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EC threatens more legal action over broadband
News Speaking at a public hearing into the issue of access to the "last mile" of Europe's telephone networks on Monday, Mario Monti, European Commissioner for Competition Policy, said the current situation was unacceptable.
[July 8, 2002, 16:14]
VoIP regulation hangs in balance
News Cable providers are now deciding whether to upgrade those networks to VoIP systems, which are a more cost-effective method than the telephone switches they now use. VoIP calls are less expensive, because they avoid the toll roads of the telephone...
[October 27, 2003, 13:55]
Net telephony worth $2b by 2002 - report
News Revenue growth will be restrained by the lower sound quality of Internet telephony as opposed to public-switched telephone networks, and by the lag in ISPs' and corporations' infrastructure upgrades," said Frost's telecommunications analyst...
[October 8, 1997, 15:33]
Juniper's sub-£500 'hot spot in a box'
News Major telephone and broadband providers are expected to spend even more on building Wi-Fi networks in coming years, despite the ongoing worldwide economic malaise, said Jim Ciociolo, vice president of Colubris Networks, the co-developer with...
[May 21, 2003, 9:45]
AT&T accuses Google of hypocrisy on net neutrality
News He said the company is doing that because certain local telephone carriers in rural areas charge AT&T and other long-distance companies especially high rates to connect calls to their networks. In a letter to the FCC filed on Friday, AT&T said...
[September 28, 2009, 9:38]
Mesh networking embraces open-source telephony
News Lander believes that Asterisk has the potential to dramatically change the way companies pay for their telephony services, so that buying a piece of hardware to switch telephone calls could soon be a thing of the past.
[October 27, 2004, 12:55]
Catena Networks Chooses Soffront to Satisfy Multiple & Diverse Tracking Needs
White Papers Catena Networks was founded with a vision to create the "New Access Architecture for the Converged Public Network" and, in the process, make broadband access as ubiquitous as Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS).
[July 11, 2006, 0:00]
Two Layer Denial of Service Prevention on SIP VoIP Infrastructures
White Papers The emergence of Voice over IP (VoIP) has offered numerous advantages for end users and providers alike, but simultaneously has introduced security threats, vulnerabilities and attacks not previously encountered in networks with a closed...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Technical Paper: What Is a WAN (Wide Area Network) ?
White Papers To link LANs into a WAN, you can use private lines, such as the leased T1 connections used by many large companies, or public networks like the telephone network or the Internet. Whereas a LAN (local area network) is a network that links computers...
[July 13, 2004, 0:00]
Videoconferencing, Video Mail, IVR and Mobile Services Provided by iPBX Technology
White Papers Private Branch Exchange (PBX) systems have traditionally connected private enterprises to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) using circuit-switched communications.iPBX (or IP PBX) systems, which use the Internet Protocol (IP) to carry...
[May 15, 2008, 1:01]
Cisco IP Transfer Point as the Signaling Gateway for the Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch
White Papers The Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch is a carrier-class call agent that performs the signaling and call-control tasks - such as digit analysis, routing, and circuit selection - within the public switched telephone network (PSTN) gateway infrastructure.
[August 25, 2004, 10:33]
Genesys Meeting Center VoIP White Paper
White Papers Its main application is to allow individuals to conduct voice conversations over an IP network instead of the existing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). VoIP is a technology that transmits voice over data networks.
[August 20, 2007, 4:21]
How Cisco IT Migrated to Centralized Call Processing
White Papers In the event of a failed WAN link, Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) allows remote office workers to use their IP phones to dial out and receive calls using the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Smoothing out two-way video
News High-quality two-way video communications on demand seems ready to hit public telephone networks. FVC.com plans to provide technology that it has used for four years to create high-quality videoconferencing on private networks to public...
[September 13, 1999, 15:25]
Enum registry could revolutionise VoIP
News Currently most VoIP calls pass over the public telephone network, incurring a charge, which is often passed on to the person who makes the call. The so-called Enum (from tElephone NUmber Mapping) registry is to be created by Nominet, the company...
[November 27, 2007, 12:06]
Wi-Fi roams into standards battle
News When roaming agreements and standards come into play, consumers and corporations are going to want equitable pricing," said Chuck Jacobs, president of Andrew, which uses Wi-Fi networks to help make cellular telephone coverage better inside buildings.
[June 24, 2002, 12:09]
Internet telephony 'is not telecommunications'
News Cable providers are now deciding whether to upgrade those networks to VoIP systems, a more cost-effective method than the telephone switches they now use. VoIP calls are cheaper because they avoid the toll roads of the telephone companies' private...
[October 17, 2003, 16:10]
Push to talk heads for Wi-Fi
News The systems being developed would not interconnect with the public switched telephone network and would therefore not be subject to rules compelling wireless carriers to cooperate with federal wiretapping requests, the FCC said.
[August 12, 2004, 9:35]
Wireless firms get the urge to merge
News The cost of building new telephone networks is proving too much for some cash-strapped companies to bear on their own, with some carriers already sharing the costs. Also, Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless already plan to share part of their...
[July 12, 2002, 14:14]
Broadband and the city
News Would you say that the telephone companies and the cable companies have been successful in keeping many municipalities from building new networks or have they just slowed the process? On their Web site they give a pretty good picture of how major...
[April 16, 2004, 10:35]
