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Google (www.google.com) says they’re going to invest in an “experimental” gigabit to the home network for anywhere between 50,000 to 500,000 subscribers. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the same Google that said they were going to bid on 700 MHz wireless spectrum a couple of years ago? Let’s look at the details on [...] Cable provider Optimum Lightpath is now offering 40 Gigabit optical transport to its customers and offers hints that it will up speeds further in the “foreseeable future.” No big surprise that financial traders were highlighted in the press release among the users in Optimum’s footprint needing high-bandwidth and “extremely low latency.” Customers are expected to tap [...] The walking corpse of Nortel has entered into a “stalking horse” asset sale agreement with GENBAND for most of Nortel’s Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions (CVAS) business. It’s a deal that’s almost as interesting as last year’s “purchase” of Sylantro by BroadSoft. (translation = VERY). Under the deal — with a big “BUT” – GENBAND would [...] WARNING: Some of the pictures below are pretty big and might freak out your browser and/or cause slow load times for this page. Last week, I and about 26 other analysts and media were in Huntsville, Alabama as guests of ADTRAN. The company was making its introductory launch of a unified communications (UC) software solution — [...] IntelePeer has announced it has been blessed as a SIP trunking provider for Microsoft’s Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2. The qualification allows IntelePeer to provide a turnkey OCS solution, so Microsoft channel partners can provide on-prem solutions or offer hosting solutions to business solutions. Racking up its latest win, Verizon Business has announced AMF Bowling Centers as its latest IT win. It’s part of a bigger march that must be giving heartburn to system integrators such as IBM, HP, and EDS. VB will run an integrated IP network solution for AMF that includes over 300 bowling centers in 38 states, [...] Last week, Google officially ‘fessed up to buying Gizmo5 for an “undisclosed amount.” Now everyone is falling all over themselves to spin this as the Greatest Thing since sliced bread. Excuse me, did everyone forget that it took Google a YEAR before it got its act together with Google Voice? Don’t expect this to [...] Ditech Networks has announced that its PhoneTag voice-to-text service has been chosen as an “integrated option” on Microsoft Exchange Unified Exchange 2010. PhoneTag converts voice mail into text and then sends the transcript directly to a user’s inbox as an email attachment, so you can read your voicemail through your email client. Users will get a [...] Bulking up, Dash Carrier Services and VIXXI Solutions have merged, making Dash a big kid on the block when it comes to E911 and wholesale carrier services. Earlier this year — March, to be precise — Dash and VIXXI announced a “strategic relationship” where Dash would use VIXXI’s E911 database services. It would appear the relationship [...] |
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