By Doug Mohney, on July 29th, 2010
I’m headed out to Las Vegas for DEFCON 18. To get the whole Jeff Pulver “Living in the State of Now” experience, I’ve got my Sprint HTC EVO fired up, GPS radio “on” and logged into FourSquare.
Once I hit the ground, I’ll fire up the WiMAX 4G phone in the EVO. As I run [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 13th, 2010
Digium Switchvox Goddess, er Product Marketing Manager Tristan Barnum provides an updated response to a query about the prospects of developing an Android client for Switchbox. Note her comment about Android development.
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By Doug Mohney, on July 13th, 2010
AudioCodes (www.audiocodes.com) has announced UcSIPT, a “solution set” for putting together Microsoft Communications Server “14” and SIP trunking services using media gateways and Enterprise SBCs.
More specifically, the connection between the Microsoft Communications server and a SIP trunking service provider is enabled by AudioCodes Enterprise products with integral SBC capabilities, supporting the SIP trunking secured connection. [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 12th, 2010
HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney will be taking limited briefings (unless you want to meet with him over a good buffet) at DEFCON 18 in Las Vegas at the end of the month.
Companies seeking to meet/brief at the event on Thursday afternoon/evening, July 29; Friday, July 30; or Saturday morning, July 31 should [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 22nd, 2010
The SIP Forum (www.sipforum.org) and the i3Forum have joined forces to help “spur” the interoperability of SIP-based carrier services, with Fax over IP (FoIP) being at the top of the list.
Believe it or not, FoIP still has plenty of headaches so the SIP forum and the i3 Forum are getting together to create a [...]
By Doug Mohney, on April 28th, 2010
At the 140 Characters Conference in New York City Last week, Matthew Ebel was giving an impromptu performance in the networking room. One of his songs – appropriate for the event – was “Twitter me gently.” I managed to catch most of it on my Flip Video camera…then had to get a YouTube account and [...]
By Doug Mohney, on April 17th, 2010
Vonage (www.vonage.com) has announced that it has rolled out its Vonage Mobile offering/service to AT&T and T-Mobile Android devices… so what about those other (Verizon, Sprint) devices?
The Vonage Mobile softclient has been kicking around for a while and is already available on the iPhone, BlackBerry and iPod touch devices (with the iPad no doubt about [...]
By Doug Mohney, on March 23rd, 2010
Yes Virginia, more Microsoft OCS (Office Communications Server) “14” news. AudioCodes (www.audiocodes.com) has announced Survivable Branch Appliances for OCS “14.” AudioCodes Mediant 100 and Mediant 2000 multi-service business gateways are now field-upgradable to support Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) functionality.
Customers can upgrade AudioCodes gateways to support SBA features and, in addition, the same gateways also support [...]
By Doug Mohney, on March 3rd, 2010
With members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) flitting about dropping the broad outline of what a national broadband strategy could encompass, it is clear some service providers are much better positioned than others to live up to a goal of 100 Mbps in 100 million homes by 2020. Others are clearly scared and above [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 11th, 2010
Adding Yet Another Not-so-New VoIP trick, Verizon Business has added local inbound calling and routing to its VoIP services — “VoIP Inbound with Local Originations.”
A local phone number can be directed to anywhere to deliver calls to either traditional or IP-based contact centers and is billed as a “cost-effective alternative” to remote call forwarding. [...]