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VoIP Week in Review from TMCnet: Ending the Year with VoIP
TMCnet VoIP Minute Watch Columnist
Even if this week was a short one for most of us in the industry, that didn't keep the VoIP Minute Watch away from reporting on the latest scoops about the biggest names.
Linking the Microsoft system for VoIP services with BB Phone's voice platform and JAPAN TELECOM's managed network service will enable small and midsize businesses to integrate enterprise-class communications services, including VoIP services. Microsoft's system bundles hosted versions of Microsoft server products including Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and Windows SharePoint Services with Sylantro Systems Corp.'s Application Feature Server. The companies plan to begin trials of the integrated communications services during spring of 2006.
It seems like the holidays made telecom big guns Covad and Verizon be nice and make up before the year is over. The companies announced on Wednesday that they have agreed to a comprehensive settlement that resolves all pending litigation and other legal quarrels between them. The agreement includes the dismissal of both Covad's pending antitrust case against Verizon, and a separate suit that Verizon had filed against Covad. The settlement provides a full resolution to all billing disputes.
Media technology provider Thomson announced this week that it launched a suite of wireless VoIP devices, comprised of multiple play residential gateways and IP DECT phones that integrate wideband audio functionality. Through wideband audio, operators and service providers will be able to offer users near-CD quality sound.
Verizon recently announced that it was tapped by Southern New Hampshire Medical Center to install a new SONET telecom voice and data network to serve the community and its patients who visit the its new emergency room, an expanded cardiac care unit. The partnership will enable the medical center to integrate telecommunications between its new facilities with the rest of its offices.
Avaya Inc. announced that it was recently tapped by Xinjiang Unicom, a Chinese mobile phone carrier. Xinjiang Unicom adopted the Avaya IP Contact Center system to provide services to its users across Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, one of the largest areas in all the province-level administrative regions of China. The carrier serves about 1.89 million of mobile phone subscribers, in addition to clients in other business segments.
And finally, I know everyone is chilling those cava and champagne bottles to ring in the New Year this weekend. The VoIP Minute Watch reported on a very cool webcast MSN is doing tomorrow live from the Time Square in New York City. Thanks to Microsoft Corp. and its Windows Video service, on this New Year's Eve, online visitors from all over the world will be able to enjoy a live video and audio feed of the New York City party coverage. This is the second consecutive year that MSN Video has webcast the Times Square New Year's Eve festivities.
Visitors will be able to watch live performances and a number of exclusive online entertainment appearances featuring as many as 26 cameras and multiple streams bringing six hours of broadband content directly from Times Square. The webcast will include a multistream, multicamera look at many performances and celebrations happening in and around the New York City-Times Square location.
New Year's Eve 2006 revelers from all around the world can now experience nonstop streams covering NYC's Times Square New Year's Eve countdown event in real time via an exclusive webcast from MSN Video. The live event in Times Square on December 31 begins at 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. PST.
There you have it folks, another exciting week in the VoIP industry! We shall meet next year! Stay tuned and read the VoIP Minute Watch for the latest news…
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit Johanne Torres' columnist page
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