========================================================= ------- eWEEK.com VOIP UPDATE -------- ========================================================= October 11, 2004
========================================================= Sponsored by Covad Switch to Covad business-class VoIP and manage all of your communications from our award-winning Web-based dashboard. Save up to 40%, simplify your network and increase productivity - and it's unbelievably easy to manage. Call for your free Covad voice assessment today: 877-805-8850 http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1203-22-43-4482-135352-1 ========================================================= ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= 1. News: Microsoft to Muscle Deeper into VOIP? 2. Opinion: Microsoft's VON Announcement: Not VOIP? 3. Review: Covad Answers Call for Quality Service 4. Baseline: Say Hello to Your New Phone Company: You 5. News: Toshiba Unveils its First IP PBX 6. News: Interactive Voice Response Eases Drug Recall Visit eWEEK.com's VOIP Topic Center http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1203-22-43-4482-135355-1 ========================================================= VOIP Update ========================================================= 1. News: Microsoft to Muscle Deeper into VOIP? Microsoft is expected to play up Live Communications Server 2005, due out this month, as a key piece of its quest to conquer the telephony market. The company denies that a major push into VOIP switching is the news in its prime keynote scheduled for the Voice on the Net Show in Boston. Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch has the details. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1203-22-43-4482-135358-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. Opinion: Microsoft's VON Announcement: Not VOIP? VOIP Center Editor Ellen Muraskin can't figure out what Microsoft is going to announce at the Voice on the Net show, if not telephony links to its Live Communications Server. Is Microsoft ready to take on the VOIP market? http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1203-22-43-4482-135361-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. Review: Covad Answers Call for Quality Service The Covad VoIP vPBX managed telephony service offers excellent user tools, simplified user adds and changes, and surprisingly good voice quality--even over unmanaged Internet connections. Read the review here. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1203-22-43-4482-135364-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. Baseline: Say Hello to Your New Phone Company: You AT&T and MCI may think that Vonage, Skype and other Internet-based suppliers of telephone service are the outfits they must worry the most about, as the cost of a minute of calling plummets toward zero. However, large businesses may soon be their biggest competitors. If you can't envision your company being a communications provider, read on. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1203-22-43-4482-135367-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. News: Toshiba Unveils its First IP PBX Toshiba's Digital Solutions Division has announced its first IP PBX, the Strata CIX. Previous telephone switches have been "IP enabled" through gateways; this is the first to actually switch calls between IP extensions over a LAN or WAN. Get the details here. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1203-22-43-4482-135370-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. News: Interactive Voice Response Eases Drug Recall An IVR (Interactive Voice Response) application from Silverlink Communications helped one pharmacy chain easily comply with the recent recall of Merck's popular arthritis drug Vioxx. 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