MyVox tries another tack at monetizing Web voice
By: Rich Karpinski
VoodooVox, which runs an ad network that places audio ads for radio stations, calling card and 411 service companies, is turning its attention to the emerging – but yet to take off – Web-embedded telephony market....
Expanding digital universe expands service possibilities
By: Carol Wilson
The rapid expansion of the digital universe – defined as information that is either created, captured or replicated in digital form – poses a tremendous challenge to corporate IT departments and a tremendous opportunity to service providers, according to researchers at IDC....
Alcatel-Lucent cracks open the wireless data network
By: Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent took the wraps off of a wireless network data traffic management solution today squarely targeted at a problem that hasn’t yet become big in the industry but potentially could become an enormous issue for wireless networks: the lack of visibility into how customers are using data connections. ...
Verimatrix brings HD to the PC
By: Sarah Reedy
IPTV security vendor Verimatrix today released its ViewRight PC Player 2.0 with full digital video recorder (DVR) functionality over the PC. ...
Zayo still on acquisition prowl
By: By Carol Wilson
Tight capital markets may have slowed telecom consolidation in 2008, but Zayo Bandwidth is not deterred. The company went public last summer with its strategy of acquiring fiber assets in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities and has lived up to that plan, with a total of six acquisitions...
Is YouTube following Google, Facebook down?
By: By Rich Karpinski
Already worried about the bubble-popping potential of a looming recession, the Web 2.0 crowd has been hit with traffic slides in recent days at three of the Web’s bellwether properties, Google, YouTube and Facebook...
What AT&T will buy for $1 billion
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T’s $1-billion in investment in global infrastructure, announced today, is a reflection of multiple global telecom trends, including the move to managed services and the consolidation of server farms in centralized data facilities as well as a general growing demand for bandwidth driven in part by video...
WiMAX spotlight shifts to India
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While Sprint sorts out its financial woes, South Asia and India have started hogging the WiMAX limelight. This week Tata Communications became the second major operator to wholeheartedly embrace WiMAX in India, and the third on the subcontinent....
Cisco unveils compact new edge router
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems today unveiled a new edge router powered by its own silicon designs, trumpeting the new product’s compact form factor and built-in functionality...
Sprint looking for WiMAX options
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the last few weeks, numerous potential partners have emerged as possible saviors for Sprint’s ailing WiMAX efforts, but so far there’s been little substance to the rumors except for Sprint’s own admission it’s searching for a suitor...
New CEO Gerke vows to build on Embarq’s innovations
By: By Carol Wilson
As the newly named CEO of Embarq, Tom Gerke plans to focus on continuing the momentum Embarq has built selling new products, such as 10 Mb/s Internet access, a video sales portal and fixed-mobile convergence, and continue the company’s recent history as an innovator...
NXTcomm continues to spread wings
By: By Carol Wilson
NXTcomm, the telecom industry’s largest trade show, is continuing to try to expand its reach, attracting more enterprise customers by co-locating with the InfoComm show this year at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and expanding beyond network equipment to applications and even content...
Exclusive: Reed Hundt on the 700 MHz auction, P2P throttling
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt formed Frontline Wireless with plans to build a nationwide emergency communications network using spectrum auctioned off by the FCC. Among other things, Frontline has proposed that the FCC apply open access requirements to the spectrum. Reed spoke with Telephony in an exclusive interview at the OFC NFOEC optical trade show this week...
XO completes net upgrade, teams with Cisco
By: Carol Wilson
Pullen ready to hit ground running at Tellabs
By: By Carol Wilson
OFC: Verizon details plans to bring fiber to larger MDUs
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Verizon Communications is planning a major push of its fiber-to-the-home service into multidwelling units (MDUs) this year. Despite passing 2.1 million MDUs at the end of last year’s third quarter, Verizon’s FTTH network was only capable of serving 400,000 of them. The company’s technology director, Vincent O’Byrne, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins at the OFC show in San Diego this week about Verizon’s plans for MDUs this year....
Google inches open GrandCentral
By: By Rich Karpinski
GrandCentral, Google’s Web-based unified communications play, began its slow escape out of private beta today with invites to the free service now available via Google’s blogging service, Blogger...
Comptel: CLECs should be better partners, Paetec CEO says
By: By Carol Wilson
NASHVILLE--Competitive service providers should be buying and selling services more amongst themselves and being better partners, Paetec Chairman and CEO Arunas A. Chesonis told the Comptel crowd today...
Comptel: Business assurance key for New Horizons
By: By Carol Wilson
NASHVILLE--New Horizons Communications today said it has become a Vertek Financial Assurance customer, outsourcing its business assurance services to Vertek in order to better protect its bottom line...
Qwest seeks wireless partner
By: By Sarah Reedy
Qwest Communications is in need of new strategy for its wireless business, but the answer will not come from a physical investment, Qwest CEO Ed Mueller told investors today...
No integration issues here
By: By Carol Wilson
Having survived a period of turmoil, XO Communications is moving in a direction different from its national CLEC brethren...
Privacy matters
In their rush to create more customized services that capitalize on knowing more about consumers, service providers may find themselves forced to slow down and proceed with caution through a veritable minefield of privacy issues. Part 1 of a Telephony staff report on privacy concerns...
Privacy matters: Consumers beware
By: By Carol Wilson
Consumer groups are actively seeking new rules and new protections even as they admit that rapidly changing technology makes lines in the sand hard to draw. Part 3 in our privacy special report...
Privacy matters: Web of identity
By: By Rich Karpinski
Internet players may have at last cracked the identity code by giving users better control over their own profiles, data and relationships. Where do service providers fit in this vision? Part 4 in our privacy special report...
P2P in play
By: By Rich Karpinski
February saw BitTorrent, traffic shaping and Net neutrality come to the fore...
