More Popular Telephony news. On a related note, I'm moderating the P2P VoIP session tomorrow, which includes Popular Telephony, Skype, and others. Can't wait!
EWOOPHONE BECOMES FIRST VOIP SERVICE PROVIDER IN CHINA
TO MARKET VOIP P2P SERVICES USING PEERIO SERVERLESS TECHNOLOGY
Miami, FL and Sophia Antipolis, France, February 23 2005 - Popular Telephony, the telecommunications middleware company and creator of Peerio - the innovative technology for server-free, peer-to-peer communications, today at the Internet Telephony conference in Miami, FL announced that China-based Ewoophone will be the first VoIP service provider in Asia to offer PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone VoIP service using Peerio serverless technology.
Ewoophone customers in China will be able to place domestic and international VoIP calls via Peerio-enabled client software, IP phones and media gateways operated by Ewoophone.
Peerio is a groundbreaking patents pending core technology based upon middleware that implements a serverless voice and data communications system. Peerio eliminates the need for any centralized server and allows any IP phone, Personal Computer (PC), endpoint or other terminal to interconnect and materialize into a complete communications system that is self-servicing and self-healing, redundant and secure. The Peerio autonomous telephony architecture brings greater efficiency for communications as well as substantial cost-effectiveness, saving up to 80% of the system or application cost. A Peerio-intelligent device or system is capable of supporting the widest possible range of telephony features and services, delivering up to 450 features, and can seamlessly scale to over 4 billion lines simultaneously.
GNUP works by assigning users with a unique identification number for seamless accessibility with any GNUP-enabled terminal or other network user through a GNUP partner service provider, while supporting full portability. A GNUP user can activate their number wherever they have Internet access and the GNUP software is installed. GNUP can easily be carried on a smartcard or other storage device or simply downloaded from the web site by users keying in their log on information. GNUP then detects their online presence and makes them accessible for interaction.
ET promotes VoIP applications and terminals to businesses, families and individuals, targeting those segments to use the Internet to the fullest of its capabilities.
http://www.ewoophone.com/ewoophone/index.jsp