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Veoh

April 18, 2006

The WSJ is reporting that Michael Eisner is joining the board of Veoh Networks a company that is going to stream TV over the Internet. Mr. Eisner said Veoh is one of five or six media investments he has made since setting up a limited liability company, or LLC, called Tornante Co. He said Veoh is the only investment he has disclosed to the public

Posted in Broadband, IPTV, Technology

Vodafone Could Buy Vonage

April 14, 2006

Recent reports point to the fact that Vodafone may be targeting fixed line telephony as a way to allow it to offer bundled services. The wireless leader is a global powerhouse and needs to find a way to compete with other companies that are increasingly using bundling to attract and keep customers. The natural expansion play for the company is to purchase cable companies in the US or to focus on WiMAX. Another option is to pick up Vonage or Packet8 so that it can become an overnight VoIP (and thus a fixed line phone) company.

Posted in Broadband, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, IMS, IPTV, SIP, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

VoIP Going Mainstream

April 13, 2006

My friends in the North Carolina area have probably already seen that I was quoted in the local newspaper, this morning. The Charlotte News & Observer has an article that is written by John Murawski which discusses the mainstreaming of VoIP services.

The article was prompted by a company Bandwidth.com who recently signed an agreement with CompUSA to deliver VoIP service in their retail stores.

John’s article is certainly balanced with a a good smatteringof examples and lots of research which is evident in excerpts like this:

Southwest Durham Family Medicine switched to VOIP as a cheaper way of getting voice and data services from the same company, said David Brooks, manager of the six-employee medical practice. Brooks described the service quality as excellent.

"Sometimes it's so clear on the phone, there's no static, and people think the call's been dropped," Brooks said.

This particular statement is why some vendors actually put noise on the line intentionally so people don’t think the call has been dropped!

Here is my quote:

"This is another step in the mainstreaming of the VOIP market," said Rich Tehrani, editor and publisher of Internet Telephony magazine.

Posted in Broadband, JITC, SIP, Technology, VoIP

CLECs to build metro fiber

April 13, 2006

As I wrote about recently, Shrihari predicted that we should see more fiber being put in the ground as a response to the network neutrality situation with the LECs. This article explains the details although it is more enterprise focused than consumer – for the moment.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, VoIP, WiMAX

Inter-Tel Power Struggle

April 12, 2006

There is a power struggle at Inter-Tel. I find this surprising as from where I stand the company is running better than ever. I haven’t been digging into the financials mind you but they are rolling out new products that are doing well and are doing a great PR job.

Still, it is possible that Inter-Tel will go private as a result of this struggle. It is also possible that it will be acquired. In my opinion going private will be good for the company as it will allow Inter-Tel the flexibility to focus on long-term growth and not short-term earnings.

Posted in Broadband, Conferencing, JITC, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

SIPthat Podcast

April 11, 2006

When you get a moment, check out my podcast with Erik Lagerway who writes the SIPthat blog. Erik actually interviewed me and did a great job.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, SIP, VoIP

Call Center 2.0 Sponsor

April 10, 2006

TMC’s new Call Center 2.0 conference is off to a strong start… We are putting together the conference content of this event as I write this and so far there is strong sponsor interest with Spanlink being our first one. The event is going to take place at the same time and place as Internet Telephony Conference & Expo in San Diego October 10-13 2006. I hope to see you there.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, ITEXPO, SIP, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

TMCnet Podcast

April 10, 2006

Check out the latest TMC podcast with Aculab's David Duffet. Here are some of the topics being discussed:

ACE (Aculab User group) 2006 in Budapest/upcoming in San Francisco Jack Handy Asterisk Asterisk Business edition WiFi VoIP CTIA IMS – IP Multimedia Subsystem ACE San Francisco VoIP in England

Duffet is a hilarious person and a natural podcast interviewee. I hope you enjoy this podcast.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, ITEXPO, Open Source, SIP, Technology, VoIP, Wireless

Shrihari on Net Neutrality

April 2, 2006

Shrihari Pandit of the VPF was having a discussion with me about how in the future anyone will be able to broadcast TV over IP. I mentioned net neutrality and he came up with an interesting point.

If indeed service providers make it difficult for consumers to get access to services such as IPTV the capital markets will come to the rescue.

What he means is that there is so much venture capital available that other service providers will spring up and supply fiber to homes.

Posted in Broadband

EVDO revision A

March 24, 2006

EV-DO Revision A as a relatively new technology for wireless broadband access that will rock our worlds. For those of us who live on the road, we may not sacrifice our broadband connectivity at all. Weâll be able to do anything and everything with 3.1 Mbps downloads and 1.8 Mbps uploads. I am still not sure Iâll want to upload 100 8-megapixel photos over this connection but I am sure I wonât need to deal with WiFi hotspots ever again.

I have a rule that says if I am going to be in a location for more than an hour I will sign up for WiFi but if not I will use the current EVDO card that I have.

Posted in Broadband, IMS, SIP, VoIP, Wireless

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