NCTA: IMS hot topic at the National Show
By: By Carol Wilson
What a difference a year makes. Since the last National Show, the cable industry has discovered IP multimedia subsystem technology in a big way...
Convedia expands media processing line
By: By Vince Vittore
Convedia today said it has released a new technology, dubbed eXtended Media Processing, that will form the basis of its future product development. ...
Sipera on its best behavior for VoIP security
By: By Tim McElligott
Sipera Systems secured $13.2 million more in Series B funding this month as Sequoia Capital joined initial backers Austin Ventures and STAR Ventures as investors in the new voice-over-IP security company....
TELECOMNEXT: Siemens introduces carrier Ethernet products to U.S.
By: By Tim McElligott
LAS VEGAS--Siemens Communications brought its Surpass hiD Ethernet products to the U.S. market this week at TelecomNext along with access solutions and new IMS-based solutions for fixed/mobile convergence...
TELECOMNEXT: Syndesis builds software foundation for IMS
By: By Tim McElligott
LAS VEGAS--Syndesis launched a solution this week at TelecomNext that addresses the application delivery needs for carriers trying to build an IP multimedia subsystem-based network...
TELECOMNEXT: NetCracker wedges itself into service layer
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--In an effort to raise the level of discussion around the telecom service layer, NetCracker Technology introduced new technology this week from TelecomNext designed to simplify IP multimedia subsystem and service delivery platform interconnection....
TELECOMNEXT: Nortel, Minerva partner
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Nortel Networks and Minerva Networks here announced the joint development and release of an applications interface that integrates real-time IPTV services with Minerva's iTVManager middleware via Nortel's IP multimedia subsystem architecture. ...
TELECOMNEXT: BellSouth tying IMS, Web Services
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth is developing software that will knit together the IP multimedia subsystems architecture it is using to develop next-generation wireless and wireline services with the Web Services architecture it is increasingly using in its back-office operations....
TELECOMNEXT: Siemens announces IMS solutions
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Siemens joined what is expected to be a parade of announcements about IP Multimedia Subsystem solutions at the TelecomNext trade show...
TELECOMNEXT: CTOs want IMS, home networking
By: By Carol Wilson
A standards-based approach to home networking and the need to make the IP multimedia subsystem architecture live up to its hype are top items on the wish lists of leading service provider chief technology officers, according to a kick-off panel at TelecomNext. ...
Merger pals hop aboard convergence express
By: By Dan O'Shea
Who says that bigger must mean slower? ...
VON: Cantata emerges, partners with BEA
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN DIEGO--Brooktrout and Excel today unveiled their new company name--Cantata Technologies--and a new branding campaign, along with a key partnership with BEA Technologies...
General Bandwidth expands, contracts, moves north
By: By Vince Vittore
General Bandwidth this week announced a new name, a new headquarters and a new expansion in product set. Other than that, there's nothing new....
Megamerger casts uncertainty on wireline vendors
By: By Ed Gubbins
The proposed merger of AT&T and BellSouth has as yet unknown implications on several of the wireline equipment vendors that supply each company. (ROBERT CAPLIN/Bloomberg News/Landov/Scott Paulus) ...
Fast Forward: Anthony Finbow
After completing his mission to grow MetaSolv's international footprint, Anthony Finbow has taken on another. ...
Interoperability demo targets practical IMS deployment
By: By Carol Wilson
The MultiService Forum will stage a global interoperability test of the physical architecture it developed for IP multimedia subsystem compatibility in October of this year, the group announced today...
WEB EXTRA: The IMS wallflower
By: By Tim McElligott
The big carriers are charging ahead with their IMS implementations. They have even named some of their preferred providers, at least on the infrastructure side. OSS vendors are standing to the side waiting their turn like shy kids at a high school dance. But they’re not just standing there hiding their zits, they’re rehearsing their moves...
WEB EXTRA: Verizon’s IMS plan
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Business—formerly MCI—has not yet announced an IMS deployment, but it has executed a precise plan for IMS implementation ...
Fast Forward: Ken Epps, BayPackets
BayPackets CEO Ken Epps recently spoke with Telephony's Dan O'Shea about the challenges and benefits of IMS...
Crossing the convergence chasm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BellSouth and AT&T have had their fingers in wireless for more than a decade, both as independent cellular providers and as the owners of Cingular. But their wireless networks hav always remained separate from their wireline businesses. Now, thanks to IMS, they can bridge that gap...
3GSM: MetaSolv lays out IMS play
By: By Tim McElligott
BARCELONA, SPAIN-- MetaSolv Software used the backdrop of the 3GSM World Congress this week to present its strategy for IP multimedia subsystem, or IMS, support in convergent activation and mediation....
NMS acquires Openera
By: By Dan O'Shea
NMS Communications, a mobile applications and infrastructure vendor, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Openera Technologies, a developer of IP Multimedia Subsystem client software for handsets targeted at converged networks...
Spirent revisits acquisition trough
By: By Dan O'Shea
London-based Spirent plc said today that it has acquired QuadTex Systems, a Dallas-based vendor of IP multimedia subsystem and voice-over-IP testing solutions...
Telcordia launches seamless mobility
By: By Tim McElligott
With a carrier under test and a product already shipping, Telcordia announced this week the availability of what it says is the first commercially available IMS product that supports the call continuity control function, which allows call handoffs to fixed/mobile, Wi-Fi or IP networks...
IBM and Lucent put IMS in the blender
By: By Tim McElligott
Lucent Technologies and IBM said today they have formally agreed to jointly develop IMS infrastructure solutions as well as solutions for service creation, network management and billing...
