MUMBAI: Zayo Bandwidth, a provider of fiber-based bandwidth solutions, has selected Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) for its regional network in the Northeastern U.S. Infinera will bring the speed, responsiveness and flexibility of an Infinera Digital Optical Network to Zayo?s business, giving Zayo contiguous service from Chicago to New York and Washington, DC.

Based in Louisville, Colorado, Zayo Bandwidth, a Zayo Group business, operates regional networks in the Northeast, Midwest, Minnesota and the Memphis, Tennessee area. Zayo offers a wide range of telecom services including private line, Ethernet, wavelength, Internet and colocation services to customers in the telecom, enterprise and government sectors and other bandwidth-intensive organizations. Zayo has raised more than $340 million in private equity and debt financing to support an aggressive plan to provide telecom services in selected regional markets where demand is growing rapidly.

Zayo has deployed Infinera in the busy northeastern corridor from New York to Washington, DC as well as interconnecting Chicago to the east coast to serve the increasing bandwidth requirements of its customers. Zayo chose Infinera because the Infinera Digital ROADM offers high capacity and integrated, reconfigurable switching, enabling Zayo to provision or reconfigure bandwidth quickly and cost-effectively.

?The Infinera system is very easy to provision and operate,? commented Zayo Bandwidth Vice President of Engineering Troy Kau. He added: ?Zayo Bandwidth?s mission is to be responsive, and Infinera enables us to be agile and configure our network quickly to meet the needs of our customers.?

?Zayo has a visionary business plan to offer the latest technology and great customer service to its customers and we are delighted to support their efforts with an Infinera Digital Optical Network,? said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh.

The Infinera DTN system is based on Infinera?s innovative large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which integrate more than 60 optical devices on a pair of chips, to enable an optical system with 100 Gigabits/second (Gb/s) of capacity on every line card. The PIC-based system enables Infinera?s Bandwidth Virtualization, an architecture where a wide range of services, from 1 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s today, and 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s services in the future, can be quickly provisioned and reconfigured from a pool of readily available bandwidth which is installed in 100 Gb/s increments.

The Infinera DTN is a Digital ROADM for long-haul and metro core networks, combining high-capacity DWDM transport, integrated digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service intelligence in a single platform.

MUMBAI: Duncans Tea Limited (DTL) has announced a distribution tie up with IRCTC (catering division of Indian Railways) to serve Double Diamond tea bags to all passengers traveling on select routes in the country.

Through this tie-up, DTL aims to tap the "huge market potential" provided by the Indian Railways. To start with, DTL will be supplying Double Diamond Tea bags to Indian railways.

DTL has also adopted some new marketing strategies with their tie-ups with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL). DTL tea packets will now be available with the LPG suppliers when they go to deliver the LPG cylinders to customers.

In an endeavor to explore other distribution channels, DTL has also entered into a tie-up with CSD canteens of the Indian Army to cater to the armed forces even at remote locations.

It has also launched the tea brand "Sargam" in the Army CSD canteens at a lower price with the purpose of "catering quality tea to the custodians of the nation". DTL has tied up with Central Police canteen, which is a new setup to cater to the other branches of the armed forces.

Speaking on the occasion, Duncans Tea Ltd COO M. C. Appaiah said, "We are proud to be associated with these leading organisations and are actively exploring several alternative and innovative channels of distributions. These distribution tie-ups will help us reach out to all sections across the country."

MUMBAI: Terry Evanshen had a perfect life: at twelve he met Lorraine, his true love, future wife and mother of his three daughters Tara, Tracy and Jennifer, and decided to become an Canadian football star, which the hunk did brilliantly.

After a near-fatal car accident, Canadian football pro Terry Evanshen (Elliott) awakens with no memory of his wife, Lorraine (Crewson), his kids or the life he had. Evanshen and his wife must struggle to reconstruct the pieces of their life together. Based on a true story, this romantic tale chronicles one couple?s attempts to find the love that first brought them together.

