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30/01/2012 - Oracle helping service providers with quick data analysis

Oracle has introduced the latest iteration of Oracle Communications Data Mode, which helps communications service providers (CSPs) analyze multiple data types and garner critical business insights, such as customer network usage behavior and marketing campaign effectiveness.

The explosion of data generated by mobile device consumers is creating a growing management challenge for CSPs. Oracle's Communications Data Model Adapter helps accelerate pre-paid data analysis and improve decision making, the company said.

The solution, certified by the TM Forum, also includes Oracle Communications Network Charging and Control Adapter for Oracle Communications Data Model, which is the first prebuilt, productized extract, load and transform (ELT) adapter in the industry.

With the adapter, CSPs can process customer charging information more efficiently and cost-effectively to deliver near real-time data for predictive analytics.

A key component of the solution is a standards-based, pre-built data warehouse with a comprehensive database schema. The solution maintains sophisticated trending and data mining capabilities, as well as a wide array of dashboards, all focused specifically on communications industry business challenges.

For more:
- see this release

10/10/2011 - Motorola Solution's ET1 tablet a video-conferencing endpoint for enterprise?

Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) today debuted its ET1 Tablet--its first Android-based tablet PC--which is its first tablet targeted at the enterprise.

The ET1 Tablet will be Motorola's first Android-based tablet.

The ET1 has a 7-inch color touchscreen and weighs 1.4 pounds. It can sport 32 GB of memory with a micro SDHC card. The ET1 has two USB interfaces, plus an HDMI-out slot, stereo speakers and dual microphones.

Its front and rear-facing cameras are among its features that set it up as a potential endpoint for videoconferencing. The front-facing camera includes 720p video capture; the main camera is a 8-megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash.

Although it's currently shipping without Wi-Fi, that feature will be available later in the 4^th quarter.

The company is expected to offer the tablet for less than $1,000 and is gearing up for a full rollout in 2012.

For more:
- see this CDN article

06/10/2011 - Videoconferencing's new popularity driven by mobile, consumerization

"Mobility" has become the new buzzword for the videoconferencing industry, with multiple companies releasing new apps to take advantage of the increasing demand for solutions that address everything from telecommuting to distance learning and telemedicine. Videoconferencing was once the domain of large enterprises only. But consumerization of the technology, dropping prices and increasing quality has changed the segment and made it more appealing to smaller enterprises, the SMB community and even "mom and pop" businesses. Special Report

03/10/2011 - Sidera upgrades La Salle University's campus-wide network

Network provider Sidera Networks, which in May was rumored to be up for sale, today announced it has been selected by La Salle University to provide high speed, scalable Internet solutions for its campus-wide network upgrade.

The Philadelphia-based school said the upgrade will support its dynamic learning environment and communications applications, including email and e-learning platforms as well as students' daily online needs.

The upgrade gives LaSalle more bandwidth, improved network performance and lowered costs. Sidera also is offering La Salle 24/7 tech support.

Some 50 education and research institutions in the Northeast U.S. use Sideras' solutions to support their bandwidth requirements. The company's offerings include Ethernet, SONET, Wavelength, Dark Fiber, Internet Access, Colocation and more.

The competitive fiber-based service provider is the result of a $1.2 billion acquisition by Abry Partners of RCN Corp. in 2010; the business division, RCN Metro, was renamed Sidera Networks and was rumored in a Wall Street Journal story to be on the block for about $800 million.

For more:
- see this release

01/09/2011 - Dell heads into the cloud with new offerings

Is Dell (Nasdaq: Dell) the next big name to enter the cloud computing fray? The company's Force 10 Networks data center acquisition earlier this year hinted strongly at its interest. Now, the long-time PC retailer is following through on the product and service front, according to eWeek. The publication noted that Dell made new cloud-related announcements this week at both the Salesforce.com Dreamforce event and the VMworld 2011 conference, the latter of which the entire cloud sector appears to have attended.

