On the occasion, Mr. Manoj Kohli, CEO and Jt. MD, Bharti Airtel, said, “Today we are starting a new chapter in our journey, one that adds a new dimension to our existing product portfolio and is a major step towards transforming Airtel from just a telecom brand to a lifestyle enabler. The launch of Airtel digital TV is the culmination of our three screens strategy, which is to be present across mobile phone, computer and TV screens.”

Mr. Atul Bindal, President - Telemedia Services, Bharti Airtel, added, “We believe that the Indian DTH segment offers immense growth potential going forward. Given our deep understanding of Indian customer, we believe that Airtel has created an excellent product offering. With added benefits of Airtel’s strong brand equity and wide distribution network, we are well placed to emerge as a leading player in this segment.”

Airtel digital TV uses the latest MPEG4 standard with DVB S2 technology, which translates into exceptional picture clarity and consistent high quality audio for the customer. This latest technology also enables delivery of more complex interactive content and is High Definition ready. Also, Airtel digital TV uses 20% larger dish antenna that offers better performance during rain.

Besides the latest technology, Airtel digital TV brings many firsts to the DTH segment in India:

• Universal remote for both Set Top Box and TV that offers enhanced viewer convenience;
• Highest Set Top Box memory enabling more interactive applications;
• Exclusive content such as World space Radio;

• Interactive applications such as iMatinee (Book cinema tickets), iTravel (Browse and book travel packages), iShop (Shop on TV for your favorite brands), iCity (Get your city’s information) and Widgets (Update yourself on latest stock news). 8 screen iNews, 2 / 4 screen iSports.
• Amazing games with high quality graphics, refreshed every 6 weeks
• Audio gain control for uniform audio levels across all channels
• Simple and intuitive search
• On screen account meter
• Last viewed channel in case of power disruption/switch off
• Low battery indicator on the screen

These great viewing experience and unique features are backed by 24x7 customer care available in 8 different languages and a team of 800 professionally trained service engineers.

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About Bharti Airtel Limited:

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India’s leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate of over 77.24 million customers as of end of August 2008, consisting of 74.77 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel Limited has been voted as India's most innovative company, in a survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities and is foraying into the IPTV and DTH segments. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national & international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 78,540 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in

The inaugural day began with Mr Sanjiv Mital, VC, Bharti Telesoft, enlighteninig the audience about the changing face of the Telecom Industry and the impact of convergence on it. The first day also witnessed distinguished speakers Mr. Mohit Rampal, Cellebrum Technologies; Mr. Kunal Bajaj, BDA Connect, Mr. Srinivasa Addepalli; Tata Communications, Mr. Rahul Pandey; Mobile 18 and Mr.Ravindra Deshmukh, Dhruv Technology Systems Pvt Ltd. who provided their valuable insights on topics ranging from 'Smart phones to Entertainment phones', 'Entertainment & Web 2.0', 'DTH vs. Cable' and 'Mobile television'. The day concluded with a panel discussion on 'Managing Business Convergence' with panelists from diverse backgrounds and organizations like CII, Amdocs, GTL Infrastructure, Indiagames, IBM, One97, TTML and IDEA Cellular.

The concluding day of the seminar witnessed panel discussion on 'Is content or distribution the King?' with panelists from CII, Nazara Technologies, Bharti Telesoft, SOTL, Publicitas Digital, MSN and Time Broadband and on 'In the Convergence Ecosystem, will Telecom Houses or Media Conglomerates be successful?' The panelists being from Business India, STAR India, Shemaroo Entertainment, Ernest & Young, Indiagames, BSNL and Airtel. Other topics for the day were 'Mobile payments', 'Mobile Advertising', 'Digital Asset Management', 'Wireless Distribution revolutionizing Media Industry' and 'Role of security in the convergence scenario' by eminent speakers- Mr. Probir Roy, Paymate, Mr. Rajnish, Microsoft, Mr. Mrutunjaya Hiremath and Mr. Manish Ranjan, IBM, Mr. Rajesh Mishra, UFO Moviez and Mr. Rupinder Goel, Airtel.

The institute unveiled its much awaited 6th Annual Telecom Forecast- Prevision'09, with verticals being Economy, Global Telecom, Indian Telecom, Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Communication Infrastructure, Telecom Technology, Broadband, Telecom Software and Convergence. Prevision is a collective endeavor of SITM students, their efforts, the alumni inputs and Industry Interactions.

The Seminar was very well received by the Corporate Industry as well as by students as it provided valuable insights on Telecom Media Convergence and exceeding all expectations set a new benchmark for future.

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Established in 1996, SITM is a premier telecommunication b-school in South Asia committed to developing world class telecom business leaders who can handle the ever-changing technology and the business scenario effectively at all levels of the corporate ladder.

The Indiantelecom market is growing at 9 Million plus subscribers every month and thepotential of 3G to bring about a convergence of voice, data and the myriad ofuser friendly services popularly referred to as ICE (Information, Communicationand Entertainment) is manifold.

In India, sincethe revenue generated from data is less than 10% compared to 50% in Korea, itis possible that the introduction of 3G might take some time to mature.However, once it matures cost can even come down to less than Re 1 per minute.Mr. Mohan added that 3G in India is going to fulfill the unmet needs for voiceand broadband in urban India and will connect rural areas to rest of the world.On 3G application in rural India, hereferred to areas like “Telemedicine” where there is a untapped business opportunitywith immense social value. In emerging economy like India, there will also be alot of unexplored possibilities in Value Added Services like Location BasedServices after the introduction of 3G.

Mr. Vivek Mohanwas invited to speak about Telecom- Emerging areas & Challenges by studentsof XLRI’s General Management Program (GMP). The auditorium was packed with arecord participation of around 200 students from across all streams. Mr. Vivek,himself an alumnus of Harvard Business School, also dwelled on the importanceof an MBA program and how managers of today can contribute to the society atlarge.

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Xavier Labour Relations Institutes (XLRI) one of the premier management institute in the country was founded in 1949 in the Steel city of Jamshedpur, Bihar. Over the last few decades, XLRI Jamshedpur has contributed its best to the professional growth and management of innumerable institutions that serve the public, especially organized industry, Labour, service agencies engaged in rural development, education, health and other public systems.

Knowledge and continuous learning is the mainstay amongst the best organizations of today. In order to satisfy this thirst for knowledge and to become a learning organization, XLRI has evolved a one year consolidated programme in general management with the objectives of providing the practicing managers a substantial exposure to theoretical foundations in management as well as to provide them a holistic perspective of business in such a way that they are not only equipped with tools and techniques to perform their task effectively but also to shoulder greater responsibilities in the future as they move up the hierarchy.

The Institute awards the Executive Postgraduate Diploma In General Management to the participants who successfully complete all the requirements of this programme.

The India Retail Forum is a congregation of some of the best retail brands, companies and minds from across the globe, from diverse segments - retail real estate and design & architecture, to visual merchandising, retail support and technology. The Images Retail Awards, with a view to acknowledging and rewarding success in retail, felicitated India's top retail companies, professionals and concepts, in a glittering ceremony, attended by top notch professionals from the Retail Industry.

The "Most Admired Retailer of the Year - Mobile and Telecom" Award recognized and honoured the giant strides made by the Mobilestore in pioneering and driving the growth of organized Telecom Retail, in India, in a relatively short duration of time, since The MobileStore was launched in March 2007. The other nominees, in the Mobile and Telecom space, vying for this position, were Subhiksha Mobile, Airtel, Tata Indicom, Reliance World and Nokia.

On receiving the Award, Mr Rajiv Agarwal, CEO and Director, The MobileStore Limited, said "It is a matter of great honour and pride to receive this prestigious Award at the India Retail Forum. The entire team at The MobileStore has worked extremely hard and put in immense effort toward this accomplishment. This Award is a Certificate of Excellence for us and clearly demonstrates as well as recognizes the Leadership and Most Preferred Brand position that we hold in the Mobile and Telecom space."

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The MobileStore format is a one stop mobile solution shop that provides, multi brand handsets, accessories, connections, repairs, VAS etc all under one roof. Visit www.themobilestore.in for more information and for an exciting on-line shopping experience.

India has a large number of Distance education programs in Undergraduate and Post-Graduate levels. The trend was started originally by private institutions that offered distance education at certificate and diploma level. By 1985 many of the larger Universities recognized the need and potential of distance education in a populous country like India and launched degree level programs through distance education. The trend caught up, and today many prestigious Indian Universities offer distance programs. Two such universities are;

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, centered in Bangalore, India, is a unitary university set up in 1996 by the government of Karnataka, for the regulation and promotion of higher education in health sciences throughout the state of Karnataka. About 276 colleges throughout the state are placed under the Rajiv Gandhi University in order to establish uniform standards in academics and administration.

