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XO and VoIP provider Vitelity team on IP backbone
Vitelity, a large VoIP network provider with more than 10,000 wholesale customers in 50 states is having XO Communications provide dedicated long-haul network connectivity between Denver and Los Angeles for its network. XO will also upgrade the network in the Denver-based company’s hometown. Vitelity’s move to upgrade its network speed with a 10 Gbps... »
Digium signs distribution deal with Synnex
Digium is spreading its Asterisk-based phone system love further with a new deal with Synnex, a company with a network of 15,000 IT resellers. Synnex has a dedicated telephony group to provide unified communications solutions to resellers that service the small-to-medium sized business. The partnership will get Digium’s Switchvox business phone systems to resellers throughout... »
See you at VoiceCon
Who’s going to Orlando? In a few weeks, VoiceCon will be taking over the Gaylord Palms resort in Orlando, Florida to discuss the latest in VoIP and Unified Communications. The keynotes will feature speakers from Avaya, IBM, Siemens, Cisco, and Microsoft all discussing the evolution of IP communications. Since ‘what’s next in IP communications’ is... »
National Broadband Plan in trouble?
Ars Technica has a story about how the National Broadband Plan is getting dumped on. Look out towards the bottom for some tidbits on how the plan might benefit small VoIP providers… Article No topics for this post. »
Avaya intros updated UC for SMEs
A new version of Avaya’s IP Office for small and medium enterprises (SME) has hit the market with some new unified communications (UC) offerings. The new features include advanced collaboration tools using voice, instant messaging, presence and video. The addition of video collaboration comes with the release of the IP Office Video Softphone application. In... »
Report: VoIP equipment Q4 results led by SBC sales
Although the service provider VoIP equipment market was down 28 percent in 2009, the industry’s last quarter was led by the steady sales of session border controllers (SBC) says a new report from Infonetics, Q4 Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers. Q4 2009 was the third consecutive quarter of stable revenue. Despite being down for the year,... »
More UC at HIMSS: Cisco launches HealthPresence
Not to be outdone by Avaya, Cisco is also showcasing its Unified Communications (UC) healthcare offering at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference this week. True to form for a company that calls its telepresence offering ‘Telepresence’, their healthcare system is called HealthPresence. The system combines Cisco’s Telepresence with their Internet call... »
Almost 300 million VoIP subs by 2013
In-Stat’s latest report is getting some press as it announced that there will be 288 million VoIP subscribers by 2013 due to the growth of mobile VoIP. Check out this GigaOM post. No topics for this post. »
REDCOM completes SIP interoperability testing with Polycom phones
REDCOM Laboratories, a designer of digital and IP-enabled telecom systems, completed its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) interoperability testing for their HDX and SLICE 2100 Carrier-Class 4/5 softswitches with a number of SoundPoint IP phones from telepresence solutions provider Polycom. REDCOM was able to verify 100 percent integration between the Polycom VoIP phones and REDCOM’s HDX... »
Skype officially on Nokia phones
A few weeks ago, Skype launched a Beta version of its software for Nokia phones. Now it’s official. Skype has launched Skype for Symbian and it is now available for download at Nokia’s Ovi app store. The Skype software is capable of running on 200 million Nokia mobile phones and plans are in the works... »
CDW tracking poll shows companies planning for UC future
CDW, a technology products and services company, has just posted the results of its second annual Unified Communications (UC) Tracking Poll. While it found that UC deployments remained steady from a year ago, companies with strategic plans to deploy UC were up 12 percent. Today, 45 percent of IT executives surveyed have deployed presence technology compared to... »
Sonus details future on Q4 earnings call
In an earings call on Friday, Sonus Networks shared some positive results for the year. Despite the down economy in 2009, Sonus announced that it was profitable on a non-GAAP basis and ended the year with over $414 million of cash and investments on their balance sheet. Some highlights Sonus pointed out for 2009 were... »
Samsung releases Skype TVs
So maybe it’s just in Korea right now, but Skype-enabled TVs are now among us. Samsung LED 7000 and 8000 series televisions include Internet connectivity and when combined with Samsungs’ FREETALK TV Camera, couch potatoes and their friends can interact over Skype video calling. Users will be able to send and receive voice calls as... »
VocalTec wins Russian contract
Israeli telecom equipment provider, VocalTec won a $1 million contract with a Russian Tier-1 operator to supply the core platform to deliver VoIP services to over 100,000 subscribers. The deal with the unnamed operator will provide VocalTec’s Essentra BAX Large-Scale Class-5 solution as the core platform for the delivery of Voice over IP subscriber services. The... »
Nortel name to dissappear with sales?
