March 2008

Session Border Controller revenue up marginally in 4Q07

Thu, 2008-03-06 17:27 — JR

Session Border Controller (SBC) revenue during 4Q07 was up 3.3% from the previous quarter 3Q07. A total of 5.9 million â€˜sessionsâ€™ capacity were shipped during 4Q07 generating $46.6 million in revenue. 307 revenues were in the range of $45.1 million...

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Micro-Enterprise VoIP provider raises another round of funding

Wed, 2008-03-05 13:29 — JR

RingCentral, the SOHO and micro-enterprise focussed service provider, has raised $24 million through two rounds of funding within the last six months. It announced its second round yesterday. The company serves over 50,000 SOHO/micro-enterprise customers. I have so far covered...

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TriQuint Semiconductor 4Q07 Update

Sat, 2008-03-01 09:02 — Meenakshi Bhalla

TriQuint Semiconductor registered revenues of $128.5 million in Q407 that were sequentially up by 5%. The company saw a strong demand for its handset product which saw 14% increase in revenue, with 59% being contributed by 3G. Besides, Wireless LAN...

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Nortel 4Q07 VoIP Update

Sat, 2008-03-01 09:32 — Rabia Taseer

â€¢ Carrier VoIP equipment revenues $147m. Best ever VoIP quarter â€¢ Circuit voice equipment revenues in carrier segment: $69m â€¢ Recent VoIP wins: Clearwire â€¢ Enterprise voice equipment revenues $529m (includes both circuit and VoIP products)...

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User generated content meets telephony

Sat, 2008-03-01 11:26 — JR

Transcribed voicemails can be the easiest form of telephony-related user generated content (UGC) if you share such content with your connections. You could specify which group can have access to the transcribed voicemail contents. But moving a step further, why...

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Improving quality of video interviews over Internet

Sat, 2008-03-01 11:29 — Faisal Kawoosa

We have a genuine problem with our video interviews feature. We cannot travel too much to get hold of people live in person. So there are two broad options to carry our video interviews remotely (given the bandwidth constraints on...

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Cablevision 4Q07 VoIP Update

Tue, 2008-03-04 08:54 — Sabiya Naaz

â€¢ 1.6 million VoIP subscribers as of end 2007. â€¢ Added 102k during 4Q07 and 383k new subscribers during 2007 â€¢ VoIP represents 34% penetration in homes passed â€¢ VoIP represented 8% of overall 2007 revenues. Overall 2007 revenues $6.5...

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IPTV: where is the service differentiation?

Tue, 2008-03-04 08:56 — Faisal Kawoosa

Other than the integration issues that IPTV operators often stumble upon, being able to differentiate their service is a major challenge. IPTV is in its infancy and it has to work much harder to shake the equilibrium in the pay-TV...

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What to make of Skypeâ€™s 0.1 trillion minutes

Tue, 2008-03-04 09:04 — Faisal Kawoosa

Skype users have generated a call volume of 100 billion minutes since inception. Skype has 276 million registered users. The company started operations around August/September 2003. I worked the subscriber base backwards and got an average monthly growth rate of...

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Interview with Scott Grout, CEO, RadiSys

Tue, 2008-03-04 09:22 — JR

COTS hardware has been around for more than a decade. What is keeping equipment makers from deploying these solutions? A suitable COTS architecture has only been available for two years. Other COTS architectures like Compact PCI were basically enterprise technology....

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