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Case Study: SIP Business Voice

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

It's not just the big MSOs that want to get into the SMB voice market. Though the hurdles are many, small and medium-sized operators can play in this space, too....

Study: Rapid Shift in Residential Phone

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT

According to an updated forecast from SNL Kagan, the cable industry is positioned to continue market share growth in the residential phone business, but the gains could prove tenuous. The study, titled "Cable Looks for Phone Share Gains Amid Change," explores the competitive telephony landscape...

Vapps Updates Skype Extra

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT

Vapps, a provider of audioconferencing services, today announced an update of its Skype Extra, a plug-in that launches the full feature set of its High-Definition Conferencing (HD-C) service from within the Skype Internet...

Skype Expands Unlimited Calling

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT

Skype has expanded unlimited calling subscriptions for consumers in the United States and Canada, with a single, monthly flat rate subscription for unlimited...

Cogeco Extends Phone Service

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT

Cogeco Cable has launched its Digital Phone service in Ridgeway, Ontario. Since its initial launch, the Digital Phone...

Vulnerabilities Found in Enterprise VoIP Systems

Thu, 3 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT

VoIPshield Laboratories, the research division of VoIPshield Systems, has discovered more than 100 security vulnerabilities in VoIP systems marketed by...

Biz Tel: Real-World Wiring

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 0:00:00 EDT

As more operators offer business telephony in addition to a residential offering, operators are finding that supporting business communications differs from supporting the residential triple play. Just as important as the service dimensions of this support is the physical side of support, where customer...

Finances, VoWi-Fi and Innovation

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST

It's always a tricky business to get into telecommunications finances because they're more tangled than the wires behind your home entertainment center and harder to read than the instructions that came with that do-it-yourself bookshelf from Ikea. Still, a couple reports issued this week shed a little light...

Residential vs. Business Voice

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST

As cable operators expand telephony offerings, they encounter both similarities and significant differences in delivery requirements for commercial and residential services. Among the distinctions is battery life and customer response time....

Watching the PacketCable Barometer

Fri, 1 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST

PacketCable 2.0 incorporates components of 3GPP, but in the near term, this spec's potential lies more with business voice and possibly home networking than wireless infrastructure....