After FCC issued the requirements of E-911 services for VOIP service providers, One company seems to be expanding it's own services. Level 3 which already has e-911 in the making and providing most of the us market under it's umbrella, promisses to cover 70% of the USA by the end of 2005.
Viper networks announced today that it has completed testing and will begin marketing a new version of its Wi-Fi enabled phone that operates on its global VoIP network.
Fonality, the leader in affordable IP-PBX systems for small businesses, today announced PBXtra, an IP-PBX that delivers enterprise-class capabilities to small businesses for up to 80 percent less than the cost of traditional PBX systems. PBXtra is currently deployed to thousands of business users and is distributed by more than 300 Fonality resellers in 40 countries. Its technology is based on Linux and Asterisk open source technology.
Another update to Grid's, I just passed 40000 points mark! But still a long way to go before I can get in to the top user list.
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It seems that the cost of enabling 911 services will be the fall of the small guys. It is rather expensive right now to provide 911 services. My thoughts on that is; It is time to regroup. Individually one might not be able to afford the 911 services. But what if all or some of them band together? consortium could be able to pay the price via a membership fee. Also avenues like pushing the equipment vendor or the termination servie provider to furnish the requirements might keep the small guy above the water
VOIP like any other thing is bringing a war, Open Vs. Proprietary.
Next week at Supercomm one will be able to see more of these stuff but according to
Silicon Valley is fast moving into the world of telephony, and it is dragging the contest between open and proprietary code along with it.
Next week at Supercomm, the annual telephony conference and expo in Chicago, IT will show a higher profile than ever before. Standards advocates will champion open architecture as a way for carriers to reduce network operating costs and complexity, while proprietary software makers will tout ease of use.
Sun Microsystems Inc. will promote its IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) strategy, which is designed to help service providers deliver traditional voice services less expensively over an IP platform. Java not only can help reduce networking costs but also can speed the creation of new services, said David Orain, director of telecom strategy at Sun, in Santa Clara, Calif.Sun will launch the Open Service Delivery Platform Solutions Program, which will bring together partners to develop IP-based applications. The program will generate a catalog of applications with open interfaces, making it easy for carriers to integrate new services rapidly, Orain said.
Telephone companies are steadily becoming more serious about open-source systems, said Mark Spencer, president of Digium Inc., in Huntsville, Ala. Digium, the creator of Asterisk, an open-source PBX, as well as gateways, media servers and application servers, this week will roll out an echo cancellation card that allows for some processing to be offloaded.
