VoiceGenie and Data Connection offer VoiceXML-based Unified Messaging

VoiceGenie Technologies is collaborating with Data Connection to offer service providers a VoiceXML-based Unified Messaging solution based on commodity hardware. The co-marketing and technology partnership combines VoiceGenie's " NeXusPoint" VoiceXML-based framework with Data Connection's "MailNGen" next-generation messaging solution. NeXusPoint is an open, VoiceXML-based framework for the development, deployment and hosting of sophisticated speech or touch-tone services. MailNGen is a flexible, modular multimedia messaging solution providing...

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KT Selects Redback's Next Gen SmartEdge

KT has selected Redback Networks' SE800 SmartEdge Service Gateway platform for managing broadband subscribers and services. KT has already deployed platforms from Redback for a significant portion of its existing ADSL networks and now plans to utilize Redback platforms in its expanding VDSL, Wi-Fi, and metro Ethernet networks. Redback's next-generation SmartEdge Service Gateway platforms with its NetOp Policy Manager will provide advanced subscriber management and edge routing functionality supporting KT's value-added services, including managed/integrated...

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Siemens Offers Dual Stack Broadband Client for IPv4 and IPv6

Siemens Subscriber Networks announced dual stack IPv4/IPv6 functionality for its tango Access broadband client software for Windows. The end-user software client gives broadband service providers the flexibility to begin deploying IPv6 over their existing Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) infrastructure. Siemens said its dual stack software approach is transparent to subscribers, except that their access to such advanced broadband services as video-on-demand, IP television, video conferencing, voice and video telephony and multiparty...

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Cox Digital Telephone Receives J.D. Power and Associates Award

Cox Communications received the highest honor in the West in J.D. Power and Associates' 2004 Residential Local Telephone Customer Satisfaction Study for overall customer satisfaction. The local telephone service study rated overall customer satisfaction based on six factors: customer service, billing, performance and reliability, company image, cost of service and offerings and promotions. In a separate study, Cox's bundled customers nationwide also ranked Cox highest for customer satisfaction in J.D. Power and Associates' 2004 Residential Long...

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Nortel Networks Joins Texas A&M Research Project on E9-1-1 for VoIP

Nortel Networks has joined a Texas A&M University research project focused on Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) access for next generation Internet Protocol (IP) networks. The company has donated its Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) to the Texas A&M research project, which looks at what the industry has identified as the future 'third stage' of E9-1-1 deployment - emergency communications in a pure-IP environment. Nortel Networks said the technology for E9-1-1 was originally designed for the traditional circuit-switched telephone network in...

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Lucent Reports Results for Third Quarter of Fiscal 2004

Lucent Technologies reported revenues of $2.19 billion for its third quarter of fiscal 2004, essentially flat sequentially and an increase of 11% from the year-ago quarter. The company recorded revenues of $2.19 billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2004 and recorded $1.96 billion in the year-ago quarter. Lucent reported net income of $387 million or 8 cents per diluted share, including several one time items that had a positive impact of about 4 cents per diluted share. Some highlights for the quarter:On a sequential basis, revenues in the...

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Tellabs' Q2 Revenue Grows 30% to $304 Million

Tellabs reported Q2 revenue of $304 million, up 30% from $234 million in the second quarter of 2003. On a GAAP basis, Tellabs earned 12 cents per share or $50 million in the second quarter of 2004. Excluding net restructuring and other charges of one cent per share or $3.5 million, Tellabs' earnings were 13 cents per share or $53 million. Some highlights:Transport -- Revenue from transport systems, the company's core products, totaled $161 million, up 74% from $93 million in the second quarter of 2003, primarily driven by strong wireless demand.Managed...

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Sprint Sees Continued Momentum in Wireless

Sprint reported higher revenue, earnings and free cash flow driven by wireless customer growth. Some highlights:Sprint Wireless posted year-over-year revenue growth of 17% and reported a 19% increase in Adjusted EBITDA. Wireless ARPU was $62, a modest increase over both the year-ago period and the first quarter.PCS also continued to achieve solid subscriber gains with the total base increasing by 897,000 subscribers in the quarter. The subscriber gains included 505,000 direct additions and 392,000 additions from our wholesale and affiliate partners....

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PointOne Provides Enhanced Network Access to 20,000 SIPphone VoIP Users

PointOne is providing the SIPphone network with local inbound access from the PSTN. SIPphone, which is the new company from MP3.com and Lindows founder Michael Robertson, has been providing its customers with a no-monthly-fee service to connect to other SIP-based phones. SIPphone previously enabled its customers to call PSTN numbers. Now PSTN users in 18 major markets will be able to dial into local numbers to make connections to SIPphone users who may be anywhere in the world, utilizing the IM Connect -- Instant Messenger Connect -- function...

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Agere's Revenues Rise 7% Sequentially, Announces Reorg

Agere Systems reported quarterly revenues of $495 million, up 9% over the year-ago quarter, and 7% sequentially, driven by growth in sales of chips for mobile phones and wireless infrastructure, as well as an increase in revenues from intellectual property licensing. The company reported a GAAP net income of $2 million or breakeven per share, compared with the year-ago net loss of $78 million or $0.05 per share. The company also announced it will simplify its organization structure to focus more sharply on its four key markets: mobility, storage,...

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Comcast Enters Broadband Content Deal with ABC News and Disney

Comcast, ABC News, and the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) announced a wide-ranging broadband content distribution deal for Comcast's 5.7 million cable modem subscribers. Under the deal, ABC News on demand video and ABC News Live, 24/7 live streaming news programming will be available to Comcast's cable modem customers at no additional cost to the end user. Comcast also plans to launch an online Kids Channel using Disney's content for kids aged 3 to 1. http://www.comcast....

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Catalyst Keynote: Network and Telecom Strategies, New Rules

Disruptive IP technologies have reached critical mass and, as a result, enterprise networks are increasingly being affected by consumer/residential trends, according to Dave Passmore, Research Director at the Burton Group. Speaking at the Burton Group's Catalyst 2004 Conference in San Diego, Passmore outlined five new rules to help enterprise network managers understand and benefit from these trends. Five New Rules1. Telephony will be assimilated into the network. For instance, voice is already being integrated into SIP-based instant messaging....

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