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BT Global Services Hires Jeff Kelly as CEO
BT’s global services unit got a new CEO on Friday.Jeff Kelly, a U.S. citizen, comes to the Britain-based telecom service provider from Electronic Data Systems Corp. Kelly ran that $10 billion company, which was bought by Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2008. Kelly replaces Hanif Lalani who said he’s leaving BT to …(247 words) ... »
VoipGain.com Voip Gain Betamax VOIP Provider Review
Betamax did it again! A new VOIP service from Dellmont Sarl just hit the market, but is it worth your money? Find out as we review Voipgain, the new Betamax VOIP Provider As we successfully… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. … >>> Rest of the... »
Internet now dominated by ‘traffic superpowers’
Something extraordinary is happening to the Internet. According to one of the largest analyses of traffic yet undertaken, what the world calls ‘ the Internet’ is rapidly turning into an entity that exists inside and between a tiny number of hosting superpowers. According to Arbor Networks, which gathered the data for its 2009 Atlas Observatory... »
Rich Takes xMax Wireless for a Test Drive
Rich Tehrani took xG Technology’s xMax technology, a WiMAX / LTE competitor for a (literal) test drive. Rich writes: xG Technology proclaimed in 2005 that they have a revolutionary technology which allows wireless broadband using unlicensed and licensed frequencies. They said they could build the equivalent to a WiMAX network without the need... »
SonicWALL Solutions Now Rated ‘Avaya Compliant’ ; SonicWALL UTM and VPN Solutions Are Now Compatible With Multiple Key Avaya IP Telephony Solutions
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced that its Unified Threat Management (UTM) and IPSec VPN solutions are compliant with key Internet protocol (IP) telephony solutions from Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and …(847 words) ... »
Verizon Business steps onto the cloud
Verizon Business moved into the cloud today with availability of its new Computing as a Service Solution in the U.S. and 15 European counties. The offering aims to provide scalable server, network and storage capacity to enterprises and government entities on very short notice to allow them to meet rapid fluctuations in usage. Joseph Crawford,... »
Nortel and BT sign 4-year enterprise telephony deal
Nortel and British Telecom announced they have extended their global trading agreement for Nortel’s enterprise telephony equipment and services for four years. The companies said in a release the deal will enable them to “address customers’ needs whether it be voice, contact centres, routing, LANs or VPNs.” The deal extension is good news for Nortel;... »
Alcatel-Lucent releases cloud-based VPN for biz apps
Alcatel-Lucent announced a new cloud-based VPN service plan for service providers targeting enterprises. The Application-Assured VPN client will lower expenses by eliminating the need to have equipment at each business location in order to offer applications like VoIP, Citrix, IM and video conferencing, according to the company. The Application-Assured client takes deep-packet inspection functions usually... »
Infonetics: SIP trunking to grow at 89%, hosted UC hot
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released its biannual “VoIP and UC Services and Subscribers” report. The report now tracks SIP trunking, IP integrated access, and hosted UC in addition to residential VoIP, VoIP VPN/IP access, IP Centrex and managed IP PBX – and it predicts some very hot numbers over the next five... »
Alcatel-Lucent unveils secure VoIP system
Alcatel-Lucent announced Tuesday a secure VoIP solution for medium and large firms that has no known vulnerabilities, according to the company. The system uses Alca-Lu’s VPN Firewall Brick, which was designed by Bell Labs to preserve quality of service while defending against attacks. “We are seeing more and more vulnerabilities posted against VoIP, and there... »
The King of VoIP in the Cloud Does It Again
My father taught me the impossible we do right away, but a miracle, that takes a little longer. Until today I had never flown on a WiFi 2.0 enabled plane, though I was a regular flier internationally on flights equipped with the older version from Boeing, but of course longtime readers know that I... »
Etisalat blocking VPN based VOIP in UAE
VOIP is UAE has always been under radar of Local Telecom and ISP companies who doesn’t want VOIP to have any serious footage in UAE telecom business. During past, we have seen that almost every VOIP… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. … >>> Rest of... »
