items tagged with VoIP
SkypeOut voice quality - Part 1
Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2007-09-02 23:52:49
Skype PC-to-PC voice clarity has generally been regarded as pretty good, often crystal clear. But it isn't always, and Version 3.2 saw important improvements. However, the voice quality of SkypeOut calls remains contentious, and seems especially dependent on where you're calling from as well as where you're calling to. This first article on Skype's voice quality examines several general considerations, with subsequent articles delving a bit deeper into particular aspects of them.
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Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2007-09-02 23:52:49
Skype PC-to-PC voice clarity has generally been regarded as pretty good, often crystal clear. But it isn't always, and Version 3.2 saw important improvements. However, the voice quality of SkypeOut calls remains contentious, and seems especially dependent on where you're calling from as well as where you're calling to. This first article on Skype's voice quality examines several general considerations, with subsequent articles delving a bit deeper into particular aspects of them.
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VoIP market getting tougher
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2007-09-02 20:12:53
Two of Australia's largest VoIP service providers - engin and My Net Fone announced their full year results last week, just as gotalk announced new VoIP offerings significantly intensify price competition in the market.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2007-09-02 20:12:53
Two of Australia's largest VoIP service providers - engin and My Net Fone announced their full year results last week, just as gotalk announced new VoIP offerings significantly intensify price competition in the market.
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Freshtel rides Tesco VoIP wave
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2007-08-30 19:24:46
ASX listed VoIP provider Freshtel (ASX: FRE) has more than doubled its revenue for 2007, to $4.6m, largely as a result of an increase in revenue from UK retail giant, Tesco, its major reseller.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2007-08-30 19:24:46
ASX listed VoIP provider Freshtel (ASX: FRE) has more than doubled its revenue for 2007, to $4.6m, largely as a result of an increase in revenue from UK retail giant, Tesco, its major reseller.
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EMC's new VoIP tools are Aussie through and through
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2007-08-21 20:01:45
EMC has just announced "the market's most comprehensive solutions for managing VoIP and IP telephony environments," without mentioning that they were developed by an Australian company.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2007-08-21 20:01:45
EMC has just announced "the market's most comprehensive solutions for managing VoIP and IP telephony environments," without mentioning that they were developed by an Australian company.
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"Perfect storm" sank Skype
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: VoIP
2007-08-21 16:45:39
Skype has provided more information about the cause of last week's outage.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: VoIP
2007-08-21 16:45:39
Skype has provided more information about the cause of last week's outage.
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Skype failure explanation leaves unanswered questions
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: VoIP
2007-08-20 21:16:39
So the Skype outage was caused by a bug being exposed by many computers rebooting at much the same time.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: VoIP
2007-08-20 21:16:39
So the Skype outage was caused by a bug being exposed by many computers rebooting at much the same time.
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Skype weakness exposed by Microsoft
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-08-20 18:53:58
The two-day outage of Skype last week has exposed a serious weakness in the company's networking system which has been made self evident by its own explanation of what took place. Skype's proprietary peer-to-peer networking system has through its own architecture become entwined with the actions of Microsoft.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-08-20 18:53:58
The two-day outage of Skype last week has exposed a serious weakness in the company's networking system which has been made self evident by its own explanation of what took place. Skype's proprietary peer-to-peer networking system has through its own architecture become entwined with the actions of Microsoft.
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Skype users don't disconnect your PSTN service just yet
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-08-18 20:44:13
Last week nearly 200 million regular Skype users received a stark reminder of the dangers of over reliance on single vendor services. After most were left wondering for two days why Skype no longer worked, the VoIP and messaging provider posted a message on its home page denying that its system had crashed. That message was more than a trifle disturbing.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-08-18 20:44:13
Last week nearly 200 million regular Skype users received a stark reminder of the dangers of over reliance on single vendor services. After most were left wondering for two days why Skype no longer worked, the VoIP and messaging provider posted a message on its home page denying that its system had crashed. That message was more than a trifle disturbing.
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Skype outage - is the worst over?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: VoIP
2007-08-16 22:33:21
Skype's engineering team has apparently made some progress with the issue that prevented logging into the service as there are over two million users online as of this writing, though the company's Heartbeat status page is still showing problems with login.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: VoIP
2007-08-16 22:33:21
Skype's engineering team has apparently made some progress with the issue that prevented logging into the service as there are over two million users online as of this writing, though the company's Heartbeat status page is still showing problems with login.
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Skype suffers major service outage
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Services
2007-08-16 15:07:53
Skype has suffered a software problem which has left users unable to log in or make Skype to-Skype calls.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Services
2007-08-16 15:07:53
Skype has suffered a software problem which has left users unable to log in or make Skype to-Skype calls.
