VoIP

Business Week Online has a VoIP primer out. Not much that is revealing other than Apple users sometimes having problems with VoIP.

We talked about this here a few months back that Speakeasy would rollout their own VoIP service. Well it has been branded Speakeasy Voice. While Speakeasy works heavily with COVAD for DSL, for this play they are working primarily with Level3, but likely will need to work with some other VoIP carriers to reach the … Read more

Packet8 is getting into the game of wholesale sales of their technology for both voice and video IP telephony. This means that service providers, ISPs and resellers can now be putting their name around the service. Since Level3 is the carriers carrier behind Packet8, this means more business in their direction if Packet8 can gain … Read more

In a press release SIPURA announced their widely rumoured relationship with Linksys. Guess what’s inside the new Vonage ATA…..that you can get from Linksys. I tried one last night, set up was easy as cake. It’s tiny, has international power capability (why didn’t they include foriegn plugs) and set up took all of a few … Read more

A story out of New Zealand has lots of why the telcos should be scared. As I read this type of stuff about Skype and other P2P technologies, I can’t help but think of the early days of ICQ….and that Skype is to Voice what ICQ was to one on one and group chat.

It seems the USA’s neighbor to the north is looking to sort out VoIP regulation as part of a three day conference. Good luck !

The New York Law Journal has publshed a very interesting article on why the current telecom legislation is inadequate for today’s and tomorrow’s technology, and says VoIP will be the catalyst. This has to be one of the more forward, certainly liberal viewpoints and continues the thread of insightful writing about VoIP. First was the … Read more

eMarketer has a posting about VoIP and its potential growth by the end of the decade. I like the cautionary tone the story takes, especially at the end. It’s nice to see research that presents both sides in an era of hype…oh, that was the 90s….

In seeing how VoIP and WiFi have virtually converged, the market needs solid advice. This story about how to deploy, when you read down to the VoIP portion brings up some interesting points. I’ll let more technical folks like Tom Keating of Internet Telephony tell what it all means. I just know from a business … Read more

The literacy level of the blogosphere is sure rising, and if this Tororto Star post gets around the idea of forward thinking about IP Telephony will sure be underway. While the Star is a traditional news outlet, with Web presence as well, the thought and insight here makes for very good reading. The idea of … Read more