Regional CLEC Xspedius is keeping the pressure on the incumbents by migrating from ATM to an IP/MPLS-based network to serve its small and mid-size business customers with next-generation services ranging ...

Hidden amid a bevy of prosaic product enhancements are presence awareness capabilities for Avaya's IP Office. Presence promises to help the platform stand out from the competition, though it's ...

Catch has done it again, this time the company has acquired a Norwegian service provider that operates in the high-end market, ID Comnet. This move increases Catch's attractiveness among ...

Symantec has announced a solutions-based approach to addressing corporate security and availability needs. The new strategy was unveiled with great fanfare and accompanied by several product announcements. ...

Akamai, Limelight Networks, Nine Systems, SAVVIS, and VitalStream step up to the plate as the first to achieve Microsoft's new Premier Windows Media Hosting Provider Certification, adding a new level ...

How quickly things change. In 2003, Sprint didn't even have an MPLS-enabled IP network available for business users. Now it is extending MPLS nodes to more than 100 countries, with ...

Orange Switzerland is to launch the SPV M2000 Smartphone in November with a special WLAN hotspot tariff. Orange has the competitive advantage and will capture the interest of new ...

By publicly airing its IMS strategy and roadmap, Ericsson is demonstrating that it's ready to seize leadership in the wireless/wireline convergence arena and finally make a mark on the North ...

There are a number of enhancements included in Avaya's IP Office 3.0 integrated communications platform, but presence-awareness capabilities grab the attention. This will help the platform stand out from ...

Sun and others release the draft specification of JBI, which promises to standardize integration under a Java umbrella. The draft is realistic enough, but the absence of IBM and ...

It is impossible to criticise the recent Cisco CallManager enhancements, which focus on security and PBX interoperability. Still, Cisco is plugging holes in the IP telephony platform, but failing ...

While PrimaCom's price reduction and flat-rate offer will be good news for some customers, the company's coverage and service offerings are relatively flat. There is also no support for voice ...

Xspedius migrates from legacy ATM core network to a state of the art IP/MPLS network, based on products from Lucent and Juniper and positions itself to dominate the Midwest ICP ...

3 Italy ramps up its business tariffs with a flat rate voice, data and e-mail plan. Once again, 3 Italy silences the competition with affordable business solutions that companies ...

Caspian Networks benefits from its new partnership with Operax by offering customers a way to guarantee QoS while lowering costs, but competitors will pursue comparable deals with the Swedish company ...

With Telica's Plexus 9000 now part of the Lucent next-generation switching arsenal, Lucent did the right thing in pulling the plug on the iGEN system, which never had a chance ...

SBC keeps rolling with the low-priced DSL deals to guard against cable broadband and VoIP. Its latest is Yahoo! Express DSL for $19.95 a month, which comes with an annual ...

Acxiom's acquisition of ChinaLOOP provides a strong beachhead for its Asian expansion and should serve to fuel new growth and revenue opportunities. ...

Not a single competitor is pushing cheap, entry level broadband, triple play services (voice, video and Internet), fast ADSL or SDSL backed by SLAs for businesses. Ireland cannot afford ...

Novell and Dell announced an agreement to offer Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 on select Dell PowerEdge servers. The agreement will help Novell expand its Linux sales and ...