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Jajah cries foul over eBay's block Web-site buttons from Internet telephony startup Jajah that allowed eBay buyers and sellers to initiate phone calls have been banned by eBay, a move that Jajah charges is unjustified. Skype CEO steps down Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom has handed over his CEO title to become non-executive chairman of the board of directors of this eBay unit, whose impact on its parent company remains an open question. October 1, 11:23 a.m. PDT From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes.  September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Best of open source in networking If we had to pick the most significant trend in networking today, the VoIP phenomenon might well top the list. And open source is playing no small part. While enterprises remain reluctant to rip out their tried-and-true PBXes, open source VoIP -- usually in the form of Asterisk -- is capturing business communications one small business or branch office at a time. Sooner or later, enterprises too will catch the open source VoIP bug. The cost savings and flexibility are too compelling to resist. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Skype offers more details of 'perfect storm' outage The situation that prevented millions of people from accessing Skype's Internet telephony service late last week was a "perfect storm" and should not reoccur, the company said Tuesday. August 21, 5:42 a.m. PDT Microsoft, others scramble for spotlight at VoiceCon Microsoft has licensed its RT Audio Codec for IP (Internet Protocol) voice calls to major hardware vendors including Intel, Texas Instruments, and Polycom, the company is set to announce Tuesday at the VoiceCon conference. It joins several vendors using the event as a showcase for IP telephony advancements. August 21, 4:19 a.m. PDT Google struggles with phone number 'for life' Google's GrandCentral Communications is finding it tricky to keep its promise to provide its clients with a single phone number "for life." August 20, 4:08 p.m. PDT Skype users don't buy outage explanation eBay's explanation for last week's failure of its Skype communication service has left many users still wondering what caused the worst outage in Skype's five-year history. August 20, 3:11 p.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Skype VOIP problems may continue throughout the day Skype is still trying to restore service to millions of its customers almost 24 hours after they began to experience problems logging in to the VOIP service. August 17, 5:15 a.m. PDT High-fidelity VoIP Not so long ago, I wrote an article on Asterisk and open source VoIP in general. In my discussion with Mark Spencer, the founder of Digium and the Asterisk project, he recommended Polycom as the phone vendor he would choose for an Asterisk deployment. In the same article, I profiled Summer Bay Resorts, which runs Asterisk across multiple call centers and hundreds of agents, all with Polycom phones. You might think Polycom is onto something. July 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT ITC denies stay on Qualcomm ban The U.S. International Trade Commission has denied a request by Qualcomm to stay an ITC ban on the importation of some Qualcomm chips and cell phones into the U.S. while the company continues its appeal in a patent infringement case filed against it by Broadcom. June 22, 8:31 a.m. PDT Vonage appeal cites Supreme Court patent ruling In its appeal of a jury verdict in the patent infringement case brought against it by Verizon, Vonage has turned to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that some analysts see as making it easier to invalidate patent claims. May 10, 9:00 a.m. PDT Update: Vonage files to vacate patent ruling Internet based phone company Vonage says a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court this week has given it new life in a crippling lawsuit with telecommunications giant Verizon. May 1, 3:06 p.m. PDT Microsoft gets into VoIP ... and confuses us Impenetrable questions I've been pondering: The difference between acute dyslexia and the way Linux programmers name their software. How Apple Store sales personnel differ from those at the Clearasil human testing lab. Whether the proliferation of Law & Order: X and Ebola virus outbreaks are somehow connected. The difference between Office Communications Server and Microsoft Response Point. March 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Dell division will design Web 2.0 datacenters Dell on Tuesday announced it has launched a division to design customized datacenters for companies that rely on servers to run their businesses, such as Web 2.0 firms or Internet search engines. March 27, 1:01 p.m. PST Open source VoIP makes the business connection Nearly three years since Jon “maddog” Hall predicted that “VoIP using an open source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today,” open source VoIP for the enterprise remains a wild frontier. SMB uptake has been considerable, as open source VoIP’s promise of control and cost savings make it a natural fit. But when it comes to large-scale implementations, open source voice has yet to get most enterprises to listen. