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WiFi Heads Out to Sea

2008-06-25T14:28:15-05:00

You didn't think I would leave boaters out of today's rash of WiFi/transportation related news did you?

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) announced yesterday that WiFi service was available immediately on eleven MBTA commuter boats, providing customers free connection to the Internet using laptops or other Web-enabled devices.

All MBTA Commuter Boat vessels on the F1 -- Hingham/Boston and F2/F2H -- Quincy/Hull/Logan/Boston ferry routes will offer the WiFi service.

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WiFi Takes to the Skies

2008-06-25T14:25:43-05:00

American Airlines was set to begin testing in-flight WiFi Internet access on two flights today, with broader service expected to begin in the following couple weeks.

American's technology partner, Aircell LLC, is expected to charge between $9.95 and $12.95 for the service, depending on flight length.

Both companies will reportedly share in the revenue.

Lucky passengers will be on American's JFK to LAX route and again on the return leg

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WiFi Hits the Open Road

2008-06-25T14:22:24-05:00

Today's LA Times has a story on Chrysler's latest bid to entice more customers to buy its vehicles. The automaker has announced it will offer wireless Internet as an option on all its 2009 models. So if you can't bear to be away from access to the World Wide Web for however long it takes to get from your home to your workplace, then Chrysler may just be the choice for you. The technology behind this offering is called UConnect Web. Uconnect Web uses cellular and WiFi technology to provide "instant access" to the Internet. According to officials at Chrysler, anyone in the car will be able to check e-mail, download music, play games and even upload photos. The new system will reportedly be competitive with laptop wireless cards, and customers will not be forced to sign up for long contracts. ]]> TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | Greg Galitzine's VoIP Authority Blog Home | Permalink: WiFi Hits the Open Road

Sipera Upgrades Security Appliances

2008-06-24T15:21:05-05:00

Sipera Systems announced that it is upgrading its security appliances to better service the emerging SIP trunking marketplace.

Sipera IPCS security appliances now offer advanced SIP trunking security features and better integrate with SIP trunk provider services.

Furthermore, the company announced that it's revamping its Sipera VIPER Engine (the core security engine for Sipera IPCS appliances), to address the most recent vulnerabilities and threats, adding the capability to download security signatures automatically, and enhanced anomaly detection capabilities against zero day attacks.

Lastly Sipera announced enhanced support for enterprises that have deployed Avaya teleworker and mobile solutions, allowing them to secure their employees' mobile workspaces.

Watch for Sipera to get more deeply involved in the unified communications space, and even to focus a bit more on Microsoft Office Communications Server in the days ahead.

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iPhone... iRobot.... iLike

2008-06-20T14:49:48-05:00

From Gizmodo, via Engadget, to the VoIP Authority blog... This entry highlights the intersection of two of the more exciting areas in technology today (in my view) - mobility and robotics. Apparently a pair of University of South Florida students have teamed up to create a novel iPhone app designed to operate iRobot's Packbot with full streaming POV video. There is a video clip available at Gizmodo here as well as Engadget here. ]]> TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | Greg Galitzine's VoIP Authority Blog Home | Permalink: iPhone... iRobot.... iLike

TMC at NXTcomm

2008-06-17T12:43:20-05:00

So here we are at the start of another NXTComm. Just getting set for a typical tradeshow schedule, which means that from now until about 9pm I will be in meetings, learning about what's hot and what's new in the world of telecom. As you see in the accompanying picture, the TMC booth is already abuzz with briefings ahead of the official show opening time of 10 am local time here in Vegas. That's right, Vegas. For the fourth time this year. And let me tell you, it's hot. 100+ degrees, and that persistent hot desert wind. Thank goodness for air conditioning and water! In any event if you want to keep up with the latest happenings and big news emanating from the event this week, I urge you to check out our NXTComm news coverage page on TMCnet. ]]> TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | Greg Galitzine's VoIP Authority Blog Home | Permalink: TMC at NXTcomm

VoIP Supply Offers Free Shipping on Sangoma Cards

2008-06-12T16:28:45-05:00

VoIP Supply today announced a new promotion whereby they will be offering free shipping on a large portion of their Sangoma product portfolio.

