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America Online is set to launch a consumer VoIP service, announced Jonathan Miller, Chairman and CEO of AOL, in a keynote address at VON Spring. Noting that the residential telephony market in the U.S. is valued at over $100 billion, Miller said the time is now ripe to go after the mass market. America Online, […]
“After 10 years, the VoIP Wolf has finally arrived at the door” said Jeff Pulver in a keynote address at the Spring VON in San Jose, California. This week’s VON is the largest yet, with some 6,000 attendees expected. The VoIP industry, as Pulver sees it, is now it its adolescent phase. Tens of millions […]
Swisscom’s new Bluewin Phone consumer VoIP and video broadband offering is using platforms from Sylantro Systems Corporation and Siemens Switzerland. The visual user interface for the Bluewin Phone service uses Sylantro’s Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) interfaces to control the VoIP, video and other SIP-based advanced consumer services over broadband connections. The new service will be […]
LongBoard announced the availability of its Open Mobile Enterprise (OME) software for managed carrier mobility services. OME is a SIP-based server-to-handset solution that uses off-the-shelf hardware and phones, targeting fixed mobile convergence (FMC). This would give wireline carriers the ability to offer managed mobility applications to the enterprise, and extend business-class voice services and call […]
The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council elected a new board of directors: Leonard Ray, Atlantic Engineering Group – President Diane Kruse, Zoomy Communications – Vice President / President Elect John Griffin, Optical Solutions – Secretary Michael DiMauro, Omega Communications Services – Treasurer Douglas Dowling, Tyco Electronics Wes Rosenbalm, Bristol Virginia Utilities Robert Whitman, Corning Incorporated “It is […]
Level 3 Communications has acquired substantially all of 360networks’ nationwide long-haul transport business and as a result 360networks will cease making monthly payments to Level 3 for operations and maintenance services for its dark fiber. The deal makes Level 3 the primary provider of North American optical wavelength services to T-Systems North America. 360networks previously […]
Agere Systems has acquired Modem-Art, a privately held developer of advanced processor technology for 3G/UMTS mobile devices, for $145.1 million, consisting of cash and stock. Modem-Art, which is based in Israel, specializes in developing technology for wideband and broadband communications systems. Its programmable modem engines that are fully software upgradeable, bringing significant time-to-market benefits for […]
Comcast and Motorola announced a multi-year set-top commitment valued at more than US$1 billion, the largest set-top purchase agreement in the operator’s history. The deal extends a multi-year agreement for Comcast to purchase set-tops and network equipment. In addition, Motorola will provide high-definition digital video recorders and standard-definition entry-level models, among others. Comcast and Motorola […]
Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, Inc., reported that it has shipped over one million VoIP ports in the six months since it entered this product category. Linksys products for VoIP include a phone adapter and wired and wireless routers with phone ports. These products, bundled with a VoIP service, enable customers to make phone […]
Aastra Telecom, has selected Octasic’s OCT6100 devices for new CNX Conference Bridge Appliance designed for small and medium sized enterprise conferencing requirements. The appliance allows participants to access a conference via the PSTN, legacy PBXs or VoIP networks. Octasic’s single device OCT6100 allows Aastra to offer customers high voice quality in a scalable package that […]
Broadcom has enhanced its Wi-Fi phone reference platform with new SecureEasySetup software for helping consumers install their wireless IP phones “at the touch of a button.” The phone automatically connects to the wireless network and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security activates. Linksys and HP have announced support for SecureEasySetup software, which will soon be featured […]
Texas Instruments introduced a flexible conferencing solution that can be used in a variety of product architectures, including dedicated conferencing bridges or media servers, or it can be used as a component of a standalone VoIP gateway. TI has developed an Enhanced SMV (selectable mode vocoder), which increases channel densities in carrier-class VoIP systems by […]
NexTone has selected AudioCodes to enable a media transcoding solution for scalable and secure VoIP network interconnects. The NexTone TMF option enables NexTone’s Session Controller to dynamically utilize AudioCodes’ media server blades and platforms with the Multimedia Services Control Protocol (MSCP) to achieve seamless transcoding of voice and fax streams. NexTone said the solution gives […]