Redbox, Sagemcom, VoIP Termination, ABI Research, iPad

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Redbox, Sagemcom, VoIP Termination, ABI Research, iPad

Communication isn't just making or receiving phone calls anymore, there's a whole lot more to it than that.

And the way you even make phone calls is changing: VoIP is the new mode of connecting people globally. This is the reason why VoIP termination services, have begun to be more recognized.

With an important new service there are a multitude of VoIP termination providers, offering services like VoIP call service, wholesale carrier services, VoIP reseller programs and business plans. It'd probably be a good idea for businesses to learn a bit more about these services, depending upon the capital they can invest, their knowledge of voice over IP technology among other factors.

Some of the concepts explained by industry vendor icallglobe.com:

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Mobile data traffic from PC modems and routers is forecast to increase fourfold between 2010 and 2014. You know what this means - mobile video will increase.

A new Research Brief from ABI Research, "Data Traffic Trends for Mobile Broadband Modems and WWAN / WiFi Routers," finds that this year "some 2,000 petabytes of data will be sent and received, a figure that will rise to about 8,000 petabytes in 2014."

"Today, and for most of our forecast period, modems and routers in Western Europe will generate the highest levels of mobile data traffic, but by an ever-decreasing margin," said Jeff Orr, senior analyst, mobile devices, ABI. "In 2014, we expect the Asia-Pacific region to overtake Western Europe as the largest source of demand for this traffic."

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IP fax provider Sagemcom has recently released a white paper studying the issue of fax being carried by a SIP trunking service. Both Sagemcom's XMediusFAX and OpenLine products interoperate within a SIP trunking environment, but there are some intricacies and operational benefits to understand before approaching your SIP trunk service provider.

Organizations continue to migrate to VoIP based network infrastructures for two understandable reasons - to increase their productivity and lower operating costs. The emergence and availability of new IP services, such as SIP trunking, help both of these goals.

Seen as a viable alternative to PSTN based trunking, SIP trunking helps tie an organization's internal and external communication requirements together and help pave the way to unified communications, the paper finds, adding that fax is seen as a single component within the range of real-time UC options:

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Redbox are the kiosk kings of dollar-a-night movie DVD rentals, but word is they're sizing up possible interest in monthly streaming video subscriptions.

Evidently they're getting hungry for a taste of Netflix's "Watch Instantly" lunch, but as industry observer Ben Patterson notes, in Redbox's case "the service would cost half as much as Netflix's cheapest streaming option."

According to High-Def Digest, Patterson reports, "the Redbox survey describes a plan that would cost $3.95 a month. Netflix's cheapest subscription plan costs $8 a month."

The service would deliver unlimited video streaming "as well as four free DVD rentals from Redbox kiosks." Do the math: Redbox kiosk rentals cost a dollar per night. If you get at least four movies a month from Redbox, all your streaming's free. Isn't capitalism wonderful?

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Yahoo! News is reporting that TSA screeners won't make you strip your iPad down in airport security lines. "If it's smaller than a laptop, keep it in your bag, and that includes the iPad," the TSA told Yahoo! News, adding that "TSA screeners may ask to see your iPad anyway."

"Blogger Bob," a.k.a. Curtis "Bob" Smith of the official TSA blog, writes that "Electronic items smaller than the standard sized laptop should not need to be removed for your bag or their cases. It's that simple."

The key word there is "should" not. Since we all know the government always operates according to what it "should" do, hey, smooth sailing ahead folks, right?

TSA screeners may still ask you to take your iPad out "if something needs a closer look," Blogger Bob warns.  Or if they just haven't seen one yet and want to play around with it a bit.

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