{"id":3684,"date":"2005-09-12T12:26:43","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T12:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/us-robotics-and-voip.html"},"modified":"2005-09-12T12:26:43","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T12:26:43","slug":"us-robotics-and-voip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/us-robotics-and-voip.html","title":{"rendered":"US Robotics And VoIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"><font size=\"2\">I mentioned recently that just about every company needs a VoIP strategy. You can embrace it, ignore it or just watch it. Regardless, you need a strategy. <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/voip\/us-robotics-forays-into-voip.asp\"><font size=\"2\">US Robotics now as a VoIP strategy<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">.<\/p>\n<p>The irony here is that the company built its business selling modems which off course transmitted data on telephone lines. Now a few decades later they are transmitting voice on data lines.<\/p>\n<p>The company is way behind in the VoIP hardware business and besides a few \u201cseasoned\u201d tech-heads like me and <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/voip\/us-robotics-forays-into-voip.asp\"><font size=\"2\">Tom<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">, how much mindshare does the US Robotics have these days?<\/p>\n<p>They will have to do something very novel if they want to play in this space. I am looking forward to seeing what they come up with.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned recently that just about every company needs a VoIP strategy. You can embrace it, ignore it or just watch it. Regardless, you need a strategy. US Robotics now as a VoIP strategy. The irony here is that the company built its business selling modems which off course transmitted data on telephone lines. Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}