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euNetworks Group Limited (SGX: H23.SI), today announced that it has deployed an 8.8 Terabyte fibre based network from London to Dublin. Live and carrying customer services today, this completes the meshing of euNetworks’ 13 operational fibre based city networks into a single optical domain. euNetworks are now able to deliver their complete service portfolio from Dublin through to London, Frankfurt and across Europe.

While the region continues to experience macroeconomic pressures, the demand for bandwidth continues to grow. Multinational technology companies have committed to further investment in their data centre and network infrastructure in and around Dublin over the last 12 months, with robust and diverse connections both in the city and across Europe evermore important as they continue to scale and bandwidth usage increases. euNetworks has developed an end-to-end fully redundant and owned network. Connecting Dublin into a national network across the United Kingdom including Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol and onwards to London, this network has been designed with the ability to provide optimal paths and diverse routing. euNetworks also utilises the next generation of Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) platform in the network, enabling 10G, 40G and 100G capability day one.

“We are delighted to be able to improve our capability and connection to the Dublin market,” said Brady Rafuse, Chief Executive Officer of euNetworks. “As a bandwidth infrastructure provider, our fibre assets in the metro are at the core of our strategy and business model. For a truly seamless and scalable experience for our customers, we need to link all our operating metropolitan networks with fibre based long haul connections. With this new link we complete that, and can now offer our customers a truly seamless service across cities, countries and Western Europe.”

euNetworks Group Ltd.

Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, today announced its switching and routing technology has been deployed by TMX Atrium. This will provide flexibility, low latency and high-speed 24/7 connectivity to financial services organizations. TMX Atrium deployed Juniper Networks® QFX3500 Switches in its network to distribute market data more quickly and reliably, reaching up to 1.6 gigabits per second, the equivalent of downloading one movie over the Internet every eight seconds.

TMX Atrium, with presence in 12 countries across North America and Western Europe, chose Juniper's robust, fast, highly accessible and secure network with the ability to offer connectivity to 27 major trading venues and expand into new geographies. The service provider locates its Points of Presence (POPs) in data centers where there are large trading venues and consequently large liquidity pools. Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers support new POPs in new geographies and help TMX Atrium meet its customers' future requirements and exchange data feeds.

Juniper Networks technology, underpinned by the Junos® operating system, has been deployed at the edge, as a client device, and at the core of its network. EX Series Ethernet Switches and SRX Series Services Gateways are deployed at the core of the network and additional EX Series switches are used at the edge, where they deliver up to several hundred megabits per second for clients wanting to use multicast.

Juniper Networks Inc.

Alcatel-Lucent and Vivacom, Bulgaria's leading communications services provider, are upgrading the operator’s broadband network to bring subscribers video, voice and data services comparable to the best available throughout the European Union.

To meet the goals of the EU’s Digital Agenda for next generation broadband access, Vivacom is deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) solution. In addition to providing 1 000,000 Bulgarian households with higher connection speeds as well as increased service reliability, the service provider will also benefit from a reduction in operating costs.

Bulgaria supports the EU's Digital Agenda which has set goals of providing speeds of 100 Mbps to half of European households and 30 Mbps to all European households by 2020. The large increase in available broadband speeds is necessary to support faster download and upload speeds coming from high-definition video, 3D television and interactive gaming, multimedia communication, public online services, machine-to-machine communications, and user-created content. Vivacom will be providing 100 Mbps to customers in the cities of Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv in 2012 - with additional cities to follow.

Alcatel-Lucent

ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, announced today it has won a share of the IP procurement contract with China Telecom. ZTE’s share of the contract was the largest of any bidding company this time.

As part of the contract, ZTE will deliver its M6000 high-end router to China Telecom for use in the infrastructure project. The IP procurement also involves the use of several technologies, including: broadband remote access servers, service routers, multi-service edge, aggregation switches, and high-end routing switches. Further, the China Telecom large-scale IP centralized purchase aims to provide fiber optic telecommunications capabilities to over 100 million customers.

To date, the ZTE M6000 has been put into use in more than 110 cities in 21 provinces across China.

ZTE’s T8000/M6000 products have been put into commercial use by China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom and by operators in several countries in across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.