Get the Message
VocalData recently made generally available its Remote Voice and Single Mailbox for Multiple Phones products. Remote Voice enables end users to turn any phone into their office phone. For example, if an employee is home with a sick child, the system enables the person to call into a number to automatically forward all office calls to the home. It also lets outgoing calls maintain the caller ID of the individual's office phone and to have all billing for calls from the home to be consolidated with the office phone. The Single Mailbox for Multiple Phones feature from VocalData, meanwhile, allows users to receive all office voicemails and cell phone voicemails in one box. A service provider, which VocalData declined to name, is expected to rollout that feature this month or in May.
New Money
Nortel Networks recently announced its Succession Services initiative, which aims to help wireline and wireless service providers generate new service revenues. Nortel Networks has also defined a suite of multimedia and packet voice services that includes a new service offering. That includes a new managed service offering called Succession Voice over IP Virtual Private Networks to help service providers generate incremental revenue. This service offering complements Nortel Networks' newly defined suite of hosted multimedia and packet voice services, which also includes: Succession Centrex/Centrex IP, Personal Communications Manager, Multimedia and Collaboration, Internet Voice and Primary Voice. Nortel Networks will introduce several product enhancements, including adding H.323 interfaces to Succession softswitches to support direct packet interworking with H.323 IP PBX systems and gateways; expanding support for session initiation protocol on Succession softswitches to support direct packet interworking with SIP-based enterprise PBXs or gateways; expanding support for SIP on Succession softswitches to encompass both SIP and SIP-T on the trunk side; adding SIP extensions that uniquely integrate Succession softswitches and Succession Interactive Multimedia Server (IMS) to enhance the multimedia feature set that carriers can deliver to existing phones; and adding SIP proxy capability to Succession softswitches to allow multimedia traffic to cross enterprise and PSTN domains.
Sprint Gets Fat
Sprint has selected Alcatel's 1696 Metro Span DWDM equipment for Sprint's transport network. Sprint already has deployed Alcatel's solution in its metropolitan network in Las Vegas. Alcatel's 1696 Metro Span DWDM solution increases the amount of traffic that can be transported on existing optical fiber by up to 64 times.
