Vistula Communications Inc., a global supplier of Voice over IP services has announced that Telstra Europe has deployed its V-Cube(TM) IP-PBX platform for telephony at its new state-of-the-art internet data centre at St. John's Innovation Park, Cambridge, UK. Telstra Europe's Cambridge data centre provides hosting and security services ranging from colocation to business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.

Voyence, a provider of automated change and configuration management solutions, has signed a partnership agreement with Integrated Networks (iNet) of Saudi Arabia, a managed services provider and value-added ICT solutions provider. The partnership will enable iNet to expand their existing portfolio via adding Voyence's change and configuration management solution - VoyenceControl NG.

Bharti Tele-Ventures has signed a five- year managed services agreement with Nortel to host contact centre services for more than 19.7 million subscribers to Bharti's Airtel GSM mobile, broadband and fixed-line services. Nortel will create a Network Operations Center (NOC) in New Delhi and provide network design, integration, support and maintenance services for Bharti's contact centre architecture. A 24x7 'virtual storefront' voice portal based on Nortel's interactive voice response (IVR) solution will be the cornerstone of Bharti's new contact centre operation.

The European Invesment Bank (EIB) has signed a three year contract with Cybertrust subsidiary Ubizen for the provision of managed security services. Under terms of the agreement, Cybertrust will provide onsite security engineering consultancy, maintenance and support and 24x7 monitoring and management services for all EIB IT security devices. The contract is extendable to five years.

Vodafone Netherlands and Ericsson have entered into an exclusive managed services partnership. Under the contract, Ericsson will be responsible for engineering, implementation and operation of the access part of Vodafone Netherlands' GSM, GPRS and UMTS radio networks in the Netherlands. Vodafone Netherlands will retain ownership of the network and IT assets, as well as responsibility for the strategic direction of the network and IT infrastructure.

Irish Estates' wholly owned subsidiary Vector Workplace & Facility Management has signed an all-Ireland services deal with BT worth around 13.9m. The facilities management contract involves the delivery of services to 255 properties across Ireland. The contract covers the delivery of services across 20 properties in the Republic of Ireland and 225 properties in Northern Ireland, including office blocks, engineering workshops, data centres and telephone exchanges.

Telstra Europe in conjunction with its partner Comunica Ltd, has secured a colocation hosting contract with the International law firm, Denton Wilde Sapte. Denton Wilde Sapte's mission critical data will now be managed at Telstra Europe's Docklands-based hosting centre. The law firm decided to upgrade its IT infrastructure and replace its in-house Disaster Recovery solution with a specialist hosting solution from Telstra Europe.

Virgin Radio, the UK's commercial rock and pop music station, has selected Hibernia Atlantic's network to provide three different cable routes with Gigabit Ethernet services across the Atlantic and within the UK and New York City, including a direct connection to telx, New York City's most network-dense interconnection facility. Virgin Radio required a secure, diverse network path and Ethernet service while avoiding the traditional congested oceanic and terrestrial backhaul routes.

MEDSEEK, a leading provider of content management and web applications with over 500 hospital clients nationwide has announced that it has teamed with Qwest (NYSE: Q) to offer advanced web hosting capabilities to its West Coast hospital and healthcare clients. Accellerated Growth was citied as the reason that MEDSEEk needed to expand their hosting capabilities but they will maintain additional hosting facilities in Santa Barbara and Chicago.

IX Europe plc has acquired its eleventh datacentre, in Munich, and signed a substantial contract with a leading global internet company. The contract is worth in excess of £6.9 million (10 million) over a six year period. The 11,600m2 Munich datacentre, the Group's fourth in Germany, was built in 2000 for KPNQwest at a cost in excess of £17 million (25 million) to provide approximately 4,600m2 of net datacentre space. The datacentre asset has been acquired for a nominal amount together with a long lease for the property.