From editor@telecom-digest.org Thu May 13 01:04:12 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i4D54Cw08284; Thu, 13 May 2004 01:04:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 01:04:12 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200405130504.i4D54Cw08284@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #238 TELECOM Digest Thu, 13 May 2004 01:04:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 238 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson TI Spells Future 'VoIP' - Chipmaker Counting on Boost (VOIP News) IP-Based Softswitches are the Key to Successful Carrier VoIP (VOIP News) Residential VOIP Will Boom, Says Study (VOIP News) Ottawa Gets Another Internet-Based Telecom Service (VOIP News) Telephony's VoIP: Service Provider Strategies Conference (VOIP News) VoIP Is `Killer' Application to Drive Wireless Development (VOIP News) VoIP Competition will Negatively Impact Revenue of U.S. LECs (VOIP News) Cell Phone Service Taps Into Net For VoIP (VOIP News) Cox Communications Issues a White Paper: Voice Over Internet (VOIP News) Re: Canada to Criminalize Watching Foreign TV and Radio (Geoffrey Welsh) Video Messaging on 3G Mobile Phones (sqm89805) Phantom Cell Phone Call. What's Going On ...? (zerge) Wireless FireWire (Monty Solomon) Window Smashed; Data Lost (Monty Solomon) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. 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TI makes chips for phones that use VoIP, for broadband modems that can route VoIP data throughout the home and for the equipment used to handle multiple VoIP lines. The company also sells VoIP software based on technology it acquired in 1999, when it bought a small Maryland company, Telogy Networks, in a $455 million stock deal. That acquisition, plus TI's investments in smaller, faster chips, is beginning to pay off. Full story at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/051204dnbusti.3d110.html How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/ ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 04:32:41 -0400 Subject: IP-Based Softswitches are the Key to Successful Carrier VoIP Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.convergedigest.com/blueprint/ttp04/z2utstar1.asp?ID=135&ctgy=2 by Bill Huang, CTO UTStarcom Over the last ten years, a big change has been taking place in the Central Office (CO). Originally designed to initiate, terminate, route, and manage Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) voice calls, COs today handle an ever-growing amount of data traffic. At the same time, many TDM voice users are migrating to wireless voice, either for cost or convenience. While data traffic grows at double- and triple-digit rates on most carrier networks, the growth of TDM voice traffic is stagnating. This change in network traffic has resulted in a fundamental shift within the telecom industry to migrate from Class 5 telephony switches to next-generation IP-based softswitching. Service providers and carriers around the world have already announced plans to adopt softswitching as the foundation for their CO infrastructure moving forward. Verizon recently made public a five-year plan to migrate its legacy switching architecture to IP-based softswitch technology, with plans to spend more than $3 billion to expand its broadband service capacity to be able to support VoIP services for both businesses and consumers. Analyst firm Infonetics Research reports that softswitch revenues will grow approximately 50% in 2004. Full story at: http://www.convergedigest.com/blueprint/ttp04/z2utstar1.asp?ID=135&ctgy=2 ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:32:07 -0400 Subject: Residential VOIP Will Boom, Says Study Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=52620 In a new report, research firm Frost & Sullivan says explosive growth in the North American residential voice-over-IP (VOIP) market during the next three years will be accompanied by a 77-fold increase in sales of 'endpoints' -- that is, analog telephone adapters (ATAs), VOIP residential gateways, IP phones, and session initiation protocol (SIP) phones. That's good news for companies like Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) and Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT - message board), which make ATAs, the little boxes that connect an analog telephone to a broadband modem. D-Link Systems Inc. and Telco Systems (BATM) will also benefit as suppliers of VOIP residential gateways, which are like ATAs with built-in routers. But ATA and gateway makers will eventually face stiff competition from vendors like Clarisys and Grandstream Networks Inc., which make IP and SIP phones -- handsets that don't require an adapter box to link to a broadband connection. Frost & Sullivan predicts that sales of residential VOIP endpoints in the U.S. and Canada will grow from $9 million last year to $700 million in 2007. Right now, ATAs account for most of those sales, since few consumers are ready to throw out perfectly good analog phones, and popular residential VOIP service providers like Vonage Holdings Corp. supply ATAs to all of their customers (see Vonage Claims VOIP First ). "The ATA will probably remain the dominant device for at least another year or so," says Jon Arnold, a Frost & Sullivan analyst and author of North America Residential VOIP Market: Everybody's Talking at Me. Full story at: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=52620 ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:39:54 -0400 Subject: Ottawa Gets Another Internet-Based Telecom Service Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/281479465540273.php By Leo Valiquette, Ottawa Business Journal Staff New Jersey firm Vonage has arrived in Ottawa with a new Internet-based telecom service to rival a similar offering from Primus Telecommunications Canada and put more pressure on traditional phone companies. Vonage's