3G. Wireless Communication Solutions

Verizon Wireless will upgrade of its mobile phone service to CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A, that will enable it to offer VoIP calling. The new deployment of incremental hardware and software upgrades will be provided by Lucent Technologies.

Verizon and Lucent said they completed live, over-the-air EV-DO Rev. 1 calls last summer and since then have conducted live VoIP and video telephony calls utilizing the feature.

“EV-DO Rev. A enables users to receive data at speeds up to 3.1 Mbps and send data at speeds of up to 1.9 Mbps,” the announcement read. “These increased forward and reverse link data speeds reduce data latency and will enable operators such as Verizon Wireless to deliver VoIP and other multimedia services.”

Verizon said EV-DO Rev. A will help it introduce new services like messaging and enhanced push-to-talk features. Lucent, which is in the midst of a merger with Alcatel, deployed initial EV-DO infrastructure for Verizon Wireless. Financial terms of the new deployment were not disclosed.

The new deployment of incremental hardware and software upgrades will be provided by Lucent Technologies. The EV-DO Rev.A will help in introducing new services like instant messaging and e enhanced push-to-talk features. The midst of a merger with Alcatel, Lucent, will install the initial EV-DO infrastructure for Verizon Wireless.

Yet the company did not declare the financial terms about this new installment.

8×8, Inc. Invention Core to Packet8 Virtual Office Services and provider of Packet8 broadband voice over internet protocol (VoIP) and videophone communications services, today announced it has been awarded US Patent No. 7,035,935 for technology related to the routing of telephony data within hosted VoIP business services, such as Packet8 Virtual Office.

Claim 1, the first of forty-four (44) allowed claims, of the patent entitled “Communications Service Provider Network,” reads:

1. A telephony private branch exchange routing arrangement adapted to route IP telephony data, the routing arrangement comprising:

a call-control application having an object-oriented programming (OOP) telephony interface and programmed, using OOP and the OOP telephony interface, to control the routing of calls;

a device-control application adapted to provide telephony communication signals for the routed calls and to interface between the call- control application and a plurality of telephony devices; and

a configuration manager adapted to provide configuration information for the call-control application and the device-control application.

Claim 1, the first of forty-four (44) allowed claims, of the patent entitled “Communications Service Provider Network,” reads:

1. A telephony private branch exchange routing arrangement adapted to route IP telephony data, the routing arrangement comprising:

a call-control application having an object-oriented programming (OOP) telephony interface and programmed, using OOP and the OOP telephony interface, to control the routing of calls;

a device-control application adapted to provide telephony communication signals for the routed calls and to interface between the call- control application and a plurality of telephony devices; and

a configuration manager adapted to provide configuration information for the call-control application and the device-control application.

via: voipnow.org