700 MHz auction ends after 261 rounds
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Auction 73 came to a close this afternoon after 38 days when Round 261 failed to garner a single new bid. The auction raised $19.592 billion, but aside from the cash payout the FCC revealed few of the auctions results...
VON: Applications trump network, Sprint VP says
By: Sarah Reedy
San Jose – The wireless industry is moving from an environment where the network was key to one in which applications and content reign, according to Ben Vos, vice president of core technologies at Sprint Nextel....
VON: Low-power devices, true Internet access to drive mobile usage
By: Rich Karpinski
SAN JOSE -- New Internet technologies like online video and social networking are driving massive increases in broadband traffic, but for that usage to move to mobile networks requires new developments in mobile performance, software compatibility and core network capabilities. ...
NMS gets into music biz; buys Groove Mobile
NMS Communications said today it has acquired mobile music company Groove Mobile for $14.5 million, allowing NMS to expand beyond ringback tones into full track music downloads....
In the spotlight: Tandberg’s Rick Snyder
Tandberg is one of a number of companies riding the popularity wave of telepresence, announcing yesterday that it has signed agreements with both Nortel Networks and Micosoft. Rick Snyder, president, Americas, for Tandberg, spoke to Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson from the VoiceCon show. ...
MegaPath enhances integrated voice-data offer
By: Carol Wilson
MegaPath this week is announcing new SIP and PRI interfaces to enable its Duet integrated voice and data service to support both digital and IP-based PBXs....
VON: IIA chairman urges investment in bandwidth
By: Sarah Reedy
San Jose – Don’t say we didn’t warn you. This was Larry Irving’s word of caution to service providers at the VON.x conference in San Jose. Speaking at the Town Hall meeting kicking off the conference, Irving, co-chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA), said something has to be done to increase bandwidth or better utilize existing bandwidth today....
VON: A new wave of unified communications hits
By: Sarah Reedy
SAN JOSE, CA – Several new products announced Monday at the VON.x conference in San Jose had a common theme: Cisco Systems isn’t the only name for unified communications. Many companies unveiled new products to promote UC, a concept championed by Cisco in recent years, at all levels of the enterprise network. ...
Moto links the smartphone to the PBX
By: Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s newest smartphone won’t be the fancy 3G device we’re used to seeing in operator commercials or window displays....
Zhone adds active Ethernet option
Zhone Technologies introduced active Ethernet equipment to its access portfolio today, adding active Ethernet modules to its access platform as well as new customer premises gear, giving carriers the option of high-speed broadband over point-to-point fiber....
DragonWave unveils 1.6-Gig backhaul link
By: Kevin Fitchard
DragonWave today said it has broken the wireless backhaul speed barrier, announcing the latest generation of its wireless Ethernet radio, the Horizon Duo, which can deliver capacity up to 1.6 Gb/s....
Microsoft goes where Apple won’t, licenses Flash
By: Rich Karpinski
Microsoft today said it is licensing Adobe’s Flash Lite and Reader technology to run in future versions of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile phones....
Polycom, Tandberg extend telepresence reach
By: Carol Wilson
Two different video players – Tandberg and Polycom – today announced plans with Microsoft that will enable them to bring higher quality videoconferencing to the desktop....
ECI unveils MPLS-based Ethernet platform
ECI Telecom today introduced a suite of carrier Ethernet gear spanning from metro core networks to customer premises....
The foibles of 700 MHz
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The auction goes on and on, but the potential winners are already weighing the spectrum's benefits -- as well as its limitations...
When calls equal impressions
By: By Rich Karpinski
Web-integrated VoIP vendors, still looking for their killer app, are nonetheless ready to start trying to squeeze out some revenues via advertising...
Apple's IT challenge
By: By Sarah Reedy
What the iPhone's corporate debut means for those behind the scenes...
Parsing the CTIA keynotes
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CTIA is again delivering a lineup of heavy-hitters at its annual spring conference with CEOs and division presidents from all corners of the industry...
API a go-go
By: By Rich Karpinski
Telcos long to be part of the world of service and application mashups, but the path to get there remains unclear. ...
Optical market hits six-year high
By: By Ed Gubbins
Last year was the best one for the optical equipment market since 2001, according to analysts...
In the spotlight: Cbeyond's Brent Cobb
Cbeyond is riding a growing wave of success, bringing managed IP services, including voice, to small- and medium-sized businesses...
'Bill-yuns and bill-yuns'
By: by Carol Wilson
A new IDC study shows that the digital universe -- defined as information that is either created, captured or replicated in digital form -- is expanding, as more devices go digital and digital containers such as RFID tags and video monitors generate more content than ever...
Middleware snags stalling HD, DVR rollouts
By: Dawn Bushaus and Sarah Reedy
Shortcomings in middleware are causing headaches among some rural telcos, interfering with their plans to offer high-definition (HD) video and digital video recorder (DVR) services....
More PBT control planes coming soon
By: Ed Gubbins
Though Soapstone Networks took the lead in addressing the market for a control plane to manage Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) networks, it won’t be alone for long. ...
BT targets Google with 'build-your-own-Grand Central' SDK update
By: Rich Karpinski
British Telecom this week released an update to its Web21C software development kit that adds new unified communications capabilities, a move BT execs said would let any developer build a Web/telco mashup to compete with services like Google’s Grand Central....
Velleros launches emergency notification system
By: Sarah Reedy
Notification solution vendor Velleros has a message for carriers, stated in the company's blog: It is the carrier's civic duty to provide mass communications portals that local officials can use during an emergency and leverage their robust networks to help save lives. ...
Updated: WiMAX silicon vendors get active ahead of CTIA
By: Kevin Fitchard
As LTE and WiMAX prepare to square off at CTIA, WiMAX chipset makers are ensuring they have plenty of ammunition....
Ericsson says ready to supply 700 MHz gear
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson today said it plans to produce network infrastructure and device-side chips for the 700 MHz frequencies in both the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) flavors, giving it a product for any of the eventual Auction 73 winners--no matter who they are...
Verizon beefs up DSL
By: Carol Wilson
Verizon Communications, which has come under fire for neglecting its non-FiOS customers, today said it is rolling 7 Megabit per second DSL service in 12 Eastern states and the District of Columbia by the end of 2008....
Ixia goes end-to-end on IPTV quality
By: Carol Wilson
Ixia today announced an end-to-end triple-play quality assurance system that the IP performance testing company has been developing with Bell Canada for more than two years. ...