new service, available at www.vonage.ca provides bundled telecom services through the 613 area code. The services are offered over a Voice over Internet Protocol network, which offers voice and data services over a high-speed Internet connection. The push is on to sign up consumers for VoIP at the expense of the traditional fixed line phone services that remain the mainstay of incumbent phone companies such as Bell Canada and Telus. Full story at: http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/281479465540273.php ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:17:28 -0400 Subject: Telephony's VoIP: Service Provider Strategies Conference Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040512005670&newsLang=en Telephony's VoIP: Service Provider Strategies Conference Debuts in Chicago with Strong Line-up of Key Industry Leaders CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2004--Voice over IP (VoIP) is poised to dramatically change the telecommunications landscape, offering potential benefits to both end users and service providers alike. Telephony Magazine and Shorecliff Communications today announced the conference agenda and speaker line-up for their VoIP: Service Provider Strategies Conference, Monday, June 21 at the Embassy Suites Hotel Chicago-Downtown. The event will feature keynote addresses by Oliver Valente, Vice President Technology Development for Sprint Corp.; Jack Waters, CTO & President of Voice Technologies, Level 3 Communications; Jeff Pulver, President & CEO, Free World Dialup & pulver.com; and Dale Fox, Vice President of Digital Phone, Time Warner Cable. These addresses along with technology- and marketing-focused educational tracks will detail the realities of VoIP deployments for carrier networks and cover areas such as softswitch deployments, emerging applications, network transitioning, Voice over WLAN and regulatory developments. The show will also provide attendees with networking opportunities and the chance to exchange ideas with event sponsors and exhibitors including Tekelec, NetRake, VeriSign, and VocalData. Full press release at: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040512005670&newsLang=en ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:15:47 -0400 Subject: VoIP Is the `Killer' Application to Drive Wireless Development Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com [Comment: The second paragraph of body text (the one that begins, "WiMAX is seen by many as an indicator and also a driver in the market for VoIP applications"), in my opinion deserves special notice, as perhaps the most confusing paragraph I've read yet in a press release. If Lewis Carroll had written press releases, he might have come up with something like this ... on an incredibly bad day, perhaps!] http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-12-2004/0002172752&STORY&EDATE= Market Research Report Offers Comprehensive Forecasts and Strategic Analysis of All Growing Wireless Component Technologies, Relates Them to Protocols and International Standards, and Reviews Their Relationships with Economic and Political Driving Forces MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- West Technology Research Solutions, LLC ("WTRS"), a market research firm focusing solely on emerging wireless technologies, today announced the availability of their just released, expanded Comprehensive Wireless Component Market Report, that provides a comprehensive review of wireless components spanning WAN technologies and protocols to PANs and Sensors. It compares and explains the relationships between technologies and protocols including UWB, Bluetooth, 802.15.4, ZigBee, 3G, 4G, WiMAX, 802.11a through g, and 802.20. "WiMAX is seen by many as an indicator and also a driver in the market for VoIP applications. We are now at the intersection of wireless rapid data transfer and communication, realizing the final link, the Golden Spike, the saxum medium, the Key Stone: voice as data, Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP. In the near future, invariably and inevitably, VoIP will replace switched telephony, i.e. it will eliminate and replace a complete stratum of our infrastructure that has served us so well for over one hundred years: the telephone. To be frank about this, we simply will no longer have need of it," said Kirsten West, one of the principals of WTRS. "Now that the significance of VoIP and its threat to telecommunications is becoming clear, the genie is out of the bottle, and the proverbial horse has left the barn. The FCC wants to keep the decision in the market place, that sphere of the survival of the fittest. Such an outcome would give the advantage to cable operators, the likes of AT&T, but also the `little guy', the average person looking to reduce and finally eliminate the barriers of regulations and fees. The losers would be the telecommunication market and industry and that incredibly layered maze of service providers and hangers-on: federal, state, local taxes, fees, and their bureaucratic infrastructure, attached like remoras to the mouth and underside of a shark." West estimates that, given a 4% global GDP growth rate, annual shipments for WiMAX chipsets will exceed $2.2 billion in 2008. The Comprehensive Wireless Component Market Report and Analysis provides sales volume, unit shipments, and average selling price by area network (WAN, MAN, LAN, PAN, and Sensors) as well as by the protocols and technologies within each area network from 2004 through 2009. In addition, it provides technology driver & shift analysis, analysis of technologies and standard protocols, summary and analysis of parent activity for each area network, economic indicator and geographic analysis, and general industry analysis. This 115-page report has 81 tables and 62 graphs. About West Technology Research Solutions, LLC West Technology Research Solutions, LLC (d.b.a. WTRS), is a market research