Paris, June 11, 2012
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France Telecom-Orange raises EUR 1 billion 10-year bonds at 3%
France Telecom-Orange has closed a EUR 1 billion bond issue in order to take advantage of the decrease in interest rates since mid-March.
Thanks to an abundant EUR 4.8 billion order book, this transaction allows the Group to continue to increase the average maturity of its debt while reducing its average cost, with a 3.00% coupon.
Credit Agricole CIB, Mitsubishi UFJ, Royal Bank of Scotland and Societe Generale CIB acted as bookrunners.
About Orange
France Telecom-Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with 171,000 employees worldwide, including 105,000 employees in France, and sales of 10.9 billion euros in the first three months of 2012. Present in 33 countries, the Group had a customer base of 225 million customers at 31 March 2012, including 181 million customers under the Orange brand, the Group's single brand for internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates. At 31 March 2012, the Group had 166 million mobile customers and 15 million broadband internet (ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is one of the main European operators for mobile and broadband internet services and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.
With its industrial project, "conquests 2015", Orange is simultaneously addressing its employees, customers and shareholders, as well as the society in which the company operates, through a concrete set of action plans. These commitments are expressed through a new vision of human resources for employees; through the deployment of a network infrastructure upon which the Group will build its future growth; through the Group's ambition to offer a superior customer experience thanks in particular to improved quality of service; and through the acceleration of international development.
France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris (compartment A) and on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Telecom Platform Deployment Provider Radisys Unveils CEQM77 Family of COM Express Modules - TMCnet
Radisys Corporation, a provider of embedded wireless infrastructure solutions for a wide range of telecom platform deployment scenarios, recently launched the CEQM77 family of ultra-portable COM Express modules for graphics and processing-intensive applications.
Based on the third-generation Intel (News 
With support for error-correcting code (ECC) memory and a -40C to +85C temperature range, the CEQM77 has applications in the aerospace and defense (A&D), medical and enterprise markets.
In military systems, the CEQM77 family of devices will offer ultra-high processing and graphics capabilities to ensure optimal situational awareness, as well as ECC memory to ensure data integrity for mission-critical applications. The CEQM77 module with ECC memory is specifically designed and tested to withstand extreme military conditions and meet the processing-intensive needs for these applications.
“The combination of ruggedness, reliability and performance in Radisys’ COM Express modules enables our customers to implement an entire system or network that can be picked up and moved to meet changing battlefield situations,” said Jennifer Zickel, COM Express product line manager, Radisys, in a statement.
When combined with Radisys’ Trillium 3G and LTE (News - Alert) wireless software, the COM Express portfolio enables ruggedized portable wireless end-to-end telecom platform deployment solutions including the full core network, in a 60mm x 120mm x 150mm package, according to Zickel.
“In addition, our Software Media Server performs multimedia packet processing for real-time communication applications in the battlefield, like push-to-talk services over ad-hoc cellular networks,” Zickel further added.
Radisys’ CEQM77 also provides a 20 percent processing performance increase and twofold graphics acceleration over the previous generation module, thanks to third-generation Intel Core i7 processors. Additionally, the processors extend product lifetime and maintain a smooth upgrade path for previous COM Express-based applications.
Edited by Jamie Epstein
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