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VoIP: Voice over IP Comes of Age
With the advent of widespread broadband Internet connections, consumers are discovering what businesses have known for a while. Voice over IP telephony, or VoIP as it is known, can be a viable and cost effective alternative to the Plain Old Telephone System (POTS).
Residential VoIP Solutions for the Consumer
As technologies mature and more households gain access to high speed Internet, consumers will come to realize that it is simply more efficient and cost effective to send packets of voiceover the Internet than over a point to point circuit switched land line. Long dist ...
FCC 700MHz Auction Over
The auction of the 700 MHz band ended yesterday after thirty eight days of bidding. A whopping $19,592 billion was raised for the federal treasury, despite fears that the auction would disappoint due to a staggering economy.
Prostitution on the Web?
Is anybody surprised that you can do that on the Internet? The porn industry has thrived on the new media and in fact is responsible for many of its early innovations. With streaming media and broadband connections becoming common place, those who will pay and those t ...
Jaduka Launches Web Telephony Widgets
These web telephony widgets can add a new dimension to websites and blogs, and from a business perspective, a quick and easy way to get connected with customers for free.
Choosing a Broadband Connection for VoIP
There are basically three ways for the residential consumer to obtain a broadband connection, from your cable television provider, your telephone company, or a wireless network. With these options becoming increasingly more wide spread, utilizing the Internet to route ...
VoIP Security Threats Explained
The following is a compilation of just some of the security threats facing a voice over IP network, as well as some security measures that could be taken to prevent such attacks.
VoIP Over WiFi for Businesses: Sending Voice Over the Wireless LAN
As the technology of VoIP over WiFi networks continues to develop, businesses of all sizes can reap the benefits of increased mobility, productivity, and significant cost savings...A cell phone that can switch between cellular and WiFi networks can significantly reduc ...
Net Neutrality and the Cellular Networks
If the early development of the Internet can be compared to the American Wild West, then the rise of the U.S. cellular industry can be likened to Stalin’s Soviet Union. Carrier networks rule developers, device manufactures, and consumers with an iron fist, allowing on ...
WiMax, VoIP, and the Metropolitan Area Network
WiMAX promises to deliver last mile wireless broadband internet access capable of carrying data intensive applications such as VoIP to Metropolitan Area Networks, as well as sub-urban and rural communities.
Ongoing Operations and Network Optimization
The converged network analysis solutions available to you should be assessed in the planning stage, and once decided upon, used extensively in the testing, implementation, and ongoing operations and optimization stages. Such features as capacity planning, network asse ...
Pre-Deployment Testing and Implementation of a Converged Network
After all the planning has been done and the network assessed, the conclusions drawn and assumptions made must be tested to assure that they are correct before moving on with the migration. Testing new applications and hardware in a production environment can be poten ...
Rules of Deployment: The Life Cycle of a Converged Network
Just like any major network undertaking, best practices dictate that deployment take place in stages, the success of each successive phase depending on the previous. The first stage is planning and assessment, followed by an intense pre deployment testing and implemen ...
Looking Back at VoIP in 2007
As we move head strong into the New Year, I would like to take this time to look back at the past 12 months as they relate to VoIP and the Telecommunications industry in general. 2007 was a year of upheaval and innovation, as VoIP became more of a mainstream technolog ...
The Face of Telecommunications in 2008
Without a doubt, 2008 is poised to bring some major changes to telecommunication as we know it and the wireless industry in particular. With the maturation of Voice over IP and WiFi, and the emerging 4G WiMax and LTE technologies, the telecommunications business model ...
Comcast Slides into Fourth Place as Largest Phone Service in U.S.
Comcast announced this week at CES that it has surpassed first Vonage and now Embarq, to become the fourth largest residential phone service provider in the US, behind Verizon, ATT, and Quest. According to CEO Brian L. Roberts, Comcast is the fastest growing residenti ...
The FCC Auction of the 700MHz Spectrum
The 700MHz band of spectrum has a unique set of properties and capabilities that have not been available to the market since, well, since television took to the airwaves. Able to penetrate deep into buildings and travel 4 times farther than its peer frequencies, the F ...
FCC 2008 700MHz Auction Overview
The whole argument of the open access vs. walled garden approach rekindled the Net Neutrality debate, with the Free Marketers (i.e. ATT, Verizon) arguing against Federal regulation of the Internet...In the end, the FCC's decision in this case was a victory for wireles ...
VoIP Signaling Protocols; Setting Up and Tearing Down the Call - H.323
The first hurdle to overcome when making a VoIP phone call is to establish a connection between the parties involved. In legacy telephony, this is done by switching circuits until a physical wire is established between locations. The Internet Protocol on the other han ...
White Spaces Coalition Stumbles, Tries Again
...the White Spaces Coalition wants to use the spaces between local television channels, which are becoming available in 2009, to bring inexpensive wireless broadband access to the masses...Like the 700MHz UHF band of spectrum, these lower (2-698 MHz) radio waves trav ...
Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile on White Spaces
The FCC, who will begin testing wireless devices in the spectrum on January 24, now have another option for how to use the white space. Will they stand by their commitment to eliminate the Digital Divide in the U.S., expanding broadband Internet access for all nationw ...
Clearwire, Nortel Partner for VoIP over a WiMax Network
Wireless broadband provider Clearwire Corp announced this week that it was partnering with Nortel Networks to offer VoIP telephony services to its customers over its own network infrastructure...Last summer, Clearwire struck a deal with Satellite TV providers DirecTV ...
