Sipera sounds VoIP security alarm
By: By Carol Wilson
The proliferation of voice over IP and softphones—as well as smartphones, which combine Wi-Fi access with cellular technology—poses a significant security risk for enterprise data networks, a leading security software company is saying today. ...
In the spotlight: 8x8’s Huw Rees
By: By Carol Wilson
SunRocket’s well-documented financial collapse and Vonage’s continued financial and legal problems have cast a long shadow over the pure-play VoIP market. Huw Rees, vice president of marketing and sales at 8x8, which operates the Packet8 VoIP service, spoke to Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson about his company’s prospects...
‘ooma’ promising home telephony revolution
By: By Carol Wilson
A new VoIP company is bringing peer-to-peer technology and social networking to home telephony in a new way, promising to sell home phone replacement systems that enable customers to avoid paying any voice calling fees...
SunRocket offers customers transition to Packet8
By: By Carol Wilson
SunRocket, the VoIP operator that abruptly ceased operations Monday, has designated Packet8 as the preferred provider for the 200,000 customers it is giving up, Packet8 operator 8x8 announced today...
Big River finds small cable lucrative
By: By Carol Wilson
Big River Telephone Co. started off in 2001 as a typical CLEC, targeting small to mid-sized businesses with traditional voice services, initially as a reseller of UNE-P lines but then on its own facilities, serving rural communities in southeastern Missouri...
Sylantro fuels hosted VoIP for education market
By: By Carol Wilson
Education Networks of America, a managed Internet services provider targeting the education market, today said it is rolling out a hosted VoIP service for school districts, municipal and state agencies and libraries using Sylantro Systems’ Synergy platform...
Intelliverse lays Brix on VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
Hosted VoIP provider Intelliverse today said it is adding customer-monitoring to its services, using converged service assurance capabilities from Brix Networks...
MegaPath extends reach of managed voice, data, security
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed service provider MegaPath today announced it is expanding the reach of its “Duet” service, a managed IP data, voice and security offering targeting small to mid-sized businesses, initially targeting the Northeast U.S. but planning expansion nationwide...
Verizon VoIP to power WindowsLive calls
By: By Dan O'Shea
Microsoft is adding a free calling service to its online searching service, and will use VoIP from Verizon Business to provide the new feature. Windows Live Call for Free will enable consumers searching www.maps.live.com to find local businesses to make a one-click phone call to many of the advertisers listed there...
Worldnet founder: Copper landlines gone by 2013
By: By Ed Gubbins
The copper “last mile” line to the house won’t exist in six years, according to Tom Evslin...
VSNL touts wholesale VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
After assembling the pieces of a global network, VSNL International is now moving to strengthen its standing as a leading provider of wholesale VoIP services, this week announcing a deal with Skype to provide termination for its Skype Out service...
XO cuts its losses
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications reported Thursday that it has reduced its net loss for the first quarter by more than 50% over the previous year’s first quarter, although its revenues fell slightly as the competitive carrier continues to shift its product mix to data and IP services and away from legacy voice offerings....
Vonage won’t get retrial
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has refused to grant Vonage a retrial of the patent case it lost against Verizon Communications earlier this year. ...
M5 gets aggressive on Voice as Service
By: By Carol Wilson
M5 Networks, the competitive service provider serving mid-sized companies in New York and Chicago with hosted VoIP and advanced features, is getting more aggressive with its marketing message, deciding to proclaim “The end of the Phone System.”...
Verizon Business offers voice quality tools
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced new ways for its enterprise customers to insure they maintain voice quality when converging services onto a single data pipe...
Vonage gets to keep selling
By: By Dan O'Shea
Vonage can continue to recruit new voice over IP customers while it appeals the ruling that its VoIP service violates three patents held by Verizon. ...
VoIP pioneer says Verizon patents too broad
By: By Carol Wilson
A Washington analyst who was part of the original VoIP Forum says there is solid proof that Verizon received patents on aspects of VoIP networking that were already in existence, and that the federal district court that found Vonage in violation of Verizon’s patents used the broadest possible interpretation of the patent language...
VoIP company focuses on sales channel
By: By Carol Wilson
A Canadian company is looking to make its mark selling VoIP software to service providers by helping them master the tough economics of selling to small businesses through distributed sale channels...
How to prepare your network for multiple codecs
By: By Matt McGinnis, Ditech Networks
Supporting multiple codecs is one of the most challenging aspects of rolling out VoIP services across telephone, cable, cellular, Wi-Fi and Internet networks. There are currently more than 25 different codecs in use, and there are many new codecs on the horizon. This multi-codec world makes it necessary for VoIP providers to translate (or transcode) traffic at their borders. The problem is that transcoding can be very expensive and complex...
Iowa telcos: Stage set for showdown
By: By Carol Wilson
The stage is set for a David vs. Goliath showdown next week, when a group of Iowa rural telcos and their conference-calling partners meet with the Federal Communications Commission in an effort to force major incumbents including AT&T, Qwest and Sprint to continue paying the high termination fees that fund their free and low-cost calling business....
Vonage restructures, CEO quits
By: By Carol Wilson
Facing an uncertain future for its VoIP service, Vonage today announced it is restructuring to cut costs and will trim both its staff and its marketing efforts. At the same time, the company announced that CEO Michael Snyder is stepping down from that position and from the Vonage Board of Directors...
Vonage drops off radar of rural ILECs
By: By Tim McElligott
Examining the state of competition at the IP Possibilities conference hosted by the NTCA and OPASTCO in Minneapolis today, it was clear that no one is afraid of Vonage anymore....
Qwest points to business successes
By: By Carol Wilson
Having put its financial house in order, Qwest Communications is now polishing its image as a quality business services provider, and getting considerable help in that regard from recent customer surveys and studies...
Vonage officials say they'll persevere
Vonage officials last week were staring at yet another possible body blow from the U.S. District Court in Washington but remained stoic and determined...
Vonage gets temporary stay
By: By Carol Wilson
Vonage has secured a temporary stay against a federal judge’s order that prevents it from signing up new customers to its VoIP service, now that the service has been judged to violate three Verizon patents...
