Ted Stevenson

Officials at Internet portal giant Yahoo are denying a report that it will launch a VoIP service in the next two weeks. In a research report issued this week, Safa Rashtchy, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, said the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company was likely to launch a service similar to the popular Skype application. The […]

The fruits of the much-ballyhooed Motorola-Avaya-Proxim seamless mobility project, launched early in 2003, are ripening now, with multiple customer trials currently under way. Clearly, Motorola thinks this is a good thing, as the company has just announced a similar initiative with another 800-pound gorilla of the VoIP world: Cisco Systems. According to Motorola vice president […]

That we can run phone calls over IP networks at all is a minor miracle. It goes against the grain of IP’s “connectionless” architecture, and is achieved only by making the network jump through many protocol hoops. Wireless LANs, such as 802.11 (aka Wi-Fi), compound the basic IP-related problem, adding uncertainties that stem from their […]

Meru Networks—U.S.-based vendor of centrally managed wireless LAN infrastructure—was founded with the mission of bringing robust VoIP capabilities to wireless networks. Over the next 18 months, the company will put its products to work for Osaka Gas, one of Japan’s largest public utilities. Once complete, the network will connect some 10,000 Osaka Gas staff, using […]

Atlanta-based Camvera Networks has been helping small municipalities design, build, and manage high-performance fixed wireless networks for several years. Filling a void in a world where the big telecommunications players generally ignore the needs of rural areas, Camvera has developed a specialty in bringing smaller towns into the 21st century. Technology driven Unlike the well-publicized […]

The long-awaited world of dual-mode (cellular and VoWLAN) telephony has just jumped a quantum closer. The Plano, Texas-based firm SyChip, Inc., which over the past several years has developed a line of small-format wireless LAN adaptors for handheld computing devices, today announces a new product line, dubbed SyVoice. The flagship of SyVoice is the VWLAN7100 […]

There are big changes afoot at Fremont, Calif-based NextWeb, Inc., a leading West Coast provider of wireless broadband access. Yesterday, NextWeb, announced the first significant foray out of its home territory (California) into nearby—and rapidly growing—Las Vegas, Nevada. This came on the heels of the company’s announcement of the roll-out of wireless VoIP service for […]

Michigan is the latest state to jump on the “let’s sue Vonage” bandwagon. Following the lead set by Texas last month, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said Friday he might sue the broadband phone provider for deceptive advertising practices. Both Texas and Michigan are alleging that Vonage does not adequately explain in its television ads […]

While many vendors are trumpeting advances in voice over WLAN (also known as VoWiFi or wVoIP), they are nonetheless working against fundamental problems inherent in the IEEE 802.11 standard that underpins most wireless LAN technology—and therefore most wVoIP. Extricom Ltd., an Israeli R&D company, claims to have overcome these problems while remaining compliant with all […]

Portland, Oregon-based VeriWave Inc., makers of the WaveTest Traffic Generator/Performance Analyzer, today announced the availability of a new test tool that puts a network’s voice-transport readiness and prioritization effectiveness under the microscope. According to VeriWave vice president of marketing, Eran Karoly, what sets this product—the VeriWave VoIP over WLAN Analysis Test Suite—apart from others is […]

Dublin, Ireland-based VoIP solutions provider Cicero Networks today announced its first major telecom provider deployment. Talktelecom Ltd, an independent, fully licensed General Telco Operator also based in Dublin, is offering Cicero’s mobile VoWiFi service to its corporate customers, following the completion of a two-month trial. The selling point for this new service is low-cost mobility. […]

CREDANT Technologies and Cranite Systems, Inc. yesterday announced an alliance designed to provide end-to-end WLAN security for organizations that have mobile workers out in the real world, in addition to those working within the confines of the campus or office. These days, that includes a lot of organizations. The companies see this solution—which combines CREDANT’s […]