Jangl to dead pool; execs, assets to Jajah 

By: By Rich Karpinski

That’s one less “j” Web VoIP provider for service providers to worry about. But with subscriber claims seemingly easier to come by than revenues, it’s not clear the Jangls, Jajahs and Jaxtrs of the world have incumbent service providers quaking in their boots just yet, anyway...

MagicJack attacks 

By: By Sarah Reedy

MagicJack founder, and inventor of its technology, Dan Borislow, doesn’t like the term voice-over IP (VoIP). He thinks it has a negative connotation in an industry prone to struggles. ...

Yahoo taps Jajah for Web calling 

By: By Rich Karpinski

One of the Web/telephony startups with the funny "J" name -- Jajah -- today cut a deal with the original Web-player-with-a-funny-name, Yahoo, to help deliver Web-based IP telephony calling to Yahoo's 97 million instant messenger customers...

Channeling VoIP sales 

M5 Networks, a competitive service provider serving medium-sized companies with hosted voice over IP and advanced features, is finding success selling through IT consultants who provide data network support to small- to medium-sized businesses...

EXFO's IP acquisition spree 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Optical test equipment and service-assurance supplier EXFO made two acquisitions this month: Brix Networks, which focuses on voice over IP in provider networks, and Navtel Communications, which focuses on IP multimedia subsystem equipment in vendor labs. Etienne Gagnon, vice president of product management and marketing for EXFO, described the company's plan to Telephony...

Sonus buys way into IP provisioning 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Sonus Networks acquired OSS vendor Atreus Systems to add IP voice and services provisioning to its carrier-grade IP services offerings. Terms were not disclosed...

Globys billing analytics biz spun out of VeriSign 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Executives in Verisign's telecom analytics and customer self-care division have taken the unit private, forming Globys Inc. with plans to deliver new solutions to help carriers better market new services to their customers...

Level 3 European CEO, content president resigns 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Brady Rafuse, president and chief operating officer of Level 3 Communications’ European business and president of its content markets group, has resigned, the company confirmed to Telephony today...

AcmePacket intros open session routing 

By: By Carol Wilson

The product on which Acme Packet is basing its new Open Session Routing architecture is actually five years old – but that’s the good news, said Seamus Hourihan, the company’s vice president of marketing and product management....

Reinventing the landline 

By: By Sarah Reedy

Enterprises have several choices when it comes to telephony. IP phones sit on many office desks, but dual-mode voice-over-IP handsets and cellular-only offerings are becoming more common...

The new service providers 

By: By Rich Karpinski & Kevin Fitchard

"Service provider" and "network operator" are becoming independent terms in wireless. Read more of this feature article on how companies are evolving...

Truphone rides mobile trends 

By: By Rich Karpinski

If there's one new service provider perhaps most poised to upset the mobile status quo, it's London-based Truphone...

SMS provides gateway to VoIP 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Two emerging service providers -- Raketu and Rebtel -- are borrowing a model used by discount calling card companies to bring VoIP to wireless networks...

CTIA: Motorola getting jump on CDMA-to-LTE migration 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola today said it has successfully completed a handoff between a CDMA and Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in its labs, thus demonstrating the viability of the two different technologies working in unison on the same flat IP core...

Covad pitching quality in its bundle 

By: By Carol Wilson

Small to mid-sized businesses are seeing the value of VoIP, but they are also insisting on quality service and that is turning them away from best-effort services, according to Lisa Graham, senior vice president and general manager of Covad Communications’ Wholesale Division...

VON: Start-up wins VON Best in Show award for high-def conferencing  

By: Sarah Reedy

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Just one week after announcing a startup venture to deploy wideband audio conferencing technology, WYDE Voice – backed by Free Conferencing Corp. founder and CEO David Erickson – has already been recognized as the “Best in Show.”...

VON: Dialcom takes on big guys in unified collaboration  

By: Sarah Reedy

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Unified collaboration provider Dialcom introduced the North American market to Spontania, a real-time collaboration platform, at the VON show this week. ...

VON: Digium CEO gives open-source VoIP primer  

By: Sarah Reedy

San Jose – At the VON conference in San Jose this week, Digium, creators of the Asterisk open-source telephony software, unveiled the Switchvox 3.5 and the AA60 Switchvox Appliance, designed for large businesses and small businesses, respectively. ...

VON: Broadsoft marketplace brings carriers into Web 2.0 equation 

By: By Rich Karpinski

VoIP platform vendor BroadSoft announced at the VON.x show this week a set of APIs and developer programs that will let developers integrate voice into their Web applications, leveraging service provider networks...

MegaPath enhances integrated voice-data offer 

By: Carol Wilson

MegaPath this week is announcing new SIP and PRI interfaces to enable its Duet integrated voice and data service to support both digital and IP-based PBXs....

VON: IIA chairman urges investment in bandwidth 

By: Sarah Reedy

San Jose – Don’t say we didn’t warn you. This was Larry Irving’s word of caution to service providers at the VON.x conference in San Jose. Speaking at the Town Hall meeting kicking off the conference, Irving, co-chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA), said something has to be done to increase bandwidth or better utilize existing bandwidth today....

VON: A new wave of unified communications hits 

By: Sarah Reedy

SAN JOSE, CA – Several new products announced Monday at the VON.x conference in San Jose had a common theme: Cisco Systems isn’t the only name for unified communications. Many companies unveiled new products to promote UC, a concept championed by Cisco in recent years, at all levels of the enterprise network. ...

Polycom, Tandberg extend telepresence reach 

By: Carol Wilson

Two different video players – Tandberg and Polycom – today announced plans with Microsoft that will enable them to bring higher quality videoconferencing to the desktop....

When calls equal impressions 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Web-integrated VoIP vendors, still looking for their killer app, are nonetheless ready to start trying to squeeze out some revenues via advertising...

In the spotlight: Cbeyond's Brent Cobb 

Cbeyond is riding a growing wave of success, bringing managed IP services, including voice, to small- and medium-sized businesses...