Andy Abramson Om has a very important post about IAX vs. SIP but he should have asked me. A few years back I served as the USA consultant for an Israeli softswitch company, Comgates which has since been acquired by another telephony company. While Comgates didn’t ever reach their vision of founder Jacob Tirosh, one point that … Read more
Aswath who regularly posts comments to the VoIPWatch blog and emails me from time to time has an interesting perspective and has done some fact finding out about the new Virtual numbers via VoIP that are popping up all over the place. First, I don’t think the market is as global as it is local … Read more
Tom Keating and Keith Bare both drew my attention to DingoTel They are being rather cryptic about their efforts but clearly taking a shot at Skype with the line on their software page about P2P telephony where the say “The DingoTel™ Network allows users to connect directly to one another without going through a central … Read more
San Jose Mercury News uber blogger Dan Gillmor sings the praise of Skype. Some of the comments are hilarious.
Roland over at North American Bandwidth News ponders the question about Apple aquiring Skype.
Give the Skype folks credit for knowing how to weave their way into the media at every angle, but this story is more about the Mac and it becoming a telephony device of major proportion. As a reformed Mac user (i.e. I used to use a Mac) I always enjoyed how easy they were to … Read more
Stuart has a very insightful piece on the Skype project and explains in easy to read terms, why it is so disruptive. What he has done with the story is break down the Skype business story as we all know it into easy terms to understand language. The big point he makes that really draws … Read more
EarthLink’s lab released a proof-of-concept application showing off how SIP can be used for purposes other than what it was designed–VOICE. The proof of concept shows off the concept of sharing data, ala KAZAA. It’s called SIPshare, and is a peer-to-peer application designed to show how SIP — for Session Initiation Protocol — can be … Read more
Daiwa Securities London based analyst in the Telecom space James Enck has an awesome post about the SIP world and who is buying up what. I’ve been saying that SIP is it for a long time here, versus H.323 and MGCP because of all the features embedded into the algorithm and what it is capable … Read more
Keith of VoIPNuke, who has resold Packet8 longer than anyone I know, pointed me to the new P8 referral program. This is taking a page out of both Vonage and AT&T’s playbook. There is nothing more than one happy customer telling others about the service. Word of Mouth is the most valuable..next to word of … Read more
