September 2008

Huawei to deliver on the promise of reduced IP STB cost

Mon, 2008-09-01 15:33 — JR

Huawei will put a new IPTV Set-Top Box chipset in commercial use towards the end of this year. The chipset is supposed to bring down the cost of IPTV STBs to an affordable level. In its second design iteration, the...

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Interview with Konstantin Guericke, CEO, Jaxtr

Tue, 2008-09-30 11:04 — JR

What is Jaxtr all about? Our mission at Jaxtr is to enable new conversations by letting people link their phones to the web. So the value you bring in is the integration of PSTN and web. What happens when people...

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Interview with Tom Tovar, CEO, Nominum

Wed, 2008-09-24 18:20 — JR

ENUM look up system is also part of the IMS blueprint. Are the IMS projects implementing ENUM in practice? Where are ENUM servers being deployed today? Some of the IMS projects are becoming smaller due the present economic conditions. Public...

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IPTV equipment generated $229 million in 2Q08

Tue, 2008-09-30 10:53 — JR

IPTV equipment sales in 2Q08 reached $229 million. The equipment sales tracked by iLocus include those of IPTV specific STB, Middleware, VoD, Encoder, and Security products. IP STB formed majority of the sales generated. IP STB sales touched $146.8 million,...

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Sonus Sycamore merger

Fri, 2008-09-19 18:07 — JR

I have been following this thread on Yahoo Message Boards today. A few lines about what this could mean for Sonus ... So â€¦ Sonus has for a long time bet on hosted VoBB i.e. its vision of Class 5...

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T-Mobileâ€™s triple standards

Wed, 2008-09-17 18:25 — JR

For T-Mobile, it is ok to use WiFi in the US to offload voice traffic (sometimes without informing the customers), but in the UK it refuses to interconnect with Truphone and in Germany it altogether seeks a ban on VoIP...

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Carrier VoIP 2Q08 highlights

Tue, 2008-09-16 11:23 — JR

7.7 million VoIP access lines shipped during the quarter, down from 7.9 million lines in 1Q08. This represents second sequentially quarterly decline from 4Q07. Of the 7.7 million lines shipped during the quarter, estimated 6.8 million went towards residential VoBB....

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Interview with Rich Tehrani, President, TMCNet

Tue, 2008-09-09 13:32 — JR

When I first looked at VoIP I thought it was a great technology to reduce your ISD bill. What was the first thought that crossed your mind when you first stumbled upon VoIP technology? Back in 1996, there were a...

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Rogers 2Q08 VoIP Update

Tue, 2008-09-09 10:15 — Rabia Taseer

â€¢ 745k subscriber lines. â€¢ Net additions were 41k for the quarter, of which approximately 13,000 were migrations from the circuit-switched platform. â€¢ Cableâ€™s Internet subscriber base at the end of the quarter was 1.5m....

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Vivox opening up its platform

Mon, 2008-09-08 17:11 — JR

Vivox is planning to open up its platform to third party developers. Vivox provides a VoIP platform for developers of online games and virtual worlds. The first round of apps that the company expects from its developer partners include wide...

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