Cramer no longer a one-trick pony
By: By Tim McElligott
Best known until now as a provider of inventory systems for Tier 1 telcos, U.K.-based Cramer has pulled off what it hopes is a coup d'etat ten years in the making by introducing seven new products in its Cramer6 OSS Suite today, making the company a player in multi-technology, end-to-end service fulfillment....
Telcordia's Granite acquisition fulfilling its promise
By: By Tim McElligott
With new software releases for its Granite Inventory and Expediter order management products, Telcordia introduced an enhanced fulfillment suite today that gives operators an end-to-end approach to service design as well as resource and lifecycle management....
Nortel, Sierra demonstrate VoIP over 3G
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks and Sierra Wireless today said they have performed successful tests of voice over IP between their product lines, Nortel’s new CMDA 1X EV-DO revision A base station and a pre-commercial Sierra PC card...
TELECOMNEXT: Yahoo! launches new VoIP client
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Yahoo! tomorrow will unveil a new global version of its Yahoo! Messenger VoIP client in the U.S., introducing both new features and a new, more powerful voice engine....
WEB EXTRA: Notebaert looks for common ground through wholesale
By: By Tim McElligott
Qwest chairman and CEO Dick Notebaert tried to convince an audience at the VON Conference last week in San Jose, Calif., that his company and the other Tier 1 carriers have more in common with the disruptive start-ups and innovators in the IP networking arena than they might think...
VON stirs Net neutrality pot
By: By Carol Wilson
Incumbents speak on content era's new hot topic, but they win few fans...
Sprint takes PBX on the road
By: By Vince Vittore
Sprint is taking what could logically be thought of as the next step in its voice-over-IP evolution with the launch of a new service...
VON: Ensim’s grand unification theory
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Voice-over-IP became part of Ensim Corp.’s Unify service delivery platform this week at VON as the company announced support for voice service on the platform and demonstrated support for applications and components from BroadSoft, Sylantro and Microsoft...
VON: The future arrives for Sonus, partners
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Sonus Networks began its week with a positive earnings report that showed fourth-quarter revenue of $57.2 million, up 27% from last year and fiscal yearly revenue up 14% from 2004...
Pulver fires up himself at VON
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Jeff Pulver, CEO of pulver.com, has been called a technology guru by no less than BusinessWeek. But by his own admission this week, as he addressed the throng of 8000 attendees at his VON Conference in San Jose, Calif., when he started his mission to advance voice and video on the Internet 10 years ago, he didn’t have a clue--at least about telecom....
VON: Netrake rakes in Telefonica in Brazil
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Session border control provider Netrake teamed with NEC to support Telefonica’s introduction of hosted VoIP services in Brazil, the companies said this week...
VON: EarthLink invests in Covad for more VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink will invest $50 million in debt and equity financing to enable Covad Communications to build out a line-powered voice-over-DSL network to eight additional cities. (Photo of EarthLink president and CEO Gary Betty by Alex Wong/Getty Images) ...
VON: Speakeasy tracks VoIP growth
By: By Carol Wilson
National voice and data provider Speakeasy said it saw rapid growth of both broadband and VoIP service in 2005 and expects even more rapid growth this year in both arenas. ...
VON: Level 3 expands VoIP portfolio
By: By Carol Wilson
Through its WilTel acquisition and a number of partner arrangements, Level 3 Communications has expanded its portfolio of wholesale voice services and accelerated VoIP adoption....
VON: Vortex goes national on Tekelec
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Vortex Broadband Communications is launching its fixed wireless voice and data services nationally, using Tekelec’s 6000 VoIP Application Servers to deliver voice, broadband and hosting VoIP servers...
VON: Notebaert calls net neutrality a commercial issue
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Network neutrality issues can be easily handled with the existing commercial agreements framework, Qwest Communications CEO Richard Notebaert told the VON conference today...
VON: Global Crossing expands IP service portfolio
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Global Crossing has joined forces with iPass to add wireless remote access to its Global Remote Connectivity service...
Verizon puts new SLA on VoIP
By: By Vince Vittore
Verizon Business announced today it is now offering a higher service-level agreement (SLAs) as part of its Managed IP PBX Services, incorporating not just traditional measurements like mean-time to repair but also more subjective dimensions including a mean opinion score (MOS)....
VON: BellSouth exec pitches need for IP service tiers
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth Chief Architect Hank Kafka walked into the lion’s den Tuesday night, attempting in a rapid-fire half-hour technology presentation to convince a skeptical VON crowd that burgeoning video traffic will swamp current IP network capacity and require regulatory freedom for carriers to offer tiered services....
VON: Performance Technologies announces customers
By: By Carol Wilson
Performance Technologies today announced its second customer in a week, saying AirSpan Technologies will use its Segway 3600 Compact-STP, announced last September, in the PROTEL Mexico VoIP network....
VON: TelTel uses Wi-Fi for SIP phone
By: By Carol Wilson
TelTel and D-Link today are announcing a SIP-enabled WiFi handset that they believe is the first pocket-sized VoIP phone...
NeuStar extends peering to Asia
By: By Carol Wilson
Clearinghouse services provider NeuStar has extended its reach, announcing today that it has entered into agreements with the Hong Kong Internet Exchange and the Japan Internet Exchange to offer its SIP-IX suite of network peering services among IP networks....
VoIP pitfalls still out there
By: By Carol Wilson
Enterprises deploying VoIP are facing disappointment because they did not do an adequate assessment of network needs in advance, a leading IP consultant is saying....
Lucent plays host to new Sprint VoIP service
By: By Tim McElligott
Sprint has begun offering hosted voice-over-IP solutions to the enterprise market using Lucent Technologies technology and its Global Network Operations Center in Denver....
Net2Phone eyeing wireless play for cable
By: By Vince Vittore
Hoping to mimic what Sprint is doing for its constellation of big cable operators but on a smaller scale, Net2Phone is now targeting multiple systems operators with a wireless offering. ...
