Even though telecom and IP security breaches are growing more sophisticated, companies in all branches of telecom have proven that they can keep up, with super-powerful technology to mitigate threats.

As first reported by CRN last month, 3Com is adapting a softswitch from CommWorks, the service provider business unit the networking hardware vendor sold to telecom gear maker UTStarcom last month. At ...

COMMENTARY--Conventional wisdom has it that the telephone network will evolve away from old-fashioned circuit switching and be replaced by voice over IP. Investors have ponied up to the bar to fund ...

A high-end, software-based IP switch from 3Com Corp. is being tested by four large companies for general release in August as part of the network device maker’s efforts to re-establish itself in the ...

Alcatel (Plano, TX — 972-519-3000, www.alcatel.com): The 5424 Softswitch provides Internet dialup traffic offload applications and VoIP H.323 applications for CLECs. The 1000 Softswitch focuses on ...

3Com and Cisco will marshal a parade of IP telephony vendors pitching new wares this week at NetWorld+Interop as the industry moves to make enterprise voice over IP more scalable and IP phones more ...

As previously reported in CRN, 3Com is adapting a softswitch from CommWorks, the service provider business unit it sold to telecom gear maker UTStarcom in March. The new softswitch, dubbed VCX (Voice ...

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: VoIP. Voice over IP (VoIP) has exploded in popularity since the first PC-to-PC Internet phone-calling systems were introduced in 1995, as evidenced by the ...

Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced plans to acquire Dynamicsoft Inc., a maker of carrier VoIP software based on Session Initiation Protocol. Cisco will pay $55 million in cash for the Parsippany, ...