Ixia, a provider of technology for testing wireless networks, has reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010, racking up record revenue and slashing the net loss from $2.7 million to $361,000.

Total revenue for the 2010 second quarter was a record $66.1 million, an increase of 72 percent over $38.4 million reported for the 2009 second quarter and an increase of seven percent over the $62.0 million reported for the immediately preceding quarter.

Revenue for the 2010 second quarter includes approximately $15.3 million attributable to sales of the IxN2X and IxCatapult products following the acquisition of Agilent Technologies' N2X Data Network Testing Product Line in October 2009 and the acquisition of Catapult Communications in June 2009.

"We are pleased with our 2010 second quarter results," said Atul Bhatnagar, Ixia's president and chief executive officer. "We are seeing strong demand for our wireline testing products, including our high-speed Ethernet products and our newly introduced NGY Fusion-enabled offering."

TMC's CEO Rich Tehrani had a chance to interview Bhatnagar at Interop 2010 in Las Vegas, who told him the best time to change is when business is slow, as you can do things you cannot when the business is running at a faster clip. "In the company's business planning they realized convergence is the driver," Tehrani noted, adding that "this convergence applies to wireless and wired. And this convergence has the effect of causing the testing tools to converge as well."

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A Webinar scheduled for Tuesday, July 27th, "Five Steps to Cut VoIP Operational Support Costs and Boost VoIP ROI," will feature TMC's  very own Stefania Viscusi, our in-house VoIP maven.

Analysts say the payback for VoIP deployments typically ranges from 4 to 19 months, according to the Webinar's organizers, "but when VoIP quality problems overwhelm operational support teams and VoIP service levels disappoint corporate stakeholders, that ROI metric is just wishful thinking."

Convergence technologies, as the Webinar will elucidate, bring with them complex configurations, hyper-critical performance demands, and un-relenting quality issues that can seriously strain your voice network support teams - "putting your converged communications services and VoIP ROI at risk," organizers say.

You'll learn why you must integrate operational methodologies across your voice, data, and IP network domains and how to cut the operational costs of deploying and supporting VoIP and converged voice services.

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Just last year, at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Voxeo, a vendor of Unified Communications and self-service platforms announced that the Tropo.com cloud telephony service source code would be made available to developers for free under open-source licenses.

At the time, Voxeo officials said the release, "demonstrates that cloud computing vendors can subscribe fully to open-source ideals, and avoid the proprietary lock-in typically found in cloud services." 

Tropo.com provides a cloud telephony service that lets developers write voice applications in popular programming languages including Groovy, JavaScript, PHP, Python and Ruby. 

Since then, the company has announced a number of open-source projects.

Also in support of developers, the company made headlines in May of this year with the announcement that it expanded its free developer program to include international SMS numbers, support for European languages and local direct inward dialing "DID" numbers.

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Suzanne Bowen, vice president of Super Technologies, Inc. and DIDX, recently participated in a blog conversation titled, "Intelligent Things You Can Do with Phone Calls or Numbers?"

Feel free, as she says, to "comment directly here on the DIDX blog. You can participate here, on Twitter, Facebook, or Linkedin."

Personally we'd like to thank her for her retro link to Entropy Gradient Reversals, RageBoy Chris "Cluetrain Manifesto" Locke's wonderfully Dadaist site purporting to be about... well, who can say, really? Some rock'n'roll, some techie stuff, some marketing, some futurism, and more.

It was just the bee's knees in 1998. Hit it today to be reminded what HotBot, AltaVista and Excite logos looked like. "Any more intelligent things you can do with phone calls?" Bowen asks. "I hear dozens from new DIDX members and the latest? Make all DIDs SMS-able. "Kevin C. Leacock chimed in with, "is that to say that all DIDX DIDs are becoming SMS-capable?"

"I wish, Kevin," Bowen replied. "We need more mobile operators joining www.didx.net so that some of the coolest services in the world can leverage DIDs that can SMS in and out. These DIDX members have the technology to enable SMS over Internet... just need the DIDs." Bowen then wonders if there are, "any other intelligent things we can do with phone calls, phone service, IP communications, phone numbers? Let's help David Isenberg out here."

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