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Avaya and Polycom are expanding their relationship to include the development and marketing of new voice and video unified communications solutions. The integrated offerings will be based on Avaya’s Aura UC platform and Polycom’s Open Collaboration Network strategy. The Avaya-Polycom partnership is the latest move in a quickly changing UC landscape as vendors attempt to take on major players like Cisco Systems.
– Avaya and Polycom are expanding their partnership to include integrated
video, voice and collaborations offerings, the latest move in a quickly
evolving unified communications market.
The two companies March 9 announced plans to jointly develop
and market a host of new, tightly integrated UC sol… Read the rest of this entry »

Verizon Wireless is on track to deploy LTE in 25 to 30 markets, it has previously announced, after successful testing in Boston and Seattle. The rollout will enable LTE to finally begin catching up to WiMax, which Clearwire and Sprint currently offer in 27 U.S. markets.
– Verizon Wireless officials are saying their
plans to roll out 4G Long-Term Evolution networks are coming along swimmingly.

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Cisco Systems is integrating its TelePresence video collaboration technology and its unified communications products to create a health care platform designed to improve patient care in virtual physician visits. The platform, which will launch later in March, will allow more collaboration between doctors and patients, Cisco says.
– Cisco Systems is bringing together its TelePresence video collaboration
technology and unified communications products to create a platform to enable
better patient care in virtual settings.
Cisco announced its HealthPresence platform March 1 at the
HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management S… Read the rest of this entry »

Nortel Networks, just over a year into its bankruptcy, is selling off its last significant business by accepting Genband’s $182 million offer for its VOIP business. Nortel over the past few months already had sold off the bulk of its units, including its wireless and enterprise businesses. The deal leaves Nortel with only a handful of assets, such as its multiservice switch business.
– Nortel Networks, which has sold off significant parts of its business since
filing for bankruptcy protection in January 2009, is now selling its voice-over-IP
unit.
Genband, a small company based in Plano,
Texas, has agreed to buy Nortel’s VOIP
business for $182 million, Nortel announced Feb. 2… Read the rest of this entry »

Jabra PRO 9470 extends one wireless headset simultaneously to desk, soft and mobile phones.
– Jabras PRO 9470 wireless headset is a fine alternative for
heavy callers looking for a single headset that supports every phone in the
arsenal, but the gimmicky touch screen on the unit base station enhances the
device’s cost more than user productivity.

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Jabra PRO 9470 extends one wireless headset simultaneously to desk, soft and mobile phones.
– Jabras PRO 9470 wireless headset is a fine alternative for
heavy callers looking for a single headset that supports every phone in the
arsenal, but the gimmicky touch screen on the unit base station enhances the
device’s cost more than user productivity.

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VoxOx has baked a Universal Translator directly into is Web communications platform, providing foreign language messaging translation for text messages, instant messaging, e-mail and messaging communications via Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The neat trick here is that only one person need be using VoxOx to have a conversation that is translated between two parties, making it a boon for efficiency. Such translation capabilities should help VoxOx pick up a number of users, which is important for a product competing with Skype, Google Voice (which will likely offer Web calling capabilities this year) and other VOIP solutions such as BT’s Ribbit.
– VoxOx, which fancies
itself as an alternative to Skype and Google Voice by letting users make phone
calls via the Web, has integrated a language translation capability directly
into its service.
VoxOx gives users a dedicated number and lets them make calls
from PC to PC, as well as from PCs to… Read the rest of this entry »

VoxOx has baked a Universal Translator directly into is Web communications platform, provides foreign language messaging translation for text messages, instant messaging, e-mail and messaging communications via Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The neat trick here is that only one person need be using VoxOx to have a conversation that is translated between two parties, making it a boon for efficiency. Such translation capabilities should help VoxOx pick up a number of users, which is important for a product competing with Skype, Google Voice, which will likely offer Web calling capabilities this year, and other VOIP solutions such as BT’s Ribbit.
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With the expected growth in the housing market and aggressive pricing bundles from service providers, the VOIP market, which has been hammered by the shaky economy over the past two years, should begin to stabilize in 2010, according to DellOro Group. The number of VOIP subscribers should grow, but the equipment market may contract a bit because of price declines, the analyst firm said.
– An improved housing market and aggressive pricing bundles by service
providers will help stabilize an IP telephony market that has suffered
through two years of deep declines, according to market research firm
DellOro Group.
In a report Feb. 10, DellOro analysts said they
expect that the number… Read the rest of this entry »

Building on the Starent ST40, Cisco introduces the ASR 5000, a platform dedicated to the mobile network to create an end-to-end Internet IP Protocol next-generation network.
– Cisco’s $2.9 billion acquisition of Starent began to pay off Feb.
9 as Cisco announced it has expanded its ASR Series platforms with the
introduction of the Cisco ASR 5000, the rebranded Starent ST40. Cisco
has built upon the mobile data platform to create an end-to-end
Internet IP NGN (Protocol… Read the rest of this entry »