NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON
CONVERGENCE
10/12/05
Today's focus: FCC extends VoIP E-911 deadline, plus other news
Dear networking.world@gmail.com,
In this issue:
* News from the FCC, Telcordia, Alcatel, Acme Packet, France
Telecom, Sprint, Qwest
* Links related to Convergence
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: FCC extends VoIP E-911 deadline, plus other news
By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
Today, a "quick news grab-bag" of some snapshots of
convergence-related news events that happened over the last few
weeks.
First, the good news: the FCC extended its deadline for VoIP
service providers to warn their customers that E-911 services
may not work. The order required the service of subscribers who
hadn't acknowledged the limitations to be suspended until the
users positively acknowledged the notifications. Now the bad
news: the extended deadline expired at the end of September,
although the FCC noted that it would not enforce the ruling for
VoIP suppliers that had achieved a 90% or better notification
reply rate.
On a separate front, it has been a busy few weeks for product
and service launches. Telcordia launched its IP Multimedia
Subsystem product with the "Maestro IMS Portfolio," which is
made up of a suite of products provided by Telcordia and its
partner. Telcordia has already deployed several components of
the platform for Tier 1 service providers and PTTs.
Alcatel demonstrated IMS-based services between WiMAX, DSL and
3G users. The demonstration showed how Alcatel's IMS solution
today can be extended into the broadband wireless domain using
IP WiMAX technology, and it included typical IMS services like
audio-video and data messaging, video telephony, push-to-speak
and push-to-show.
Acme Packet unveiled its next generation session border control
platform, the Net-Net 9000. It supports fixed-mobile converged
architectures as defined by the 3G Partnership Project IMS
standards.
France Telecom launched its Business Talk IP targeted at large
corporate clients that want to leverage existing IP-VPN
platforms. It also launched Business Talk IP aimed at small and
midsize business and includes unlimited national calls to
fixed-lines with prices starting at EUR 12 per user.
Sprint announced a joint development effort with Avaya to offer
VoIP over both wireline and wireless networks. (We'll have more
on the Sprint announcement in a future issue of the newsletter.)
Finally, Qwest announced an alliance with Microsoft to offer
VoIP and converged communications services to the small and
midsize business market.
(Note to PR teams: please feel free to keep those announcement
e-mails coming, although we can't promise to cover them all.)
The top 5: Today's most-read stories
1. Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine has serious bug
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence8573>
2. Bechtel says move to IPv6 is all about business
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence8574>
3. You won't find this book on Oprah's list
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence8575>
4. IETF effort promises fewer net failures
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence8576>
5. The ABCs of SOA
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence8577>
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To contact: Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates
and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed
information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter,
connect to Webtorials <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the premier
site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and
market research. Taylor can be reached at
<mailto:taylor@webtorials.com>
Larry Hettick is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of
experience in voice and data. He is Vice President for Telecom
Services and Infrastructure at Current Analysis, the leading
competitive response solutions company. He can be reached at
<mailto:lhettick@currentanalysis.com>
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