VOIP Relays

I gotta run to my sons and coach basketball, but I will do this real fast. Ars Technica has written about the new requirements E911 bill passed by the Senate. Ars normally does a great job with his analysis, so I will not bother. My only comment is that the Congress seems to write policy, without concern for the effort of implementing the procedures.

Now that the FCC has the authority to issue new requirements, I hope (but doubt), which will collaborate with businesses and technologies for implementing this correctly. OK, so I am cynical about the government, he worked on it all my life. EDIT: BTW, just in case some are wondering if this applies to the security of VoIP, for my surroundings, the service E911 is a security requirement.

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I ran across this interesting development today browse the Asterisk-list of the user. It seems that developers Asterisk Chris Carey has created a way to check your Asterisk PBX voice through its iPhone. Using Asterisk and iUI an iPhone user interface, Chris has been able to design a piece of software that sits on the server itself Asterisk that lets you check your messages, listen to messages, delete, move messages, and change configuration Voice - everything from its iP.

This is impressive… even though I am not a great fan of my iPhone. The software has not yet been released, but should be ready any time. I have an email to Chris for more details. Below are some snapshots of what Asterisk Visual Voicemail for iPhone resembles (courtesy of Chris). .

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It seems that everyone, but this is a fact, for better or worse (VoIP better, because now businesses have a legal right to have access to 911 centres answer, what is worse, because it is likely to cost, and that It cost was passed on to customers, and I bet most of that money somehow end up in the pockets of incumbent telcos): The Senate recently approved a bill that would require VoIP providers to ensure access to 911 customers .

S428, the IP-Enabled Voice Communications and Public Safety Act, access interconnected VoIP is the same as traditional telephone companies to ensure that calls made over 911 lines VoIP reach an operator at all times. Full story: Bill 911 which was approved by the Senate of the United States | About VoIP.

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Russell Shaw of ZDnet received an email from a customer Packet8 (note, a Packet8 customer, and not a Vonage customer). Here is the gist of it: I do not subscribe to Vonage, which I use for my Packet8 VoIP. In a Vonage assigned Packet8 my phone. One of its new clients. Vonage called me and told me that since there was a request for "port" numbers, they did.

Vonage has to solve this problem since hurry! .

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Google is taking aim Microsoft SharePoint. Google announced on Wednesday it will begin offering an easy to use Web site creation and publishing tool for office workers to create and manage sites of collaboration, the rapid exchange of information between the project teams and co workers. Google Sites, as the new site publishing service is known, is based on the acquisition of 16 months ago hosted JotSpot wiki provider.

Icio. | Greg Galitzine VoIP Authority Blog | Permalink: Google Targets Microsoft Collaboration Suite labels: collaboration, google, Google Sites, Microsoft, SharePoint Copyright Greg Galitzine VoIP Authority Blog.

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Got two updates to share with you about the eComm2008 conference, I made a post on the background on Monday. The first is an interview that I did with Lee Dryburgh that only ran over IP Convergence television the other day. Lee spoke for the majority of their views on the convergence of technologies, but also a little bit about what you can expect to experience in eComm2008. I hope you like, and comments are welcome.

I hope you like, and comments are welcome. Secondly offered a special discount that I can share with you to save 15% on registration for the conference. Hopefully, you have heard by now how many promising sources of this event will be, and if you are thinking of going, please send me an agreement, and I can pass on the information you need to save 15% of its register.

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My latest column for Service Provider Views was posted today. It’s titled “The Service Provider Dilemma”, and I welcome your comments. Rich Tehrani shared his thoughts and concurs with my views about how the large incumbents still hold the strongest cards, and it’s really their market to lose. Technorati tags: Service Provider Views, Jon Arnold, J Arnold & Associates .

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Just a short note to pass on a summary document from my webinar with America’s Growth Capital last Friday. A copy of the presentation as well as Catharine’s full report are still available from either of us upon request. In addition, Catharine has put together a nice 8 page summary of the high points from our webinar, and you’re welcome to download that here.

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One of the biggest challenges facing Canadian companies is our small domestic market, especially for telecom. To succeed, you need to sell into other markets, which is something Canadians aren’t by nature very good at. That’s a topic unto itself, and if you want to understand this challenge better and hear first hand how some local companies are doing it, you’ll want to participate in an upcoming teleforum.

I’ve posted about MyThum before and they’re a great example of what Mike will be covering during the call. You can learn more about the session from a backgrounder Mike has prepared. Unfortunately, I’ll be out of town that day, so I’ll miss the call. This shouldn’t stop you, though, and if this topic is of interest, it will be time well spent. Technorati tags: Mike Fox, Jon Arnold, Brightlights Inc.

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Been meaning to post about this for a while. The IT360 Conference is coming here in Toronto from April 7-9, and the agenda was recently posted to their website. It’s still a work in progress, but will give you a good idea of the range to topics being covered. I’m Co-Chairing the Unified Communications track with colleague Henry Dortmans. Most of our program is set, but we still have some adds and changes coming.

Most of our program is set, but we still have some adds and changes coming. We’ve been at this for a while, and have a strong roster in place, and you can get a sense here for what we’ll be talking about. I’ll have more updates as we get closer to the date, but can tell you now it’s a strong program, and should be a great opportunity to get apprised on where Unified Communications is going in Canada.

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