ALSO NOTED: Sipera compliant with Avaya IP telephony; Vanco provides new online loop pricing tool; and much more...

> Sipera VoIP security box IPCS 310 is compliant with Avaya's Communication Manager IP telephony software and SIP Enablement Services; and with Nortel's Multimedia Communication Server 5100. Release (Avaya) | Release (Nortel)

> Virtual network operator Vanco provides XO with a new online customer loop pricing tool to improve back-office efficiency. Release

> Compare the line losses by cablecos and the Baby Bells. Blog

And Finally..."We thought we'd make it up to [Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg] [last year], and maybe we were too enthusiastic," said Verizon Director Robert Storey, of the company's board granting nearly $27 million in compensation to Seidenberg in 2005. Article (The Wall Street Journal sub. req.)