MGR Medical University, Chennai, India deals with all medical and paramedical degrees. Both of these and many private and public, non-profit and for-profit institutions offering courses and degree programs through distance education.

Solution:

After a thorough examination & analysis of the requirements, ValueFirst (a global leader in "Enterprise Mobile Messaging Services") in collaboration with a technology partner proposed its best-in-class application ValueFirst Velocity. ValueFirst Velocity is an enterprise class SMS suite designed to create, process and transmit SMS in a complex database environment. It provides highly reliable automated mobile messaging platform.

ValueFirst application enabled the universities to send their critical messages on a Just-In-Time (JIT) basis onto the mobile phones of invigilators.
The mobile messaging suite in addition, offers complete automation of various communication processes such as College to Student communication, College to Parent communication etc at these universities.

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ValueFirst empowers its customers to communicate between varied IT back-end systems and mobile phones using SMS Software/ API Services. ValueFirst provides a unique, end-to-end, global carrier-grade mobile data service. Its mobile data service offering includes "plug and play" application licensing and hosting. Employing a partnership with Mobile operators, ValueFirst acts as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), with a clear focus on SMS mobile messaging.ValueFirst's Mobile Messaging Platform is capable of delivering SMS services to virtually any CDMA/GSM mobile handset across the globe.

With this tender, ZyXEL will provide CHT with its VDSL2 equipment, including IP DSLAM IES-5005 series, VDSL2 Switch VES-1600 series, and VDSL2 CPE P-870 series, based on Broadcom's latest BCM6368 multimode residential gateway, to help CHT reach its goal of becoming the 'Next Generation Access Network'and MOD (Movies on Demand) to surpass one million users by the end of this year. The continuing success of CHT tenders signifies market validation of ZyXEL's trustworthy technical capabilities. With high bandwidth availability, ZyXEL VDSL2 solutions offer telco operators and service providers value-added services to provide triple-play and rich media services. ZyXEL has maintained its position as the leading VDSL2 equipment provider and continues to provide cutting edge IP-based, DMT VDSL technology that interoperates with all major CO equipment vendors. In addition, ZyXEL meets market trends and needs through a complete range of VDSL2 products, including CPE, pizza-box, and chassis-base solutions, to fit different applications for telco operators and service providers.

"We are very pleased the cooperation with ZyXEL and our outstanding engineering teams worldwide have once again achieved the best VDSL2 rating by Chunghwa Telecom. Winning CHT's VDSL2 tender for a second consecutive year is a significant endorsement for Broadcom's VDSL2 CO central office chipset solution and our BCM6368 multi-mode residential gateway solution,"said Greg Fischer, Vice President & General Manager of Broadcom's Carrier Access line of business.

"'Our success with Chunghwa Telecom bodes well for the future market success of the Broadcom based ZyXEL VDSL platform as both companies leverage this cooperation into new xDSL opportunities around the world." "It is a testament to ZyXEL's technical expertise and competitiveness that the company has won several consecutive CHT tenders," Dr. Yuh-Long Chen, President of ZyXEL Communications, said. "Based on our successful and extensive VDSL deployment experiences, we are better equipped to duplicate the success in CHT's NGN network established to accelerate NGN and MOD applications in the market."

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ZyXEL Communications Corp. (TSE: 2391), headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is the world's leading end-to-end network solution provider and was recently ranked as Taiwan's First "Green Enterprise," and the second best "Green" Company in Asia (2007 CG watch, Asian Corporate Governance Association). ZyXEL's comprehensive Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions include access multiplexers, customer premise equipment, Internet security and Wireless LAN equipment, enabling high-performance network services for SOHO, small to mid-sized businesses and service providers. ZyXEL works closely with worldwide network equipment vendors, telecommunications companies, ISPs, and other major businesses. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.zyxel.com, http://www.zyxel.in

His reaction came in after Swan Telecom’s valuation created jitters leading to questions being raised on the low pricing of $2 Billion of 3G Spectrum by the Department of Telecom.

Mr. Chandrasekhar said in his letter that since Spectrum was an asset of the government and the people of India, it must be commercially compensated at the market value when it was being transferred to another entity or company. “The transaction clearly established irrefutable evidence that the government’s pricing for Spectrum of 4.4 MHz was far lower than the actual market value causing considerable loss to the exchequer. There is need for a comprehensive public policy when it comes to commercial terms of monetization of public assets like spectrum, minerals and natural resources so that the exchequer gets its due,” he said.

Mr. Chandrasekhar pointed out that the arbitrage between the value that the government was receiving for Spectrum and the actual market value was to the tune of around Rs. 8,000 to Rs. 9,000 crore. On a base price of nationwide spectrum at approximately Rs. 1540 crore, this was an appreciation in the hands of the private sector of almost 600 per cent in a few months, he said.

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As value-added broadband applications such as triple-play (data, voice and video) and MOD become more prevalent, CHT, the largest incumbent telecom operator in Taiwan and one of the most advanced FTTx carriers worldwide, has aggressively invested in its FTTx network and MOD service to meet the goal of one million subscribers on NGN and MOD services by the end of this year. As the primary vendor for CHT's FTTx infrastructure in the access and aggregation network, ZyXEL has built a long-term partnership with CHT based on exceptional reliability and performance.

ZyXEL Carrier Ethernet technology aims to meet the demands of CHT customers with better connection quality and speed. With no compromise on performance, ZyXEL's Carrier Ethernet Switches provide new low energy consumption and low heat dissipation designs to help CHT to extend the product lifecycle, while lowering operating costs and addressing environment concerns.

In the latest tender, CHT employed, for the first time, the most-favored-bid method in Carrier Ethernet switch procurements. During the evaluation stage, ZyXEL products were well regarded in criteria such as specifications and sample tests. "Our products stood out from the competition," Dr. Yuh-Long Chen said, "and this underscores ZyXEL's technical advantage as a trustworthy business partner."

"Being successful in CHT's Carrier Ethernet switch tenders is a boost to ZyXEL's competitive advantage in Telco markets," Dr. Yuh-Long Chen, ZyXEL's president, said. "Our long-lasting development efforts and investment in Carrier Ethernet technology are now bearing fruit. Through recent sales achievements, we are confident that ZyXEL has demonstrated its capability as a viable player on the carrier network market."

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About ZyXEL's Carrier Ethernet

ZyXEL Carrier Ethernet switches, including the MES/MGS series, are designed to give Telco operators a flexible and cost effective solution in metro networks.
As a member of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), we believe that with the guarantee of MEF, the carrier class QoS, scalability, reliability and exclusive service management design of ZyXEL Carrier Ethernet products will help our customers deliver more differentiated Carrier Ethernet services.

ZyXEL Communications Corp. (TSE: 2391), headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is the world's leading end-to-end network solution provider and was recently ranked as Taiwan's First "Green Enterprise," and the second best "Green" Company in Asia (2007 CG watch, Asian Corporate Governance Association). ZyXEL's comprehensive Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions include access multiplexers, customer premise equipment, Internet security and Wireless LAN equipment, enabling high-performance network services for SOHO, small to mid-sized businesses and service providers. ZyXEL works closely with worldwide network equipment vendors, telecommunications companies, ISPs, and other major businesses. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.zyxel.com.

· To capture the high potential and high growth cable TV market in India, ACT was The first company to launch the 860 HZ, a state-of-art, fibre co-axial network in India. ACT is planning to offer more than 300 cable TV channels to its subscribers around the clock.

· Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management will enable ACT to efficiently manage, monetize, and maximize revenue streams across various customer types, service offerings, partner relationships, and payment types.

· This is one of the several initiatives undertaken by ACT in recent times to provide leading edge technology solutions offering world class customer service and care in the area of cable and interactive television and broadband services.

· Oracle Communications Order and Service Management will help ACT roll-out new services easily by automating and optimizing complex order change processes and providing high-volume, mass market services on a single convergent platform efficiently. Oracle Communications Service Activation will allow ACT to rapidly and cost-effectively assemble, deploy and monetize differentiated new services. This industry leading activation solution orchestrates the activation of complex services in a flow-through manner across multiple technology domains, drastically reducing deployment costs and delivering ultimate business agility.

