VoIP

Jeff points to Newsweek and Vonage being featured on the cover.

I’ve been busy the last two days attending the Bridgeport Networks Global Convergence Conference which was all about Mobile meeting up with VoIP. The conference was excellent and I got to moderate a panel which featured the father of Ethernet, Bob Metcalfe who now is a VC with Polaris Ventures as well as with Dave … Read more

Advanced IP Pipeline | Parus Unveils Retail-Store Voice Apps and Tom Keating both hit the mark on a subtle shift in direction for the company formerly known as Webley, as the newly named Parus Interactive rolls out a speech driven retail interactive voice response solution for multi-location retailers. The idea of using SIP, natural language speech, … Read more

Yankee Group – Fighting Goliath: Can Alternative VoIP Providers Survive? Tom Keating has a post about the Yankee Group’s report that spells trouble for the single play VOIP companies. I’m in the same court as Tom as I have serious concerns about companies that are only one hit wonders. But for different reasons. The VoIP … Read more

Om has news on some of the pending reorg over at Level3. All signs point to a changing of the guard, a restructuring of how the company works and what the company does.

Stuart has an extensive review and offers some suggestions about the real Skype Voice Mail application and service.

Telchemy has a nice PDF file that helps Network professionals in the Enterprise figure out how to get their network ready for VoIP. If you’re a decisionmaker thinking about VoIP for your small or medium size business, you will want to read this.

Telecommunications Companies Become Fastest Growing Online Advertisers, Increasing Overall Share of Impressions by 6 Percentage Points Year-Over-Year, According to Nielsen//Netratings This clearly shows that the Telecoms think that the online crowd is where they can gain traction first before going to the mass market. Does that sound like Vonage’s strategy? Now look at AT&T CallVantage. … Read more

Packet8 VideoPhone Makes Television Debut on Sets of Popular Shows While they are spending money to a product placement agency, that builds awareness, the key question is how will anyone watching know that the service is Packet8?

I’m hearing some additional rumors about Level3. While I have no inside information, some people close to the company keep whispering that more layoffs are possibly planned and that the cuts will go into the ranks of some Vice Presidents. What is clear is that as a company Level3 has not met its expectations and … Read more