With September coming, I expected VoIP news to take up again but it seems it’s still as slow as ever. While browsing through the majority of my VoIP related newsfeeds, I found out that (a) Iotum launched a conferencing application for Facebook, (b) Iotum updated their conferencing application for Facebook a day later. Now (a) may be midlly interesting, (b) certainly is not, why is this being echoed across the blogosphere like this?
According to a recent report by Forrester Research companies are increasing their IP Telephony spending, a trend that should continue for at least a couple more years. From the 516 decision makers surveyed in North America and Europe a little over 50% told they are increasing their IP PBX budget.
Research firm iLocus released a report saying that 2.23 million IP PBX licenses were sold in the 2nd quarter of 2007. This has generated revenues in excess of $208 million, mainly for Cisco who is the overall market leader. Other key players were Mitel, 3Com and ShoreTel. North America accounted for 68% of the shipments, followed by EMEA.
For once, I can agree with Microsoft. Skype has no place in a business, not only because of its underlying peer-to-peer technology which will user your company’s CPU power and network infrastructure to create a network for people outside of the enterprise, but also because of Skype’s contact list being linked to your, or your employee’s Skype ID.
This has got to be painful for a service that promises you one number for life. GrandCentral, one of the latest Google acquisitions, that offers you one number for life that rings on all your phones has been forced to change some of their customers’ phone numbers. Due to problems with one of their upstream providers, GrandCentral could not port over some 400 numbers to another carrier and was forced to assign these customers a new phone number.
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