The list of Sangoma products which are available with free ground shipping includes the following cards:

A101
A101D
A102
A102D
A104
A104D
A108
A108D

These cards are all part of Sangoma’s family of Advanced Flexible Telecommunications (AFT) hardware product line, available in either PCI or PCI Express formats.

The A101 supports up to 2.048 Mbps of full duplex data through-put or up to 30 voice calls over a single T1, E1, or J1 line.

The A102 provides two ports of optimized voice and data over T1, E1, and JI. The card supports up to 60 voice calls or 4.096 Mbps of full-duplex data throughput over two T1, E1, or J1 lines.

The A104 doubles up the 102, supporting up to 120 voice calls or 8.192 Mbps of full-duplex data throughput over four T1, E1, or J1 lines.

Lastly, the A108 octal card, which provides up to 16.4Mbps of full duplex data throughput or 240 voice calls over eight T1 and or E1 lines.

All AFT cards offer optional availability of Octasic’s DSP hardware and certified algorithms for echo cancellation and Voice Quality Enhancement (VQE) functions.

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Report Finds 7.8 Million Business VoIP Lines by 2012

2008-06-12T14:14:04-05:00

P&F believes the market for “Business VoIP Lines” will reach a total of 7.8 million lines deployed by 2012.

According to the firm, “We predict that AT&T, Verizon and Qwest will capture the biggest share of large enterprises as VoIP customers, but will face competition in the SMB space from a variety of new entrants.”

For more info check our Pike & Fischer’s Web site.

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HighDeal Selected for OnAir Mobile Internet

2008-06-10T17:16:57-05:00

It’s been coming in fits and starts for some time, but wireless broadband on airplanes is increasingly becoming a reality.

Created in 2005, OnAir is a subsidiary of Airbus and SITA, a provider of IT solutions for the transporation industry. OnAir’s services enable passengers to use their portable devices (laptops, mobile phones and PDAs) as well as the airplane’s own equipment, to communicate just as easily in the air as on the ground.

Well today’s news saw HighDeal announce that OnAir was leveraging HighDeal’s pricing and rating solutions to manage Mobile OnAir, its mobile telephony offer aimed at airline companies.

For more check out this release.

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New iPhone Details Available

2008-06-09T15:25:05-05:00

TMCnet’s Michael Dinan has been following the developments as they relate to today’s big announcement from Apple chief executive Steve Jobs as he unveiled an upgraded iPhone at a San Francisco developers’ conference.

Check out the latest news regarding the iPhone 2.0 here, and check back with TMCnet throughout the day and indeed the week, as the pundits all offer their two cents and reaction to the new offering spreads.

In short, the key takeaways are: 3G for faster download speeds, 16GB, and $299. Oh and it’s available in white.

Check out Michael’s story for the rest of the details.

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Amazon's back

2008-06-06T15:20:14-05:00

And we're back...

Hello, Greg Galitzine. We have recommendations for you. (Not Greg?)

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Amazon Outage... UK Frenzy To Blame?

2008-06-06T15:14:08-05:00

According to a report on the UK’s Daily Express, customers of Amazon’s UK Web site took advantage of a pricing error.

The site reported that

For two hours, the entertainment giant was advertising massive discounts on several DVD box sets including a 44-disc set of hit US drama West Wing for just £17.97. Amazon customers who were lucky enough to stumble across the amazing offers went into a buying frenzy, snapping up multiple purchases of West Wing, Family Guy, Sopranos, Desperate Housewives and Will and Grace.

Sales of Family Guy reportedly shot up over 200,000%, according to the Movers & Shakers chart on Amazon.

Some customers reported that traffic caused the site to slow down considerably.

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Amazon.com Is Unavailable

2008-06-06T14:09:20-05:00

Erik Lagerway just sent a note saying that Amazon.com is offline.

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

This should be a major story once we figure out why.

Erik asks onhis SIPthat blog... "Wonder how their web services are doing?"

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FTC Escalates Intel Investigation

2008-06-06T13:36:42-05:00

According to published reports, Intel Corp. has been subpoenaed by the Federal Trade Commission.

This is regarded as the first step in escalating an informal inquiry to a formal antitrust investigation into its business practices.