AsteriskNOW 1.5.0 Released
AsteriskNOW 1.5.0, which launched as a beta in October 2008, is now available for download at http://www.asterisknow.org/downloads. Of course, existing AsteriskNOW users can simply run “yum update” to update to the latest release. I love ‘yum’ for Linux systems – it’s like Windows Update on steroids, but without the Internet Explorer GUI requirement. According... »
VoIP secret sauce for MVNO Zer01 Mobile
All voice calls on the new Zer01 Mobile service will be VoIP, delivered over AT&T’s wireless data network into the company’s own IP backbone. Zer01 says they will offer service at $69.95 per month without a contract. All calls on Zer01 phones will go through a proprietary VoIP application that currently runs on Windows Mobile 6 phones.... »
Ecessa Builds Firewall, VPN Gateway Into WAN Controller
Ecessa (formerly Astrocom) announced Tuesday its new ShieldLink WAN Link Controllers family for small and medium businesses. The new product has all the features of Ecessa’s flagship PowerLink WAN controllers, but adds a built-in VPN gateway and firewall, said Marc Goodman, marketing director for Ecessa.With the integrated VPN gateway feature, …(366 words) ... »
PIKA WARP Appliance Adds BRI Support
PIKA Technologies announced today the release of a BRI expansion module for the PIKA WARP Appliance. The PIKA WARP Appliance is a very flexible hardware telecom appliance that can run various flavors of Asterisk, including native Asterisk, Schmooze, trixbox CE, and others. They even support FreePBX, the popular front-end GUI for Asterisk. They support... »
IT EXPO East 2009: Microsoft goes official with Response Point SP2
MIAMI – Microsoft officially announced SP2 (Service Pack 2) for its Release Point SMB IP PBX. The company also added two new certified service providers for the show. New features/enhanced incorporated into SP2 include support for intercom and paging capabilities, analog phone support, VPN support, an automated night receptionist scheduler, multi-subnets and additional trunk devices. For... »
Microsoft Response Point SP2 launches + review
At ITEXPO in Miami, Florida, Microsoft has just launched Response Point SP2, the latest version of their IP-PBX. Microsoft sent me a sneak peek of the SP2 beta code in January to check out. I’ve reviewed the Microsoft Response Point system in the past and have been impressed with how easy it is to... »
Cox Will Shape Its Broadband Traffic; Delay P2P & FTP Transfers
Cox Communications, the third-largest cable company and broadband service provider, is joining Comcast in traffic shaping and delaying traffic it thinks is not time-sensitive. They call it congestion management, making it seem like an innocuous practice, though in reality it is anything but. Chalk this up to yet yet another incumbent behaving badly! To... »
AireSpring, Critical Links Interoperable on edgeBOX
AireSpring has announced the completion of interoperability testing with Critical Links, a global provider of unified voice, data and IT solutions for SMBs. Critical Links’ flagship product, the edgeBOX, is a multifunction gateway appliance that includes VoIP/IP PBX, VPNs, security, NAC, QoS and a Wi-Fi access point as well as …(185 words) ... »
The Near Future of VoIP – Abdul Kasim, VP of Marketing Critical Links
For those of you out there who celebrated a holiday and enjoyed a few days away from it all, I hope you and yours enjoyed it. I know I did. For those of you still “away from it all” I wish I was there with you – continue to enjoy. After a few day break,... »
Junction Networks Is New Voice Provider for edgeBOX
Critical Links has chosen VoIP service provider Junction Networks as the preferred provider for its edgeBOX all-in-one, voice-and-data appliance. Related Topics: 2008, data, IP PBX, LEC, market, PBX, phone, provider, server, telecom, voice, VoIP, voip service, VPN, wireless »
Fonality Beats Avaya and Boasts 3,000 Call Centers
Fonality’s CEO Chris Lyman spoke with me earlier today to talk about the strong inroads Fonality has been making in the call center market. Chris said, “Fonality has become a big player in what I like to call the micro call center market. We launched our call center product in 2005 and we... »
Analysis of a VoIP Attack
VoIP security is often overlooked by IT administrators as well as VARs and resellers that deploy VoIP in the enterprise. They do so at their own peril, however. One of the main factors behind using VoIP is to save money. Well imagine your IP-PBX has been hacked and you don’t notice anything wrong until... »