High-Tech Dreams
- Cableworld   May 6, 2002

"Arris will be showing off TollBridge Technologies' TB300 gateway. The gateway has been integrated into the Arris CompleteVoice comprehensive cable telephony solution that connects PacketCable-compliant broadband voice networks with the public switched telephone network. The new IP-based system will enable multiple system operators and other service providers to quickly increase revenues by delivering voice services over IP with their existing cable services. "

Putting VoIP to the Crash Test
- CED Magazine   May 5, 2002

"TollBridge Technologies Inc. and Nuera Communications Inc. are two vendors that have developed IPDT gateways. TollBridge's TB 300 gateway decodes the Network Call Signaling (NCS) signals sent by Multimedia Terminal Adapters (MTAs) into signals that Class 5 switches understand, according to Kevin Woods, vice president of marketing and product management. In addition, the gateway injects IP into the access portion of a network, while providing the same level of service quality and features served up by Class 5 switches. When an operator moves to pure IP voice, the TollBridge gateway software can shift from an IPDT implementation to a media gateway that supports the Trunking Gateway Control Protocol (TGCP), which connects to a softswitch. "

Cable Architectures Draw Up an IP Future: LCS Boxes
- CED Magazine   May 5, 2002

"Closer to what Comcast does want to do happened in the Detroit, Mich. area-a former MediaOne CBR market Comcast acquired in a swap with AT&T Broadband. There, Comcast complemented its CBR service with a VoIP trial using Arris' C4 CMTS, Motorola's cable modems and TollBridge's GR-303 interfaces that link with the existing Class 5 switch. Comcast kicked off that trial in October 2001 and wrapped it up last month."

Comcast Names Vendors for VoIP Trial
- Cable Datacom News   May 1, 2002

"Arris Inc. is supplying its Cadant C4 CMTS, while Tollbridge Technologies is supplying its TB300 media gateway and Motorola Inc. is providing its SB3500 PacketCable embedded multimedia terminal adapter (E-MTA)."

Cable, DSL talk business ties
- EE Times   April 25, 2002

Cable is also seeing a push to add voice services, which would complete the voice-video-data triad that every broadband camp is pursuing. "We think that the new competition for the telco is the cable company," said Kevin Woods, vice president of marketing for Tollbridge Technologies Inc.

Digital Beats Analog in Customer Satisfaction, but not DBS
- Cable Today   April 24, 2002

"Arris and TollBridge will jointly market their products, with Arris selling TollBridge's TB300 gateway globally and integrating it into its "CompleteVoice" cable telephony solution. "<

Arris, TollBridge Align Products
- Multichannel News   April 23, 2002

"Arris will sell TollBridge's 'TB300' gateway, along with its 'CompleteVoice' access lineup. This will allow both companies to offer a one-stop telephony setup -- including customer devices and gateway-control systems -- to cable operators."

ARRIS to sell TollBridge Gateways
- CEDaily Direct   April 23, 2002

"After participating in a recently sewn up IP telephony trial in Detroit with Comcast Corp., Arris and TollBridge Technologies have formalized their relationship under a new re-seller deal."

Arris and TollBridge Seal Worldwide Deal
- The Daily Edge (Morgan Stanley)   April 23, 2002

Boradband Brief "ARRIS and TollBridge Jointly Market Products"
- CableFAX Daily   April 23, 2002

Closing the Loop: Comcast completes VoIP trials
Hotels Royal Rimini- Telecommunications Magazine   April 25, 2002

"For all the talk about VoIP on cable, Comcast's completion of VoIP trials at its Detroit properties goes far beyond basic lip service. ... Comcast utilized TollBridge's TB3000 to provide the IP-to-circuit-switched interface ..."

Comcast Soups Up Its VoIP Engine in the Motor City
- CT's Pipeline   April 23, 2002

The trial with TollBridge Technologies (http://www.tollbridgetech.com) was so successful that Comcast decided to seriously evaluate expansion potentials in the Detroit, Craddock reported last week.

