Advantest Corporation , the world's leading supplier of semiconductor test equipment, announces that NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) , the world leader in visual computing technologies, has placed a multi-system purchase order for Advantest's T2000 open-architecture SoC Test System. The systems will be used on NVIDIA's products to support parallel testing of their high-pincount, leading-edge graphics devices. NVIDIA made its initial investment in the T2000 in 2006 for characterization and debug of packaged silicon products. Shipments against this latest order will begin immediately and will continue throughout the calendar year.
Advantest reports that NVIDIA selected the T2000 test solution for its cost effectiveness and ability to meet the ongoing complex test requirements of its leading-edge graphics processors. The T2000's parallel test capabilities and unique modular design offer an unprecedented degree of flexibility and extendibility for future-generations of devices, including the ability to incorporate new modules specifically designed to support application-specific requirements.
"We are extremely pleased to be expanding our relationship with NVIDIA and grateful for the high level of confidence they have placed in our ability to respond to their needs. Advantest is committed to serving NVIDIA through our global support team, and to helping them grow their share of the competitive graphics and computing applications market," commented R. Keith Lee, president and CEO of Advantest America, Inc. "In this era of elaborate visual computing, NVIDIA's innovative products continue to drive and define the worldwide market. We are gratified that the cost-efficient and very reliable T2000 has been selected to test these high-performance devices," Lee continued.
Keith Katcher, NVIDIA's Vice President of Operations for Silicon Engineering, remarked, "Advantest continues to demonstrate that their leading-edge technology and test systems have the capabilities necessary to help NVIDIA achieve the highest levels of performance and cost efficiencies. We have confidence that Advantest can ably serve our needs as a test partner."
Sunday, 22 June 2008
SourceLabs Enterprise Class Virtual Infrastructure
SourceLabs, a company supplying technology to support open source software, today announced that its Self-Support Suite now supports enterprise-class virtual infrastructure solutions built on the Xen(R) hypervisor, an open-source virtualization software solution for Linux. SourceLabs' Self-Support technology gives developers, corporate IT professionals, and solution providers an on-demand way to significantly reduce the complexity of application development, deployment, troubleshooting and software maintenance for open source technologies. Xen is the industry's de-facto, industry-endorsed open source virtualization standard backed by the industry's leading enterprise solution vendors.
"As data centers are moving toward a more dynamic model, they are increasingly doing so using server virtualization technology and Xen is the leading technology solution in the market today for running virtualized IT environments," said Byron Sebastian, SourceLabs CEO and Founder. "The SourceLabs Self-Support Suite gives developers the ability to significantly drive down the costs of deploying and maintaining virtualized data centers with technology that seamlessly and effortlessly harnesses the power of Xen and other open source technologies."
SourceLabs Self-Support Suite drives down the cost of troubleshooting and fixing software problems and in addition to identifying potential security issues. The system identifies issues and ranks potential resolutions from across a wide variety of projects in the open source development ecosystem, offering resolutions to problems in just minutes. Indexing, managing, and storing the data, SourceLabs uses advanced pattern matching and predictive analysis algorithms to automate troubleshooting, reduces the time on routine tasks and analyzes data to flag any potential problems before they can impact systems or designs.
Xen open source virtualization software allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on the same physical server, allowing customers to consolidate their current workloads onto a single server. As the leading open source virtualization project, Xen serves as the foundation of many commercial virtualization solutions and has been benchmarked as the highest performing virtualization software available and is developed collaboratively by engineers at Intel, AMD, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Egenera, HP, IBM, Mellanox, Network Appliance, Novell, Red Hat, SGI, Sun, Unisys, Veritas, Voltaire, and more.
SourceLabs' supports all current and previous releases of Xen technology, including auxiliary projects such as 'libvirt.' SourceLabs' Self-Support Suite for Xen references solutions from Xen.org as well as solutions from across multiple Linux distributions that ship with Xen integration including Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu, and OpenSuSE, as well as the Linux Kernel mailing list and bug database, providing Xen users an exhaustive resource for troubleshooting and analysis of their virtualization platforms. SourceLabs' Self-Support Suite supports the most popular open source Java and Linux technologies including Apache httpd, GCC, MySQL, Sendmail, and the Linux Kernel among others.
