Is It or Isn’t It VoIP

The VoIP Weblog has a post about TimeWarner Cable in New York offering Digital Telephony. The headline calls it VoIP. I’m not so sure, but being in Lyon France right now, it’s a bit hard to get too concerned. Like Cox and a few other cable companies, Digital Telephony has been around for a while. … Read more

The Need For Softphones

I’ve been in Europe less than a week, and have yet to use my Telephone adapters from either Vonage or AT&T CallVantage. Before I left I was in four hotels on the east coast and in none of them could I get the AT&T telephone adapter to work, even behind my Linksys router. Luckily in … Read more

Miltary Salutes VoIP

It looks like one of the biggest IP networks in the world, the Navy Marine Corp Internet is about to add VoIP via a buildout being handled by EDS. The number of endpoints, 350,000 is simply amazing second only to what the cost savings will be for the military.

D-Link to Bundle AT&T Ready Devices

D-Link announced in Taiwan that their line of Broadband devices will be AT&T CallVantage ready. In the DigiTimes report it refers to h.323 and SIP, the later which AT&T is basically moving over to in addition to the current MGCP they are selling. I think the trend we are seeing has all the Taiwan manfacturers … Read more

VoIP to The Rescue

Last week I pointed out how the hurricanes in Florida were not good for the phone companies argument about VoIP not working when there was a disaster. Now this story comes out adding more weight to the story I blogged from the Wall Street Journal.

Light Reading On VoIP Security

Here’s more comment on the concerns about VoIP Security via Light Reading. This is all just positioning by some of the companies mentioned, leading up to this week Internet Telephony conference and the VON in two weeks.

Vonage Concerned about Regional Bells

According to Vonage spokesperson Mitchell “Mad Dog” Slepian Vonage is more concerned about QWEST and Verizon than others. I think Vonage needs to watch out for AT&T and a few others. Possibly Webley, who has a killer SIP based product about to roll out. I’ve been using it off an on on the last few … Read more

Muraskin Buys Into The Bait of SipPhone

Ellen Muraskin is one smart cookie, in her analysis of the SipPhone suit versus Vonage. But remember, there is no one better at baiting the media than Michael Robertson. He is surely the master of it. What Michael is doing is forcing Vonage to react to what he’s doing. In turn he’s leveraging their success … Read more