Leading Russian Service Provider Future-Proofs High-Performance Infrastructure With Juniper Networks

TTK Chooses MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers to Meet Demand for Innovative Services

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR – News), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that TTK (TransTeleCom), a major communication provider in Russia that operates one of the country’s largest fiber networks, has chosen Juniper Networks® MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers to provide the Ethernet bandwidth required to ensure high-speed connectivity while delivering innovative applications and services such as IP-VPN, L2-VPN, video conference across Russia and IP-transit to its subscribers across 75,000 km of cables running along railway lines and 1,000 access nodes.

“We continue to modernize our network to meet the needs of our clients,” says Vitaly Kotov, vice-president, head of TTK’s Backbone unit. “We selected the new generation routers from Juniper Networks to deliver a high-performance network infrastructure that can cope with exponential traffic growth while containing cost and maximizing service agility.”

“To gain competitive advantage, increase market share and remain profitable, service providers need to maximize network performance and availability while improving operational efficiency,” said Mike Marcellin, vice president, systems strategy and marketing, Platform Systems Division, Juniper Networks. “TTK turned to Juniper’s Universal Edge Routing portfolio to meet the experience expectations of their divergent subscriber base while building in the scalability necessary for future growth with an architecture that fully monetizes the network for the long term.”

Powered by the Junos® operating system, the MX Series provides a consistent operating environment that streamlines network operations and improves the availability, performance and security of all types of services supported at the Universal Edge. The MX Series delivers the most advanced routing features, including QoS features, multicast support and industry-leading MPLS capabilities, with the ability to scale functionality without compromising performance. The MX960 3D Universal Edge Router is a high density Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet platform designed for deployment in a number of enterprise and service provider scenarios.

About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net).

Raycap Announces New Product Suite Designed to Protect Remote Radio Heads

Strikesorb® protects RRH equipment at tower sites from lightning strikes.

Raycap Inc., a global manufacturer of electrical protection solutions announced it released its new suite of products engineered to protect cellular networks using Distributed Base Station (DBS) or Remote Radio Head (RRH) architecture from the destructive forces of direct lightning strikes. The Raycap product suite combines cable and fiber management solutions with the company’s innovative Strikesorb® Class I Surge Protective Devices (SPDs) to safeguard vulnerable remote radio and baseband unit equipment located at cell sites.

Because mobile data traffic is expected to grow exponentially over the next few years, operators must find new ways to manage the growing demand for data while at the same time lowering their operational expenditures. RRH architecture supports this explosive growth in legacy 3G networks and facilitates the deployment of next generation 4G / LTE mobile communications networks. Raycap’s RRH Product Suite protects these next generation networks and provides flexible, easily customized products to meet the specific needs of mobile operators, radio equipment suppliers and system integrators.

With RRH architecture, DC power cables travel from the base station to the top of the cell tower to power the remote radio units. The conductive copper wires are a conduit for lightning currents, making the active equipment at both the top and the bottom of the site susceptible to damage. Lightning is one of the main concerns most network operators have when it comes to installing radio equipment at exposed locations. Raycap’s RRH Product Suite includes a large number of customizable water tight enclosures for installation at the top and bottom of the tower, as well as distribution/protection enclosures specially built for installation in shelters or cabinets. Raycap’s systems make managing and installing the long runs of power and fiber optic cables easier, and ensure the availability and reliability of the radio and baseband equipment they are connected to.

The key technology in the RRH Product Suite is Raycap’s flagship product, the Strikesorb Surge Protective Device (SPD), has been engineered and tested for use specifically in DC power protection applications. Raycap’s electrical protection equipment is designed to save operating and installation costs by reducing downtime for major carriers deploying RRH architecture at cell sites worldwide. Raycap’s DC-based Strikesorb product is the only Class I SPD capable of withstanding multiple direct lightning strikes and operating safely in 48V DC systems, diverting the current to ground and away from sensitive equipment on the tower or in the base station shelter/cabinet.

Raycap is the global leader in the protection and interconnection of RRH sites with more than 60,000 sites operating using Raycap’s solutions.

About Raycap

Raycap is a global manufacturer and supplier of diversified products and services for the telecommunications, defense, energy and other industrial markets. The company’s electrical protection solutions include its Strikesorb, Rayvoss®, and ACData product lines. Raycap was founded in 1987 and has operations in Europe and North America. For more information find us at www.raycapsurgeprotection.com.

Ball Aerospace-Built NPP Satellite Launched Successfully

NASA’s Next Generation Earth Observation Satellite to Benefit Science & Weather Forecasting

NASA’s NPP satellite built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. was successfully launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit this morning at 2:48 PDT (5:48 EDT).

NASA’s first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate and key weather data lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II rocket. NPP’s five science instruments will make critical measurements to provide long-term climate projections and data to improve short-term weather forecasts.

Ball Aerospace built the BCP 2000 satellite bus for Goddard Space Flight Center under fixed-price terms. Ball also built one of the five sensors aboard NPP – the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite – an instrument that will measure how much ozone is in our atmosphere and how the ozone concentration varies with altitude.

“We are confident NASA’s long-standing Earth-observation records will dramatically improve with the successful launch of NPP,” said David L. Taylor, president and CEO of Ball Aerospace. “The NPP mission will bridge critical data while Ball Aerospace builds the first next-generation polar-orbiting satellite – JPSS-1.”

