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Worldwide telecom industry to grow in 2005: Insight ResearchThe growth of revenues in the global telecommunications industry is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 5.9% from 2005 to 2010, according to a new market analysis report from Insight Research. The report notes that the level of sustainable growth enjoyed by the telecom segment prior to the technology bubble of the late 1990s. The report, The 2005 Telecom Industry Review: An Anthology of Market Facts and Forecasts, predicts that worldwide telecommunications industry services revenue will grow from $1.1 trillion in 2005 to $1.5 trillion in 2010. The study also noted that the growth will be uneven, with North America showing the lowest and Asia-Pacific the highest rate of revenue growth. HBF to provide PointOne’s VoIP 911 service in U.S. and CanadaHBF Group Inc. has inked an agreement with PointOne to provide 911 services to their StarPointIP digital phone customers in the U.S. and Canada. PointOne said it chose HBF’s i-911 VoIP solution because of its ability to deliver both the subscribers callback number and location information to the appropriate public safety answering point (PSAP) that services their customer’s current location. A key feature of the i-911 solution is that it can route emergency calls for both and fixed subscriber whose location is constant and the nomadic subscriber who moves the location of their VoIP device often. M5T releases new security software for IP networksM5T announced February 7 the availability of its M5T SAFE SIP Proxy version 4.0 as well as M5T SAFE SRTP (Secure Real-Time Protocol) stack, according to a media release from the Florida-based provider of solutions for real-time multimedia over IP communications. The company has developed a suite of secure software solutions for multimedia over IP communications to address the increasing requirements for security in wires and wireless IP networks. The M5T SAFE SRTP stack provides secure transport of multimedia packets and addresses media encryption devices. M5T also expanded its existing security offering for wired and wireless IP networks, by releasing a new version of its M5T SAFE SIP Proxy. It supports a set of modular services used for building SIP devices, servers and applications. Genesys, Microsoft partner on instant messaging, telephonyGenesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc., a company owned by Alcatel, and Microsoft Corp. on February 8 introduced a new, combined solution that delivers converged enterprise communications services on existing and next-generation infrastructures. Genesys will interface with Microsoft’s Office Live Communications Server 2005 and it upcoming live communications client to deliver telephony collaboration for enterprise users. The combined solution will enable customers to collaborate with colleagues, and seamlessly manage phone calls among computers and desktop phones, using either existing PBX or next-generation IP networks. “The convergence of communications and business applications represents a key component for delivering on our software and applications strategy,” said Alcatel Enterprise Solutions president Jean-Christophe Giroux. “This announcement underscores our commitment to bring new dimensions to enterprise communications that will result in better productivity and improved business processes.” The combined solution will be available in the first half of calendar year 2005. SEI expands Juice Box 802.3af product lineSystem Engineering International (SEI) has announced additional models of its “Juice Box” line of midspan PoE products – the MX Power unit and Backup Juice. The 802.3af compliant Juice Box MX simplifies installations and provides optional integrated battery backup. The Juice Box MX is designed to work with the Backup Juice Integrated UPS such that during a loss of utility power, the MX provides instantaneous power from the backup battery. A key feature of the Juice Box MX is the ability to prioritize ports in backup mode, according to SEI. During a utility power outage, only those ports enabled for operation during battery backup mode will be provided with power.

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News | March 2, 2005

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