Jangl to dead pool; execs, assets to Jajah 

By: By Rich Karpinski

That’s one less “j” Web VoIP provider for service providers to worry about. But with subscriber claims seemingly easier to come by than revenues, it’s not clear the Jangls, Jajahs and Jaxtrs of the world have incumbent service providers quaking in their boots just yet, anyway...

Big OSS projects go live 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Operations support services projects are beginning to move off the drawing board and into production...

Computing comes to the cloud 

By: By Rich Karpinski

The power of the World Wide Web was that for the first time computers -- clients and servers -- were linked together via networks on a very broad scale, literally billions of systems worldwide...

Rethinking the back office 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Telco transformation (as usual), SOA/Web services and a new focus on the IT value chain top the OSS/BSS checklist these days...

MagicJack attacks 

By: By Sarah Reedy

MagicJack founder, and inventor of its technology, Dan Borislow, doesn’t like the term voice-over IP (VoIP). He thinks it has a negative connotation in an industry prone to struggles. ...

Ribbit adds voice to Salesforce – at $25 a pop 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Alternative service provider Ribbit this week said it has gone live with a service integrating mobile voice calling and other telephony features into Salesforce.com...

Big OSS projects moving into production 

By: By Rich Karpinski

OSS "transformation" projects are beginning to move off the drawing board and into production, with executives behind those efforts warning colleagues they'll take longer than expected, fail without employee and exec-level buy-in and put greater pressure on IT to contribute to top-line growth, according to service providers at the B/OSS World Show in Chicago....

Leap expands IP core 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

As Leap Wireless grows, so does its IP network. The operator of the Cricket Communications service had added Genband’s latest-generation wireless gateway and more-robust session border controllers from Acme Packet to its networks to meet increasing traffic demands as Leap adds customers and grows its footprint...

Yahoo taps Jajah for Web calling 

By: By Rich Karpinski

One of the Web/telephony startups with the funny "J" name -- Jajah -- today cut a deal with the original Web-player-with-a-funny-name, Yahoo, to help deliver Web-based IP telephony calling to Yahoo's 97 million instant messenger customers...

TM Forum planning IT 'value chain' initiative 

By: By Rich Karpinski

The TeleManagement Forum has mostly been focused on the telecom industry's "internal" IT and operations issues. But the group is in the final stages of putting together a new initiative that will focus on the so-called IT "value chain" ...

Nortel pushes into SOA, Web services 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Nortel Networks is best-known as a networking equipment vendor, but with its Agile Communications Environment initiative launched last fall with IBM it is making a big push into service-oriented architecture and Web services technologies...

EXFO's IP acquisition spree 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Optical test equipment and service-assurance supplier EXFO made two acquisitions this month: Brix Networks, which focuses on voice over IP in provider networks, and Navtel Communications, which focuses on IP multimedia subsystem equipment in vendor labs. Etienne Gagnon, vice president of product management and marketing for EXFO, described the company's plan to Telephony...

AT&T touts macro-economic defenses 

By: By Ed Gubbins

AT&T countered widespread fears of slow economic trends with growth in first-quarter profits aided by its wireless and wholesale businesses...

Sonus buys way into IP provisioning 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Sonus Networks acquired OSS vendor Atreus Systems to add IP voice and services provisioning to its carrier-grade IP services offerings. Terms were not disclosed...

XO adds Anywhere voice and messaging 

By: By Carol Wilson

XO Communications today announced XO Anywhere, a suite of mobility and roaming features developed for its XO IP Flex customers. ...

Broadband, bundles lure SMBs 

By: By Carol Wilson

Judging by the number of telecom companies targeting small- and medium-sized businesses, it would seem these are salad days for customers in the space....

Jamcracker telco-SaaS platform ‘opens up’ 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Jamcracker, which helps telcos deliver software-as-a-service (SaaS), released a new XML-based toolkit this week to make it easier to add new software to its application catalog and delivery network....

CTIA: GenBand touts femtocell opportunity 

By: By Carol Wilson

LAS VEGAS – The femtocell market represents a major opportunity for wireless service providers to push even more wireline substitution while making their own networks operate more efficiently, according to media gateway maker GenBand....

CTIA: D2 targets Android for unified communications 

By: Rich Karpinski

LAS VEGAS--Embedded telephony software maker D2 Technologies today demonstrated its new IP-based communications suite working alongside the Android mobile operating system, enabling phones running Google’s emerging platform to deliver an array of IP-based services....

Mobile Web changes app development game 

By: By Rich Karpinski

The next generation of mobile application development is coming into focus, thanks to the emergence of more capable browsing technologies and software development kits from new players such as Apple and Google...

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...

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. ...

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...

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. ...

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...