Are Lorraine‘s flash-backs to happier days just a cruel memory, or can he learn to become their loving husband and dad again?

MUMBAI: The launch episode of Get Gorgeous 5 was just the tip of the iceberg; the competition is getting tougher with each passing week. In week 2, the contestants realize that the road to getting Gorgeous is quite a daunting task, as they fail to impress the judges with their fitness photoshoot. As the judges express their disappointment with the girls, Gauhar Khan and Diandra Soares are revealed as the ?MENTORS? to groom the contestants.

And if that was not enough? All hell breaks lose during their first ramp walk, as the jury makes it very clear that the contestants need to pull up their socks if they wish to win the title. Will the girls get bogged down by these harsh comments? Or will they put their best foot forward and challenge the jury?

The 2nd episode has surprises galore for the beauties, as they face their first elimination, a bikini shoot and a title for the best photograph. Who will mesmerize the jury with her killer looks and take away the tile for best picture.? Who has the perfect mix of grace, beauty and determination to overcome the pressure and survive till the end?

To find out who wins the jury?s heart and who gets eliminated this week, tune in on Friday, May 23rd at 7:30 pm to be a part of all the drama & action? only on Channel [v].

MUMBAI: INX Media?s flagship channel, mega Hindi GEC 9X, today unveiled a unique, powerful logo for its forthcoming epic drama Mahabharata.Created by INX Media?s in-house design studio, the logo captures the essence of the dramatic excitement, realism and huge scale of Mahabharata on 9X.

The creative brief for the logo was for it to stand head and shoulders above the crowd and embody the power and grandeur of the greatest story ever told. The stylized way that the metal has been cast in the form of letters which are sharp and edgy, depicts the concept of weapons and armour from the epic, while the circular illuminated form above all represents the ultimate Sudarshan Chakra of Lord Krishna.

The stroke of the letters and the play of light on them reflect dynamism and the roller-coaster ride of relationships, power, politics, emotions and values that makes the Mahabharata a story for all time and all generations.

Commenting on the logo, Indrani Mukerjea, Founder & CEO, INX Media Pvt. Ltd. said, ?We chose this logo from a number of others that had been created because it had strength and appeal for today and at the same time felt as if it could really have existed thousands of years ago. We believe this logo will do justice to the greatest Indian drama, which we hope to launch by 15th of August as a gift of epic proportions to viewers in India and globally.?

The Mahabharata on 9X will feature the biggest stars of Indian entertainment, and is one of the most keenly awaited shows this year.

MUMBAI: Companies, communities and enterprising individuals around the world have until Saturday 31 May to enter projects and small businesses that have shown enterprise and innovation into the global competition World Challenge 08.

BBC World News has teamed up with Newsweek and Shell for the fourth World Challenge, to identify and reward people and groups that bring economic and social benefits to their local communities.

Last year a record 942 nominations were received from 99 countries worldwide. Winning project T?ikapapa ? a Peruvian project set up to bridge the gap between Andean farmers and the potato market ? was presented with a US$20,000 grant from Shell to further develop their initiative.

This year each nomination must fall under one of the following categories: Community Welfare and Enterprise; Health and Education; Sustainable Farming; Energy; Water and Environment.

Nominations must be submitted through the new look World Challenge 08 website at www.theworldchallenge.co.uk. A panel of judges will then shortlist the entries down to the 12 best examples of community-based projects or businesses.

BBC World News will then produce six 30-minute programmes profiling the 12 finalists showing how their projects and businesses are changing lives. These programmes will be broadcast to the channel?s global audience in October and November 2008, and the channel?s viewers will be invited to vote online for their favourite project or business.

Newsweek will mirror the programmes? content in a six-part series of advertorials on the 12 nominees, aimed at driving its readers to the online voting site. The campaign will reach one million weekly readers across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The winners of World Challenge 08 will be announced at an awards ceremony in The Hague in December 2008 with the ceremony shown on BBC World News and detailed in Newsweek in the same month.