This week at NXTcomm08, Microsoft is featuring the latest platforms and services that it has developed for the telecommunications industry. The company recently announced a new set of partners for its services initiatives.

MRV Communications, a global provider of communications equipment and services and optical components to carriers, governments, and enterprises, announced the launch of its optical packet blade, the LambdaDriver OPN1600.

At the NXTcomm08 event this week, Latens Systems exhibited its Latens ECOsystem service delivery platform and a pack of content protection software solutions.

Movius Interactive Corporation announced a new messaging application called Rapid Alert. Movius has developed this app in collaboration with Velleros for the purpose of delivering messages such as important alerts and personal notification content swiftly.

Soapstone Networks is showcasing its Provider Network Controller (PNC) solution, its multi-vendor resource and service control plane software framework, at NXTcomm08 in Las Vegas this week. This product underscores the company's commitment to standards-based integration between operations support systems (OSS) and network equipment.

Razorsight announced the launch of its new AIM 5.0 Next Generation Architecture, and unveiled its AIM Capture and AIM Analytics solutions that will leverage AIM 5.0 Next Generation Architecture.

According to Motorola, the gateway offers twice the reach of wireless gateways available off-the-shelf at retail stores.

At the NXTcomm08 show this week, Actelis is releasing its new ML650 for mobile backhaul, featuring enhancements to the company's ML600 Ethernet access device product line.

Nortel claims that its technologies are helping to define carrier Ethernet as a viable and a cost effective metro infrastructure.

Both companies worked together for several months to optimize Titan's "Regular Expression Processor" to leverage the high-performance capability of Altera Stratix series FPGAs, officials say.

VThe new award category, the "Empowered by Telecommunications" Award, is designed for outstanding achievements obtained by telecommunications operators and service providers that are United States Telecom Association carrier members, NEC officials say.

Seeking to deliver first integration with Microsoft's carrier-hosted HMC 4.5 unified communications solution, the software giant and Nortel today announced a fully hosted carrier solution that delivers a unified communications experience to small and medium-sized businesses.

Motorola's new offering of network design and management software — the One Point Wireless Suite — is now available to customers in North America.

Accedian Networks has launched its new EchoVault SLA EMS, a class of management system that provides real-time Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring for carrier-grade Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP) services.

At the NXTcomm08 conference in Las Vegas this week, Amino introduced what it claims is the IPTV market's completely digital high definition IPTV set top box, the AmiNET130M.

Officials from Westford, Massachusetts-based Sonus Networks say their solution, "Sonus WiMAX," will prepare operators for the future with 4G networks, including mobile interactive multimedia services.

Entone and Minerva Networks have teamed up to launch a new whole-home digital video recorder (DVR) device.

Hatteras Networks, a provider of Ethernet solutions for enterprise access systems recently announced a new range of opportunities for carriers.

Officials from Westford, Massachusetts-based Sonus Networks say their solution, "Sonus WiMAX," will prepare operators for the future with 4G networks, including mobile interactive multimedia services.

At NCTcomm08, Backspace Communications LLC, which officials describe as an early developer of IPTV broadcasting solutions, will demonstrate its new streaming mobile TV capability, according to the company.

IP communications solutions provider UniData Communications (UDC) is changing the Wi-Fi mobility experience with a pair of high quality IP handsets launching at next week's NXTcomm 08 in Las Vegas

North Carolina-based Tekelec announced that it will be demonstrating its ENUM-based solution in a presentation at NXTcomm08 in Las Vegas next week.

Officials from UniData Communication Systems are hailing their new handsets as breakthrough devices that rely on a "unique WiFi platform" and proprietary protocol that offers flexibility to businesses and carriers seeking to meet a wide variety of customer demands.

TranSwitch announced that it will be demonstrating its latest Ethernet-based solutions at NXTcomm08 next week in Las Vegas.

Liquid Computing, Inc., the developer of LiquidIQ, a fully virtualized communications and computing system, and NetApp have joined forces to provide customers with innovative data center solutions by combining networking, computing, and storage capabilities.

Ixia will reportedly demonstrate an initial implementation of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) line-rate traffic generation and analysis June 17-19 at NXTcomm08 in Las Vegas.

One company that sees a definite future for VoWiFi is South Korea-based UniData Communication Systems, a provider of IP telecommunications solutions.

XO Communications and Infinera are teaming up to deliver the first demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet traffic in production-ready form over a live network, the companies said.

Matisse Networks, a company that specializes in optical burst switching (OBS) solutions, is gearing up to co-present a session, "The Next Step in the Packet Transport Evolution: The Virtualization of the Optical Layer Towards Unified Packet Network Architectures," at the NCTcomm08 tradeshow next week.

IP communications solutions provider UniData Communications (UDC) offers high quality IP handsets that promise to deliver a better, more enjoyable communications experience.