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Editor's Perspective
Rock stars, R2-D2
and Neverland
By Jason Meyers
March 9, 2005
SAN JOSE--The Voice on the Net show being held here this week is
demonstrating all the signs of an event--and an industry sector--at the
crossroads: The expo itself is sprawling, with jam-packed sessions, a
lively show floor and attendance that's reportedly higher than years
past. Big companies are using the backdrop of the event to make major
voice-over-IP announcements. And regulatory figureheads like outgoing
FCC Chairman Michael Powell are simultaneously applauding the sector's
efforts and warning its constituents to remember where they came from.
The official kickoff yesterday had show host and VoIP fixture Jeff
Pulver in full geek mode, informing the audience of some of his
communications influences (Captain Kirk's communicator, Jetsons-style
video phones and the video stylings of R2-D2) and lamenting his
adolescent children's lack of interest in Ham radio--with which Pulver
is, by his own admission, still obsessed. He also addressed some of the
growing pains of VoIP, including regulatory hang-ups, user interface
complexities and numbering issues. ("We're sort of like a number
without
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Pulver was followed by
AOL CEO
Jon Miller, who leveraged the event to
confirm the long-running buzz that AOL is itself getting into the VoIP
game with a service launch later this month powered by Level 3 and
Sonus. That was followed by a speech from AT&T's Hossein Eslambolchi
that reiterated that company's VoIP strategy and featured one of the
conference's racier moments: In talking about the increasingly
mainstream nature of VoIP, Eslambolchi joked that "Michael Jackson has
just invited Jeff Pulver for a sleepover at Neverland Ranch." Then
Powell
delivered his last-ever public address as FCC chair, heralding
the efforts of this industry sector--as well as his own deregulatory
actions during his FCC tenure--and advising his VoIP followers to keep
themselves in check and to grow carefully. "You need to recognize that
you won't be a rock star forever," Powell said.
In all, the VON conference is a showcase of what has quickly become one
of
the telecom industry's most booming sectors--possibly even overtaking
wireless in terms of activity and popularity. (That theory will be put
to the test next week in New Orleans, when the wireless delegation
gathers for the CTIA's big annual event.) It will be interesting to see
if the VoIP sector--with its new technology developments, service
launches and customer expansion--can keep up the momentum.
E-mail me at jmeyers@primediabusiness.com.
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News From VON
VON:
AOL announces VoIP launch
By Carol Wilson
Mar 8, 2005
SAN JOSE--As expected, AOL Chairman and CEO Jon Miller
announced today that his company will launch a mass-market
voice-over-IP
service next month, based on Level 3 Communications' national VoIP
infrastructure and Sonus Networks softswitches.
VON:
Powell bids fond farewell
By Carol Wilson
Mar 8, 2005
SAN JOSE--Outgoing Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Michael Powell said goodbye to his favorite audience today,
getting a standing ovation from a Voice on the Net crowd appreciative
of
his fight to keep voice over IP free of regulation.
VON:
SBC outlines VoIP strategy
By Carol Wilson
Mar 8, 2005
SAN JOSE--Mark Fishler may not have felt like "one of
the gang" when he showed up for his first keynote speech at the Voice
on
the Net conference in San Jose Monday.
VON:
Spirent tabulates new customers with Abacus
By Tim McElligott
Mar 9, 2005
SAN JOSE--Spirent Communications launched an IP
Telephony rollout platform this week at VON that assesses and validates
signaling performance and call quality in pre-production VoIP networks.
In the process, Spirent also rolled out new customers: Sylantro Systems
and Carrius Technologies.
VON:
Broadsoft unveils work behind Primus
By Vince Vittore
Mar 9, 2005
SAN JOSE--BroadSoft announced at the Voice on the Net
show here today that Primus Telecommunications is using its BroadWorks
VoIP applications platform to support its Lingo Internet service.
VON:
Sylantro bags Bandwidth.com and NuVox as feature server customers
By Tim McElligott
Mar 9, 2005
SAN JOSE--Nationwide Internet access provider for
business Bandwidth.com and super-regional integrated communications
provider NuVox said this week they will use Sylantro System's
application feature server to advance their respective voice-over-IP
offerings.
VON:
VoIP just means to cable's end
By Carol Wilson
Mar 9, 2005
SAN JOSE--Major cable players are using voice over IP
primarily to compete with incumbent telcos for basic residential voice
service and not to push the envelope with innovative new features.
VON:
Xten softphones go retail
By Jason Meyers
Mar 8, 2005
SAN JOSE--Softphone developer Xten Networks announced a
deal at the Voice on the Net show here this week that it is bundling
its
eyeBeam softphone product with GN Netcom headsets for retail
distribution in the U.S. and Canada.
Fast
Net Futures: Vendor consolidation inevitable
By Vince Vittore
Mar 8, 2005
SAN JOSE--The consolidation of carriers over the next
several years will inevitably force the vendor market to follow suit,
according to speakers this morning at Fast Net Futures.
VON:
Vonage touts VoIP success
By Carol Wilson
Mar 8, 2005
SAN JOSE--Vonage is adding 15,000 new customers a week
and is "on a quick and easy march to one million lines," Chairman and
CEO Jeffrey Citron told the Voice on the Net conference Monday.
VON:
Wall Street showing VoIP little love
By Carol Wilson
Mar 7, 2005
SAN JOSE--Voice over IP providers coming to the Voice
on
the Net (VON) show expecting positive reinforcement got a rude
awakening
Monday morning.
News From OFC/NFOEC
OFC/NFOEC:
SBC to deploy GPON in 2006
By Ed Gubbins
Mar 9, 2005
ANAHEIM, Calif.--SBC expects to deploy
gigabit-per-second-speed passive optical networks for
fiber-to-the-premises applications in the second half of 2006.
OFC/NFOEC:
Corvis becomes component vendor
By Ed Gubbins
Mar 8, 2005
ANAHIEM, Calif.--Corvis, the optical equipment vendor
that acquired, and then shrank within Broadwing Communications, made
public for the first time this week that it is now in the business of
selling its own optical components to equipment manufacturers and
government entities.
More Top News
RadioFrame
to support Nextel iDEN network
By Kevin Fitchard
Mar 9, 2005
After more than a year of silence, specialty base
station vendor RadioFrame is making some big noise, announcing a huge
deal with its old customer Nextel for a massive microcell deployment.
Qualcomm
names Paul Jacobs CEO
By Jason Ankeny
Mar 8, 2005
Qualcomm today named its wireless and Internet group
president Paul Jacobs to succeed his father Irwin Jacobs as the
chipmaker's CEO, effective July 1, 2005.
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