Intel has apparently been working with the FTC on an informal inquiry since 2006.

Intel said so far it has provided "thousands of documents" to the FTC, and added that the subpoena will provide for documents from other sources.

Intel’s formal statement regarding the subpoena can be read here.

In the statement, Intel points out that, "The evidence that this industry is fiercely competitive and working is compelling," and indicated a 42 percent drop in microprocessor prices from 2000 to the end 2007.

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IP to Sizzle in Dallas This July

2008-06-04T07:53:29-05:00

ABP Technology announced it is hosting the 5th annual IP Sizzles in Dallas July 28–30, at the Sheraton Grand DFW Hotel.

IP Sizzles is an industry event geared towards resellers and integrators and strives to serve as an educational opportunity where the audience can maximize their business opportunities by connecting with other resellers and integrators as well as industry leaders in VoIP, Wireless, IP Video, IP Infrastructure and IP service providers.

Attendees will have the opportunity to be among the first to see new products from AudioCodes, Mobotix, and others.

Speakers from throughout the IP communications community will focus on an overall theme on the importance of resellers and maximizing the profit channel.

Some of the key IP Sizzles 2008 exhibitors and sponsors are Aastra, Adaptec, AudioCodes, ClearOne, Digium, Linksys, pbxnsip, SMC Networks and snom. Other sponsors include Broadvox and XO.

There will also be a special session “Doubling Your IP Sales in Six Months” focusing on –Solutions Selling and Closing Sales” presented by one of America's top sales trainers.

Registration is open now.

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JC Murphy to Head CedarPoint

2008-06-03T17:13:47-05:00

Erstwhile president of Excel Switching Corp. and Cantata TechnologyJ.C. Murphy has been named CEO of CedarPoint Communications.

Murphy, who was named to Internet Telephony magazine’s list of the Top 100 Voices in IP Communications, is replacing interim CEO Curt Hockmeier who was holding down the fort after the departure of former CEO Andy Paff.

Murphy had been with Cedar Point since October 2007 in the capacity of executive vice president of sales.

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Time Warner Trial Set to Debut Thursday

2008-06-03T10:51:12-05:00

As reported back in January, Time Warner Cable is making good on its promise to introduce tiered pricing in the southern Texas community of Beaumont.

The company is rolling out its consumption pricing trial in Beaumont this coming Thursday, with those who go over a preset bandwidth limit to be charged $1 per gigabyte.

Current company pricing will range from $30 a month for a 768 kbps (five-gigabyte monthly cap) to $55 a month for 15 mbps (40-gigabyte cap).

Time Warner said the trial is targeting the problem that just five percent of the company's subscribers take up half of the cable company's capacity.

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Must be the VoIP

2008-05-29T07:54:24-05:00

Costco Wholesale Corp. said on Thursday its quarterly profit jumped 32 percent, beating expectations.

Net income was $295.1 million, or 67 cents per share, for the fiscal third quarter — 2 cents above the consensus analyst estimate — compared with $224.0 million, or 49 cents per share, a year earlier.

Sales in the quarter rose 13 percent to $16.26 billion, excluding membership fees, which rose to $350.9 million from $317.7 million

Some say it’s because cash strapped consumers are looking for discounts on food and gas.

I say it must be the VoIP.

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Small Business VoIP at Costco

2008-05-28T16:51:13-05:00

So let me get this straight… If I want to buy an obscene amount of flour, 48 rolls of paper towels, a 100-lb bag of rice, a 300-pack of DVD-Rs, a six-year supply of shaving cream, or a two-bottle-pack of extra strength Tylenol (1,500 capsules per…) or a small business phone system, all I have to do is go to my friendly neighborhood Costco?

Apparently Syspine’s Digital Operator Phone System from Quanta Computer, featuring Microsoft Response Point phone system software, is now available for purchase at the big-box retailer.

For more, check out the story here.

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SIP Forum Expands Membership

2008-05-28T08:20:32-05:00

The SIP Forum recently announced significantgrowth in membership since the beginning of 2008. Currently, the SIP Forum has 46 Full Member companies and more than 5,000 individual members from around the world.

