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NetCracker takes NExT step at France Telecom
By Tim McElligott
For NetCracker, getting a software contract from a company the size of France Telecom is one thing. Getting certified two years later as the corporate de facto standard is another...
Wi-Fi moving beyond the laptop
By Kevin Fitchard
The Wi-Fi Alliance has seen a record surge in new devices certified under its banner in the last year, but what’s more interesting than just sheer volume is the types of devices seeking the Wi-Fi logo...
Mobile VoIP to dominate, study says
By Carol Wilson
A new study from a London-based research firm claims that mobile voice-over-IP will become a mainstream form of communication by the end of 2012, based on rapid growth of voice-over-3G wireless users...
MetaSwitch lands Cable & Wireless
By Carol Wilson
MetaSwitch has landed its first major customer in the company’s efforts to replicate its North American success in other markets...
VoIP deja vu
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...
Innovation, apps power new stage of VoIP
By Rich Karpinski
Fall VON showed off an advanced form of voice over IP...
VON: New world of unified communications on display
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 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 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...
Sonus updates VoIP service platform
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...
Microsoft places VoIP bet
By Rich Karpinski
Microsoft this week delivered a slew of new software products delivering unified communications capabilities to enterprise users via IP-based networks...
Adding Web services to VoIP
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...
Can Jack make VoIP Magic?
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...
One quarter of voice lines shipped to SMBs now IP
By Ed Gubbins
Shipments of Internet Protocol lines in the second quarter were up 30% from a year earlier, according to Dell’Oro Group...
In the spotlight: 8x8’s Huw Rees
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...
Intelliverse lays Brix on VoIP
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 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 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...
VSNL touts wholesale VoIP
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...
Verizon Business offers voice quality tools
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...
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...
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...
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...
