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...

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....

NEC brings IPTV over IMS 

By: By Sarah Reedy

In a move to expand its business into international markets, Japenese vendor NEC announced the launch of its IPTV business today. On display at this week’s IPTV World Forum, the end-to-end IPTV platform and video delivery system targets carriers using an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture....

IMS Plugfest tests BSS; Up next: cable, 4G 

By: By Rich Karpinski

The IMS Forum today announced preliminary results of its fourth Plugfest for testing interoperability of IP Multimedia System applications and services, with a focus on bringing operations and billing systems into the fray...

Covergin extends SCIM to support Web services 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Convergin this week added support for Java-based Web services to its service capability interaction manager (SCIM) platform, enabling carriers to link both their legacy and IMS-based networks to Web services...

NEC offers path to ‘light’ IMS 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Recognizing IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) as an important end-point – but one that carriers need to approach pragmatically – network vendor NEC America today introduced its “light IMS” product set and migration path...

Driving wireless into the IP core  

By: By Rich Karpinski

The promise of IP-based fixed/mobile convergence is clear: Allow subscribers to maximize wireless and wireline connections, seamlessly moving between networks based on user location and application requirements...

NEC, Kineto make UMA’s case for femtocells 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

NEC and Kineto have submitted their unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology to the 3GPP and the Femto Forum in hopes of quickly settling on a standard for the burgeoning femtocell market...

The Successful Evolution to IMS: Are You Ready? 

By: By Scot Harris and Andy Smolenski, Intervoice

While IP-based networks hold tremendous promise, immediate transition from traditional to IMS networks can be difficult and costly. That’s why a carefully planned evolution, which takes into consideration not only future opportunities but also current needs, is critical. Described in this article are the top five criteria for a successful evolution to IMS...

Special Report: Telephony's Best and Worst of 2007 

We spent 2007 writing about the news and talking to news-makers. Now Telephony's editors tell you their highlights -- and lowlights -- of the year that was...

Veraz does its part in Onemax network 

By: By Tim McElligott

When Alcatel-Lucent handed the proverbial ribbon-cutting scissors to Raoul Fontanez, Chief Executive Officer of Onemax, at the launch of the world’s first WiMax Rev-e network in the Dominican Republic in October, Amit Chawla, vice president of global solutions and engineering at Veraz Networks, watched as the company basked in the glory of driving the implementation...

Staking a claim in FMC 

By: By Mark Donahue

As service providers roll out the first converged services for consumers and enterprises, fixed/mobile convergence solution vendors have a chance to get their name into the ring in a growing space...

Open wide 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Using Web 2.0, Web services and SOA to beat Internet competitors at their own game...

IBM: Security linked to NGN rollouts 

By: By Tim McElligott

Bolstered by the frame-of-reference to a previous survey, IBM said today that carriers around the world are starting to see security for IP-based services less as a hindrance to service rollout and more as an opportunity to provide security services to its customer base. They just don’t all have a plan for how to realize it...

MWA: IMS Catalyst unites the lifecycle 

By: By Tim McElligott

DALLAS--Seamless and profitable services are ideal goals for the IP Multimedia Subsystem. And a group of TM Forum members, including service providers from China and Taiwan, got together in one of the forum’s Catalyst projects at Management World Americas to show that the goal is achievable...

Innovation, apps power new stage of VoIP 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Fall VON showed off an advanced form of voice over IP...

VON: Certification program coming early next year, IMS Forum says 

By: By Rich Karpinski

While still wrestling with the exact approach, the IMS Forum plans to have a certification program in place by early next year that should help service providers feel more comfortable that IP Multimedia Subsystem gear will be interoperable...

VON: Tekelec demos why orders are up 22% 

By: By Tim McElligott

While technology and marketing folks from Tekelec were in Boston this week demonstrating the company’s IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) capabilities, corporate was releasing its third-quarter earnings...

Sonus updates VoIP service platform 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Voice-over-IP infrastructure vendor Sonus Networks this week delivered an update to its IMS-based application platform, with new tools for creating apps that include advanced messaging and multimedia capabilities...

Nominum puts some gravitas in Navitas 

By: By Tim McElligott

Nominum continues to evolve ENUM from a database application to a centerpiece of the IP multimedia subsystem and pre-IMS architecture, and advanced that strategy this week with a new release of its Navitas IP application routing directory...

Telephony LIVE: Verizon CTO on IMS, FMC and Web 2.0 

By: By Ed Gubbins

DALLAS--Verizon Chief Technology Officer Mark Wegleitner offered roadmaps for several of the carrier’s coming technology decisions in a keynote presentation here at the Telephony LIVE show this week, including its view of debates surrounding IP multimedia subsystem (IMS), fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) and Web 2.0...

IMS apps finally arrive 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

With AT&T and Sprint's launches, the first IP multimedia subsystem applications are poking their heads above ground...

New software scales IMS traffic 

By: Rich Karpinski

Supporting a new service in a test environment with a handful of users is one thing. But what's a carrier to do when it suddenly needs to scale that service across its entire customer base overnight?...

F5 pitches new approach to scaling IMS 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Supporting a new service in a test environment of a handful of users is one thing. But what's a carrier to do when it suddenly needs to scale that service across its customer base -- literally millions of users -- overnight?...