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Keating Sees The Emperors New Clothes

I didn’t blog the Vonage Avaya announcement because, well, it’s a spin control announcement. Vonage is very good at telling the world what Vonage wants to allow be told. They are still waiting for the lawsuits from Florida to drop so an announcement like this is all about building a good perception with the public … Read more

SightSpeed Working With Intel Customer Base More Closely

SightSpeed, a serious player in the online Video to Video chat world is working very closely with Intel. Sightspeed works cross platform very well and while different than XTEN’s eyeBeam, it is also SIP based and very robust. The difference is the network, which SightSpeed manages on their own, while XTEN sells to customers for … Read more

Earthlink Looking To the Big Apple

With an already developing VoIP strategy, Earthlink is now looking to bypass the wired carriers in NYC and establish a wireless access approach. This only works if it works everywhere in the city in my opinion.

Follow The Money

Johanne Torres has some real Insight on what’s happening with the Asian long distance traffic market ever since VoIP started gaining ground. But when it comes to money, one has to ask where’s it coming from with Skype chewing up so much of the VoIP bandwidth? But Skype is a razor thin margin business right … Read more

More On Yahoo-Dialpad, XTEN

eWeek has an expanded story about the Yahoo – Dialpad deal, largely reconfirming my two posts earlier this week. A big winner in the deal could be Vancouver’s XTEN, makers of my favorite softphone, eyeBeam. They’ve already licensed their technology to Yahoo (and a few other significant players), something I reported on long before much … Read more

Coming out of Stealth

Stealth Communications is one of those off the radar companies I’m a fan of because, like Bridgeport Networks, they sit in the middle of so much that is the future, rather than the past. Today’s LightReading article about Stealth’s ASP model for delivering their Virtual Peering Fabric to VoIP service providers peers nicely under the … Read more