"As data centers are moving toward a more dynamic model, they are increasingly doing so using server virtualization technology and Xen is the leading technology solution in the market today for running virtualized IT environments," said Byron Sebastian, SourceLabs CEO and Founder. "The SourceLabs Self-Support Suite gives developers the ability to significantly drive down the costs of deploying and maintaining virtualized data centers with technology that seamlessly and effortlessly harnesses the power of Xen and other open source technologies."
SourceLabs Self-Support Suite drives down the cost of troubleshooting and fixing software problems and in addition to identifying potential security issues. The system identifies issues and ranks potential resolutions from across a wide variety of projects in the open source development ecosystem, offering resolutions to problems in just minutes. Indexing, managing, and storing the data, SourceLabs uses advanced pattern matching and predictive analysis algorithms to automate troubleshooting, reduces the time on routine tasks and analyzes data to flag any potential problems before they can impact systems or designs.
Xen open source virtualization software allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on the same physical server, allowing customers to consolidate their current workloads onto a single server. As the leading open source virtualization project, Xen serves as the foundation of many commercial virtualization solutions and has been benchmarked as the highest performing virtualization software available and is developed collaboratively by engineers at Intel, AMD, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Egenera, HP, IBM, Mellanox, Network Appliance, Novell, Red Hat, SGI, Sun, Unisys, Veritas, Voltaire, and more.
SourceLabs' supports all current and previous releases of Xen technology, including auxiliary projects such as 'libvirt.' SourceLabs' Self-Support Suite for Xen references solutions from Xen.org as well as solutions from across multiple Linux distributions that ship with Xen integration including Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu, and OpenSuSE, as well as the Linux Kernel mailing list and bug database, providing Xen users an exhaustive resource for troubleshooting and analysis of their virtualization platforms. SourceLabs' Self-Support Suite supports the most popular open source Java and Linux technologies including Apache httpd, GCC, MySQL, Sendmail, and the Linux Kernel among others.
Friday, 20 June 2008
WD Shipping RE3 SATA Hard Drives
Addressing the growing enterprise market for highly reliable high-capacity storage, WD(R) (NYSE:WDC) today announced it is now shipping the new WD RE3 SATA hard drives, the company's latest generation of "RE" family drives. As data centers become larger and more complex, WD's third-generation high capacity enterprise SATA hard drives enhance vibration and shock tolerance and deploy new electronics to increase performance approximately 20 percent and by as much 60 percent in high-vibration environments.
"WD has continued to leverage its extensive experience gained from previous generation enterprise drives, as well as our enterprise-class WD VelociRaptor(TM) drives, to develop a hard drive perfectly suited for servers, network attached storage and storage networks," said Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of enterprise storage solutions for WD. "WD's RE3 family offers the best combination of enhanced features, superior reliability, and optimum performance for enterprise applications."
In line with the WD RE drive heritage, WD RE3 drives feature 1.2 million hours MTBF, native command queuing (NCQ), time limited error recovery (TLER), and an extensive and enhanced testing process to ensure long-term reliability for demanding enterprise applications.
WD RE3 Features
Dual processor, RAFF(TM) technology, IntelliSeek(TM) technology, Multi-axis shock sensor,
RAID-specific, Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER), Third-generation dynamic fly height, Thermal extended burn-in test, NoTouch(TM) ramp load technology.
"WD has continued to leverage its extensive experience gained from previous generation enterprise drives, as well as our enterprise-class WD VelociRaptor(TM) drives, to develop a hard drive perfectly suited for servers, network attached storage and storage networks," said Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of enterprise storage solutions for WD. "WD's RE3 family offers the best combination of enhanced features, superior reliability, and optimum performance for enterprise applications."
In line with the WD RE drive heritage, WD RE3 drives feature 1.2 million hours MTBF, native command queuing (NCQ), time limited error recovery (TLER), and an extensive and enhanced testing process to ensure long-term reliability for demanding enterprise applications.
WD RE3 Features
Dual processor, RAFF(TM) technology, IntelliSeek(TM) technology, Multi-axis shock sensor,
RAID-specific, Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER), Third-generation dynamic fly height, Thermal extended burn-in test, NoTouch(TM) ramp load technology.
