Archive for July, 2005

VocalTec is the grandfather of VoIP and was just getting started when I got into this business. They looked unstoppable then and did very well over the next 8 years. 2+ years ago, right around the time my partner and I founded Xten, SIP started making it’s presence felt. VocalTec was one of the companies who did not pay much attention to SIP and stuck with their primary H.323 offerings.

The decision not to move forward with SIP is haunting them, it’s looking like they are going to have to start cutting back substantially unless they can get a cash injection. We all know what happens when most small-med size companies cut-back, the death spiral usually follows closely behind.

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The implications about Polycom moving into VoIP with a reseller strategy is rather interesting, but their choosing of Voxilla over other more established VoIP related companies shows belief in the company. Communitech would have been the usual first choice, but for some reason the biggest player in the speakerphone universe went in the Voxilla direction.

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Om wrote that Google was experiencing some technical difficulties and as far as I can tell they still are. When I search for “voip” today I get 1-10 of 10 results, it should be more like 1-10 of 5,000+ results. Something weird is going on.

PT just released it’s new SAPO VoIP & Video messenger product in Beta. This new version uses SIP for the VoIP and Video signaling. Xten announced a sale of the eyebeam SDK to PT in June.

Here is the download link

Excerpt from OVUM
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Portugal Telecom yesterday launched its PC-based soft client VoIP service, integrating it within its SAPO Messenger service, which already had 150,000 active users four months after launch. In addition to free PC-to-PC VoIP calls worldwide, the service offers video calling, SMS functionality, as well as integration with popular IM services such as MSN and ICQ.

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