Court rejects Vonage request for retrial; SLAs are just ‘marketing fodder’

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May 4, 20072 mins

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Court rejects Vonage request for retrial, 05/03/07:  A U.S. federal appeals court has rejected Vonage’s request that it order a lower court to retry a patent-infringement case against the company, Vonage confirmed Thursday.

SLAs are just ‘marketing fodder,’ says provider exec, 05/03/07:  Service-level agreements, as currently defined, are of little use to enterprises, a service provider said at a conference here this week.

Vonage files to vacate patent ruling, 05/02/07: Internet based phone company Vonage says a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has given it new life in a crippling lawsuit with telecommunications giant Verizon.

Zafirovski maps out Nortel strategy, 05/02/07: Nortel wants to become a leader in helping companies and carriers take advantage of an explosion of network connections, President and CEO Mike Zafirovski told shareholders on Wednesday, according to a company statement.

Is MPLS alternative DOA?, 05/02/07: Granted, it was an MPLS-immersed conference. And Cisco had its best engineering SWAT team there to exterminate anything that threatened its router franchise.

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