| BroadSoft gobbles up Slyantro to become the leader in stand-alone VoIP application servers Just before the close of 2008, BroadSoft announced it had acquired Sylantro Systems, its next-strongest competitor offering VoIP and multimedia application. The move makes BroadSoft the undisputed market leader supplying stand-alone VoIP application servers. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Sylantro acquisition follows BroadSoft's acquisition of Genband's M6 platform earlier in 2008. BroadSoft, Microsoft announce hosted UC service; Microsoft unveils OCS 2007 R2 It has been a busy month so far in the convergence market with BroadSoft and Microsoft announcing the general availability of a BroadSoft hosted UC service based on Microsoft software. There was also the debut of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2, Nortel's launch of BCM450 IP PBX targeted at midsize businesses, Sylantro's release of hosted voice applications on Amazon's EC2 Cloud, and the decision by the IMS Forum and the NGN Forum to merge. Today we'll focus on BroadSoft and Microsoft's announcements and discuss the remaining news in our next newsletter later this week. Video: DEMO 09: Ontier's Pixatell The Pixatell on-demand software goes beyond e-mail communication, letting users visually explain concepts much better than just typing out long notes. Sonus has a new IP-peering solution for mobile operators This week we continue discussing announcements from last week's Mobile World Congress, Sonus disclosed that it had a new IP-peering solution for mobile operators, and is now offering a fixed mobile convergence (FMC) ... Nokia Siemens Networks enhances multimedia services In other news from last week's Mobile World Congress, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) announced its Flexi Network Server and the Flexi Network Gateway designed to enhance operators' high-quality multimedia services using an ATCA platform. Following on the heels of its Mobile Forecast for 2008-2012, Cisco announced mobility product enhancements. And Ericsson announced software upgrades to existing products and introduced a new Converged Packet Gateway (CPG). Vendors see future in iPhone business applications The iPhone may generally be considered a consumer device, but several vendors at the Cebit trade show this week are demonstrating applications and services to put the device more firmly in the business arena. Move over e-mail, here come 'Pixetells' A Portland, Oregon, startup called Ontier is set on Monday to unveil Pixetell, communication software that combines text, video, images and audio in a single message. UC, you say? Get a crash course on unified communications with market trends, buying tips and a how-to for implementation. Cisco Class-Based Header Compression Cisco Subnet blogger Dennis Hartmann continues his tutorial on VoIP optimization with a look at QoS mechanisms employed in slow link speed situations. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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