Erik Really Gives a SPIT

Pal Erik Lagerway has moved his blog to TMC and has views on SPIT. His new company, EyeBall Networks has a piece of software to help prevent it. I call it the VoIP flu shot. You may not ever get SPAT upon, but if you do, you’re protected.

WSJ on Voice IM

Talk about a story that’s late. The Wall Street Journal has a story about Voice over IM clients, focusing on Yahoo and MSN, omitting Skype and AIM. The write pans Yahoo Messenger and seems to give the nod to MSN Messenger. It would have more interesting if he had reviewed Skype and GizmoProject.

Just Try And Move Your Number

Last summer, pal Bob Cox of The National Debate had a problem porting his number with Cablevision when he moved around the corner in New Rochelle New York. Now it seems a Time Warner Cable customer has a similar problem. It seems local number portability, which should be easier in the VoIP universe doesn’t apply … Read more

Drunken Sailor Spending @ Vonage

Ted Shelton draws attention to something I’ve pointed out before. The spending to the point of excess that Vonage seems to be doing. The kind of numbers which Ted alludes to numbers that are out of the stratosphere and one would think that Vonage was Coca-Cola. First off Vonage only has a million lines. I … Read more

Why Is Level3 Having Major Outages?

Last week Level3 had an outage that was at the root level, disrupting all types of Internet traffic and putting some customers, like AOL, off the hook for 20 minutes or so. While their SLA’s require them to provide an answer, the real explanation has yet to surface beyond some comments about an edge router. … Read more

CALEA Opponents Unite

Jeff Pulver is really good at being a catalyst for change. He has largely been the torch bearer for VoIP, SIP and now to help make sense out of the FCC’s CALEA interpretation as to how it applies to VoIP.

Deja Vu in Wireless

When Sprint PCS first started many of the cable companies were their partners, then the shares became a tracking stock and eventually the cable operators cashed out. Now they seem to be getting back into bed together.