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Vocera Puts Wi-Fi On Your Collar
News Vocera's telephone system, which it announced in June, is a new breed of phone network that uses Wi-Fi, a wireless networking standard that creates 300-foot zones of wireless connectivity. Vocera Communications has begun selling a wireless...
[October 8, 2002, 10:48]
Juniper's Sub-£500 'hot Spot In A Box'
News For the upcoming bundle, Juniper has added these gateway functions to its E-series line of telephone network equipment, which is currently used by Korea Telecom, Australia's Telstra and NTT in Japan, among other carriers.
[May 21, 2003, 9:45]
Phone Giants Dial Up Wi-Fi Mobile
News Japan's NTT Communications, Britain's BT Group and four other major phone companies have teamed up to find better ways to link wired and wireless telephone networks. The expensive and difficult-to-find device uses both a cellphone network and...
[July 15, 2004, 10:35]
D-Link DVC-1000 I2eye review
Reviews Unlike commercial voice-over-IP services, the DVC-1000 does not offer a bridge to the standard telephone network; the unit can interact with only other videophones and PC clients using the H.323 protocol.
[August 22, 2003, 10:52]
Internet World: Lucent CEO Predicts 'network Of Networks'
News Wireless telephone users could number 700 million within four years -- a figure equal to the number of new telephone lines expected to be installed in homes and businesses during that period. The convergence of the Internet with the land-based and...
[April 15, 1999, 9:38]
Comdex: Diamond To Rule Home Networking?
News The product, HomeFree Phoneline Network, allows users to setup a home network using existing telephone points. To setup a network, users plug in a peripheral card (details remain under a non-disclosure agreement) which connects to an ordinary...
[November 17, 1998, 22:17]
Can MMode Export Japan's Wireless Web Craze?
News MMode, the US version of the wildly popular i-mode offered by Japanese carrier DoCoMo, is among the first attempts by US carriers to sell more than just faster wireless Internet access over their new telephone networks.
[April 17, 2002, 9:00]
Break-up Calls Leave BT Unmoved
News Back in February, Cable & Wireless told a parliamentary select committee that Britain would never have a truly competitive and successful broadband market as long as BT owns the UK's local telephone exchanges.
[November 4, 2002, 12:48]
EarthLink: Where Competition Meets Convergence
News With networks like the one Philadelphia is developing , we'll have another option beyond the telephone network to give consumers a choice, where that choice today doesn't exist. The telephone and the cable companies never quit.
[October 20, 2005, 19:05]
CeBIT: Breezecom Aims For IP Services
News At the show, Breezecom demonstrated how you can make an ordinary telephone call via its system with a standard telephone handset plugged into a Breezeaccess wireless transmitter\reciever which then connects via a 10BaseT Ethernet port into a...
[March 22, 1999, 6:16]
MCI Settles SEC Probe, Wins Iraq Contract
News In related news, MCI confirmed on Tuesday that it has won a US government contract to build a wireless telephone network in Iraq. The MCI representative said the company is also building a wireless telephone network in Afghanistan though that deal...
[May 20, 2003, 16:11]
Qualcomm Mixes Network Cocktail
News A source said it's likely the wireless carrier involved in the test is based in Asia and a customer of Korean telephone equipment maker Hyundai Syscomm, which announced in June the development of GSM1x products.
[November 11, 2002, 14:18]
Can You Spell CDMA20001xEV-DO?
News G networks allow telephone carriers to offer a high-speed, always-on service for mobile phones capable of surfing the Web. Decisions made by the ITU are generally followed by most of the world's telephone service operators.
[August 16, 2001, 11:33]
Q&A: Bell Labs Eyes Broadband's Future
News Intel, Alcatel and Hewlett-Packard are now pushing modularity, the idea that all telephone network equipment should share some of the same building blocks. Along with thousands of other telephone executives, Jaffe attended last week's Supercomm...
[June 13, 2003, 13:24]
Jumping From Satellite To Mobile And Back
News Mobile telephone networks are at their strongest in urban areas. Plus, calls cost between $2 (£1) to $5 a minute, while most mobile telephone calls are just a few pennies a minute. A quick new wireless data service combines the worldwide reach of...
[November 21, 2002, 9:20]
Microsoft Backs Mobile Phone Standards
News GSM equipment is used in about 70 percent to 75 percent of the world's cellular telephone networks, including AT&T Wireless, which has joined the Open Mobile Alliance. The Open Mobile Alliance has 200 member companies and is focused on one area...
[June 13, 2002, 9:19]
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]
NTL Targets Broadband Blackspot With Wireless
News In addition, TPON (Telecommunications over Passive Optical Network) fibre has been used to connect outlying estates to BT's telephone exchanges, some of which are situated in the small villages that preceded the construction of Milton Keynes.
[March 4, 2004, 16:10]
Microsoft May Buy Stake In Cable & Wireless
News The UK, with its advanced cable systems, has become a major battleground for companies seeking to supply technology for a host of new services delivered over cable, including telephone service, interactive television and high-speed Internet access.
[May 12, 1999, 15:17]
Cisco Business Communications Solution review
Reviews A variety of WAN interface modules can be specified to plug inside the ISR, offering PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) connectivity over analogue, ISDN or leased lines. It’s CallManager Express that provides the core PBX functionality, with...
[July 12, 2006, 10:05]
