Ultravideoconferencing: Like being there?
By: By Ed Gubbins
The worst thing about videoconferencing? It's not just like being there...
MCI gains digital media group
By: By Carol Wilson
MCI today acquired digital media creation capabilities and announced formation of a Digital Media Technologies group. ...
East Coast gets Verizon's iobi
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Monday unveiled its enterprise version of its iobi integrated voice and data messaging service for Eastern seaboard residents from Maine south to Virginia. ...
Converged Access launches integrated SMB system
By: By Carol Wilson
Converged Access today launched a new access point device that it says will give small-to mid-sized businesses a low-cost means of guaranteeing application performance as they converge voice and data services over a carrier broadband network....
SwitchCore throws hat in IP DSLAM ring
By: By Vince Vittore
SwitchCore AB, a fabless semiconductor company, this week launched a new switch on a chip, based on its enterprise product line, but targeting the IP DSLAM market. ...
Redback launches rural initiative
By: By Carol Wilson
Redback Networks has launched a new initiative aimed at rural telephone companies interested in upgrading their broadband networks. ...
NCTA Wrap-Up: A reporter's notebook
By: By Carol Wilson
There is a level of dynamism to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual show that the telephone side of the telecom industry should note. ...
NCTA: Content customization is king
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN FRANCISCO--Content is about to become much more customized and consumer-controlled and that transition poses both opportunities and challenges for content creators, content distributors and the advertisers who pay the freight. ...
BellSouth brings COS to VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth is claiming to be the first telecom provider to add end-to-end class of service to its Managed Network VPN service, enabling business customers to guarantee the quality of converging services, especially voice, over an IP network....
SBC taps SA for IP video
By: By Carol Wilson
SBC Communications today announced a key equipment vendor and new details about the national IP video network it is building as part of Project Lightspeed....
Caspian intros new low-power router
By: By Ed Gubbins
Caspian Networks unveiled its latest product today, a smaller, lower power version of its flagship A120 core IP router....
EarthLink adds VPN
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink is launching its first VPN service, intending to hang on to more of its small and micro business customers....
MCI launches Web-based call center with Tellme
By: By Carol Wilson
MCI today unveiled Internet-based contact center services, based on an agreement with Tellme Networks, developer of a voice application network built on its advanced speech user interface....
Report: U.S. lagging in communications tech usage
By: By Carol Wilson
The United States has failed to keep up with the rest of the world in economically exploiting information and communications technology, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report, issued this week. ...
Broadband Front Lines: Fios’ success lies in their hands
By: By Carol Wilson
This is the first story in our recurring "Broadband Front Lines" series about the challenges of deploying next-generation broadband services to users...
Alcatel buys Native Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel has agreed to acquire Ethernet equipment vendor Native Networks for $55 million in cash, the company announced today....
AT&T, IBM team on SMB data applications
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T has raised the bar in the suddenly hot competition for small-to mid-sized businesses by teaming with IBM to offer managed Internet services with a package of easy-to-use collaboration apps. ...
Adtran expands into PoE
By: By Vince Vittore
Adtran this week is launching its first power over Ethernet switch-router as well as announcing the addition of 802.3af PoE functionality to its line of Ethernet switches....
Caspian, Korea pair to co-develop gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Caspian Networks has formed a partnership with South Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute to jointly develop IP routers with quality of service features for a broadband network that aims to offer 50 Mb/s to 100 Mb/s bandwidth to 20 million subscribers. ...
Centillium advancing ADSL 2++
By: By Carol Wilson
Centillium Communications is bringing the ADSL 2++ technology already working in Japan to the rest of the world, hoping to stimulate the market for chipsets that make the most of ADSL?s reach. ...
Working toward Ethernet
By: By Carol Wilson
The move to deliver video over a copper loop, even one that is relatively short, is driving the industry to explore a new broadband access network architecture...
Alcatel, Microsoft link on IP TV
By: By Vince Vittore
Alcatel and Microsoft announced today that they have entered into a global collaboration agreement designed to speed the availability of IP-based video over broadband networks...
Finding real convergence
By: By Carol Wilson
For years now, many network operators have talking about tying legacy and IP networks into a single multiservice network. ...
NTCA: Eagle Broadband, GlobeCast offer up turnkey IPTV
By: By Vince Vittore
San Antonio--Eagle Broadband and France Telecom subsidiary GlobeCast signed a multi-year agreement at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association show here and officially launched a turnkey IPTV service targeting small local incumbents and municipal networks. ...
CompTel: Ethernet bustin' out all over
By: By Carol Wilson
Ethernet services at the CompTel/ASCENT trade show are proving as ubiquitous as gold, green and purple beads at Mardi Gras. ...
