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'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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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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Kleenmaid, Australia's largest direct retailer of kitchen and laundry appliances, has chosen Commander Communications to provide all fixed wire voice and data telecommunication requirements between its new head office in Maroochydore, its data centre in Brisbane and its 34 retail outlets across Australia.
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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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Soul (ASX: SPT) is now recruiting reseller partners for the Linksys One small business IP telephony and data network system, more than a year after it first announced plans to do so.
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Avaya and Extreme Networks have joined forces locally to deliver a bundled offering to small-medium sized businesses comprising Avaya's small business IP PBX and intelligent network edge switches from Extreme Networks.
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Telco service provider, Telarus, has teamed up with Aruba to provide fixed mobile convergence solutions to organisations based on Aruba's range of mobility controllers and WiFi access points.
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VoIP provider My Net Fone (ASX: MNF) says it had more than 35,000 paying customers at 30 June 2007, an increase of 5000 in June alone. It is also in the process of raising an additional $1 million in equity.
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Israeli company SoliCall has released PBXMate, a software product claimed to work with all popular VoIP softphones such as Skype and to dramatically reduce background noise by 'tuning in' to the speaker's voice and 'tuning out' extraneous sounds.
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Skype might have to modify its softphone for Australian users in order to comply with soon to be-mandatory requirements to provide free access to Australia's 000 and 106 emergency numbers.
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According to Market Clarity's "Aussie VoIP List" - a frequently updated list of companies in Australia providing VoIP services - there were 260 such organisations at 04 June 2007. However this list embraces all those from the very small to the very large providing very different types of services.
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VoIP services are rapidly gaining popularity in Australia and are increasing being promoted as a substitute for the standard telephone service, but much progress will need to be made before they can really achieve this.
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Skype has released its second update in a month to Skype 2.6, which had been out in beta since April when it was released in mid May.
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VoIP service provider, Engin, is aiming to become a leading provider of triple play services by signing up as a primary distributor of the TiVo personal video recorder - to be introduced to Australia early in 2008 by 33 percent engin shareholder, Seven Media Group - and as a reseller of Optus ADSL2+ services.
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Optus has announced availability of two VoIP services for small business, previewed with much fanfare and minimal detail in March.
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Microsoft, enviously eyeing Apple, is getting into IP in a big way - not intellectual property but IP Phones.
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VoIP service provider, Freshtel, has unveiled its new VoIP network, dubbed V2 Voicedot, claimed to be telco-grade and to provide the underpinning for the expansion of its white-label wholesale VoIP service in Australia and its expansion into Europe.
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