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• RSA^® Conference (www.rsaconference.com), the world’s leading information security conferences and expositions, today announced that Robert Mueller, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will deliver a keynote address at RSA Conference 2010.
• Mueller’s presentation will take place on Thursday, March 4, 2010.
• Mueller’s keynote will detail cyber threats through the years – from criminal threats like computer intrusions and identity theft to the use of the Internet by extremists and hostile foreign powers.
• The Director will also highlight the changing role of the FBI in addressing cybercrime, both in terms of our economic security and our national security, while focusing on the importance of public and private sector partnerships in identifying, preventing and investigating these threats.
• This year’s RSA Conference takes place from March 1-5, 2010, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
• Information on registering for RSA Conference 2010 can be found at: http://www.rsaconference.com. Press can register to attend by going to:http://www.rsaconference.com/2010/usa/for-press.htm.

About Robert S. Mueller, III

After graduating with a law degree in 1973 from the University of Virginia, Robert Mueller worked as a litigator in San Francisco until 1976, then served for 12 years in United States Attorney’s Offices – first in San Francisco and then in Boston where he was an Assistant United States Attorney.

After serving as Partner at the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow, Mueller worked as an assistant to Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh and was later elected Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1991.

In 1993, Mueller became Partner at Boston’s Hale and Dorr before returning to public service in 1995 as Senior Litigator in the Homicide Section of the District of Columbia United States Attorney’s Office. In 1998, Mueller was named United States Attorney in San Francisco. In 2001, he was nominated by President George W. Bush and became the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on September 4 of that year – just one week prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

More information about Director Mueller can be found here: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/directors/directmain.htm

Quote attributable to Robert Mueller, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation:

“Responsible for 85 percent of the nation’s critical infrastructure, the private sector is essential in protecting our nation from and responding to cyber attacks. The sharing of information between government, private industry and the public increases our effectiveness in preventing cybercrime. Whenever companies or institutions inform us of a potential breach, the FBI has the chance to gather, analyze and share critical intelligence. Working together as a unified front, we can accelerate our ability to thwart the activities of cyber criminals.”

Quote attributable to Sandra Toms LaPedis, Area Vice President and General Manager of RSA Conference:

“As information security moves beyond the confines of research labs and IT departments and into the lives of all Americans, it becomes even more essential to arm our attendees with guidance from influential government officials. The addition of Director Mueller to our keynote lineup gives us first-hand insight into how the threats of the past can shape our understanding of the cyber attacks of the future.”

About RSA Conference

RSA Conference helps drive the global information security agenda with annual events in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Throughout its 19-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the best in the field, creating opportunities to learn about information security’s most important issues through face-to-face and online interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. More information on events, online programming and the most up-to-date news pertaining to the information security industry can be found at www.rsaconference.com.

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-Reliance Globalcom, a leading global provider of managed network and communication services for multinational enterprises, carriers and consumers, today announced the launch of Clearview International LLC’s Texas Fiber Web—a fiber-connected network of Clearview’s Information Technology Gateways. Reliance Globalcom’s presence in Clearview’s data centers, including its newest center in Waco, establishes a critical path for transferring valuable data and applications among major Texas cities including Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio.

“Reliance Globalcom’s network enabled us to deploy a better disaster recovery network to support our clients”

Reliance Globalcom’s Ethernet assets improve disaster recovery for data transfer among Clearview’s Texas markets. This is especially important to clients along the Texas Gulf Coast where hurricanes are a seasonal reality, as well as clients in States surrounding Texas whose operations are in “Tornado Alley.”

Clearview’s Information Technology Gateways don’t compromise when it comes to network speeds, reliability and state-of-the-art infrastructure. “Reliance Globalcom’s network enabled us to deploy a better disaster recovery network to support our clients,” said Jay Looney, Clearview Managing Director. “A significant number of our clients are among the Fortune 500 and do a significant amount of their business online. To us and to them, this is mission-critical.”

Reliance Globalcom and Clearview are a critical component of many customers’ disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. Clearview data centers offer optimal conditions for power, space, connectivity, temperature controls and security. Key to Clearview’s new Waco data center is its central locality, which has it strategically positioned on a power grid separate from Texas’ major cities and protected from brownouts and blackouts. As the only data center with a direct fiber connection between Dallas and Waco, the Waco facility offers an excellent location for enterprises seeking a structurally sound site to store valuable information.

“The decision to join Clearview’s Texas data centers has been an effective way of bringing our global connectivity and service assurance to the oil and gas industry as well as some of the largest corporations in America,” said Ted Raffetto, President, Americas region, Reliance Globalcom. “Clearview’s philosophy of managed services mirrors ours. Like Reliance Globalcom, Clearview is founded on the guiding principles of exemplary client care, consultative expertise and failsafe connectivity.”

Clearview is a privately held company offering business risk management, consulting, managed services and enterprise hosting. The company provides a full range of co-location, managed services, back-up and disaster recovery services from its Information Technology Gateways.

About Reliance Globalcom

Reliance Globalcom, a division of Reliance Communications, spearheads the Global Telecom operations of India’s largest Integrated Telecom Service Provider. Reliance Globalcom brings together the synergies of Reliance Communications’ Global Business encompassing Enterprise Services, Capacity Sales, Managed Services and a highly successful bouquet of Retail products and services comprising of Global Voice, Internet Solutions and Value Added Services. The company serves over 2,100 enterprises, 200 carriers and 2.2 million retail customers in 163 countries across 6 continents.

Reliance Globalcom owns the world’s largest private undersea cable system spanning 65,000 Kilometers seamlessly integrated with Reliance Communications’ domestic optic fiber running over 190,000 Kilometers, providing a robust Global Service Delivery Platform connecting 40 key business markets in India, USA, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region. With its recent acquisition of eWave World (now Reliance WiMAX World), a pioneer in the global WiMAX space, Reliance Globalcom has the capability to launch 4G services in over 50 countries. It has also acquired the Vanco Group (now Reliance Vanco Group), enabling the company to provide managed services to over 230 countries and territories across the globe. For further information, please visit www.relianceglobalcom.com.

About Reliance Communications

Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 64,000 crore (US$ 13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs. 13,000 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,400 crore (US$ 1.8 billion).

Reliance Communications is India’s foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of over 90 million including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 5 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.

Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wire line), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world’s largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 190,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

Overture Networks, the industry’s trusted Carrier Ethernet solutions provider, today announced the company surpassed major milestones in 2009 with a bookings increase of 69% and 45 additional customers for the year.

“We exceeded expectations for the year with remarkable growth in customer base and shipments, both of which helped significantly broaden our appeal as a leading Carrier Ethernet edge and aggregation supplier”

Overture surpassed company sales goals in every quarter of 2009, strengthening its position as a market leader in Carrier Ethernet solutions. The company is now a partner to more than 225 service providers and enterprise customers worldwide, which includes 10 of the top 15 US Carrier Ethernet service providers, such as Verizon and TW Telecom. The company saw a number of noteworthy customer wins during the year, including, NuVox and COLT.

“We exceeded expectations for the year with remarkable growth in customer base and shipments, both of which helped significantly broaden our appeal as a leading Carrier Ethernet edge and aggregation supplier,” said Jeff Reedy, CEO of Overture Networks. “The demand for Carrier Ethernet has continued to explode and Overture’s relentless focus on providing innovative, cost-effective solutions for business services and mobile backhaul has allowed us to prosper despite the weaker economy. I was particularly pleased by our first sales of the ISG 6000 for IP to Ethernet Interworking and our UTS 4000 Optical Ethernet solution for mobile backhaul.”

Overture Networks was recognized for several significant corporate achievements in 2009. Along with the acquisition of Ceterus Networks, Overture successfully launched its newest Carrier Ethernet platforms– the ISG 6000 Ethernet Aggregation System and the new UTS 4000 Optical Ethernet platform. Overture won numerous awards, including the InfoVision award for best access aggregation platform while also being recognized as a finalist for the American Business Awards’ best technology company.

