Aperto supports VoIP over-subscription
By: By Dan O'Shea
Aperto Networks, one of the throng of broadband wireless access equipment vendors that is migrating its traditional platform to WiMAX, is announcing today a new software version for its gear that allows quality of service to be maintained for VoIP services, even in the event of over-subscription to those services...
FiberNet finding paths to growth
By: By Carol Wilson
FiberNet, the interconnection, collocation and transport provider, is branching out in a major way, seeking to become a Voice over IP peering point, a professional services company and a major point of interconnection between legacy and next-generation Ethernet services....
Linksys, MCI team to target small biz
By: By Carol Wilson
Cisco Systems subsidiary Linksys today unveiled an IP-based services platform for voice, data and video that specifically targets service providers, value-added resellers and their small business customers....
Bush FCC nominees have industry approval
By: By Carol Wilson
President Bush’s choices of Deborah Tate and Michael Copps for the Federal Communications Commission seem to have struck a proper balance...
Microsoft, Cisco back ICE
By: By Carol Wilson
Microsoft and Cisco Systems today jointly announced their support for the developing Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) technology for enabling voice over IP and multimedia services to traverse firewalls and network address translators...
BellSouth taps Lucent for IMS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BellSouth is completing the circle of next-generation network architectures between its co-owned wireless carrier Cingular and SBC Communications, announcing today it has selected Lucent Technologies IP Multimedia Subsystem platform as the launch point for voice over IP and possible future converged services....
T-Systems switches with Sonus
By: By Tim McElligott
T-Systems, a division of the Deutsche Telekom Group and a provider of information and communications technology in Europe, has awarded Sonus Networks a multimillion-dollar contract for the worldwide expansion of its business VoIP network...
VoIP for NetZero?
By: By Tim McElligott
United Online, the company behind Juno, Classmates.com and NetZero, has joined the voice-over-IP craze with the launch this week of NetZero Voice...
In the Spotlight: Jon DeLuca, FiberNet
By: By Ed Gubbins
FiberNet’s chief executive officer, Jon DeLuca, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about the market, the model and more...
Cbeyond issues IPO
Cbeyond, the Voice over IP service provider targeting small to mid-sized businesses, today issued its expected IPO, offering common stock at $12 a share. The IPO is one of the few being issued by competitive service providers in the current market and could serve as an indication of Wall Street’s view of new VoIP opportunities....
Hosted VoIP: Take the headache out of VoIP
By: By Rob Falkner
Increasingly, enterprise CIOs are deciding to outsource the operation, support and maintenance of their network to a third party, and voice over IP is no exception. Here are some tips on selecting the right hosting partner...
Pannaway gets vocal about partners
By: By Vince Vittore
LAS VEGAS--Pannaway Technologies announced today it has completed interoperability testing with CopperCom’s softswitch...
Cbeyond IPO nears
By: By Tim McElligott
Another voice-over-IP provider could put its business plan to the test as early as this week by conducting an initial public offering of common stock. ...
FiberNet gets into VoIP peering
By: By Ed Gubbins
FiberNet Telecom Group became the latest firm to offer a voice-over-IP peering service today, with the launch of the company’s new Phenomenum offering...
InfiniRoute reborn with Tauss; peering becomes big business
By: By Tim McElligott
Company will focus on delivering traffic from emerging markets...
Carriers anchor Visual Networks; enterprise revenues grow
By: By Tim McElligott
Visual Networks reported today a sequential increase in revenue of 2% for the third quarter ending Sept. 30...
Covergence launches SIP Access Manager
By: By Tim McElligott
Maynard, Mass.-based Covergence threw its hat in the ring currently occupied by session border controller vendors and launched a unified security and management solution for session initiation protocol-based services, including VoIP...
Office Depot to brand wireless service
By: By Vince Vittore
Office Depot today announced that it has started offering a new wireless service targeting the small business market. Wireless Office Service, which will be powered by AccessLine Communications’ hosted voice over IP, gives users the ability to centralize all employee phone numbers (whether in-office, cell phones or home office numbers) with one single main number....
MetaSolv solves activation for U.S. ILEC
By: By Tim McElligott
MetaSolv Software and a U.S.-based Tier 1 carrier have executed a framework agreement that will makes MetaSolv the strategic provider of service activation solutions for the carrier’s IP-based services...
Pac-West goes national
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO – Pac-West Telecom is expanding the reach of its wholesale voice and data operation from the West Coast to the entire U.S., beginning early next year with 36 major metropolitan areas....
COMPTEL: Qwest revamps wholesale pricing
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications International today unveiled a new approach to pricing its wholesale IP voice terminating service that ties prices more accurately to costs...
FTTH: Optical Solutions adds integrated VoIP
By: By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--Optical Solutions is integrating voice over IP into its access platform, the company announced Tuesday...
Nortel finally makes it rural VoIP move
By: By Vince Vittore
After several years of talking vaguely about plans to help rural telcos migrate their existing DMS switch to a voice-over-IP environment, Nortel Networks has finally unveiled some concrete products...
Vonage chooses IPO banks, report says
Vonage has chosen four banks to handle its IPO, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning. The IPO underwriters include Citigroup Inc., UBS AG, Deutsche Bank AG and Bear Stearns Cos....
New Skype software adds call forwarding and more
By: By Carol Wilson
Skype today unveiled new calling features that include forwarding calls to a mobile or landline phone, its first venture away from the PC, and adding ringtones to VoIP. The new software, Skype for Windows Version 1.4, also promises to improve sound quality on cars, in an ongoing effort to attract more consumers to VoIP....