Dell said at VMworld that it is hard at work on a public cloud offering with VMware that is set to debut sometime later this year, with Dell data centers hosting VMware's vCloud public cloud systems. One of those data centers already is open in Plano, Tex., and several others are in the works. This effort targets mostly the small and medium-sized business market, where Dell has built strong customer relationships.

Dell and VMware also plan to build private cloud infrastructures for other companies, according to the eWeek story. Dell systems already are in place as components of other companies' public cloud services, too, such as those operated by Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN). In addition, Dell and VMware next year plan to offer Microsoft Azure and open-source public cloud offerings, and continue integrating more Dell software and applications into the cloud. Analysts have been largely supportive of Dell's cloud moves, eWeek reported.

At Salesforce.com's Dreamforce event, Dell and the event's host announced a partnership aimed at offering software as a service application under the brand of Dell Cloud Business Applications. The first of these applications, a new CRM app, became available at the conference from Dell cloud integrator partner Boomi.

For more:
-see this eWeek story

16/08/2010 - Sonus Enables Cable Customers to Make and Receive Calls on Their Smartphone Using Their Home Phone Number

Sonus Networks has introduced a new solution for cable operators to add value to their existing home line services. Dubbed "Fixed – Smartphone Convergence," cable operators can use new capabilities in the company’s ASX Telephony Application Server to allow cable subscribers with home phone service to combine their existing phone line with up to five additional SIP-enabled devices including 3G/Wi-Fi enabled smartphones.

01/10/2009 - Google Wave: A beta tester's perspective

Google officially rolled out its 100,000-strong beta test of its Google Wave collaboration/email hybrid product and response was so strong, people posted their invites on eBay and received hundreds of bids to get into the test. Application vendors SAI and Salesforce.com also jumped on the announcement, as they released their individual plans to develop plug-ins for the Wave platform.

Ed Laczynski, CTO of L-Tech, a Google partner, and a beta user of Wave, said in an interview he's impressed with the performance so far.

"The gadgets are really cool, and fact that you can watch people respond in real time is also nice," Laczynski said. "Google borrowed from everything ‘Web 2.0' in Wave, and also solved a big problem with Gmail around collaboration. You just want to communicate, but now you have to pick the medium for different types of communication. Wave let's you get a quick answer without having to choose."

Laczynski said he expects developers to begin right away designing customer support for enterprise users and CRM applications for Wave. He said his company "has gadgets and robots in the works right now for the product." He cautioned that Wave's complexity and multiple use cases might actually prove to be a detriment as in targeting consumers, however.

"It's a complicated product, and it appeals to technical people, but taking it out to consumers, the messaging needs to be more simple," he said. "There is so much that it can do, but past 100,000 users, if you want grandma to use it, Google needs a clear adoption path and to be able to communicate why people would want to use it."

21/09/2009 - Nortel Carrier VoIP still strong despite the company's Chaper 11 status

Nortel's Carrier VoIP and Application Server (CVAS) division is "still very much alive and kicking" despite the parent company's ongoing bankruptcy procedure, according to Sita Lowman, leader of marketing for the group.

"Our part of the organization is still number 1 in the world, even while under Chapter 11," Lowman said. "We haven't stopped anything under R&D, and we're ready for the divestiture to be behind us, so that we can provide the confidence to the customer," Lowman said. She added that Nortel CVAS would be launching new products at Supercomm in October, as the unit prepares to be auctioned like Nortel's wireless technology and Enterprise Solutions divisions.

How much will Nortel get for the CVAS group?

17/09/2009 - Cavalier upgrading network with MetaSwitch gear

MetaSwitch has begun another significant carrier customer rollout, as it is assisting operator Cavalier as it upgrades its network with media gateways and application server deployments, according to the companies. Cavalier is offering hosted VoIP and other IP communications technology to the SMB market in its Mid-Atlantic market, including areas in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C., according to Senior Vice President of Marketing Lou Sommi.

Sommi said in an interview that the MetaSwitch gear allows for flexibility in deployments and is helping Cavalier sell more hosted offerings, which Sommi said are lucrative for the company and allow Cavalier's sales staff to sell to smaller clients. Sommi said the unified communications features made possible by the MetaSwitch platform have been very popular with SMBs, as they can now support mobile workers and enable advanced emergency continuity procedures, functions not possible with legacy TDM gear.

