NetCracker unveils new SOA strategy
By: By Tim McElligott
NetCracker Technology has adopted a new service-oriented architecture strategy for its OSS and IT infrastructure management solutions and introduced it this week from its headquarters in Waltham, Mass....
Telcordia helps MetroPCS carry the load
By: By Tim McElligott
MetroPCS became the first mobile operator to deploy Telcordia Technologies' Auto RF network optimization tool last spring and this week Telcordia has reported a 10% to 15% improvement in call carrying capacity....
InFocus: Why service providers should move now to IMS
By: By John Marinho, Lucent Technologies
Moving to IMS now offers both wireless and wireline service providers significant long-term benefits...
Inventory management race between Cramer, Telcordia
By: By Tim McElligott
U.K. company receives vaildation for its business model, technology...
Arbor creates carrier group to share network attack info
By: By Tim McElligott
British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, MCI and NTT are among members...
Interface: (The noun)
By: By Tim McElligott
Some problems just won't go away. Making independent software solutions talk to each other is one of them. Can OSS-J interfaces be the final answer? Sorry, Regis, not in this game...
Acterna claims leadership in handheld test market, signs Looking Glass
By: By Tim McElligott
Based on its delivery of 3000 handheld service testers over the last six months to more than six Tier 1 carriers, Germantown, Md.-based Acterna has laid claim to the leadership in handheld test equipment....
Lucent slips hosted IP PBX quietly into portfolio
By: By Tim McElligott
Lucent Technologies didn't make much of a splash with its new, hosted IP PBX service at the VON Conference last week, primarily because it didn't intend to. ...
Netrake gains entrance into AOL, West, Genesys via Level 3
By: By Tim McElligott
Session border control market heats up in light of security concerns...
Acterna sponsors Telchemy's VoIP troubleshooting Web site
By: By Tim McElligott
Telchemy and Acterna, one a provider of real-time VoIP fault and performance management technology based in Suwanee, Ga., the other a global provider of cable network test and management solutions, announced this week that Acterna will be a co-sponsor of Telchemy's VoIPTroubleshooter.com Web site....
Tekelec continues down independent path
By: By Tim McElligott
Michigan's Bloomingdale Telephone Co. and Mississippi's Noxapater Telephone Co. said this week they are using Tekelec's 7000 Class 5 Packet Switch to migrate to their next-generation architectures. ...
Skype penetrates further into wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The peer-to-peer VoIP technology that has been harassing the wireline voice industry just gained another foothold in the wireless world. Skype users can now send SMS messages to any GSM phone. ...
Empirix's CT Labs christens evaluation facility for VoIP
By: By Tim McElligott
Growing voice-over-IP market drives the scaling of the test lab market...
HBF solves nomadic 911 for PointOne
By: By Tim McElligott
Austin, Texas-based HBF Group will begin providing 911 services for voice-over-IP provider PointOne’s North American wholesale service provider customers...
ICG invests in and migrates to New Global Telecom IP platform
By: By Tim McElligott
Golden, Colo.-based New Global Telecom announced an agreement with ICG Communications today to migrate ICG’s enterprise VoIP customers on NGT’s 6DegreesIP hosting platform...
3GSM: Lucent develops IMS enhancements
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Lucent Technologies kept the focus on its recent IP multimedia subsystem wins, revealing new enhancements to its IMS this week at the 3GSM World Congress...
3GSM: Anritsu teams with Nemo on drive test
By: By Tim McElligott
Anritsu Co. introduced a new test tool and a partner for putting it to work in UMTS/W-CDMA wireless networks at 3GSM this week....
3GSM: NetTest launches new test and OSS solutions for wired and wireless networks
By: By Tim McElligott
Denmark's test and operations support system provider, NetTest, made some noise at 3GSM World Congress this week with several product launches including: a non-intrusive and intelligent KPI/KQI monitoring system for mobile and fixed operators called MetroQuest, a post-processing performance analysis solution for 3G operators called Compass 3G, and a new version of its MasterQuest OSS solution along with a new MasterQuest customer....
3GSM: Back-office vendors remake strategies/products
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Back-office software makers Amdocs and Portal Software unveiled new products and ramped up business strategies this week at 3GSM World Congress...
NexTone adds NAT proxy to deltathree relationship
By: By Tim McElligott
After using NexTone Communications Multiprotocol Signaling Switch and session management solutions for its hosted SIP-based services, deltathree added the vendor’s NAT Proxy solution to support its growth and enhance connectivity within its network...
3GSM: Azure integrates Certo and educates on revenue leakage
By: By Tim McElligott
With its most recent acquisition of Connexn's Certo revenue assurance platform fully integrated, Azure Solutions launched its next-generation platform with Inter-Party management at 3GSM this week in Cannes, France....
General Bandwidth throws gateway into reverse
By: By Vince Vittore
General Bandwidth this week is launching its G6 Reverse Media Gateway, which lets DLCs seamlessly migrate from Class 5 call control to IP-based softswitch call control....
Tektronix introduces UTRAN and load test systems
By: By Tim McElligott
Tektronix entered the load testing arena this week with the launch of the LTS21 Load Test System, the first, the company said, that creates realistic, complex 3G traffic scenarios for UMTS and GPRS networks using objects instead of scripts....
Boston Communications debuts new mobile platform
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless solutions provider Boston Communications Group announced this week a new mobile services platform consisting of four product sets available to wireless operators on both a licensed and outsourced basis...
Comarco helps Mexico monitor its operators’ QOS
By: By Tim McElligott
Cofetel, Mexico's government agency for overseeing telecommunications carriers, said this week it will use wireless network test tools from Irvine, Calif.-based Comarco to monitor quality of service for all of the country's wireless operators...
