BroadSoft to Resell Carbon Twelve's VoIP Toolbar

BroadSoft will sell and support Carbon Twelve's miPA Lite and miRECEPTION end-user software applications, which interface to its BroadWorks platform. Carbon Twelve' has been a participant in BroadSoft's Third-Party Developers Program for hosted VoIP. Carbon Twelve's miPA Lite integrates all of the BroadSoft CommPilot client functionality into a call control toolbar embedded in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It lets users click on icons within these Microsoft applications to control all their advanced voice features, such as...

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Ciena Warns of Lower than Expected Revenue

CIENA expects to report revenue of approximately $75 million for its third fiscal quarter ending 31-July-2004, representing slight sequential revenue growth and year-over-year revenue growth of approximately 9% percent. The company stated previously that it anticipated revenue growth of up to as much as 30% from fiscal second quarter revenue of $74.7 million. CIENA attributed the slower than expected sales to an ongoing environment of uncertainty resulting in cautious spending and deployment delays by its large service provider customers, including...

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Dow Chemical to Implement VoIP

The Dow Chemical Company awarded a seven-year contract to IBM to transform and manage its global network. The contract covers services support for local area networks, wide area networks, voice, video and e-enabled conference rooms. Additionally, IBM will provide electronic mail for over 50,000 Dow employees and contractors, support for 2,800 servers and field services in 63 countries. IBM will also transform Dow's voice network with VoIP. http://www.ibm.com/servi...

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Wayport Raises $20 Million to Expand its Access Services

Wayport has raised approximately $20 million through a private placement. Wayport intends to use the funds for strategic acquisitions and to invest in key areas of the company to accelerate deployments at hotels, airports, McDonald's, UPS Stores and other strategic venues. The number of locations that Wayport now provides high-speed Internet service to has increased by 275% from a total of 800 a year ago to over 3,000 as of June 2004, with 2,000 locations installed in the past 180 days. http://www.wayport.n...

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Level 3 Supplies IP VPN for CSC/Sears

Level 3 Communications is supplying Computer Sciences Corporation with an IP VPN solution to support its recently announced agreement with Sears, Roebuck and Co. Level 3's data networking services will allow Sears to replace multiple legacy networks with a single MPLS-based network that converges voice, video and data traffic. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.level3....

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MCI VoIP Supports "True" 9-1-1 Capabilities

MCI announced that its "Advantage" VoIP service has now been supporting 9-1-1 capabilities at fixed locations for more than two years. In addition, the company has teamed with the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and regional emergency communication organizations to develop and implement long-term solutions for 9-1-1 services to support mobile users. MCI noted that its VoIP service "true 9-1-1," or E9-1-1, capabilities by utilizing the existing 9-1-1 network to route calls to the appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) since...

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MetaSolv Lands Multi-Million Dollar VoIP Contract

MetaSolv Software was awarded a multimillion dollar contract by major U.S. carrier to supply its activation platform for next-generation VoIP services. The name of the carrier was not disclosed. The MetaSolv platform will be used to activate VoIP network infrastructure and subscriber services worldwide as it migrates away from circuit-based services. http://www.metasolv.c...

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AT&T Awarded IP Networking Contract by Global Mining Co.

AT&T was awarded a three-year, $2.25 million contract to provide an integrated IP voice and data service to Imerys, a global mining company. Imerys will deploy VoIP among its 30 U.S. locations. To close the sale, AT&T worked closely with Solarcom, a technology consultant based in the greater metro Atlanta area. AT&T recently announced plans to accelerate expansion of its business VoIP service portfolio. http://www.att....

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CableLabs Selects Broadcom's Voice Codec

CableLabs has chosen the Broadcom BroadVoice16 voice compression codec as one of two royalty-free voice codecs for all future PacketCable 1.1 and 1.0 certified and qualified embedded multimedia terminal adapters (EMTAs) and PSTN media gateways beginning in April of 2005, pending successful conclusion of certain conditions such as demonstration of multi-vendor interoperability. A mandatory voice compression codec in PacketCable products provides cable operators with universal toll-quality voice compression for VoIP. Prior to the new codec requirements,...

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Toshiba and HelloSoft Demonstrate DSP-Free VoIP Phone

HelloSoft introduced a VoIP phone software suite optimized for the Toshiba's embedded controller, which is built on a single ARM processor core. The device implements all VoIP functions, including codecs, line echo cancellers, acoustic echo cancellers, telephony components, and telephony signalling stack. http://www.hellosoft.com/http://www.chips.toshiba.c...

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InfiniRoute Launches VoIP Peering Service with Route Control

InfiniRoute Networks, a start-up based in San Francisco, launched a carrier-neutral VoIP peering service for wireline, wireless, and emerging carriers featureing route control functionality. The service, which runs over InfiniRoute's own Managed Voice Platform (MVP), provides an interconnection infrastructure that allows carriers to exchange VoIP traffic with global partners. InfiniRoute Networks said the IP route optimization technology used in its MVP protects carriers from quality of service degradations associated with IP network performance...

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Avaya to Acquire Spectel for Audio Conferencing

Avaya agreed to acquire Spectel, a supplier of audio conferencing solutions, for approximately $103 million in cash. Spectel's open, software-based audio conferencing solutions can be scaled to serve enterprises as well as global service providers. The company offers enterprise on-premise, managed on-premise and service provider solutions, including applications for advanced services, such as integration with other productivity software suites, sophisticated operator support functions and wireless capabilities. Building on a relationship of more...

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MetaSwitch Reports Rapid Deployment of its VoIP Softswitch

Big River Telephone, a locally owned telecommunications provider in the Missouri-Illinois-Kentucky region, has completed the hot cut-over of 1,000 trunks - a "heart transplant" of its network - in just 20 days after making the decision to purchase a MetaSwitch Class 5 softswitch. Big River is now carrying 30 million minutes of VoIP traffic per month through its MetaSwitch VP3500 Class 5 Softswitch. The MetaSwitch platform is serving over 4,000 lines and trunks, a number which is expected to increase as Big River uses the switch for new applications...

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Qwest's Q2 Revenue Declines by 4%

Qwest Communications reported a second quarter 2004 net loss of $776 million, or $0.43 per diluted share, including special items. Revenue for the quarter was $3.44 billion, a 4.3% decrease from the second quarter of 2003, and a sequential decline of approximately one%. The net effect of the special items was an incremental charge against the current quarter's results of $487 million, or $0.27 per share. CAPEX: capital expenditures for Q2 totaled $486 million, versus $505 million in Q2 2003. The decrease in capital expenditures was largely the...

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Netrake Tunes its Session Controller for PacketCable

Netrake has enhanced its session controllers with support for the PacketCable 1.2 CMSS signaling specification. The company's nCite session controller, acting as a Border Proxy within the defined PacketCable 1.2 network architecture, now complies with the CMSS signaling specification defined by CableLabs. This allows cable MSOs to deploy VoIP and other SIP-based multimedia services in a standards- based solution ensuring interoperability when connecting with other cable MSOs or VoIP carriers. Netrake said its nCite session controller allows MSOs...

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Pure Networks Offers Port Magic for Digital Homes

Pure Networks, a start-up based in Seattle, is gaining market traction for its "Port Magic" software, which automatically configures most home networking routers to securely open and close ports as needed. This enables home networks to run Internet applications without go through the technically challenging process of opening an closing ports on the home router. Pure Networks said that more than 500,000 digital home consumers have activated its Port Magic product. Pure Networks is currently offering a free 14-day trial for new customers of Port...

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