Monday, 16 June 2008
RTI Biologics
RTI Biologics, Inc. is a provider of sterile biological implants for surgeries around the world with a commitment to advancing science, safety and innovation. RTI prepares human donated tissue and bovine tissue for transplantation through extensive testing and screening, precision shaping and proprietary, validated sterilization processes. These allograft and xenograft implants are used in orthopedic, dental, hernia and other specialty surgeries.
RTI’s innovations centre on science and safety for biologics—from being the first company to offer precision-tooled bone implants and assembled technology to maximize each gift of donation, to inventing fully validated sterilization processes that include viral inactivation steps. Two such processes, the BioCleanse® Tissue Sterilization Process and the Tutoplast® process, sterilize tissue, are clinically successful and are scientifically proven to eliminate donor-to-recipient disease transmission risk while preserving tissue strength and biocompatibility. These processes have a proven record of more than two million implants distributed with zero incidence of infection. In addition, RTI pastes are sterilized through the demineralization process, a validated viral inactivation step.
RTI’s innovations centre on science and safety for biologics—from being the first company to offer precision-tooled bone implants and assembled technology to maximize each gift of donation, to inventing fully validated sterilization processes that include viral inactivation steps. Two such processes, the BioCleanse® Tissue Sterilization Process and the Tutoplast® process, sterilize tissue, are clinically successful and are scientifically proven to eliminate donor-to-recipient disease transmission risk while preserving tissue strength and biocompatibility. These processes have a proven record of more than two million implants distributed with zero incidence of infection. In addition, RTI pastes are sterilized through the demineralization process, a validated viral inactivation step.
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Integral Systems
Founded in 1982, Integral Systems is a provider of satellite ground systems and has supported more than 205 different satellite missions for communications, science, meteorological, and earth resource applications. Integral Systems was the first company to offer an integrated suite of COTS (Commercial-Off-the-Shelf) software products for satellite command and control: the EPOCH IPS (Integrated Product Suite) product line. EPOCH IPS has become the world market leader in commercial applications with successful installations on five continents.
Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, SAT Corporation, Integral Systems provides satellite and terrestrial communications signal monitoring systems to satellite operators and users throughout the world. Through its Newpoint Technologies, Inc., subsidiary, Integral Systems also provides software for equipment monitoring and control to satellite operators, broadcasters, and telecommunications firms. Integral Systems' RT Logic subsidiary builds telemetry processing systems for military applications, including tracking stations, control centers, and range operations. Integral Systems' Lumistar, Inc., subsidiary provides system- and board-level telemetry acquisition products. Integral Systems has approximately 500 employees working at its headquarters in Lanham, MD, and at other locations in the U.S. and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.integ.com/.
Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, SAT Corporation, Integral Systems provides satellite and terrestrial communications signal monitoring systems to satellite operators and users throughout the world. Through its Newpoint Technologies, Inc., subsidiary, Integral Systems also provides software for equipment monitoring and control to satellite operators, broadcasters, and telecommunications firms. Integral Systems' RT Logic subsidiary builds telemetry processing systems for military applications, including tracking stations, control centers, and range operations. Integral Systems' Lumistar, Inc., subsidiary provides system- and board-level telemetry acquisition products. Integral Systems has approximately 500 employees working at its headquarters in Lanham, MD, and at other locations in the U.S. and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.integ.com/.
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Shunra
Shunra Software is the market leader in WAN emulation solutions for application performance testing throughout the entire application development lifecycle. Shunra's award-winning solutions enable development, quality assurance, pre-deployment and operations teams to create an exact replica of their production environment or design what-if network scenarios; allowing them to predict exactly how applications or infrastructure changes will perform in any networked environment -- before rollout. Shunra's solutions and services are typically deployed in projects including data center consolidation; application performance readiness testing; VoIP testing; website testing and WAN optimization technology testing.
Saturday, 7 June 2008
AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. In 2008, AT&T again ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Telecommunications Company list and No. 1 on America's Most Admired Telecommunications Company list. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com/.
