In the last years, the voice transmission solutions have developed tremendously, both in quality and innovation of the solutions presented by the main providers.
From the monopoly of incumbent telcos to the opening of the market to private operators, to the appearance of mobile phones and IP telephony.
The later one, having seen an evolution, from the highly priced solutions for CISCO networks (which were working quite badly, but have improved a lot), we have come to the point where with the web, new comers into the scene, have been provided good solutions at very affordable prices, two examples, skype and wengophone. Google and Googletalk has been there aswell, but it not working as good as any the previous solutions.
Until now, the solutions from Skype, if used in business, were mainly used by specific users inside the corporations, but not in a corporate manner, with the right solutions and the right services.

This is changing, as skype and partner are now going in the business market, with a portfolio of highly customized propositions, that will create value for the businesses wanting to have a more flexible and costly effective voip solution.
The range of products introduced by Vosky is really interesting as it covers the potentitial needs for both medium and large businesses, allowing the full customization of the solution to the profile of the company.

The solution is based on rack-mounted hardware that is running the skype software and that allows to route/process all incoming, outgoing and intracompany calls. You just need to plug the hardware into your PBX and make the right configurations and you are saving money. You don´t need specific phones or other specific solutions, if you don´t want it.

Is this new? Well not probably, as you have for a couple of years now, a couple of opensource solutions that have been dealing with this process, but what is new, is the integration of a worldwide infrastructure based on the skype infrastructure, and the skype know-how on VOIP. The combination of the two things is that what makes it interesting for businesses.

Medium companies were already using for a couple of years, the ASTERIK voip system to create intracompanies VOIP networks, using the IP infrastructure existing, but when you wanted to perform an outgoing call, then you would have to g trough a traditional operator in order to have the call routed.So that means that the economy of costs saved are really starting to be interesting.
Is this the limit? I don´t think so aswell, I think that this is just the beginning, of a wide range of solutions toward moving definitivly the voice to the IP networks.

How can it affects the Wireless technologies of the telecom industry? Well, because Wireless IP phones can become effective outside the the companies and start to appear in the normal citizen in his daily life. You be able to using a wifi enabled phone, to perform a call to anywhere in the world and any system. Advanced users are probably able to do it actually, but with very specific know-how that is not widely available.
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For all those who knows entrecard, the widget that I have enabled on this site, this news item will be of great help.
While browsing through the entrecards webs, to obtain credits, i have discovered a site that has create a simple browser to navigate through the entrecard sites, without having to open new tabs or windows in your browser. No dropping card is becoming much more easy.
To use it, you just need to go to the link at the bottom of this post and once in the specified URL, just click on the next button, and you are in.
Update:: I have just found another entrecard browsing site, i have added the URL to the post.

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Entrecard Browser #2

One the things that have stroke me lately in Wireless networks, is the level of security that we have reached in the home wireless networks. From having almost no wireless networks in my neighborhood, I have gone to having a couple of them totally open, and suddenly a lot of them totally closed. I don´t have tried to break any key, although I was tented to, in order to understand was strong was the security implemented, until I heard some of my neighbors, complaining to his wife:" Darling, I have lost the WPA key to our networks, so I am not able to configure our new computer to access ...".
This dialog can have only two possible sources:
- People are receiving the wireless router already configured to be secure, and the keys are being written in the information provided with the router.
- People are aware of the potential problems caused by the wireless and they are using the tougher passwords they can remember, in order to protect their connections.

Neither way, the problem is that when you loose the keys you are in a really big problem if you don´t know how to proceed afterwards. The couple in this story was lucky, and I advise them to just reset the configuration to the factory and to reconfigure everything with the DVDs provided by the telecom operator. But, the question stays in the air, how many people are blocked to perform further configurations changes to their network, due to have lost the keys?

I have found a nice article by Glenn Fisherman with his considerations about the WiFi technology during 2007 and about what can be expected during 2008.

Most of the points that are being considered by him have already been discussed in OpenNetworks.
Wireless cities seems to be an interesting point, as although the trend started earlier than 2006, through open communities, the results are really quite deceiving, as most of the experiences commented, have been almost all of them dropped due to poor interest from subscribers. Are users not interested at all by accessing to the internet by wifi? Or , are users looking at other technologies to perform this?

I think that the answer is more closed to the second option, as the mobile industry, have been progressing quite impressively with the average bandwidths inside the cities, where you can now easily have bandwidths from 360 Kbps to 7,5Mbps, in one terminal that have been evolving as well quite fast to become more attractive for the activity of internet surfing.

What is the advantage of the WiFi then? Probably the bandwidth, but in short distances. Although some mobiles are still coming with WiFi enable, the truth is that I am doubting that the WiFi will be becoming a major player in this field.

If you talk, of the WiFi at home, I think that there , we are yet to see impressive surprises, as more and more devices are starting to bring built-in WiFi chips, that will allow the creation of multimedia home networks, allowing that all the multimedia content that can be used in a medium family can be exchanged between medias without any problems, from the mp3 to the hi-fi, to the computer, to the Tv, etc... One single broadband connection shared by a combinations of PCs and laptops.

Let's keep an eye on 2008
Wi-Fi Networking News: The Wi-Fi year in review 2007

Ooopps sorry, my tongue slipped, and instead of wishing a merry christmas, i have just wished a merry SMS ... Was it really a mistake?
During this season holidays, the overall SMS systems of the main GSM operators seamed to be totally collapsed by the quantity of SMSs being sent by people between themselves. It would be silly to associate this to a poor planning from the operators, but more an overall increase year by ear of mobile messages being exchanged between people.
My mobile seemed to become totally crazy between the 25 and the 26, as i have received messages almost continuously during the two days. Being all of them sent during the 24 evening. Text, Messages, Crazy musics and in some cases even videos, yes videos, whishing a merry christmas with silly characters with silly voices. Is this really necessary? Where are the traditional postcards?

One of the major problems that someone trying to keep a website/blog will find is, how to deal with the success of your blog, if it is not commercial, and you will not get any money for sold services?
As interest grows, so do costs, and at the end, most of the webmins will face is the impossibility to support operation costs...

It has been on my mind for a while on my mind to actually try to implement a ecommerce/shopping cart solution on my site, in order to be able to sell products related to wireless technologies.
As the name of the name says it, Open Ideas for Open Minds, i have been looking around for shopping cart software/services that would allow me to implement my cart...

Finally, I have been able to understand why some news where not being read at all, creating the wrong impression that actually no one cared about those topics It was actually a permission error that was denying the access to non registered and registered users to the view of the news.
The problem has now been solved.