· Oracle is a leader in the Indian Communications industry and the only IT vendor to offer an end-to-end integrated suite of open, standards-based applications for next generation services.

Supporting quotes:

· “The Oracle Communications implementation is a strategic initiative for Atria, critical to our ability to succeed in an increasingly competitive market for delivering converged services while meeting changing consumer demands head-on,” said Mr. C S Sunder Raju, Managing Director, Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd. “We chose Oracle Communications solutions as they can assure that Atria remains at the forefront of service innovation and customer experience.”

· “India is set to become Asia's leading cable market and we are pleased to help ACT address this rapidly growing market opportunity, said Mr. JP Krishnamoorthy, vice president of development, Oracle Communications. “ACT is yet another example of an innovative service provider leveraging the Oracle Communications applications suite to deliver a robust, profitable and world-class services offering.”

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About Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd, (ACT), a Multi Service Operator (MSO) is dedicated to bring Cable TV, Internet, data and other broadband services to customers through cable to home. Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd, is the communication division of Atria group of companies. Atria group is known for their excellence in Construction Engineering, Hotel Industry, Electrical Power generation, Computer manufacturing and Software development. The group has taken a lead role in few major infrastructure projects of our country. For more information, visit http://www.cablelite.com/aboutus.php

About Oracle Communications

Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world’s top 20 communications companies running Oracle applications. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with a standards-based service delivery portfolio, as well as the capabilities of Oracle’s industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service providers to/deliver next generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information, visit

http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications

About Oracle India:

Oracle entered India in 1987 and set up an India Development Centre in 1994. Today, Oracle has two India Development Centres as well as Indian hubs for Oracle's global support, consulting and financial services operations. Through its extensive network of more than 400 channel and alliance partners under the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Oracle India markets the complete range of Oracle products and services across India. Oracle India has more than 7000 customers in the telecommunications, banking, insurance, manufacturing and utilities industries, across the government and private sector. Oracle India is a major partner for E-Governance initiatives of Central and State Government bodies in India. The Oracle-HP E-Governance Centre of Excellence, Oracle Asia R & D Centre and Partner Solution Center are located at Oracle India’s head office in Gurgaon, near New Delhi. Oracle’s Retail Centre of Excellence is located in Bangalore.

About Oracle Corporation:

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/.

Trademarks:

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

And now the company enters East with a strategic partnership with the giant BSNL. The areas being covered are Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, Kolkata, Assam and North East (1& 2: the circles of BSNL). The partnership brings the sleek and user-friendly ‘Wow’ which brings the enhanced FM capable phones to these markets. The aim is to bring connectivity with compelling features to the Urban, Semi-urban and District towns of Eastern India. Handsets that are at once feature rich and yet economical.

Mr. Rakesh Kapoor, Chief General Manager, BSNL said, “BSNL fully supports its partnership with Haier Mobile for bundled GSM services and glad to take it forward for the benefit of its customers”.

Wow – Color FM phone with FM on Loudspeaker. Wherever you go the party is with you. The stereo FM has very good clarity and phone book memory can handle 500 contacts with three numbers for each contact effectively making a storage capacity of 500 x 3. FM Alarm & Recording and a host of surprises await you! It also has GPRS and Long Battery life. This phone is available at such prices that the one word response to it is “Wow”! Rs. 1699/-

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Today’s networking technology demands increasingly cable dense applications, whilst still retaining the ability to access and manage cables efficiently & effectively. The Vertical Cable Rack Manager is ideal for high density cable applications such as Data Centres or Server rooms.

The Vertical Cable Rack Manager provides excellent cable management. It gives the necessary support for bundled patch cords, moving them from panels to the frame, maintaining bend radii at all times. Cable routing is flexible, and rapid re-routing can be achieved via the Quick Fit cable spools. Quick snap finger grooves allow flexible equipment management, and allow for expansion from 1U to whatever size required.

The Vertical Cable Rack Manager is available in 8 and 12 inch versions, and has been designed for single handed operation in mind. The door has left or right hand opening and enables easy access to cables. Additionally the integral quick lock spools and horizontal cable retainers allow for easy fitment and removal.

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Molex Incorporated is the world’s second largest manufacturer of electronic, electrical and fibre optic interconnection products and systems, switches and application tooling. Based in Lisle, Illinois, USA, the company has over 60 years experience and operates 54 manufacturing facilities in 19 countries.

For over 30 years Molex has manufactured comprehensive UTP, FTP and Optical Fibre cabling products suitable for the transmission of voice, data and video imaging signals. As one of the original pioneers of structured cabling we have provided state-of-the-art communication solutions to some of the biggest organisations in the world.

Molex offers a comprehensive portfolio of cabling solutions that includes UTP, FTP, STP, Fibre Optic and Intelligent Infrastructure Management. All products and services comply with and exceed recognised industry standards, including TIA/EIA568B.2, ISO/IEC11801:2002 and AS/NZS3080:2003.

OMNIA, meaning ‘everything’ in Latin and ‘wish’ in Arabic, goes far beyond the current top-of-the-line features available in today’s mobile phones. Announcing the launch of Samsung OMNIA in the country today, stated Mr. Sunil Dutt, Country Head-Samsung Telecom, “ Samsung OMNIA is our flagship model aimed at users who desire a lot of functionality, a lot of style, a lot of usability and a lot of entertainment in one innovative device. Samsung OMNIA will help users to be at the forefront of work and play and at the same time, to stay connected anytime, anywhere”.

The all- in- one mobile with everything in touch

Samsung’s patented TouchWiz user interface makes entering data and text simple. With unique widgets, users can customize and personalize the way they use their phone. Samsung OMNIA’s high resolution touch-sensitive 3.2-inch WQVGA LCD screen uses intuitive tap, sweep, drag and drop operations as well as an on-screen QWERTY keyboard. Further, the OMNIA facilitates easy and convenient calling and texting with a dedicated dome key for controlling communications.

Vivid, lively multimedia experience with the Samsung OMNIA

Samsung OMNIA comes with a five-megapixel CMOS camera with the latest value-added features, which include auto-focus (AF), face detection, smile detection and auto-panorama shot.

Available with 32 GB Memory (16GB Internal Memory + 16 GB MicroSD card from Sandisk) and 24 GB Memory (8GB Internal Memory + 16 GB MicroSD Card), Samsung OMNIA ensures ample storage space for digital assets.

It delivers the ultimate in digital entertainment with a wide 3.2-inch WQVGA LCD screen for viewing videos and slide shows in high-resolution and advanced audio capabilities. MultiCodec support for DivX, Xvid and other video formats eliminates the hassle of file format conversions.

“OMNIA is for people who expect the ULTIMATE from their mobile devices and who don’t compromise on their desires. All functions of this device including amazing video quality are to be experienced to be believed as they set the NEXT benchmark in the industry” states Mr. Dutt.

Rounding out the fully comprehensive feature set, Samsung OMNIA also offers GPS, including navigation and geo-tagging capabilities, so users can get their bearings wherever work or life takes them.

Bringing a PC environment to Mobile

The new Samsung OMNIA allows users to switch seamlessly between Microsoft Outlook email and productivity applications that replicate the look and feel of their PC - with a stroke of their finger.

Based on the most up to date Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system, Samsung OMNIA gives users a mobile extension to their PC experience, with access to MS Office documents such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Users can also send and receive email and manage their appointments in Outlook while on the go. The Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system means users can download additional programs as they would on their PC and customize it for their individual needs. For ease of navigation, an optical mouse similar to those on laptop computers offers improved usability and one-handed control.

Samsung’s pursuit for design perfection

The Samsung OMNIA presents Samsung’s absolute leadership in design. It features an ultra-slim 12.5-mm profile and a platinum-look finish that fits snugly in the palm of the user’s hand. The elegant hairline patterns on the back of the phone bring the perfection in style.

Samsung OMNIA is priced at Rs.39,999/- (32 GB Memory ) and Rs 37,999/- (24 GB Memory).

Next is world at your touch

Samsung Mobile made its first foray into the touch screen mobile phone segment with Samsung Soul, which comes with a Magical Touch by DaCP. With this feature, navigation indicators on the keypad of the phone change according to the user’s needs, making navigation of the menus simple, intuitive and direct.

Following the launch of Samsung Soul, the Samsung SGH-i780 was introduced. Samsung SGH-i780 is a sleek smart device featuring a full QWERTY keyboard and full touch screen with built in stylus. The Windows Mobile 6.0 device features push email, MS Office, MSN Chat; GPS capabilities, an optical mouse, Wi-fi support and 2-megapixel camera. The optical mouse feature in the SGH -i780 is an industry first from Samsung.