For more:
- see the press release here

16/09/2009 - InStat sees $32.2B mobile VoIP app revs in 2013

In-Stat has released a report that is very bullish on the future revenue potential of mobile VoIP applications, predicting the annual revenues for the market will increase to $32.2 billion by 2013. The report, "Mobile VoIP - Transforming the Future of Wireless Voice," also predicts 278 million registered users of mobile VoIP applications by 2013.

If In-Stat's revenue estimate is to hold, however, these applications would not only have to meet the user base prediction but generate monthly ARPU of $9.65, not an easy feat with voice becoming increasingly commoditized.

"Applications such as Skype and Vonage have influenced users to think of voice as a data application," says Frank Dickson, In-Stat analyst, in a release. "The increasing penetration of Wi-Fi in mobile devices was the beach head that Mobile VoIP applications needed. As user habits are being shaped by rich on-line communication experiences, mobile carriers control over devices and data applications is waning. Mobile carrier attempts to slow the spread of on-line Mobile VoIP are proving challenging as well."

The report predicts that Asia will overtake EMEA as the regional leader in mobile VoIP revenues by 2013.

For more:
- see the press release on Reuters here

27/08/2009 - Carrier VoIP revs down 32% in Q2

A new Infonetics research report on second-quarter carrier VoIP spending shows some signs of life for the industry, which has been battered due to reduced carrier capex amid the recession. Global carrier VoIP equipment revenues totaled $598 million in Q2, and while the market segment revenues were off 32 percent year-over-year, they did show slight improvement of 0.8 percent from Q1.

Diane Myers, author of the report and directing analyst for carrier VoIP for Infonetics, said voice application servers, media gateways and Class 5 softswitches were the strongest equipment categories for the quarter, while EMEA and North America showed the best regional sales performance.

The report said AudioCodes, Cisco, MetaSwitch, Sonus, Alca-Lu, Italtel, Broadsoft, and Nortel (hard to believe, but true) stood out with strong revenue increases for the quarter.

For more:
- see the report press release here

10/08/2009 - Report: Carrier IP telephony market off 14% in 2009

Analyst firm Dell'Oro Group sees the carrier IP Telephony market breaking out of its current slump in 2010, according to a recent report. While the group said the carrier IP telephony market in 2009 will be down around 14 percent from 2008, Dell'Oro expects the market to rebound to $4 billion by 2013.

Greg Collins, a vice president at Dell'Oro Group, said network modernization projects delayed due to rough economic conditions should resume in earnest in 2010, driving growth in the session border controller and softswitch markets.

"Smaller vendors, such as Acme Packet, MetaSwtich, and BroadSoft, have done fairly through the downturn," Collins said. "The bigger vendors with lots of exposure to the Tier 1 carriers, such as Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel and Sonus, have suffered a little more as a result."

As part of the report, Dell'Oro also forecast that the IMS equipment market, though currently quite small, will expand rapidly to reach $743 million in revenues by 2013. Collins said preparations for LTE wireless, application delivery and location services will drive the expansion in this market niche.

For more:
- see the press release here

02/07/2009 - GENBAND and BroadSoft Offer Legacy Switch Migration Solution

VoIP applications provider Broadsoft and IP infrastructure solutions developer GENBAND have announced a new set of solutions that enable carriers to upgrade their networks while supporting legacy features.
The two companies have integrated GENBAND's gateways with BroadSoft's suite of hosted telephony and multimedia applications.

01/07/2009 - BroadSoft and GENBAND integrate products for carriers

GENBAND and BroadSoft announced GENBAND's G9 and G6 gateways and S3 session border controller will be integrated with BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform for carriers migrating from TDM to IP telephony systems. The companies said the new offering will allow carriers to deliver Class 4 and 5 VoIP services and applications on a single system, all while continuing to support legacy features.

The new offering also provides options to carriers like hosted unified communications and fixed-mobile convergence support, according to the companies.

