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Google and Gigabit to the home – It smells funny

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 [...]

Metaswitch moves CEOs to “drive next phase of growth” Uh hmm…

Metaswitch has shuffled around its leadership, moving board member/”successful industry executive” Kevin DeNuccio into the CEO role, while promoting John Lazar upward as Chairman.

The move is being touted as creating the best possible leadership team for the “next phase of the company’s evolution” – which would indicate to me that Metaswitch is looking to do [...]

Digium Switchvox gets upgraded

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 [...]

FREETALK Connect – The Skype PBX

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 [...]

GM and Yahoo – Or when your car calls your TV

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 [...]

IT EXPO East 2010 – Digium launches online store for Asterisk

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 [...]

IT Expo East 2010 – Ifbyphone buys a cloud

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 [...]

IT Expo East 2010 – Aculab announces dual redundant SIP

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 [...]

ADTRAN enters Unified Communications (UC) market

ADTRAN (www.adtran.com) entered the unified communications (UC) market last month.  Whatsup with that?

More seriously, you have a traditional telecommunications hardware firm jumping into the fuzzy world of software solutions as a complement to the next step up the IP PBX food chain — more applications.  Once you add VoIP and PBX functionality, the next thing [...]

ADTRAN brags about shotgun testing – where’s the YouTube video?

Down in Huntsville last week, an ADTRAN executive was bragging about one of its pieces of outdoor gear was so tough that it had been spec’ed and tested to take a shotgun blast at 10 feet — without the paint being scratched.   I, of course, immediately asked to witness the test in person, but no [...]

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