Crossing the VoIP chasm
By: By Vince Vittore
Carriers have plenty of incentive to not sell voice over IP as cheap dial tone, but convincing users that they should look at applications as the differentiator is a challenge...
AOL tiptoes into business VoIP
By: By Vince Vittore
What looks like a simple licensing deal on the surface ultimately may turn into AOL's first steps into the business VoIP market...
Tekelec teams with Convergin
By: By Dan O'Shea
Tekelec has announced a partnership with Convergin, a developer of fixed-mobile convergence technology, under which Tekelec will resell Convergin's Accolade platform as part of Tekelec's Real Convergence IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) offering. ...
Equant, Global Crossing do hosted VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
Two major competitive carriers are flushing out their voice over IP offerings by adding hosted PBX features....
AOL opens AIM to VoIP integration
By: By Vince Vittore
AOL is expected to announce next week that it is integrating its instant messaging platform into the dashboard of VoIP software and service provider IPcelerate....
Skype signs mobile partner
By: By Carol Wilson
Skype announced this morning that it has signed up its first mobile partner in E-Plus, Germany's third largest mobile phone network with 9.8 million subscribers. ...
Kaish leaves BellSouth to head Cox voice development
By: By Carol Wilson
Mark Kaish, BellSouth’s vice president of next generation services, is changing sides of the field. He will be joining Cox Communications this month to head up voice services development strategy, according to industry sources....
Juniper selects Meru’s WLAN platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Juniper Networks today said it has inked a partnership with Meru Networks to integrate its line of WLAN and wireless VoIP products with Juniper’s IP routing and security portfolio...
Arvig Communication deploys MetaSwitch
By: By Vince Vittore
Looking to expand beyond its Perham, Minn., of operations, Arvig Communication Systems today announced that it has deployed a Metaswitch VP3510 Class 4/5 softswitch and UC9000 unified communications system. The switch also will be used to relieve capacity on Arvig’s existing switch, which is has been under pressure because of a rapidly expanding customer base....
VoIP gear sales explode
By: By Carol Wilson
The transformation of the voice network is taking place at a record rate, according to a new report from Infonetics. Revenues from the sale of service provider next generation voice equipment are up 55% year-over-year and 18% in the second quarter of 2005 alone, a record pace, said directing analyst Kevin Mitchell....
Google, Skype rachet up VoIP competition
By: By Carol Wilson
The battle of the Web titans has begun--and where the fallout lands is still uncertain...
Avaya and Intel to collaborate on mobile technology
By: By Tim McElligott
From Intel’s Developer Forum this week, Intel and Avaya announced their intent to collaborate on optimizing Avaya’s SIP-based, IP Telephony Softphone for use with notebook computers using Intel’s Centrino mobile technology....
Dual-mode handsets will trigger VoIP explosion
By: By Carol Wilson
Sentit0 sells Latin American operator on VoIP switching
By: By Tim McElligott
Along with a new operating system for its Open Network Exchange (ONX) distributed voice-over-IP switching and service delivery solutions, sentit0 Networks announced this week that Optima Telecom will use both for its launch of VoIP services in Latin America....
TelCove adds VoIP service
TelCove, a regional wholesale and retail service provider in the Eastern seaboard and mid-Atlantic region, today announced network-based Voice over IP services targeting its enterprise customers....
Network VPN market bursting at the seams
By: By Carol Wilson
Complexity and the popularity of VoIP are driving sales, but competition is heating up and already pressuring price...
AT&T makes VoIP signup easier
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T has introduced new software to make it easier for customers to adopt voice over IP and to make changes to their own service...
MCI rushes into wholesale VoIP
By: By Tim McElligott
At least three months ahead of its original plan, MCI launched a wholesale VoIP service this week that features both carrier IP termination and a SIP Gateway service...
Vapps takes VoIP conferencing beyond parity stage
By: By Tim McElligott
Vapps, a software-based provider of audio conferencing systems has added call control features to its Conference Bridge 1000 platform that allows voice-over-broadband and communications service providers to tailor voice conferencing sessions on a customer by customer basis....
TowerStream allies with Vonage for VoIP
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Broadband wireless ISP TowerStream and VoIP provider Vonage today announced a partnership to offer Vonage’s small business VoIP services to TowerStream customers in its five metro markets....
A StarVox is reborn
By: By Tim McElligott
The voice-over-IP market birthed another competitor this week as StarVox Communications launched its next generation network for transitioning enterprise users of legacy voice and data networks to converged IP-based networks....
Cox adds five VoIP markets
By: By Carol Wilson
Cox Communications will bring its VoIP service to five new markets this year, announcing that Cox Digital Telephone will be available in Las Vegas, Macon, Ga., Topeka, Kan., and its markets in Central Florida and the Gulf Coast area of Florida. Those additions bring Cox’s voice markets to 22, which is 70 percent of its existing footprint, the company announced. ...
XO hits 1000 customer mark for VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications announced today that it has signed up 1000 small to mid-sized business customers to its Voice over IP service in its first three months. ...
Comcast to count on AT&T
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast has extended its contract to buy wholesale services from AT&T to support its Comcast Digital Voice offering. ...
