MCI, which already offered managed LAN services to its largest customers on a custom basis, is commercializing them and making them available to all comers. Even if the uptake ...

Cisco and Fujitsu announced a strategic alliance to address the needs of the Japanese router market. The alliance brings joint development, feature collaboration, and enhanced support and service. ...

Inovis upgrades its B2B Integration product, BizManager, with transformation capabilities. This is a big differentiator over other pure plays such as Cyclone and will help it compete with the upcoming ...

While most view competition by focussing on either the PTT or a handful of national operators, this does not factor in the threat from regional carriers. National operators must ...

Telecom Italia announces its plan to fully integrate Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) into the Telecom Italia group. This will allow Telecom Italia to tackle IP-based communications over converged fixed and ...

Similarity Systems and QAS announced a partnership to provide QAS' international address validation software as a component in Similarity Systems' product suite. It is a good agreement for both ...

Through long-term infrastructure contracts, Sprint has reiterated its commitment to 3G technology deployment. This announcement reconfirms that Sprint is not only on track with EV-DO, but is also moving towards ...

T-Mobile has launched the first nation-wide ringback tone service, a logical evolution to personalized ring tones, but it remains to be seen if customers will stay interested. ...

Chordiant's buy of privately-held, UK-based firm KiQ Limited fills one of the glaring holes in its product set. But KiQ's lack of U.S. exposure will slow down the acceptance of ...

TSIC unveils its new wholesale voice and IP over Ethernet service. This is definitely a move that will get attention from European clients and force key rivals to rethink ...

BEA loads up the next version of its application server, code-named Diablo, with a host of solid availability and management features. Although this market has become mature, Diablo forms ...

Siebel, squeezed by increased competition from both enterprise vendors and hosted CRM services, has turned once again to the SMB space to drive growth. Still, Siebel will have a ...

PIPEX is launching an IP Centrex service in order to increase margins and offer a stickier bundled voice over broadband service to its business customers. Inclarity gets the partner ...

Hewlett-Packard has released a series of fixed-configuration 10 GigE aggregation switches with full Layer 3 functionality at a price that will put a cramp in competitors' styles. ...

Cingular Wireless forms the Business Markets Group to concentrate on enterprise customers; the new organization can't guarantee success, but should help Cingular to retain and grow its valuable AT&T Wireless ...

Infonet enhances its managed security services with several new firewall options. It is a necessary move for it to keep up with its competitive brethren, adding elements such as ...

ECI Telecom has bought into a strategic partnership with IP/MPLS platform vendor Chiaro Networks, giving both companies an incremental boost in the core router space. ...

Juniper finally delivers on its solution to scale the T640 to a multi-chassis configuration, supporting the interconnection of four T640s with performance levels of 1.2 Terabits of non-blocking throughput. ...

With Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, Oracle bundles several of its BI and ETL components into a new package. This could appeal to Oracle database shops that do not also ...

Oracle has long made much of the ability to connect its sales, marketing, and service applications. But with its new version of its service suite, Oracle has, for the ...