World VoIP Database

Tellabs said it will offer optical network terminals that can be deployed inside the home, which will greatly reduce deployment costs for the equipment vendor. Tellabs isn’t the first vendor to offer an ONT for use inside the home. Amedia Networks and others have innovated on that front, though Tellabs CEO Krish Prahbu has said […]

Market research from Telegeography shows that the VoIP market in the United States is still growing at a healthy rate, and that the market in Europe is growing even more quickly. This is happening despite the recent difficulties of companies like Sunrocket and Vonage.

The research shows that cable TV companies are responsible for much of […]

As the international media waits with baited breath for the Google phone, the United States Patent and Trademark Office just published an application from Google that details the company’s effort late last year to patent a mobile payment service, called GPay. The application describes a process whereby a mobile phone triggers a “computer-implemented method of […]

While Frontline Wireless does not have the lobbying spend of most wireless carriers, the company did make more calls and visits to the FCC between January and August. According to a report from the Center for Public Integrity, Google had a total of 19 calls or meetings with FCC officials, 11 of which were with […]

VoIP vulnerability is getting its due these days, what with the Skype-out, the Las Vegas hackerfest and some hefty VoIP contracts awarded. The most common VoIP protocol, H.323, is a particular target for a variety of mischief–flooding (packet inundation); logic attacks (think junk packets) hijacking (redirecting calls); etc. Sometimes the vulnerability is a result of […]

Looking for a quick and easy way to enable VoIP on your iPhone? Talkety is offering iPhone users a simple way to do just that. First create an account, launch the Safari browser, point it at Talkety.com and log in. Enter your number and the ones you want to call and leave the rest to […]

So how are new services such as VoIP, which provide a low-cost alternative to the communications oligopoly, related to net neutrality? Here’s an example:

 
Verizon and AT&T want to deliver television to your home to compete with the cable companies. They’ve spent billions upgrading to fiber-optic systems. Once they have that infrastructure in place, they claim, […]

For service providers and large enterprises that are still puzzling out VoIP peering, we’ve found what looks like a good ongoing primer. This particular issue talks about the IETF–the Internet Engineering Task Force–which sets out the technical underpinnings of the Net. In March, the IETF established a new area of development called “Real-Time Applications and […]