Archive for October, 2004

Is Istanbul a threat to Xten?

During the 3 days the show floor was open at VON I had 20 Press and Analyst interviews. There were quite a few who had questions regarding Microsoft’s announcement of Istanbul and how that may affect Xten’s market for SIP softphones. Our response is simple, Istanbul is still an enterprise play and is not part of our target market. I actually think it’s great because it will educate the business sector which will of course help foster the growth of IP communications in general. Xten sells soft SIP endpoints to anyone who wants to buy, the volume discounts are the same for all. This is why we are favoured by the carriers, multiple service operators and large service providers.

Xten does have enterprise customers but we do not go looking for that business, as a matter of fact we have yet to place an outbound sales call! It’s the truth! Since this company started selling software back in May of last year we have not made 1 outbound sales call. We are hiring people like mad and we are STILL in reactionary mode from a sales perspective. Xten is in a very unique position, the excitement around our products and company is something I have personally never been part of before. It’s unreal!

There are so many awesome things happening here, I wish I could SAY SOMETHING!!! :)

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VoIP Mobility, IM, Presence, Voice and Video

VON was buzzing with talk of VoIP Mobility and complete IP Communications solutions. I am always interested in what is happening in this space. Xten demonstrated open standards IM and Presence with the aid of SIMPLE and XCAP. eyeBeam for MAC OS X made it to prime time and Pocket PC v2.2 went live. Excellent show! More later…

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Fall VON 2004 was a success, in a LARGE way!

What is really going on at VON?! There was a lot to say about large vendors and such but the real story was, what is next? Stay tuned, it’s coming.

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Xten Demonstrates VoIP, Video, Instant Messaging and Presence at BroadSoft Connections Conference

BroadSoft customers today had a sneak preview of Xten’s enhanced eyeBeam SIP softphone supporting VoIP, Video, Instant Messaging and Presence based on open standards

SANTA CLARA, CA, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Xten (OTCBB: XNWK – News), a provider of VoIP (Voice over IP) and Video over IP SIP softphones, today announced support for Instant Messaging and Presence using IETF proposed standards including SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) and XCAP (Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol) will be publicly available very soon. Xten demonstrated the new IM and Presence features to be offered in eyeBeam and the eyeBeam SDK at BroadSoft Connections Conference in Phoenix yesterday.

“The crowd was very excited to see SIMPLE and Presence with Centralized Buddy Lists in action in an open standards softphone”, commented Erik Lagerway, president and chief operating officer at Xten, “Based on the feedback we have received the eyeBeam VoIP and Video softphone SDK with support for SIMPLE and XCAP will be an attractive alternative to other somewhat proprietary offerings already available and soon to be launched in the market.”

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Xten demonstrates Instant Messaging and Presence @ Broadsoft Connections

Yesterday Xten performed live demonstrations of eyeBeam with Instant Messaging and Presence at BroadSoft’s Connections Conference 2004. The new IM and Presence features based on SIMPLE and XCAP for eyeBeam 1.1 will be released before the end of 2004. The demonstrations at Connections were flawless and created tremendous interest!

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Incumbent telcos accused of plotting against VoIP

NetEvents: The traditional phone companies are trying to stifle innovation in next-generation IP services, according to equipment makers

Old-school telecoms operators are suspected of scheming behind the scenes in an attempt to hamper the new wave of companies offering IP-based telephony services.

Bert Whyte, chief executive of net.com — a maker of broadband telecoms equipment — claimed on Thursday that incumbents are lobbying regulators and governments in an attempt to stop Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers damaging their existing profitable voice services.

“Every carrier is concerned about this trend towards VoIP. There´s nothing they can do about this emerging explosion, unless they work with governments to regulate this business,” Whyte told a group of journalists at NetEvents in Barcelona on Thursday.

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