and consulting company focused solely on new and emerging wireless technologies. WTRS's unique approach generates market forecasts using macro- economic methodologies that provide historically more accurate forecasts. Areas of expertise include wireless technologies, macroeconomic forecasting, and semiconductor technology. Services include comprehensive market research reports, concise market briefings, targeted industry assessments, monthly wireless technology newsletters, custom research and consulting, and custom channel marketing & sales program development. For more information, contact West Technology Research Solutions at info@westtechresearch.com or 650-940-1196. Contact: Karin Hall Company: West Technology Research Solutions Title: Principal Phone: 650-940-1196 Email: khall@westtechresearch.com This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information, visit http://www.ereleases.com. ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:24:05 -0400 Subject: VoIP Competition Will Negatively Impact Revenue of U.S. LECs Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.telecomdirectnews.com/do.php/105/7410 The deployment of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies by U.S. telecom competitors will materially erode local exchange revenues over the next decade, according to a new study by Fitch Ratings. Fitch estimates that VoIP will represent approximately 10 million lines by 2008, resulting in a projected annual revenue loss of more than $7 billion for the local exchange carrier industry. Using 2003 as a base year and analyzing key data and trends for the industry, Fitch believes VoIP erosion could lead to a local exchange-based EBITDA reduction of 7 percent by 2008. VoIP offers a more flexible and cheaper alternative for voice calls than the switch technologies utilized by the local carriers. Full story at: http://www.telecomdirectnews.com/do.php/105/7410 ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:55:38 -0400 Subject: Cell Phone Service Taps Into Net For VoIP Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.internetwk.com/allStories/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20300657 By W. David Gardner, TechWeb News Cell-phone users can make calls over the Internet using a technology developed by i2 Telecom International. The company said the service works with all popular cell-phone services. "You just make a call from your cell phone to your i2 Telecom box at home," said the firm's Rick Scherle in an interview Wednesday. "And we hook you onto the Internet." Scherle, who is i2 Telecom's senior vice president of marketing, said the service will be available when shipments of the company's new InternetTalker MG-3 begin next month. The patent-pending technology behind the feature is embedded in the InternetTalker, which connects to existing broadband phone lines and Web connections at users' homes or offices. When a user dials into his home number, the InternetTalker recognizes the cell phone caller ID and immediately links the caller to the VoIP network. The InternetTalker can recognize up to three cell-ID numbers. Full story at: http://www.internetwk.com/allStories/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20300657 ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:57:45 -0400 Subject: Cox Communications Issues a White Paper: Voice over Internet Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040512005881&newsLang=en --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ISSUE: With multiple trials and one commercial VoIP technology launch complete, Cox believes that VoIP is ready for prime time. How will this impact its telephone strategy for 2004 and beyond? NEWS: Today, Wednesday, May 12, Atlanta-based Cox Communications, Inc. announced it has published to its web site (www.cox.com/pressroom) a white paper outlining its telephony strategy and deployment of VoIP technology. PERSPECTIVE: VoIP technology has arrived. Driven in large part by Cox's commitment to customers and quality of service, Cox's VoIP architecture clearly differentiates the company from many other VoIP technology offerings that are currently available in the marketplace. -- With more than 1 million residential telephone customers and 100,000 commercial customer locations, Cox will continue to extensively leverage its back-office systems, experienced people and processes for further VoIP market launches - without stranding the capital it has invested in its circuit-switched operations. -- Cox will expand its phone service footprint via VoIP to commercial customers, thereby furthering its leadership position in voice amongst its peers in the commercial telecom marketplace. -- The regionally distributed architecture allows Cox to introduce phone services to customers in markets where the economics do not support the cost of a circuit-switched architecture. -- In the white paper, Cox outlines its strategy for deploying VoIP; highlights its VoIP architecture; examines cost comparisons of VoIP vs. circuit-switched technology; and highlights its success as a telecom provider. WHO: David Pugliese, vice president of product marketing and management will be available for interviews about VoIP, and Cox Communications' overall telephone strategy. WHERE: The white paper is available online at www.cox.com/pressroom. Contacts Cox Communications, Atlanta Bobby Amirshahi, 404/843-7872 bobby.amirshahi@cox.com or Laura Oberhelman, 404/269-7562 laura.oberhelman@cox.com ------------------------------ From: Geoffrey Welsh Subject: Re: Canada to Criminalize Watching Foreign TV and Radio Programming Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:08:49 -0400 Organization: Primus Canada Mark Crispin wrote: > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: [...] What would happen *today* if I > made that little trip and had a satellite radio I was carrying along? > Would it get confiscated, or would I have