VOIP

By Mike Dolan gt;Cisco launched new collaboration vision: lots of video in our future gt;Acme Packet deploys solution for TruGreen gt;Skype hires well-known VoIP expert Jonathan Rosenberg to be chief technology strategist gt;Still no VoIP over 3G on the iPhone?

By Mike Dolan VoIP Survivor has an article with a similar theme to what we were talking about in the last week's Editor's Corner. He brings up the emergence of the OneVoice standard supported by AT&T Inc., Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Orange, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siem...

By Mike Dolan Empirix, a Mass.-based VoIP monitoring solutions provider, announced today that its products have been rated compliant with Avaya's contact center solutions. The new rating means an increase in the number of vendors the VoIP monitoring company will be able to serve.

By Mike Dolan The Norway based VoIP provider has recently expanded its business into Holland and Denmark. Blogger Jon Arnold calls them the Vonage of Europe and has made a number of comparisons between the two companies offering that Telio is doing a number of things Vonage could do to increase their su...

By Mike Dolan According to the Skype blog, a deal has been made. Skype, eBay and their investors will no longer be sued by Joltid and the former Skype founders while Skype will now own the underlying codebase that makes its VoIP calls possible. Skype secures deal with Lenovo SIP to save Skype?

By Mike Dolan Despite the down numbers, Vonage has been making some serious moves lately, launching its $24.99 a month unlimited international calling plan and putting out an innovative smartphone app for Blackberry and the iPhone. Vonage iPhone App submission sends stock soaring

By Mike Dolan gt;PowerNet Global has launched SIP Lines á la carte gt;Skype is working on an open source UI layer gt;Vivox Uses Polycom HD Voice to Power the World of Online Chat And finally... Plantronics Voyager PRO UC headset offers Bluetooth VoIP for a price, Click here for a picture

By Mike Dolan As part of the deal Zennstrom and Friis will probably get board representation at Skype while the investors they've had issues with will not be allowed to participate in the purchase of the 65 percent share in Skype. Originally the founders were angry with eBay and Mike Volpi, former CEO of...

By Mike Dolan The system offers all the services eOn's Millennium Converged Communications Platform provides and works with eOn's eNterprise 7000 Series IP Telephones, audio conferencing units, analog sets and 3rd party SIP-compliant devices like softphones, desktop phones, WiFi and IP DECT w...

By Mike Dolan gt;GigaOm says Skype settlement in the works...short on details tho gt;Linux Skype still not ready gt;VoIP Survivor muses about VoIP mesh ups And finally... Not sure what the VoIP application would be but you can now print your own circuit boards with an Inkjet printer

By Mike Dolan Just like Skype, VoxOx provides free calling and video conferencing between users using their computers to access the service. The service also offers text messaging, IM, email and fax services. Additional plans offer unlimited texting to mobile phones with world wide unlimited texti...

By Mike Dolan Polling these medium and large companies, the survey asked about their use of PBX manufacturers, trunking services, providers, and expenditures. They found that 39 percent of respondents have already deployed SIP trunking and the majority are deploying it across their companies--n...

By Mike Dolan For more: read the article Related articles AT&T finds Google Voice blocking calls to convent Congress members ask FCC to investigate Google Voice call blocking AT&T extends VoIP over 3G to iPhone users Speakeasy.com's blocking of certain VoIP calls to trigger FCC action?

By Mike Dolan VoIP applications vendor BroadSoft debuted a new platform called Broadsoft Marketplace that allows service providers create their own custom application stores. The stores, which would be branded with the service providers' logos and stocked with third-party applications, ar...

By Mike Dolan Voxbone, a provider of international VoIP origination services and telephone numbers, just added high-definition voice calling for Skype to their iNum service. The VoIP provider's geographically-independent number service now allows HD calls between a number of VoIP networks an...

By Mike Dolan Before this new feature was available, users needed a special Google assigned phone number to receive voicemail to their Google inbox, but with this new offering, users enter a special code into their main mobile phones to have unanswered calls forwarded to their Google Voice inbox ra...