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
ITEL GOLD Facility
Golub Capital today announced that it has provided The Riverside Company with a GOLD facility and an equity co-investment in support of the firm's acquisition of ITEL Laboratories, Inc. ITEL (Independent Testing and Evaluation Laboratory) is the largest independent tester for determining the fair-market replacement value of damaged products and is used by insurance carriers, claims adjusters, contractors, and property owners. GOLD financings are proprietary Golub Capital One-Loan Debt facilities.
In 1993, ITEL created the market for independent laboratory testing to determine the replacement value of damaged carpet for insurance carriers and their insured homeowners. Since that time, the company has expanded into testing other products such as vinyl, laminate and wood flooring, with plans to further expand into additional testing services. The majority of ITEL's business is derived from standard property insurance claims, such as damaged water pipes, weather conditions or household fires.
This is Golub Capital's first deal with The Riverside Company. "We are pleased to be working with The Riverside Company. They are a top notch firm," said Golub Capital Principal Sean Coleman.
"ITEL is really a unique company with lots of growth potential. It's a real high quality company and we look forward to supporting it," said Golub Capital Principal Tom Turmell.
"Even in this difficult credit environment, Golub Capital proved to be a strong supporter of our goals. We are pleased to have them as a partner on this transaction," says The Riverside Company Principal Chip Walker.
In 1993, ITEL created the market for independent laboratory testing to determine the replacement value of damaged carpet for insurance carriers and their insured homeowners. Since that time, the company has expanded into testing other products such as vinyl, laminate and wood flooring, with plans to further expand into additional testing services. The majority of ITEL's business is derived from standard property insurance claims, such as damaged water pipes, weather conditions or household fires.
This is Golub Capital's first deal with The Riverside Company. "We are pleased to be working with The Riverside Company. They are a top notch firm," said Golub Capital Principal Sean Coleman.
"ITEL is really a unique company with lots of growth potential. It's a real high quality company and we look forward to supporting it," said Golub Capital Principal Tom Turmell.
"Even in this difficult credit environment, Golub Capital proved to be a strong supporter of our goals. We are pleased to have them as a partner on this transaction," says The Riverside Company Principal Chip Walker.
Monday, 2 June 2008
TraceSecurity Management Changes
TraceSecurity, a leading provider of SaaS security compliance solutions, announced today the expansion of two of their executives' roles as a result of the continued heavy growth in multiple industries. Chief Technology Officer, Jim Stickley, will be adding the title of Vice President of Strategy & Solutions. Chief Financial Officer, Paul McCown, will be taking on the responsibilities of Chief Operating Officer. The new titles and responsibilities for Stickley and McCown are a result of plans to increase renewals and up-selling to the existing client base.
Since 2003, Jim Stickley has consistently taken on responsibilities outside of his Chief Technology Officer (CTO) position including serving as the Vice President of Engineering and as the corporate media spokesperson. In his new role as CTO and Vice President of Strategy & Solutions, Stickley will be responsible for expanding the company's solutions portfolio, leading thought leadership initiatives and establishing product strategies.
Paul McCown has time and again proven his financial management skills both at TraceSecurity and in his roles at previous companies including Equifax and APPRO Systems. As president and CFO of APPRO Systems, McCown expanded the company's revenue from $11 million with a $7 million loss in 2001 to $27 million in revenue an $8 million in profit in 2005. McCown's additional duties as CFO and Chief Operating Officer will include overseeing the company's day-to-day operating activities of the renewals team and the delivery organization.
"TraceSecurity has experienced tremendous growth over the past several years and one of the main reasons for that progress is our talented team of executives that have a cornucopia of experience in their respective fields," said CEO Peter Stewart. "With our company's phenomenal growth, Jim and Paul have stepped into their expanded roles to ensure the new strategies we've put in place are executed properly. Both have been instrumental in TraceSecurity's continued success and are excited that they will help lead TraceSecurity's continued expansion well into the future."
Since 2003, Jim Stickley has consistently taken on responsibilities outside of his Chief Technology Officer (CTO) position including serving as the Vice President of Engineering and as the corporate media spokesperson. In his new role as CTO and Vice President of Strategy & Solutions, Stickley will be responsible for expanding the company's solutions portfolio, leading thought leadership initiatives and establishing product strategies.