COMCAST'S IP VOICE TRIAL SIGNALS TECHNOLOGY SHIFT
- TELEPHONY   April 22, 2002

Replacing the Class 5 switch is one direction the technology will move, said Kevin Woods, vice president of marketing for Tollbridge. "The other direction that it goes in, and probably a longer term development for us, is to be able to migrate circuit switched customers onto the softswitch."

TECHNOLOGY
- Warren's Cable Regulation Monitor   April 22, 2002

TollBridge Technologies said it had successfully completed testing advancements in voice-over-IP (VoIP) with Comcast Cable. In 6-month residential trial in Detroit, Comcast used TollBridge's technology to test VoIP access on its broadband network. Trial used technology that operates under standards created by CableLabs. "The trial results demonstrate the potential benefits of more flexible and economical packet data technology, such as the development of services beyond those currently available using conventional telephone technologies," TollBridge said.

Broadband
- CABLEFAX   April 18, 2002

Comcast [CMCSK] will use TollBridge's TB300 gateway in its 6-month VoIP test in Detroit. The MSO selected Motorola Broadband's VoIP customer premise equipment.

Industry Notes
- Washington Internet Daily   April 11, 2002

In a 6-month residential trial in Detroit, Comcast used TollBridge's technology to test VoIP access on its broadband network. The trial used technology that operates under standards created by CableLabs. "The trial results demonstrate the potential benefits of more flexible and economical packet data technology, such as the development of services beyond those currently available using conventional telephone technologies," TollBridge said.

Serious VoIP (Seriously): Comcast Reveals Trial Results
- CT's Pipeline   April 16, 2002

Comcast completes voice-over-IP trial
[REGISTRATION REQUIRED] - the451   April 11, 2002

"Comcast ... has the pieces of a network architecture that could actually see action by 2004. In particular, the use of equipment such as the TollBridge gateway will help the company offer telephony over AT&T's networks more economically while still allowing for a full IP telephony solution in the future. If the merger is allowed, Comcast-AT&T should be a major force able to steal customers from local telecom providers where the CLECS have been stymied."

Comcast Wraps Up Detroit VoIP Trial
[REGISTRATION REQUIRED] - Multichannel News   April 10, 2002

"Instead of a pure IP setup, Comcast tested packet-voice services in the access network (home to headend) by leveraging TollBridge Technologies Inc.'s 'TB300' gateway, Arris' Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification 1.1-qualified 'C4' cable-modem-termination system and a class-5 switch the MSO inherited via a system swap with AT&T Broadband."

Cable IP Telephony Gets Real-World Test
- The Net Economy   April 10, 2002

"What Comcast said here was: the stuff works," said Kevin Woods, vice president of marketing for TollBridge. "They threw everything they could at it."

Comcast Wraps IP Trial
[REGISTRATION REQUIRED] - Multichannel News   April 8, 2002

"This trial is one possible way for Comcast to deploy IP telephony and circuit-switch plant side-by-side once it takes over AT&T Broadband and its more than 1 million circuit switched subscribers later this year."

Power Shift, TV Tie Likely In Cable Telephony Ranks
- Multichannel News   March 18, 2002

"Even as cable telephony sails into the consumer marketplace, there are some subtle shifts in the wind - especially in where it gets its juice and how it is displayed. TollBridge Technologies sees both trends as part of an active year for its last-mile Internet-protocol telephony gateway designed to link to Class 5 circuit switches."

"Comcast, Cox and Adelphia are in serious field trials using TollBridge Technology's TB300 gateway"
- CT's Pipeline   March 12, 2002

"And emerging quickly behind today's circuit-switched solutions, is ops' renewed interest in VoIP. For example, Comcast, Cox and Adelphia are in serious field trials using TollBridge Technology's (http://www.tollbridgetech.com) TB300 gateway. The business case for cable telephony is brawny, and subscriber fondness for it is well established, Gary Tauss, president and CEO at TollBridge says. 'We now have the standards and technology in place for MSOs to begin deployment and benefit from the huge revenue and profitability potential offered by packet voice service.'"