By Mike Dolan Over the weekend, Sipera Systems demonstrated how easy it was to eavesdrop and record VoIP calls made over an unsecured WiFi network on the iPhone. Using open source software called UCSniff, the security team hacked into the iPhone's VoIP calls proving that without security software, m...

By Mike Dolan Wholesale and trunk-based VoIP provider New Global Telecom (NGT) announced that it has certified Cisco Systems' SPA500 series of IP phones for use in conjunction with NGT's suite of fully managed VoIP services. NGT provides turnkey hosted and trunk-based VoIP as well as unified commu...

By Mike Dolan Xorcom's devices allow communication using both VoIP and legacy telephony while Broadvox's SIP trunking enables the use of bandwidth for voice and data apps while lowering costs. By using SIP they can provide unlimited local calling and reduce the cost of long-distance and internati...

By Mike Dolan Service providers are offering SIP trunks to increase ROI on VoIP installations," said Steven Johnson, President, Ingate Systems in the release. With the new device, "service providers can deliver seamless, secure SIP trunks to a much larger number of customers--immediately."

By Mike Dolan Related articles Skype secures deal with Lenovo Acme Packet adds new capabilities to Net-Net Session Router Skype may buy peer-to-peer VoIP startup Gizmo5 Acme Packet bucks recession, posts record revenue in Q2 SIPfoundry integrates with Skype for SIP

By Mike Dolan The BeoCom 5 does PC-based VoIP calls as well as landline.

By Mike Dolan AT&T reported a profit drop for Q3 2009, but while the big news is wireless profits over legacy wireline's continued decline, IP communications and business services shined a little in the iPhone's shadow. Related articles U-verse gets Voice AT&T dives into VoIP

By Mike Dolan Metaswitch's technology offers unified messaging, auto-attendant, incoming call manager, live message screening and Web-controlled voice conferencing. With the increase in demand for cost saving IP PBX services among SMBs, SureWest's move is an example of a growing trend that see...

By Mike Dolan Skype is moving beyond the download and will now show up standard on all Lenovo Thinkpad computers. The popular business laptop maker and the internet VoIP company inked a deal that would have Skype software pre-installed on all new Lenovo computers. Read more...

By Mike Dolan This week at Supercomm, the beleaguered communications technology provider, Nortel announced an upgrade to its Communication Server 2000--launching CS2000a. The announcement involved both a hardware and a software upgrade. Nortel's new hardware offering, the 'a' in CS2000a, is t...

By Mike Dolan Speakeasy, a Seattle-based VoIP company that took a tip from Google Voice and warned of blocking numbers on its VoIP service, is now taking a tip from Skype and Vonage with their recent mobile plays. Of course, they've put their own interesting spin on it as well. To wit, Speakeasy has launc...

By Mike Dolan gt;Nokia Siemens to upgrade Netherlands telecom provider Ziggo's VoIP systems gt;Computer Hacker Fugitive Extradited for Cybercrimes Relating to VOIP Telephone Services gt;UAE mulls legalizing VoIP gt;Apple approves Rebtel VoIP over 3G on iPhone

By Mike Dolan Related articles Deal chatter: Sonus eyeing Nortel, Cedar Point Nortel to deliver VoIP upgrade to German MSO IMS shifts from hype to converged services stage IMS equipment sales to grow 74% in 2009 IMS capabilities appear through widgets

By Mike Dolan At Astricon last week, IBM and Digium announced an Asterisk-based phone system available on IBM's Smart Cube platform. Smart Cube is IBM's downloadable business platform aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. The deal with Digium will offer Smart Cube users an IP PBX-based Aster...

By Mike Dolan A study carried out about Frost & Sullivan--commissioned by Cisco and Verizon--found that collaboration tools like VoIP, instant messaging, and high-definition video meetings resulted in cost savings averaging four times the return on investment for firms using the IP platfo...

By Mike Dolan According to No Jitter, the new UC solution will give Avaya a competitive advantage over similar offerings from Cisco and Microsoft because it requires less hardware. While these competitors require servers for each of their commonly used services, Avaya has been able to combi...

By Mike Dolan Sprint announced the availability of the Partner Interexchange Network (PIN) for its business customers. The Sprint PIN service creates a community of partners to exchange VoIP service between each other while operating on Sprint’s global Tier 1 IP network. Because the service involv...

By Mike Dolan In an extremely limited release, Comcast is putting its HomePoint VoIP phone/router converged device on the market. The new device integrates Comcast's VoIP service with its cable Internet service combining a wireless router with a VoIP phone in an all-in-one device. Comcast customer...

By Mike Dolan Comcast has announced that it is buying Chicago area voice and data services provider Cimco Communications. Cimco provides both hosted VoIP services as well as IP trunking for the enterprise and small businesses in the Chicago area. Launched in 2006, Comcast's commercial services effo...

By Mike Dolan Previously available to Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones, Agito has extended its Mobility Router software to Samsung smartphones. The software allows users to make low cost international calls over the enterprise's VoIP network using WiFi on their Samsung handsets. Art...

By Mike Dolan Although I came over from the FierceWireless side of things, I'm glad to see there is some overlap into the VoIP space to ease my 'migration.' Just this week the wireless world and the VoIP world have collided a few times. Vonage launched its international calling mobile VoIP app for the iPho...

By Mike Dolan Telesphere, Phoenix-based hosted and managed VoIP service provider has secured another $7 million in venture funding. Rally Capital, Hawkeye Investments LLC and Greenspun Corporation, who have been huge backers of the venture in the past continued to infuse cash into the hosted VoIP...

By Mike Dolan “India SMBs are looking at UC as a low-cost tool to communicate effectively with customers and suppliers as well as facilitate communication across multiple branch locations,” says Sumeeta Misra, AMI’s Bangalore-based Research Associate in the release. "Conferencing and collabor...

By Mike Dolan The company also announced that it was combining the Carrier Systems and Network Protocol Divisions under the single brand Metaswitch Networks. By merging the carrier systems and network protocol businesses, the company hopes increase brand awareness about all of its capabilites to...

By Mike Dolan A plug-and-play VoIP phone from Wisconsin? JumperTel, a VoIP startup Wisonsin-based startup, has launched its own USB phone to challenge both computer based VoIP calling and hardware based setups like MagicJack and Vonage. Unlike these other players, the JumperTel device focuses on...

By Mike Dolan By acquiring Packet Island's lifecycle management assets Broadsoft will be able to address its service provider customers assess networks before deploying VoIP and video services as well as verify the deployments to establish a baseline. Also, these solutions allow for continu...

Related articles from voip-weblog.com, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance.

By Mike Dolan Related articles FCC probes Google Voice iPhone app removal Handling of Google Voice reminds AT&T vet of Ma Bell AT&T and Google spar over Google Voice Jailbreak Skype over AT&T 3G Skype for iPhone: One week, 2 million downloads

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By Mike Dolan On the heels of the Google Voice row regarding whether or not an Internet voice application is required to complete all calls, VoIP company Speakeasy.com has notified its customers that it will not be completing calls to certain free conference calling and adult content numbers. TMC.net...

By Pete Wylie ooma, the VoIP device manufacturer, has released its Telo VoIP device product in retail locations and on the company's website. The Telo, which will list for $249.99 and will enable free domestic calling after purchase, was slated to be launched in Q2 after the product was announced at th...

By Mike Dolan According to the release, the solution should be generally available Q1 2010. Both Salesforce.com and Cisco will be selling the combined product. Cisco buys TANDBERG for $3B UC analyst sees collaboration, conferencing driving growth

By Mike Dolan Sprint announced in a press release the general availability of its integrated Global MPLS network and SIP trunking for customers using Microsoft Office Communications Servers 2007 R2. As a cost saving measure, SIP trunking allows companies to use a single IP connection for the conver...

