EarthLink’s lab released a proof-of-concept application showing off how SIP can be used for purposes other than what it was designed–VOICE. The proof of concept shows off the concept of sharing data, ala KAZAA. It’s called SIPshare, and is a peer-to-peer application designed to show how SIP — for Session Initiation Protocol — can be … Read more
Daiwa Securities London based analyst in the Telecom space James Enck has an awesome post about the SIP world and who is buying up what. I’ve been saying that SIP is it for a long time here, versus H.323 and MGCP because of all the features embedded into the algorithm and what it is capable … Read more
A reader tipped me off to XipTel. Don’t know much about them but their offer looks rather robust and they seem to be going after the same market as Covad VoIP.
In a story that makes total sense, TMC.net has a report that Comast would be well best aided by casting their VoIP fortunes to AT&T for the network and management, if you want to believe one of the Telecom industry’s brighter analysts from Probe Research, a company that has always had a great handle on … Read more
James Enck over at EuroTelcoBlog has an interesting report on Nimcat and explains the differences between them and Peerio from Popular Telephony.
Ted Shelton has a cool post over on his hot blog IPInferno based initially on Skype and the Pocket PC announcement of last week, but really about the idea of VoWiFi and how it can be disruptive to cellular phones as an industry.
I have the PDF version of the AT&T Home Wiring guide that isn’t on the web site. It’s rather straightforward and easy to follow. If you’re a CallVantage customer I’m fairly certain you can find it on the web site once the update happens. I got my copy from one of their PR folks. I’m … Read more
Skype has added Cisco’s Mike Volpi to their board of directors. He is the first Outside Director to be named. The appointment is personal and does not reflect any involvement from Cisco according to a Skype spokesperson. VON founder and VoIP god Jeff Pulver has his own take on this as well.
James Enck sent me an e-mail yesterday saying he had a problem with Skype. What he saw was a grey icon and none of his mates online. This morning I attempted to make a Skype Out call to a France phone number, and got the error message that said the Skype Proxy could not be … Read more
To prove that PCCW is wrong, Hong Kong telecom operator City Telecom is offering a free VoIP trial. One has to commend City for taking the high road. Rather than get into a war of words with PCCW, the upstart is saying let the service prove for itself how well it works.
