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Configure Debuts TESA TEM Solution
Configure Inc. has announced the debut of TESA (Telecom Expense Solution Advantage), a cost-management solution for medium-to-large enterprises. Furnished under a SaaS model, TESA can analyze multivendor or multiservice telecom environments, exposing inefficiencies and helping companies keep their telecom costs under control. TESA unifies the entire telecom landscape: landlines, VoIP, …(229 words) ... »
CA Fortifies Business, Cloud Position With Oblicore Buy
CA Inc. has acquired Oblicore, a provider of Service Level Management (SLM) software for enterprises and service providers. CA says Oblicore supports and strengthens its ability to set, measure and optimize service levels to meet business expectations across enterprise and cloud environments. Oblicore’s solutions also extend CA’s capabilities in cloud-vendor …(321 words) ... »
CA Fortifies Business, Cloud Position With Oblicore Buy
CA Inc. has acquired Oblicore, a provider of Service Level Management (SLM) software for enterprises and service providers. CA says Oblicore supports and strengthens its ability to set, measure and optimize service levels to meet business expectations across enterprise and cloud environments. Oblicore’s solutions also extend CA’s capabilities in cloud-vendor …(321 words) Related Topics: business,... »
Asterisk’s Growth Shines at ITEXPO
Asterisk just may be the #1 transforming VoIP company for the now past ’00s “aughts” decade, which is quite appropriate when you consider Asterisk in many respects costs $0 dollars due to being open source. Of course, nothing is truly free in this world. If you download and install Asterisk yourself for your company... »
Former Dell Channel Chief Joins Kaspersky
Dell’s channel chief, Nancy Reynolds, has left the company to join Kaspersky Lab, as the security vendor makes moves to grow its channel presence. Reynolds, who will serve as senior vice president, corporate sales, brings extensive channel sales and marketing expertise gained during more than 20 years of expanding SMB …(187 words) ... »
ADC Sells GSM Assets to Altobridge, Shifts Wireless Focus
Shares of ADC Telecommunications Inc. (ADCT) traded notably higher on Monday as word spread that it has sold its GSM base station and switching assets, and some intellectual property, to a vendor in Ireland. ADC’s stock price had risen 6.44 percent to $6.61 by 1:18 p.m. Eastern. ADC wouldn’t reveal the …(212 words) Related Topics: Intel,... »
More on GENBAND’s Nortel CVAS bid
Just before the holiday break, GENBAND threw its hat into the Nortel ring in hopes of acquiring the Canadian vendor’s much coveted Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions (CVAS) unit. GENBAND launched a ’stalking horse’ bid for Nortel’s CVAS unit offering a purchase price for the CVAS unit of $282 million, but the total cost of... »
AT&T Wins MEF Carrier Ethernet Service Provider Award
AT&T has been recognized with a prestigious 2009 MEF Carrier Ethernet Service Provider award for the Best Service Portfolio. Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is a global industry alliance comprising more than 155 organizations including telecommunications service providers, cable multiple system operators (MSOs), network equipment/software manufacturers, semiconductors vendors and testing organizations. Related Topics: AT&T, carrier, equipment,... »
Top Stories of 2009: It’s the economy stupid!
With the 2009 economy almost in the can, there has been much debate about what that means for VoIP. The nature of our industry gives it both pros and cons in times of financial cut backs and companies looking to save a dime. VoIP upgrades often mean expensive equipment purchases and buildouts but also... »
Nokia Siemens Networks Claims Market Leadership
Close to eighty of the world’s leading communications service providers are now using the market leading Nokia Siemens Networks NetAct Optimizer, a highly automated tool for improving radio network quality and performance. NetAct Optimizer speeds the optimization process by 50% compared to traditional methods while improving network performance by an average of 15% leading... »
Increased Pakistan and China Cooperation On Science & Technology : Gilani
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Friday that increased cooperation in science and technology between Pakistan and China would further strengthen their ties and benefit the two peoples. He was speaking at an agreement signing ceremony here at the PM House between Huawei Pakistan and Comsats Institute of Information Technology for setting... »
Agents Can Sell Residential Triple Play With New Program
Telecom agents that have passed up residential telecom sales opportunities because they didn’t have a carrier contract can now pursue them under a new partner program launched this fall by One Smart Mover.Don’t be confused by the company name; One Smart Mover is an agency for telecom and non-telecom vendors …(498 words) ... »
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Device Sales on Pace for Flat Growth in 2009, Increase 9 Per Cent in 2010
Stronger than expected sales in Western Europe and an acceleration in the grey market in the third quarter of this year will drive worldwide mobile device sales to end users to 1.214 billion units, a 0.67 per cent decline from 2008, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. In September, Gartner had forecast... »
Positron Telecommunication’s Innovative Asterisk-on-a-Card
In the January issue of Internet Telephony Magazine is a TMC Labs review of Positron Telecommunication Systems V114 analog PCI “Asterisk-on-a-card”. They also have an ISDN version and a E1/T1 version. I thought I would share the review here since this is a very innovative product. It is pretty cool to have... »
Cool Skype for SIP Upgrades, Enhanced Inbound Routing and more
Some important news for Skype for SIP beta “open” users I thought I’d share. Just last week Skype announced going from closed “beta” to “open” to the public, and now today they’re adding some cool new Skype for SIP features. Once the upgrades are complete there will be cool new features, such as direct inward... »
International contact center provider adds Asterisk to the mix
Altitude Software has announced that it will be using Digium’s Asterisk SIP telephony offerings for its vBox communications platform. Altitude Software is an independent contact center vendor with the Altitude Unified Customer Interaction (Altitude uCI) product line serving around 800 customers of all sizes in about 60 countries worldwide. By partnering with Digium, the Altitude... »
Moto Gets More Serious About Touch
Motorola’s handset division has invested an undisclosed amount of money in French start-up, Sensitive Object which has developed a disruptive touch technology that might actually give the handset vendor an edge over its rivals. The six year old Sensitive Object is based in Paris and Singapore and was spun-out of the French Science National... »
Skype for SIP Beta Now Open!
