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 [...]
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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. [...] Google (www.google.com) says they’re going to invest in an “experimental” gigabit to the home network for anywhere between 50,000 to 500,000 subscribers. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the same Google that said they were going to bid on 700 MHz wireless spectrum a couple of years ago? Let’s look at the details on [...] Yes Virginia, there was more than the Digium AsteriskExchange store announcement at IT EXPO last week. Digium also announced Switchvox SMB 4.5. Switchvox SMB 4.5 adds on Phone Feature Packs for Polycom handsets, enabling users to directly access things such as call recording, visual voicemail, a searchable company directory and call parking lots directly on a [...] Down in Miami last week, all the buzz was around FREETALK Connect, an PBX solution built to leverage Skype. FREETALK Connect is schedule to roll out in March and will allow SBs (two to 49 users) to enable Skype calls from supported office phones, including the “free” Skype-to-Skype calls, mange Skype contact lists, and get inbound [...] Shoveling out from under the backlog of CES, I saw two very different pieces of technology that will likely be tied together by next January. And they involve your car and your TV. GM’s Chevy Volt (www.gm.com), the electric car that will save America (OK, maybe not, but you get it), has some onboard smarts that [...] Miami – Digium has officially launched AsteriskExchange, an online market for products integrated with the Asterisk IP communications platform (Or “open source communications engine,” if you prefer Digium’s buzz phrase.) For outside observers of Digium, this is another one of those “Dull but good” announcements as the company continues to build a sustainable and growing ecosystem [...] Billed as a move that “Changes Face of Cloud Telephony, Ifbyphone has purchased privately-held Cloudvox. Terms of the deal were (as is typical with these privately held companies) not announced, but Ifbyphone has had a phenomenal growth rate over the past year. Cloudvox is based in Seattle and enables developers to automate phone calls The [...] Aculab has announced that it is incorporating a dual redundant SIP service (DRSS) in a core product line. The actual application is expected to be available later this quarter. Adding DRSS improves IP network reliability “similar to” TDM-based SS7 networks (i.e. like the old PSTN), so Aculab says communication service providers running it in apps like [...] |
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