Acterna sponsors Telchemy's VoIP troubleshooting Web site
By: By Tim McElligott
Telchemy and Acterna, one a provider of real-time VoIP fault and performance management technology based in Suwanee, Ga., the other a global provider of cable network test and management solutions, announced this week that Acterna will be a co-sponsor of Telchemy's VoIPTroubleshooter.com Web site....
TowerStream exploring VoIP access network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Metro area broadband wireless provider TowerStream is branching out into the mobile IP telephony arena, announcing today it is leveraging its New York pre-WiMax wireless access network to launch a network of Wi-Fi hot spots geared entirely at users of new VoIP-enabled handsets....
Sonim appoints new CEO
By: By Jason Ankeny
Mobile voice-over-IP developer Sonim Technologies today promoted Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Bob Plaschke to CEO. Plaschke replaces former president and CEO John Burns. ...
Empirix's CT Labs christens evaluation facility for VoIP
By: By Tim McElligott
Growing voice-over-IP market drives the scaling of the test lab market...
Level 3 pushes debt to 2008
By: By Ed Gubbins
Investors nervous about the burn and flow of cash within Level 3 Communications breathed a small sigh of relief last week...
The ennobled enabler
By: By Tim McElligott
It is forgivable, given the hype, to assume that with VoIP, the long-awaited pursuit of the killer app is over. However, the pursuit itself remains a noble one...
Institutions invest $3.2 billion more in equipment sector
By: By Ed Gubbins
Institutional investors increased their positions in the telecom equipment sector by about $3.2 billion in the fourth quarter, according to Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Joe Chiasson...
FCC to examine VoIP blocking
By: By Carol Wilson
The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to look into allegations by Vonage that an incumbent service provider deliberately blocked Internet telephony calls made over its broadband network...
HBF solves nomadic 911 for PointOne
By: By Tim McElligott
Austin, Texas-based HBF Group will begin providing 911 services for voice-over-IP provider PointOne’s North American wholesale service provider customers...
ICG invests in and migrates to New Global Telecom IP platform
By: By Tim McElligott
Golden, Colo.-based New Global Telecom announced an agreement with ICG Communications today to migrate ICG’s enterprise VoIP customers on NGT’s 6DegreesIP hosting platform...
New data users push US LEC 2004 revenue up 15%
By: By Tim McElligott
US LEC, a competitive carrier based in Charlotte, N.C., and serving the business community through 15 states, provided its fourth quarter and year-end earnings this week and boasted a $45 million increase from 2003....
CompTel: Wholesalers target VoIP market
By: By Carol Wilson
The surge in voice-over-IP services is not only a boon for cost-conscious consumers and businesses but also a significant opportunity for wholesalers, who are lining up to provide VoIP infrastructure. ...
Broadsoft bags three carriers
By: By Dan O'Shea
VoIP application software vendor Broadsoft recently signed separate deals with Cbeyond Communications, McLeodUSA and XO Communications to support their VoIP services with the vendor’s BroadWorks platform...
CompTel: CLEC executives expect more change
By: By Carol Wilson
While the past year has been fraught with regulatory change that did nothing to help CLECs, the coming year could prove to be more of the same--or worse....
3GSM: IBM taps Nortel IMS solution
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Nortel Networks and IBM are joining forces for converged multimedia services, announcing today at the 3GSM World Congress that IBM will build its multimedia delivery platform off of Nortel's IP Multimedia Subsystem platform. ...
Infonetics: ROADM revenue to double this year
By: By Ed Gubbins
Revenue from reconfigurable add/drop multiplexing gear will double this year after reaching more than $100 million in 2004, according to a recent report from Infonetics Research. ...
3Com's TippingPoint establishes VoIP Security Alliance
By: By Tim McElligott
TippingPoint, a division of 3Com since the close of their acquisition last week, has gone from Intrusion Prevention start-up one year ago, to leader of a new security alliance intended to address the emerging voice-over-IP market. ...
HP strategy shows results with three carrier contracts
By: By Tim McElligott
HP has spent the last year shoring up and talking about its next-generation service provider solutions and this week announced three operator contracts for a range of functionality including service delivery, fault management, service quality management and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) testing....
NeuStar acquires VoIP CALEA compliance leader Fiducianet
By: By Tim McElligott
As part of it pursuit for more homeland security business and it efforts to grow its portfolio of third-party trusted services to communications providers, NeuStar acquired Herndon, Va.-based law enforcement compliance company, Fiducianet, this week. ...
KMC says goodbye to CLEC business, hello to IP services
By: By Carol Wilson
KMC Telecom is exiting the CLEC business, and selling its local service assets to Century Tel and Telcove...
Number 1 in session control, Netrake signs SunRocket
By: By Tim McElligott
Netrake earned the top spot in a recent market share report from Frost & Sullivan, which ranked suppliers of session border control equipment. ...
Happy days are (kinda) here again
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom equipment spending rose in 2004 for the first time since the industry bubble burst in 2000, according to the TIA's 2005 Market Review and Forecast....
SBC, AT&T make big promises
By: By Carol Wilson
(Photos: Dorman, left: Jennifer S. Altman/Bloomberg News/Landov; Whitaker, right: Diane Bondareff/ Bloomberg News/Landov)... ...
Fast forward: Brian McFadden, Nortel Networks
As the member of the executive leadership team at Nortel Networks with the most internal experience, Brian McFadden has ridden the roller coaster of fates...
On the verge of convergence
By: By Jason Ankeny
The FCC's ruling on VoIP regulations is combining with the growing scarcity of wireless spectrum to make converged cellular/Wi-Fi networks an increasingly viable alternative to traditional system buildouts. How the marriage of two disruptive technologies promises to change the way service providers do business...