Overture is continuing that momentum in 2010 as the company aims to increase staff by more than 20% over the next several months. With its success during the economic downturn, Overture will be looking to capitalize on prospective opportunities in business services and mobile backhaul solutions.

About Overture Networks

Overture Networks is the preferred Carrier Ethernet edge and aggregation partner to more than 225 service providers and enterprise customers worldwide, including 10 of the top 15 US Carrier Ethernet service providers. Its innovative solutions have proven to be integral to a service provider’s ability to fully leverage Carrier Ethernet to multiply service revenues and streamline operational costs. Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, with a technology center in Richardson, TX, Overture Networks is relentlessly focused on providing solutions at the ever-expanding edge of the network. With its patent-protected, award-winning family of products for both business services and cell site backhaul, Overture Networks uniquely combines the packet-switched and circuit-switched worlds into a single architecture—at cost points that make it extremely attractive to offer Carrier Ethernet services to any size location—over optical fiber or copper transport. For more information, visit http://www.overturenetworks.com.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Federal Communications Commission will hold a staff workshop on consumers and transparency as part of the Commission’s Open Internet proceeding. This workshop will examine the impact of transparency and disclosures regarding broadband Internet service on consumer choice and user control of the online experience. These issues will be explored from the diverse perspectives of consumers, Internet service providers, content and application developers, policy analysts, and experts in Internet innovation and transparency.

News Media Information 202 / 418-0500 Internet: http://www.fcc.gov TTY: 1-888-835-5322

WHAT: WHEN: WHERE:

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Consumers, Transparency, and the Open Internet

Tuesday, January 19, 1:30 p.m.

FCC Headquarters, Commission Meeting Room 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C.

www.openinternet.gov/workshops/

Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission Hon. Konrad W. von Finckenstein, Q.C., Chairman, Canadian Radio-

telephone and Telecommunications Commission

Parul P. Desai, Media Access Project Ron Dicklin, Root Wireless Gerald R. Faulhaber, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Joel Kelsey, Consumers Union Fernando LaGuarda, Time Warner Cable Sascha Meinrath, New America Foundation Jay Monahan, Vuze, Inc.Nicholas Weaver, International Computer Science Institute (Netalyzer), University of California at Berkeley

David E. Young, Verizon Joel Gurin, Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, FCC (Moderator) Julius Knapp, Office of Engineering & Technology, FCC (Moderator)

The workshop will be open to the public; however, admittance will be limited to the seating available. Audio/video coverage of the workshop will be streamed live with open captioning over the Web at www.openinternet.gov/workshops/.

The CTIA a wireless association posts comments to the FCC requesting exemption from Net Neutrality rules.

“Quite simply, we believe that these rules are inappropriate for wireless broadband networks and unnecessary to ensure that wireless consumers continue to enjoy the open Internet. All elements of the wireless ecosystem are flourishing. As Americans continue to adopt mobile broadband at a rapid pace, our members are investing billions of dollars every year to deliver wireless Internet across the country. This is a model that is working for consumers and regulation is not needed.”

The filing will highlight these five reasons why net neutrality is unnecessary for wireless:

• Net neutrality rules would lead to unintended consequences. A lot is going right in the U.S. wireless market – low prices, competition, and tremendous innovation – all driven by tens of billions of dollars each year in investment. All elements of the wireless ecosystem are flourishing to the benefit of consumers. Adding regulatory uncertainty and the unintended consequences that will flow from these proposed rules will cause harm and ultimately will not benefit consumers.
• There is no factual basis for application of net neutrality to wireless. The Commission cannot point to a market failure that would justify its proposed rules. Only theoretical harms that have been claimed for years – harms that have never materialized.
• The FCC’s approach would be in stark contrast to international approaches to Internet openness. In the more concentrated and more heavily regulated European markets, regulators have decided to forgo the type of prescriptive regulation proposed by the FCC in favor of promoting competition to ensure consumer welfare.
• Wireless networks are technologically different than other broadband technologies. Reliance on spectrum and the technical aspects of mobility pose unique challenges to wireless broadband providers. Capacity constraints (one strand of fiber optic cable has more capacity than the entire electromagnetic spectrum, of which wireless is one of many users), the close interaction between wireless devices and the wireless network, and licensed nature of wireless devices make the Commission’s rules incompatible with wireless broadband.
• The FCC should take a page from antitrust analysis – monitoring the market and correcting failures – rather than regulating non-existent harms. A recent paper by the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that the broad goals of bringing consumers the best possible service and choice of broadband providers are best served by promoting competition. Several years of economic analysis of net neutrality reach the same conclusion – careful monitoring of the market and correction of actual failures will better promote competition and consumer welfare than net neutrality rules.

