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Exploding Growth of WLAN Total global sales of enterprise WLAN equipment will rise from $1.46 billion in 2007 to $3.85 billion in 2012, Kwan predicted. The penetration rate of WLANs in enterprises will rise from 14 percent to 30 percent in that same peri

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:51:09 -0400

A P2P utility to share directories with other hosts on your network (and only there)
http://p300.eu/

iPhone, but Not Voice, to Help Drive Enterprise Wireless

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:49:42 -0400

Apple Inc.'s iPhone will play a significant role in boosting enterprise use of wifi, a new study by Dell'Oro Group has found. But that's not because the popular device lets employees make mobile calls more cheaply or easily by talking over the WLAN (wireless local area network), the report claimed. The reason, rather, is that the iPhone and devices like it will be an increasingly common and convenient means of accessing the Internet and enterprise applications. The use of voice over wifi in the enterprise will not become a major phenomenon for some time, according to Dell'Oro analyst Ben Kwan.

Siemens Partners Up, Acme Slides

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:49:02 -0400

I think this news got missed somehow (that'll teach me to go on vacation): Siemens AG has sold a majority share of its long-troubled enterprise telecom group to private equity firm The Gores Group LLC. Gores bought 51 percent of the business, and its partners say they'll invest 350 million euros in the joint venture not including R&D or normal business expenses. Siemens has been trying to sell its enterprise telecom business for years without success. Gores already controls telecom company Enterasys Networks Inc. (once known as Cabletron) and call-center company SER Solutions Inc. (founded as EIS International). Get the low-down on the deal here.

VoIP-Services Revenues Up 52 Percent, Average Revenues No Longer Plummeting

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:48:16 -0400

http://www.voip-news.com/feature/voip-revenue-up-081408/
It's been clear for some time that the VoIP-services business was changing significantly. A new Infonetics Research report now fills in some details about how and why it's changing. The report in fact makes it clear that the global industry has reached several turning points at once. The one thing that hasn't changed is that the business is still growing rapidly.

EchoLink® software allows licensed Amateur Radio stations to communicate with one another over the Internet

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:44:05 -0400

EchoLink^® software allows licensed Amateur Radio stations to communicate with one another over the Internet, using voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology. The program allows worldwide connections to be made between stations, or from computer to station, greatly enhancing Amateur Radio's communications capabilities. There are more than 200,000 validated users worldwide in 162 of the world's 193 nations with about 4,000 online at any given time.

Cheap Calls using VoIP with Truphone - Your Mobile VoIP Provider

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:42:11 -0400

Truphone saves you money on mobile calls by routing calls via the internet. We don't believe in roaming charges, so call prices are simple and low from anywhere on the planet (see how cheap mobile calls are with Truphone).

Asterisk VOIP

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:29:13 -0400

Original Website - http://www.asterisk.org/ Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD, Windows (emulated) and OS X and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in four protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.