Light Reading – Networking the Telecom Industry has a report of Sonus landing a deal with Time Warner to supply key infrastructure, like the softswitch that will support the TW VoIP rollout. Clearly if true it signifies that TW wants to use their own network for VoIP management, and is not going to rely on a … Read more
The Jeff Pulver Blog: pulver.Communicator: Download Frequency Accelerating! While Jeff’s application which gives you cross IM platform capabilities and FWD VoIP services is not yet at SKYPE levels, what this does show me is that a lot of people like the idea of a Softphone client. That means good things for companies like XTEN, and … Read more
Cognigen has become another Packet8 Reseller. Hopefully with 100,000 agents Packet8 can get some traction.
The GSM Association Awards 2005 – Nominee Shortlist features Bridgeport Networks, a company I mentioned earlier today. It seems their network convergence gateway has caught the attention of the GSM Association Awards Committee. The gateway converges today’s existing mobile networks with broadband networks such as cable, DSL, etc. And that means a true bridging of the … Read more
In the February issue of PC Magazine where many of the VoIP options were reviewed it seems their editors came to the same conclusion I did, that CallVantage is their choice for VoIP, with VoicePulse, the company I also felt was number two to AT&T since I too began some trials. I guess great minds … Read more
A swath Weblog: It is Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature! When A swath writes, he’s RIGHT! VoIP in the network is not the same as end to end.
Mark Evans :: Shaw Launching VOIP Soon in Canada. As you can see, the cable companies all across North America are one by one rolling out VoIP. Do you think there is a revolution going on….
The Jeff Pulver Blog: Communications Unusual: A cool bug…feature! – Mixing Skpe with SIP Last week I found a bug in Skype that created a furor with some other bloggers. Now Jeff finds a similar bug, happens when one mixes SKYPE and FWD. One person’s feature is another person’s bug it seems.
Unbound Spiral: Skype Predictions–Super Skype fan Stuart Henshall cites some predictions about the growth of Skype. My guess is Skype starts to co-exist more with the traditional telcos, rather than simply be a disruptive threat. Imagine a private labeled Skype product that cell companies “resell” that gives you all the features of your cell phone, … Read more
We’ve been covering Bridgeport Networks for some time, writing about their place in where VoIP is going as part of convergence. Yesterday Forbes listed them as possible acquisition candidate by always buying Cisco. While I think this is not as likely today to happen, one never rules anything out in business. The story is especially … Read more