Paul McCown has time and again proven his financial management skills both at TraceSecurity and in his roles at previous companies including Equifax and APPRO Systems. As president and CFO of APPRO Systems, McCown expanded the company's revenue from $11 million with a $7 million loss in 2001 to $27 million in revenue an $8 million in profit in 2005. McCown's additional duties as CFO and Chief Operating Officer will include overseeing the company's day-to-day operating activities of the renewals team and the delivery organization.
"TraceSecurity has experienced tremendous growth over the past several years and one of the main reasons for that progress is our talented team of executives that have a cornucopia of experience in their respective fields," said CEO Peter Stewart. "With our company's phenomenal growth, Jim and Paul have stepped into their expanded roles to ensure the new strategies we've put in place are executed properly. Both have been instrumental in TraceSecurity's continued success and are excited that they will help lead TraceSecurity's continued expansion well into the future."
IVT In Taipei
IVT, the word leading Bluetooth technology specialist, will demonstrate its new 'Extended Range' Bluetooth Portfolio of products for Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) at Taipei Computex, June 3-7, in Bluetooth Pavilion.
''The general user perception is that Bluetooth is a 10 meter Radio. 'Extended Range' added on Bluetooth Branding clarifies that Bluetooth is more than a 10 meter technology. IVT's O200 GSM phone, a feature rich, quad-band GSM phone for the world wide market, using Bluetooth Cordless Telephony Profile, can make and receive PSTN calls or IP calls in excess of 500 meters in open air though IVT's PSTN or SIP access points respectively,'' stated Fei Xu, IVT's director of embedded application.
''IVT is the first in the provision of these products, which are in mass production. IVT is currently looking to expand its network of distributors, worldwide,'' stated Alan Buckley, IVT's Executive Technical Director.
''The general user perception is that Bluetooth is a 10 meter Radio. 'Extended Range' added on Bluetooth Branding clarifies that Bluetooth is more than a 10 meter technology. IVT's O200 GSM phone, a feature rich, quad-band GSM phone for the world wide market, using Bluetooth Cordless Telephony Profile, can make and receive PSTN calls or IP calls in excess of 500 meters in open air though IVT's PSTN or SIP access points respectively,'' stated Fei Xu, IVT's director of embedded application.
''IVT is the first in the provision of these products, which are in mass production. IVT is currently looking to expand its network of distributors, worldwide,'' stated Alan Buckley, IVT's Executive Technical Director.
Coverity CODiE Award
Coverity(TM), Inc., the leader in improving software quality and security, today announced that it has won the SIIA 2008 CODiE Award for "Best Software Testing Solution." Coverity's flagship product, Coverity Prevent(TM), is the leading static source code analysis solution that enables the automatic detection and resolution of code defects for software written in C, C++ and Java.
Coverity provides advanced source code analysis technology that removes the barriers to writing and delivering complex software by automatically finding and helping to eliminate critical software defects and security vulnerabilities early in the software development process. Recent innovations in Prevent include the first use of Boolean satisfiability (SAT) in static analysis and the first race condition defect detection in static analysis.
Prevent is based on Coverity's patent pending Software DNA Map(TM) analysis system, which provides a high fidelity representation of any software system to allow for extremely accurate analysis of a given application.
"With the growing complexity of software, static code analysis is now a critical capability for companies that need to bring new applications to market on time and on budget," said Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity. "Coverity is passionate about improving the way software is built and we continually strive to deliver the latest in advanced technology to help our customers improve the overall integrity of the code they write."
Coverity Prevent was selected as a winner after three rounds of judging by a panel of technology writers, analysts, and industry experts. "The 2008 CODiE Awards recognize those companies providing the best new technology products and services across a broad array of industries," noted SIIA President Ken Wasch. "The awards and their winners are a testament to the power of technology to deliver innovative solutions to American businesses and consumers. SIIA congratulates all of the CODiE Award winners and nominees, whose innovation is essential for continuing America's leadership in the global knowledge economy."
Coverity provides advanced source code analysis technology that removes the barriers to writing and delivering complex software by automatically finding and helping to eliminate critical software defects and security vulnerabilities early in the software development process. Recent innovations in Prevent include the first use of Boolean satisfiability (SAT) in static analysis and the first race condition defect detection in static analysis.