Skype today announced that their Skype for SIP beta program is now “open” to everyone. I was invited to their private beta to test it and have been pleased with the results so far. Though if you read my article you will see I do have some price concerns. Check out the news… LUXEMBOURG, 2 December... »
DoubleHorn Announces Integrated SIP Trunking
Texas-based communications service provider DoubleHorn Communications has announced integrated SIP Trunking for legacy PBX and key telephone systems, which allow it to operate seamlessly with the hardware of other vendors, such as Toshiba Strata, Panasonic, Nortel Norstar, Avaya and Digium, the company said.“While many companies have welcomed our hosted solution …(128 words) ... »
Technology, Media and Telecommunications: News from Asia
Japan Telecommunications • Softbank Corp. (SFTBF.PK) is interested in buying stakes in Indian and Chinese companies. The company is eying companies engaged in mobile applications and technology. Softbank bought an additional stake in U.S. application provider RockYou Inc. for US$50 million. Softbank has a 33 percent stake in... »
Asia mobile recycling yield beats Europe
The raw material recovery rate for one handset vendor is higher in Asia than in Europe due to low labor costs that allow workers to be employed to separate materials before the recycling process, said a Nokia spokesperson. “In the West, it’s about 80 to 85 percent yield. Here, because we segregate the materials, we... »
Talk is cheap: Counterfeit mobile handsets proliferate in China
Chinese consumers appear fixated with Apple’s iconic iPhone. It draws throngs of eager buyers in Shanghai’s Xujiahui computer market. Similarly, at the Canton Trade Fair in October, vendors hawking familiar-looking silver and black slabs were convulsed in crowds, in sharp contrast to the deserted booths of rival brands, where lonely salesmen slurped disconsolately at... »
AltiGen reports Q4 results – seeing a turnaround?
Microsoft-based VoIP phone system provider, Altigen, reported their Q4 09 financial results this week and they weren’t too bad. Year-over-year results were not so impressive as fiscal 2009 revenue was $17.4 million, compared to $18.9 million for fiscal 2008 and its $4.7 million net loss was wider when compared to a net loss of $3.9 million... »
HP ProCurve Augments Partner Roster
HP (HPQ) has announced the addition of a number of new partners to its HP ProCurve ONE (Open Network Ecosystem) program. New vendor partners include Aastra, AeroScout, Avaya, F5, Fortinet, SonicWall, Sourcefire and vantronix. Additionally, two network security providers, StillSecure and Traversa Solutions, have joined the program. ProCurve management feels this …(75 words) ... »
How Much Money Did Joyent Really Raise?
Intel today said it had invested an undisclosed amount in Joyent, the 6-year-old Sausalito, Calif.-based startup that started out as a web hosting company but eventually evolved into a cloud service provider. Neither Intel nor Joyent disclosed the amount of money invested, but Intel’s investment in the company is a strategic bet for... »
Amid Consolidation, Ixia Opens Its Wallet
The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Thomas Rasmussen Historically, networking test and measurement vendor Ixia (XXIA) has never been much of a shopper. However, that has started to change this year as the Calabasas, California-based company reached for Catapult Communications in June for $105m as well as wrapped up its $44m acquisition of rival... »
Cisco warns that Windows 7 support for UC products will be limited until 2010
In a cautionary note to customers, Cisco has warned that most of its Unified Communications (UC) products will not support Windows 7 until first quarter 2010 when service releases become available. A number of additional products will not support the new Windows until Q3 2010. According to an article in Network World, most Cisco Unified Communications... »
Avaya-Nortel deal clears more hurdles
Avaya announced that it has secured approval for its acquisition of Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions division under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act as well as from Canadian Competition Bureau. Avaya’s acquisition of Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions division at first met a series of approvals from a U.S. Bankruptcy court judge and a Canadian court judge for the $915 million... »
Another telepresence company snapped up: Logitech grabs LifeSize
Logitech–who up until this point focused primarily on computer peripherals and webcams–has just taken a cue from Cisco and snapped up Austin-based LifeSize Communications. Logitech purchased the HD video communications equipment vendor for $405 million in cash on Tuesday moving its video play from consumer desktops and into the enterprise. With 9,000 customers in 80 countries, LifeSize... »
Digium CEO Danny Windham to Deliver Keynote Address at ITEXPO East 2010 in Miami
Some good internal news at TMC. Technology Marketing Corporation today announced that Digium CEO Danny Windham has accepted its invitation to deliver a Keynote Address at ITEXPO East 2010, taking place Jan. 20-22, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida. Windham’s presentation, which takes place Thursday, Jan. 21 9:45 a.m. EST,... »