http://telecomweb.com TelecomWeb.com en-us 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:20:06 EDT At SpeechTEK today, Nuance Communications and Genesys, an Alcatel-Lucent company, touted their ongoing collaboration to offer automated solutions for the voice channel that now includes services and support for the Genesys Voice Platform (GVP) 8. The two have worked together for more than five years to... http://telecomweb.com/international/261267.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Nortel today unveiled an add-on to its unified communications (UC) platform that lets enterprises add such features as IM, e-mail and click-to-call to self-service and speech applications. The new offering, dubbed the Nortel Interactive Communications Portal (ICP), targets customer care centers and is... http://telecomweb.com/international/261268.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT The 8 Gb/s LightPulse Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) family from Emulex Corporation now is available and qualified for Hitachi Data Systems' enterprise and midrange storage platforms. Featuring advanced LightPulse Virtual HBA technology with support for industry-standard N-Port ID Virtualization... http://telecomweb.com/international/261251.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Fluke Networks, in its strongest foray into enterprise-class VoIP so far, has purchased the assets and technology of once-hot Israeli IP network performance-assurance and automated-diagnosis provider Viola Networks. The acquisition is the third enterprise-network-performance company bought by Fluke Networks... http://telecomweb.com/international/261252.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Investors have plowed another $13 million into Xelerated, the fabless network-processor chip developer that's taking on Broadcom and Marvell in the Carrier Ethernet market. Xelerated, which bills itself as "the global leader in field-proven, next-generation ASSP-based (application specific standard... http://telecomweb.com/international/261245.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT China Unicom, the country's second-largest wireless carrier, has outlined plans to spend $14.57 billion on a 3G buildout during the next 24 months - about 50 percent more than had been expected - in a move that signals intensified competition in the Chinese market. Unicom disclosed its planned expenditures... http://telecomweb.com/international/261229.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Israeli VoIP developer VocalTec, still struggling to stay afloat years after being rescued once from the brink of bankruptcy, has asked for a hearing to remain listed on the Nasdaq. The company, warned more than six months ago it wasn't meeting Nasdaq minimum-bid-price rules, says it's appealed to the Nasdaq... http://telecomweb.com/international/261230.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT People in the U.K. are spending more time using communications services than ever before but they're paying less for them, and text messaging is the clear preference, with 2007 revenues nearly three times that of traditional data revenues. U.K. SMS revenue for 2007 was $5 billion, compared with $1.8 billion... http://telecomweb.com/international/261231.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Following on the EU's threat to impose legal measures to force carriers to cut roaming charges, some operators reportedly have considered banning all data downloading when subscribers are away from their home markets (TelecomWeb news break, May 9). One company urges carriers to re-think this. AdaptiveMobile... http://telecomweb.com/international/261233.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Research in Motion's (RIM) latest and greatest BlackBerry, the Bold, now is being sold in various markets around the world, sporting tri-band HSDPA 3G wireless data networking on any GSM network worldwide for the first time in BlackBerry history. The new model also sports a full-color display, at "half... http://telecomweb.com/international/261234.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Earlier today, Nortel announced its purchase of Pingtel, the open-source VoIP PBX operation Wi-Fi developer BlueSocket bought barely a year ago. What Nortel really wants is BlueSocket's unified communications (UC) software and development team. Pingtel's technology is used in Nortel small- to medium-size... http://telecomweb.com/international/261223.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Worldwide Number Two telepresence marketer Tandberg is in "preliminary talks" with an unidentified private-equity investor that wants to buy the company, and this sent Tandberg share prices soaring. As is typical in such cases, Tandberg was giving out few details and no guarantees. "The... http://telecomweb.com/international/261226.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Remec Broadband Wireless International Inc. (RBWI), which makes wireless modules and systems, will take on turnkey volume production of BridgeWave Communications' 60 GHz and 80 GHz product lines to make sure that company can "address emerging mobile operator requirements for gigabit backhaul solutions... http://telecomweb.com/international/261227.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT The global optical-networking market topped the $4 billion mark in the second quarter, but there may be trouble on the horizon because of an unexpected plunge in North American spending. According to research firm Ovum, global service-provider switching and routing equipment sales in 2Q08 grew to $3.4... http://telecomweb.com/international/261218.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Avistar Communications Corporation, which provides unified visual communications solutions, has extended its patent ownership by two, further expanding the company's intellectual property in the areas of login-based Voice over IP (VoIP) services and text-based instant messaging (IM). The two new U.S. new... http://telecomweb.com/international/261219.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT In a multiyear contract, Motorola is going with Avotus Corporation for the management of the communications giant's expenses related to billing for voice, data and wireless telecom solutions globally. No financial details were disclosed. As part of the project, Avotus will manage Motorola's global fixed and... http://telecomweb.com/international/261205.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Semiconductor maker Atheros Communications Inc. says its XSPAN AR9280 and AR9281 chipsets are the first wireless LAN (WLAN) units to be certified for the new Cisco Compatible Extensions Program Version 5 (CCX V5). According to the company, "XSPAN is the industry's most widely adopted 802.11n technology... http://telecomweb.com/international/261206.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Covergence has gone to market with a gateway it says enables incompatible Microsoft and IBM unified communications (UC) solutions to talk to each other. The new offering, called the Covergence Collaboration Gateway (CCG), hits market with pricing as low as $1 per user per month, depending on contract length... http://telecomweb.com/international/261207.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT IBM this morning unveiled a broad swath of enterprise-mobility software and services ranging from a mobile consulting-and-implementation service to a bundle to transform "green screen" applications into mobile Web-based services. The giant also says both AT&T and Sprint have certified IBM's... http://telecomweb.com/international/261189.html Fri, 8 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Just a few hours before the opening ceremonies of the summer Olympics in Beijing, a new research report predicts TD-SCDMA subscribers in China will reach 12 million by 2012 while overall mobile terminal shipments will equal 11.5 million units. "ZTE secured 27 percent of total TD-SCDMA handsets awards... http://telecomweb.com/international/261191.html Fri, 8 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT