February 2008

Interview with Alastair Westgarth, CEO, Tango Networks

Thu, 2008-02-14 13:52 — JR

Alastair discusses factors determining FMC growth and reasons for slow FMC uptake so far. Tango Networks claims that its hybrid FMC architecture is a win-win solution for both the PBX vendors and carriers thus avoiding possible cannibalization of revenues of...

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Comcast 4Q07 VoIP Update

Fri, 2008-02-15 15:51 — Sabiya Naaz

â€¢ Added over 2.5 million VoIP subscribers during the Year 2007 - an increase of 61%. â€¢ Comcast ended 2007 with a total of 4.4 million VoIP subscribers. â€¢ VoIP service now marketed to 42 million homes representing 86% of...

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Atheros 4Q07 Update

Fri, 2008-02-15 16:14 — Faisal Kawoosa

Atheros posted a revenue of $114.3 million in 4Qâ€™07 which was up by 8% reported in the last quarter. Income for the period was $21.4 million. The networking chipsets fetched revenues of 52% while PC OEM got in 43% and...

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IMS for long distance carriers

Fri, 2008-02-08 12:45 — Faisal Kawoosa

Normally you would see IMS being pitched at the local incumbents. Belgacom International Carrier Services (BICS), however, chose IMS blueprint over the softswitch environment even when the cost of IMS implementation was higher. According to BICS, developing applications with softswitch...

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Interview with Jose David, CEO Citel

Thu, 2008-02-07 18:30 — JR

Your offering very much emphasizes connecting IP PBX to digital proprietary phones. What is the logic here? Utilize the existing phone wiring? Exactly. The existing phone wiring as well as the existing phones as well. We make an adaptor that...

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Skype 4Q07 Update

Sat, 2008-02-02 08:38 — JR

276 million registered users at the end of 4Q07. That represents 12% increase quarter-over-quarter and 61% increase year-over-year Skype generated $115 million in revenue during 4Q07, representing 76% year-over-year growth, and 18% growth quarter-over-quarter 83% of the revenues from non-US...

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WonderChip for mobile VoIP

Tue, 2008-02-05 07:10 — Anonymous

I posted a writeup on Faroese Telecomâ€™s NGN project couple of weeks back. Apparently the telco has deployed VoIP equipment 2 years ago. And although it has found ways to utilize the deployed equipment, the utilization remains minimal. Enterprise VoIP...

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CounterPath on a roll

Tue, 2008-02-05 07:06 — Anonymous

I am not sure how familiar you are with the name CounterPath, but the mouse just swallowed another little cub from the FMC zoo. Bridgeport Networks is the second FMC vendor acquisition of the week for the relatively lesser known...

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February CEO Fest at iLocus

Tue, 2008-02-05 07:07 — Anonymous

Stay tuned during the month of February. SeaMeWe permitting, we will post for you a brand new CEO interview each working day for the remainder of this month!!! That is right. We take you direct to the horse each day....

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Maxim-IC 4Q07 Update

Tue, 2008-02-05 07:47 — Faisal Kawoosa

Net revenues for the quarter were $540 million up by 8.6% yoy. Sequentially it was up by 3.3%. Communications contributed around $102.6 million. Other segments that contributed include Computing 31%, Consumer 29% and industrial 21%. The net realizable bookings across...

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