Online gaming finds its voice
By: By Rich Karpinski
Headset-wearing online gamers are used to talking smack when gunning down or dunking on an opponent, but yesterday's often-flaky peer-to-peer voice connections are giving way to more sophisticated deployments...
Martin takes reins at Aktino
Industry veteran Lonnie Martin, a longtime ADC Telecommunications executive who also helped found White Rock, has stepped in to lead Aktino, an Ethernet-over-copper company hoping to capitalize on the current boom...
CTIA: Ericsson pushes UMTS to its limits
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though the industry’s attention may be caught up in 4G, Ericsson isn’t prepared to give up the 3G spotlight just yet. The vendor is highlighting its Evolved High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) gear at CTIA Wireless this year and promises to demonstrate the maximum capacity that can be squeezed out of a 3G network...
Level 3 ex-COO to earn more after departure
By: By Ed Gubbins
Level 3 Communications may pay its former chief operating officer more in the year following his resignation than it did when he was employed with the company, regulatory filings show...
Tellabs’ rebound postponed, analyst says
Tellabs’ optical strength may offset other issues...
AT&T plans mobile TV launch in May
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though a couple of quarters later than planned, AT&T today said it would launch broadcast mobile TV services in May over Qualcomm’s MediaFLO network...
Are further splits in Motorola's future?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola announced Wednesday that it planned to spin off its mobile phone business into a separately traded company, unlocking the value of that division as well as giving new focus to its infrastructure group. But if focusing on core businesses is the goal of Moto’s restructuring, does that mean further subdivisions of the company are waiting?...
AT&T experiments with 3D Web browser
By: By Rich Karpinski
The browser wars are heating up, enough so that an unexpected entrant appears to be hoping to make a splash with a new “3D-style” browser – AT&T...
Alcatel-Lucent claims to leapfrog edge router leaders
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent says the new edge routing products it introduced today give it a jump on market leaders Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, offering terabit-per-second capacity in a single chassis. But it’s not clear how Alcatel’s latest offering will stack up against new edge gear expected from Cisco later this year...
U.S. IPTV operators slow to install
By: By Sarah Reedy
North America has the highest overall total average installation times for IPTV, coming in around 5.16 hours in-person, according to a study published this week of the top 60 operators in Asia, Europe and North America...
Telecom well poised to benefit from $70 billion streaming market
By: Carol Wilson
A new Insight Research study says IPTV, along with streaming video and audio, will generate $70 billion in revenue over the next six years, from both network-derived services and content-derived income....
CTIA: Motorola getting jump on CDMA-to-LTE migration
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola today said it has successfully completed a handoff between a CDMA and Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in its labs, thus demonstrating the viability of the two different technologies working in unison on the same flat IP core...
Updated: Motorola spins off struggling handset business
By: By Sarah Reedy
Following continued struggles in its mobile devices business and poor fourth-quarter earnings, Motorola today announced it would split into two publicly traded entities, separating its handset division from the company’s core focus, broadband and mobility solutions...
FTTP innovations aid Verizon’s push into big MDUs
By: Carol Wilson
The announcement this week that Verizon Communications was installing its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network in its largest apartment complex to date is emblematic of what the company has planned for New York City and elsewhere...
SureWest adds home monitoring to triple play
By: Ed Gubbins
SureWest Communications announced a new remote monitoring service Tuesday that allows users to keep tabs on their home while they’re away, using live video and alerts....
Occam outgrows Tellabs partnership
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks’ three-year partnership with Tellabs expires this month, without having generated much revenue....
Former White Rock CEO to lead Aktino
By: Carol Wilson
Industry veteran Lonnie Martin, a longtime ADC Telecommunications executive who also helped found White Rock Networks, has stepped in to lead Aktino....
Google pushes for ‘white space’ bandwidth
By: By Rich Karpinski
Just like it didn’t win the 700Mhz auction – but played a major influencer role in its outcome – Google made a filing last Friday with the FCC calling for the use of unlicensed over-the-air TV ‘white space’ spectrum to be used for broadband services, though it doesn’t want to provide those services itself....
IBM aims to secure ‘mashups’
By: By Rich Karpinski
Applications mashing together Web and voice features are all the rage, but enterprises and service providers have security concerns about opening up APIs that your average Web developer can probably afford to ignore...
Covad pitching quality in its bundle
By: By Carol Wilson
Small to mid-sized businesses are seeing the value of VoIP, but they are also insisting on quality service and that is turning them away from best-effort services, according to Lisa Graham, senior vice president and general manager of Covad Communications’ Wholesale Division...
XO weighs debt options in a difficult market
XO Communications is mulling a range of options for paying down its $377 million in debt amid a turbulent credit market. ...
Orange Business debuts mobile management in US
By: Carol Wilson
Realizing that many corporations face the daunting task of tracking, securing and maintaining the explosion of mobile devices that employees now carry, Orange Business Services this week launched a mobility management service that it says provides an holistic view of the mobile office environment....
VON: Start-up wins VON Best in Show award for high-def conferencing
By: Sarah Reedy
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Just one week after announcing a startup venture to deploy wideband audio conferencing technology, WYDE Voice – backed by Free Conferencing Corp. founder and CEO David Erickson – has already been recognized as the “Best in Show.”...
VON: Dialcom takes on big guys in unified collaboration
By: Sarah Reedy
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Unified collaboration provider Dialcom introduced the North American market to Spontania, a real-time collaboration platform, at the VON show this week. ...
Verizon Wireless reveals open-network strategy
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless kicked off its developer program in New York today, revealing the first details of just how open-access will work on CDMA network. Verizon will maintain control over pricing plans for third -- party services and devices on its networks, but it appears surprisingly willing to give outsiders access to key elements of the network...
Adva CEO: How AT&T is holding Ciena ‘hostage’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adva Optical Networking announced restructuring moves this week after reporting a disappointing” 2007. On the company’s quarterly earnings call Tuesday, CEO Brian Protiva spoke out on a number of topics in response to analyst questions...
VON: Digium CEO gives open-source VoIP primer
By: Sarah Reedy
San Jose – At the VON conference in San Jose this week, Digium, creators of the Asterisk open-source telephony software, unveiled the Switchvox 3.5 and the AA60 Switchvox Appliance, designed for large businesses and small businesses, respectively. ...
VON: PhoneFusion offers voice mail integration
By: Rich Karpinski
PhoneFusion this week launched a free, downloadable application that lets smartphone users centralize their voice mailboxes and see a visual list of their messages on their phone....
VON: Broadsoft marketplace brings carriers into Web 2.0 equation
By: By Rich Karpinski
VoIP platform vendor BroadSoft announced at the VON.x show this week a set of APIs and developer programs that will let developers integrate voice into their Web applications, leveraging service provider networks...
Verizon extends security to application layer
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced an extension to its managed security services that will protect its customers’ network infrastructure at the application layer...
