Nortel lands huge VoIP win; Linksys: Never could say goodbye

Opinion
Aug 1, 20071 min

Latest VoIP news.

Nortel lands huge VoIP win, 07/31/07: Nortel’s Government Solutions arm has won a $300 million, 10-year contract to outfit the U.S. Social Security Administration with an IP-telephony system.

More details emerge about Cisco’s new advanced certifications: Cisco Subnet blogger Michael Morris has posted some more details from a private meeting between Cisco and 50 CCIEs about Cisco’s plans for two advanced certifications for network designers and architects.

Time to sanction Skype into the enterprise, 07/25/07: Two recent announcements from VoSKY Technologies caught our attention. The company began to offer consumer products for Skype in 2005, and it has since expanded its product line to include enterprise VoIP gateways designed for companies that want to connect existing premises-based phone systems to the Internet for Skype calls.

Linksys: Never could say goodbye: Cisco confirms the real fate of the Linksys brand.

Tango boosts its enterprise fixed-mobile convergence gear with IMS, 07/30/07: Earlier this month, Tango Networks announced the addition of enhanced IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) functionality to its Abrazo product suite.