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Officials at PAETEC Holding Corp. say their offering will help the “on-net” cities by meeting business customers’ complex data needs.

PAETEC Holding Corp. a provider of data, voice, and Internet solutions to business-class customers, has reportedly announced that it launched a new, enhanced Web site that highlights its capabilities in serving the needs of today's businesses. Company officials said that it took nearly a year to design the new look and to feed relevant details to the Web site to make it easier for users to find information quickly. The site now includes links for people to follow PAETEC on popular social media sites.

Chen tells TMCnet that when the MEF defined carrier Ethernet about five years ago, it understood that interconnect would be a key challenge to enable the service to become widespread. He explains that interconnect is especially challenging with carrier Ethernet given its range of speeds, and its flexibility to support various SLAs and levels of delay, jitter and other performance parameters, adding it's very customizable. As a result, the forum created a committee to look at interconnect issues, he says, and that committee decided the best way to address carrier Ethernet interconnect was to form an independent company.

FACSys publisher emFAST Inc. has announced that its FACSys fax messaging suite of products is now compliant with IP Office Release 5 from Avaya.

Con Edison, a regulated utility that provides electric service in New York City, has selected Send Word Now's emergency voice and text communication services to communicate timely information to its 14,000 employees, enhance safety protocols and mobilize lines of business.

Proactive mobile banking and payment solutions provider ClairMail has reportedly announced that customer BB&T won accolades for its mobile banking offering. Two industry analyst firms, ABI Research and Javelin Strategy and Research have given top grades to the national bank in their recent reports. BB&T reportedly received the top A grade in the September 2009 Mobile Banking: U.S. Banks Report Card from ABI Research. The bank was also named a Silver category winner in Javelin Strategy and Research's 2009 Mobile Banking Scorecard published October 2009.

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., a global provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, reportedly announced that Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc. and Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations U.S.A Inc. subsidiaries of Sumitomo Electric Industries, has won Cisco's the Supplier of the Year Award. SEDI, designs and manufactures optical/wireless components, subsystem to Telecom, CATV, broadband data communication and wireless market. Whereas SEDU provides optical components, modules, and subsystems to the telecom, CATV, broadband, data communications and wireless markets.

VoxOx, a Universal Communicator Service that manages all forms of cross-media, has reportedly launched unlimited monthly subscription plans for calling and two-way texting. Domestic and worldwide plan options are also available. The company is now offering a $2.45 introductory rate for its monthly domestic calling plan in U.S. and Canada as part of the launch.

International information technology services company Atos Origin has selected optical transport services provider FiberLight for a new core data center optical ring.