Cisco executives will discuss how to enable business mobility with ease - from more places than ever before, as well as how the barriers between public, personal and private wireless networks will disappear, simplifying IT management of mobile devices and assets.

Nortel has teamed with Northwestern University to demonstrate an international network - designed and optimized to deliver digital media and video - based on next-generation optical network technology.

Verso Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSO), a global provider of next-generation network solutions, and Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), the global leader in broadband satellite services and solutions, today announced that they have successfully concluded inter-operability testing of the Verso NetPerformer® solution over the Hughes broadband satellite platform.

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced its latest high performance AdvancedTCA® (ATCA®) processing blade. The Motorola ATCA-7150 features two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors LV, up to 32GB main memory and flexible on-board mass storage options. This combination of performance and flexibility is aimed at enabling the successful implementation of next-generation telecom networks.

Verso Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSO), a global provider of next generation network solutions, announced today that it has been selected to provide the Verso MetroNet VoIP Overlay solution, which includes the I-Master solution.

Redback Networks Inc., an Ericsson company that makes video-centric routers for 75 percent of the world’s largest triple-play networks, today announced it has been selected by Neuf Cegetel, the leading alternative telecom operator in France, to build its next generation fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) aggregation network for both residential and business services.

Redback Networks Inc., an Ericsson company that makes video-centric routers for 75 percent of the world’s largest triple-play networks, today announced that it will help to optimize its next generation broadband network for QSC in Germany.

Banverket ICT (Information and Communication Technology), one of Sweden's largest suppliers of network capacity, is enabling Sweden's cable TV and other service providers, to deliver new multimedia services across the country with a Nortel [NYSE/TSX: NT] next-generation optical network solution.

Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), a leading supplier of service provider IP-voice infrastructure solutions, and IntelePeer™, Inc., a leading global IP communications innovator, formerly known as VoEX, Inc., announced today that IntelePeer has selected Sonus' IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-based architecture as the foundation for its next-generation voice network.

Tekelec, a leading developer of high-performance network applications for next-generation fixed, mobile and packet networks, today announced that KPN Global Carrier Services is extending its relationship with Tekelec.

With almost two decades of experience building one of the most expansive Internet backbones in the world, Verizon Business is using its engineering expertise to deploy the Internet's next-generation protocol, known as IPv6, on the company's public IP network worldwide.

Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has received a turnkey contract from FLAG Telecom, a subsidiary of India's largest telecommunications service provider, Reliance Communications, for the construction of system segments across the Mediterranean (between France and Egypt) and Asia (between India and Hong Kong), which are part of the FLAG Next-Generation Network (NGN) submarine cable system linking countries around the world.