http://telecomweb.com TelecomWeb.com en-us 2009 Sat, 4 Jul 2009 11:30:51 EDT Last fall, Panasonic unveiled the Enhanced Communications Solutions (ECS), a portfolio of systems and applications for small and medium-sized business (SMBs) and the high-end residential market. Central to the ECS portfolio are Panasonic’s newest network communications platforms, KX-NCP500 (to 68... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262917.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Optimum Lightpath, the broadband subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation, recently hired John Macario as its senior vice president/product strategy and management, an executive appointment that normally would get only passing note but for the fact Optimum sits literally in the eye of the global... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262873.html Mon, 18 May 2009 0:00:00 EDT When considering deployment of videoconferencing and/or video telepresence solutions in your organization, you need to consider two traditional elements—total... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262874.html Mon, 18 May 2009 0:00:00 EDT The use of peer-to-peer (P2P) VoIP by enterprise users has begun to snowball, potentially leaving traditional long-distance carriers facing rapidly declining revenues but at the same time causing the P2P industry to scratch its collective head over what tariffs it can charge for its services.   Despite... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262875.html Mon, 18 May 2009 0:00:00 EDT At the recent VoiceCon Orlando 2009 event, leading communications vendors showcased their newest software, systems, devices and applications for the business communications market. A number of vendors, including Avaya, Grandstream, Mitel, Nortel, Polycom and TANDBERG, to name a few, debuted new multimedia... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262872.html Sun, 17 May 2009 0:00:00 EDT NEC Financial Services LLC, which provides “tailored” financing and leasing services to U.S. customers, has launched a 60-month, “zero-percent” lease promotion (caveat: subject to offer terms and conditions) for certain NEC enterprise products.   Included in the new deal are the... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262802.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT Storage and data-management solutions provider NetApp is teaming with Cisco to offer customers “unified, dynamic” data-center solutions that now are in the certification stage. The solutions are based on Cisco’s Unified Computing System and NetApp’s Unified Storage... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262803.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT According to new research from T3i Group LLC, 2008 global line shipments were down 6 percent compared with 2007, and the price per line also decreased significantly, both as a result of the worldwide economic downturn. Global 2008 manufacturer revenues totaled $15.2 billion, down 8 percent from 2007. The... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262804.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT Wireless broadband mesh specialist Tropos has jumped into the suddenly hot “smart grid” market.   Using essentially the same base technology as it developed for its municipal mesh - Tropos System Architecture and the Tropos Mesh OS - Tropos has crafted a variant it’s calling GridCom... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262805.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT Meru Networks has unveiled what it’s touting as the first wireless LAN solution optimized for delivering high-quality video over the IEEE 802.11n networks expected to become the enterprise standard.   Those networks are going to be expected to carry a host of enterprise video applications ranging... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262806.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT Telenor Sweden and Tele2 Sweden have agreed to build a joint Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in their home country, shortcutting the time and cost it would take either to build a network on its own.   This development has sparked a race with national carrier TeliaSonera AB to see which carrier can get... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262807.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT A Report and Order (R&O) and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) aims to expand and enhance first-responder 4.9 GHz nationwide broadband deployment.    The new rules also give public safety better tools to share time-sensitive... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262784.html Mon, 13 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT InnerWireless Inc., which provides in-building converged wireless solutions, now has a “Wireless as a Service” (WaaS) offering for health care.   The WaaS application is comprised of a distributed antenna system (DAS) that works with the InnerWireless flagship Horizon product that supports... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262785.html Mon, 13 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT Officescape’s “Alternative Officing Program” could help organizations cut real-estate costs by adopting or improving their existing telework models.   According to the company, the Alternative Officing program “reduces costs associated with real-estate and energy usage because it... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262786.html Mon, 13 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT Bandwidth-shaping specialist APconnections released a downsized version of its ‘NetEqualizer’ model priced at half of its previous low-end offerings to attract wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) and small-business users.   The new model is designed for 10 Mb/s traffic and 100 users... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262787.html Mon, 13 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT LG-Nortel has gone to market with a line of IP phones aimed at enterprises ranging from small businesses to large corporations and carrier-hosted VoIP services.   “In an era where businesses are looking for the most cost-effective telephony solutions possible, VoIP has become the option of choice... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262788.html Mon, 13 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT Yahoo! is working with three more universities, giving them access its massive supercomputing cluster to do research into cloud computing.   What the schools are getting access to is a supercomputing cluster, called M45, Yahoo! uses in its everyday operations, from Web search to optimizing content for... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262789.html Mon, 13 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT At its monthly open meeting yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) started the 10-month clock regarding the development a national, ubiquitous broadband plan.   As part of the recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (aka the stimulus package) (TelecomWeb news... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262777.html Thu, 9 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has named Sprint as a Managed Trusted IP Services (MTIPS) provider, approved for government agency use of the carrier’s global IP network and managed-services expertise.   MTIPS meets an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandate for bundled... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262778.html Thu, 9 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT Covad now is offering multiple bonded T1 services to its wholesale partners, allowing them to resell the services to small businesses and “distributed enterprises.”   The bonded T1 service, which offers as much as 6 Mb/s of symmetrical bandwidth with no distance limitations, is a companion... http://telecomweb.com/tnd/262779.html Thu, 9 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT