Telephony Industry - Cogitations

Google Voice - Not Ready for Business

As I have shared in previous blog posts, I believe Google Voice is a fantastic addition to the Telephony 2.0 ecosystem and will help to establish the concept of supplementing a dial tone telephone company with additional resources from a telephone application service. However, for business users I find

Cloud Telephony

The Three Hats of VoIP

Over the past few years new VoIP products and services seem like they are announced daily. While this rate of innovation is exciting, it is also very confusing. How are these companies the same or different? What service should I use for my business? These new VoIP solutions fall into

Technology

Thoughts About Clouds

My thoughts about the evolution of cloud computing and cloud telephony [https://cogitations.ghost.io/cloud-telephony]. Let’s begin by thinking about the history of computing. First we had mainframes, since they were very expensive we shared them, hence timesharing. Then as computers became smaller and more inexpensive we put

Cloud Telephony

The Telephone Technology Pendulum and AnyPhone Technologies

Arthur Schopenhauer a German Philosopher, wrote an often misstated quotation, “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom”. We can apply this quotation in general to technology and specifically to telephony. Telephony technology swings between complacency and advancement. In these exciting times, when telephone technologies are

Telephony Industry

CLEC SIP Application Warehouse White Paper

We are very excited to announce the availability of our partnership program between the telephone carrier community and Ifbyphone. To better understand this initiative lets look together at the evolution of the world wide web and how SIP signaling is following a similar evolution. When the first generally available web

Telephony Industry

Why Skype for Asterisk is more important than Skype for SIP

Back in September of 2008 and now today, Skype has announced initiatives to open the Skype network to SIP users. These two solutions; Skype for Asterisk and Skype for SIP are very different and offer significantly different capabilities. Just to recap the details. Skype for Asterisk, which is still in

Telephony Industry

Google Floats all Boats

Over the past week and a half, Google Voice has prompted an exciting increase in the volume of discussions about Voice 2.0 and the evolution of telephony from a facility based to an Internet based service. This evolution will free millions of businesses from the limited features provided by

Telephony Industry

Why You Need 2 Telephone Companies

Historically telephone companies provided both dial tone and telephone features to business users. For example: when purchasing a telephone service for your business you would specify the number of lines and the features; such as voice mail, call forwarding, call waiting, three way calling, per line. Businesses with multiple lines

Telephony Industry

The Impact of Low Cost Telephone Transport

The integration of Jajah’s network into the Yahoo Messenger platform signals a continuation of the movement of telephone transport from traditional PSTN networks to open VOIP transport. These new voice and data networks allow the user to bring their own device and access the world of telephony from new

Telephony Industry

Why Does My VOIP Connection Sound So Bad?

Many new telephone services, such as Click to Call, Virtual Call Centers, Hosted IVR and Voice Broadcast, rely on voice over IP (VOIP) telephone connections to deliver services at the lowest possible cost. While some of these services sound great, others deliver voice quality no better than the walkie talkies

Telephony Industry

Voice Broadcasting as an Email Alternative

Voice Broadcasting [https://cogitations.ghost.io/services/voice-broadcasting] used properly is an effective and reliable alternative to email. Ifbyphone’s services are ideally suited for delivery of customer service information, customer notifications and employee communications. All information valuable to the recipient. For example, let’s say you own a heating