VoIP News: February 2007

Telappliant invites you to VoIP for business 07 - The business communications event

The Exhibition

Meet all the leading enterprise business communications suppliers including Telappliant at stand 618 on 21-22 March 2007 at National Hall - Olympia. See and experience offerings spanning every important business need - Collaboration, Mobility, Unified Communications, VoIP and more! Take advantage of our special show-only offers and be the first to see our new service offerings.

Education Seminars

• Four FREE Education Seminar theatres:
  
• Collaboration & Conferencing Programme
  
• Teleworking & Mobility Programme
  
• Unified Communications & Messaging Programme
  
• VoIP Solutions Programm

VoIP for Business Briefing

Learn to apply VoIP and IP telephony to transform organisational effectiveness and business performance. Case studies on telecommuting, mobile working and customer contact applications, plus insights from industry experts on corporate adoption of VoIP, unified communications and other next-generation technologies.

IP Leaders: Business Models

Creating and Delivering Value as a Service Provider in the Digital Age

Confirmed speakers from: 3i, Amadeus Capital Partners, Analysys, Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Com, Telappliant, Easynet, Orange Business Services, PA Consulting Group, Skype, Telecom Italia Labs, The Cloud, Tiscali, Vonage UK, Yahoo! Inc...

For all established, new and aspiring communications service providers.

Posted on: 2007-02-23, in: Events

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Korea predicts smell over IP by 2015

The world of 'smellyvision' might not be as far away as we thought, according to a survey of 3,500 Korean researchers.

By 2015, the Ministry of Information and Communication in Korea said to the Korean Times that it should be possible to transmit smells through broadband pipelines.

In seconds, smells could be sent across the world digitally allowing users to experience new perfumes and atmospheres first hand.

Ryoo Pill-gye, a ministry director general explained the process of digitalising perfume to The Korea Times today.

"Its scent will be digitalised as numerous ones and zeros strung together before travelling through the internet to the computers of end users," Mr Ryoo said.

"Then, a dedicated cartridge incorporated into the computers will translate the numeric data to revive the perfume at any time and at any place."

Further developments highlighted by the survey included automated robot surgeons and mobile telephone batteries that could last up to two months.

Posted on: 2007-02-28, in: Broadband

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Nortel to demonstrate IPTV

Communications company Nortel is exhibiting their television-based home system at the IPTV World Forum next month.

Nortel's conference presentation aims to help consumers understand how IPTV can benefit their business.

VoIP, instant messaging, multimedia messaging and presence services will be channelled through Nortel's IPTV, creating improved business potential.

Users will have more control over their entertainment experience and service providers will have the new service margin and revenue enhancing potentials of the technology explained.

Experts from Nortel will demonstrate the capabilities of the IPTV industry for attracting new business and clients and generating more income.

George Riedel, chief strategy officer at Nortel, commented: "Nortel is focused on creating exciting new services through the convergence of communications and entertainment.

"We're enriching the TV experience for the next-generation of users by combining Nortel technologies with those of leading video providers to create a whole new set of IPTV applications."

The booth will showcase next-generation TV applications and middleware products, along with television interaction between mobile and fixed-line phones and personal computers.
Nortel has recently released a new communications system for use in hospital patient care.

Posted on: 2007-02-27, in: Broadband

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VoIP- Wi-Fi equipment sales to reach $82bn by 2012

New reports suggest that global VoIP over Wi-Fi equipment will see increased revenues of more than $82 billion in the next five years.

The North American market will see the largest revenue, with about $35 billion being traded annually, a report from Juniper Research claims.

Europe, the Middle East and Africa will generate a combined $23 billion and the Asia Pacific region will witness around $21 billion of revenue.

The majority of this revenue (around $68 billion) will come from dual mode VoIP over Wi-Fi/mobile phones, the report claims.

Single function handsets will only see revenues of around $1.5 billion by 2012, as consumers favour the dual function approach.

Author of the report, Basharat Hamid Ashai, commented: "The handset market is moving to a stage where no one wants to carry two or three devices in their pocket, so the ability to have a single device for all calls is a compelling proposition.

"Most single mode VoIP over Wi-Fi handset manufactures are actively either designing or planning to ship dual mode phones".

He also predicted that wireless mesh technology, for VoIP would increase over coming years.

Mesh networks allow a wireless node to set up a meshed environment in any location.

Posted on: 2007-02-26, in: VoIP Hardware

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