Archive for May, 2005
V-Tone Smart Call Integrates with Traditional Telephone Networks, Making it Easy to Leverage the Advantages of VoIP
Ecuity, Inc., (OTCBB:ECUI – News), a Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications company delivering solutions for the small-to-medium-sized business and residential markets, today announced it has selected Xten Networks, Inc. (OTCBB:XNWK – News), as Ecuity’s preferred softphone client for V-Tone Smart Call, Ecuity’s global Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) service. Xten Networks is a software provider of VoIP, Video over IP, Instant Messaging (IM), and Presence SIP softphones for laptops, desktops and Pocket PC hand held PDA’s.
V-Tone Smart Call is a service from Ecuity which integrates traditional telephone networks with VoIP, enabling customers to turn their PC or Pocket PC into an enhanced telephone system. The combination of Ecuity’s VoIP service and Xten’s softphones allows people to place and receive phone calls conveniently over any private Wi-Fi network, public HotSpot or broadband network.
According to Aswath, there looks to be some evidence that Skype is using some parts of SIP for their PSTN connectivity. Maybe open standards is not totally lost upon them, that is good news.
Written by Erik Lagerway - Visit WebsiteI read some interesting comments on Andy’s VoIPWatch regarding a potentially new cel device from moto.
This new RAZR-thin EDGE enabled cel phone could very well inlude Push To Talk VoIP making use of the EDGE layer on the network. Very cool! I hope it’s not as big and bland as it looks 
Bundles that add wireless phone service to VoIP, television and Internet services will become highly popular, according to a study released Wednesday by the Ipsos-Insight market research firm.
Written by Erik Lagerway - Visit WebsiteForbes article…
Most voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems install on a home computer and require a special modem. They can’t be easily set up on multiple machines, and you certainly wouldn’t be able to access your phone account on a public terminal.
Atlanta-based phone company i2 Telecom (otc: ITUI – news – people ) has changed that with the VoiceStick, a software-based VoIP phone that is loaded on a flash-based USB thumb drive, the same bit of hardware that’s become popular for transferring files between PCs.
Written by Erik Lagerway - Visit WebsiteThe FCC seems to have ruled in favor of E911 requirements for VoIP networks that touch the PSTN and the CRTC are following in their footsteps. This means ALL VoIP service providers, including those who do not even own the network their customers’ calls travel over, e.g. Vonage, Packet8, BroadVoice etc., will need to provide 911 services within 120 days or be subject to some pretty hefty fines.
The ILECS are generally going to be the first place where all of these smaller VoIP players go in order to add E911 to their offerings. The larger PSTN providers already have 911 and the interconnect would be fairly straight forward. These carriers are losing lots of revenue to VoIP, here is their chance to recoup some of those losses.
Welcome back to 80’s. The days where Tier 1 carriers rule the roost are not over. The very same carriers who are providing E911 services are the ones deploying broadband so VoIP from edge to edge is also under their perceived control but… they can’t stop it. The backlash when Mextel decided to squash VoIP on their networks would be tenfold in the US or Canada.
We are a long way from ubiquitous VoIP where there is no need to touch the PSTN networks of days gone by. The biggest challenge is mobility, us humans have become very attached to our cel phones. EDGE, EV-DO and other mobile broadband solutions are also controlled by the carriers, go figure. It’s going to be a while before we will be able to say we are really in charge of our own communications destiny, probably not such a bad thing.
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