Vonage gets to keep selling
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
Vonage gets only partial stay
By Carol Wilson
A federal judge this morning refused to delay enforcement of a patent judgment against Vonage, instead giving the company only partial relief. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton said Vonage could continue to use a VoIP platform that violates Verizon patents to serve its current customers, but could not solicit new customers for that service...
IPcelerate launches VoIP apps for SMBs
By Carol Wilson
Piggybacking on Cisco Systems’ new Unified Communications’ initiatives, software maker IPcelerate today launched IPsmartSuite, a package of VoIP solutions targeting small to mid-sized businesses and bringing them not just voice but also many other automated features...
BT innovation search goes global
By Carol Wilson
Faced with the challenge of injecting growth into what had been a staid company, BT has embarked on several ambitious plans. The most ambitious, BT’s 21st Century Network, is well known throughout telecom for its stated aim of moving all of BT’s services onto an Internet Protocol backbone in time to shut down the “old” PSTN by 2011...
Update: Networx deal goes to AT&T, Verizon, Qwest
By Carol Wilson
The General Services Administration today awarded AT&T, Verizon and Qwest Communications the right to compete for the next-generation services of federal agencies...
In the spotlight: Skype’s Libertelli
By Carol Wilson
Christopher Libertelli doesn’t think he’s tilting at windmills. The senior director for government at Skype genuinely believes he can do for the mobile phone industry what a man named Tom Carter did for the wireline industry back in 1968...
CTIA: Qualcomm applies Rev. A to telemedicine
By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO—Qualcomm is betting that the quality of service features built into its EV-DO Rev. A technology has more uses than VoIP and video conferencing. Qualcomm is targeting the technology into physician presence technologies in telemedicine, a vertical sector which requires not just a broadband connection but an assured connection due to the life-and-death medical situations unwired doctors would face...
More VoIP patent suits likely
By Carol Wilson
The season for suing over Internet telephony patents has probably just begun, according to patent attorneys. In fact, a week after Verizon won a $58 million...
Vonage banned from using Verizon patents
By Carol Wilson
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has issued a permanent injunction, banning Vonage from using Internet phone technology own by Verizon...
VON: TCS leverages E911 platform
By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE – TeleCommunications Systems, best known for providing nomadic E911 service is leveraging its existing platform to offer advanced services to VoIP providers...
VON: Linksys expands small business focus
By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Although best known for its home router market dominance, Linksys started its life focusing on small business and is staying true to its roots...
VON: SkyPilot enhances VoIP over wireless mesh
By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Adding support for Wi-Fi voice-over-IP handsets and beefing up the quality-of-service algorithms in its new software release this week, SkyPilot Networks enhanced the VoIP capabilities for its SyncMesh supported wireless mesh networks...
VON: Acme Packet adds Diameter interface for IMS
By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Seamus Hourihan, vice president of marketing and product management at Acme Packet, said this week from VON that customers dictate product development at Acme Pack...
VON: GMI event sparks new thinking for MSF
By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--The MultiService Forum will be taking its semi-annual event, the Global MSF Interoperability program, to new, more applicable heights this year with the two announcements from VON. The first is the expansion of its architecture to include Web services...
VON: Cable close to national VoIP peering
By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--The U.S. cable industry is close to creating a national VoIP peering network, according to multiple sources at Spring VON 2007...
VON: LignUp, Level 3 speed VoIP apps
By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Software maker LignUp has teamed with Level 3 Communications to speed the development of VoIP applications by combining VoIP transport with applications server capabilities and making the whole thing free to developers...
