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NMS LiveWire Buys Groove Mobile

By Doug Mohney 03.21.08 Earlier this week, LiveWire Mobile, a subsidiary of NMS Communications (www.nmscommunications.com), bought privately-owned Groove Mobile for $14.5 million in cash. The acquisition will enable LiveWire Mobile to meet service provider’s growing demands for a portfolio of managed services delivered through an integrated storefront, including ringback tones, ringtones, full track music and video downloads. By adding Groove Mobile, LiveWire Mobile’s personalization products and services are now deployed in 42 operators around the world reaching more than 260 million subscribers, including 15 million active subscribers. For LiveWire and NMS, the acquisition is a c...
TANDBERG To Make HD Webcam For Microsoft

By Doug Mohney 03.21.08 TANDBERG (www.tandberg.com) has announced it is working with Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) to deliver the first high-definition webcam camera for integration with Microsoft’s unified communications package. The initiative is expected to enable the mass adoption of HD videoconferencing. TANDBERG expected to deliver its camera in conjunction with Microsoft’s intended support of high-definition video in the next release of Microsoft Office Communications Server. The new camera will be available during the first half of 2009. Last week, Microsoft showcased the development plan as a part of their commitment to unified communications. TANDBERG believes Microsoft h...
snom partners with Camrivox for CRM Integration

by Doug Mohney 03.20.08 Snom technology (www.snom.com) has teamed up with Camrivox to provide a web-delivered CTI product for new and existing snom IP phone numbers. Through this partnership, CTI integration for On Demand CRM tools such as Salesforce.com is now possible with snom IP phones, regardless of the PBX infrastructure used. Camrivox’s Flexor CTI software loads via the web onto snom IP phones and will link to the user’s CRM and Microsoft Outlook applications, providing click-to-dial, screen pop-ups and on-screen telephony control for improved customer retention and advanced business processes. snom will use Camrivox’s software on its phones as a simple and cost-effective way...
TelcoBridges Unveils TMG3200 With Media Gateway App

By Doug Mohney 03.20.08 At VON.x, TelcoBridges (www.telcobridges.com) announced the availability of an all-in-one, ready-to-deploy media gateway application for the company’s Tmedia TMG3200. TelcoBridges provides the complete C++ application source code to telecom solution developers, enabling them to customize and differentiate their solution. The TMG3200 is a media gateway platform that can scale from 128 to 2,048 universal VoIP channels, 4 to 64 T1/E1s, or 1 to 3 DS3s, or 1 OC3/STM-1 in a single 1U rack-mount device (or 2U with redundant power supplies). Handling SIP, SS7 and ISDN signaling and all associated media, it is capable of routing and bridging any call from any network to...
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Pulvermedia Announces the VON Virtual Tradeshow

Pulvermedia (www.pulvermedia.com) will host the VON Virtual Tradeshow on May 7-8, 2008. A Virtual Conference Center allows attendees to scroll through conference program sessions, choosing live sessions they want to attend in real time. Live Q&A chat opportunities will follow every session, giving attendees full access to the presenters. All sessions will be available in an on-demand format following the session for 90 days.
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Making the Bits Work Together - Service Creation Environments

Service Creation Environments (SCEs) continue to grow and support everything from integrated provisioning and customer service portals to quality of service monitoring and hooks to add on additional value-added features. There are as many ways to view SCEs as there are companies in the IP communications world selling them.

Some companies say their customers don’t want an SCE at all. “[Carriers] want us to deliver a solution,” says MetaSwitch’s Martin Taylor, Vice President of Product Management and Technology Strategy. “They want us to deliver a service rather than an environment to create that service. Typically they don’t have the development engineers on staff. Their strengths are to identify what the service needs to do; our strengths are to rapidly respond to what they need to do.”
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Violent Femtos

For many femtocell industry participants, 2008 will be somewhat of a “block and tackle” year. A handful of carriers–Sprint most noticeably among them to date–are engaging in commercial adoption of femtocell technology, either to enhance coverage or capacity as the battle for telephony customers continues to be waged on the final frontier: the residence. Increasingly, industry participants think that 2008 is “the year” that serious carrier trials and deployments have to take place to carry forward momentum in the years ahead.

