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SIPphone Inc., the VoIP ( define - news - alert)-based calling service from MP3.com’s founder Michael Robertson, today announced the immediate availability of the D-Link Broadband Phone Service VoIP Router DVG-1402S. The new router created by D-Link—not intentionally restricted to a particular VoIP service, can be configured for use with any SIP standards-based VoIP service, with no fees or penalties to the customer.

Read DVG-1402S: The First Unlocked VoIP Router? for more on this story.

VoIP 2.0 is becoming a reality. The buzz around ITEXPO and VoIP 2.0 is incredible. We are receiving amazing amounts of feedback on how VoIP 2.0 is the future of IP telephony.

This Friday, January 21, 2005 is the early-bird deadline for Internet Telephony Conference & Expo. Our conferences are selling at a record pace... We are up 100% on overall attendance and I can't wait to personally greet you all.

Getting back to the show... If you sign up by Friday you will save $300. You still get the conference guarantee no other related event will offer you. Thanks for reading my blog and I hope to see you at the show.

The testing market has been very active lately as Empirix the company that makes Hammer test equipment recently purchased CT Labs. Chris Bajorek, the head of CT Labs is well respected and will continue to run the labs according to Steve Gladstone the VP and General Manager of Empirix and is also well-respected in the VoIP testing market. CT Labs was initially tied to CMP's Computer Telephony magazine (thus the name of the labs) and performed their outside reviews. That magazine changed names to Communications Convergence and is no longer being published.

I would say this is a very smart move for Empirix as Chris and his lab have a bunch of strong relationships with vendors such as Genesys Labs and others.

Tom Keating has some interesting observations of the FBI eliminating the carnivore program and the relatd VoIP program, Dragon Net.

You don't hear too much about Megaco anymore so I thought this release about Data Connection, Fujitsu and Megaco (H.248) was worth passing along.

Excerpt:

Data Connection’s Megaco/H.248 Protocol Stack Selected by
Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Limited

Fujitsu Utilizes DC Megaco in GeoStream Family of Access Products

London, UK: January 19, 2005. Data Connection Limited (DCL), the world's leading provider of communications protocol software, announced today that Fujitsu has licensed Data Connection’s DC Megaco (H.248) software for use in their GeoStream Access Gateway product line.