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team has worked diligently to build a company that is based on operational excellence and innovation," said Frank Plastina, president and chief executive officer, Tekelec. "I am pleased to see Tekelec employees be recognized for their ongoing efforts to deliver value to our customers and our shareholders."

Global Capacity, a telecommunications industry logistics company, has announced that it has closed financially on a deal to acquire Vanco Direct USA LLC for $15 million USD. The formal transfer is still awaiting approval by state and federal regulators, expected within the next 90 days.

And now for some Management World Orlando news...

NetCracker and NEC held a press conference at TM Forum Orlando to discuss NEC's recent acquisition of the smaller company. NEC stressed NetCracker's importance in its own growth, stating that the acquisition of NetCracker completes NEC's portfolio, making it a total end-to-end solution for its customers, as well as expanding its geographical reach. NEC also stated that it is committed to providing support to ensure NetCracker's success and both were pleased to announce their 11th customer win with Videotron, a Quebecor Media Company. "Together, NetCracker and NEC provide the best in business support software and infrastructure innovation across a global footprint," said Dr. Botaro Hirosaki, NEC's Senior Executive Vice President and Member of the Board in the official press release. "NetCracker adds important solutions at the Service layer to complement NEC's extensive portfolio of mobile, wireline, and IT infrastructure products."

Sigma Systems announced at the show that they are partnering with BroadSoft, Inc. a provider of VoIp application software, in order to provide provisioning and fulfillment solutions to telecom and cable operators for hosted business and residential VoIP services. "By

providers can extend their business model for interactive video entertainment services to include advanced advertising. "It is an exciting time to be a solutions provider in the service provider industry right now. The demand and creativity driving new services is forcing operators to rethink the way they transform and manage their service fulfillment processes," said Tim Spencer, president and COO of Sigma Systems. "At Sigma we are dedicated to helping service providers be as innovative as possible, whether it is enabling new communications and advanced video services, or pioneering new revenue-generating solutions, such as advanced advertising."

While not releasing anything specifically at the show, Openet was very pleased to say that the show was going very well for them and were also happy to tell us that in the fourth quarter they launched a new version of their underlying framework product under the title FusionWorks 5.0. The update improves upon previous versions of the software and has additional features such as unified logging, which gathers data from multiple places into one, easy to understand package; statistics reporting; and OA&M, which allows users access to performance data.