Ted Stevenson

Berkeley, Calif.-based SightSpeed Inc. has been offering a consumer-focused videoconferencing service for some years. It has been very well received—boasting awards from the likes of PC Magazine, Macworld, and Frost & Sullivan—with worldwide distribution with Dell Computer and Creative Labs. With the launch of SightSpeed Business this week, the company is taking its message of […]

Portland, Oregon-based testing-systems vendor, VeriWave this week announced the release of a product that constitutes a brand new LAN testing concept in the 802.11 world: a suite of traffic simulations modeled on the actual traffic patterns of individual vertical industries. WiMix Real World Traffic Tests, as the suite is called, eliminates guesswork associated with predicting […]

Motorola, Inc. Tuesday announced the expansion of its dual-radio Wi-Fi mesh networking offering with two new versions. The Schaumburg, Ill.-based company has also renamed the product line—formerly known as HotZone Duo—MOTOMESH Duo. The original Duo unit, released a bit more than a year ago (in June of 2006), provided one radio running in the 2.4GHz […]

A reporter in the telecommunications industry hears fairly frequently about companies and products that came into being because the founder or creator couldn’t find what s/he was looking for out in the real world. MINO Wireless is such a one. It launched its first product in January of 2006, after founder and CEO, Jing Liu […]

After last year’s trial of free SkypeOut calling in North America, the Brussels-based VoIP provider (now a subsidiary of eBay) instituted a yearly subscription plan for U.S. and Canadian Skypers. For example, at a cost of $29.25 ($14.95 before January 31, 2007), U.S. members can make unlimited SkypeOut calls (calls to land-line and mobile PSTN […]

While most customers apparently haven’t moved much past the notion that VoIP is a technology that gives them the phone features they’re accustomed to—at a lower price—industry insiders know that the future of IP telephony is all about applications. One company built on this understanding is Carrollton,Tex-based IPcelerate. In fact, IPcelerate doesn’t do phone calls, […]

Over the summer, Massachusetts-based Brix Networks caused a mild stir in VoIP circles when it issued a press release titled Internet Phone Quality Drops Significantly and Steadily over Last 18 Months. In it, the company contended that one in five broadband Internet calls proved unacceptable on the Mean Opinion Score (MOS) scale, a subjective measurement […]

The International Packet Communications Consortium is no more. The group, whose mission was to promote the deployment of IP-based telecom services—voice, video, and others—across all delivery media—cable, broadband, wireline, and wireless—has changed its identity, and late last month, became the IMS Forum. Rather than abandoning its earlier mission, the organization has, in a way, expanded […]

Wi-Fi (wireless LAN) and VoIP are natural partners. In a world that’s become totally accustomed to walking while talking, a wireless connection to a company’s converged IP voice/data network makes all kinds of sense. And indeed, voice over WLAN—aka VoWi-Fi, VoFi, and a few other convoluted acronyms—has been available for years. But there have been […]