Exemplifying Samsung’s ‘Next is What’ positioning and coinciding with the Beijing Olympic Games, Samsung launched its full touch screen, ultra slim, lifestyle mobile phone, Samsung TouchWIZ in the Indian market in August 2008 .

The Samsung TouchWIZ has innovative features like Customizable Drag ‘n’ Drop and Auto Smile Shot which coupled with the Full Touch navigation feature make the phone experience remarkably easy and user friendly.

The Touchwiz’s 5 MegaPixel, AutoFocus-LED Flash camera, refined metal body casing and luxurious leather cover combine the best of form and function to create new benchmarks in Lifestyle space in mobile phones.

“Based on the strengthening of our multimedia range with the introduction of our new touch screen and music phones , we expect the multimedia phone contribution to grow to around 40% of our total product portfolio by the end of the Year” states Mr. Dutt.

Samsung also plans to enhance its mobile channel coverage this year. The Company is in the process of growing its Samsung Mobile Privilege Partnership (SMPP) network and is aggressively tapping the semi urban/rural markets through tie ups like IFFCO. To provide better after sales support to the consumers, the Company is also expanding its mobile after sales service channel by over 60%.

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About Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2007 consolidated sales of US$103.4 billion. Employing approximately 150,000 people in 134 offices in 62 countries, the company consists of four main business units: Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business, and Telecommunication Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT LCDs.

Nova netPC is a thin-client based network computer that can be used for both Windows and Linux operating systems and accessing the Internet. Nova netPC also runs local applications using USB peripherals. Nova netPC’s server driven delivery feature makes it an obsolescence free desktop, as all the updates are carried out centrally through the server. It has the technical superiority to match with all software advancements and comes with the simplicity of an appliance. Coupled with its affordability, the Nova netPC is a one-stop computing solution for almost everyone.

Features like parental support make it an ideal choice for families with growing children. Maintenance hassles become a thing of the past with automatic virus scans and other software updates. A low, first- time, investment also makes it the computing solution of choice.

Referring to this tie-up, Mr. Ramesh Iyer, Head – Enterprise Business, said, “TTML’s broadband service, powered by Novatium’s patented technology, will help take computing to TTML’s fixed line customers and democratize access to information. With its wide spread fiber connectivity and infrastructure, TTML hopes to usher in the computing and broadband revolution. The width and the quality of TTML’s fiber connectivity in the city of Mumbai and across Maharashtra will substantially enrich the Nova netPC user’s experience in accessing the Internet and other computing applications.”

Mr. Alok Singh, CEO, Novatium Solutions Pvt. Ltd. said, “Novatium’s Nova netPC is an affordable and simple desktop. We have made it very user friendly so that it can now be operated like any household appliance at the touch of a button. We seek to provide simple and affordable computing for the next generation. We are happy to have Tata Indicom as our partners as their fiber network is unparalleled in the private sector. We are happy to jointly present the Revolution In A Box in Mumbai.”

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About Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited:

Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited is India's premier telecommunication service provider licensed to provide telecommunication services in Maharashtra (including Mumbai) and Goa. The company presently offers telephony and ISP services in the cities of Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Panaji, Sangli, Thane, Ahmednagar and other cities, towns and villages of Maharashtra and Goa. It focuses on all market segments, i.e. commercial, residential and public telephony. Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) launched Tata Indicom Mobile services in 2003. Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited has over 6 million customers in Maharashtra and Goa. These include reputed corporates, SMEs and residential customers. The Company is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (Scrip code-532371) and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited.

About Novatium Solutions Pvt.Ltd.

Novatium Solutions Pvt. Ltd. builds affordable and simple computing platform to provide comprehensive computing solutions. Novatium’s core strength lies in their management team which has a pool of expertise centered on competency areas like product development, solutions, sales and marketing. Novatium has top-of-the-line expertise in core computing environments like Linux development, hardware platform, media processing, product testing, research in networking and audio/video technology, network administration, Linux/Windows system administration, Linux internals, programming and X windows.

IFC’s $100 million loan will help strengthen Idea’s network in its existing markets and enable the extension of services to Bihar, one of the few states in India without a well-developed telecommunications network. The loan will also help establish a national long-distance network to meet growing demand for services.

“IFC’s investment will provide the much-needed long-term funding that many companies in India find difficult to access, while helping expand the local telecommunications infrastructure,” said Sanjeev Aga, Managing Director of Idea Cellular Limited. “Following our recent launch in Mumbai, we will soon be providing services in Bihar, and are grateful to IFC for helping achieve this goal,” he added.

Mohsen A. Khalil, IFC Director for Global Information and Communication Technologies, said, “Improving communications infrastructure creates opportunities for many people and businesses in India, particularly in underserved areas such as Bihar. IFC is pleased to support India’s private sector in advancing the government’s goal of doubling mobile penetration by 2010.”

By supporting a leading telecommunications service provider such as Idea, the investment will promote competition in the sector and expand the availability and affordability of services for consumers. It is also expected to help increase telephone penetration in Bihar from less than 8 percent in 2008 to more than 20 percent by 2012. IFC and Idea are developing a project that will establish Pocket Public Calling Offices to deliver mobile phone-based communications and other value-added services to underserved rural communities and the urban unconnected poor in India.

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About IFC

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, fosters sustainable economic growth in developing countries by financing private sector investment, mobilizing private capital in local and international financial markets, and providing advisory and risk mitigation services to businesses and governments. IFC's vision is that people should have the opportunity to escape poverty and improve their lives. In FY07, IFC committed $8.2 billion and mobilized an additional $3.9 billion through syndications and structured finance for 299 investments in 69 developing countries. IFC also provided advisory services in 97 countries. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.

About Idea Cellular

A leading GSM mobile services operator, Idea Cellular has licenses to operate in all 22 service areas of India, with commercial operations in 12 service areas and a customer base of over 29 million. With the planned launch of services in Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, and Tamil Nadu before the end of the fiscal year, Idea’s footprint will soon cover about 90 percent of India’s telephone potential. Idea is listed on India’s National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange. IDEA Cellular is a part of the $28 billion Aditya Birla Group. For more information, visit www.ideacellular.com or contact Rajat Mukarji at +91-11-23730133.

DACX Ameyo is an all-in-one communication suite for enterprises offering next-generation information and communications management capabilities including ACD, IP-PBX, CTI, IVR, Predictive dialer, Voice Logger, Presence, Unified Messaging and Reporting. It provides elegant communication flows with application integration and collaboration capabilities across multiple media (Voice, Video, Chat, SMS, E-mail).

It has been designed with a view to offer innovative business packages, on Hosted (SaaS), On-Premise and hybrid models, as per specific business needs for different verticals such as Telecom, BFSI, Healthcare, Travel and Hospitality. They can pick-n-choose the best package in terms of price-performance proposition and add on more capabilities as they grow.

Some of the benefits that DACX Ameyo offers to businesses are -
• Ability to better meet changing business requirements
• Telco-grade reliability in software with distributed architecture
• Lower hardware and technology investments
• Ability to leverage existing applications and infrastructure
• Ability to integrate with communication infrastructure (telephony/data network) and business applications (CRM, HRMS, MIS, CMS) to build composite applications that can be administered and managed centrally
• Flexible business offerings for On-premise, Distributed sites, as well as hosted (SaaS) setups.

DACX Ameyo has already been recognized with technology awards such as IP Contact Center Technology Pioneer Award 2008 and Member's Choice Award 2008. It has been successfully powering business processes at Motilal Oswal Securities Limited (a leading financial advisory firm), Damas (a global brand in jewellery) and many other reputed organizations.
For more information, visit www.dacxameyo.com.

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Drishti is a leading provider of Contact Center Software & Enterprise Communications Solutions. Drishti’s award-winning flagship offering – DACX Contact Center Suite has been a huge success in India and Philippines within a span of two years. Drishti creates innovative Communications technologies for the next-generation Enterprises, empowering them to dynamically manage their Business Processes. Drishti’s customers enjoy significant benefits in terms of increase in efficiency levels, reduction in operational costs, flexibility to grow, consistent user experience and a demonstrable ROI.
Drishti’s innovative solutions are running successfully at more than 200 client locations across India, Bangladesh, Philippines, Dubai and US as recognized by the three awards IP Contact Center Technology Awards 2008, Member’s Choice Award 2008 (Best ACD/Switch, Best in Class Overall Category Winner - Best Outbound Solution and Highly Recommended Best After Sales Support) and BPONews Best Contact Center Solution 2007.

