| March 18, 2004
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Standard Initiatives For Service Delivery Platforms
There are several initiatives well underway that promise
to enable the opening up of the telecom value chain, similar to the
way the revolution in the computer industry in the 1980s paved the
way for thousands of new, off-the-shelf applications.
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TMC
Launches VoIP Developer Conference In Silicon Valley
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC)
announced today the launch of The
VoIP Developer Conference. Focusing on educating those people
interested in building the next generation of IP based
communications products and services, the event will take place
August 3-4, 2004 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California.
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OctiVox
Signs GBH To Clear Call Resellers Network
OctiVox, a division of Octiv – the volume
matching and intelligibility experts, announced that it has signed
GBH Communications to its growing network of Clear Call resellers,
which include Video Guidance and Hello Direct, among others. GBH
Communications is the leading communications solutions provider for
U.S. Fortune 500 companies and is a certified gold reseller for
Polycom, the leading conference call phone provider. OctiVox Clear
Call is a powerful addition to the GBH product line-up and offers a
functional feature-set that is both not available and
non-competitive to all of the GBH conferencing products now being
sold.
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Ntera
To Merge With WorldQuest Networks
WorldQuest Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq: WQNI)
announced an agreement to merge with Ntera Holdings, Inc., a
privately held, Miami-based provider of VoIP – or “voice over
internet protocol” – and other services to the telecom industry.
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N2
Broadband And ICTV Enable Delivery Of On-Demand Services For Major
Healthcare Organization
ICTV, creator of HeadendWare, a centralized
platform for the delivery of interactive television services, and N2
Broadband, a provider of scalable, open-standard solutions for
on-demand services, announced that their joint solution has been
selected by Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN to enable the delivery of
VOD and SVOD menuing, games, patient e-mail, patient education,
video programming, and weather and travel information.
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Centrepoint
Technologies Brings Affordable VoIP Telephone System To Small
Business
Centrepoint Technologies, designer and
manufacturer of innovative telephone systems for small business,
unveiled the system that will put Voice over IP (VoIP) in the hands
of small business. The TalkSwitch 48-CVA, an all-in-one hybrid PBX
that combines PSTN and VoIP connections for small and multi-branch
businesses at the unprecedented price of $1795 US, will be available
on June 1.
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Level
3 Launches Next Phase Of Its Voice Strategy
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:LVLT) announced that it is
launching the next phase of its voice strategy in the U.S. and
Europe. The company's aggressive VoIP rollout will include the
introduction of two new residential VoIP services.
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telic.net And sentitO Networks
Partner To Resolve VoIP Billing
telic.net, a provider
of managed Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions, announced
the formation of a partnership with Maryland-based sentitO Networks,
the leading provider of advanced VoIP soft-switching solutions. The
partnership enables the two companies to provide turnkey solutions
to service providers, combining switching with managed applications
that support wholesale and retail services, including a
full-featured calling card platform.
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Center For Democracy &
Technology Releases Position Paper On VoIP And Law Enforcement
Surveillance
There is nothing untappable about packet or
Internet technology. Packet services currently available for voice
(and data) are tappable at one or more points in the
networks, and service providers are quite willing to work with law
enforcement to satisfy interception orders quickly and fully. But
the Internet is different from the
traditional telephone network, and government agencies should not
expect that surveillance will be carried out on the Internet the
same way it is carried out in the circuit-switched telephone
network. The digital revolution has produced many means of
communication and it is not reasonable to require that all of them
identify calls and route traffic the same way that the telephone
network does.
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Ubiquity And Convedia Unveil
IP-Based Service Delivery Platform For 3G Networks
Ubiquity and
Convedia, announced the completion of interoperability and
certification testing of their respective products. The two
companies will demonstrate innovative Caller Ringback Tone and
Mobile Conferencing solutions powered by their jointly developed
platform at CTIA Wireless 2004 next week in Atlanta, GA. The joint
solution is the industry’s first 3GPP IMS-compliant solution to
fully embrace the true power of SIP, marrying best-in-class
application server and media processing technologies.
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Meru
Improves Wi-Fi Handsets' Talk Time
Meru Networks, a provider of
voice over wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure technology, announced
it is working with leading 802.11-based phone manufacturers and chip
vendors to significantly increase handset battery performance. Meru
is providing the manufacturers with sleep-mode drivers for handsets
that increase talk time battery life by more than 200 percent when
operating over a Meru Wireless LAN.
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Softswitch Market To See Huge Gains As VoIP Goes
Mainstream
With major
service providers around the world having already initiated, or
announced plans to deliver local and/or long distance voice
services, based on softswitch technology, to business and/or
residential customers, the total softswitch market in 2003 grew by
42.4%. High-tech market research firm, In-Stat/MDR expects this
market to maintain high growth rates over the next several years as
major service providers worldwide expand their VoIP networks. As a
result, the softswitch market is expected to experience a compound
annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64.6%, between 2003 and 2008, resulting
in revenues of $2.05 billion.
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