A Glimpse of 2009
Emerick Woods, the recently named CEO of client Global IP Solutions (GIPS) has taken a stab at what the year ahead looks like. I suspect we’ll see many more of these from others.
VoIP and Wi-FI
Taking Stock of My Accounts
Over the past 20 months my travel has swelled from now and then to almost every week. It used to be I would worry about how I was going to go so far away and still stay in touch. But that's all changed. Over the past few years I've amassed both knowledge and a ton … Read more
Network World’s VoIP Predictions
Network World, which has a very strong SMB and Enterprise focus is out with their ten predictions for VoIP.
Push That Banner, Make a Call
On the surface this is taking a page out of client iFByPhone’s playbook, a company out of the Netherlands has created PushCall. With their latest offering, PushCall makes it passible to click on a banner ad and make a call. What makes so much of this possible is the same kind of Adobe Flash audio … Read more
Hosted VoIP Checklist by Robert Poe
Longtime VoIP reporter Robert Poe has pulled together a very comprehensive checklist of what company decisionmakers should be considering when they get ready to make a decision on selecting a hosted VoIP provider.
Drinking My Own Kool Aid
Yesterday my flight from Paris to Newark was delayed by almost three hours. That meant the connection to my American Airlines flight to Dallas would never be made, so at Orly I logged on to their hotspot using Boingo and looked at options. There weren’t any. So I went to AA.com and changed my flight … Read more
Crappy Bandwidth-The VoIP Killer
We all know that without decent internet connectivity that VoIP and all that comes with it won’t be adopted. When I travel and have great bandwidth, with low latency, no packet loss and an absence of jitter, it’s like the other party is in the same room. On the other hand, unless you stand over … Read more
Sonus Axes 50 Last Friday
As we all know the slowdown in the economy means telcos won’t be spending as much on “new” and “shiny” so that means the suppliers get the brunt first. Last Friday Sonus laid off 50 people.
Cisco Grows in Enterprise Telephony Space
It’s not a surprise that Cisco is seeing growth in the enterprise market with telephony gear. No company is better poised to do well in the on-premise PBX market than Cisco as a result of their market swarm and dominate approach. While Avaya is number two, the pressure from others will consume them while Cisco … Read more