Archive for November, 2003

Net2Phone raises 58M with help from IDT

By Erik Lagerway | November 20, 2003 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

2004 and 2005 will be the hottest 2 years in VoIP. Another good indication of this is Net2Phone’s announcement today of the 58M financing.

VoCable [Voice-over Cable] is yet another flavour of VoIP and this stock offering shows the willingness of investors to buy into the technology. It won’t be the last you will see in the coming months.

Net2Phone Raises 58M

Also in the news today, Calgary’s Wi-LAN announced a VoIP offering. To be honest I don’t see the big sell here considering anyone can deploy VoIP over Wi-Fi but here’s the link just the same…

Wi-LAN launches VoIP

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Verizon Jumps on the VoIP Bandwagon

By Erik Lagerway | November 19, 2003 | VoIP for the Masses | Comments Off

You know the technology is hot when the largest Telcos in the industry are jumping on board to offer broadband VoIP.

AT&T, Bell South, Comcast, COX, Time Warner, IDC, Teleglobe and recently Qwest and now Verizon have announced their plans to offer a broadband VoIP service.

I wonder which softphone they will choose to implement? Hmmmm, sounds like a great sales potential for companies like Xten.

Verizon details Internet phone plans
By Ben Charny
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Qwest to launch VoIP in December
By Ben Charny
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

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Just around the SIP corner

By Erik Lagerway | November 18, 2003 | Xten - Latest and Greatest | Comments Off

Xten has been hard at work preparing for a substantial launch of new products soon to hit the streets. The new products will again define Xten’s focus in SIP softphone development.

With over 50,000 users now world wide using Xten software and growing rapidly by the thousands each week, Xten has outdone any open-systems SIP softphone compatible with Windows, MAC and Pocket PC to date.

Here is a sneak preview of some of the new Xten products:

X-Cipher, the fully encrypted Xten softphone.
X-Look, an Outlook Plug-in
X-Vox, a real-time Audio ad server
X-SER, a bundled offering of:
- 1U P4 Server
- Iptel.org’s SER [SIP Express Router]
- SERweb
- SERAdmin
- Co-branded and Auto-provisioned X-PRO or X-Lite licenses

The phones have been ringing off the hook around here, just wait until these babies are announced!

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List of Free SIP Networks and SIP Softphones

By Erik Lagerway | November 17, 2003 | VoIP for the Masses | Comments Off

Free SIP Telephony Networks

Addaline
Free World Dialup
SIPPhone
Voiceglo

Free SIP Softphones for Windows & MAC OS X

Xten X-Lite

Add a network or softphone to this list, e-mail erik@sipthat.com

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TNITS – The Non-Incumbent Telephony System

By Erik Lagerway | November 16, 2003 | VoIP for the Masses | Comments Off

VoIP is great. With the advent of SIP we can look forward to some excellent technology and services coming our way. Various broadband telephony initiatives have spurred on some serious debate in the regulation of VoIP but so far there hasn’t been any laws put in place to govern VoIP in the US. Similar things are happening in Canada.

When speaking about the potential success of Wi-Fi VoIP we can assume similar complaints from the mobile telephony providers including cellular and 2.5/3G. But do they really have anything to fear, at least in the short term? Making or receiving VoIP phone calls on a PDA while sipping your favorite coffee at your local Starbucks is one thing but how practical is it to replace our cell phone with a wireless VoIP enabled PDA?

Taking it to the Next Level
Imagine what would happen if the majority of all users that have a phone line and broadband came together to offer free IP/PSTN VoIP!

Read more…

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Working for the Weekend

By Erik Lagerway | November 15, 2003 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

Yeah, right. Xten is a busy little company. Most if not all of the Xten engineers are in 7 days a week working their asses off so we can make phone calls using our PCs, PDAs etc.

I was just thinking a random thought, I can’t wait until the codec wars are over so we can all freely communicate, PSTN or otherwise. Bring on iLBC, go Alan go!

Have a great weekend everyone!

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