Keith Bare tipped me of to this story about AOL’s VoIP play which I somehow missed yesterday, but follows up on an earlier post. AOL is clearly able to make a strong run. When you think about it, not only can they offer a typical VoIP like experience, but the ability to integrate with Instant … Read more
Jeff Pulver is so right when he talks about Level3 being an Enzyme that will bind together VoIP in his blog today. I just finsihed an interview with The Boulder Daily Camera’s Matthew Branaugh (I used to live in Boulder back in 1988) about the rise of VoIP in the USA. In my interview I … Read more
Covad is using Cisco. The big benefit is that Cisco offers very rapid replacement, usually within 24 hours when their systems go down. The second big advantage for using Cisco is the ability to have a standard managed network across all of the Covad facilities and to find Cisco qualified engineers. When you look at … Read more
Sonus, which has been in the past suspected of playing the hype game to manipulate the stock market price seems to have cleaned up their past and is now poised to become a real player once again. No one can fault their technology, and given the state of both Lucent and Nortel having had a … Read more
Reports out of the UK are that the Skype Beta for Mac is now out.
Gartner Group, one of the larger research groups in the IT and Telcom space says that despite all the hurdles VoIP shall be adopted by telco users saying 90% of all new corporate telephone systems will be IP-enabled. The hurdles which range from security to corporate in-fighting, will be overcome is the feeling of Gartner … Read more
Level3 which is positioned to be the carrier for resellers of VoIP who don’t want to build their own network has added Charter Communications. One by one the cable operators are all going VoIP.
Check out Om’s post about Entrepreneur Magazine’s article on VoIP, WiFi and PC’s. All in all a good read…
When you have only one direction you can go, and that direction is up it’s not hard for prdictions to abound. Yankee Group today announced just how rapidly they expect VoIP to grow in the United States. In reading between the lines they seem to be calling into question how much growth will go to … Read more
The story which appeared yesterday in the Washington Post is a very consumer, almost which companies are there, type of story. Noticably missing is D.C area based Lingo, Packet 8 and VoicePulse all whom deserved to be mentioned in the same way as Vonage and AT&T CallVantage when describing home and SOHO telephone line replacement. … Read more