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA), a broad-based coalition supporting broadband availability and access for all Americans, today released the following statement on its comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) issued on October 22, 2009:

“Instead, the IIA suggests that the FCC refocus on key initiatives more directly responsive to the challenges of expanding broadband access to, and adoption by, all Americans, including”

“We stand at a critical juncture with the fate of a landmark national broadband plan aimed at achieving universal access at stake. The IIA fears that the so-called ‘net neutrality NPRM’ issued by the FCC is an unnecessary distraction from the more critical policy initiatives needed to develop an effective National Broadband Plan, due from the FCC to Congress in just two months. Indeed, the Commission’s recent request for an extension of time to deliver a final Plan only underscores the need for the agency to devote more – not less – attention and resources to this task. The IIA commends the FCC for its leadership in the creation of a strategy that complements and accelerates efforts in the marketplace, and strongly encourages the Commission to keep its focus on this important responsibility.

“The FCC has put forward more than 25 public notices seeking comments on various ideas for new broadband policies. The Commission has also estimated that up to an additional $350 billion in infrastructure investment – the majority of which must come from private sources – will be needed to achieve ubiquitous, high-speed Internet throughout our country. With unemployment hovering at 10 percent and our economic recovery unclear, now is not the time to experiment with significant and divisive new regulations, which could have unintended consequences that hinder further investment and innovation.

“Instead, the IIA suggests that the FCC refocus on key initiatives more directly responsive to the challenges of expanding broadband access to, and adoption by, all Americans, including:

• Finalizing and implementing the National Broadband Plan;
• Undertaking reform of the Universal Service Fund to reflect and be tailored to the needs of the broadband era instead of yesterday’s telephony regime; and
• Reducing tax and regulatory barriers to deployment of broadband over power lines and higher-speed wireless networks.

“The policy questions posed by this NPRM should be revisited if and when market conditions mandate, and only after sufficient analysis of their impact on infrastructure investment, consumer adoption and critical network management requirements. The lack of net neutrality regulations does not appear to have slowed dynamic innovation at the edge of the network so far, but hastily adopted regulations could have a lasting and significantly harmful effect on broadband development.”

The IIA’s full comments to the FCC in response to this NPRM can be found at http://internetinnovation.org/library/special-reports/response-to-notice-of-proposed-rule-making/.

About The Internet Innovation Alliance

The Internet Innovation Alliance is a broad-based coalition of business and non-profit organizations that aim to ensure every American, regardless of race, income or geography, has access to the critical tool that is broadband Internet. The IIA seeks to promote public policies that support equal opportunity for universal broadband availability and adoption so that everyone, everywhere can seize the benefits of the Internet – from education to health care, employment to community building, civic engagement and beyond.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced that its board of directors has approved a 2.4 percent increase in the company’s quarterly dividend. AT&T has increased its quarterly dividend for 26 consecutive years, a record unmatched among major telecom companies.

“Our 26th consecutive annual dividend increase underscores the Board’s continued commitment to stockholders and confidence in our strong financial position”

AT&T directors increased the dividend rate from $0.41 to $0.42 per share on a quarterly basis and from $1.64 to $1.68 per share on an annual basis.

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The dividend will be payable Feb. 1, 2010, to common stockholders of record on Jan. 8, 2010.