Prevent is based on Coverity's patent pending Software DNA Map(TM) analysis system, which provides a high fidelity representation of any software system to allow for extremely accurate analysis of a given application.
"With the growing complexity of software, static code analysis is now a critical capability for companies that need to bring new applications to market on time and on budget," said Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity. "Coverity is passionate about improving the way software is built and we continually strive to deliver the latest in advanced technology to help our customers improve the overall integrity of the code they write."
Coverity Prevent was selected as a winner after three rounds of judging by a panel of technology writers, analysts, and industry experts. "The 2008 CODiE Awards recognize those companies providing the best new technology products and services across a broad array of industries," noted SIIA President Ken Wasch. "The awards and their winners are a testament to the power of technology to deliver innovative solutions to American businesses and consumers. SIIA congratulates all of the CODiE Award winners and nominees, whose innovation is essential for continuing America's leadership in the global knowledge economy."
M-Taiwan
M-Taiwan has been underway for 3 1/2 years and the government's work, from issuing and deploying spectrum to assisting manufacturers to develop WiMAX equipment, is done. The achievements will be showcased on 2-6 June at the Taipei Show Hall Two in the world-class dedicated exhibition entitled 2008 WiMAX Expo, Taipei. M-Taiwan's application services and Open
Solution Integration demonstrate how Taiwan- produced WiMAX products successfully mesh with commercial network equipment from abroad, serving as testimony that the technical standards of locally-made WiMAX are on par with those of major manufacturers around the world. The timing is right for Taiwan to penetrate the international WiMAX market.
Advisors for the expo include the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Science and Technology Advisory Group of the Executive Yuan and the Taipei City Government. WiMAX Expo, Taipei is organized by the Taipei Computer Association and the Taiwan External Trade Development Council and is co- organized by the WiMAX Forum, Industrial Technology Research Institute and the Institute for Information Industry.
60 exhibitors in 250 booths will exhibit a variety of related equipment and application systems. It is a large WiMAX exhibition in global scale. This year's 2008 WiMAX Expo is divided into four areas, the WiMAX Applications Area, the WiMAX Components, the WiMAX System Products Area, and the WiMAX Testing Area. A M-Taiwan Pavilion will also be located on the premises. According to analysis by the Market Intelligence Center of the Institute for Information Industry, the total accumulative investment of global WiMAX deployment is expected to reach US$4.8 billion from 2007 to 2008. Presently, about 260 telecommunication operators around the world are deploying WiMAX networks and testing WiMAX technologies. At this significant moment, WiMAX Expo, Taipei will exhibit leading new telecommunication trends.
Taiwan's famed notebook manufacturers ACER, ASUS, and Quanta, will take front stage at this show and will display their latest laptops with embedded WiMAX chipsets. The combination of portable terminal IT products and WiMAX indicates that industry trends are moving into a new era of integration of IT and communications. As a result, mobile phone manufacturers will be researching and developing mobile phones with embedded WiMAX chipsets.
WiMAX Applications Services and WiMAX Open Solutions will be displayed in the M-Taiwan Pavilion. Visitors can experience a WiMAX Live Demo in person, which includes M-Home, M-Shopping MRT Mobile Life, M-Outdoor Living, which closes the digital gap and M-TV Station Mobile Television. The WiMAX Open Solution Area will demonstrate all the equipment and components within a WiMAX Ecosystem.
The WiMAX System Products Area will demonstrate Mobile WiMAX terminals, BS and ASN Gateways. Motorola, one of the leading mobile WiMAX solution providers, will demonstrate "WiMAX is Now & Here" by showcasing the WiMAX ecosystem of network and devices, backhaul and applications for delivering true "personal broadband" experience. Alcatel-Lucent will offer the demonstrations of WiMAX technologies, Open CPE Program and WiMAX Application Services.
In the WiMAX Components Area, Intel, Sequans, and Taiwan companies MediaTek Inc. and Mobile Devices Inc. are making positive progress in the development of WiMAX chipsets. It is expected that this year Tawian companies will introduce WiMAX chipset products.
