company announced Metro Cell Express, a managed service that designs, installs, integrates, tests, and then transfers operations to mobile network operators. RFS (Radio Frequency Systems) RFS designs and sells cable, antenna, tower systems, and their related electronic components, providing a suite of radio frequency products. RFS serves original equipment manufacturers, distributors, system integrators, network operators, and installers in the broadcast, wireless communications, microwave, and defense sectors. Specific applications for RFS products include cellular sites, in-tunnel and in-building radio coverage, microwave links, TV, and radio. Wireline Fixed Access The company’s Wireline division designs and develops fixed access products that allow service providers to offer high speed broadband connectivity through copper and fiber connections. Also known as fiber-to-the-x equipment, these products provide Internet access and other services to residential and business customers worldwide. These products also help complete the transformation of legacy networks to IP by providing IP connectivity for the last mile. The company serves the fixed broadband access market supporting the mass deployments of voice, video, and data services. It supplies digital subscriber line (DSL) technology and gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) technology. The company’s global installed base includes approximately 260 million DSL lines and approximately 7.8 million GPON ports shipped. It is present in various major GPON deployments worldwide, including approximately 160 fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) projects, of which approximately 140 are GPON-based. The company supplies to all the major Chinese telecom operators. In 2012, the Wireline division focused its R&D efforts on fixed access products that support both copper and fiber access; very high speed digital subscriber line (VDSL2) vectoring that increases data speeds to 100 megabit/second (100 Mbps) or more through existing copper infrastructure to homes and businesses; Zero Touch Vectoring that makes it easier for service providers to deploy VDSL2 vectoring and boost speeds on their existing copper infrastructure; investments in FTTH, focusing on technologies that accelerate the return on investment in fiber networks for service providers; and small factor pluggable optical network terminal, a solution that makes it easier for service providers to deploy GPON anywhere. The company operates as the first vendor with a working VDSL2 vectoring solution and is the first vendor to deploy this operationally in the field with customers, such as Belgacom and Telekom Austria. IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS)/Next-Generation Networking (IMS/NGN) The IMS/NGN portfolio complements the IMS portfolio within the S3 Group. The products within Wireline focus on connecting IMS and next generation networks to legacy public switched telephone networks, providing interconnection points between IP networks, as well as network security for wireline, wireless, and converged networks. S3 This segment is a software-enabled services business. This segment supplements and improves its High Leverage Network strategy by helping its customers transform their legacy networks and operations to next generation wireless and converged networks, and by building applications that utilize those next-generation networks. This segment supplies solutions for telecommunications service providers and strategic industries, including transportation, energy, and the public sector. This segment’s portfolio comprises Services and Network Applications divisions. Services This division includes network and systems integration, managed and outsourcing solutions, multi-vendor maintenance, and product-attached services that design, integrate, manage, and maintain networks worldwide. This division engages in consulting, planning, design integration and optimization, operations management, and maintenance of complex, multi-vendor telecommunications networks, as well as in the design, delivery, and operation of network-based software solutions. S3 services are designed to provide a full services valu