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Panasonic offers SMEs corporate-style IP telephony
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: VoIP
2007-08-16 02:22:58
Panasonic's new KX-TDE IP PBX aims to provide small businesses with features normally associated with larger IP telephony systems.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: VoIP
2007-08-16 02:22:58
Panasonic's new KX-TDE IP PBX aims to provide small businesses with features normally associated with larger IP telephony systems.
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Genesys adds Asterisk support
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2007-08-15 01:49:14
Contact centre software provider Genesys has announced it will provide formal support for the Asterisk open-source IP telephony platform.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2007-08-15 01:49:14
Contact centre software provider Genesys has announced it will provide formal support for the Asterisk open-source IP telephony platform.
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NAB trusts VoIP for dealing room system
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: VoIP
2007-08-13 23:24:46
The National Australia Bank has chosen IPC - a US-based provider of mission-critical communications systems - to engineer and install VoIP technology for its relocated treasury division on a new dealing floor in Brisbane.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: VoIP
2007-08-13 23:24:46
The National Australia Bank has chosen IPC - a US-based provider of mission-critical communications systems - to engineer and install VoIP technology for its relocated treasury division on a new dealing floor in Brisbane.
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Verso teams with Alvarion to offer voice over WiMAX
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2007-08-05 22:57:41
Alvarion, which a been flagged as potential supplier of WiMAX gear to the Optus Elders joint venture, Opel, has teamed up with Verso Technologies to provide technology that will deliver voice services over fixed WiMAX networks.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2007-08-05 22:57:41
Alvarion, which a been flagged as potential supplier of WiMAX gear to the Optus Elders joint venture, Opel, has teamed up with Verso Technologies to provide technology that will deliver voice services over fixed WiMAX networks.
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Get your Skype voicemail as SMS
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Services
2007-08-05 01:48:01
Skype has teamed up with SpinVox, a developer of voice-to-text messaging, to enable Skype users to have their voicemail messages converted to text and delivered to their cellphones as SMS messages.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Services
2007-08-05 01:48:01
Skype has teamed up with SpinVox, a developer of voice-to-text messaging, to enable Skype users to have their voicemail messages converted to text and delivered to their cellphones as SMS messages.
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Engin gets new driver for move into triple play
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2007-07-30 19:48:03
VoIP provider Engin has appointed a UK executive, Matt Alexander to replace founding CEO Ilka Tales to drive its transition into a triple play business combing VoIP, ADSL2+ and the TiVo PVR offering.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2007-07-30 19:48:03
VoIP provider Engin has appointed a UK executive, Matt Alexander to replace founding CEO Ilka Tales to drive its transition into a triple play business combing VoIP, ADSL2+ and the TiVo PVR offering.
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Enterprises winging in it with VoIP deployments
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: VoIP
2007-07-29 21:17:44
Advice from vendors of IP telephony systems is that enterprises contemplating an installation should audit their network first to ensure it is able to provide the capacity and low latency that voice demands, but feedback from delegates at a VoIP seminar suggests that this advice is not being followed.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: VoIP
2007-07-29 21:17:44
Advice from vendors of IP telephony systems is that enterprises contemplating an installation should audit their network first to ensure it is able to provide the capacity and low latency that voice demands, but feedback from delegates at a VoIP seminar suggests that this advice is not being followed.
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Skype cops GPL violation conviction in German court
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2007-07-25 07:08:28
Internet telephony provider Skype has been convicted of violating the open source GPL (General Public License) in a German court. However, the Luxemburg based company was pinged for one of the products it sells on its website rather than its popular peer-to-peer VoIP and IM service.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2007-07-25 07:08:28
Internet telephony provider Skype has been convicted of violating the open source GPL (General Public License) in a German court. However, the Luxemburg based company was pinged for one of the products it sells on its website rather than its popular peer-to-peer VoIP and IM service.
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ISPhone morphs into wholesale telco
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Services
2007-07-23 06:47:00
VoIP wholesaler ISPhone is evolving into a full scale wholesale telecommunications service provider with the launch of wholesale ADSL2+ services on the Optus DSLAM network and plans to offer PSTN telephone services.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Services
2007-07-23 06:47:00
VoIP wholesaler ISPhone is evolving into a full scale wholesale telecommunications service provider with the launch of wholesale ADSL2+ services on the Optus DSLAM network and plans to offer PSTN telephone services.
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Ooma an exercise in futility
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-07-20 00:12:52
About the only thing I like about Ooma is the name - because it reminds me of one of my favorite actresses. To put it simply: the world needs another cheap voice calls company as much as another sequel to Rocky. Trying to launch such a service is an exercise in futility.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-07-20 00:12:52
About the only thing I like about Ooma is the name - because it reminds me of one of my favorite actresses. To put it simply: the world needs another cheap voice calls company as much as another sequel to Rocky. Trying to launch such a service is an exercise in futility.
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