VON: Net2Phone offers SIP-based enterprise services
By: By Carol Wilson
Net2Phone Tuesday announced new enterprise VoIP products, aimed at small to mid-sized enterprises. ...
VON: EarthLink to use Level 3 for VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink will use Level 3 Communications to provide its VoIP service offerings, the two companies announced Tuesday. EarthLink will use the Level 3 (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service and offer local, long-distance and international service, including E911 service....
VON: TelTel launches SIP VNO
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Hoping to capitalize in the recent interest in adding IP voice to e-commerce and Internet applications, TelTel is launching an SVNO, or SIP virtual network operator, that can put any interested player into the VoIP business very quickly...
Sprint, Avaya team on VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
Sprint and Avaya announced today that they will partner to develop hosted VoIP services for both wireline and wireless markets....
BellSouth’s Smith: VoIP no miracle cure for Katrina
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--The telecom industry needs to be more careful in portraying VoIP as an alternative network technology in the event of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, BellSouth CTO Bill Smith reminded the VON ’05 audience in Boston Tuesday morning...
VON: MCI expands global VoIP portfolio
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--MCI today announced two additions to its VoIP services for enterprises, as well as an expansion of its wholesale VoIP product...
VON: SJ Labs launches Zero Touch strategy
By: By Carol Wilson
SJ Labs is taking a new approach to marketing its voice and video softphone, offering both zero-touch downloads of basic software and a premium product for service providers who want a higher degree of customization....
VON: VoIP providers missing SMB boat
By: By Carol Wilson
Small to mid-sized businesses are still somewhat confused about the Voice over IP value proposition, and need much more education about the service itself, according to a new study from Savatar, released today at VON. ...
VON: Sonus, Motorola demo voice over Canopy
By: By Dan O'Shea
BOSTON--Sonus Networks announced at Fall VON 2005 that it is demonstrating voice over wireless broadband capabilities over Motorola’s Canopy wireless broadband system. ...
VON: Reform slow in coming, says panel
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Despite the fact that there are now two telecom reform measures in front of Congress--one in the House and one in the Senate--a panel of regulatory insiders agreed Monday at the VON conference in Boston that chances are slim that telecom reform will pass this year...
VON: Level 3 launches E-911 service, deals
By: By Dan O'Shea
BOSTON--VoIP customers have another nine days to acknowledge notification from their VoIP service providers of the limited ability of VoIP offerings to support E-911 before those services are disconnected. Meanwhile, Level 3 Communications is seeking to help its interconnected VoIP providers comply with the Federal Communications Commission mandate for E-911 support with its new E-911 Direct service, launching this week at the VON trade show...
XO to deploy Convedia servers
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Interactive, a major provider of hosted Interactive Voice Response services, will deploy Convedia CMS-6000 media servers in its national Voice over IP network to develop new IP-based services for its customers and for its parent company, XO Communications....
AOL tiptoes into business VoIP
By: By Vince Vittore
What looks like a simple licensing deal on the surface ultimately may turn into AOL's first steps into the business VoIP market...
Crossing the VoIP chasm
By: By Vince Vittore
Carriers have plenty of incentive to not sell voice over IP as cheap dial tone, but convincing users that they should look at applications as the differentiator is a challenge...
eBay places VoIP's biggest bet
By: By Tim McElligott
With one billion-dollar acquisition under its belt, eBay shells out billions for Internet voice start-up to encroach on telecom's hallowed ground...
FCC updates Katrina recovery but excludes VoIP community
By: By CArol Wilson
The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that much more work remains to be done to restore telephone and other communications services to the area affected by Hurricane Katrina, and proposed using $211 million from the Universal Service Fund to help in the restoration effort. ...
Cisco grows cable play abroad
By: By Tim McElligott
When not closing acquisitions, as it did six times in its most recent quarter, Cisco found time to close a few sales for its BTS 10200 Call Control Softswitch, the latest, announced today, is with Romanian cable provider Astral Telecom....
BroadSoft makes a buy on the client side
By: By Tim McElligot
Voice-over-IP application platform provider, BroadSoft, acquired Australian application developer Carbon Twelve this week to expand its portfolio of network-based solutions to include the applications it support....
Tekelec teams with Convergin
By: By Dan O'Shea
Tekelec has announced a partnership with Convergin, a developer of fixed-mobile convergence technology, under which Tekelec will resell Convergin's Accolade platform as part of Tekelec's Real Convergence IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) offering. ...
eBay sees billions in Skype synergies
By: By Carol Wilson
Ebay will use Skype’s Voice over IP capabilities to expand its e-commerce activities into new markets and new geographic reasons, in addition to milking its standalone service revenues and creating new businesses as well, eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman said Monday morning....
VegaStream adds new gateways for enterprise VoIP
By: By Tim McElligott
For small service providers and system integrators trying to address the enterprise voice-over-IP market, London-based VegaStream this week launched two new analog gateways, one of which it claims will be the biggest on the market. ...
CTC buys Connecticut Broadband
By: By Carol Wilson
New England-based competitive service provider CTC Communications announced today that it has acquired Connecticut Broadband, a voice and data service provider in that Connecticut....
Avaya targets wireless with Nokia and Meru Networks
By: By Tim McElligott
VoIP equipment provider Avaya released for general availability an application jointly developed with Nokia to address fixed/mobile convergence and partnered with Meru Networks to resell its wireless LAN solutions....
Latest rumor: eBay pursuing Skype
By: By Carol Wilson
The latest rumors swirling around Skype indicate auction giant eBay is in negotiations to buy the VoIP provider for between $2 billion and $3 billion. ...
Nortel unveils first step in rural VoIP migration
By: By Vince Vittore
Trying to maintain what at one time had been an overwhelming majority market share in the rural switching market, Nortel this week is unveiling the first set of successful deployments of its SIP-enabled DMS-10 platform....