Sudhi B. Menon, Co-Founder and Business Development Head, YouTring, stated "The global audiences have indeed responded to the product really well. Within a span of just 5 months, we have 25,000 registered accounts, without any online or offline ad campaigns. Now, we are looking forward to establishing the calling feature of YouTring on a bigger scale, hence the new tariff plan.” According to company officials, the price cut is part of the company's strategy to attract more users in lieu of the festive season that is approaching, with Ramzan, Eid and Diwali being primary attractions particularly in the Indian sub-continent as well as the Middle East. Commenting on the same, Mr. Menon added,“Youtring is primarily concerned about bringing people closer by the means of the internet. I can positively say that VoIP is the new way to go, and more so with the initial glitches about calling quality being dispelled with the advancement in technology." The rate cuts are in the range of 10-25% for calling to South Asian and middle eastern countries in particular, and would be applicable from September 22nd . Detailed rates are as follows;

Call India @ 3.65 ¢
Call Pakistan @ 8¢
Call Bangladesh @ 3.8¢
Call Saudi Arabia @ 9¢
Call Bahrain @ 3.5¢
Call Oman @ 15¢
Call Qatar @ 14.75¢
Call United Arab Emirates @ 14¢

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iCallGlobe Ltd. is a UK based IP telephony services provider. It has tie-ups with over 30 Tier-I VoIP providers across the world, and handles over 20 million minutes per month. The company launched YouTring.com in May this year, as an attempt to consolidate the leading features of entire internet under one roof.

“RockeTalk’s social media platform and application provide a true end-to-end social network. It offers the easiest user interface and the most functionality for users to create, mash-up, share, and post mobile content in a social setting,” said Jim Greiner, President and CEO of RockeTalk. “Users can be as open and expressive as they want. It’s the next best thing to being there in-person.”

With voice, pictures and video being the focus of the application, RockeTalk makes it easy for users to express themselves in the language they are most comfortable with.

Also, already in its limited launch in India, RockeTalk has proven its ability to work across international boundaries and with most wireless operators throughout the World, succeeding where MMS failed.

The RockeTalk application is currently available on over 100 Nokia and Sony Ericsson mobile devices more devices being added every week. User features include the ability to:

· Create a rich multimedia profile in audio, pictures, and text

· Search for people to meet and interact with

· Express yourself using any combination of text, voice, pictures and video content

· Join, start, and interact with vibrant communities buzzing with real voices and pictures

· Create private and public galleries, and view public galleries

· Mash-up user-generated content with other content

· Preview and download trendy mobile downloads like wallpapers, ringtones, greetings, etc.

· Share on a true mobile peer-to-peer basis without the need to access or manage content through a website

· Send content to other RockeTalk users, or to anyone’s email address

In addition, IM chat compatible with Yahoo, Google Talk, MSN, AIM and ICQ will be available in the near future.

User can easily download the RockeTalk application from their mobile browsers at m.rocketalk.com, or visit the RockeTalk website for simple download instructions at http://www.rocketalk.com/get_it_now.php, and access a supported phone list at http://www.rocketalk.com/get_it_supported_phone.php.

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RockeTalk was founded in 2005 by Rajiv Kumar, an IIT Mumbai alumni and a proven entrepreneur who previously built and sold Bluetooth® software company WIDCOMM to Broadcom in 2004. RockeTalk’s mission is to help people easily express themselves and socialize through their mobile devices. With an initial focus on mobile-centric, emerging markets, the company first launched a private-beta in India in November 2007. RockeTalk is privately-held, venture-backed, and headquartered in San Diego, California, USA with offices in Delhi, India. Learn more at http://www.rocketalk.com..

According to Gartner, "Vendor and customer experience weigh heavily in the leaders quadrant. Leaders have demonstrated that they have significant network management and outsourcing experience and understand the dynamics needed to deliver network-centric IT services successfully."

"As businesses expand their global reach, their networks are becoming more complex," said Richard Ricks, president of CSC's Global Outsourcing Services organization. "We believe networks have become the central vehicle our clients' employees rely on to obtain the information and applications they need to be competitive and effective. We are pleased with our placement in the leaders quadrant, which in my opinion is an indicator of the quality, in- depth, integrated network transformation and management services our clients have come to expect worldwide."

Authored by Eric Goodness, Christine Tenneson, Ted Chamberlin, Daniel O'Connell, Scott Morrison and To Chee Eng, and published Aug. 22, 2008, the report covers vendors that deliver services worldwide in support of connectivity and communications infrastructure. To be included, a service provider has to directly provide IT management services in support of customer wide-area network (WAN) environments; develop and maintain its own remote management platform for the provisioning of various remote IT services across WAN, LAN and premises-based voice infrastructure; and have annual network IT service revenue of $250 million or more, among other criteria.

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About the Gartner Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against certain criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 90,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.1 billion for the 12 months ended July 4, 2008. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.csc.com.

The partnership with Tagit involves promotion and use of both parties’ technology offerings that involves bundling Obopay’s payment platform and Tagit’s mobile transaction and banking platform. Tagit will integrate its MoBEIX Transaction Platform with Obopay’s P2P payment platform. Such a service may be co-hosted by both parties.

Tagit will also provide the necessary software development and support services for specific projects requiring development of customized applications for Obopay’s customers. Tagit is a unique application that enables anyone to connect and interact with any physical space or media channel – print, TV or billboard through a camera mobile phone.

Commenting on the alliance, Mr Aditya Menon, Executive Director, Obopay India, said, “At Obopay, we are constantly striving to innovate and provide value to our customers. We are glad to partner Tagit and create a mobile banking infrastructure that will simplify lives. The bundled solution thus created by us and Tagit will provide for a new user experience.”

Mr Shankar Narayanan, Co-Founder and President of Tagit India, said, “The partnership with Obopay creates a compelling value proposition for financial institutions who want to avail of the total suite of services on mobile for banking and value-added services. In addition to core banking services, Tagit brings with it an impressive track record in mobile ticketing, travel services, government services and gaming, with leading global brand names as customers.”

Says Mr Vijay Balakrishnan, Chief Marketing Officer, Obopay India, “Obopay India, through its strategic alliances and partnerships, will provide end-to-end mobile payment solution for all users. We will reach out to every Indian who has a mobile phone and revolutionize the way transactions are done. The PCI certification awarded to us reinforces that we are putting security and privacy of our customers at the forefront of our strategy.”

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a concerted response of the payment card industry to protect the best interests of the consumers and businesses against rampant credit card frauds and identity thefts across the world that are affecting millions of consumers and businesses. This standard was developed by founding payment brands MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover Financial Services and JCB International. PCI DSS is a comprehensive set of requirements (multifaceted security standard) for enhancing security of cardholder data during its transmission, processing and storage.

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Obopay is a U.S.-based P2P payment and remittance service provider. The pioneers in real time, cross bank, cross channel, cross operator, P2P money transfer and remittance services. The offering encompasses services like international remittance, merchant transactions, payment at POS terminals, etc. Obopay currently has two offices in India, Bangalore and Mumbai. Obopay lets consumers and businesses purchase, pay and transfer money through any mobile device.

www.obopay.co.in

Mr. Vadalia further added, “New software for ISDN Emulation in Client-Server mode allows easy automation and remoting for ISDN PRI applications. Another application is “Pulse Mask”, used for detection, monitoring, and plotting of received pulses. It includes Monitor Pulse Mask and Pulse Mask Display modules that can be remotely controlled using simple commands by client applications. Significant enhancements are also introduced to a range of protocol products that include: ATM, MC ML-PPP, and UMTS protocols.” He added, “With the introduction of the new applications and enhancements, the T1 E1 Analyzer Product suite adds significant value to T1 E1 testing needs of customers”.

New Hardware

• Universal T1 E1 PCI Cards:

GL has added to its T1 E1 Analyzer hardware test suite new hardware called "Universal T1 E1 Cards". These cards easily plug into PCI 2.1 Compliant slots of any PC. The advantage it offers over the prior version of T1 E1 cards is that it includes integrated hardware support for both T1 as well as E1 lines, thus allowing easy switching between T1 and E1 interface testing.

For comprehensive information on the product, please refer to Universal T1 E1 Cards website.

