Softswitch news from FierceVoIP

MetaSwitch has announced that its softswitch and MetaSphere application suite forms the core of EMBARQ's Smart IP Enterprise solution. The integrated solution is hosted in the core of EMBARQ's Read more...

BroadSoft and JoeDeveloper.NET have launched the first Facebook mashup to include carrier-grade VoIP features. J.NET's Click2Message Facebook application talks to Broadsoft's BroadWorks VoIP Read more...

UTStarcom reports the company's mSwitch has carried more than 500 billion minutes of usage from the second quarter of 2005 through the fourth quarter of 2007. Read more...

Comverse has announced two Northern Hemisphere customer wins with FTTH operator Connexion and Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC). Cary, North Read more...

Worldwide IP telephony carrier market quarterly revenues have exceed $1 billion for the first time in the third quarter of this year, according to market research by California based Dell'Oro Group. Read more...

Google had a good day on Friday. As Americans were digesting their Thanksgiving turkey, Google's market cap rose a little over 2 percent, equal to about a $4 billion gain for the day. Wouldn't we all Read more...

> Digium, developers of the open-source softswitch Asterisk, just landed $13.2 million in venture funding. Article > In the blog Read more...

If you use the Asterisk open-source softswitch, we hope you had a good weekend because you've got some patching to do today. Internet Security Systems found a couple of flaws in Asterisk last Read more...

Siemens will reduce its Com unit's 50,000-strong workforce by another 1,000 as it struggles to find a strategy to fix this troublesome unit. Siemens Com, which makes equipment for fixed and mobile Read more...

TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT... Ala. carriers think IMS with MetaSwitch
Ashford, AL-based Graceba Total Communications is migrating from Siemens EWSD digital switching system to MetaSwitch's Read more...