VoIP over WiFi Getting Keyed In

I expect to see lots of news about VoIP Over WiFi and 3G handoff to the IP networks out of 3GSMWorld next week. Wish I was there.

I’m also hearing that my pals at BridgePort Networks have lots to say on the subject. I’ve been spending lots of time with their co-founder Tom Carter. Hearing what they
have been up to is enough to give me a headache..it’s that big.

Yesterday I was briefed by their superstar VP Sanjay Jhawar under embargo of what they plan to introduce at 3GSM. It’s downright impressive given what they have assembled since I helped moderate Mobile Ignite in January 2005. If anything they have been way ahead of the curve in the Mobile to VoIP space compared to everyone else, so while other companies seem to want to jump into that world, BPN is really the one company people should be following as they attack the problem of device enablement in an IP always connected world that WiFi brings to us all now, and that WiMax brings in a few years. On a macro scale the changes are here now, but in different relams. Someone needs to bring this together and BridgePort Networks seems to be attacking that the right way. Time will tell.

Last week I was fortunate to also spend some quality time with their Senior VP of Engineering, Steve Blumenthal, and realized what his background has been with the development of the Internet, BridgePort has in their braintrust one of the true builders of the Internet and IP networks as we know it. What’s more their team has such a strong knowledge of how the 3G, GSM and CDMA worlds work, both technically and politically, it’s downright impressive.