New Software:

• Pulse Mask:

Incoming pulses are tested for compliance against T1 or E1 standard pulse mask specified by the ITU G.703 standard and ANSI T1.102-1993. This feature is also available with the Client Server software for automation and remoting applications. It includes Monitor Pulse Mask and Pulse Mask Display modules that can be remotely controlled using simple commands by client applications.

• WCS ISDN Emulator:

This Client-Server application is used for performing complete ISDN switch and subscriber emulation. The functions that can be performed using client-server are:

· Configuring the ISDN layer parameters, called/calling numbering plan/type, type of ISDN service

· Placing and accepting calls for each timeslot or for the whole trunk

· Loging call records for complete or incomplete calls

· Simple NFAS setup for T1

For comprehensive understanding of the enhancements introduced to the product, please visit the ISDN Emulator webpage.

· Client Server Pulse Mask:

This Client-Server application in Universal boards is used for detection, monitoring, and plotting of transmitted pulses. It includes Monitor Pulse Mask and Pulse Mask Display modules that can be remotely controlled using simple commands by client applications. Some of the commands supported are CheckPulseMask, validate pulse, stop pulse mask validation, and others.

For comprehensive understanding of the product, please visit the WCS Pulse Mask webpage.

Other Enhancements:

· Protocol Analyzers:

• ATM Analyzer - Real-time Capture Filter in ATM Analyzer now supports filtering of Idle Cells along with the specified VPI, VCI, and PT values. Segmentation and Reassembly feature in ATM Analyzer now supports AAL - Layer 0
• MLPPP Analyzer is also enhanced to decode padded NCP messages
• UMTS Protocol Analyzer- The UMTS protocol analysis is now supported over IP as well as over T1 E1 and ATM. The supported standards include ATM, ATM AAL2 & AAL5, SSCOP, IP, UDP, SCTP, SSCF-UNI, SSCF-NNI, SAAL-NNI, NBAP, ALCAP, Iub-FP, Iu-UP, UMAC, RLC, MTP3B, SCCP, RANAP, M3UA, CC, MM, SMS, SM, SSSAR, and RNSAP.

For comprehensive understanding of the enhancements introduced to the protocol product series, please visit Protocol Analyzers web page.

· TRAU ToolBox™ and Analysis

• Supports AMR -WB codec with data rates of 6.60 kbps, 8.85 kbps, 12.65kbps
• Number of active streams for compression or decompression for HR codecs was limited to one stream in earlier versions. In T1E1 analyzer ver5.13, we can have multiple streams for HR
• AMR and HR is implemented using Voice Age codec library
  
  For comprehensive understanding of the enhancements introduced to the Trau protocol product series, please visit TRAU ToolBox™ and Analysis web page.

· Multi-Class ML-PPP Emulator

• The Command Line Interface of MC-MLPPP Emulator has been updated and made backward compatible for the scripts in earlier version of T1/E1 analyzer
• Minimum value of Payload length & Fragment length is reduced to 1, i.e. PL ranges from 1 to 10,000, and FL ranges from 1 to 1500. Maximum Hex String Length is now increased to 600 bytes.
  
  For comprehensive understanding of the enhancements introduced to the MC ML-PPP protocol product series, please visit Multi-Class ML-PPP Emulator web page.

· Client-Server Enhancements

• The "tx server file" command in Error Insertion module of WCS has been modified to transmit data on multiple cards which has improved the performance of the tester

For comprehensive understanding of the enhancements introduced to the protocol product series, please visit Windows Client-Server web page.

· Client Server Pulse Mask:

This Client-Server application in Universal boards is used for detection, monitoring, and plotting of transmitted pulses. It includes Monitor Pulse Mask and Pulse Mask Display modules that can be remotely controlled using simple commands by client applications. Some of the commands supported are CheckPulseMask, validate pulse, stop pulse mask validation, and others.

For comprehensive understanding of the product, please visit the WCS Pulse Mask webpage.

Other Enhancements:

· Protocol Analyzers:

• ATM Analyzer - Real-time Capture Filter in ATM Analyzer now supports filtering of Idle Cells along with the specified VPI, VCI, and PT values. Segmentation and Reassembly feature in ATM Analyzer now supports AAL - Layer 0
• MLPPP Analyzer is also enhanced to decode padded NCP messages
• UMTS Protocol Analyzer- The UMTS protocol analysis is now supported over IP as well as over T1 E1 and ATM. The supported standards include ATM, ATM AAL2 & AAL5, SSCOP, IP, UDP, SCTP, SSCF-UNI, SSCF-NNI, SAAL-NNI, NBAP, ALCAP, Iub-FP, Iu-UP, UMAC, RLC, MTP3B, SCCP, RANAP, M3UA, CC, MM, SMS, SM, SSSAR, and RNSAP.

For comprehensive understanding of the enhancements introduced to the protocol product series, please visit Protocol Analyzers web page.

· TRAU ToolBox™ and Analysis

• Supports AMR -WB codec with data rates of 6.60 kbps, 8.85 kbps, 12.65kbps
• Number of active streams for compression or decompression for HR codecs was limited to one stream in earlier versions. In T1E1 analyzer ver5.13, we can have multiple streams for HR
• AMR and HR is implemented using Voice Age codec library
  
  For comprehensive understanding of the enhancements introduced to the Trau protocol product series, please visit TRAU ToolBox™ and Analysis web page.

· Multi-Class ML-PPP Emulator

• The Command Line Interface of MC-MLPPP Emulator has been updated and made backward compatible for the scripts in earlier version of T1/E1 analyzer
• Minimum value of Payload length & Fragment length is reduced to 1, i.e. PL ranges from 1 to 10,000, and FL ranges from 1 to 1500. Maximum Hex String Length is now increased to 600 bytes.
  
  For comprehensive understanding of the enhancements introduced to the MC ML-PPP protocol product series, please visit Multi-Class ML-PPP Emulator web page.

· Client-Server Enhancements

• The "tx server file" command in Error Insertion module of WCS has been modified to transmit data on multiple cards which has improved the performance of the tester

For comprehensive understanding of the enhancements introduced to the protocol product series, please visit Windows Client-Server web page.

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About GL Communications Inc.

Founded in 1986, GL Communications Inc. is a leading supplier of test, monitoring, and analysis equipment for TDM, Wireless, and VoIP networks. Unlike conventional test equipment, GL's test platforms provide visualization, capture, storage, and convenient features like portability, remotability, and scripting.

GL’s TDM Analysis & Emulation line of products includes T1, E1, T3, OC-3, STM-1, analog four-wire, and analog two-wire interface cards and solutions. Capabilities include voiceband traffic analysis and emulation across all traffic types (voice, digits, tones, fax, modem), all protocols (HDLC, ISDN, SS7, CAS, GSM, GPRS, CDMA), and with capacities up to thousands of channels.

GL’s VoIP products generate / analyze thousands of calls simultaneously with traffic types such as voice files, digits, tones, noise, and fax using G.711, G.729, AMR, EVRC, and GSM codecs. Additional features include visual analysis, real-time listening, recording, and voice quality assessment using ITU algorithms PAMS, PSQM, and PESQ.

GL’s Wireless Products perform protocol analysis and voice quality assessment on GSM, CDMA, UMTS, and CDMA 2000 networks. Connections can be made to any wireless phone with automated call control, GPS, mapping software, and real-time signal measurements.

GL’s Echo Canceller testing solutions provide the broadest range of simulation and analysis, including compliance testing per G.168 and G.160. Network Surveillance and Monitoring products include Probes for TDM, VoIP, ATM, and Wireless networks.

GL’s Handheld data testers provide convenience, economy, and portability for almost any interface, including RS232, RS422 / RS530, X.21, T1, E1, T3, E3, and many others.

GL’s Network Surveillance and Monitoring products include Probes for TDM, VoIP, ATM, and Wireless networks. An open standards based approach provides a scalable, feature rich, real-time access to network intelligence. Centralized or distributed access, efficient transport and database loading allow compatibility with 3rd party and standards based monitoring systems.

Sudhi B. Menon, Co-Founder and Business Development Head, YouTring.com, was available for comments at the time of this announcement. In his own words, “Our primary objective for launching YouTring was to cater to the B2C segment. With the launch of our global reseller program, we are basically providing everyone a chance to generate revenue by being associated with us, hence giving rise to better awareness for VoIP which, in my opinion, has the potential to become the preferred mode of communication in the next 3-5 years. Mr. Menon further went on to explain that in order to subscribe to the program, a potential reseller need not have any experience in the field, and can choose to purchase calling values starting from $5 and going up to $100.”

