World VoIP Database

Verizon Communications said it wants to test 100 Gbps optical transport gear, apparently seeing demand for that kind of long-haul transport bandwidth fairly far ahead of other telcos. The company also acknowledged that it’s nearing a decision on its vendor for a so-called “God box” multi-service edge device, despite launching the RFP only this summer.

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So how are new services such as VoIP, which provide a low-cost alternative to the communications oligopoly, related to net neutrality? Here’s an example:

 
Verizon and AT&T want to deliver television to your home to compete with the cable companies. They’ve spent billions upgrading to fiber-optic systems. Once they have that infrastructure in place, they claim, […]

Just as VoIP is hitting the mainstream, a new report says that voice quality on VoIP networks is bad and getting worse. Brix Networks–which admittedly makes monitoring tools–says its tests and surveys show that over the past 18 months, nearly 20 percent of all VoIP calls were of unacceptable quality, with a Mean Opinion Score […]

Broadband carriers are building out. Typically, the market for carrier switches and routers usually dips a bit in the first quarter. Not this year; Infonetics Research says shipments increased by 8 percent from the last quarter of 2005 through the first three months of 2006. The study’s author says the increase is due in part […]

The conflict between Skype and network administrators is heating up. Admins have long been worried about Skype, which “borrows” users’ network resources in a proprietary and cloaked way. The latest beta of Skype, version 2.5, does a better job than ever of hiding its traffic from admins, says German company iPoque. Admins have long feared […]

An FCC spectrum auction this week may mean more, and cheaper, domestic airplane phones, this time using VoIP. The feds are selling space in the 800MHz band for what they’re calling ATG services–Air to Ground. Nine companies are bidding, including JetBlue and Verizon’s Airfone, and most of them are being coy about what they want […]

After buying WilTel ($700 million), Progress Telecom ($68.5 million, pending) and ICG Communications ($163 million, pending) over the past six months, Level 3 has announced another acquisition. It is buying Pennsylvania-based TelCove, a facilities-based provider of metropolitan and regional communications services, for $1.24 billion. Level 3 is placing its bets on the bandwidth intensive enterprise […]

Verizon Communications, the second-largest telecommunications carrier in the United States, confirmed on Monday it plans to sell its directory services business.
The sale could fetch $17 billion for the group that posted 2004 profits of $1.7 billion on revenue of $3.5 billion. But a Verizon spokesperson said the company is also considering the possibility of a […]