Next Gen Voice Product Market Tops $1.2B in 2001; Service Providers Continue to Invest Despite Other Spending Cuts
- Infonetics Release   February 22, 2002

"Worldwide revenues for next gen voice hardware and software totaled $1.23 billion in 2001, a 463% jump over 2000 revenue totals, and are expected to grow another 14% to $1.4 billion by next year, according to Infonetics Research's quarterly worldwide market share and forecast service, Next Gen Voice Products."

Motorola, Nortel Team Up For IP Telephony Boost
[REGISTRATION REQUIRED]- Cableworld   February 11, 2002

"Comcast has announced a deployment with TollBridge Technologies in a former AT&T Detroit system that is intended to transition new voice customers to a kind of hybrid switch-VoIP platform starting later this year.

'From the subscriber to the switch, it would be all packet switching, while from the switch back into the network, it would be what AT&T does today,' says Kevin Woods, VP-marketing for TollBridge. 'It would allow AT&T to move to packet-switched technology immediately. The whole reason is to look at this as a potential replacement for pure circuit-switched telephony.'"

Callahan Makes a Bet on IP Services With Massive German Upgrade
- Multichannel News   February 2002

"Voice traffic moves from the phone to the voice port of the MTA along a dedicated 8 MHz channel to a TollBridge Technologies gateway, which resides between the CMTS and a Class 5 Nortel switch, converting IP packets and network call signaling (NCS) to conventional circuit-switched streams. Essentially, voice traffic in this configuration is in IP form from the MTA to the CMTS. This architecture is deployed today and supports live customers."

Triple Threat
- Telecommunications Magazine   February 2002

"Tollbridge gained multivendor interoperability for its TB300 VoCable IP gateway with ADC, Arris/Cadant, Tellabs and Motorola. Using NCS 1.0 on the line side, Tollbridge's TB300 IPDT gateway delivers toll quality voice service."

Riding a new wave
- CED   January 1, 2002

"TollBridge Technologies demonstrated its IP-based interactive on-screen-telephony (OST) interface. By using the television as the telephony interface, TollBridge will allow cable service providers to deliver the interactive application to let users make, receive and manage phone calls from their TVs. Using standards-compliant integrated consumer devices, client/server platforms, and IP telephony gateways, TollBridge will offer this real-time telephony interface for MSOs to provide to their subscribers via a standard cable TV setup."

THE FUTURE AS SEEN THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
- Wireless Week   December 10, 2001

CALL SCREENING
Glasgow luxury hotels- Telephony Online   December 10, 2001

"'There's strategic value in this,' he [Kevin Woods, VP of Marketing] said. 'A satellite provider could not do this very easily. A traditional telco could not do this. It puts a strategic user interface on it that only the MSO can offer.'"

Western Cable Show Wrap-Up
- Cable Datacom News®   December 1, 2001

"Tollbridge Technologies announced that Comcast Corp. is conducting an IP telephony trial in Detroit, Mich. using its TB300 Voice Gateway. Comcast acquired the Detroit system from AT&T Broadband and currently serves some 30,000 circuit-switched telephone subscribers in the market. Working with Tollbridge, Comcast hopes to transition new telephone subscribers to an IP platform in 2002."

ARRIS to Install Complete Telephony Over IP Solution at Frankfort Plant Board In Kentucky
- Wireless Week   November 29, 2001

TollBridge Hires Ray Fitzgerald, Vice President, North American Sales Former RiverDelta Sales Executive to Drive the Company's North American Cable Strategy
- Wireless Week   November 29, 2001

TollBridge Announces On-Screen Telephony Technology
- TMC.net   Novemeber 27, 2001

"'This demonstration is an excellent way for us to show both MSOs and their subscriber customers how TollBridge is delivering the next-generation VoIP service that can implemented in today's environment in a much more exciting and visual way than common telco service. The OST demonstration enables cable providers to visualize what voice services could actual look like to their end consumer,' said Gary Tauss, CEO of TollBridge Technologies."

