Convergence & Triple Play

BroadSoft has developed hosted unified communications services for businesses, based on Microsoft Corp. software.Thanks to an integration between the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.5 and BroadSoft's BroadWorks platform, carriers can tie in business software-like sales management or enterprise resource planning with regular UC features like IM and presence.

Nortel Networks, fresh from a re-examination of its lines of business, is making promised strides in one of its key focus areas: business services. On Thursday the vendor released two sizes of the Nortel Business Services Gateway for lower-cost unified communications and VoIP for small and medium businesses. It also revealed that AT&T Inc. has become a reseller for Nortel’s ...

Traditionally — if there can be a “traditionally” in such a young space — unified communications and fixed/mobile convergence offerings have been the province of vendors serving enterprises directly, no service provider required. Those operators that have gone in with hosted offers so far have found they can’t quite achieve feature parity with premises-based solutions, or they’ve suffered a lack ...

ITC^DeltaCom Inc., a provider of integrated communications services to customers in the southeastern U.S., today announced a $20 million network upgrade initiative to begin this year and be completed in 2009. The upgrade will involve the deployment of additional Infinera Corp. (INFN) DTN optical networking systems in key markets across North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Georgia to enable high ...

Hoping to keep pace in the video-on-demand race with entrenched cablecos, Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) today announced it has added CSPAN's political coverage to its FiOS TV VoD library, as well as new HD content from other sources. By yearend, Verizon says it plans to offer 1,000 HD VOD titles each month. Verizon has added new HD content from several providers ...