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[Some interesting VoIP developments. The first is the Skype announcement as
below and the second is the announcement of the VoIP peering working group.
With VoIP peering voice calls will be able to transferred on peer to peer
basis between enterprises and other organizations directly without the cost
and complexity of traditional settlements and interconnection agreements of
the carriers - in effect adopting the Internet model for exchange of IP
traffic -- BSA]
SKYPE INKS DEAL WITH TWO TELECOM CARRIERS
Skype, the VoIP brainchild of Kazaa co-founder Niklas Zennstrom and
his partner, has signed agreements with two telecommunications companies
that will enable Skype phone calls to be made on standard handsets anywhere
in the U.S. Up until now, users of Skype's software had to make and receive
their free long distance and international phone calls on their computers.
The basic Skype service will remain free for Internet-based calls, but the
company will offer two premium services -- one that allows Skype users to
place calls to anyone outside the network, and a subscription-based service
that includes features such as voice mail and a geographic-based phone
number so that users can receive calls anywhere. These latest moves pit the
spunky startup against industry giants such as AT&T, as well as smaller
rivals such as VoicePulse and Vonage. Skype's biggest advantage is the
power of its peer-to-peer architecture, which relies on users' computers to
form the network rather than investing in expensive telecommunications
gear. Zennstrom says 12 million people have downloaded the Skype software
in the past nine months and about one million use it regularly. Jupiter
Research predicts that Internet telephony will become a major source of new
revenue for broadband ISPs, generating $6.36 billion by 2009. (San Jose
Mercury News 19 May 2004)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8701585.htm
VoIP Peer group announced
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Topics to be discussed: ENUM, TRIP, Voice Peering, QOS, BGP, SIP, VOIP
Transit/Trunking, .tel, Inter-Asterisk Exchange (IAX), the ITU and anything
else that may effect interconnection of VOIP and packet voice.
This is a mailing list for voice folks, peering people, network engineers,
and even business guys curious about how this technology will change things.
Open exchange of ideas is the goal!
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