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Case study: Asterisk proves its worth Despite Digium’s current positioning of Asterisk for the midmarket, plenty of large-scale implementations speak to the scalability and versatility of the open source IP PBX. One such rollout — that of Summer Bay Resorts, a time-share vacation property company — provides ample evidence that if the phone is the lifeblood of your business, Asterisk is more than up to the task. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST VoIP’s mad scientist Some stories are a labor of love. “Open Source VoIP Makes the Business Connection” is one of them. The love, in this case, originates with Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Skype gains business reviews, expertise marketplace Skype has released a new version of its Internet telephony and instant messaging software that adds a feature to let users create business reviews and another one to sell expertise as the eBay subsidiary promotes interaction among its users. March 15, 2:38 p.m. PST T-Mobile CEO: VOIP will have no major impact Don't expect new mobile phone services based on the Internet Protocol to become nearly as prevalent as those running over PCs. That's the view of Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile International, one of Europe's largest mobile phone operators. February 13, 8:25 a.m. PST Curse of the call center I was working for a small chain of electronics retailers in New Orleans when the head office in Memphis decided that we needed to replace our call center. Business had been expanding rapidly, and our home-grown call system was overwhelmed. We took bids from all the big telephony vendors for turn-key call centers, but in the end the top brass decided that it would be cheaper if we rolled our own. February 13, 3:00 a.m. PST ISP head convicted in E-Rate fraud A U.S. federal jury convicted the former owner and president of ATE Tel Solutions Inc., a telecommunications and Internet service provider, on seven of nine counts of wire fraud in a scheme to defraud the E-Rate program, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday. February 12, 9:24 a.m. PST LOLing all the way to the bank Maxime Seguineau helped found enterprise messaging firm Antepo in February 2000, just as reality was puncturing the hype-filled bubble of the dot-com craze. Back then, IM was mostly for teens and college students, who used free, online chat networks by AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo to keep in touch. Seguineau saw past the crazy colors of ICQ, the cartoonlike appeal of AIM, and the incomprehensible shorthand of IMers, to IM’s promise for the enterprise, which he dubbed “availability based communications,” now called “presence.” February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Nuance goes SIP on voice dialer Nuance Communications has embraced the standard signaling system for IP telephony to deliver a less expensive system for dialing by voice. January 18, 12:50 p.m. PST As-needed networking rollouts pay off Networking buzzwords have had little impact on the core of most infrastructures in the past few years. Yet Gigabit, VoIP, and IPSes continue to receive attention, with many enterprises planning 2007 deployments. Unless absolutely necessary, however, these line items will prove to be bloated investments. January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Skype: Business squarely in our sights Skype will continue to aim at the business market, adding functions for specific business needs, executives said this week at the company's development center in Tallinn, Estonia. December 22, 9:52 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Networking After most of the vendors declined our invitation to a WAN shootout last year, we settled for a series of standalone reviews of WAN accelerators this year. As usual, Riverbed’s Steelhead shined -- so did products from Silver Peak, Blue Coat, and Cisco Systems, though they still swam in Steelhead’s wake. Perhaps competition will be stiff enough for a comparative test in 2007. Stay tuned. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST AT&T benefits from Asia boom AT&T is positioning itself to become a key provider of global communication services in China, India and Vietnam, three of the world's fastest growing economies, executives said at a telecommunications event in Hong Kong. December 6, 8:42 a.m. PST A global communications giant is born: Alcatel-Lucent deal done Alcatel-Lucent, a global communications giant with combined annual revenue of more than US$24 billion, will debut Friday after a sometimes rocky engagement between Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. November 30, 2:49 p.m. PST Networking event set to showcase new technologies This year's Telecom World show may not be as big or influential as previous ones, but the event is still a good personal networking opportunity for experts in the telecommunications industry. November 30, 9:08 a.m. PST Asustek to launch Skype motherboards Asustek Computer plans to launch two motherboards complete with phone jacks able to turn common household telephones into Internet phones using Skype's popular VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) software. November 30, 7:20 a.m. PST BT touts all-IP network benefits to enterprises Even if an 11-year-old school girl from the tiny village of Wick in South Wales was the first person to place a call over BT Group's new next-generation network, U.K. businesses will be among the big benefactors of the all-IP (Internet Protocol) network. November 29, 8:46 