“We are seeing significant increases in the interest from equipment vendors, and there are several projects under way to build femtocells,” says Rick Pitz, Senior Product Manager and Business Development Manager at Certicom (www.certicom.com), an encryption and security tools developer that also builds UMA device software. “We take this to mean that the vendors are seeing enough interest from the carriers to warrant the investment in new developments…which is usually a sign that the market is getting ready to move.”
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Hardware

Open Source Testing & Monitoring

Enterprise IT Meets Telecom

Clarus Systems Optimizes Cisco Unified Communications Manager

ClearOne Next-Generation Audio Conferencing Platform

Dialogic Adds New IP Functionality to Converged Services Platform

Performance Technology Launches New Voice-Processing Modules

Elma Offers 1U MicroBox Integrated MicroTCA Solution

OpenMoko Unveils Neo FreeRunner Open Phone

Digium Unveils Marketplace

MontaVista Releases Linux Carrier Grade Edition 5.0

Building Blocks and 'The Long Tail'

Tekelec Deploys Enhanced Business Intelligence Solution

Shunra Delivers End-to-End Network Performance Testing Throughout Applications Development Lifecycle

Empirix Unveils Hammer G5, Enterprise Test/Monitoring Products

The Pioneers of VON:
Thomas Pincince, Founder, CEO, Brix Networks
 What Works: Codima:
Codima Mapping BT Irelands Network in Real Time
 What Works: Digium:
Valley Design finds an Asterisk-based system for them 		What Works: Telx:
Telx Lights the Life Aquatic for the Georgia Aquarium

Spotlight On

Securing the IP Enterprise

Mobility is one of the hot buzzwords in IP networking spaces. Mobile workers, mobile devices, and ubiquitous service coverage present the holy grail of the workanywhere professional. This broadening of access, coupled with integration of VoIP and video services, creates a problem for enterprise security managers. Deperimeterization of the network has raised the bar on what it takes to effectively protect an enterprise. Enterprise businesses have implemented traditional security mechanisms ranging from firewalls and session border controllers to intrusion detection and prevention systems. They worked when the perimeter was a single connection to the Internet. In today's business environment, with highly mobile professionals connecting via all manner of devices, the perimeter is both nowhere and everywhere. But it's no longer a fixed, visible point in the network topology.

Global View

  • From Asia: Korea's Other Unification Challenge

    Forget the DMZ; global unified communications players are using multiservice-savvy customers and carriers in Korea to test-drive their solutions.

  • VoIP Breaks Capacity and Speed Barriers

    A new way to process VoIP delivers simultaneous voice and data on ADSL–up to 28 calls. Sites can be linked to provide secure private networks. And broadband access is available on high-speed (300 km/h or 190 mph) trains. Access is enabled by a combination of…

  • From The Middle East: Sweeping the Backhaul off Its Feet

    As the migration to all-IP networks gather traction, microwave networks are going through a transformation. The rapid growth of mobile communication networks in emerging markets and the transition to 3G, 3.5G, and 4G networks in developed markets are…

Columnists

  • Ten Internet Talking Points for the Next U.S. President

    By the time you read this, the race for U.S. president will be more defined than it is as I write this. But Internet policy issues will not change as quickly. Here are ten talking points on Internet policy for the next president, no matter who he or she…

  • The Consistency of Voice

    If you need any more evidence of the power of consistency, look no further than your local franchise restaurant. With few exceptions, the best restaurant in your town is not the Outback Steakhouse, but franchise restaurants are excellent examples of…

  • Euro Innovations - Mobile TV: A Classic Battle is Brewing

    In the red corner we have DVBH– a standard that the EU is pushing, but several countries oppose the move, and it will be a few years before mobile video really takes off. In the blue corner we have IPTV delivered over highspeed wireless networks; i.e.,…