ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) has added business services to The CTAM Summit agenda with executive speakers from Comcast, Motorola, UBS, Yankee Group, and more.

Designed for the non-business services marketer, as well as the commercial veteran, sessions such as “Optimizing the B2B Opportunity: Why Is It Important?” and “Leveraging Residential Strategies to Win Business Customers,” will address servicing small and medium sized businesses, and the revenue benefits of cable’s newest growth opportunity. Featuring experts such as:

Kevin Casey, President, North Central Division, Comcast

Murray Goldstein, Director Commercial Marketing Strategy, Cox Business

Steve Hilton, Vice President, Yankee Gro... Read more

DENVER — IPtimize, Inc. (Pink Sheets: IPZI, “IPtimize”), a broadband voice and data service provider, announced today that Mitch Garlock has joined the company as Vice President, Worldwide Sales. With an extensive background in broadband telecom and cable applications, Garlock will be spearheading the company’s growing sales operations across all industries and verticals.

Joining IPtimize from NextGen Holdings. an international consultancy handling client product distribution, outreach and services support to global broadband service providers, Garlock has extensive sales experience working amongst broadband service providers in North America, Latin American and targeted countries in Asia. Bringing additional sales expertise from time spent in the cable tel... Read more

IRVING, Texas — Fully interactive product demonstrations paired with more than a dozen celebrity and special presentations make Time Warner Cable’s Total Digital Home the premier destination at this year’s State Fair of Texas(R).

The Total Digital Home is a 2,400 square foot interactive exhibit designed to showcase live demos of Time Warner Digital Cable, Road Runner High Speed Online and Digital Phone all powered by the company’s Advanced Fiber Network. All services are currently available to TWC customers in North Texas.

Designed and built to model a typical North Texas residence, the home features a living room, game room, and bedroom — that’s where guests will have access to the newest TWC innovations. Guests can experience hig... Read more

RUIDOSO, N.M. — ANMTA Fall Conference — MetaSwitch, the leader in reliable, high-quality voice communications platforms and services, announced today that Saddleback Communications has purchased and deployed the MetaSwitch softswitch and MetaSphere application suite to deliver next-generation telephony services and advanced features to residents and businesses located on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.

Formed more than ten years ago, Saddleback Communications is a federally regulated incumbent local carrier (ILEC) currently serving more than 3,500 business and residential customers within the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, a Native American community that spans more than 53,000 acres. “The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community has see... Read more

BRUSSELS — Broadband World Forum 2008 — Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM - News), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced its new high performance voice over IP (VoIP) digital signal processor (DSP) that targets next generation OEM designs of multi-service access nodes (MSANs), IP digital subscriber line access multiplexers (IPDSLAMs) and deep fiber multi- dwelling units (MDU). For telecommunications carriers and broadband service providers that need to modernize and streamline their access networks to provide newer and advanced revenue generating IP-based bundled services to consumers, the new Broadcom® VoIP DSP simplifies equipment design and enables IP service convergence, with integrated or unified network management, at a... Read more

IMOLA, Italy and GAITHERSBURG, Md. — BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced that its BroadWorks® VoIP application platform has been selected by Italian telecom operator Acantho to deliver voice and multimedia services to the enterprise market in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.

Acantho delivers a broad range of premium enterprise services via Gigabit Ethernet over optical fiber starting with the Bologna, Imola, Forlì-Cesena, Ravenna, Rimini and Riccione areas, now joined with Modena and Ferrara. Business users enjoy fast data transfer up to 1 Gbs, which is superior to other available access services (ISDN, ADSL, and satellite transmission). Acantho delivers all IP-based services to its customers and plans to become the premier ... Read more

LONDON and BURLINGTON, Mass. — XConnect, the leader in VoIP Peering, and Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, today announced successful testing of new methods that assist in the prevention of Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT), also known as Voice Spam.

Unlike email spam, SPIT is still relatively uncommon and was somewhat obscure prior to the recent significant worldwide growth of VoIP communications. Now that VoIP has become more ubiquitous, the disruptive and intrusive nature of unwanted calls, coupled with the difficulty in detecting SPIT, has made this up-and-coming threat hard to ignore. Consequently, industry bodies such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have recently begun placing increased focus on developing a... Read more

BRUSSELS — Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. (Toronto:ZL.TO - News), the market leader in access infrastructure and residential gateway voice solutions, and Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (MSPD - News), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced availability of a joint next-generation access solution linking the Zarlink VoiceEdge(TM) VE792 Next-Generation Carrier Chipset (NGCC) with the Mindspeed Comcerto® 300 Series of access VoIP processors.

“Combining Zarlink’s state-of-the-art line test performance and Mindspeed’s industry-known voice processing expertise creates a best-in-class access solution,” said Shahin Sadeghi, segment marketing manager for access infrastructure voice products at Zarlink. ... Read more

BRUSSELS — Cavium Networks (NASDAQ:CAVM - News), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, wireless, storage and security applications, today announced that it is demonstrating optimized reference designs of its OCTEON and STAR processors at the Broadband World Forum in Brussels, Belgium September 29 – October 2. These reference designs highlight industry-leading performance and optimized low-cost, low-power solutions, which enable fast time to market for a range of applications including services-rich fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) home routers, Video bridges, VoIP gateways, VPN routers, and 802.11 access points.Cavium Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: CAVM)... Read more

SHELTON, Conn. — TranSwitch® Corporation (NASDAQ: TXCC - News), and Centillium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CTLM - News) will jointly present their latest carrier-class semiconductor solutions for the converging voice, data and video network at Broadband World Forum 2008 in Booth # 288, at the Brussels Expo Center, Brussels, Belgium, September 29 – October 2.

TranSwitch announced on July 9, 2008 that it is in the process of acquiring Centillium, thus creating a new global leader in communications ICs for next-generation converged wireline and wireless networks for voice, video and data services. The combined company will have a comprehensive product portfolio for Broadband Access (encompassing both GEPON and GPON), Carrier Ethernet, Voice-over-IP and Wireless Backhaul.... Read more