a.m. PST BT connects first customers to all-IP network More than 100 consumers in the U.K. village of Wick are among the first customers to be connected to BT Group's next-generation telecommunications network, which went live Tuesday. November 28, 8:39 a.m. PST In Brief: TeliaSonera links to Orange Orange Business Services, the global enterprise networking unit of France Télécom, has strengthened its footprint in the Nordic and Baltic countries through an agreement with Scandinavian telco TeliaSonera. Under the deal announced Wednesday, TeliaSonera will integrate its IP (Internet Protocol) services in its home Nordic and Baltic markets with Orange's global IP network. November 22, 8:29 a.m. PST Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. November 22, 8:21 a.m. PST Summit puts spotlight on trends in networking IT professionals and Gartner analysts are looking beyond networks to the whole enterprise this week at the research company's Enterprise Networking Summit in Las Vegas. November 15, 5:58 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Telecommunications Bell Mobility www.bell.ca Solution for Direct Marketing Response Rates Project Lead: John Walker, Associate Director of Customer Insights and Analysis Project Description: Bell Mobility chose dfPower Studio from DataFlux, an end-user solution that gives both business analysts and database administrators the ability to create, manage, and enforce data quality initiatives across the enterprise. With dfPower Studio, Bell Mobility now creates custom data verification routines that have helped them to identify and eliminate tens of thousands of duplicate prospect records while improving the quality of mailing and telemarketing lists. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Congress sets Alcatel-Lucent hearings Another hurdle has cropped up for the merger of Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. as the U.S. House Armed Services Committee has set a hearing on the national security implications of the deal. November 10, 10:32 a.m. PST Skype upgrade to get smart new features Skype will begin testing an upgrade of its free communications software that can automatically detect phone numbers in Web pages and initiate calls. November 8, 5:28 a.m. PST Juniper unveils branch-office strategy Enterprises have done wonders in recent years consolidating their IT operations into efficient and tightly managed datacenters. That trend has been a godsend for system administrators and IT workers, who no longer have to spend long hours on the road, in transit to far-flung branch offices to reboot servers and take care of other mundane tasks. One population that hasn’t benefitted from centralized IT operations: the poor souls who have to work in those branch offices and live at the mercy of their WAN connection. And that’s no small population. By one estimate, as much as 80 percent of employees at many companies now work outside of headquarters. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM, 3Com team up on IP telephony for SMBs IBM is collaborating with 3Com to put IP (Internet Protocol) telephony in an IBM server so small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) can make phone calls more cheaply without adding extra servers to their networks. October 23, 4:34 a.m. PDT Why SOA and VoIP will converge A dozen years ago, I wrote a Byte cover story on the subject of computer-telephony integration. CTI was “right around the corner” back then. Every time I revisit the subject I conclude that, regrettably, it still is. October 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT EU telecoms try to ward off breakup moves Europe's former telecommunications monopolies warned Tuesday that any attempt to split them up would harm the European Union's competitiveness. October 10, 10:51 a.m. PDT Update: Nokia, Alcatel extend PBX to cell phones Nokia and Alcatel are jumping the gun on Wi-Fi phones that work like regular office handsets: They're offering the same capability on ordinary cell phones. September 21, 1:17 p.m. PDT Skype bridges Macs and PCs with video calling With the latest beta of Skype for the Macintosh, released on Wednesday, Skype hopes to help bridge the barrier between Macs and PCs for video calling. September 13, 6:18 a.m. PDT Cisco banking on collaboration tools Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across its product lines. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP back on the couch over phone record hacks Like a good friend who has just gotten out of a terrible relationship, Hewlett-Packard seemed to be on the rebound and all the happier for it in recent months. After the departure of controversial CEO Carly Fiorina, the company has as of late shown newfound confidence and focus under new CEO Mark Hurd. But all’s still not well in the higher echelons of HP, as revealed in a filing the company made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Ericsson wins $1 billion contract in India Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson has bagged a contract worth about $1 billion over three years from Indian mobile services provider Bharti Airtel. August 24, 5:19 a.m. PDT Avaya CEO steps down Donald Peterson, who has been chief executive officer (CEO) of Avaya Inc. since it was spun off from Lucent Technologies Inc. in 2000, stepped down from that job and the post of president on Tuesday. He will relinquish his position as chairman on Sept. 30. July 25, 12:33 p.m. PDT Mac users to get Skype upgrade Skype, the mostly free voice over IP telephony company, announced on Tuesday it will release this week a Mac Skype starter kit that will include new communications software for Mac OS X 1.5. July 25, 9:45 a.m. PDT Cisco to be in Black Hat hot seat again Cisco Systems' products will again come under scrutiny again at this year's Black Hat USA 2006 conference, which kicks off later this month in Las Vegas. July 19, 3:38 p.m. PDT Update: Vonage sued for voicemail patent infringement The technology used by Vonage Holdings to deliver voicemail service to its 1.6 million VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) telephony customers infringes another company's patent, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. July 10, 10:26 a.m. PDT Microsoft dives into voice communications After years of dipping its toe in the waters of unified voice and data communications, Microsoft is ready to dive in headfirst, unveiling its Unified Communication Product Roadmap and Partner Ecosystem on Monday. June 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT FIFA network tackles tough challenge The World Cup soccer tournament taking place in Germany is not only the planet's largest sporting event; during the four weeks of play through July 9, it's also home to what many experts say is the world's biggest communications network built for a single event. June 19, 4:35 a.m. PDT U.S. Enterpises: Don't be left behind on IPv6 Any enterprise that does business with Asia or the U.S. government should start using IPv6 (Internet Protocol, Version 6) as soon as possible, an advocate of the new version of IP told attendees on Wednesday at the Burton Group Catalyst conference in San Francisco. June 15, 12:48 p.m. PDT Africa resolves telecommunications debate over EASSY project Squabbles that delayed EASSY, the Africa submarine cable project aimed at connecting Africa to the rest of the world, have been resolved and the venture is moving ahead as planned, according to project officials. June 12, 8:10 a.m. PDT Court upholds VOIP wiretapping A U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling requiring VOIP providers to give law enforcement agencies wiretapping capabilities is legal, a court ruled Friday. June 9, 12:09 p.m. PDT Alcatel-Lucent merger gains U.S. government approval U.S. government regulators have approved the planned merger of telecommunications giants Lucent Technologies Inc. and Alcatel SA. June 9, 10:03 a.m. PDT Chambers to become Cisco chairman John Chambers, who has run Cisco Systems Inc. as president and chief executive officer (CEO) since 1995, will become chairman in November while remaining CEO, the dominant networking vendor announced Thursday. June 8, 11:38 a.m. PDT Man charged with selling hacked VOIP services A Miami man was charged Wednesday with stealing more than 10 million minutes of VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone service and then selling them to unsuspecting customers for as little as US$0.004 per minute. June 7, 5:04 p.m. PDT Shareholder suit slams Vonage IPO Vonage Holdings may know how to sell cheap phone calls, but it messed up when it tried to unload overpriced stock, according to a lawsuit filed Friday. June 5, 1:34 p.m. PDT Net2Phone dials up lawsuit against Skype Net2Phone has sued eBay and its Skype unit, alleging that they infringed on a patent it obtained in 2000 and seeking a permanent injunction as well as unspecified monetary compensation. June 5, 12:49 p.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Mark Foster In 1996, the idea of letting customers move their cell phone numbers from one provider to another was revolutionary -- or, if you asked the carriers, impossible. But government pressure forced the move, and Mark Foster was the guy who figured out how to make it work technically. He helped form NeuStar to deliver the neutral database platform that enabled portability. He quickly realized the model was extensible to Internet interoperability. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Matt Bross Telecom firms have traditionally developed their services in technology silos. But Matt Bross, CTO of BT (formerly British Telecom), sees no reason to continue investing in legacy infrastructure, not when the Internet offers vast new opportunities. The former head of global engineering for MasterCard, Bross has developed the architecture for BT’s $18 billion next-generation communications network, dubbed 21CN, to be deployed in 160 countries over the next five years, one that dumps the traditional phone network in favor of broadband IP systems. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Wall Street Beat: Vonage IPO debacle offers a lesson In another tumultuous week of trading, the disappointing initial public offering of Vonage Holdings Corp. provided some lessons on how investors view the current state of telecom services. May 25, 3:49 p.m. PDT Wrong number for Vonage's IPO as stock drops Judging from the first-day performance of its stock, VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) pioneer Vonage Holdings Corp. dialed the wrong number on its initial public offering. May 24, 4:49 p.m. PDT Update: ICANN gives .tel domain thumbs up The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new top-level domain suffixed ".tel," awarding a contract to Telnic Ltd., an Internet communications company based in London. May 15, 6:56 a.m. PDT Coping in a world of IP-based telecom With all the talk about on-demand software, I'm amazed there isn't as much buzz about other on-demand services, such as telecom. That may be starting to change. May 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT BT aims converged services at enterprise BT Group PLC said Wednesday it will offer enterprises IP-based phone network services by early 2007 with features similar to PBX (private-branch exchange) networks. May 11, 9:48 a.m. PDT Product previews IBM primes x86 servers for consolidation IBM announced a new line of Intel x86 server hardware called System x that is designed to deliver enterprise class virtualization capabilities for server consolidation. IBM also unveiled the Consolidation Discovery and Analysis Tool (CDAT), software that scans the network for under-utilized servers and helps identify opportunities to consolidate and virtualize x86 systems. Three new models -- System x3950, System x3850, System x3800 -- will be available this month. System x3950, System x3850, System x3800, IBM May 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Big Brother to drive up VOIP fees With the deadline for voice over IP (VoIP) carriers to comply with the FCC Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act [CALEA] less than a year away, VoIP vendors are beginning to roll out their wire tap technology. May 5, 11:51 a.m. PDT Fight brewing over directories The directory is turning into a battleground as a wide range of IT vendors fight to handle multiple forms of communication, according to Donald Peterson, chairman and CEO of Avaya Inc. May 3, 10:34 a.m. PDT Deutsche Telekom stakes out role in telecom consolidation Deutsche Telekom aims to maintain its position as Europe's largest telecommunications service provider based on revenue and to play "an active role" in consolidating the region's telecommunications sector, Chief Executive Officer Kai-Uwe Ricke said Wednesday. May 3, 4:40 a.m. PDT NEC-Philips venture takes off The new business communications venture formed by NEC Corp. and Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV is ready for business, the companies said Wednesday. April 12, 9:25 a.m. PDT Cisco delivers service-stuffed routers Not that long ago, a small-office router handling a single T1 was more or less fully consumed by that task. Throwing more features into the software to support services such as VoIP or firewalling just wasn’t practical, given the cost of CPU and RAM available for the smaller units. April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT EU mobile price regulations displease operators Anticipating fierce opposition from operators, the European Commission Monday opened a six week-long consultation about its plans to slash the cost of using a mobile phone on the move. April 3, 9:46 a.m. PDT Alcatel, Lucent agree to merge Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. have reached a definitive agreement to merge, they said Sunday. April 2, 8:04 a.m. PDT Lycos to enter 'Net phone fray Lycos plans to launch on Monday a VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) phone application, its first serious entry in years to the now red-hot market of Internet telephony. March 27, 4:11 a.m. PST Yahoo delivers Net phone feature in U.S. IM client Yahoo plans on Wednesday to activate Internet phone capabilities for Yahoo Messenger users in the U.S., a little over three months after announcing this feature. March 22, 4:39 a.m. PST Do you believe in the power of telecom mergers? In a year when top-tier Oscars went to niche-market movies, why are business plaudits going to do a blockbuster deal such as AT&T’s just-announced $67 billion acquisition of BellSouth? If scale doesn’t work in movies anymore, why should it work in business? March 17, 3:00 a.m. PST VoIP buddies: Cisco, Citrix, and Microsoft For better or worse, voice has escaped the telephone and is weaving its way into the fabric of enterprise applications. According to Gartner, by 2010, 80 percent of companies will have integrated voice and messaging into some business applications or processes. March 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Plugging in to voice apps If history is any guide, as many as 88,000 callers will be ringing the toll-free hotlines at 1-800-Flowers this Valentine’s Day to make sure their chocolate and roses arrived on time. Managing call volumes that high is a challenge for any business, but in the gift and sentiment industry, where each transaction carries a high emotional attachment for the customer, efficient call turnaround is especially critical. Still, Lou Orsi, the retailer’s director of vendor relations and strategic projects, isn’t worried. He’s got a secret weapon. February 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco appoints ex-MCI chief Capellas to board Cisco Systems Inc. has appointed Michael Capellas, former president and chief executive officer of MCI Inc., to its board of directors, the computer networking company said Tuesday. February 1, 4:42 a.m. PST Microsoft merges enterprise IM and Exchange groups Microsoft Corp. is merging its Exchange and Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) groups into a new unit called the Unified Communications Group, the company announced Monday. The change is aimed at aligning development work on Microsoft's e-mail platform with that done around other