VoIP\IP telephony & Class 4, 5

In late summer, Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) became the first operator to go commercial with a femtocell offering. Users willing to cough up $99 for an Airave femtocell device plus an additional service plan get the added benefit of improved, POTS-quality indoor cellular coverage and unlimited talking in the home zone. This was just the first indication that femtos are moving ...

Accedian Networks has announced multicast service testing to assure the QoS of real-time, packet-based broadcast and communications applications. It’s supposed to precisely measure packet transmission performance and server responsiveness. The purpose is to monitor large-scale IPTV, VoIP conferencing, telepresence and mobile TV media streaming applications.Accedian Networks’ PAA technology is widely used to monitor demanding business services and 3G and 4G (WiMAX ...

New research shows broadband value added services generated nearly $26 billion worldwide last year. That’s an increase of 62 percent from the year before. The study was done by Point Topic."We estimate that value added services were 10 percent of total broadband revenues, which includes subscriptions in 2003, but by the end of 2007 that has increased to over 30 ...

Earlier in the week Apple Inc. got smacked upside the head by whatever the British regulatory entity is that follows truth-in-advertising. The reason? Saying the iPhone provides a true Internet experience.See, the problem is — and I know this is tough to own up to, iPhone lovers — but the device provides no support for Flash or Java. And last ...

Is this the start of an anti-conglomerate trend? A return to our industry focusing on core competencies? After a successful run in the applications server space, VoIP maestro GENBAND on Thursday said it was spinning off its M6 application server product line and customer base to fellow VoIP maestro BroadSoft Inc.. Rather than remaining Mozart and Salieri, in direct rivalry, ...