JPSS-1 is the Joint Polar-Orbiting Satellite System scheduled to launch no earlier than 2017. JPSS data and imagery will further increase timeliness, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness of public warnings and forecasts of climate and weather events.

NPP has a five-year mission life and a seven-year design life. The spacecraft bus is the eighth spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace on the same BCP core architecture. In all, this architecture has more than 50 years of successful on-orbit operations. Additionally, the NPP spacecraft incorporates both MIL-STD-1553 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) data networks to support the payload suite.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. supports critical missions of important national agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. government and commercial entities. The company develops and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, components, data exploitation systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical and scientific applications. For more information visit www.ballaerospace.com.

Ball Corporation (NYSE:BLL – News) is a supplier of high quality packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 14,500 people worldwide and reported 2010 sales of more than $7.6 billion. For the latest Ball news and for other company information, please visit http://www.ball.com.

MobiTV, Inc. Introduces TV Everywhere Solution for Cable, Satellite and IPTV Service Providers

Fast Path to Market with Content Ingestion, Device Integration, Technology Platform and DRM Support Ready to Go

MobiTV, Inc., a leading provider of managed mobile TV and video services, announced today that it is introducing a TV Everywhere solution for cable, satellite and IPTV service providers, leveraging the company’s expertise in providing video delivery solutions for mobile devices, personal computers and other Internet-enabled consumer electronics. Based on MobiTV’s existing cloud-based video distribution platform, TV service providers can now offer their subscribers live and on-demand programming for viewing inside and outside the home on personal computers, tablets and a broad range of mobile devices.

The MobiTV TV Everywhere solution is easily adaptable for seamless integration with existing TV infrastructure and back-end systems. Customers looking to extend their content to other platforms may leverage MobiTV’s existing ingestion and encoding efforts. As an end-to-end managed service that leverages MobiTV’s cloud-based video distribution platform, the TV Everywhere solution can help TV service providers reduce time to market and costs associated with deployment and operations. Additionally, the service will be supported 24×7 by the experienced team in the MobiTV network operations center.

“TV service providers need a cost-effective solution to meet consumer demand for seamless authenticated access to content anytime, anywhere and on any device,” said MobiTV Co-Founder and President Paul Scanlan. “MobiTV built its technology with a focus on delivering live television optimized for mobile devices. By pre-packaging all the necessary components – content ingestion, technology platform, device integration and DRM support – we’ve taken what’s typically a very complex and expensive project for a TV operator and made it simple, affordable, and easy to launch.”

The MobiTV TV Everywhere solution, designed for TV service providers, is immediately deployable across a broad range of devices both inside and outside the home. The easily implemented solution includes:

• Support for over 375 different types of mobile devices on all major operating systems and across wireless and broadband networks
• Ingestion and encoding of live and DRM-protected VOD content
• Advanced policy management to tailor delivery and access to varying content rights
• Unified channel guide with remote DVR control
• A customizable branded multi-platform user experience
• Single sign-on authentication support to manage delivery of multiple tiered video packages and products

About MobiTV, Inc.

Founded in 2000, MobiTV, Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive managed services that deliver live and on-demand television and related media content across mobile devices, tablets, personal computers and other Internet-enabled consumer electronics. MobiTV is the exclusive national provider of mobile television services for AT&T U-verse Live TV, NFL Mobile on Verizon, Sprint TV and T-Mobile TV, among others. MobiTV’s cloud-based proprietary technology platform, which is quick to deploy and easy to integrate with customers’ existing systems and networks, allows the company to efficiently and reliably deliver high-quality television and video solutions anytime, anywhere, on any device.

WISeKey Showcases WISePhone Secure Phone Encrypted Voice Solution for Blackberry, iPhone and Android at ITU Telecom World 2011

WISeKey is proud to showcase WISePhone secure phone solution for Blackberry (including OSv7), iPhone (including iOS5), and Android. WISePhone solves the problem of mobile phone security, by encrypting voice communication anywhere in the world, even in regions where eavesdropping is common. WISeKey has been demonstrating the power of WISePhone this week at the ITU Telecom World conference, where the Swiss company is part of the Geneva Pavilion.

WISeKey developed WISePhone understanding that interception technology exists, is cheap, and is used more than many are aware. Particularly with the increased data stored and transmitted on Smart Phones, eavesdropping and wiretapping are a genuine concern. People, corporations and governments need to be aware of the real dangers of voice communication interception and take necessary precautions against hacking, corporate espionage and cyber-terrorism.

“By using WISePhone, people can be assured that their conversation will stay away from prying ears, thanks to the high level of cryptography used. WISeKey is using its globally recognized, digital security pedigree to make the Internet safe for its users,” said Gary Shainberg, WISeKey’s Chief Innovation & Digital Officer. “This is just the first iteration of the WISeKey Secure Communications Suite, with more applications coming in the near future.”

WISePhone is simple to use and extremely secure. Your communication is secured with transparent, military-grade encryption offering the same level of security used by government agencies. WISePhone works with specific, widely-used Smart phones currently operating in today’s mobile environment, so there is no need to buy a special phone.

Visit WISeKey at Telecom 2011 in the Geneva Pavilion.

For more information:
http://www.wisephoneplus.com