I was reading an article here that seemed to tout IBM and Microsoft as the future of VoIP. I may be a bit bias, being a Cisco man myself, but I have taken the time to go to Microsoft's Virginia campus and look at their latest product and to be honest, I'm not impressed. Office Communication server is simply an IM server on steroids. I wonder how many people will pass on Cisco, Avaya, or Nortel - tried and true PBX / VoIP providers, and instead, get Microsoft's first generation software only solution, simply because they believe "it's Microsoft, and we won't have to learn the GUI".
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Nortel has started a new campaign called Stop paying the "Cisco Energy Tax." which claims that Nortel data networking equipment uses as much as 40% less energy than a comparable network.
So, how did they come to this groundbreaking conclusion? By their own report:
To support its argument, Nortel looked to reports from the Dell’ Oro Group to crunch through the Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator to estimate how much it is costing businesses to stay with Cisco.
They hired a third party to use a Nortel brand calculator, and punch in numbers... and guess what the verdict was? We can save 6.1 billion dollars by switching everyone to Cisco. Come on now... seriously! The "proof" of cost savings is a Nortel created energy calculator? How about some real world testing?
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VoIP providers take differing approaches to providing cheap overseas calling.
The iPhone has certainly been at the center of the news recently. Apple Inc. introduced the new iPhone 3G model and sold more than 1 million of the devices the first weekend that they were available. And through its online App Store, Apple for the first time began to offer third-party applications that can run on both new and earlier iPhone models (the latter requires users to upgrade to version 2.0 of the operating system). For many cost-conscious users, the most important iPhone apps will involve VoIP, which will let them avoid the high cost of calling overseas from a mobile phone. But as is the case with all mobile VoIP solutions, iPhone VoIP will come with trade-offs
Truphone's VoIP App
Truphone was the first company out of the gate with a new iPhone VoIP app. Software downloaded to the iPhone lets Truphone's app make calls over the company's VoIP backbone network from wifi hotspots. But the app doesn't allow users to connect to the VoIP network via cellular voice links, as they can with Truphone Anywhere, a service that the company introduced in May 2008. If it did, iPhone users could make their cheap overseas calls even when they weren't near hotspots, paying only for local cellular minutes plus Truphone's low international VoIP rates.
Packet8 MobileTalk for iPhone
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