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  • The Future of Communications

    I thought it was a very good piece. with excellent clarity. It defines companies as falling into two groups. Plan ‘A’ and Plan ‘B’. The first are companies focussed on interoperability with the phone system. The second are pure computer-to-computer players. Santa Cruz Networks (my new company) is very definitely in the ‘Plan B’ space.…

  • VoIP – will regulation kill emerging services running on top of Broadband?

    Kevin Werbach continues to comment with great clarity on the threat to new communications applications for broadband posed by the FCC’s poor understanding of the seperation of transport from services made possible by Broadband growth. It’s here.

  • PC Magazine Editors Choice for VidiTel

    Check out the PC Mag review of Video Conferencing products. It’s here. VidiTel did great, winning the editors choice. Here’s a key sentence: “Santa Cruz Networks’ VidiTel offers the best combination of features and quality for business users. It works seamlessly through most corporate firewalls, supports large multiperson meetings, and includes a variety of communication…

  • Robin Good Interview

    I did an interview with Robin Good. It’s here. Incidentally Good’s site is a great resource if you are interested in IP communications. And a great use of Moveable Type.

  • Telecoms as a subset of the Internet

    Kevin Werbach nailed it today: “There’s a there there ‘ENUM and SIP. Two acronyms that mean nothing unless you’re a Net-savvy telecom geek (like yours truly). Word to the wise: pay attention. These are the bridges between the the world of telephony and the world of the Internet. People like Jeff Pulver and James Seng…

  • 2000 video and voice over IP subscribers, $50k

    Check this out. One of these boxes supports 2000 subscribers. If you charged only $50 per head per month for unlimited video and voice over IP a fully subscribed box would generate 50x2000x12 – that $1.2m a year. Even after bandwidth and hosting fees are taken into account you have a great business. Santa Cruz…

  • Communications Revolution

    Dave said: “I told Doc tonight at dinner that I think we’re at the cusp of a communication revolution”. OK I sooooo agree with this. When I helped start EasyNet in 1994 there were only 2 ISPs in the UK. It cost us $50,000 to start the company. Becoming an ISP was suddenly within reach…

  • 4G Wireless – IP based mobile communications

    From The Register “The second factor in 3G’s fate is, of course, whether 3G networks take off at any significant level at all, or whether they will be marginalized by Wi-Fi/WiMAX and by the advent of IP-based 4G.” It seems clear that 2G, 2.5G and 3G wireless are simply staging posts to broadband wireless with…

  • Kevin Werbach on VoIP

    http://werbach.com/blog/2003/09/12.html#a1163 Kevin has a number of posts – of which this is the latest – defining 2005 as “The year of VoIP”. I think he is right. This Bell Canada announcement is equally a signpost. As is this interview with Vint Cerf. I can’t help thinking that voice is only one component of a communications…

  • NWFusion article on Real Time Communications (RTC)

    “Santa Cruz Networks is looking to give service providers the ability to offer video, voice, messaging and presence applications with its Multi-point Real-Time Communications (RTC) Platform, announced this week at the Always On 2003 Summit in Palo Alto, Calif. ” Good overview article on Santa Cruz Networks RTC Platform in Network World