Ellen Muraskin

Xten Networks Inc. has announced a new version of its Xten eyeBeam video-enabled softphone. Due in early December, eyeBeam 1.1 will incorporate presence and instant messaging along with IP voice and video. The presence and IM features of eyeBeam 1.1 were demonstrated at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show in San Francisco last week, […]

Whats the idea behind Microsofts new Live Communications Server client—”Istanbul”—at the recent Voice on the Net show? An IP-based, enterprise software end point that knows which of your friends and colleagues are available at any given time, and on which devices. This upgrade of the Windows Messenger instant messaging client also improves its voice and […]

BroadSoft Inc., makers of the BroadWorks softswitch and application server used by many VOIP service providers, was one of several companies at last weeks VON show in Boston to announce plans to integrate its platform with Microsoft Corp.s new Live Communications Server. The Gaithersburg, Md.-based company is offering a collection of advanced phone features, such […]

Radvision, a maker of videoconference bridging and gateway platforms and protocols, had a major Microsoft-related announcement Thursday at the VON (Voice on the Net) show in Boston. It was one of a handful of telecom companies betting at least part of their product and market strategies on Redmonds new “Istanbul” instant messaging/presence/VOIP client. Radvision Corp.s […]

Small businesses looking for phone systems will have a new choice early next year, when Aastra Technologies Ltd. releases a new office phone running Nimcat Networks Inc.s NimX software. The SIP phones, to retail for $325 to $375 apiece, take the PBX out of the picture. The phones themselves, which look like typical IP screen […]

BOSTON—Two direct descendents of the original Bell monopoly—Avaya and AT&T—are partnering to help enterprises migrate to VOIP, as shown on the exhibit floor of the Voice on the Net show here this week. AT&T is offering businesses VOIP trunking—and presumably offnet gatewaying to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) —through its MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) […]

BOSTON—Microsoft Corp. moved deeper into the telephony and voice-over-IP market Tuesday with “Istanbul,” its integrated instant messaging and telephony client for its Live Communications Server product. Anoop Gupta, corporate vice president in Microsofts Real-Time Collaboration Business Unit, formally announced Istanbul during his Tuesday morning keynote at the VON show here. He described Microsofts vision of […]

BOSTON—Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H), the most prominent ally of the VOIP community on the Hill, addressed a large crowd of true believers Monday afternoon at the first general keynote of the Voice on the Net show here, laying out his motivations behind the major telecom bill he hopes to see written in 2005. Sununu said […]

VeriSign Inc., well-positioned to exploit its history in network routing and security solutions, is addressing the voice-over-IP interoperability problem in its new IP Connect suite of services for enterprises. The launch, announced at the Fall 2004 VON Conference & Expo in Boston on Monday, is aimed at letting companies exploit the economies and utilities of […]

TeleSym, a developer of enterprise gateway and client VOIP software that makes Pocket PCs and laptops into clear-sounding Wi-Fi phones, has announced the first deployment of its recently updated SymPhone system. Ecuity Inc., a 17-year-old telephone company headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., will deploy the newly updated system. SymPhone already forms the Wi-Fi part of Ecuitys […]