Stories about: Voice Technology

For the past year, WiMAX has been a technology under siege.

Even though they fleshed out their joint strategy on the stage of "Saturday Night Live" a year ago, Nortel and Microsoft have since shown that their unified communications partnership is no joke.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates this week launched the company's unified communication platform, a milestone he said validates the era of software-enabled voice technology and signals the impending death of the PBX.

Last month's WiMax World 2007 conference in Chicago was filled with old-fashioned technology optimism, featuring twice as many vendors and visitors as the previous year's event along with new details of Sprint Nextel's nationwide Xohm WiMax rollout across the US for next year. One balmy evening, Sprint and Motorola executives toasted the future of the technology aboard a Chicago River boat cruise to demonstrate how well the wireless broadband technology works.

Microsoft's in-car technology is getting a boost via a deal with a large supplier of automotive electronics. Germany's Siemens VDO Automotive has agreed to collaborate with it on a next-generation communication and entertainment system.

Telecommunications provider Engin has today acquired 10.38 percent of broadband provider Unwired Group Limited ahead of a possible merger between the companies.

Cisco introduced its Services Oriented Network Architecture less than two years ago, and now the company says the SONA concept in action will reduce corporate costs and move customers toward virtualized services, including security, voice, mobility, applications, management, processing and storage -- with the network as the common facet. Bill Ruh, vice president of Advanced Services at Cisco, recently discussed with Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie about why network engineers should be already be incorporating the principles of SONA into their network design and how Cisco's services-oriented architecture (SOA) would help them better architect and navigate tomorrow's next-generation networks. Can you give me a bit of background on SONA?

The National Australia Bank is rolling out a massive contact centre consolidation project to unify the customer experience across 15 access points, and is deploying improved Web technology to address Internet users.

I remember the day I focused my career on data networking. It was 1993, and I was supporting Novell LANs, X.25 WANs and, as part of a departmental cross-training initiative, PBX installations and international voice services.

In recognition of the growing interest in voice recognition technology, a Voice Leadership Forum, will be held in Sydney from March 7-8, 2007.

It's a given that with time VOIP will replace traditional voice technology in corporate networks. Sales of IP phone systems have surpassed those of traditional PBXs, and business VOIP will exceed traditional voice by 2010, according to IDC.