Responding to strong demand from customers, ProtonMedia announced the integration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with the company's ProtoSphere virtual teaming and collaboration platform. This is the first time Microsoft SharePoint services and content have been combined with a 3-D virtual collaboration platform. By adding ProtonMedia's SharePoint Media Carousel to their ProtoSphere environment, companies extend their SharePoint investment and processes while they cut travel costs, raise productivity, improve engagement, and speed learning with ProtoSphere.

Napatech announced the introduction of full IPv6 support in all Napatech PCI-Express network adapters. IPv6 usage is expected to grow with IPv4 addresses running out and the number of Internet users set to increase by 45% over the next 5 years. Napatech has therefore ensured that the advanced packet capture, analysis and transmission capabilities offered for IPv4 today are also supported for IPv6.

• Extended nGenius Service Assurance Solution Further Removes Barriers to Monitoring All Subscribers, All Services and All Traffic as Mobile Data Traffic Continues to Skyrocket
  

NetScout Systems, Inc., announced the extension of its Unified Service Delivery Management strategy and framework with the availability of nGenius® Subscriber Intelligence, providing highly scalable subscriber session-level analysis for next generation Internet Protocol (IP) networks. As an integrated software module for the widely deployed nGenius Service Assurance Solution, nGenius Subscriber Intelligence provides mobile operators a comprehensive session-oriented view of the subscribers' experience for voice, video and data services. This extends the operational and business value of the overall nGenius solution, enabling mobile operators to track real time and historical performance metrics from aggregate service views, to individual subscriber sessions, down to deep packet-level analysis to better optimize the service delivery environment and simplify and accelerate the identification of service delivery problems in 2.5G and 3G wireless technology environments.

• Cascade 8.4 Delivers Intelligent, Business-Level Analytics and Visibility to Allow Organizations to Better Assess, Accelerate and Adapt Network Performance

Riverbed Technology, the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, announced enhancements to Cascade(R), its advanced network and application performance analysis and visibility solution. The newest version, Cascade 8.4 provides enhanced reporting and integration with Riverbed(R) WAN optimization that enable organizations to better assess, adapt and accelerate network performance. With Cascade 8.4, Riverbed allows enterprises to proactively monitor the end-user application experience in real-time. In addition, Cascade 8.4 integrates with Riverbed Steelhead(R) appliances to measure performance within optimized environments.

• SALSA V6 provides a breakthrough in terms of scalability, flexibility and usability. Ipanema Technologies, the leader in integrated WAN Optimization, Application acceleration and Application Performance Management solutions, announced the availability

Ipanema Technologies, the leader in integrated WAN Optimization, Application acceleration and Application Performance Management solutions, recently announced the availability of its new release of the SALSA platform, Version 6.

• Plans to Incorporate Ingate SIP Trunking Technology for New Enterprise Border Element Solution

Dialogic Corporation ("Dialogic"), a global provider of world-class products and technologies for media and signal processing, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Ingate® Systems ("Ingate") which allows Dialogic to incorporate the award-winning SIP Trunking software module from Ingate into a new enterprise border element designed to connect virtually any SIP trunk with virtually any PBX, to facilitate seamless SIP trunk deployments in legacy TDM and hybrid PBX environments, as well as new SIP-based PBX systems.

• Data Security Firm's Report Highlights Consumer Susceptibility to Cyber Attack

Imperva, the leader in Data Security, announced today the release of study analyzing 32 million passwords recently exposed in the Rockyou.com breach.  Imperva's Application Defense Center (ADC) analyzed the strength of the passwords in a report, Consumer Password Worst Practices, that analyzes 32 million passwords to help consumers and website administrators identify the most commonly used passwords they should avoid when using social networking or e-commerce sites.

Blue Coat Systems, Inc., the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today expanded its free K9® Web Protection software to include support for the new Windows 7 operating system, providing families with an easy-to-use tool for blocking objectionable Web content, such as pornography, and Web-based threats like phishing and malware.

• New Software Eliminates Cost and Complexity by Integrating Wireless, Wired, and Mobile Device Management

Aruba Networks, Inc., a global leader in 802.11n wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, recently announced AirWave 7, a major extension of its award-winning operations solution that integrates the management of wireless networks, wired infrastructure, and client devices into a single interface. As increasingly mobile enterprise users connect to networks from more locations, using a wider variety of devices than ever before, IT organizations have struggled with the proliferation of vendor-specific, single-purpose management tools need to support these networks. AirWave 7 solves this problem by providing a single point of visibility and control for the entire network edge, including wired and wireless infrastructure as well as individual client devices. In so doing, AirWave 7 reduces the cost and complexity of network management, while improving service quality for users.

• Virtualized WLAN Architecture Enables Comprehensive Service Assurance Program for Capacity, Availability and Real-Time Application Services

Meru Networks, Inc., a pioneer in 802.11n enterprise networking, today announced a WLAN service assurance program that provides enterprise wireless customers confidence and assurance in deploying business-critical applications on wireless LANs (WLANs). The Meru Wireless Service Assurance program provides a set of three service level benchmarks that promises end-to-end predictability, high quality real-time application services and a reliable, high-capacity WLAN system. Leveraging Meru's virtualized WLAN architecture and the Meru Service Assurance Manager software, this program is designed to ensure enterprises the availability and predictability of wired networks for their business-critical wireless applications, while utilizing fewer assets with greater efficiency than competing WLAN providers.