By Mike Dolan With Cisco Systems' purchase of video conferencing equipment manufacture Tandberg for $3 billion last week, the industry is wondering what it all means for competitor Polycom. As Richard Martin of Phone+ states, the merger is "potentially existential for Polycom, which now faces a co...

By Mike Dolan Officially launched in July and just recently taken public, netTALK offers free calls within the US and Canada with the one-time purchase of the TK6000, which lists at $99. Requiring no computer--just a high-speed internet hook-up and a regular analog telephone--the service provides...

By Pete Wylie The Verizon Hub has died an untimely death, the carrier announced today. The Hub was an interesting concept in home VoIP service that fell victim to a silly monthly fee structure of $34.95 per month, up front cost of hundreds of dollars, and a requirement that users have a Verizon Wireless ce...

By Pete Wylie Junction Networks, a business and hosted VoIP provider targeting the SMB market, announced the addition of IM, presence and phone to its browser-based telephony offering OnSIP. The new offering, called my.OnSIP, monitors whether contacts on the hosted IP-PBX are available and provid...

By Pete Wylie This issue is likely to take some time for the FCC to resolve, as the rejection and battle over the Google Voice iPhone App has. Whatever the commission rules on the matter, however, could have significant impact on VoIP providers and their relationship with traditional carriers.

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By Pete Wylie Whaleback Systems, a New Hampshire-based managed VoIP provider, announced it has added compatibility for three Polycom HD audio phones. Now, Whaleback customers can use Polycom SoundPoint IP 450, 550 and 670 phones for its managed VoIP offering, CrystalBlue Voice Service, which sup...

By Pete Wylie There is no Skype application currently available for Android phone users, but on Friday, Google said in a statement that's not its problem. While Skype has its Skype Lite client available for use on Android devices, a full Skype application is not currently available, meaning Skype Lit...

By Sean Buckley Nortel may be in dire shape, but it does have a sizable VoIP customer base. According to Infonetics, Nortel held a 59.1 percent market share by revenue in North America and 29 percent in EMEA for softswitches. Regardless of where Nortel ranks in the analyst world's quarterly rankings, what S...

The session-border controller is the network element that attempts to "normalize" the protocols, signaling stacks variants (like SIP), endpoint communication and session routing complexities - a daunting task and an ongoing process of interoperation testing as many devices and e...

By Doug Mohney In comparison, the traditional PSTN delivers voice at an "effective bandwidth" of around 3 kHz - sometimes a lot less when you move to mobile phones and/or transcoding involved for long-distance transport. More recent "traditional wideband" codecs provide around 7 kHz effective ban...

By Doug Mohney Could this technology be good for vanilla VoIP calls and Skype? By default, anything not explicitly defined as non-time sensitive - i.e. bulk transfers of data such as FTP, P2P, software updates, and Usenet - is treated as sensitive, so any sort of voice or video traffic should be unhindere...

Consider the Connecticut PUC that wants VoIP services to report on their truck roll response time to customers. Will a service like Packet8 or Vonage have to provide the routing numbers and screen scrape "Brown's" tracking portal?

By Doug Mohney Everyone has got the financial crisis on their minds these days. What do you think the implications will be for telephony and VoIP? What are some changes you see coming in the VoIP space, or would like to see happen? What do you think the next two to three years has in store for the VoIP industry...

By Pete Wylie Speaking of the Dell deal, who was your biggest competitor there and in general in the VoIP space?  Lyman: I think in order it's probably Avaya, Cisco, Nortel, Suretel and I guess down to someone like Panasonic.  Where do you see the industry, both your niche and the broader VoIP space, in th...

By Doug Mohney Cablevision's Optimum Voice gets a Readers' Choice selecting with an 8.6 for ease of setup; users requiring technical support are also down from 18 percent to 14 percent, the lowest score of all the VoIP providers. Vonage also gets a Readers' Choice and higher marks for customer service im...

Skype is not, as a rule, the first choice when companies are thinking about call center platforms. That doesn't mean, though, that Skype can't fill the bill. With the addition of third-party software such as that from PrettyMay Team, Skype can work well in many circumstances.