News Archive 2007

Horsebridge Network Systems appoints new Business Development Director

Full service telecommunications, supply and consultancy organisation Horsebridge Network Systems has appointed Callum Dick to its board of directors.

Callum will join the rapidly expanding Cheltenham-based company to assist with their Business Development, promoting UK market leaders Horsebridge globally in their core field of expert network solutions. Callum Dick comments: “I am looking forward to the new challenges ahead within the dynamic, young and innovative company of Horsebridge.”

Callum Dick is well known and highly respected within the global telecommunications industry, he is recognised through helping AlanDick Group within his previous post to massively increase the companies turnover from £30million to £150million.

Callum’s long term experience of managing company growth, along side the strength of his industry contacts, will help facilitate Horsebridge with their future international expansion. David O’ Connor, Senior Partner, comments:

“We were aware of Callum’s successes within the industry and are very happy to welcome him to Horsebridge’s board. We are keen to grow the company further on an international scale and are confident that Callum’s knowledge, experience and renown will help us to permeate additional markets and raise awareness and demand for our unique and extensive service provision.”

“At Horsebridge we strive to be at the forefront of new technology and innovation and we are constantly looking for new, tougher challenges. As recognised market leaders in Network Solutions we have a strong base from which to develop our expertise and take advantages of new opportunities for growth. We look forward to having Callum on board to help us in unlocking these opportunities for expansion and thereby contributing to our ongoing success.”

“I have been aware of and impressed with the end to end business solutions that Horsebridge offer their clients from a distance and am very pleased to have the opportunity to be involved in the company’s future growth”, comments Callum. “Horsebridge has already developed a very strong platform on which to base expansion and with market emphasis now moving towards Horsebridge’s specialist areas of expert consultancy and system design there is huge potential for increasing the company’s market share.

Trends indicate that the next, most lucrative business sector for the telecommunications industry will be expertise driven, with great opportunities for independent systems integrators and network technical consultancies. With expertise in both of these areas, Horsebridge is perfectly placed to embrace the future challenges of the industry and be successful in doing so. I am very much looking forward to being a part of the company’s future.”

RADWIN Introduces IDU-R for Automatic Leased Lines Backup

WinLink™ 1000 IDU-R Empowers Service Providers to Ensure 24x7 Network Uptime and Meet Rigid SLA Standards -

Tel-Aviv, Israel – June 26, 2007 - RADWIN (www.radwin.com), a leading provider of advanced wireless broadband solutions, today announced the immediate availability of its WinLink™ 1000 IDU-R solution for automatic backup of leased lines. RADWIN's WinLink™ 1000 IDU-R solution monitors the status of leased lines, and in the event of a failure automatically switches to the radio link in less than 25 milliseconds.

"WinLink™ 1000 IDU-R provides an extremely cost-effective backup link for leased lines via a redundant wireless link," said Adi Nativ, RADWIN's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. "With this system in place, operators can ensure the smooth and uninterrupted operation of their mission critical networks and meet rigid service level agreement (SLA) commitments."

Operations Director , Geoff Smith welcomed the introduction of the IDU-R solution, "This development by Radwin enables the Winlink 1000 to provide a technically diverse alternative to diverse leased line solutions between points of presence and as such can offer mission critical diversity in a commercially attractive solution rapidly delivering return on investment with signification capital expenditure compared to traditional fixed leased lines".

IDU-R Highlights:

Backup link for E1/T1 connections
Maintains fully operation link at all times
In case of failure or primary connection, automatically switches to backup
The air-interface can be defined as primary or backup link
Operates with all WinLink™ 1000 outdoor units portfolio

About RADWIN
RADWIN is a leading provider of advanced wireless broadband systems that deliver E1s/T1s and Ethernet services. RADWIN's systems are deployed in over 80 countries by tier-one operators and leading enterprises, delivering carrier-class performance at an extremely competitive price. WinLink™ 1000 power a range of applications, including cellular backhaul, broadband access, WiFi backhauling, private network connectivity and more.
Visit: www.radwin.com

Espy Backaul Manager selected by T-Mobile

T-Mobile have selected the Espy Backhaul Manager to provide remote management of their SDH radio deployment throughout the UK.

The software is capable of managing multiple types of radio equipment, irrespective of the vendor and there is no need for any additional hardware.

The software’s remote management capabilities enables identification faults before they occured. Monitoring of radio signal strength makes it possible to identify a loss in power of transmission and predict when radios are about to fail. This then enables the prioritisation of engineering resource and site visits. Just as importantly, engineers are able to minimise spares as they are aware of exactly what the fault is prior to any on site intervention.