Companies that have recently joined the SIP Forum as Full Members include AudioCodes Ltd., Bandwidth.com, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs), CGI Group Inc, Covergence, Dialogic Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Unified Solutions Inc., Sonus Networks, Tekelec, and Telsis Limited.

According to Marc Robins, SIP Forum Managing Director and President of SIP Forum LLC, “The recent surge in our membership ranks is a clear signal that the work of the Forum is resonating with equipment vendors, service providers and developers of SIP-based IP communications products and services. Indeed, one of the reasons for our recent growth is the expanding support and momentum behind the SIP Forum's SIP trunking initiative called SIPconnect, which provides an industry-approved set of rules and guidelines for accomplishing trouble-free, direct IP peering between SIP-enabled IP-PBXs and SIP-enabled VoIP service providers.”

The organization’s mission is “To advance the adoption of products and services based on SIP.”

The Forum promotes SIP as the technology of choice for the control of real-time multimedia communication sessions throughout the Internet, corporate networks, and wireless networks.

Visit them online at SIPForum.org

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Vapps Rebranding Hi-Def Conferencing Service

2008-05-19T22:39:15-05:00

Hoboken, NJ-based Vapps, Inc. has announced it is undergoing a bit of rebranding, and will use the term High-Definition Conferencing to describe the high-quality wideband audio fidelity of its audio conferences using Skype. High-Definition Conferencing replaces Vapps’ previous brand, High-Speed Conferencing, effective immediately.

By leveraging the wideband audio protocols available today, whether GIPS or wideband AMR codecs, Vapps believes they can offer the highest quality audio conferencing service available.

I caught up with Vapps at The Cable Show this week, and spoke with John Bennett, the company’s senior vice president who explained that the cable space is new territory for Vapps.

Bennett told me that business services such as the Vapps conferencing service can help cable providers offer their customers a wider variety of compelling applications.

The company also unveiled a brand-new Web site for users to gather more information on High-Definition Conferencing: www.hidefconferencing.com.

Vapps recently announced that automotive replacement parts retailer AutoZone selected Vapps’ Conferencing Enterprise service as the internal audio conferencing service for more than 4,000 retail AutoZone locations.

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Nortel's LTE Patent Licensing Play

2008-05-08T09:01:42-05:00

Last month a group of vendors agreed to commit to a licensing framework, whereby they would license their patents relating to the next-generation wireless technology LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, according to “fair and reasonable” terms.

Long-Term Evolution is a 3GPP (third-generation partnership project) effort to enhance the next generation of UMTS with regard to cost, services, spectrum usage and interoperability.

The technology is designed to speed up network data transfer rates, enabling for example, faster video streaming, photo sharing, and music downloading.

The group which includes the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications most notably does not include Qualcomm, which earlier this year announced plans to develop LTE chipsets.

Now, in a move they hope will accelerate the global adoption of LTE by service providers, handset manufacturers and end-users, Nortel has announced a competitive royalty rate for its standards-essential patent claims for LTE handsets.

In a statement, Nortel said they will “license its LTE standards essential patent claims for LTE handsets at a royalty rate for approximately 1%, subject to reciprocity, defensive suspension, and grantback to Nortel products, services, and solutions, as well as other customary license terms and conditions.”

Nortel hopes that by publishing its patent royalty rates it will provide “increased transparency and predictability of IPR costs” which would eliminate any cost uncertainties in handset costs from stunting the adoption and growth of technologies like LTE.

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WSJ Rumor: Sprint to T-Mobile?

2008-05-05T13:51:30-05:00

A report in The Wall St. Journal has Sprint Nextel Corp. as a takeover candidate, with Germany’s T-Mobile a prime candidate to pull off the deal.

If the deal were to go through, it would make T-Mobile the largest U.S. cellular carrier, vaulting it past AT&T and Verizon Wireless to the number one spot.

While it does make for interesting speculation, let’s not get worked up over it yet. Rumors such as these are what fuels Wall Street, and The Journal said deliberations were at "a preliminary stage and management may very well turn away," and cited sources as saying the arrangement, "could still be weeks, or even months away."

