Cox Announces Market #2

Cox Communications made an announcement about their second market for VoIP. Tulsa, OK. What bugs me is the FUD they are spreading about VoIP via other carriers vs. their product. Since they have tier one peering with AT&T what’s the big deal…..Someone needs a reality check at Cox, especially since the Cox family holds a … Read more

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.