Greg Galitzine's VoIP Authority Blog

Continued Growth for Residential VoIP

October 15, 2008

According to a new report out from Pike and Fischer, residential VoIP is set to enjoy continued growth through the end of the decade. The data suggest that approximately 8.5 million U.S. households will start using VoIP for their home phone service by 2010, which would bring the total number of VoIP connected households to about 30 million. The Pike and Fischer report estimates this would translate to over $11 billion in revenue for VoIP providers. According to the announcement hailing the new report: Although top telephone companies such as Verizon and AT&T will see their overall residential lines continue to decline, they will see their VoIP customers increase steadily as they attract more customers to their fiber-optic service packages (Verizon's FiOS and AT&T's U-verse), according to the analysis.

Posted in IP Communications, VoIP

Tagged: Research, Residential, VoIP : Related Tags: continued growth, service, report, growth, customers, providers

TelcoBridges at WiMAX World

October 3, 2008

I know Rich already mentioned earlier that he stopped by to speak with Gaetan Campeau and the rest of the TelcoBridges team at WiMAX World, but I too had the pleasure of sitting down to hear what they were doing at this event. Building on the high-availability Toolpack announced at ITEXPO, I learned that the company sees a great opportunity in WiMAX. "We see very few voice solutions in WiMAX," Campeau told me. "In WiMAX, since most deployments are by new service providers, they need a platform that can grow along with them," he added. It's true that most WiMAX deployments are starting small, be it citywide, or covering small regions. Not too many nationwide deployments yet.... So for these carriers, they either offload voice to a competitor and not realize revenue, or they can deploy a voice solution like TelcoBridges and keep the revenue. Campeau explained that increasing the ARPU is key for these operators. With the usual data ARPU running at around $45, adding voice can generate an increase of up to $23 on average. Per user. That's good math, especially in the light of today's economic news.

Posted in Service Provider, WiMAX

Tagged: ITEXPO, rich tehrani, TelcoBridges, WiMAX : Related Tags: wimax world, wimax, voice, campeau, deployments, telcobridges

Nokia: Out of UC, In with Touch-Screen Phone

October 3, 2008

So, I received a note from Ovum Research with their take on the fact that Nokia is leaving the enterprise solution business, namely their IntelliSync unified communications play. According to Senior Analyst, Claudio Castelli of Ovum: Mobile unified communications involves high complexity and vendors should concentrate on their strengths instead of trying to provide end-to-end solutions. Nokia will no longer develop software solutions for enterprises. The company has recognized that it is unable to advance into the enterprise market as a standalone mobility solutions provider. Nokia will now concentrate its efforts on developing powerful user interfaces for its devices, which will be supported by its UC partners on their platforms- they include companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent.

Posted in Enterprise, IP Communications, Mobility, Unified Communications

Tagged: enterprise, mobility, nokia, touch-screen : Related Tags: touch screen, screen phone, companies microsoft, alcatel lucent, unified communications, nokia

Off to WiMAX World

October 1, 2008

I'm heading out on my way to WiMAX World, in Chicago and I'm looking forward to the series of meetings at the event. As I mentioned in yesterday's blog entry, the wireless sector holds some promise, even in the face of the current economic ... "condition." Take for example yesterday's long awaited launch of Sprint's XOHM next-generation 4G wireless network based on mobile WiMAX technology in Baltimore. Said Barry West, president of Sprint's XOHM business unit, "This is truly an historic day with the birth of a completely new Internet-based business model that alters the dynamics of the traditional telecom industry. Wireless consumers will experience WiMAX device and XOHM service innovation on multiple levels as the computer, Internet, telecom and consumer electronics industries converge to redefine wireless mobility." I'm looking forward to learning about more exciting news coming from the wireless sector. Time to board...

Posted in WiMAX

Tagged: WiMAX : Related Tags: wimax world, wireless sector, wireless, wimax

Stocks Hit Hard, But Some Bright Spots?

September 30, 2008

The stock slide which was precipitated by yesterday's failure by the House of Representatives to approve a bailout package for the ailing economy was a doozy. The Dow fell 777 points and the only people smiling are the traders who make their living off volatility. Lest you think that the tech sector was spared, stocks in such bellwether companies as Apple and Google fell hard. On the NASDAQ exchange, Apple closed down 17.9 percent, or $22.98, at $105.26 and Google ended off $50.04, or 11.6 percent, at $381.00. Research in Motion, Nokia, Microsoft... shareholders all felt the pain. Early reports this morning are showing a slight bounce after yesterday's massive selloff. At 4:30 a.m. EDT, Reuters was reporting that S&P 500 futures were up 2.7 percent, Dow Jones futures up 1.8 percent and NASDAQ 100 futures were up 2 percent. We'll see what transpires when markets open today. Of course more importantly, we need to wait to see how all this turbulence will affect our IP communications and related markets.

Posted in Business

Tagged: Dow, NASDAQ, stock market : Related Tags: percent, futures, research

Skype & Asterisk

September 25, 2008

Tagged: Asterisk, Astricon, developers, Skype : Related Tags: skype asterisk, skype, program

Astricon Photos (Day 1)

September 24, 2008

Posted in Open Source

Tagged: astricon, digium, open source : Related Tags:

Lumenvox News from Astricon

September 22, 2008

Travel travails aside, I've arrived at my hotel in Glendale Arizona for the start of Astricon. Already there is news coming out of the event, as it was announced that speech rec vendor Lumenvox is powering VXI* 3.1 from I6NET, a company specializing in Interactive Voice & Video Response technologies, VXI* is designed to enable a wealth of existing VXML applications to run on the Asterisk PBX platform, and to enable developers to create new speech recognition solutions. Jim Webster, Director of Technology Partnerships at Digium said in a press release, "SMB and Fortune 500 companies that service millions of users on Asterisk platforms can now run VXML-based speech solutions. This allows both developers and Asterisk users to take advantage of low-cost and robust speech solutions, with the economies of scale Asterisk provides." LumenVox's Speech Engine is natively integrated with Asterisk and distributed and supported by Digium. VXI* 3.1 is available online from I6NET. Make sure to bookmark the Asterisk community on TMCnet to ensure you stay up to date with all the news that will be made at Astricon this week.

Posted in Open Source

Tagged: Asterisk, Astricon, Lumenvox : Related Tags: speech solutions, asterisk, speech, astricon, solutions, lumenvox

Made it to Phoenix

September 22, 2008

Jet Blue Terminal Evacuated

September 22, 2008

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