Apparently with all the auctioning, Nortel’s name was also up for sale but the buyers of its various pieces did not pick up the name. GENBAND’s VP and CMO Mehmet Balos said it declined to buy the name. Article No topics for this post. »
Avaya introduces UC solution for healthcare providers
Sure its not an IP Communications conference, but that doesn’t mean UC providers can’t have fun at HIMSS too. At the healthcare conference today, Avaya announced unified communications products to make healthcare providers’ patient care more efficient. The four products announced are meant to help providers make processes run more smoothly and be more organized... »
TelCentris teams with Sandler Partners for reselling deal
News is starting to trickle out of Channel Partners Conference and Expo in Las Vegas and it looks like the creators of VoxOx have some VoIP news to share. TelCentris has a signed a Master Agent agreement with Sandler Partners, a telecommunications master agency, which will allow it to expand the reach of the... »
BT offers interoperability with top video conferencing providers
BT Conferencing just announced a powerful new offering to its video conferencing customers. It is offering interoperability between the video conferencing systems of the top three video conferencing equipment vendors: Cisco, Polycom and TANDBERG. As part of the company’s managed service offering, BT One Source now provides an end-to-end solution for all three video conferencing... »
How much bandwidth do you need?
The FCC is trying to launch a national broadband push and the debate rages over how much bandwidth we need. If we love our VoIP and video technology and want to see it everywhere, I’d say we need a lot. PCWorld doesn’t think we should get ahead of ourselves, I think that might be... »
Skype drops its Windows Mobile app
Ok, ok. Don’t freak out–it looks like this is just a step towards supporting the new Microsoft mobile operating system and not a move showing Skype is quiting MS-based phones altogether. Skype has pulled their app for Window Mobile, meaning new users will not be able to download it. Users with the software already... »
Report: Synergy examines VoIP market share
Synergy Research Group released their newest report describing the market share break down of the VoIP markets and showing what’s been driving the carrier VoIP market. In “Carrier VoIP Q4 2009 and YE 2009 market shares,” Synergy reveals that the market for Carrier VoIP totalled $10 billion in 2009. While traditionally the migration of old PSTN... »
Vonage announces net income for first time
Vonage released its Q4 earnings report and had some exciting news. Excluding adjustments, the company reported net income from operations for the very first time. Vonage reported a net income of $3 million excluding adjustments which was up $37 million from 2008. Sequentially, net income was flat but revenue was up to $224 million. According... »
Nortel closing deal with GENBAND for CVAS
Well, it looks like GENBAND will be officially acquiring Nortel Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions (CVAS). Yesterday, Nortel announced that it would not be proceeding to auction, and instead would be working towards closing the sales agreement with GENBAND for the CVAS unit. The Nortel/GENBAND deal is for all the global assets of Nortel’s CVAS... »
Report: UC will drive mobile workers to top 1 billion
According to IDC, mobile workers will number 1.2 billion by the end of 2010–thanks in part to the growth in VoIP technology. The driving force behind the growth is the emergy markets of Asia/Pacific and the regions use of unified communications (UC) technologies. According to the analysts, the mobile workforces in the U.S. and Europe have... »
Cisco modifies UC licensing
Unified communications (UC) may seem complicated, but in the end its all about simplifying customers’ business communication. In that spirit, Cisco has decided to simplify how it licenses its UC software to its customers. The changes are being made to Cisco’s a la carte User Connect licensing program. Before, customers expressed confusion at the al... »
Hosted PBX provider Vocalocity hires new CEO
Small business VoIP provider, Vocalocity, has brought on some new talent. The Atlanta-based company is bringing on Wain Kellum as its new CEO. Kellum comes from location-based services company Omnilink and has over 25 years of experience in technology companies. Prior to his stint as CEO of Ominlink, Kellum started, grew and sold software development... »
Cloud computing competition heats up
As business computing gets more advanced and cloud computing moves beyond email, competitors are flooding in to challenge incumbents. GigaOm takes a look at some of these and sizes up the market. Article No topics for this post. »
Patton launches any-to-any SIP SBC
SIP is everywhere these days. And with any new technology standard, making a transition to it needs to be easy and secure. Patton, a Washington, D.C.-area based technology company, has just released its SmartNode 5200 Session Border Control to help businesses interested in SIP make an easy conversion. The new SBC will provide security and... »
GVMax fills in the gaps for Google Voice
A few weeks ago, Google launched an app that mobile phone users could take advantage of, but the problem was it was a mobile web app and not a native phone app. Some of the functionality that Google Voice users love like SMS notifications haven’t been carried along to the mobile web app so... »
Mitel offers truly virtualized IP telephony
Mitel Networks and VMWare have come up with a virtualized offering of the Mitel core 3300 ICP telephony system. The new Mitel Communications Director generic software called vMCD will run on a virtual server platform based on VMWare’s vSphere 4. The platform will also be able to host non-Mitel business apps like email, web... »