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VoIP Market on the Road to Recovery: Report
Thanks to growing interest from service providers in Voice over Internet Protocol, the IP telephony market is on the upswing, a recent report research found. In fact, the IP telephony space grew nearly 10 percent to $782 million during the third quarter, the end result of businesses ramping up their adoption of Unified Communications and IP Technologies, the Dell'Oro Group found. The increase, in part, is driven by service providers investments in infrastructure, such as VoIP. ...Read more
New technologies offer gateways to 2010 growth
What are the defining technologies that will exert the most powerful effect on the telecom industry in 2010? Two of the likely innovations are high definition (HD) voice and video connectivity. Offering applications in both the consumer and enterprise space, HD voice substantially improves the quality of voice communications by delivering rich, full-bodied audio never before available. Video communications also offer great promise to businesses and individuals, particularly to mobile users who don't mind paying a premium for on-demand video services. PDF:But the growth of previous IP-based solutions, like collaboration, unified communications, and VoIP, has been predicated on the ability to integrate those technologies with legacy infrastructure ? such as TDM and SS7 networks. That means a number of challenges must be addressed if HD voice and video are to reach their potential. ...Read more
Commoners and Kings: new videoconferencing systems target broad swath of users
Videoconferencing is expanding on both ends of the spectrum. On the one hand, room-based systems are going even more high-end with the introduction of telepresence. On the other, a movement's afoot to make videoconferencing an everyman's tool. Some are choosing sides in this David and Goliath development, but many are working both ends of the opportunity....Read more
Internet Telephony Magazine CEO spotlight
At Aculab, our mission is made up of three components - products, people and profit. In respect of our products, we strive to be respected worldwide by customers and competitors alike as a leading provider of enabling technology for the communications market....Read more
HMP software - you've served your apprenticeship; you're hired
Since the first white papers and early builds of software grabbed by some eager innovators, we're now seeing a broader range of HMP products available in the market with better targeted features and stability as the classic software 'version 2s' hit the streets from leading vendors....Read more
Dancing with wolves: The COTS illusion
Enhanced Voice Processor (EVP) units are at the heart of many a military communications system. When sourcing Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) enabling technology for these communications, there are always two key requirements that come to the fore: high density and low cost per channel...Read more
Compact PCI media processing board wears more than one hat
Aculab is a supplier of specialist, DSP-based media processing and signalling protocol support. The company developed its Prosody X cPCI, a high density IP media processing resource board, to meet large enterprise and telco grade communication requirements....Read more
VoIP - The growth hormone for voice applications
It has been said that the mature voice communications market is experiencing the greatest growth rate since the invention of the telephone, more than a century ago. But this growth, stimulated by VoIP technology, expands the voice application in a completely new domain, where the full convergence of voice, data and now video, including fixed line with mobile devices, creates a range of exciting applications that would have seemed futuristic even a few of years ago....Read more
An old protocol refuses to budge
The 7th protocol What do you think of when 'seven' is mentioned? What about the Seven Wonders of the World, the Seven Dwarves, or the Seven Deadly Sins? Seven is the fourth prime number and it is also a self number. And interestingly, the Pythagoreans called it the perfect number; three and seven, the triangle and the square, the perfect figures. Sounds a bit like the Da Vinci code!...Read more
Lawful interception
Due to universal concerns over ARPU, telecommunications fraud, denial of service attacks, customer satisfaction, and growing security fears - particularly over global terrorist activities - monitoring and surveillance solutions are on the increase....Read more
