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.
Over on Broadband Reports the discussion about AOL entering the VoIP world is nothing short of good comedy. Maybe there’s a reason God made AOL and has kept it alive. AOL and VoIP makes total sense. Why? Audience. If 10 percent of the AOL customer base comes on board in the first year that are … Read more
Check out Om’s post about Entrepreneur Magazine’s article on VoIP, WiFi and PC’s. All in all a good read…
What I like about Vonage is they are always thinking ahead. So this idea, which I actually had and experimented with Webley back in 2002/2003 with using my Sony Vaio Picturebook, a hacked version of Windows Messenger and from Starbucks is really not breakthrough to me, but it is a great idea. Make a WiFi … Read more
In what is a very good report from Dawn Kawamoto and Ben Charney, AT&T CEO Dave Dorman reveals the missteps of his predecessors, shows a great affinity for the cable guys, and takes a swipe at the RBOC’s who sell DSL and don’t get VoIP. The story, which is one of the best to come … Read more
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