The Session Initiation Protocol
SIPs emergence as the protocol of choice came in no small part from its work on IMS, and the consequent development of the concept of Presence. While by no means exclusive territory, the standards committees have worked hard to put SIP in the forefront of presence tec ...
WiMax Forum Looking at FDD Profile
Senior says they have been working on the profile for the past twelve months, but have kept it under the table for fear of upsetting their chances of getting the IMT-2000 approval for Mobile WiMax. The ITU endorsed WiMax in May of last year for the 2.6GHz swath of spe ...
Simple Gateway Control Protocol
As developers saw the trend of increasing voice traffic entering the network in the late nineties, the need to deal with the gateway functions between the IP and PSTN networks became apparent. One solution was the Physically Decomposed Media Gateway concept, effective ...
Jaduka’s EarthCaller Delivers Voice Quality, Free U.S. Calls and Lowest Cost International Dialing
Jaduka, recently named one of Red Herring’s Top 100 Global Emerging Technology companies, has launched EarthCaller, a new PC-to-phone service that enables calls to any landline in the U.S. for free along with super low international rates. EarthCaller runs its calls o ...
Terahertz Wireless through Quantum Tunneling
Phiar Corporation is using Quantum Tunneling technology to develop microchips that would operate in the Terahertz region, wirelessly transmitting huge amounts of data at blazing speeds. Historically, frequencies between 100GHz and 10THz, known as the Terahertz Region, ...
2-1-08 The Week in Review
Commercial Block C of the 700MHz auction has met the minimum reserve, ensuring open access for all...cables in the Mediterranean were cut, causing a massive slowdown of Internet and telecommunication services from Egypt to India...Sprint is reviving talks with Clearwi ...
Where the Candidates Stand – Technically Speaking
It’s Super Tuesday. Do you know where your candidate stands? While not a pressing issue for most Americans, technological innovation and Net Neutrality (or lack thereof) will shape the way we use the Internet for years to come.
VoIP Call Control Whitepaper
I am pleased to announce the first in a series of Whitepapers from VoIP-Facts.net is available for download on the home page. VoIP Call Control: The Signaling Protocols of Voice over IP Telephony explores the history of the signaling protocols and their technical diff ...
2-8-2008 Week in Review
The first week in February ends with another pure play closing shop, new product announcements, more cable cuts, and the FCC auction creeping up on the 20 billion mark.
Microsoft, Yahoo, Nortel and Danger
Microsoft Corp. has been in the news a lot of late, most notably due to its unsolicited takeover bid for Yahoo. Progress in their unified communications partnership with Nortel was charted this week, and they also announced on Monday that they were acquiring the Sidek ...
Net Neutrality Act Reintroduced in Congress
Without a net neutrality law in place, publicly traded service providers will always straddle the fence between their customers and shareholders. More often than not, they will opt for the bottom line, leaving consumers rights by the wayside. It is exactly the absence ...
2/15/2008 Communications Week in Review
Some of this weeks top stories: Microsoft leaps into the low end cell phone market, as the Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona. Vonage gains some market share while VoIP Inc. sues for patent infringement and the WiMax forum comes clean about its FDD plans. Al ...
Mid East Cable Cuts Sabotage? No Way!
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is looking into sabotage as a possible cause of the five submarine cable cuts that affected the Mid East and south Asian Internet and phone services in late January and early February.
Bill Gates on Yahoo
It has been said that the two companies have significant cultural differences, Yahoo being very collaborative with a Linux based open source philosophy. Microsoft has never been accused of being a champion of open source technologies. The engineers that thrive in that ...
2/22/2008 Technology Week in Review
Largest 802.11n deployment planned by Duke University, Star Wars 2008, Broadband Balloons, and T-Mobile goes VoIP. News and Commentary on the weeks more interesting stories.
Residential VoIP to Double by 2011
The Telecom Industry Associations 2008 Market Review and Forecast came out today, and as previewed on FierceVoIP, the U.S. residential VoIP market is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 20 percent over the next four years. Cable companies will continue to ga ...
FCC Forum on ISP Traffic Management
Speaking of the Cablecos and their bandwidth, the FCCs open forum on traffic management starts today in Harvard. Speakers will include representatives from Comcast and Verizon, U.S. Rep Ed Markey of the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, and Professor Timothy Wu, orig ...
Software Based PBX for Windows
3CX has released a new version of 3CX Phone System for Windows. The latest version of the award-winning software-based IP PBX has an integrated 3CX Tunnel which simplifies firewall configuration by channeling all VoIP traffic over a single port; making it easy for rem ...
Internet Not Perfect
Some strange things have been happening to the Internet lately...All this just goes to show that the Internet is not perfect, and is vulnerable to things that happen, malicious or not. But what isn’t?
Unified Communications
What it is and what it can do for your business. Tired of playing phone tag? This article explores how unified communications can benefit your business through increased productivity.
2-29-08 Technology Week in Review
Senate passes 911 bill for VoIP, and Comcast packs the hall at Harvard, literaly.
Open Source VoIP List
Here’s a nice little list I found of some of the best open source VoIP applications out there today. The list includes SIP proxies and clients, H323 clients, PBX and IVR platforms, developers and more.
Residential VoIP Goes Mainstream
Don’t be fooled by SunRocket’s collapse or Vonage’s woes, VoIP in the residential community is very much alive and well.
3-7-08 Technology Week in Review
Siemans, Skype, Clearwire, and Tata – Apple opens the iPhone
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