Email Delivery

Receive new posts as email.

Email address

Syndicate this site

RSS 0.91 | RSS 2.0
RDF | Atom
Podcast only feed (RSS 2.0 format)
Get an RSS reader
Get a Podcast receiver

Contact

About This Site
Contact Us
Privacy Policy

Search

Google

Web this site

February 2007
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat
        1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28      

Stories by Category

Academia :: Academia
Administrative :: Administrative
Convergence :: Convergence
Future :: Future
Hardware :: Hardware Chips Devices Femtocells Voice Devices
Hotspots :: Hotspots
Industry Issues :: Industry Issues Competition Deals
Internet telephony :: Internet telephony
Legal :: Legal Lawsuits regulatory
Service Launches :: Service Launches Trials
Software :: Software
Standards :: Standards IMS SIP UMA WMM Power Save
Temporary Ntworks :: Temporary Ntworks
VoIP Networks :: VoIP Networks Gizmo Project Skype
VoWLAN :: VoWLAN Testing
Voice over IP over Cellular :: Voice over IP over Cellular
limitations :: limitations

Archives

February 2007 | January 2007 | December 2006 | November 2006 | October 2006 | September 2006 | August 2006 | July 2006 | June 2006 | May 2006 | April 2006 | March 2006 | February 2006 | January 2006 | December 2005 | November 2005 | October 2005 | September 2005 | July 2005 | June 2005 | May 2005 | April 2005 | March 2005 |

Recent Entries

SpectraLink Bought in $220m Deal
Truphone, The Cloud Partner for Calling with Nokia Phones
Wayport To Resell Vocera to Venues

Site Philosophy

This site operates as an independent editorial operation. Advertising, sponsorships, and other non-editorial materials represent the opinions and messages of their respective origins, and not of the site operator or JiWire, Inc.

Copyright

Entire site and all contents except otherwise noted © Copyright 2001-2006 by Glenn Fleishman. Some images ©2006 Jupiterimages Corporation. All rights reserved. Please contact us for reprint rights. Linking is, of course, free and encouraged.

Powered by
Movable Type

Category: Deals

February 7, 2007

SpectraLink Bought in $220m Deal

By Glenn Fleishman

The largest independent enterprise VoWLAN firm purchase: Polycom is buying SpectraLink, a veteran player in voice calling over Wi-Fi in enterprises that helped set and shape many standards used to ensure call quality in those busy environments. The The deal is $220m in cash net of cash on hand and debt, or $11.75 per share, a huge premium over the company’s end-of-day closing stock price. SpectraLink’s earnings were also announced: pro forma $145m for fourth quarter 2006. Their earnings have been quite low, which explains the relatively low stock price and revenue-to-purchase-price ratio.

While Cisco and other enormous firms are in this space, Polycom is the largest independent firm offering unified messaging and collaborative media products. That’s a sort of large, vague space, but it means running applications and voice over IP networks with seamless access regardless of device, system, or location.

Posted by Glennf at 2:57 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

December 6, 2006

Truphone, The Cloud Partner for Calling with Nokia Phones

By Glenn Fleishman

Truphone releases free software that allows Wi-Fi-equipped Nokia phones to make cheap calls over The Cloud hotspots: It’s a lot of pieces to put together, but this is part of the overall authentication puzzle—how does a phone log into a network? Truphone has connected the phone (Nokia models E60, E61, and E70), the medium (Wi-Fi), and the network (The Cloud) to offer offer calling at about a 3 pence per minute surcharge over their cellular rates. During a promotion that lasts until Mar. 31, 2007, the base charge for their cell calls to most of the industrialized world’s landlines is £0.00; U.S. cell phones are included in that deal.

The Cloud has 7,500 hotspots in the UK, and is building several city center hotzones.

Posted by Glennf at 1:18 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

June 24, 2005

Wayport To Resell Vocera to Venues

By Glenn Fleishman

Wayport will offer Vocera’s VoIP badge systems to hotels, other service-partner venues: This is a nice win for Vocera, which has had rave reviews of their technology since its introduction. The Vocera badge uses Wi-Fi for VoIP but is hands-free. Tap the badge, speak a name or request, and voice-recognition technology tied into Vocera’s hardware and a local PBX can find people or complete calls.

Wayport has more than a thousand venues appropriate for Vocera technology, and this gives Wayport one more arrow in their quiver on the private network side. Wayport does offer private networking services, but more typically provides a range of services on the private side along with public Internet access, provisioning, account management, integration, and billing.

Posted by Glennf at 1:15 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack