Over the last couple of weeks there seems to have been a minor explosion in the VoIP market. I’ve personally been using the Packet8 service for a while. The blogosphere is waking up to VoIP now. Witness:
- Tong: Peer to peer voip.
- Ludwig: Nats and VoIP
- Allaire: VoIP, Vonage, Getting Real
My sense is that big things are happening here. Over the past few days I’ve spoken with more companies doing new things in VoIP than I have in a while. In the telcos, the VoIP transition is already well in hand in the network. The big problem has always been what to do about the Class 5 infrastructure which connects every home to the voice network. Broadband and "route-around" schemes like Vonage, Packet8, and Skype are solving that by packetizing the voice and shipping it out on the residential data feed.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
