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This is worth passing along because it is just so funny. A vendor came to our last ITEXPO in Miami to evaluate it and sent us this e-mail:

I did attend the show. I was impressed by the people attending.

To be honest, I thought that the expo was a bit crowded. However, everyone I spoke to that was exhibiting was very pleased.

This criticism is the best praise that can be bestowed on any event. Thanks to all of you that came to the show and made it such a success!

Testing Goes Virtual

Spirent Communications announced availability of the Distributed Abacus IP Telephony Rollout Platform designed to assess and validate signaling performance and call quality in pre-production networks. The single system links distributed, live network test devices and enables IP and Hybrid IP/PSTN call quality assessment before a VoIP service launches. Think of this as a “virtual” test platform based on the Abacus 5000.
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Spirent’s Distributed Abacus IP telephony Rollout Platform provides network statistics such as jitter, delay and packet loss; call measurements statistics such as call setup time, percent of call completions, and call termination reason; and voice quality metrics such as MOS, PESQ and R value. Spirent’s Distributed Abacus can be used to test end-to-end or at any combination of IP and PSTN points on the network.

I thought this worth passing on.

TELETRUTH ALERT --- March 9th, 2005

Teletruth, with New Networks Institute, Exposes the Bell Phone Company Skunkworks, Sock Puppets and Astroturf Groups that have Harmed the Public Interest --- (Phone companies: SBC, Verizon, BellSouth)

VISIT: http://www.newnetworks.com/skunkworks101.html

If you care about broadband, the Internet, Wi-Fi and wireless, municipalities wiring cities, the cost of phone service, VOIP, open access to content, or anything else related to your Digital Future, you need to read this.

Then check out the materials and take actions to call for investigations.
You've already been harmed.

WHAT'S BEHIND THE CURTAIN: There is an underground network of political deceit in the telecom and broadband industry. It is made up of very well funded fake or co-opted consumer groups, research firms, lobbying groups, politicians and PR firms throughout the United States, that are out to fool reporters, state legislatures, Congress, the public and the FCC that they represent the public interest.

In fact, many are controlled or have been co-opted through Sam Simon's Issue Dynamics and paid for by SBC, Verizon, BellSouth and the other phone and cable companies. The list of groups includes APT, TRAC, USIIA, Connect USA, New Millennium Research Council, League of United Latin American Citizens, and American Association of People With Disabilities, among others

It is also the co-opting of well known groups, from the Gray Panthers and NAACP, to the National Council of La Raza, the National Consumer League and others.

Call it skunkworks, (the phone companies' black-ops groups) call it astroturf, call it sock puppets, a consortium of groups -- run by Issue Dynamics, includes a host of non-profits directly funded by the Bell companies to wield undo influence --not in your favor.

Tekelec today announced plans to incorporate the Siemens optiPoint family of SIP phones into its expanding portfolio of next-generation telephony offerings. With the combined Tekelec 6000 VoIP Applications Server and the Siemens optiPoint family of SIP phones, TeleSpectrum will benefit from a comprehensive suite of voice over IP (VoIP) telephony features, applications and phones. TeleSpectrum is a part of Telecommunicatie B.V.and is a reseller of telecom and data solutions based in the Netherlands.

Tekelec supports SIP, media gateway control protocol (MGCP), signaling connection control part (SCCP) and MiNet. With this announcement, they now supports 40 different integrated access devices and IP phone models.