Skype on iPhone is a Reality

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Verizon Business Enables Unified Communications for Voice-over-IP Customers

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AT&T Deploys New IP Telephony Solution for Food Lion

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Latest VoIP News

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Aspen 365 VoIP Multi-Link Application WAN Switch

Aspen Networks, Inc in Santa Clara has released a new SIP Application Layer Gateway (ALG), Aspen 365 Multi-Link Application WAN Switch.

The Aspen 365 Switch monitors the status and health of all WAN links to and from the edge of
the network. With the patent-pending technology, Aspen 365 is able to detect and fail-over on
milliseconds.

Peak application performance begins with high availability. If there are more than one WAN
service available, Aspen maximizes the investments by allowing the use of full available
bandwidth.

The Aspen 365 is an ideal solution for hosted VoIP providers. The Aspen is installed at the
customers’ premises and support VoIP traffic on multiple 2 to 4 active links (T1, DSL, cable, WISP),
This eliminates the single link as a point of failure.

The Aspen 365-Voip is compatible with Broadsoft, the industry leading VoIP application platform,
Allworx, Asterisk Systems and many other IPPBX vendors. It also support direct connection to
session border controllers such as Acme Packets and Juniper Networks.

Aspen 365-voip

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VoIP Industry

Recent Voip News

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ClearSky™ Bluetooth VoIP Conference Phone Kit

Tendnet inintroduces ClearSky™ Bluetooth Conference Phone Kit allows users to hold conference calls through a Bluethooth technology.

The built in echo cancellation, noise suppression ensures the quality of the co nference calls. The range of this Bluetooth phone kit is about 100 meters (328ft).

Features of the phone kit:

Model: TVP-SP4BK

The ClearSky™ is aimed at SMB (Small and Medium size business) which are looking to VoIP solutions to save on long-distance call charges.

Pricing: $130-$145.00

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A little More About Skype!

It seems there is no end to the number of features Skype offers its customers. Take a look at these incredible add-ons.

Skype Blog is their way of presenting their views of the world, including business and technology. Skype runs the blog so that their customers can share ideas, facts, and voice their opinions.

In addition, Skype offers RSS, which allows you to keep track of the changes going on in Skype blogs and forums, as well as any other site or blog on the internet that supports RSS. In order to read an RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed, you need a news reader. While there are many different types of news readers available, depending upon whether they are free and downloadable, here are a few you might like to use: News Crawler for Windows; Newsfire for Mac OS X; or the web-based Yahoo!

Skype forums let you discuss your Skype experience with other users. Skype developers, marketing and business people regularly attend the forums, so your comments are heard throughout the company.

Skype also has a security resource center, which encompasses everything you need to know about security in Skype. Such topics currently available are: Staying secure with Skype; Skype security blog; Skype security evaluation; network administrator’s guide; group policy management; security bulletins; contacts; and current security team key.

There is a Career Path link for those of you who would like to join the Skype team. Careers in development; marketing; operations; customer support; and product and project management are paths to participating in the Skype experience.

If you are interested in working for Skype, they have a Jobs Blog which highlights the vacancies available on Skype. You can also take a video tour of their London and Estonia offices by clicking on their Video Tour link.

It will probably take you days to visit all of the wonderful features Skype has to offer. So start today by logging on towww.skype.com and enjoy their site, their products; their informational tools, and everything under the sun this company has provided for you.

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Choose The Right Residential Broadband Service

The first thing you need to know is what is Broadband access?

Broadband is defined as any data transmission that exceeds 600 bits per second. There are also residential and commercial versions of broadband and they are very different from each other. This is in terms of price, size and ability and, for the purposes of this article, we will be focusing on residential. For business, even a small business, they are much further ahead with a T1 line, but that is a different story.

There are three primary versions of Broadband Internet access available to the typical residential subscriber. The three kinds of broadband are DSL, cable and satellite. Each has its pluses and minuses and you should be familiar with them because these differences will help you decide which service is best for you and your individual needs.

