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By Doug Mohney, on July 20th, 2010
Junction Networks (www.junctionnetworks.com) has partnered with DiTech Network’s PhoneTag voicemail-to-text service.
OnSIP customers will now be able to sign up for PhoneTag V2T (voicemail-to-text) service to get the whole, well, voicemail-to-text thing directly to their email inbox; a .WAV file is attached for listening as well.
The first week is free. After that, PhoneTag is offering three different pricing plans – a per message rate of thirty-five cents, a 40 message per month plan for $9.95 (I get more spam than that in a day), and an unlimited plan for $29.95 per month.
By Doug Mohney, on July 20th, 2010
CableLabs (www.cablelabs.com), the technology standards group for the cable industry, has published the PacketCable IP Interconnect specifications. The specifications open up the ability for cable companies to interconnect directly.
Specifically, the two published specs define ENUM server provisioning and how the ENUM server resolves an IP address and CableLabs describes the IP Internet package as enabling “cable operators to consolidate session establishment data used by PacketCable™ network elements to route SIP sessions to the target destinations which may be served by the cable operator’s own internal network or by a session peering partner.”
Session peering partner should translate to “When cable companies peer directly and stop touching the PSTN.”
By Doug Mohney, on July 14th, 2010
IntelePeer and WorkSpace Communications have teamed up to deliver a hosted UC offering based on Microsoft Office Communications Server.
IntelePeer is providing the SIP Trunking service, a voice peering network, and “SuperRegistry” while WorkSpace is providing a patent-pending Microsoft OCS environment that interoperates with any previously installed Microsoft Exchange Solution.
Together, the two enable service providers to provide a hosted UC and on-demand communications services that can deployed “almost instantly” without requiring extensive changes to related apps.
WorkSpace says its hosted environment makes it much easer and cost-effective for service providers to offer Microsoft OCS-based unified communications services.
By Doug Mohney, on July 14th, 2010
Note: Phone.com is an advertiser on HD Voice News
Phone.com (www.phone.com) has cranked out a whole bunch of mobile features for its SMB service, including clients for the iPhone and Apple plus SMB send support on phone.com phone numbers.
Released in June, Phone.com added the Phone.com Mobile VoIP client for the iPhone and the Phone.com Mobile Office Client for Android. The Mobile VoIP client enables iDevice users to use their Phone.com virtual account to place VoIP calls over either a Wi-Fi or 3G connection.
The Mobile Office Android client provides a user interface to enable Phone.com users to listen to/manage/read voicemail, view received faxes, review call history, block calls from unwanted or unidentified numbers, send and receive SMS messages, click-to-connect to a private conference bridge and (of course) use Phone.com to make low cost international calls.
Both apps show the user’s Phone.com number as the caller ID when calls are made and both apps can be downloaded free from their respective app store sites.
SMS send and receive is now included with all Phone.com local numbers and plans, so anyone can send an SMS text message directly to a local Phone.com number. The new feature is free of charge and included in every Phone.com plan.
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.
Tristan Barnum
How about I say the same thing, (it’s really not such a terrible answer) but tone down the corporate-ese.  If people use the ones for iPhone and BlackBerry, we’ll likely build an Android app. And it might do different stuff based on how people use and like the other apps. Android is kind of a beast to develop for because there’s a lot of versions (Blackberry suffers from the same nonsense) so we want to make sure we’re making the most of our development time.
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. Soo, if you’ve got an AudioCodes device with a built-in SBC, you can go get UcSIPT (UC SIP Trunking) and SIP trunk Microsoft Communications Server “14.”
By Doug Mohney, on July 13th, 2010
I hate to take Digium (www.digium.com) out to the woodshed, but this is the response I got when I asked about the potential for a Switchvox mobile client for Android.
"Digium is evaluating the public response and usage of the iPhone and BlackBerry Apps, and based on these results we’ll determine if and when we should develop a version for Android or any other platforms and if the current functionality should be refined or changed."
*sigh* Serious corporate-speak and not the sort of thing I would have expected to see out of them.
By Doug Mohney, on July 13th, 2010
Free Conference Corporation – a.k.a. www.freeconferencecall.com – has added an archive recordings feature, enabling conference callers to save multiple recordings of pass conference calls for access at another time.
The feature automatically archives recorded calls. Archived calls can be accessed via the web or phone by simply entering a call’s specific reference number. Calls can also be sorted and organized online at the freeconferencecall.com portal, password protected, and downloaded in MP3 or .wav formats.
By Doug Mohney, on July 12th, 2010
Global Crossing (www.globalcrossing) has installed some heavy duty bandwidth at baseball stadiums around the country as a part of its deal with MLB.com.
The company has installed 155 Mbps circuits to all 30 Major League Baseball ballparks around the country and a whopping 2.5 Gbps circuit in New York to enable the MLB.com site to deliver HD-quality video for 2,430 live games, as well as real time access to baseball news, stats, in-game video highlights and other information – with an assist from MPLS.
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 get in touch with him via email (dmohney@hdvoicenews.com) as soon as possible; Friday would be most convenient day.
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