For more:
- see the Light Reading article here

29/06/2009 - BroadSoft-Sylantro: 6 months later

BroadSoft's December 2008 acquisition of fellow VoIP application server company Sylantro gave BroadSoft an even more commanding lead in market share in the space. But integrating another unique company into the buyer's corporate culture can be quite a challenge, so, six months after the formal announcement, here's a look at how the integration has progressed.

In the first quarter, BroadSoft's executive team spent a lot of time on the road talking with Sylantro and BroadSoft customers alike about the implications of the buy, according to Leslie Ferry, vice president of marketing for BroadSoft. But Ferry said the integration of the back office systems and personnel is now complete, and BroadSoft's customers have benefited from the product set and engineering muscle BroadSoft picked up from Sylantro.

"The integration of talent has gone incredibly smoothly, and we knew from due diligence and competing with them that they had a good product and smart, talented people working on it," Ferry said. "It's always a challenge when you integrate two companies, but we've been more than pleased with the results."

Ferry said the integration went smoothly because Sylantro had a similar culture of innovation and research. She also noted that "getting out the message" to Sylantro customers about the level of support they would receive from BroadSoft was the major challenge in the integration.

Ferry said portions of Sylantro's Synergy platform are being integrated into the BroadWorks offering, and portions of Sylantro's web-based client SynApps are also being evaluated for eventual inclusion in BroadSoft's products.

25/06/2009 - Toshiba announces bundled UC product

Toshiba America Information Systems, a wholly-owned Toshiba subsidiary, announced the availability of a bundled unified communications product that ships in a single software load and runs on one server. Toshiba's Unified Communications Suite bundles the usual UC suspects such as presence, IM, click-to-call in applications, find-me follow-me dialing and FMC utility, and the applications all run over Toshiba's Media Application Server.

Toshiba Information Systems said the UC bundle will deliver cost savings and productivity gains to enterprises, while the single software load will keep installation simple. The product is immediately available through Toshiba resellers nationwide.

A recent report on unified communications deployments and market share by Synergy Research Group said Toshiba was struggling in addressing significant industry issues and maintaining market share in this area. Perhaps the new bundled offering can help the company increase traction in this segment.

For more:
- see the press release here
- see the Synergy report here

22/06/2009 - Ericsson to deploy VoIP application server for O2 Germany

Ericsson was selected to deploy an IMS core system with an IMS-based VoIP application server for Telefonica O2 Germany, the companies announced in a release. The deal includes Ericsson hardware deployment and software integration.

The IMS update will allow SIP trunking, IP Centrex and presence for both fixed and mobile users of O2 Germany's network. IMS technology lowers the cost of application delivery for businesses and will help companies continue to move toward network convergence, according to the release.

For more:
- see the press release here

Related article
Ericsson is a leading IMS equipment maker

18/06/2009 - NetIQ to monitor MTS Allstream UC deployments

MTS Allstream, a Canadian provider of unified communications solutions, announced it has selected NetIQ to manage its enterprise UC applications and infrastructure. With the addition of MTS Allstream's customers, NetIQ now manages more than 1 million VoIP lines worldwide, according to the company.

MTS Allstream will deploy NetIQ's AppManager for network assessment, end-to-end monitoring and reporting on MTS Allstream customer UC deployments, according to the release.

For more:
- see the joint press release here

10/06/2009 - Sales of UC desktop units slip in Q1

A new Synergy Research Group report on the global market for collaborative applications found vendor sales down across the board for the first quarter of 2009 in both the enterprise and SMB market segments. The report said collaboration application vendors notched sales of $913.3 million for the first quarter. Avaya, Cisco and Siemens were the top three vendors in the enterprise category, and ShoreTel, Cisco and Avaya lead the SMB category.

Though Synergy said these companies were in a strong strategic position in their respective markets, the report also found that the top six vendors in both segments saw quarter-over-quarter sales declines. The report also noted a growing interest in managed UC offerings as small business suffer decreased credit availability, and it reported that price points for UC offerings are declining slowly as competition in the space increases.

