Archive for January, 2005
P2P Bellster by Pulver, IAX Clearing House?
It looks like Jeff has sprung another one on the Phone industry. By linking Asterisk servers he has created what looks to me to be a IAX clearing house. Not sure where the P2P is here apart from the servers being linked by Bellster.
“The Bellster challenge for 2005 is to find out whether or not there are still people in the world who would let total strangers place noncommercial phone calls for free in exchange for the ability to do the same thing themselves,” Pulver said in an e-mail.
This sounds a little reminiscent of the MicroTelco concept introduced by many including Quicknet and others several years ago. At any rate it’s always good to see disruptive technology put to good use 
Xten is now working with BC.net to deliver IP Videoconferencing via eyeBeam without the aid of a conference server.
“Desktop videoconferencing can change the way we work. By enabling face-to-face communication over the Internet, we can cut travel time and increase contact with academics and researchers across the province and around the world,said Hrybyk. We are confident, that this type of technology will help our members to become more productive and effective.
BCNET (www.bc.net) is a non-profit society supporting and promoting advanced networks for the provinces research and education communities. The organization serves BCs academic, research and development institutions, government bodies, community organizations and industry groups. BCNET is the provinces foremost leader in advanced network technology. BCNET is supported by the provincial and federal governments as well as by its regional member institutions.
Written by Erik Lagerway - Visit WebsiteIt looks like McDonald’s is experiementing with VoIP. If they were smart they would give away a softphone with every combo-meal and a free on-net VoIP, Video, IM service. There are many free networks out there they could leverage, they could even do something with EarthLink for example.
Written by Erik Lagerway - Visit WebsiteWell I guess it was inevitable, Google has seemingly alluded to its plans to get into VoIP and IP communications.
It would make perfect sense for the big G to build and IM client with VoIP, Video and Presence. Their massive appeal could amount to tens of millions of end points will little effort. Another competitor for Skype, let’s hope they choose to go with open standards!
Written by Erik Lagerway - Visit WebsiteBelkin Partners with Xten Networks to Implement callEverywhere Broadband Phone Service SoftPhone
COMPTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 19, 2005–Belkin Corporation, in conjunction with iNuntius, a provider of VoIP technology, announce their collaborative partnership with Xten (OTCBB:XNWK), a provider of Advanced VoIP, Video, Instant Messaging and Presence SIP softphone SDKs (Software Development Kits). Belkin and iNuntius, codevelopers of callEverywhere(TM) Broadband Phone Service, have licensed a private-label version of Xten’s X-PRO SIP softphone SDK for integration and deployment with Belkin’s recently announced callEverywhere SoftPhone. The callEverywhere SoftPhone is software that allows users to make calls with just their broadband Internet connection, PC microphone, and PC speaker.
“We are excited to be working with Belkin to further expand their callEverywhere service,” comments Erik Lagerway, President and CEO of Xten Networks, Inc. “Belkin’s vast distribution channels reach into the largest retail chains, which will give them the edge in the broadband telephony market.”
Written by Erik Lagerway - Visit WebsiteWow! is all I can say. When I posted the news about the Xten Linux softphone beta here about a month ago I did not expect the avalanche of requests to join that beta program that soon followed and continue today.
With this in mind the production version of the free SIP softphone “X-Lite” for Linux will be made available on or about Valentine’s Day [Feb.14]. Until then, all of you early-early adopters can send your requests to linuxbeta at xten.com in order to get into the beta program, we could sure use your help kicking the bugs out.
Early summer 2005 you will see the eyeBeam SDK for Linux [plus Mac OS X, Windows SDK available now].
We have lots in store for 2005, some VERY exciting projects that will have global impact, stay tuned for that.
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