The reseller program has a very unique commission structure that gives resellers an assured commission of 10% for every sale a user under them generates on the website after being associated with the same. Hence, once a user takes talktime from the reseller of YouTring, then even if he chooses to recharge his account directly via the site, the reseller would be given a flat commission of 10% of the sale value for lifetime. YouTring.com, launched in May this year, already has 25,000 registered users, and generates sales of $3000 by the means of selling VoIP minutes everyday.

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iCallGlobe Ltd. was founded and incorporated in UK in the year 2003. Through their efficient IP network and strong infrastructure worldwide, they are able to deliver superior clarity and high quality VOIP solution to Next Generation carriers, Businesses and Individuals. Their services and solution are ideal for Contact Centers, ISP/ITSP Solution and Corporate Businesses.

Leo Burnett, Ad Agency for 139, has scripted a couple of commercials, which use humour to get the message across. These simple yet hilarious spots convey ample information about the nature of the service. The first ad begins with a son asking his father to tell why he was not in the photo album of his parent’s wedding ceremony. Just when the father is embarrassed at his son's innocence, a male voice-over follows the conversation by saying, "You may not get answers for some questions, but you will get them for all queries pertaining to Indian Railways. Dial 139 for booking railway tickets, PNR status, fare enquiry, accommodation, Tatkal seats, journey planning, concession and cancellation rules, refund rules and trains between stations and train timings. You get all this information within few minutes."

In the second advertisement, the male voice-over intervenes and repeats the same script when son asks his father as to ''why can't he marry his mom when he (boy's father) could marry his mom''.

"With the objective to popularize the Rail enquiry no. 139, the service has been branded as “Dial 139 for Rail Sampark” which provides instant access to an array of Railway Travel Information. However, the larger objective is to provide various travel services to the Indian Railway passengers so that Dial 139 evolves as a Travel Companion. One of the recent introduction is Dial “A” Ticket which takes the Travel Planning experience to the next level of convenience, a catalyst to the growth of Indian travel industry" Shubhendu Ranjan Deb, GM (Marketing), Bharat BPO said.

Talking about future campaigns, Shubhendu Deb said that “As we progress, the communication will focus more on the value added services available on Dial 139.”

Explaining about the theme and objective the ad campaign is set to achieve, Mr. Sainath Saraban – Creative Head, Leo Burnett said,” the campaigns are consciously kept simple as to connect with people from all sections of society. Railways as a mode of transport is used by people throughout the country and the idea is sensitize users of Indian Railways that information is just a call away without much effort.

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About Bharat BPO Services Ltd

Bharat BPO is a Joint Venture Company of Omnia BPO Services and Spanco Telesystems & Solutions Ltd. The consortium had bagged the contract of Indian Railways for operating Integrated Train Enquiry Services (ITES) all across the country. A company under the name of Bharat BPO Services Limited has been promoted to implement this project. While the Zonal Call Centers for this project are located at the four metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai & Kolkata the Regional Call Centres are set up at NOIDA, Ahmedabad, Mysore and Kolkata to begin with. This operation has been started with about 700 seats and 2000 persons and is likely to scale up to 2000 seats and 5500 persons in the next year.

About DIAL 139- Rail Sampark

“Dial 139 -Rail Sampark”, Indian Railways’ Tele – helpline was launched in July 2007 by Hon’ble Railway Minister Sh. Lalu Prasad Yadav with the objective of bringing high quality information services within reach of every railway passenger. The service handles enquiries pertaining to arrival, departure, schedules of trains plying between two stations, PNR and reservation of berth status, fare enquiry, availability of Tatkal accommodation, journey planning, concession and cancellation rules, refund rules and trains between stations.

Hyderabad based IMImobile has developed a unique customised solution for the Police force with an easily accessible mobile database and interface to track repeat and new drunk drivers. With BPL Mobile providing the network connectivity, Police are able to access criminal records at speed and crucially, at the scene of the crime via their mobile phones. Police are therefore able to check offenders’ records with greater efficiency ensuring repeat offenders do not slip through the net and new offenders are logged on the system from the outset.

“We are pleased to able to offer this bespoke solution to Mumbai Police free of charge," said Mr. Vishwanath Alluri, IMImobile Chairman, Founder and CEO. “Drink-driving is a dangerous crime and any help we can provide to our busy Police force can only be a good thing. We hope to extend this solution to other parts of the country.”

Mr. Harish Baijal, Deputy Commissioner Traffic Mumbai police, “With the support from IMImobile and BPL mobile, our officers can now get the information of previous convictions of drunk driving within a few seconds. This technology has been very beneficial and will help us in maintaining more discipline on Mumbai's roads.”

Mr. Sunzay Passari, vice president, value added services, BPL Mobile said, “It has been a great experience working with IMImobile on this solution and we hope it continues to help Mumbai Police successfully record and track offenders of drunk driving.”

An added benefit of the solution is the fact the system is able to send out SMS alerts on known offenders to the entire police units, especially useful during busy festival season. The database is confidential with only top ranking officials having complete access.

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About IMImobile

IMImobile is a leading provider of carrier-grade messaging platforms and gateways, content management systems, and voice platforms through managed services. Services provided by these platforms include interactive portals, community and user generated content applications, caller ring back tone and video streaming. IMImobile delivers managed VAS and content platforms and aggregates content for operators and portals, manages the delivery of content for content partners and manages mobile campaigns for media, advertising and enterprise customers. The customers include operators such as Airtel and Vodafone Essar enterprise customers such as Google and Reuters, content partners and portal customers such as Yahoo!, Sony, Disney and Universal. IMImobile is a profitable fast-growing global company with over 350 employees worldwide. It has operations in 40 countries and currently supports 80 operator deployments and over 350 content partners. IMImobile’s differentiation comes from its unique combination of content management, operational model, business model and technology based on own IPRs, to achieve a quality and breadth of solution, cost effective managed services delivery model and high service level availability unmatched in the industry.

Traditionally SMS has been one of the popular applications on the mobile phone and one that is accessed most often by users. By ensuring that users could trigger Search from SMS, Airtel has ushered into a new era where access to Mobile Internet is not limited to those who know how to launch browsers on their phone.

The ease of using Search on Internet triggered an information access revolution on the internet. Airtel expects Search to play a similar role on the Mobile and thus its consistent efforts of making Search access easier and more user friendly for its customers.

Commenting on the launch of Search integrated SMS2.0 experience, Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer; Bharti Airtel said, “The uptake of the SMS2.0 has been very encouraging and we are embarking to take this platform to a different level – introducing search through SMS. This new upgrade service will thus allow Airtel users to Search - Airtel Live, Internet, Local search, Jobs and Property listings, from their SMS screen.”

This integration of Search on SMS, has been conceptualized and developed by Affle through its extensive R&D efforts in Singapore & India. Mr. Anuj Khanna, CEO Affle, says, “India is a very exciting mobile market and in Airtel we have found a great partner to take our services to users. We had tremendous success with the SMS2.0 service, and with the launch of Search, we feel that the value proposition to the user is even more exciting. Our research shows that the Search behavior of users on the mobile phone is very different from the internet and hence integration of exciting local and other user relevant Search options on the easy to use SMS interface makes this experience very enticing”

This revolutionary service also opens up a huge revenue model driven around delivering contextual advertising on the search results. As part of this partnership, the task of delivering and monetization of this advertising also rests jointly with Affle & Airtel.

The Short Message & Search 2.0 (SMS2.0) application is available to users for free and to download SMS2.0, the Airtel customers simply need to send “SMS2” to 543210. There is no charge for downloading and for subsequent content delivery on this platform; the SMS charges remain unchanged and according to the existing mobile plan.

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About Bharti Airtel Limited:

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India’s leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate of 75 million customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among the best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities and is foraying into the IPTV and DTH segments. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national & international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 78,540 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visitwww.bhartiairtel.in

Affle is a leading a mobile media company. They offer cutting edge mobile media technologies with a value proposition for consumers and business partners. The solutions and products from Affle have been specially designed to enhance user experience and make mobile media a reality.

Affle currently operates in five countries including the UK, India, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia. The company is in the process of strategically expanding to other top mobile markets in the coming years.

Affle has already established strong partnerships with leading Mobile Network Operators, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Content Providers, Media Agencies, and Advertisers, across various geographies to successfully enable this business. For more information, visit www.affle.co.uk.

