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Shoretel, Mitel, All's Well That Ends Well

A colleague sent me this item today:  ShoreTel and Mitel Announce Cross-License and SettlementCompanies Resolve Lawsuits Filed in 2007  ShoreTel, Inc., a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications (UC) solutions, and Mitel, the trusted provider of unified communications, today announced... Full Story

Posted on May 7, 2009 4:30 PM

TMCnet Blogger Family Grows

Today I'm proud to welcome our latest TMCnet blogger, Chuck Rutledge who will be sharing his insights and opinions via his new "Now Market It" blog. I've known Chuck for over a decade, and he has always been a fantastic resource... Full Story

Posted on April 27, 2009 11:44 AM

eBay Looks to Spin Off Skype

eBay has let it be known that they are looking to spin off Skype, the Internet phone company by way of public offering. Nearly 4 years after it acquired Skype for $2.6 billion, eBay has come to terms with the fact... Full Story

Posted on April 15, 2009 7:27 AM

ShoreTel Upgrades Unified Communications Offer

  ShoreTel has released the latest version of its Unified Communications software, ShoreTel 9. Among the new features, ShoreTel 9 is targeting mobile and desktop users with enhancements designed to enable them to communicate more effectively-regardless of location-and increase individual productivity. I... Full Story

Posted on March 31, 2009 10:42 PM

ADTRAN Launches Alliance Program; Targets SMB

Building on their recent momentum and looking to leverage the best of what the market has to offer, ADTRAN today announced d the ADTRAN Alliance Program, a collaboration between ADTRAN and a number of best-in-breed technology and service providers delivering... Full Story

Posted on March 31, 2009 11:17 AM

8x8 Launches Enterprise Scale Virtual Office IP PBX Solution

I recently had the opportunity to meet with 8x8's Huw Rees to discuss that company's steps to move their Virtual Office hosted IP PBX solution "upstream" to serve larger organizations in the small to medium sized business range. Well, today the... Full Story

Posted on March 30, 2009 11:03 PM

Mitel Meeting Notes

I visited with Mitel today, and they showed me several solutions designed to drive productivity, enhance customer service, and simplify network management. Thanks go to Stephen Beamish, vice president of business development and strategic alliances and Danielle McNeil, public relations... Full Story

Posted on March 30, 2009 10:35 PM

Skype for SIP: VoIP Provider Targets Corporate PBX Market

It was only a matter of time. Skype today announced the Skype For SIP beta program, which will enable businesses to receive and manage inbound calls from Skype users on SIP-enabled PBX systems, connecting a company's Web site to the PBX... Full Story

Posted on March 23, 2009 7:58 AM

8x8 Visit With Huw Rees

If it's Wednesday, it must be San Jose... Or in this case, more specifically, Santa Clara. My colleagues and I just stopped in to see our friends at 8x8, who were gracious enough to spend some time with us on this cloudy... Full Story

Posted on March 18, 2009 1:10 PM

XConnect to Certify NetNumber; Liverpool Wins

XConnect will officially certify NetNumber's TITAN (Transactional IP Telephony Addressing and Numbering) server as being XConnect-Ready. In other good news for XConnect CEO Eli Katz, Liverpool has just defeated Real Madrid 4-0. Check out the full story and a brief interview with... Full Story

Posted on March 10, 2009 5:38 PM

Infonetics: Carrier VoIP Market Down

Infonetics Research has released the Q4 2008 edition of its Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers report. And the news is not good. According to Infonetics' Diane Myers, Directing Analyst, Service Provider VoIP and IMS:"The fourth quarter of 2008 confirmed what we... Full Story

Posted on March 3, 2009 5:29 PM

Infonetics' Enterprise Telephony Report: Winners and Prognostications

I was on the road yesterday, a quick jaunt to Chicago for an interview with Tellabs. Rich blogged about it and posted a bunch of images from the trip, including one picture that so eloquently captured my thoughts on how... Full Story

