ITU Preview: IMS closer than it appears
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) technology may be closer to implementation that it appears to be, according to the recent testing by the Multi-Service Forum...
Juniper, NEC bringing IMS FMC gear to U.S.
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks is jointly developing fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) products with NEC that it will bring to North America next year...
Sonus certifiable in rural markets
By: By Tim McElligott
Sonus Networks isn’t a stranger to the rural market, but its status is. The company was bestowed with Rural Utilities Service/Rural Development Utilities Program RUS/RDUP acceptance for much of its core IMS-based product line...
IMS has industry support but major gaps
By: By Carol Wilson
IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) has been widely accepted as the unifying network architecture of the communications industry but still has “gaping holes and inadequacies” which must be addressed before it is widely adopted, a Yankee Group report concludes...
GMI 2006 declared a success
By: By Carol Wilson
A two-week test of IP multimedia subsystem interoperability is concluding this week and participants led by the MultiService Forum today declared the effort successful...
Lucent’s Russo: Alcatel merger ‘on track’
By: By Dan O'Shea
Lucent Technologies chairman and CEO Pat Russo said during the company’s earnings call this morning for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2006 results that Lucent’s pending merger with French vendor giant Alcatel remains “on track” to close by the end of 2006...
IVR Tech, MetaSwitch team up on AmeriMex
By: By Tim McElligott
IVR Technologies and MetaSwitch have teamed up to deliver advanced integrated services to AmeriMex Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier in the southern and eastern U.S. serving the U.S. and Latin American markets...
Siemens puts TDM migration in Genband’s hands
By: By Tim McElligott
Siemens Networks LLC said this week it has transferred its Digital Central Office circuit-switch business and 27 employees to long-time technology partner Genband...
Arbor: DDoS attacks increasing, more varied
By: By Dan O'Shea
Managed security software vendor Arbor Networks released the results of its second-annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report earlier this week. The survey of 55 service providers from around the world found that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and in particular botnet-related DDoS attacks, continue to rise...
VON: Interoperability top priority at Sonus
By: By Tim McElligott
BOSTON--Sonus Networks will leverage the InterOperability Lab at the University of New Hampshire to launch an interoperability certification program around the delivery of SIP-based products. As part of its Open Services Partner Alliance, Sonus will conduct extensive testing with partners’ products...
VON: Empirix all aglow
By: By Tim McElligott
BOSTON--Monitoring and test company Empirix threw itself a party this week at VON, but the company had more to celebrate than its technology’s fifteenth birthday and its fifth anniversary as an independent company...
Nortel to use Followap presence server
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is stopping development of its own presence server for its IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) portfolio in favor of using that of a third-party vendor, Followap...
Cisco big winner in IP telephony gains
By: By Tim McElligott
IP-based telephony showed strong growth in both the service provider and enterprise markets in the second quarter, according to new data from Infonetics Research...
GenBand buys BayPackets
By: By Dan O'Shea
GenBand, continuing its transformation from being a VoIP media gateway company to delivering multiple products, announced this morning that it has acquired BayPackets in a deal that will bring GenBand new expertise and products at the IP multimedia subsystem applications layer...
Sonus pads lead in gateway market
By: By Tim McElligott
Adding 13 new customers this year has helped Sonus Networks build a 32% market share to lead the worldwide carrier packet voice market, according to a report issued today by Synergy Research Group...
InFocus: A New Way of Thinking
By: By John Giere, Chief Marketing Officer, Lucent Technologies
A major transformation is underway in the communications industry. “Communication companies” of all flavors, (i.e. traditional telcos, PTTs, cablecos, ISPs, VoIP pureplays, Internet search engine/communication hybrids, entertainment MVNOs) are seeking to embrace and exploit a new customer paradigm....
Feeling left out by A-IMS? Not Ericsson
By: By Dan O'Shea
Vendor giant Ericsson has more IP multimedia subsystem contract wins--19 as of earlier this summer--and trials in progress--at least 40--than any other major infrastructure vendor...
A-IMS won't change softswitch market goals
By: By Tim McElligott
IMS, the IP multimedia subsy - IMS Technologystem standard from 3GPP, has been a godsend for ailing network equipment-makers. No new standard will change that...
MetaSwitch takes aim at cable industry
By: By Carol Wilson
Having firmly established its softswitch technology in the independent and competitive telephone markets, MetaSwitch is expanding its focus to the cable TV industry, announcing a new product platform designed to let cable companies provide business VoIP services....
A-IMS breaks Verizon’s silence
By: By Dan O'Shea
While Cingular Wireless, Sprint and other mobile carriers around the world have long spoken of their intentions and goals for deploying IP Multimedia Subsystem architecture, Verizon Wireless—and other units of its corporate parent, for that matter—stayed relatively quiet, not even publicly committing to trials or naming vendors...
UPDATE: Verizon Wireless team touts A-IMS
By: By Dan O'Shea
Industry observers who thought the IP multimedia subsystem concept was the latest in a long line of well-intended but generally convoluted technology standards can now size up Advances to IMS (A-IMS), an evolutionary reference document compiled over the last year by Verizon Wireless and several of its vendor partners...
LongBoard eyes mobile multimedia roaming
By: By Dan O'Shea
Mobile TV and other mobile multimedia services may be fairly new on the scene, but expectations for service quality and continuity already are being set. LongBoard, a Santa Clara, Calif., vendor that recently has focused on how to deliver seamless roaming for fixed/mobile converged voice services, today announced a new platform to enable roaming for mobile video and other multimedia applications...
Comverse to broker messaging
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Comverse is currently developing a next-generation application called the Message Broker, which is designed to take all of the disparate forms of messaging on a carrier's network and route them through a single box, allowing e-mail to become text messages, multimedia messages to become voice mail and any other combination a carrier can think of....
AudioCodes acquires Netrake
By: By Dan O'Shea
AudioCodes, having just finished its previously announced acquisition of Nuera Communications, wasted no time announcing its next buy. ...
Telenity adds video
By: By Carol Wilson
Telenity announced today that it has added video to its converged services platform. ...
