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Amdocs Plays Host to Communications Apps

Pitches Unified Communications Suite to Let Service Providers Compete with Over-the-Top Competitors
By: Todd Spangler Feb 13 2013 - 10:58am
Pitches Unified Communications Suite to Let Service Providers Compete with Over-the-Top Competitors

Billing and operations software vendor Amdocs wants to arm service providers with a suite of white-labeled IP-based voice and video communications apps to better compete with over-the-top players like Skype and Google Talk.

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Genband Floats Communications Apps Into the Cloud

Vendor Introduces 'NUViA' Hosted Communications Suite
By: Todd Spangler Feb 12 2013 - 11:34am
Vendor Introduces 'NUViA' Hosted Communications Suite

Communications infrastructure vendor Genband is launching NUViA, a suite of white-label hosted applications for cable and telco operators that includes videoconferencing, WebEx-like collaboration, HD voice and multimedia messaging.

Genband says its cable customers include Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision Systems, Liberty Global and Virgin Media. The company did not identify which service providers have been testing out NUViA.

ILECs Ask FCC to Deregulate Voice Service

Say Competition Has Rendered Old Regs Obsolete
Say Competition Has Rendered Old Regs Obsolete
 

The telephone companies say they are no longer your father's monopoly and have asked to get out from under decades of voice service regs.

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Time Warner Cable Calls Up Voicemail-to-Text

Comcast Offers Similar Feature to Phone Customers
By: Todd Spangler Nov 29 2012 - 1:19pm
Comcast Offers Similar Feature to Phone Customers

Time Warner Cable -- adding a feature aimed at helping to persuade subscribers to keep paying for landline phone service -- introduced a voicemail-to-text feature that transcribes messages and sends the text to a mobile phone or email address.

Comcast introduced a similar feature to its Xfinity Voice customers earlier this year.

AT&T to Expand U-verse to 33 Million Homes

Rollout Part of Telco’s $14 Billion Additional Capex Over Next Three Years
By: Todd Spangler Nov 7 2012 - 2:22pm
Rollout Part of Telco’s $14 Billion Additional Capex Over Next Three Years

As part of a three-year, $14 billion capital investment plan, AT&T said it will widen its fiber-based U-verse network by more than one-third -- or about 8.5 million additional customer locations, for a total potential of 33 million homes -- by the end of 2015, while boosting downstream Internet speeds to up to 75 Mbps.

The telco outlined the plan, dubbed Project Velocity IP (VIP), Wednesday at its annual investor day in New York. Project VIP includes efforts to expand and enhance both its wireless and wireline IP broadband networks.

Cable-Tec Expo: CommScope Tips CCAP Hand

Vendor Says High-Density Edge QAM Platform Beats Spec Targets
By: Todd Spangler Oct 17 2012 - 12:35am
Vendor Says High-Density Edge QAM Platform Beats Spec Targets

Orlando -- CommScope is putting its CCAP cards on the table, with an entry that the vendor says not only beats in the industry’s Converged Cable Access Platform architecture targets for QAM channel density but also will be available in configurations for midsize as well as large headends.

Contingent Taps IBBS For Voice Services

By: by MCN Staff Oct 28 2010 - 7:06pm

WAN Provider Pact One Of Several Since SinglePipe Buy

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Arris Voice-Data Cable Modem Shipments Hit 20 Million

By: By Todd Spangler Jan 26 2009 - 5:17pm

Comcast Is Vendor's Largest Worldwide Customer

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IP Voice Suits Up for Business

By: by Todd Spangler Apr 19 2009 - 12:05pm

Next-Generation Services Must Battle the Status Quo

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SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2010: Suddenlink Makes IP Voice Fail-Safe

By: By Todd Spangler Oct 20 2010 - 4:01am

MSO Deploys Genband C20 Softswitches for Disaster Recovery

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