy I/O and controllers in remote areas, areas that are inaccessible, or areas where network wiring is difficult or impossible to install.

The wireless capabilities in Opto 22 SNAP PAC I/O and controllers are unique in the automation industry because most other industrial wireless networking solutions are completely separate from a vendor’s standard line of components. Users are often required to purchase different or additional components — such as special module carriers or custom wireless I/O modules, racks, and terminations — which in turn requires them to carry a separate inventory of spares and networking gear. In many cases, the full line of a vendor’s analog and digital I/O does not support wireless networking. As a result, customers are forced to choose wired or wireless up front, and thus specify and commit to a networking technology in the early stages of project design. Later, if wireless communication doesn’t meet needs or expectations — or vice-versa in the event they wish to wirelessly enable an existing application — they must procure, configure, and install different hardware.

In contrast, Opto 22′s SNAP PAC controllers and I/O brains give users both wired and wireless at any time. They can network their components via standard wired Ethernet, use 802.11a/b/g for wireless networking, or use a combination of both. More importantly, Opto 22′s full line of SNAP analog, digital, and serial I/O modules is fully supported in both wired and wireless mode — simplifying the specifying of I/O and significantly reducing spares. Also, all the standard industrial protocols currently supported by the existing Ethernet interface are fully supported over wireless as well, including OptoMMP, Modbus®/TCP, ODVA’s EtherNet/IP(TM), FTP, SNMP, SMTP, and more.

Finally, Opto 22′s wireless technology offers the faster 802.11a and 802.11g radio technologies (54 Mbps), which differs from competing vendors’ products that use 802.11b only (11 Mbps).

Opto 22 has a 10-year history developing products utilizing wireless technologies. In early 2000, the company was the first automation vendor to launch a wireless LAN I/O product. In 2002, the company entered the nascent machine-to-machine (M2M) industry by forging alliances with wireless leaders Nokia, AT&T Wireless, Sony-Ericsson, and others. These efforts resulted in Opto 22 successfully delivering wireless remote monitoring and data acquisition solutions to manufacturing and other industry sectors.

For more information about Opto 22′s new wireless technology, and to download the “Overcoming Concerns about Wireless PACs and I/O in Industrial Automation” whitepaper, visit: http://www.opto22.com/ad/wired_wireless_IO.aspx

Availability and pricing for SNAP PACs and SNAP I/O with wireless networking expected in summer 2009.

About Opto 22
Opto 22 develops and manufactures hardware and software for applications involving industrial automation and control, remote monitoring, and data acquisition. Opto 22 products use standard, commercially available networking and computer technologies and have an established reputation worldwide for ease-of-use, innovation, quality, and reliability. Opto 22 products are used by automation end-users, OEMs, and information technology and operations personnel. The company was founded in 1974 and is privately held in Temecula, California, USA. Opto 22 products are available through a worldwide network of distributors and system integrators. For more information, contact Opto 22 headquarters at +1-951-695-3000 or visit www.opto22.com.