Alan Sullivan from T-Mobile stated, "With 6,500 radios on 1,100 sites equipment replacement costs have a siginficant impact on our overall cap ex. The Espy backhaul manager’s performance monitoring and remote management capabilities will contribute to an extension of our radios’ life-cycle, thereby generating a more significant return on our initial investment.".

David O'Connor, Managing Director of Horsebridge added, "The experience of many of our customers has been similar to this. In a time where extending legacy equipment life span to last through migration to NGN network technologies, we have been able to enable reduced operational and capital expenditure in many of our customers using the Espy element management solutions acelerating investment in NGN migration"

Download T-Mobile case study

Download Horsebridge Management Solution Overview

The Wireless Event 2007

Horsebridge announce their participation in The Wireless event 2007 to be held at Olympia on 25th and 25th May 2007 with is supply partner Radwin.

The Wireless Event, now in its filth year, is about delivering effective enterprise applications using wireless networks and mobile devices. If you are looking for ways to cost, plan and deploy technologies such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, 3G, RFID and WVoIP to enhance business communications and processes, improve productivity and reduce costs, then this is the event for you.

Commenting upon the announcement from Horsebridge Geoff Smith, Operations Director said, "Attendance at an industry leading event such as this is imperative to keep abreast of market issues as well as promoting the Radwin product portfolio which has many key advantages over its competitors in the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) market".

Omnitron’s iConverter Platform Receives MEF 14 Certification for Ethernet Services

The Metro Ethernet Forum certifies iConverter fiber access equipment for next-generation Ethernet networks.

Irvine, California, USA January 26, 2007 – Omnitron Systems Technology, a leading provider of fiber optic access systems for next generation Ethernet networks, today announced that the iConverter platform has been certified compliant to the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 14 conformance and certification test process. The test process is performed by Iometrix, Inc., a leading independent testing lab, on behalf of the MEF.

MEF Certificate MEF 14 provides clear specifications-based guidelines for the formulation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and is a major step toward making Ethernet truly carrier-grade. MEF 14 covers “Service Performance” and “Bandwidth Profiles”—two sets of MEF service attributes. The first set encompasses three service performance attributes relating to Ethernet Virtual Circuits (EVC): Frame delay, Frame delay variation and frame loss ratio. The second set follows the familiar example of Frame Relay and includes four bandwidth profile attributes: Committed Information Rate (CIR), Committed Burst Size (CBS), Excess Information Rate (EIR), and Excess Burst Size (EBS).

The field-proven iConverter platform has also been certified compliant with the MEF 9 Ethernet Virtual Connection attributes. Together MEF 9 and MEF 14 cover the complete set of Carrier Ethernet service attributes defined in the core definitional technical document MEF 10.

According to Steve Mood, Omnitron’s Chief Technical Officer, "MEF 14 specifies guidelines for Quality of Service (QoS) parameters, and by meeting MEF 14 compliance with our iConverter products, Ethernet service providers now have formal assurance that the iConverter platform conforms to key MEF standards to deliver new Ethernet service offerings that support real-time and bandwidth-intensive applications."

"Now Carrier Ethernet is delivering its promises on Quality of Service in a standardized, independently verified manner," explains Mark Whalley, co-chair of the MEF Marketing Committee. "For a service provider end-customer, MEF 14 certification means confidence that the equipment in the network is capable of providing tightly specified SLA behavior in terms of assured bandwidth and application responsiveness. With the explosion in VoIP usage and the promise of IPTV and other bandwidth hungry and delay-sensitive services, Carrier Ethernet must deliver Quality of Service to maintain its momentum as one of the fastest growing sectors in our industry."

About the Metro Ethernet Forum

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is a global industry alliance comprising more than 80 organizations including telecommunications service providers, network equipment/software manufacturers, semiconductors vendors and testing organizations. The MEF’s mission is to accelerate the worldwide adoption of Carrier-class Ethernet networks and services. The MEF develops Carrier Ethernet technical specifications and implementation agreements to promote interoperability and deployment of Carrier Ethernet worldwide. For more information about the Forum, including a complete listing of all current MEF members, please visit the MEF web site at http://www.MetroEthernetForum.org.

About Omnitron Systems Technology, Inc.

Omnitron Systems Technology provides fiber optic access systems for next-generation Ethernet networks. We accelerate the delivery of managed optical Ethernet services into the existing infrastructure of service provider access and enterprise networks. Omnitron Systems is headquartered in Irvine, California