In July 2007, the ROC's National Communications Commission issued 6 WiMAX operating licenses in northern, central and southern Taiwan. 5 of the 6 recipients of these licenses will be exhibiting at the WiMAX Applications Area, namely, First International Telecom Corp., Tatung Co., Global Mobile Corp., Far EasTone Telecommunications, and VASTAR CABLE TV SYSTEM CORP. All these companies will deliver WiMAX services to the residents of the island.
The exhibition will showcase two kinds of WiMAX Buses, the WiMAX Demo Bus designed by the organizer and the WiMAX VIP Bus designed by FITEL and FET. The WiMAX VIP Bus will demonstrate a range of application services that will be available via WiMAX mobile broadband access in the near future. The WiMAX VIP Bus by FET and FITEL will focus on M-Taiwan project achievements. Visitors can experience a Digital Signage System, live wireless broadband Internet access, commercial vehicle operation system and real time mobile video conferencing.
Solution Integration demonstrate how Taiwan- produced WiMAX products successfully mesh with commercial network equipment from abroad, serving as testimony that the technical standards of locally-made WiMAX are on par with those of major manufacturers around the world. The timing is right for Taiwan to penetrate the international WiMAX market.
Advisors for the expo include the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Science and Technology Advisory Group of the Executive Yuan and the Taipei City Government. WiMAX Expo, Taipei is organized by the Taipei Computer Association and the Taiwan External Trade Development Council and is co- organized by the WiMAX Forum, Industrial Technology Research Institute and the Institute for Information Industry.
60 exhibitors in 250 booths will exhibit a variety of related equipment and application systems. It is a large WiMAX exhibition in global scale. This year's 2008 WiMAX Expo is divided into four areas, the WiMAX Applications Area, the WiMAX Components, the WiMAX System Products Area, and the WiMAX Testing Area. A M-Taiwan Pavilion will also be located on the premises. According to analysis by the Market Intelligence Center of the Institute for Information Industry, the total accumulative investment of global WiMAX deployment is expected to reach US$4.8 billion from 2007 to 2008. Presently, about 260 telecommunication operators around the world are deploying WiMAX networks and testing WiMAX technologies. At this significant moment, WiMAX Expo, Taipei will exhibit leading new telecommunication trends.
Taiwan's famed notebook manufacturers ACER, ASUS, and Quanta, will take front stage at this show and will display their latest laptops with embedded WiMAX chipsets. The combination of portable terminal IT products and WiMAX indicates that industry trends are moving into a new era of integration of IT and communications. As a result, mobile phone manufacturers will be researching and developing mobile phones with embedded WiMAX chipsets.
WiMAX Applications Services and WiMAX Open Solutions will be displayed in the M-Taiwan Pavilion. Visitors can experience a WiMAX Live Demo in person, which includes M-Home, M-Shopping MRT Mobile Life, M-Outdoor Living, which closes the digital gap and M-TV Station Mobile Television. The WiMAX Open Solution Area will demonstrate all the equipment and components within a WiMAX Ecosystem.
The WiMAX System Products Area will demonstrate Mobile WiMAX terminals, BS and ASN Gateways. Motorola, one of the leading mobile WiMAX solution providers, will demonstrate "WiMAX is Now & Here" by showcasing the WiMAX ecosystem of network and devices, backhaul and applications for delivering true "personal broadband" experience. Alcatel-Lucent will offer the demonstrations of WiMAX technologies, Open CPE Program and WiMAX Application Services.
In the WiMAX Components Area, Intel, Sequans, and Taiwan companies MediaTek Inc. and Mobile Devices Inc. are making positive progress in the development of WiMAX chipsets. It is expected that this year Tawian companies will introduce WiMAX chipset products.
In July 2007, the ROC's National Communications Commission issued 6 WiMAX operating licenses in northern, central and southern Taiwan. 5 of the 6 recipients of these licenses will be exhibiting at the WiMAX Applications Area, namely, First International Telecom Corp., Tatung Co., Global Mobile Corp., Far EasTone Telecommunications, and VASTAR CABLE TV SYSTEM CORP. All these companies will deliver WiMAX services to the residents of the island.
