Archive for June, 2005

“Closing a funding round at this critical time allows us to move forward with our ambitious plans for the VoIP market,” said Dr. Baruch Sterman, CEO of Kayote Networks. “Enabling a secure, integrated and fully interconnected VoIP system is the focus of our efforts and we are continuing to apply our technology expertise to create practical and robust solutions for the emerging mass adoption of VoIP in residential and enterprise markets.”

As VoIP technology becomes more widely deployed, it is becoming apparent that security concerns are of primary importance to widespread adoption of VoIP – particularly in full IP to IP communication scenarios. Kayote’s proprietary technology-based solutions are designed to solve the prevailing problems that exist today in the VoIP world..

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“MCI Advantage IP Integrated Access allows customers to evolve to a converged networking solution whilst reducing expenses,” said Roberta Mackintosh, Senior Director of Product Management, Pricing and Analysis for MCI in Europe. “With MCI Advantage we are able to provide a portfolio of services that meet the evolving voice and data needs of our customers.”

MCI Advantage combines voice, multimedia and data across a single IP link allowing customers to converge their telephony, data exchange and messaging applications on a seamless network infrastructure. The company has enabled its voice and Internet products for convergence through implementing intelligent network-hosted Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) capabilities and routing servers. (SIP is a standards-based protocol for establishing and terminating media sessions, e.g. for e-mail, streamed video and instant messaging, that are controlled independently from the underlying network.)

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Engadget reports on the Nintendo’s mobile gaming platform and the DSpeak demo from E3.

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This is still just a concept demo, but it is a working demo: DSpeak is basically Voice over IP calling using the wireless capabilities of the Nintendo DS. Using a connected headphone/microphone, DSpeak allows you to hold conversations with other DS users via WiFi, and the audio quality is reportedly “perfectly fine, as good as a mobile phone.” Plus, you get little Mario and Wario icons moving their mouths when you speak — come on, Vonage, how you gonna beat that?

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Skype is doomed in its present form, according to Nokia – but mobile-to-VoIP is where it’s at.

According to Nokia chief strategy officer, Tero Ojanperä, Skype must branch out or die. “Someone needs to make money… [Skype] cannot survive on voice calls alone, it needs to find a business model,” he said.

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