MetaSwitch, one of the few non-legacy, non-incumbents to capture a dominant market share in the North American Class 5 replacement market, continues these efforts, leveraging partnerships and channels to increase ...

Though Ericsson's Telephony Softswitch claims only a modest percentage of the overall softswitch market, the platform's tight integration into Ericsson's IMS portfolio makes it appealing to a wide breadth of ...

Long after it was first announced, it's still unclear whether or not Motorola's Universal Base Station is shipping. Without it, the portfolio remains firmly stuck in the past and at ...

Based on product metrics alone, Samsung's base station portfolio is strong with winning capacity performance and footprint efficiency. Unfortunately, a lack of market momentum and a tight focus on WiMAX ...

Sprint Nextel offers network- and premises-based VoIP solutions for small businesses to medium enterprises. The addition of IP trunking would round out the carrier's portfolio and strengthen its position as ...

Taqua continues its resurgence, establishing a customer run rate of a win a month since the beginning of 2007. The company attributes its renewal and success to its single-minded focus ...

The Nortel Communications Server 1500, a smaller version of the CS 2000, aimed at the installed base for small to medium-sized ILECs, is getting some traction but needs to overcome ...

Orange Business Services continues to win industry recognition for its services and large global network. Limited US penetration is an issue, and European mobile assets need to be fully leveraged ...

T-Systems' Cognizant partnership and the globalisation of its dynamic computing and service delivery will counter many critics. However, the company does lack the network infrastructure and market presence to be ...

T-Systems has followed its deals with Airbus and Shell with big renewals with Siemens and Sparkassen Informatik. However, T-Systems' domestic revenues and SME market share are slipping and it must ...

Increased sales of Ciena platforms such as the CN 5060 and CN 3000 and the addition of the World Wide Packets portfolio will help raise its profile, but Ciena still ...

Covad is an established VoIP provider in the SMB market, but it competes against larger carriers and MSOs. Covad's new owners have the capital to increase sales and marketing, but ...

Verizon Business continues to enhance its IP telephony portfolio, most recently adding on-demand VoIP access line sharing. Verizon was an early proponent of VoIP, and today offers a VoIP portfolio ...

The OptiX OSN 3500's strengths focus on traditional MSPP functions including E1/E3/SDH interface capacities and TDM switching. However, the system's relatively weak Ethernet support detracts from its ability to address ...

Qwest OneFlex is a full-featured set of IP telephony services designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of businesses. Qwest must continue to enhance its portfolio to maintain ...

AT&T is bearing additional fruits from past acquisitions. The carrier consolidated its wireline and wireless portals to one site, and supports e-billing across services. Utility computing and managed/hosted enhancements round ...

The mobile applications and middleware markets in Europe are certainly moving beyond e-mail applications - enterprise applications and unified communications coupled with FMC will drive this market further, but it ...

Mobile device management solutions are evolving with more players taking a place in the EM ecosystem. However, device management only partially overlaps with security solutions, so there are still two ...

Nortel was once again the worldwide softswitch sales leader in 2007. The company's challenge for the remainder of 2008 will be to continue to increase the attractiveness of the CS ...

Ericsson continues to leverage the product and marketing differentiators of Redback's SmartEdge MultiService Edge Router platform, but despite hardware and software enhancements, the platform's revenue performance has lagged peers. This ...