VON: 8x8 enhances for business
By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--8x8 is using the VON show to announce additional features for its business customers, including a business-class PBX softphone and new, higher-quality, fax-over-IP service...
VON: Qwest builds wholesale VoIP portfolio
By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Qwest Communications yesterday announced new 800-number origination and hosted services for its wholesale VoIP portfolio...
VON: SunRocket chooses GC’s peering service
By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Global Crossing announced this week that VoIP provider SunRocket will use its new VoIP peering solution, becoming the first announced customer of the service launched last week...
VON: SIP Forum helps enterprises with connectivity
By Tim McElligott
BOSTON--The SIP Forum completed work by one of its technical working groups this week on SIPconnect, an industry recommendation on facilitating connectivity between the enterprise SIP-based networks and service providers’ voice-over-IP networks...
VON: Sylantro launches wireless virtual PBX
By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Sylantro Systems is taking its VoIP feature servers into the wireless world, the company said today. Its latest release of Sylantro Synergy, 4.1, includes a wireless virtual PBX that enables wireless service providers to target the enterprise market...
VON: XConnect acquires IPeerX
By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--XConnect has agreed to acquire IPeerX, the two voice-over-IP peering companies announced today....
VON: Covergence downsizes IP security gear
By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--Covergence introduced a smaller version of its IP edge security appliance today...
VON: AT&T adds softphone to Call Vantage
By Carol Wilson
BOSTON -- Reinforcing its renewed emphasis on consumer Voice over IP, AT&T today announced softphone capabilities for its CallVantage VoIP service, developed in conjunction with CounterPath Solutions. As part of the new service, customers can also do peer-to-peer videoconferencing....
VON: Voxbone takes virtual numbers global
By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--A relatively unknown Belgian company, Voxbone, is making waves at VON with a specialized wholesale service that offers local phone numbers in 50 different countries in Asia, Europe, North America and South America...
VON: 360 adds wholesale VoIP
By Caol Wilson
BOSTON--Leveraging its unique footprint in the wide-open spaces of the Western U.S., 360 Networks today announced it will offer wholesale VoIP services to service providers for business and residential customers...
VON: Yahoo! VoIP adds conference calling
By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Yahoo! is adding free conference calling to its Yahoo! Messenger with Voice VoIP service, using a free plug-in from Vapps called ConFreeCall...
Nortel to use Followap presence server
By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is stopping development of its own presence server for its IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) portfolio in favor of using that of a third-party vendor, Followap...
Intrado proves VoIP auto-location in NYC
By Tim McElligott
Intrado picked the urban canyon environment of New York City to conduct a trial on automatically locating mobile VoIP 911 callers and delivering their VoIP location information to the appropriate public safety answering point (PSAP)...
Global Crossing enters VoIP peering market
By Carol Wilson
Global Crossing this morning threw its hat into the VoIP peering ring, launching VoIP Community Peering, which brings its end-to-end IP connectivity to service providers...
Cisco big winner in IP telephony gains
By Tim McElligott
IP-based telephony showed strong growth in both the service provider and enterprise markets in the second quarter, according to new data from Infonetics Research...
Verizon upgrades call centers to IP
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 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...
InFocus: Augmenting VoIP Service Provisions
By Joe Tedesco - Managing Director, Business Technology Solutions Group - Navigant Consulting
The stakes are as great as the potential rewards in the booming marketplace for voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. Carriers have invested heavily to educate, convince and win VoIP customers...
Pannaway gets on the Polar Express
By Tim McElligott
Two years into its five-year network upgrade across North Dakota, independent local exchange carrier Polar Communications said this week it is happy with its choice of Pannaway Technologies as a provider for access and transport gear...
VoIP on a steep trajectory
By Tim McElligott
Calling voice-over-IP providers’ momentum a furious assault on the fixed-line voice market in the U.S., research firm TeleGeography reported today that VoIP providers gained 1.23 million subscribers in the second quarter...
The public side of Synchronoss
By Tim McElligott
After a promising start in 2001 followed by an uncertain race over the hurdles erected by the Internet and telecom bust, Synchronoss Technologies has persevered, survived, gone public (June 2006), had its first public earnings call and last week entered the video activation space for wireless...
Sonus adds SBC function to small border switch
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....
New Global Telecom gets SMARTer
By Dan O'Shea
Voice-over-IP wholesale carrier New Global Telecom today announced the release of its third volume in its VoIP informational series, "Strategic Market, Acquisition & Retention Techniques," (SMART) for service providers launching hosted VoIP telephony services to small- and mid-size business customers....
MetaSwitch takes aim at cable industry
By Carol Wilson
Having firmly established its softswitch technology in the independent and competitive telephone markets, MetaSwitch is expanding its focus to the cable TV industry, announcing a new product platform designed to let cable companies provide business VoIP services....
Skype signs second SMS enabler
By Kevin Fitchard
Skype is racking up partners for its new PC-to-phone SMS service, this week revealing Mobile 365 as its second mobile messaging aggregator....
