September 19, 2006
VoIP Roundup - Tues Sep 19/06
What's Digium's VoIP Business Strategy?
Garrett Smith
reflects on what he thinks might be Digium's plan of action for their
future. Digium is the company that offers the Asterisk breed of SIP-based
open standard IP PBXes and related software and hardware. While they've
been giving away their software, presumably to sell their hardware and
support services, Garrett thinks that Digium may take a different approach now that they have US$13 M in venture capital. Go have a read.
Cable VoIP Gaining Ground
Vonage may have reached 2 million subscribers for its true VoIP service, but cable VoIP
providers in Canada and the US scored over a million new subscribers in
Q2 2006. This isn't it all suprising, since cable companies have the advantage of offering a "triple play" of services, including TV programming, telephony, and Internet access in a convenient bundle.
Summary of Weak + Strong Areas For VoIP
Light Reading has a recap of a report from Keynote Systems
of some areas that VoIP is either lagging behind in or ahead of
traditional telephony. And if you're in the mood for overview, Andy
Oram at O'Reilly Net summarizes the report from VON. Both articles are worth reading.
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