Tuesday, February 15, 2005|
My presentation @ NARUC today.... ...is available for download by clicking here.
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(posted using EVDO while onboard Delta Shuttle flight 1964.) [The Jeff Pulver Blog]12:38:12 AM 
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Xten's new LiveEye XCAP server wins Product of the Year Award. Customer Inter@ction Solutions Magazine selects Xten for Product of the Year Award.
Xten's new eyeBeam 1.1 SDK is now shipping with the LiveEye XCAP server source code and binaries for Linux and BSD operating systems. The new eyeBeam v1.1 SDK makes use of XCAP (XML Configuration Access Protocol) for storage of centralized buddy lists and remote configuration routines. The eyeBeam SDK also comes with a basic Presence Agent module for SER [SIP express Router by iptel.org].
XCAP servers and Presence Agents are necessary components for any carrier or enterprise looking to build an Instant Messaging infrastructure using Open Standards. One of the big selling points of XCAP is that it allows buddy lists to be stored centrally rather than on the local machine. WebDAV also performs this function and is another technology supported in the eyeBeam 1.1 SDK.
We are delighted to see the LiveEye XCAP server winning these awards. This is one of the only XCAP servers available today, winning this award says a great deal about Xten's commitment to new open standards technology and the quality of our work.
We felt it was important for Xten to ship a free XCAP server with eyeBeam 1.1, mainly for testing purposes. Alternative XCAP servers are few and far betwen and very costly. Xten will eventually contribute this server to the open source community and the company does not foresee supporting this product commercially.
This is the second Product of the Year Award Xten has won for 2004. The first award was for the eyeBeam 1.1 Softphone and SDK presented by Internet Telephony Magazine, both are very well respected publications in the industry. [SIPthat.com]12:34:17 AM
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Xten Completes SIP Softphone Offering with IM, Presence and Contact List Management Using SIMPLE, XCAP & WebDAV. Wins Product of the Year Award. [SIPthat.com] 12:33:48 AM
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Logical Exchange Launches Global VoIP Service from $4.95. Another happy Xten customer...
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"By offering an affordable Internet phone service to the global market including developing countries, INX has created a new model for international telephone communications," said Jon Lowry, CEO of Logical Exchange. "Unlike our competitors, our service is designed to be available virtually anywhere the Internet is accessible and to allow our subscribers to sign up and make calls within minutes." [SIPthat.com] 12:33:27 AM
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VoIP & WiFi. Hmm, you have to wonder if these stand alone VoWLAN phones will grow the legs required before 3G hits. If we are getting 200-400 Kbps on a mobile phone, PDA and alike who will want to cart around yet another device to get the same service? I have toted my fair share of devices around and I can safely say, unless it's small enough and does it all, I ain’t interested. Give me a Dual mode Pocket PC / GSM device with a SIP softphone anyday. [SIPthat.com]12:32:37 AM
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Google gets Voogle. Well I guess it was inevitable, Google has seemingly alluded to its plans to get into VoIP and IP communications.
It would make perfect sense for the big G to build and IM client with VoIP, Video and Presence. Their massive appeal could amount to tens of millions of end points will little effort. Another competitor for Skype, let's hope they choose to go with open standards! [SIPthat.com] 12:31:44 AM
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Xten Linux Softphone - Big Hit!. Wow! is all I can say. When I posted the news about the Xten Linux softphone beta here about a month ago I did not expect the avalanche of requests to join that beta program that soon followed and continue today.
With this in mind the production version of the free SIP softphone "X-Lite" for Linux will be made available on or about Valentine's Day [Feb.14]. Until then, all of you early-early adopters can send your requests to linuxbeta at xten.com in order to get into the beta program, we could sure use your help kicking the bugs out.
Early summer 2005 you will see the eyeBeam SDK for Linux [plus Mac OS X, Windows SDK available now].
We have lots in store for 2005, some VERY exciting projects that will have global impact, stay tuned for that. [SIPthat.com]12:30:14 AM
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Companies to Demo Wi-Fi, GSM Roaming. A group of companies that have banded together to work on mobile voice over IP will be demonstrating handoffs between GSM and Wi-Fi voice over IP networks at the 3GSM conference: BridgePort, IBM, PCTEL, and Verisign are some of the companies involved in a group called MobileIGNITE which is supporting this type of roaming. These companies are supporting Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), a commonly used voice over IP interface, to deliver voice over Wi-Fi. It appears that these companies are mainly targeting enterprise or government users. So the end users might have a combined Wi-Fi/cellular phone and with this solution, they could use the handset to make and take voice calls over their corporate WLAN. This is different than the companies involved with UMA, which allows roaming between Wi-Fi and cellular networks but relies on existing components of the cellular network in order to allow for authentication and billing and other services. I've long thought that while the idea behind what MobileIGNITE is doing is good, the mobile operators will resist it. They would much rather support Wi-Fi/cellular roaming the UMA way, where they have the most possible control over the call from end to end. They want to charge for every voice minute, whether the voice call is handled over Wi-Fi or GSM. But from what I understand about Bridgeport's model, the MobileIGNITE companies want to offload voice traffic onto the enterprise WLAN because it's cheaper for the company to support those minutes than pay the GSM operator. Enterprises will have to work out the cellular/Wi-Fi roaming with their mobile operator in order for this to work and that negotiation is one that I think will be difficult.... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 12:25:02 AM
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