http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com TelecomWeb.com en-us 2008 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 9:02:02 EDT Results of a recent survey of IT departments show they will grow their use of outside partners for unified communications (UC) technology planning during the next two years, and these client engagements are direct avenues to growth for providers of professional services.   TelecomWeb news break’s... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261676.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT B2B e-commerce software developer TIE Commerce Inc. says Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH is using its TIE Kinetix Digital Channel Manager (DCM) as a key part of its worldwide indirect partner program.   Starting with a pilot phase in the United States, the U.K., Germany and Spain, Siemens will... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261677.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Boston University’s College of Engineering is a partner in the launch of a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless-communications technology based on visible light instead of on radio waves.   Researchers expect to piggyback data... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261678.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Telus and BCE Inc.'s Bell Mobility this morning confirmed they are joining forces for a $1 billion 3G network upgrade.   Moreover, CDMA could end up dead as a doornail north of the border along WiMAX because the two plan to use long term evolution (LTE) in the future.   The carriers, which have... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261679.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT German fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) provider Comdasys has released a new version of its client software it says adds support for all BlackBerry models to its flagship Mobile Convergence Solution.   Comdasys, headquartered in Munich and marketing in North America via Canada’s Stratatech group, is... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261681.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission says the 30-month transition period for reconfiguration of 800 MHz licensees along the U.S.-Canada border will begin Oct. 14.   As specified in the 800 MHz second report and order released earlier this month that... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261682.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT HickoryTech’s Enventis subsidiary has “enhanced and renamed” its Encompass unified communications (UC) service, now calling it Enventis SingleLink Unified Communications.   The renaming of the hosted communications service, which Mankato, Minn.-based Enventis has sold to regional... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261662.html Thu, 9 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Nevada’s state capital is American Fiber Systems’ (AFS) third deployment in that state and its tenth nationwide offering metropolitan fiber optical networking infrastructure, dark fiber and transport services to carriers and large enterprises.   Number 10 cut over in Carson City, driven by... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261663.html Thu, 9 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT SkyPilot Networks, a provider of carrier-class broadband wireless equipment, says it will give customers $2,000 for their old base stations when they upgrade to SkyPilot products for their unlicensed wireless networks.   SkyPilot (whose competitors include Alvarion, Motorola, Proxim and Redline) targets... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261664.html Thu, 9 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Duquesne Light Company is using the OpenScape Unified Communications (UC) Server and OpenScape Voice Application from Siemens Communications as the foundation of a centralized, IP-based infrastructure.   This is Siemens Communications first showcase win announcement since becoming majority-controlled by... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261665.html Thu, 9 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT As the first hit in a planned 90 days of new enterprise service rollouts, Verizon says it’s the first major U.S.-based service provider to offer a managed service based on a flagship Cisco unified communications (UC) offering.   The managed service is based on Cisco’s UC Manager 6.1... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261666.html Thu, 9 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Asterisk developer Digium has a new entry-level training course – Asterisk Fast Start – aimed at providing an introduction to Asterisk, telephony and the Linux environment.   Participants will be exposed to the installation, configuration and the basic operation of Asterisk, with the course... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261668.html Thu, 9 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Accenture inked a five-year, multi-million-dollar application outsourcing contract with Aussie giant Telstra, and it’s now tasked with maintaining Telstra’s customer-care and billing platform, which Accenture helped design and deploy.   Under terms of the contract, Accenture will be... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261655.html Wed, 8 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Speakeasy, a Best Buy company, now offers voice, broadband and managed services in packages it says have been “designed to save businesses money while enabling them to upgrade data and telecommunications capabilities.”   The new SpeakeasyONE business bundles offer “significant savings... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261656.html Wed, 8 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT First-responder service provider Tiburon Inc. is marketing a new version of its mobile-data system that speeds TX/RX of critical information from the field during emergency situations.   Tiburon MobileCOM allows first responders to send and receive dispatch information, state and national database... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261657.html Wed, 8 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Research in Motion (RIM), in a joint announcement with Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, took the wraps off the widely expected, first-ever touchscreen BlackBerry. Just don't try and buy one yet.   The new device is called “Storm,” and it’s aimed squarely against Apple’s iPhone... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261658.html Wed, 8 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Nortel today unveiled a pair of unified communications (UC) offerings, including a bargain-priced bundle and a new IP migration kit for saving money by re-using existing hardware.   Citing the current economic condition and the need for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to “do more with... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261659.html Wed, 8 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT In a deal that defies the current economic crisis, Symantec has agreed to pay a premium price of $695 million in cash for the U.K.’s MessageLabs, the reported leader in online messaging and Web security services for the enterprise market.   Symantec plans to meld its own competitive... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261660.html Wed, 8 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Network specialist Ciena says new feature-rich Carrier Ethernet service delivery switches and other enhancements to its Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery Portfolio “enhance the portfolio’s ability to combine low-touch devices and intelligent software to simplify and scale Carrier Ethernet service... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261635.html Tue, 7 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT eTelemetry, whose products allow enterprises to extract business information from network activity, has had its Locate911-N and Locate911 Emergency Notification System (LENS) products designated as Nortel Select Products -- best-in-class technologies that complement Nortel’s Communication Server 1000... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/tnd/261636.html Tue, 7 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT