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When Cisco rolled out its AON (Application-Oriented Networking), the company may have changed the face of network hardware. AON’s most-touted bell-and-whistle is a visibility dashboard, which is designed to provide apps managers – not network managers – a real-time view of how their business software is running. IDN spoke with Mike Carter, co-founder of CXO Systems, Cisco’s key XML partner for bringing up-the-stack capabilities to AON. CXO, based in Waltham, Mass., has worked with Cisco engineers to integrate the CXO “visibility dashboard” technology for real-time Continue reading →

Effective handsets will provide the key to market acceptance

Award-winning Intelligent Home Network Service lets customers control and monitor their homes remotely

As SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest cellular provider, rolls out its new digital smart home service, Boston’s Ember Corp. will play and integral role. The service will include Ember’s ZigBee wireless networking technology to monitor and control the sensor networks that will drive the service. As part of the smart home service, customers would be able to monitor and control a variety of functions inside their homes remotely using cell phones, and the Internet, through SK Telecom’s service offerings. The first phase of the digital Continue reading →

Colubris Extends Streak As Most Honored WLAN Vendor

  By: Rachel Nielsen   GrandBanks Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, has promoted Ryan Moore, a wireless and software investor with the firm, to general partner. Moore, who joined GrandBanks as a co-founding member about five years ago, most recently was a GrandBanks principal. He manages the firm’s portfolio companies in the wireless and software sectors, GrandBanks said in a press release. Moore is a board member at uLocate Communications Inc., a provider of location-based services for cellphones, and at GlassHouse Technologies Inc., a Continue reading →

Venture investor GrandBanks Capital has promoted Ryan Moore, one of its founding employees, to the position of general partner. Moore will lead the Newton, Mass., firm’s investment efforts in the wireless and software markets. He presently sits on the boards of GlassHouse Technologies, a data-storage consultancy, and uLocate Communications Inc., a provider of wireless data services. Both companies are based in Framingham, Mass. Moore had served as a principal at GrandBanks since its founding in 2000. Prior to joining the firm, he was an analyst Continue reading →

Vivox, a provider of Internet-based communications services, has closed a $6 million Series A round of venture capital. The 2-year-old company integrates voice, video, messaging and social networking capabilities into existing data networks. Vivox was founded by Jeff Pulver, also co-founder of Internet telephony giant Vonage Holdings Corp. in New Jersey, and says its customers deliver its services to roughly 500,000 users. The six-person company is headquartered in Wayland. A Vixox spokeswoman said the company is searching for new office space, but is determined to Continue reading →

A good telecom venture capitalist is like an NBA shooter. Every once in a while he misses a big shot. The key is, he puts it behind him and hits the next one, and the one after that. Charles Lax of Grand Banks Partners and David McCarthy, of BCE Capital, are prime examples. In a panel discussion at the Voice Over Net (VON) show here today, the veteran institutional investors confessed to passing on Vonage and Skype. Skype, of course, is being bought by eBay Continue reading →

  By: Efrain Viscarolasaga Jeff Pulver is at it again. The chief executive officer of pulver.com Inc., co-founder of Vonage Inc. and a telecommunications industry luminary is using this week’s Voice on the Net (VON) trade show in Boston — which he also founded — to launch his newest venture: Vivox Inc. This week, with a new name (it operated as LibreTel.com during its development stage) and six employees, Vivox moves into its new home in Wayland. Pulver, who will act as the company’s chairman, Continue reading →