Spirent opens test automation lab 

By: By Tim McElligott

Spirent Communications this week cut the ribbon on a new test automation lab in Sunnyvale, Calif., designed to boost test productivity tenfold...

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...

Telemar starts transformation with Accenture and Telcordia  

By: By Tim McElligott

Expectations were high when Telcordia Technologies and Accenture announced a strategic partnership back in April. ...

BEA acquires metadata repository company for SOA platform 

By: By Tim McElligott

The Service Oriented Architecture may or may not be the salvation for the increasingly IT-based back offices of service providers, but BEA Systems and others in the software space still believe it is and this week BEA strengthened its vision with the acquisition of Cleveland-based Flashline....

Verizon upgrades call centers to IP 

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon Business today said it has IP-enabled its hosted call center services to include routing incoming calls over toll-free IP links, using IP trunking for greater efficiency and adding IP interactive voice response capabilities...

QoS meets Zoey 

By: By Tim McElligott

Voice-over-IP subscribers may soon stop asking, “How do I sound?” before beginning conversations on their VoIP phones thanks, in part, to the introduction today by Montreal-based Minacom of Zoey, an automated service quality self-test system...

Cox goes phishing with Cloudmark 

By: By Tim McElligott

Cox Communications’ broadband subscribers will now be protected from spam and phishing attacks by Cloudmark’s Authority platform...

In the Spotlight: Marco Pagani, Nakina Systems 

By: By Tim McElligott

Last week, OSS system provider Nakina Systems took its next evolutionary step and named Marco Pagani as its new president and CEO, replacing company co-founder David Vicary. The once fast-tracking young executive from Nortel is now a seasoned veteran of telecom solutions companies as well as the investment community that supports them. Pagani spoke with Telephony’s Tim McElligott about himself, his take on the industry and why Nakina will be a big part of it...

Consolidation threatens SBC market 

By: By Tim McElligott

From the time they hit the market in the late 1990s, session border controllers were labeled short-timers. Experts said they wouldn't last as a standalone network element...

Leapstone provides must-have options for IPTV 

By: By Tim McElligott

At a pace of three-to-four software releases per year, five-year old, Somerset, NJ-based Leapstone Systems introduced its latest this week, which includes functionality essential for all U.S.-based IPTV providers: blackout management...

Sonus adds SBC function to small border switch 

By: By Tim McElligott

Sonus Networks shrunk the form factor in a new border switch but still found room to incorporate session border control functionality to the gear....

Lucent competes for border security 

By: By Tim McElligott

Lucent Technologies has been involved in many projects around securing network borders, but this week the company set its sites on the national border by joining the Boeing team pursuing the estimated $2 billion contract for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Secure Border Initiative ...

InFocus: Where to focus security expenditures 

By: By Jay Berman

How can companies get the most "security bang" for their buck? The answer lies in a security return-on-investment framework analysis. Read more about this analysis, and examine a case study involving a hypothetical Telecom Service Provider in need of a new security plan...

UPDATE: Microsoft, Nortel team up 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Microsoft, which late last month unveiled a roadmap for new unified communications capabilities to be integrated with software such as Microsoft Office, has aligned with Nortel Networks on a broad, four-year unified communications strategic partnership...

Keeping customer service at home 

By: By Stephanie Dell

Bucking the trend of outsourcing customer service overseas, Alltel is expanding and investing in its customer service call centers in the U.S....

WiMAX Forum taps VeriSign for security 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Network security company VeriSign has announced that it has been selected by the WiMAX Forum to provide public key infrastructure (PKI) security services to all WiMAX Forum-Certified solutions based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 Fixed WiMAX and ETSI HiperMAN 1.2.1 standards...

VoIPfone from Brasil supported by ACME Packet 

By: By Tim McElligott

Acme Packet said this week that Brazil’s third largest fixed line service provider, Brasil Telecom, will use its Net-Net session border controllers for the carrier’s VoIPfone service, a SIP-based business and residential VoIP offering...

The crooked mile 

By: By Tim McElligott

The road ahead is clear and mostly straight for network equipment manufacturers. But for those looking for the best method of monitoring and managing the new classes of traffic that ride the network, it's like the crooked man from Mother Goose, going the crooked mile...

Evolving Systems walks like an Egyptian 

By: By Tim McElligott

Evolving Systems said this week from its home in Englewood, Colo., that Vodafone Egypt has deployed its Tertio Content Connector...

Convergys completes Croatia’s Metronet 

By: By Tim McElligott

Convergys seized an opportunity in Croatia’s newly deregulated telecom market to provide product, consulting, and professional services to Croatia's Metronet telekomunikacije for its implementation and integrate of a new billing solution to support billing for its triple-play services...

Verizon adds VoIP security consulting 

By: By Carol Wilson

360networks to interconnect using Netrake border control  

By: By Tim McElligott

Netrake today announced that 360networks Corp. is deploying its nCite Session Border Controllers to support the security and delivery of its new SIPConnect Service targeting cable operators, ISPs, broadband service providers and VoIP service providers across North America...

Nortel offers comprehensive security program 

By: By Carol Wilson

Nortel is expanding its security services portfolio, capitalizing on its networking expertise to offer service providers and enterprise customers consulting service in the security arena, along with a managed service offering and security compliance services. ...

EdenTree bears fruit for lab automation 

By: By Tim McElligott

If it works, go ahead and fix it. That was the philosophy behind EdenTree Technologies’ introduction of a completely re-architected product today that better automates the network lab environment for equipment manufacturers and service providers...

Tekelec leverages portability prowess for ENUM solution 

By: By Tim McElligott

Along with its annual boost of capacity in its local number portability solution, Tekelec announced this week a private ENUM solution that operators in the U.S. will begin trialing this year. ...