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— According to IT industry group CompTIA, its new CompTIA Mobility Community “brings together thought leaders from vendors, solution providers and others active in the fast-growing market for mobile technology and mobile apps.” The community’s first major initiative is to create a mobility roadmap that will include an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for IT channel companies either currently engaged in or planning to enter the mobile market. Members of the group’s executive committee include Heather Murray, director/Sales and Marketing, TDMobility at Tech Data Corporation; Ruchhir Agarwal, CEO, Elan Emerging Technologies; Jacob Braun, president/COO, Waka Digital; Frank Gurnee, vice president/Community, ExchangeDefender; Richard Hutton, director/Channel Marketing, Samsung; Susan Krautbauer, director, Jabil; Shiv Kumar, executive vice president, ZSL Inc.; Vince Plaza, vice president/IT, TeamLogic IT; and Michael Romero, vice president and GM/Mobile Business, Ingram Micro.
— Windstream’s MPLS-enabled virtual LAN Services were certified by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) to be Carrier Ethernet 1.0 Certified, and compliant for both MEF 9 and MEF 14 technical specs.
— Tekelec and Israel’s Allot Communications Ltd. just wrapped interoperability testing for the 3GPP Sd Interface they say offers service providers more powerful application-policy control and enforcement with a more efficient network architecture. The testing was performed to support a global Tier 1 wireless carrier that plans to implement application-specific policies. The new Diameter Sd Interface helps operators offer subscribers new digital lifestyle services, including the connected home, mobile payments, and mobile health and analytics. It communicates between the Tekelec Policy Server and Allot’s Service Gateway Sigma E Traffic Detection Function to help enable detection and enforcement control over apps.
