MetaSwitch lands Cable & Wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
MetaSwitch has landed its first major customer in the company’s efforts to replicate its North American success in other markets...
Innovation, apps power new stage of VoIP
By: By Rich Karpinski
Fall VON showed off an advanced form of voice over IP...
VoIP deja vu
By: By Joan Engebretson
A new crop of start-ups offers bypass calling using unlimited data plans. If the past is prelude, they could be the next Skype or Vonage...
VON: New world of unified communications on display
By: By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--FirstHand, Allworx and D2 Technologies were among several companies at the VON show in Boston this week touting new technologies that allow users to move between calling networks and reduce their contact numbers to just one...
VON: Nortel helps carriers target SMBs with VoIP
By: By Rich Karpinski
BOSTON--Nortel Networks today announced packaged bundles to make it easier for service providers to deliver voice-over-IP to small and medium business customers (SMBs)...
VON: Level 3 adds SipStorm, Jangl
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Highlighting what it calls innovative uses of a mature VoIP platform, Level 3 Communications announced two new service provider customers: SipStorm, a wholesale provider of converged applications and services, and Jangl, a fixed-mobile convergence provider...
Enter the Skype phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Skype today unveiled its long-awaited VoIP phone, a mobile handset that uses the data capabilities of the mobile network to bypass an operator’s circuit-switched network entirely to make free calls over the Internet...
Sonus updates VoIP service platform
By: By Rich Karpinski
Voice-over-IP infrastructure vendor Sonus Networks this week delivered an update to its IMS-based application platform, with new tools for creating apps that include advanced messaging and multimedia capabilities...
Skype brings VoIP to MySpace
By: By Rich Karpinski
Skype and MySpace this week announced plans to bring free voice-over-IP calling to the social networking site...
Microsoft places VoIP bet
By: By Rich Karpinski
Microsoft this week delivered a slew of new software products delivering unified communications capabilities to enterprise users via IP-based networks...
Paetec acquires SMB PBX vendor Allworx
By: By Sarah Reedy
Competitive service provider Paetec continued its acquisition spree today with its announcement that it will acquire New York-based Allworx, a move that will strengthen Paetec’s position in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market...
VoIP gets social
By: By Rich Karpinski
Putting voice in IP apps is a natural fit, but the business case is a challenge...
Adding Web services to VoIP
By: By Rich Karpinski
The feature server, a standard component for delivering call-routing features in voice-over-IP environments, is getting a Web 2.0 makeover thanks to vendor Sylantro Systems...
BabyTEL offers P2P VoIP through Facebook
By: By Rich Karpinski
Canadian voice-over-IP provider babyTEL next week will announce a new Facebook application that will bring VoIP peer-to-peer calling to the social network...
iBasis claims No. 2 spot in global voice traffic
By: By Carol Wilson
The new iBasis has emerged this week, calling itself the second largest carrier of international voice traffic in the world, exceeding AT&T and second only to Verizon...
SIP Forum puts members on compliance road
By: By Tim McElligott
The SIP Forum took its first formal steps today toward solving problems with interconnection between service providers and their IP-PBX customers. The forum launched a SIPconnect Compliance program for ensuring interoperability among equipment manufacturers, software providers and service providers....
XO adds three IP services
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced three new services in its portfolio, including session initiation protocol trunking, a new managed IP PBX service and an integration of its XO Options Flex with its MPLS virtual private network offering....
R.I.P. VoIP? Not hardly
By: By Carol Wilson
The demise of SunRocket and the ongoing woes of Vonage haven't stopped the voice-over-IP industry from continuing to push out new solutions...
Speakeasy shops Best Buy success
By: By Carol Wilson
A week after Speakeasy announced higher-bandwidth services based on ADSL 2 links it purchases from Covad Communications, the Best Buy subsidiary is announcing more flexible pricing for its voice-over-IP service to accommodate small businesses and more VoIP phone choices as well...
Can Jack make VoIP Magic?
By: By Carol Wilson
With a snazzy name like Magic Jack and a price as low as $19.95 a year for unlimited service, a new voice-over-IP device is aimed at redefining what has been a troubled market...
Surviving — and thriving — in VoIP wholesale
By: By Carol Wilson
For all the discouraging talk about voice-over-IP pure-play problems, there are companies succeeding in the space in some unusual ways, such as Momentum Telecom. ...
One quarter of voice lines shipped to SMBs now IP
By: By Ed Gubbins
Shipments of Internet Protocol lines in the second quarter were up 30% from a year earlier, according to Dell’Oro Group...
Former SunRocket users still suffering
By: By Carol Wilson
A group of former SunRocket VoIP subscribers are still suffering the ill effects of that company’s demise, as the transition to new VoIP operators has been bumpy...
IP services brighten XO Holdings’ Q2 picture
By: By Mark Donahue
Despite positive gains for its IP services, XO Holdings posted a slightly higher net loss for the second-quarter this week and saw a dip in revenue over the same period...
Policy makers seek stronger E911 solutions for VoIP
By: By Joan Engebretson
New legislation and a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) from the Federal Communications Commission aim to address lingering incompatibilities between emergency number or 911 service and voice-over-IP service...
