By Bo Gowan
10 October 2008
9:29 am EDT
Nortel CS 2000 IP multimedia softswitchComstar United TeleSystems, the largest fixed-line telecommunications company in Moscow, has fully deployed a VoIP transit backbone network that spans Russia. Comstar’s VoIP network is built on the Nortel Communication Server (CS) 2000 IP multimedia softswitch.
The Russia-wide CS 2000 transit network creates a nation-wide network to address national and international PSTN transit traffic exclusively using Voice over IP technology. Russia is, of course, the largest country in the world — spanning more than an eighth of the Earth’s land area.
You can read more in this press release issued yesterday.
Also yesterday, Nortel announced that Turk Telecom was providing Centrex IP and …
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By Bo Gowan
16 July 2008
12:39 pm EDT
You might not think that Nortel is in the business of making high-speed rail safer, but that’s what Nortel announced yesterday in one of several customer win announcements released.
If you live in the U.S. or Canada, you’re probably not that familiar with GSM-R technology. As its name indicates, GSM-R is built on the GSM wireless standard popular around the world. But while GSM is a legacy wireless standard soon to be replaced with newer 3G and 4G technologies, GSM-R is a relatively new standard specifically targeted to railway networks (more detail here).
The GSM-R standard is a digital replacement for today’s hodge-podge of mostly incompatible analogue railway …
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By Bo Gowan
21 May 2008
12:37 pm EDT
Click here to call me at home.
No, that doesn’t work yet, but this week Nortel unveiled a new solution called the IP Powered Home that makes it possible. Targeted at service providers, IP Powered Home is essentially a bundle of consumer-based applications that merge phone, Internet, and TV services in the home.
The solution uses residential VoIP as a base, then adds on optional services that customers can subscribe to from their service provider (much like today’s residential voice service model).
The core solution provides VoIP lines for each member of the family, a single number for both home and mobile phones, and video calling features. Customers can set up call routing preferences based on …
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By Bo Gowan
2 April 2008
9:03 am EDT
After yesterday’s raft of news, Nortel followed it up today with more news on day two of CTIA Wireless 2008. You can see all this news on Nortel’s main press release page, but again here’s a snapshot in case you don’t want to read through all five of today’s press releases:
Nortel announced two new additions to its Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) portfolio for businesses - Mobile Extension Hosted and Mobile Extension Hybrid. These solutions transform mobile phones into office extensions giving mobile workers access to the same corporate network voice calling features as their desk phones, like internal extension dialing, conferencing and call …
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By Bo Gowan
13 February 2008
11:26 am EST
According to a new survey of SMB and enterprise decision-makers, Converged Mobility (also called Fixed Mobile Convergence or FMC) is the new service SMBs are most likely to consider from a service provider.
The survey was conducted by RONIN Corporation on behalf of Nortel, and asked ~900 decision-makers across the US, UK and France. The survey was designed to gain insight into SMB perception and use of VoIP, along with SIP applications like click-to-connect and converged mobility for Wi-Fi and cellular calling from dual-mode handsets.
Converged mobility - the ability to make phone calls over WiFi and cellular networks via a dual-mode phone - was the #1 choice of respondents. It was followed by web services like click-to-connect and converged desktop applications …
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