Reducing costs, increasing productivity and enhancing business agility are considered to be the key business drivers of data centers. Radware has continually introduced industry-leading solutions specific to the data center, based on ten years of experience as a key player in the application delivery space. The company’s approach is unique as it offers customers a range of innovative capabilities essential to facilitating these business drivers all while being fully integrated into the existing infrastructure. These capabilities are inclusive of: “pay-as-you-grow” procurement models, state-of-the art on demand platforms, real-time behavioral security and the alignment of network behavior based on business events.

Next-generation data centers are being influenced by new IT trends such as consolidation, SOA, convergence, and virtualization, which present new IT complexities. These complexities are introducing additional obstacles to the successful achievement of data center business drivers. Therefore, companies are looking for solutions that offer the best way to resolve these challenges. This is the core of Radware’s Business-Smart Data Center strategy – providing its customers with tailor-made application infrastructure solutions for next generation data centers to help them overcome IT complexities and ensure cost effective procurement and full investment protection.

As part of its Business-Smart Data Center strategy, Radware is combining its application delivery expertise with virtualization capabilities, to launch VirtualDirector, a new solution for real-time optimization of data center resources. This launch is the first in a series of announcements that will be made over the next 18 months.

Introducing VirtualDirector

VirtualDirector is an innovative optimization solution for the virtualized data center - providing adaptive and dynamic allocation of resources based on business events, to guarantee SLAs and improving response time of applications. VirtualDirector aligns data center operations with business policies by dynamically allocating resources on demand to automatically serve customer’s best needs for SLAs in a virtualized environment, a key area of investment for companies today. In addition, to save costs, VirtualDirector optimizes the use of data center resources to further generate energy and cooling savings.

According to Cameron Haight, Research VP – IT Operations, Gartner, Inc., “Virtualization challenges many of the traditional tenets of IT infrastructure, and this has ramifications on its management. Managing VM sprawl, optimizing performance (and energy consumption) while continuing at the same time to reduce administrative complexity will increasingly be critical. Moving forward, we see automation and task orchestration as two of the key technology areas that will be employed to address these issues.”

Ilan Kinreich, COO Radware explained, “At Radware, we are addressing the needs for our customers to improve QoE and ensure SLAs while keeping costs down in virtualized environments.” He continued, “VirtualDirector provides the means with which to address these issues and reduce the risks involved in the migration towards these environments automatically and in real-time to best optimize applications.”

Key advantages obtained from deploying Radware’s new VirtualDirector in a hybrid or fully virtualized environment include:

• Improved Quality of Experience (QoE): By using VirtualDirector, enterprises can automate the task of optimizing their data center to maintain service level agreements (SLAs) and improve the QoE for end users. VirtualDirector’s advanced policy engine automatically acts, without human intervention, to optimize each application performance and preserve SLAs. To facilitate initial integration, VirtualDirector can also work in an advisory mode; where it provides guidance on what actions should be taken to best optimize application performance and preserve the SLA.
• Dynamic allocation of resources in real-time: At any time, VirtualDirector guarantees that the resources available to each application are aligned with actual business needs. VirtualDirector is capable of learning the dynamic priority of applications based on tracking the business event data of each end user transaction. VirtualDirector can trigger actions that can optimize, in real-time, computing and network resource allocation according to the dynamic priority of the application(s).
• Alignment of Network Behavior: By leveraging its tight integration with Radware`s leading application delivery solution, AppDirector, VirtualDirector aligns network behavior from server farm definition to network bandwidth and application priority to the business requirements. Thus, VirtualDirector provides alignment of data center resources to the required SLA optimizing resources, saving costs and improving productivity and business agility.
• Accurately Estimate and Control VM Deployment: When moving to a virtualized environment resources are shared, adding another virtual machine is easier than ever and tracking the exact capacity that each application requires is becoming a challenge. By monitoring QoE of virtualized applications, and dynamically allocating and removing VMs from service while preserving good QoE, VirtualDirector ensures the amount of active VMs in a virtualized data center is the exact amount required to satisfy SLAs and QoE. Along time this enables for better capacity planning and optimized number of VMs.
• Reduced risk: positioned outside of the virtual environment and independent of any virtualized constraints, VirtualDirector optimizes the management of virtualized servers to alleviate transition concerns. This ensures that companies maintain defined SLAs before/after the migration by monitoring mission critical applications from an objective view. By taking actions automatically, in real-time to optimize the QoE of mission critical applications and by sending alerts on any QoE degradation, VirtualDirector thus, helps companies reduce the risk involved in migrating mission critical applications to the virtual environment. It can also be deployed in advisory mode to help understand the impact of virtualization migration.

Moving forward and with the arrival of more cloud-based services, VirtualDirector’s tight integration with Radware`s ADC solution provides a comprehensive set of features that enable companies to optimize all of their virtualized datacenters, globally. In cases where the local resources cannot provide the desired QoE for specific applications, the solution redirects the traffic of the specific applications to a cloud based service provider or to a secondary data center. By redirecting traffic to a remote location, local resources are freed to serve the rest of the applications while remote resources are utilized, as needed, to add capacity and support the desired QoE.

“Today, Radware’s products and solutions are paramount to our success in providing geographically-dispersed cloud computing,” highlighted Jonathan Erwin, EVP of CloudNine Sales and Marketing, Hosting.com. “In the near future, Radware’s Virtual Director will allow CloudNine clients to scale without human intervention, experience unprecedented levels of service, and utilize global capacity on demand functionality,” he concluded..

VirtualDirector, integrated with VMware® VirtualCenter, is available now for ordering. Pricing is available upon request.

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Spice Televentures, is the Spice Group’s new holding company for the telecom sector vertical includes companies such as Spice Mobiles, Cellebrum Technologies, Mobisoc Technology, HotSpot Retail and Omnia & Bharat BPO Services Ltd..

As part of the process, The Brand Union will work closely with Spice Group leadership Team to understand the current values, attributes, positioning and other key elements. The entire process will cover evaluation and development of key elements such as a refreshed brand model, architecture and brand essence.

Commenting on the decision to appoint The Brand Union, Mr. Vivek Bali Group President - Global Marketing & Branding, Spice Group said, “In the emerging Indian and global business scenario, where competition is intense, creating a unique identity, with key differentiators is critical. That’s where the brand becomes the most important corporate asset. It stands for who we are, what do we want to offer our customers and stakeholders and who we wish to become over time.”

“Wehavemandated TheBrand Union withthe task of crafting of the core brand essence in our quest to create aWorldClassBrand” Mr. Bali added.

The Brand Union, led by Global Brand expert & company Chairman, Terry Tyrell has already embarked on this major brand reengineering exercise. This move comes as part of the major restructuring initiatives undertaken by the Spice Group, post the divestment of Spice Communications.

Mr. Terry Tyrell, Chairman - The Brand Union said, “We are very pleased to have been mandated by Spice, one of the fastest growing telecom brands in India, to work on the new brand identity. We are here to help them build a brand in line with the group aspirations, ambitions and to meet the challenges of the emerging telecom market.”

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About Spice Televentures

Spice Televentures is part of the diversified conglomerate, Spice Group which operates across Communication and Entertainment sectors. The Spice Group has a long and rich 30-year history in pioneering products and services in technology, automation, IT and telecoms in the Indian market. Spice Group is valued in excess of $1.5 Billion.

Spice's vision is to be the preferred choice for Communication & Entertainment products and services among young minds.

Spice Televentures is the new holding company and promoting company which will manage and operate the interests of Spice in the domain of Telecom, mobile communication and related services including Mobile Devices.

• Cellebrum Technologies Ltd. – a leading operator agnostic Mobile VAS solutions provider with 12 patents, serving every mobile operator in India, as well as clients extending from Indonesia to Africa.
• Mobisoc Technology Pvt Ltd. – A mobile technology & applications developer, promoted by the Spice Group with its first major application – “Mitr” slated to hit the market soon.
• Spice Mobiles Ltd. - The fastest growing Indian mobile handsets brand, Spice Mobiles is the winner of the coveted 2007 Golden Peacock Award for Innovation.
• HotSpot Retail - A leading Mobile Devices, Accessories and Services Retailer, voted the best in Customer Service by Mint-Pitch and voted the Best Large Format Retailer in North India by Voice & Data
• Omnia BPO Services– rated amongst India's fastest growing Onshore Domestic BPO services company (according to V&D) and voted the Best Emerging OnShore BPO by Indiatimes.com in 2007.

About THE BRAND UNION

The Brand Union is a world-class global brand agency, and part of WPP, the global marketing services group comprising of 500 people