to turn it off and not > listen to it, etc? Are people in USA (or Canada) allowed these days > to travel back and forth to go to work or do shopping or has Bush (or > the Canadian authorities) put a stop to all that? No one would even notice your satellite radio, but you can't work across the border without a lot of paperwork. I've flown many times and driven a few times across the border (I'm a Canadian) on business in the past decade, and ridden a bus to Detroit to see a baseball game. In my experience, once you've proven who you are and that you are eligible to enter the country (and they determine that you're not likely a drug smuggler, etc.), the U.S. border guards are concerned about Canadians going into the States to work and will ask me about the nature of my business, trying to steer me towards the question, "why can't an American do that job?", i.e. if I don't have a green card I'll be turned back. One of my colleagues was detained and theen turned back at Toronto's Pearson airport. The Canadian border guards, on the other hand, seem to be more concerned with how much I bought in the U.S. because there are limits (based on the amount of time I spent out of the country) to how much I can import. At no point does anyone ask about relativly unimportant (compared to catching criminals, drugs, etc.) questions like what kind of radio or cellphone I'm carrying -- as long as I brought it with me and I plan to take it back with me. ------------------------------ From: sqm89805@yahoo.co.uk (sqm89805) Subject: Video Messaging on 3G Mobile Phones Date: 12 May 2004 13:03:52 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Hi Folks, What software is available for streaming video messaging on mobile phones? Many ads are appearing in papers where moving video pictures(adult content etc) can be downloaded. Would like to better understand the mechanics and the software available to enable this. Thanks, Sqm ------------------------------ From: zerge@hotmail.com (zerge) Subject: Phantom Cell Phone Call; What's Going On ...? Date: 12 May 2004 14:44:16 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com This happened to me recently. Could anybody give a technical explanation? I'm in Mexico City, my cellular provider is Telcel. I have a Nokia 3320, and my wife has a Motorola C200. So, I'm sitting in a doctor's waiting room, and my cell phone rings. I look at the caller ID, and I see that it's my wife. Except that my wife is sitting in front of me, and I can see she is not calling me. Her cell phone is in her purse, on the floor. I answer the phone, and hear only faint static. Not really white noise, more like the tiny sounds a phone makes when nobody is talking. I hang up. The phone call stays recorded in my call log. Then my wife opens her purse and takes out her cell phone. Two facts: she does not have my cell phone, or any other number, programmed into her phone, and my cell phone was not the last number she dialed. So that rules out an accidental call. Plus the phone was inside the purse, not being moved or manipulated in any way. She checks her call log, and there is no call to my cell phone registered. She puts away her phone, but checks again 10-15 minutes later; the call log, and then the call to my cell phone was recorded, exactly at the time it happened. Pretty darn weird. Before I consider any Twilight Zone explanations, do any of you have a logical, technical explanation for this phenomenon? Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 23:14:44 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Wireless FireWire 1394 Trade Association Approves New Wireless Protocol Adaptation Layer; "Wireless FireWire" Product Development Set to Move Forward Also Sets Liaison with WiMedia Alliance to Collaborate on Future "Wireless FireWire" Specifications Dallas, May 10, 2004 -- The 1394 Trade Association today approved the new Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) for IEEE 1394 over IEEE 802.15.3, which enables new "Wireless FireWire" product development that will let consumers easily connect wireless electronics components to each other and to the wired home entertainment network. The Trade Association's Board of Directors approved the PAL specification developed by its Wireless Working Group, chaired by Peter Johansson. The PAL is designed as a standard convergence layer between the 802.15.3 MAC and applications developed for wired 1394. It builds upon the 1394 infrastructure -- for example, data formats, connection management schemes and time synchronization procedures -- and takes advantage of the excellent quality of service (QoS) available in 802.15.3. Adaptation of the 1394 infrastructure to 802.15.3 makes possible the reuse of existing middleware for audio and video streaming and other multimedia applications. http://1394ta.org/Press/2004Press/may/5.10.a.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 00:21:29 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Window Smashed; Data Lost David Lazarus A thief smashed the rear window of Larry Saltzman's Saab not long ago and stole his gym bag, a gold watch, credit cards, a few hundred dollars and the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of about 95,000 Bay Area residents. At issue -- yet again -- is the question of whether people's personal information can ever be truly safe once it's handed to an outside contractor, as a local insurer did with Saltzman. A series of thefts involving confidential data in recent months suggests that no matter how extensive a company's security measures may be, they can be easily undone by human error, negligence or random circumstances. Consumers, in turn, face the very real possibility of their personal info falling into the wrong hands. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/12/BUG8O6JPV71.DTL ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. 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