Posted on February 26, 2009 10:43 AM

VocalTec Announces Customer Wins

For those who have been around the VoIP industry for some time, the name VocalTec is synonymous with the industry's earliest days. VocalTec is a true VoIP pioneer and many even credit them for creating the first commercial products that... Full Story

Posted on February 24, 2009 8:51 AM

Sipera, RSA in Secure VoIP Deal

Sipera Systems says it's joined the RSA Secured Partner Program and RSA, The Security Division of EMC, said that it has certified interoperability between the Sipera IPCS UC security product family and the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication solution. The result is... Full Story

Posted on February 23, 2009 11:39 AM

Call Recording for Skype

is a hot topic these days, whether traditional TDM, or more frequently now, VoIP recording. There are many reasons to deploy a call recording solution, be it to improve your business' performance through monitoring and archiving important calls, to... Full Story

Posted on February 20, 2009 7:51 AM

In-Stat: VoIP Market Slowing Down?

A somewhat deceiving headline made me sit up and take notice this morning. A news item from In-Stat, titled: Struggling Economy Will Slow the Growth of Voice over IP (VoIP) in US Business Markets drew my attention. A closer look at... Full Story

Posted on February 17, 2009 9:41 AM

TMCnet Blogs Week in Review

It's been quite a week for news this week, and not just the run of the mill product announcements, customer wins and such. Some rather big things went down this week, and the TMCnet family of bloggers was all over... Full Story

Posted on January 16, 2009 9:02 AM

Verizon Plays Down "No More Copper" Comments

On second thought, we will NOT be doing away with voice over copper in seven years. We like VoIP, but we love copper. Clearly our executive was not supposed to say what he said to that Bloomberg reporter. Either that or the... Full Story

Posted on January 14, 2009 8:32 AM

Verizon Exec: No More Copper by 2016

In an item today from Bloomberg News, via the LA Times, Verizon's Chief Marketing Officer John Stratton reportedly said at CES, that the operator plans to do away with placing voice calls over copper lines within a seven-year timeframe. So let... Full Story

Posted on January 12, 2009 2:24 PM

Goin' Mobile With Skype

Out in the woodsOr in the cityIt's all the same to meWhen I'm drivin' free, the world's my home...When I'm mobile...   Ok, I admit it. Sometimes I can't help myself. I reach for the most clichéd classic rock lyrics when... Full Story

Posted on January 9, 2009 8:44 AM

Better Living Through... VoIP?

TMCnet and INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine are looking for customer case studies. If you are a provider of IP communications products or services, and you want to show the world how your solutions are helping your customers save money, increase productivity... Full Story

Posted on January 5, 2009 10:15 AM

It's That Time of Year...

As the year comes to a close, it's time again to feature that publishing staple -- the year end interview. I'm fortunate enough to work in an industry where people not only have a lot of interesting things to say, they're... Full Story

Posted on December 8, 2008 5:11 PM

Infonetics: Carrier VoIP is Down...

A new research report from Infonetics tells us something that many of us have felt coming for some time. According to the report Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers carriers are not likely to engage in VoIP equipment purchases... Full Story

Posted on November 20, 2008 2:55 PM

Mediatrix Releases New VoIP Gateway

Just got word that Sherbrooke, Quebec-based Mediatrix has released its latest gateway, the Mediatrix 4102. The latest in the company's line of VoIP gateway products, the 4102 is designed to offer better performance for the growing SOHO and remote office markets.  The... Full Story

Posted on November 18, 2008 1:47 PM

Texas Instruments Unveils New IP Phone Platform

Earlier this week, Texas Instruments introduced their latest IP phone development platform that's designed to allow IP phone manufacturers to create solutions that will offer a truly feature rich experience to end users. I was fortunate to meet TI's Kim Devlin-Allen... Full Story

Posted on November 13, 2008 12:11 AM