For more:
- see the Synergy press release here

09/06/2009 - VoIP Equipment Sales Plummet, IMS Revenues Grow

VoIP equipment purchases are decreasing at the expense of spending on the deployment of IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) technology, according to Infonetics Research.
Worldwide sales of IMS equipment, including HSS (home subscriber servers), CSCF servers, and voice application servers, are forecast to jump 74 per cent in 2009 over 2008.

09/06/2009 - SabSe Acquires Jaxtr, VoIP Consolidation Begins?

SabSe Technologies has acquired jaxtr, a social communications company offering a free VoIP service.
The value-added application provider aims to sell its apps to Jaxtr's large active user base of around 10 million users.

09/06/2009 - jaxtr bought by SabSe Technologies

Value-added application provider SabSe Technologies announced it has purchased jaxtr, a company offering free VoIP service to social networks and blogging platforms. Terms of the deal were not released, but based on jaxtr's staff reductions and several large funding rounds totaling more than $26 million, it's not likely jaxtr's venture capital investors reaped a profit on this play.

SabSe will continue to operate the jaxtr service under the brand name, and the buyer hopes to increase revenue by selling its applications through to jaxtr's more than 10 million users. SabSe, cofounded by Hotmail cofounder Sabeer Bhatia, plans also to use the jaxtr acquisition to bring additional functionality to SabSe's core small business offerings.

The Natural Convergence buy of NewStep Networks yesterday and the jaxtr deal today could signal the beginning of consolidation in the VoIP space, as companies that took down large amounts of VC funds without clear business models falter and require sale.

For more:
- see the press release here

01/06/2009 - Blue Coat survey finds increasing interest in video conferencing

As enterprises seek to bring down costs during the current economic downturn, video conferencing has gained popularity as a way to reduce travel expenses while maintaining mission critical communications. But network capacity and bandwidth must be considered before ramping up video conferencing use, or spotty performance could negate any savings and derail crucial meetings.

Blue Coat Systems, an application delivery specialist, said more than 73 percent of enterprises plan to shift focus to video conferencing to lower travel budgets, according to a survey the company sponsored. Blue Coat is touting its PacketShaper appliance as a solution to address concerns about the network effect of increased video conferencing

"Companies need to know the impact of introducing a new application like video conferencing into a distributed network," said Mark Urban, senior product manager for Blue Coat Systems. "PacketShaper allows them to exert granular control over individual applications, carve out and protect bandwidth for scheduled video conferences, and proactively remedy latency problems that may occur."

Blue Coat said PacketShaper uses advanced compression techniques to reduce bandwidth requirements for video conferencing sessions, including header compression and packet packing.

For more:
- see the press release here

Related article
Blue Coat acquires Packeteer for $268 million

28/05/2009 - Voxeo buys IMified

Voxeo, a unified communications service provider, announced it acquired IMified, a hosted instant messaging application platform. Terms of the transaction were not released.

IMified is Voxeo's third acquisition in the past 12 months, and it gives Voxeo a platform API to communicate with any IM network or platform, according to the company. The IMified platform lets users build new IM applications without having to worry about interoperability with other proprietary IM solutions, and it also allows for IM functionality to be added to other, existing applications.

IMified claims that more than 7,500 developers currently use its platform for IM customer service bots, package tracking, emergency notifications and customer surveys, among other uses.

"Instant messaging is a natural extension to voice self-service and is an important piece of any company's unified communication strategy," said Jonathan Taylor, Voxeo's president and CEO, in a prepared statement. "IMified significantly expands Voxeo's unified communications offerings with the world's largest IM application platform and most experienced development team."

Voxeo said all IMified employees have been retained and that it will not modify terms of service for IMified users or developers.

For more:
- see the press release here

Related articles
Voxeo buys VoiceObjects
Voxeo Reaches into Asia

22/05/2009 - Yuuguu Extends Instant Collaboration To Include Skype

Yuuguu has expanded its screen sharing cross network application to include Skype.
The Yuuguu for Skype Beta enables Skype users to screen share and collaborate with one or more contacts.

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