DSL Digital Subscriber Service

Local and national phone companies offering broadband access offer this service. It accomplished the required data transfer rates by using two separate channels. One channel is used for data and one is used for voice communications. This allows them to push more information through the same size pipe.

The first advantage that most people like is that their phone calls do not interrupt their Internet usage or the other way around also works. You can achieve the higher speeds (128Kbs to 24,000Kbs) that you need to take advantage of most of the offerings on the Internet. The costs are also low, which for some is an advantage. For the best speeds with DSL you need to be within 2Km(1.25 miles) of a central office, beyond that and your speed drops dramatically. DSL is offering by most phone companies (although it is normally the most expensive option) as well as both local and national carriers.

Cable

This is exactly what it is, a coaxial cable of the same variety you use for receiving your cable TV signal. Your local cable company provides this service. Speeds are generally 1.5MB, 3MB and even 5MB in some markets. Your area has to have access to cable service in order for you to be able to have cable Internet service.

This is known as an always on service in that you are always connected and that is a two edged sword. You have instant access to everything that you want and it is a bad thing because the bad guys also have instant access to your system. It is highly recommended that you use a firewall and anti-virus software to protect your system from those that are up to no good.

Satellite

This service is available through companies like DirecTV, Dish Network and Hughes. They provide access to the Internet through both a phone line and a satellite dish. The upload is achieved using a phone line and the download side is through the satellite dish. This will mean longer time to upload files and faster times downloading files.

The advantage to this is that you only need access to a phone line and a satellite subscriber service. This frees you in having service anywhere there is a phone line installed. The disadvantage to this is that, during high wind events or severe storms, you may lose your satellite service and, thus, your Internet access. Also note that many satellite providers will LIMIT how much you can use the system over the month, and when you reach that limit, they will “throttle” your connection down to a much slower speed.

Note that even the top-end satellite systems are not going to be as fast as the majority of DSL or cable options. Also note that some things are not available to you with satellite Internet service, such as the ability to use VOIP phones. VOIP will not work reliably on a satellite connection, simply because of what is called “latency”, or the time it takes for the signal to get processed after it goes to the satellite and comes back to earth.

Author: Jon Arnold
www.dsl-cable-inside-info.com

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Disadvantages of VoIP

Voice over internet protocol (VOIP) is changing the way that the average consumer makes long distance phone calls. The technology is rapidly advancing because companies all over the world are now competing to be your VOIP provider. However, there are still some disadvantages of VOIP - especially when it comes to using the technology for functions beyond the one caller to one caller scenario.The disadvantages of VOIP can be annoying, but are relatively limited for the consumer. The main complaints regarding VOIP have to do with providing the level of quality of service that customers are accustomed to with regular telephone technology.
The reason for this is multifold. VOIP requires a large amount of data to be compressed and transmitted, then uncompressed and delivered, all in a relatively small amount of time. Problems develop in VOIP conversations when this process takes too long and the callers experience one of two problems; echo or over-talk.

Standard phone calls function with a delay of no more than 10 milliseconds. But one major disadvantage of VOIP is that there have been delays of up to 400 milliseconds, meaning that the callers won’t hear each other fast enough to make the
conversation flow easily. They will either hear themselves talking or they will start talking again before they have heard
the other person respond. Although these problems won’t necessarily happen every time a call is made, it can happen
often enough to be annoying.

The disadvantages of VOIP are usually tolerable if the callers are using a free service and the calls are for individual,
personal communication. But once a network of users, such as a business, wants to use VOIP, the problems become a little more complicated. Part of the reason is that most networks have a firewall; and most firewalls don’t know how to route a VOIP call once it is received - which phone does it go to?

Plus, multiple users create a problem when judging what amount of bandwidth can be and should be used at any time. If multiple users need to make VOIP calls, it can be difficult for the company to know exactly how much bandwidth to provide  especially if internet access, video conferencing or other data transmission services are using the same path.

Overall, the disadvantages of VOIP aren’t significant enough to dissuade the average consumer from using the technology;
especially with the fact that they know that the calls they are making are free. But we can rest assured that the technology
will only get more reliable as time goes by.

Author: Van Theodorou
President of WorldNet Solutions, Inc.

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