The rumored deal does make sense on several levels, and with the Euro so strong against the dollar, it might simply amount to be too good a deal for Germany’s T-Mobile to pass up on the opportunity to purchase Sprint Nextel’s spectrum and 50 million+ customers.

As they say, watch this space…

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WSJ Rumor: Sprint to T-Mobile?

2008-05-05T13:51:30-05:00

A report in The Wall St. Journal has Sprint Nextel Corp. as a takeover candidate, with Germany’s T-Mobile a prime candidate to pull off the deal.

If the deal were to go through, it would make T-Mobile the largest U.S. cellular carrier, vaulting it past AT&T and Verizon Wireless to the number one spot.

As they say, watch this space…

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Foundry at Interop: New Modules, Green Award

2008-05-01T19:41:36-05:00

I had the opportunity to meet with Foundry Networks at Interop this week, to discuss their latest offerings, a pair of high-density interface modules to its data center switching and routing product lines, the BigIron RX Series switches and the NetIron MLX Series routers.

The new modules will reportedly allow the BigIron RX Series switches and the NetIron MLX Series routers to deliver the industry’s highest 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and gigabit Ethernet (GbE) density of up to 512 ports of 10GbE and 1,536 ports of GbE in a single system.

The news of the new modules came on the heels of Foundry’s announcement of a new vision for advancing the data center based upon four key pillars: performance, virtualization, convergence and efficiency.

Foundry also was awarded the first-ever Interop Green Award. According to a release on Foundry’s site, the company was “…singled out for its ability to deliver industry-leading performance while minimizing power, space and cooling consumption in its switching, routing and application delivery controller (ADC) product set and solutions.”

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Interop: Shunra Makes News

2008-05-01T19:05:39-05:00

I had some more good meetings today at Interop, among them a chat with Shunra Software’s Rhoan Morgan and David Berg. Check out this article on Shunra’s newest announcement regarding version 5.30 of the Shunra Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite

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Interop: XO Expands US Footprint

2008-05-01T14:54:22-05:00

XO Communications announced today that they have significantly expanded their nationwide Ethernet services footprint.

In a briefing at Interop today, I spoke with XO’s Brad Boddicker, regional vice president for the company’s Western region, and he told me that XO is now capable of empowering over half a million business locations in 75 major metropolitan areas across the United States with next-generation Ethernet services.

Boddicker also mentioned that XO can deliver via a number of different vehicles as well, including fiber, Ethernet over copper, and fixed broadband wireless capabilities.

The company has been doing a number of interesting things lately, including the launch in April of XO Anywhere, a service designed to improve worker productivity with mobility and unified communications features. The service enables employees to use any device as their XO office phone, which is a real benefit for companies with large mobile and distributed workforces.

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Rich Questions Shoretel

2008-04-30T20:42:06-05:00

Rich has had his interest piqued by the hushed voices spreading rumors about Shoretel.

In my opinion these guys were once the truest darlings of the VoIP world. Maybe I was simply a sucker for a great desk set (and they had some nice hardware, I tell you) but in the wake of all the sour news in the VoIP world I have to wonder if the old adage “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” applies.

Shoretel stock (SHOR) was down 10.10 percent on Wednesday, but appeared to be making a huge run in aftermarket trading, bouncing back about 8.5% at 6:50 pm ET.

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Rich Questions Shoretel

2008-04-30T20:42:06-05:00

Rich has had his interest piqued by the hushed voices spreading rumors about Shoretel.

Shoretel stock (SHOR) was down 10.10 percent on Wednesday, but appeared to be making a huge run in aftermarket trading, bouncing back about 8.5% at 6:50 pm ET.

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Interop Briefing: Fanfare

2008-04-30T15:43:56-05:00

Like Rich Tehrani, I too find myself in Las Vegas, at the Interop show.

However, unlike Rich’s experience, my experience with lines has been almost nonexistent. No wait for my luggage when I arrived last night. No cab line at the airport. Nobody checking in ahead of me at the hotel.

And today, when I checked in to the show, there was nobody on line in the press room, which made getting my badge a very simple procedure.

And so I’m engaged in a day full of meetings.

First on the list was Fanfare. To see what that company is all about, click here for the report on my meeting with David Gehringer, vice president of marketing for the Mountain View-based firm.

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