Andy Abramson

ZyXel VoIP Products

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ZyXEL has releaed some VoIP products to add to their broadband lineup. When you look at the line up of Linksys, D-Link, Netgear, ZyXEL, Belkin, SMC one really doesn’t see any product differentiation. Nor is anyone out there doing any comparison testing reporting. I know that the lab guys inside the carriers all test before … Read more

VoWiFi Heating Up

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Fatport has a new VoIP service offeringthat works in the hotspots. A Caifornia company introduces a WiFi ready VoIP phone which sounds a lot like the Pulver Innovations and ZyXEL products. Are you seeing a pattern here. People want a world without wires. They also want connectivity for lower cost. On Net calls are going … Read more

QWEST Does More For Business

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QWEST announced the rollout of OneFlex earlier today. What I find interesting is they’re charging for off net calls like they always have. No bundling as with the new players in VoIP.

Cox Announces Market #2

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Cox Communications made an announcement about their second market for VoIP. Tulsa, OK. What bugs me is the FUD they are spreading about VoIP via other carriers vs. their product. Since they have tier one peering with AT&T what’s the big deal…..Someone needs a reality check at Cox, especially since the Cox family holds a … Read more

Is It or Isn’t It VoIP

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The VoIP Weblog has a post about TimeWarner Cable in New York offering Digital Telephony. The headline calls it VoIP. I’m not so sure, but being in Lyon France right now, it’s a bit hard to get too concerned. Like Cox and a few other cable companies, Digital Telephony has been around for a while. … Read more

The Need For Softphones

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I’ve been in Europe less than a week, and have yet to use my Telephone adapters from either Vonage or AT&T CallVantage. Before I left I was in four hotels on the east coast and in none of them could I get the AT&T telephone adapter to work, even behind my Linksys router. Luckily in … Read more

Miltary Salutes VoIP

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It looks like one of the biggest IP networks in the world, the Navy Marine Corp Internet is about to add VoIP via a buildout being handled by EDS. The number of endpoints, 350,000 is simply amazing second only to what the cost savings will be for the military.

D-Link to Bundle AT&T Ready Devices

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D-Link announced in Taiwan that their line of Broadband devices will be AT&T CallVantage ready. In the DigiTimes report it refers to h.323 and SIP, the later which AT&T is basically moving over to in addition to the current MGCP they are selling. I think the trend we are seeing has all the Taiwan manfacturers … Read more