Velleros launches emergency notification system
By: Sarah Reedy
Notification solution vendor Velleros has a message for carriers, stated in the company's blog: It is the carrier's civic duty to provide mass communications portals that local officials can use during an emergency and leverage their robust networks to help save lives. ...
Expanding digital universe expands service possibilities
By: Carol Wilson
The rapid expansion of the digital universe – defined as information that is either created, captured or replicated in digital form – poses a tremendous challenge to corporate IT departments and a tremendous opportunity to service providers, according to researchers at IDC....
Qwest expands, enhances VoIP suite
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications today announced enhancements to and an expansion of its OneFlex VoIP product portfolio designed to make the products easier to use and to add more functions for VoIP customers...
Google inches open GrandCentral
By: By Rich Karpinski
GrandCentral, Google’s Web-based unified communications play, began its slow escape out of private beta today with invites to the free service now available via Google’s blogging service, Blogger...
Juniper offers external control plane
By: Ed Gubbins
Hands on the home
By: By Mark Donahue
Residential gateways, IP set-top boxes, voice-over-IP terminals -- and soon you can add femtocell and WiMAX base stations. The list of customer premises equipment is growing, both in number and complexity, as service providers roll out richer services to more people...
Cbeyond sees softness in SMB market
By: By Ed Gubbins
IP services provider Cbeyond reported seeing broad but minor economic weakness in the small and medium business (SMB) market Monday in a muted echo of comments from AT&T last month that sparked widespread concern among investors...
What MS+Yahoo means for service providers
By: By Rich Karpinski
If the telecom and Web worlds are merging, then a mega-merger on one side -- Microsoft’s proposed $44.6 billion acquisition of Yahoo -- surely affects the other. But how?...
Ribbit Amphibian ties mobile phone to Web
By: By Rich Karpinski
Telephony startup Ribbit today unveiled its first consumer service -- code-named Amphibian -- running on top of the company’s Web/telephony-integrated development platform...
VoIP looks to WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire and Sprint's upcoming WiMAX launches are promising wireless broadband connectivity, but there's another service available in the mix that the two companies aren't so vocal about: voice...
HP updates core OSS platforms
By: By Rich Karpinksi
HP this week delivered a major platform update for its NG OSS portfolio, adding a handful of new features but more importantly adding key underlying capabilities and standards deployments that set a new baseline for future OSS feature releases...
Targeting 802.11n at the enterprise
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Siemens released its line of 802.11n product line today, joining a growing number of wireless LAN vendors that are designing high-capacity wireless LAN gear for the enterprise. The Burton Group believes that 802.11n will even replace wired Ethernet LANs in the next two years). The question is whether the enterprises need them, or can even support them, today...
Pac-West bounces back again
By: By Carol Wilson
The new CEO of Pac-West Telecom is promising a financially healthier company with ambitious plans for the Western region...
NetCracker takes NExT step at France Telecom
By: By Tim McElligott
For NetCracker, getting a software contract from a company the size of France Telecom is one thing. Getting certified two years later as the corporate de facto standard is another...
Verizon boosts VoIP options
By: By Carol Wilson
In two separate announcements made this morning, Verizon Business introduced capabilities that will make it easier for enterprise customers to use its voice-over-IP services...
Follow-up: Revisiting past story subjects
By: By Carol Wilson
Here's the latest on two start-ups that we covered earlier...
Special Report: Telephony's Best and Worst of 2007
We spent 2007 writing about the news and talking to news-makers. Now Telephony's editors tell you their highlights -- and lowlights -- of the year that was...
MegaPath sings national ‘Duet’
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive service provider MegaPath is taking its converged voice and data offering, known as “Duet,” to its national footprint, the company announced this week...
Voice on social networks off to slow start
By: By Rich Karpinski
First came a wave of service launches, as voice-over-IP providers tried to catch the social networking wave by embedding their services into popular social networks like Facebook. Now comes the first wave of results, and the numbers aren’t pretty...
Wi-Fi moving beyond the laptop
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Wi-Fi Alliance has seen a record surge in new devices certified under its banner in the last year, but what’s more interesting than just sheer volume is the types of devices seeking the Wi-Fi logo...
At your service: TalkPlus
By: By Rich Karpinski
Convinced of the power of voice over IP (VoIP) to deliver more than just cheaper minutes, Jeff Black, CEO of TalkPlus, and team created an application and service to bring advanced call management to smartphones...
Young Zayo makes its fifth acquisition
By: By Ed Gubbins
Just a few months after its public launch, Zayo Bandwidth is making its fifth acquisition, the company announced today....
Two VoIP start-ups team up
By: By Rich Karpinski
Two of the “Js” in the next-generation voice-over-IP market — JaJah and Jangl — said this week that they are partnering to combine the strengths of their complementary VoIP services....
Mobile VoIP to dominate, study says
By: By Carol Wilson
A new study from a London-based research firm claims that mobile voice-over-IP will become a mainstream form of communication by the end of 2012, based on rapid growth of voice-over-3G wireless users...
XO slashes loss despite flat revenue
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Holdings dramatically cut its losses on relatively flat revenue in the third quarter...