The exhibition will showcase two kinds of WiMAX Buses, the WiMAX Demo Bus designed by the organizer and the WiMAX VIP Bus designed by FITEL and FET. The WiMAX VIP Bus will demonstrate a range of application services that will be available via WiMAX mobile broadband access in the near future. The WiMAX VIP Bus by FET and FITEL will focus on M-Taiwan project achievements. Visitors can experience a Digital Signage System, live wireless broadband Internet access, commercial vehicle operation system and real time mobile video conferencing.
NPM Workflow Deal
National Public Media, LLC (NPM), the premier sponsorship company for public broadcasting -- representing NPR, PBS and all public radio and television stations around the country -- has reached an agreement with Operative, Inc. to implement a sponsorship and underwriting workflow automation solution to support NPM's broad array of online properties, including the active NPR and PBS national Web sites.
Through the agreement, Operative, a global advertising technology and operations management provider, will provide transparency into NPM's online sponsorship and underwriting sales with its flagship software, Operative Dashboard(TM). Operative Dashboard(TM) will offer a seamless integration with NPM's sponsorship serving technologies, providing a single process and data set that streamlines workflow for faster digital sales, implementation and execution.
"After a thorough evaluation of the vendors who offer solutions for our needs and opportunities, we chose Operative as the 'best of breed' provider of the level of quality technology and service expected by national brands like PBS and NPR," said Bryan Moffett, Director of Digital Operations, NPM. "Operative's feature-rich Dashboard will allow NPM to maximize revenue by providing an end-to-end solution to forecast, report and financially manage all our sponsorship and underwriting campaigns on the Web."
Under the agreement, all NPM's Web display activities will be managed through Operative Dashboard(TM), which will help support NPM's inventory management, available forecasting, product optimization, approval setting, fragmentation alleviation and affiliate delivery reporting.
Through the agreement, Operative, a global advertising technology and operations management provider, will provide transparency into NPM's online sponsorship and underwriting sales with its flagship software, Operative Dashboard(TM). Operative Dashboard(TM) will offer a seamless integration with NPM's sponsorship serving technologies, providing a single process and data set that streamlines workflow for faster digital sales, implementation and execution.
"After a thorough evaluation of the vendors who offer solutions for our needs and opportunities, we chose Operative as the 'best of breed' provider of the level of quality technology and service expected by national brands like PBS and NPR," said Bryan Moffett, Director of Digital Operations, NPM. "Operative's feature-rich Dashboard will allow NPM to maximize revenue by providing an end-to-end solution to forecast, report and financially manage all our sponsorship and underwriting campaigns on the Web."
Under the agreement, all NPM's Web display activities will be managed through Operative Dashboard(TM), which will help support NPM's inventory management, available forecasting, product optimization, approval setting, fragmentation alleviation and affiliate delivery reporting.
Sunday, 1 June 2008
TraceSecurity
TraceSecurity is a leading provider of security compliance and risk management solutions. The company helps organizations of all sizes to achieve, maintain and demonstrate security compliance while significantly improving their security posture. Key to TraceSecurity's success is the company's comprehensive patent-pending methodology that helps clients address all of the critical components of a successful security compliance program: people, process and technology.
TraceSecurity delivers its solutions through an integrated software-as-a-service platform backed by expert professional services and comprehensive security awareness programs. The company's flagship offering, TraceSecurity Compliance Manager, is the first comprehensive solution to automate regulatory compliance audits, board level reporting, policy management, vulnerability assessment, and employee education and testing. The company's expert professional services include onsite security audits and social engineering. The security awareness programs include an exhaustive set of standard offerings as well as custom designed courses. With over 800 clients, TraceSecurity supports the risk management and security compliance efforts of organizations in financial services, healthcare, insurance, government and other regulated sectors.
TraceSecurity delivers its solutions through an integrated software-as-a-service platform backed by expert professional services and comprehensive security awareness programs. The company's flagship offering, TraceSecurity Compliance Manager, is the first comprehensive solution to automate regulatory compliance audits, board level reporting, policy management, vulnerability assessment, and employee education and testing. The company's expert professional services include onsite security audits and social engineering. The security awareness programs include an exhaustive set of standard offerings as well as custom designed courses. With over 800 clients, TraceSecurity supports the risk management and security compliance efforts of organizations in financial services, healthcare, insurance, government and other regulated sectors.
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