TollBridge Delivers Phone Over TV
- Multichannel News   Novemeber 27, 2001

TollBridge debuts OST
- CED Magazine   Novemeber 27-30, 2001

"...TollBridge will offer this real-time telephony interface for MSOs to provide to their subscribers via a standard cable TV setup."

Western Show exhibitors are eager to show operators that they can build a better mousetrap
- CED   November, 2001

"'The idea is that there's a simple user interface that allows you to purchase an incremental single-line telephony service from the MSO, all through simple on-screen menus,' says TollBridge Vice President of Marketing Kevin Woods."

Voice-over-cable battle
- Electronic Media   September 24, 2001

"In November, at the Western Show in Anaheim, Calif., TollBridge will exhibit one of its hardware's flashiest features -- the ability to run "video telephony," or onscreen telephony applications that couple video streams with voice transport over personal computers or video phones."

Weaving Broadband
- Interactive Week   September 17, 2001

TollBridge Founder and CTO Asher Waldfogel talks about Voice-over-Cable and Voice-over-IP [VoIP] on cable.

Hanging up on cable by Vince Vittore
- Telephony, July 16, 2001

Comcast's unsolicited bid to buy AT&T Broadband would put a crimp in what has been a quiet but rapid expansion in circuit-switched cable telephony and likely would leave Cox Communications as the lone U.S. operator deploying the service.

Fuzzy Reception by Jim Barthold
Telephony, June 11, 2001

It's tough to call cable telephony an oxymoron when more than 1 million people use it.

Talking About Cable IP Telephony
- Cable Datacom News   June 1, 2001

In an exclusive interview TollBridge Technologies CEO Gary Tauss discusses the drivers for Cable VoIP

Voicing Optimism
- Telephony   May 28, 2001

TollBridge's VoIP Task
- Broadband Week   May 21, 2001

N+I TollBridge Pumps up the Broadband Voice Volume
- Current Analysis (Registration Required)   May 9, 2001

TollBridge puts cable ahead of DSL for voice
- The451 (Registration Required)   May 7, 2001

TollBridge Bridges Gap with Gateway
- Cable World   May 7, 2001

TollBridge sees market for cable IP telephony
- Telecom Click   May 7, 2001

TollBridge to deploy two global gateways
- CED Daily Direct   May 7, 2001

Are we there yet?
Ready to Wear
Telephony, April 9, 2001

Communications Solutions 2000 VoDSL Gateway Product of the Year!
TMC Communications Solutions(TM)

Convergence: TollBridge's Solution To Decreasing Deployment Costs, While Increasing Revenue
 - Gary Tauss, CEO TollBridge Technologies
Broadband Publishing, January, 2001

SuperNet: TollBridge Bolsters Its Voice Over Broadband Proposition
Current Analysis, January 17, 2001

TollBridge launches voice over DSL in Europe
Total Telecom, November 9, 2000 - REGISTRATION REQUIRED

The bell tolls for conventional copper line telecommunications
IT Singapore, October 5, 2000

TollBridge in broadband trials with SingTel, CyberWorks
Singapore.CNet.com, October 4, 2000

Packet Voice Catches Fire
X-Change, September 9, 2000

TollBridge, Interspeed Facilitate Deployment Of Voice Over DSL Technology For Small Businesses In The MTU Market
TMCnet, August 31, 2000

Cable Telephony Gains Momentum
America's Network, August 1, 2000

TollBridge Spices Up Voice over Broadband with Sylantro Alliance
Current Analysis, July 2000hôtels Leuven - Registration required

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ISP Planet, July 2000

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