Vapps Adds Customized Call Flow Capabilities

Vapps, a supplier of audio conferencing systems, has enhanced its Conference Bridge 1000 (CB1000) platform allowing conference service providers, broadband service providers and telcos to tailor voice conferencing sessions on a customer by customer basis. The platform now provides unique message greetings and call flows for each individual phone number and incorporates new web-based call control features.The Vapps CB1000 is a SIP-enabled, carrier-grade conferencing platform that delivers reservation-less conference calls on both legacy and IP-based...

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Cochrane Telephone Replaces Legacy Switch with Metaswitch

Cochrane Cooperative Telephone Company, an independent operator based in Wisconsin, has replaced its legacy Siemens DCO central office switch with a MetaSwitch VP3510 Integrated Softswitch and UC9000 Unified Communications System. Cochrane selected the MetaSwitch with assistance from Finley Engineering, an independent engineering consulting group brought in to ensure strict compliance with the company's technical requirements. Within Cochrane's network, the MetaSwitch VP3510/UC9000 combination is delivering Class 5 features, including all of the...

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Qwest Adds 68,000 DSL Lines in Q2

Qwest Communications added 68,000 DSL lines in Q2, bringing its total to 1.2 million. This compares with 85,000 DSL lines added in Q1. The company said it expects that network deployment, newly launched bundles, promotions and pricing initiatives will increase penetration and growth of its DSL services. As of the close of the quarter, 73% of households within the company's operating region could purchase high-speed Internet services. This is an increase from 67% at year end 2004. The company expects to end the year with 75% of households eligible...

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Motorola Invests in Trapeze Networks

Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment in Trapeze Networks, , a supplier of a WLAN mobility systems. Financial terms were not disclosed.Trapeze Networks, founded in 2002, designs and delivers a WLAN mobility solution that allows users to roam securely anywhere in a network and over any topology, including corporate headquarters, branch offices, campuses or multi-tenant/multi-use facilities. The company's system makes an existing enterprise network, with all of its structure and services, available wirelessly, driving the integration of...

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UTStarcom Posts Q2 Revenue of $723 Million

UTStarcom reported Q2 net sales of $723.0 million, an increase of 5%over net sales of $689.6 million reported in Q2 2004. The Personal Communications Division contributed $342.3 million of sales in the second quarter. There was a net loss (GAAP) of $74.7 million, or ($0.65) diluted earnings per share, including special charges. Some highlights:Gross profit margin was 15.1 percent of sales, which was negatively impacted by an inventory write-down of approximately $5.5 million, associated with the company's restructuring plan. Q2 backlog of approximately...

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MCI to Acquire Totality for Managed Services

MCI agreed to acquire Totality, a San Francisco- based provider of remote managed services for business-critical applications and infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed. MCI expects the deal to close within 45 days.MCI said the acquisition would extend its managed hosting capabilities to provide application management support outside of MCI-managed hosting centers. With Totality's capabilities, MCI will be able to manage and monitor a customer's applications no matter where they are hosted, resulting in the delivery of integrated communications...

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Comcast Sees Strong Demand for Digital Services

Comcast reported strong consumer demand in Q2 for new digital services -- including HDTV, DVRs, VOD and VoIP -- adding 507,000 revenue generating units in the second quarter of 2005, an increase of 22.1% from the 415,000 added in the same quarter last year. Some highlights:Comcast Cable reported revenue of $5.3 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2005, representing a 10.1% increase from the second quarter of 2004. Video: Digital cable subscriber and video revenue growth reflects strong consumer demand for new digital features and services including...

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LSI Logic Targets DSP at Voice Over WLAN Handhelds

LSI Logic introduced a digital signal processor (DSP) in a 7 mm x 7 mm chip package designed for Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) applications such as cell phones, PDAs and other handhelds. The new device is a low- cost, low-power voice processor in an ultra-thin package.It features dual TDM ports for audio ADC/DACs and interfaces for additional wireless devices, such as WLAN and Bluetooth. http://www.lsilogic....

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blinkx TV Signs Content Deal with Internet Broadcasting

blinkx TV announced a content agreement with Internet Broadcasting. Under the deal, blinkx will use its voice recognition software and automatic indexing technology to make video clips from Internet Broadcasting searchable on its site.blinkx TV combines advanced speech recognition and transcription techniques with its intelligent Context Clustering Technology (CCT) and context prediction and synchronization technology to analyze and understand the actual content (spoken words) of an audio/video file.Internet Broadcasting produces over 70 television...

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TowerStream Teams with Vonage for VoIP Over WiMax

TowerStream, a provider of fixed wireless Internet services, will team with Vonage, to offer VoIP over its network.TowerStream operates pre-WiMAX networks in the U.S. serving such markets as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, the greater Boston, Providence and Newport, R.I. areas.With the new alliance, TowerStream plans to offer small businesses an alternative to the existing phone companies for both voice and broadband with flat rate billing."TowerStream and Vonage both represent alternatives to the legacy telephone networks,...

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Cable One Deploys BigBand

Cable One, one of the ten largest U.S. cable operators, has selected BigBand Networks' BMR (Broadband Multimedia-Service Router) to manage digital television offerings. BMR platforms are being deployed at 42 Cable One systems to control channel line-up, video quality and bandwidth efficiency of SDTV and HDTV programs. Financial terms were not disclosed.The BigBand BMR can access programming from multiple sources and extend control to operators over channel line-ups. RateShaping bit rate adaptation manages bandwidth efficiency and video quality...

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UTStarcom Appoints New CFO

UTStarcom appointed Fran Barton as its new CFO. Barton previously served as an executive vice president and CFO at Atmel Corporation. Before that, Barton was the senior vice president and CFO at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. from 1998 to 2001 and from 1996 to 1998, he was vice president and CFO at Amdahl Corporation. http://www.utstar....

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Verizon Sees Rapid Rise in Ethernet Demand

Verizon will begin offering three new class-of-service options for its corporate Ethernet services in New York City and Washington, D.C. -- basic data, priority data or real-time communications. The new Ethernet class-of-service options will enable customers to converge their voice and data applications. These options are designed to allow for service-level guarantees that will be implemented at a later date. Verizon plans to expand the service to additional states throughout the year. Verizon noted that its Ethernet service grew by 50% in...

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Siemens Establishes New Subsidiary for CPE

Siemens is carving out its Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Division into a fully owned subsidiary that will focus on the design, manufacture and distribution of the Siemens Gigaset range of cordless phones (traditional fixed line and VoIP), as well as broadband products and home media devices.The new "Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices" will be based in Munich and managed as part of the Siemens Communications Group. Paul Reitmeier and Thomas Kresser, who currently run the CPE Division, will also head the new unit, which has around...

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