communications systems like instant messaging, Web conferencing and phone/VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol). January 30, 1:06 p.m. PST The new AT&T beats analyst expectations AT&T Inc., the new company created when SBC Communications Inc. acquired AT&T Corp. in November, reported net income of US$1.7 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005, buoyed by data revenue growth. January 26, 6:38 a.m. PST Avaya, Juniper team up for secure IP telephony Avaya Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. have tightened a partnership to bring security together with the next wave of enterprise telephony. January 25, 3:53 p.m. PST Broadband fever spikes at CES It would be easy to mistake the Consumer Electronics Show for one big party, with the booze, the pasted smiles, and 130,000 people milling about. But in reality, it’s the Antwerp of technology. More than any gathering outside the White House, your future is decided here. January 18, 3:00 a.m. PST IT will give up control of the network As we look at all the changes taking place on the Internet during the past several years, I think we can boil it down to two simple observations. First, the volume of traffic is increasing exponentially: E-mail, IM, and RSS all mean more connections. Second, each connection is moving a great deal more data, including multimedia, voice, and video. January 10, 3:00 a.m. PST Philips joins partners for VoIP, HD televisions Koninklijke Philips Electronics will expand its support for VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) technology in new partnerships with eBay's Skype division and Microsoft, and unveil new televisions designed to ease the strain of watching an exciting movie on a sexy $4,000 television, executives said during a press conference Wednesday at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show. January 4, 4:26 p.m. PST Traffic optimization takes center stage in networking show In many ways, 2005 was a "so what?" year for networking. After all, anyone who expected major breakthroughs on a number of key issues ended the year sorely disappointed. There's been little progress on IPv6 adoption, the United States is still claiming it owns the Internet, wireless networking made little progress on fronts political or technical, and IP telephony remains hot -- though whether VoIP's future lies in hardware, software, or both is still a topic that will drive a conference panel, or three, for years. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Product Previews Foundry drives VoIP with FastIron switch Foundry Networks gives enterprise VoIP another push with the unveiling of its FastIron Edge X-Series 424-PoE switch, which combines PoE (Power over Ethernet) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet to help streamline VoIP migration, as well as aid Wi-Fi deployments. The newest FastIron family member boasts 24 ports of 10/100/1000 PoE with four-port combo GbE; each PoE port is 802.3af compliant. The X-Series 424-PoE also supports several Layer 2 protocols, with the option to include more advanced Layer 3 routing protocols; QoS features include voice, data, and application traffic prioritization. The switch is available now, with pricing from $6,995 to $13,485 depending on model. FastIron Edge X-Series 424-PoE Switch Foundry Networks January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST CES: Latest and greatest gadgets head for Vegas It's big, bustling and brings together more than 100,000 people and 300 companies for four days in the middle of the desert. The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off in Las Vegas on Jan. 5 and this time it's all about high-definition, portable video, home networking and fun. December 28, 12:20 a.m. PST Nortel acquires Tasman Networks Nortel Networks Corp. announced Tuesday it will acquire Tasman Networks Inc., a provider of enterprise-level routers, for US$99.5 million. December 27, 6:18 a.m. PST Lucent to take $300 million charge on lawsuit ruling Lucent Technologies Inc. will take a US$300 million charge on its first quarter of 2006 financial statement after a judge ruled against the company in a bankruptcy case on Wednesday. December 22, 8:13 a.m. PST Juniper sues over message-board posts Juniper Networks Inc. is suing 10 unnamed defendants over comments posted to a networking news message board that Juniper charges are libelous. December 22, 4:27 a.m. PST Lenovo to take over mobile phone joint venture China's largest computer vendor on Wednesday said it agreed to buy out its joint venture partner's stake in Lenovo Mobile Communication Technology Ltd. because of the handset manufacturer's strong performance this year and its improving market share. December 20, 7:58 p.m. PST Nortel to lose another executive Nortel Networks Corp. will lose another high-level executive, the telecommunications equipment company announced Tuesday. Clent Richardson, chief marketing officer (CMO) at Nortel since October 2004, will leave the firm March 1, 2006. December 20, 9:19 a.m. PST BCE to sell stake in Canadian IT service provider CGI In a move to refocus on its core telecommunications business, BCE Inc., Canada's largest telecommunications company, has agreed to sell its stake in Canadian IT service provider CGI Group Inc. December 19, 2:53 a.m. PST > Networking > Media networking > Networking > Telecom > Telephony |
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