France Telecom, Equant, Cisco bring VoIP to Airbus
By Carol Wilson
France Telecom, its subsidiary Equant and equipment vendor Cisco Systems will build what is being called the largest single deployment of voice over IP to date for airplane manufacturer Airbus at its campus in Toulouse, France...
Sprint completes loop on Cisco relation
By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems and Sprint announced today they have taken their relationship to a new level with the carrier becoming the first service provider to achieve the Cisco IP VPN Multiservice QoS Certified status...
China Unicom deploys Alcatel, Sylantro
By Dan O'Shea
China United Telecommunications Corp. Ltd. (China Unicom) has deployed an IP services solution consisting of Sylantro's application feature servers with Alcatel's 5020 Call Session Controller, to deliver broadband services to the Shanghai metropolitan area and customers in eight provinces of China...
Cox win moves Empirix into VoIP network management
By Tim McElligott
Cable TV company broadens vendor mix as it launches VoIP services...
Yankee Group: Rural SMBs want different VoIP services
By Vince Vittore
Small and medium business users in small markets are just as likely to adopt voice-over-IP--however, the applications they want are significantly different than those of their counterparts in larger cities, according to a report put out today by The Yankee Group...
WCA: Broadsoft tests interop with SOMA, adds WISPs
By Dan O'Shea
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Broadband wireless equipment vendor SOMA Networks said at the WCA 2005 conference here that it has completed VoIP interoperability testing with Broadsoft, one of the leading VoIP applications software firms...
Start-up offering E911-for-VoIP answer
By Carol Wilson
A start-up company with a patented solution to the voice-over-IP E911 problem is peddling its technology to the telecom industry, hoping to see it come to market quickly...
More Brand X fallout
By Carol Wilson
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed cable companies to continue restricting access to their broadband network may not be the bane to consumers that some are fearing...
Level 3 takes leadership on nomadic E911
By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications today announced it is added support for nomadic voice-over-IP users to its E911 offering. The new capability will be market-ready before the end of 2005...
Event shows VoIP supremacy, but questions sizzle of IMS
By Glenn Bischoff
Speakers divided on architecture but agree VoIP is taking over telecom...
US LEC uses VoIP to expand T-1
By Carol Wilson
US LEC is using voice over IP technology to give its customers additional voice channels beyond the 24 usually available on a single T-1 link. ...
Fonality uses VoIP in new way
By Carol Wilson
Internet Protocol PBX maker Fonality today introduced a low-cost option for small businesses that uses voice-over-IP technology to let small businesses get PBX features for about the cost of a key system...
Intel agreements move SightSpeed into mainstream
By Carol Wilson
Videoconferencing player SightSpeed today announced two major new agreements with Intel that will put its online video and VoIP service software into the hands of many more customers...
Excel Switching launches integrated media gateway
By Tim McElligott
Excel Switching went standalone with its new integrated media gateway, the IMG 1010, which the company released this week. ...
Nokia strikes enterprise convergence deals
By Kevin Fitchard
HELSINKI--At its annual Connection event this week, Nokia announced new partnerships with enterprise-focused networking providers Avaya, Cisco and OnRelay, all targeting VoIP and convergence solutions between the corporate PBX and the cellular network...
Centillium adds VoIP to ADSL chips
By Carol Wilson
Centillium today announced a new family of chipsets that integrates voice over IP onto ADSL chips....
NENA president wants closer relationship with VoIP sector
By Glenn Bischoff
CHICAGO--National Emergency Number Association (NENA) President Bill McMurray, speaking yesterday at the 2005 VoIP: Telephony conference here, predicted that the FCC’s order requiring voice-over-IP providers to offer the same enhanced 911 services made available by wireline and wireless carriers ultimately would result in technologies that improve the performance of public-safety answering points and first responders in the field....
VoIP is the future, but growing pains persist
By Glenn Bischoff
The consensus of panelists convened for the 2005 VoIP: Telephony conference here yesterday was that voice over IP eventually will transplant time division multiplexing as the technology platform of choice among telecommunications service providers...
FCC makes VoIP 911 order official
By Carol Wilson
The Federal Communications Commission Friday released its formal order requiring voice-over-IP service providers to support E911 service to their customers...
CopperCom rings up gold with switch deployment
By Tim McElligott
Ringgold Telephone Co., the bleeding-edge independent operating company from Northwest Georgia, said this week it has deployed CopperCom’s Converged Switching eXchange next-generation switch...
Ensim to buy TeleGea
By Vince Vittore
Ensim will announce this week that it has acquired voice-over-IP operating system vendor TeleGea...
Adelphia to shut down LD network
By Ed Gubbins
Adelphia Communications will shut down its long-distance telephone network after failing to find a buyer for the business, the company said....
Lucent partners with BayPackets on service delivery
By Tim McElligott
Lucent Technologies will begin integrating BayPackets service delivery platforms into its portfolio of IMS-related solutions ...
E911 decision adds more fuel to voice-over-IP market blaze
By Carol Wilson
Agency's 120-day deadline leaves busy providers little time to adapt...
VoIP brings new productivity to many businesses
By Carol Wilson
How mobility and collaboration tools help make work tasks easier--and workers more efficient...
