Attention, Wal-Mart Shoppers
By: By Carol Wilson
Voice over IP is now on sale through the largest U.S. retail outlet, Wal-Mart, as well as via home shopping television....
VON: Legerity puts StarCore DSP under the hood
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN JOSE--Legerity announced this week that it will use StarCore' Digital Signal Processing technology for use in IP communication applications. ...
VON: Radvision, Jasomi ink Canadian carrier deal
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN JOSE--Radvision and Jasomi Networks announced at the Voice on the Net show today a desktop multimedia conferencing solution for Microsoft's newly released Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 3.0. ...
VON: Spirent tabulates new customers with Abacus
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Spirent Communications launched an IP Telephony rollout platform this week at VON that assesses and validates signaling performance and call quality in pre-production VoIP networks....
VON: Broadsoft unveils work behind Primus
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN JOSE--BroadSoft announced at the Voice on the Net show here today that Primus Telecommunications is using its BroadWorks VoIP applications platform to support its Lingo Internet service....
VON: Sylantro bags Bandwidth.com and NuVox as feature server customers
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Nationwide Internet access provider for business Bandwidth.com and super-regional integrated communications provider NuVox said this week they will use Sylantro System's application feature server to advance their respective voice-over-IP offerings....
VON: VoIP just means to cable's end
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Major cable players are using voice over IP primarily to compete with incumbent telcos for basic residential voice service and not to push the envelope with innovative new features....
VON: AOL announced VoIP launch
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--As expected, AOL Chairman and CEO Jon Miller announced today that his company will launch a mass-market voice over IP service next month, based on Level 3 Communications' national VoIP infrastructure and Sonus Networks softswitches....
VON: Xten softphones go retail
By: By Jason Meyers
SAN JOSE--Softphone developer Xten Networks announced a deal at the Voice on the Net show here this week that it is bundling its eyeBeam softphone product with GN Netcom headsets for retail distribution in the U.S. and Canada....
VON: Vonage touts VoIP success
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Vonage is adding 15,000 new customers a week and is "on a quick and easy march to one million lines," Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Citron told the Voice on the Net conference Monday....
VON: Kagoor announces Swisscomm contract and adds data NAT functionality
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Kagoor Networks will be showing off new data network address translation capabilities for its session border controller product at this week's Voice on the Net conference in San Jose. ...
VON: Consumers not thrilled by cheap VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--A surprising 71% of consumers would consider switching to voice-over-IP service, but a more surprising 60% of those lose interest when the service gets too cheap, according to a research study commissioned by Level 3 Communications, a provider of wholesale VoIP services. ...
VON: SBC outlines VoIP strategy
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Mark Fishler may not have felt like "one of the gang" when he showed up for his first keynote speech at the Voice on the Net conference in San Jose Monday. ...
VON: Vonage looks inside for TI technology
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Texas Instruments got a vote of confidence from Vonage this week when the broadband telephony provider named the company as its preferred provider of VoIP silicon and software....
VON: Cox announces VoIP plans
By: By Carol Wilson
Cox Communications and its primary vendor, Nortel Networks, have detailed plans to convert Cox's local telephone service from traditional circuit-switching to voice over IP, beginning immediately. ...
CompTel: Wholesalers target VoIP market
By: By Carol Wilson
The surge in voice-over-IP services is not only a boon for cost-conscious consumers and businesses but also a significant opportunity for wholesalers, who are lining up to provide VoIP infrastructure. ...
Broadsoft bags three carriers
By: By Dan O'Shea
VoIP application software vendor Broadsoft recently signed separate deals with Cbeyond Communications, McLeodUSA and XO Communications to support their VoIP services with the vendor’s BroadWorks platform...
3GSM: IBM taps Nortel IMS solution
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Nortel Networks and IBM are joining forces for converged multimedia services, announcing today at the 3GSM World Congress that IBM will build its multimedia delivery platform off of Nortel's IP Multimedia Subsystem platform. ...
3Com's TippingPoint establishes VoIP Security Alliance
By: By Tim McElligott
TippingPoint, a division of 3Com since the close of their acquisition last week, has gone from Intrusion Prevention start-up one year ago, to leader of a new security alliance intended to address the emerging voice-over-IP market. ...
HP strategy shows results with three carrier contracts
By: By Tim McElligott
HP has spent the last year shoring up and talking about its next-generation service provider solutions and this week announced three operator contracts for a range of functionality including service delivery, fault management, service quality management and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) testing....
Number 1 in session control, Netrake signs SunRocket
By: By Tim McElligott
Netrake earned the top spot in a recent market share report from Frost & Sullivan, which ranked suppliers of session border control equipment. ...
XO aims VoIP at small business
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications is hoping to woo small business customers with a flat-rate integrated access service that combines high-speed Internet access with voice...
Telstra seeking new U.S. identity
By: By Carol Wilson
The brand name “Telstra” is predominantly associated with the Australian telephone company now facing privatization in its homeland. But Telstra Inc. is looking to make a different name for itself...
GlobalTouch opts for Telco System's ATA
By: By Vince Vittore
GlobalTouch Telecom said today that it has picked Telco Systems' Access211 analog telephone adapter (ATA) for use in its SIPTalk calling service. ...
InfiniRoute launches VoIP peering for wireless
By: by Dan O'Shea
InfiniRoute Networks, a company aiming to be an carrier-neutral provider of VoIP managed peering services, has announced the availability of its peering...
