Overview: Wireless Technology is now becoming a force in the last-mile broadband access arena. Exciting new standards, like WiMAX, are helping to shift the economics of broadband to make it cheaper than ever to deploy. However, it’s obvious that with the increasing “arms race” of broadband data-offerings, it’s only a matter of time before the data-only broadband operator becomes a commodity.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) – is being billed as the next “killer app” that will drive the broadband market. Asterisk, an open source PBX implementation, is poised to revolutionize the VoIP market.
Appia Communications, has been providing integrated IP-Centrex VoIP services on the Cisco Unity Platform since 2001 (in fact,
CTI made them a
Cisco Case study)
Jeremy McNamara, who worked with Mark Spencer to help develop the
Asterisk platform
, operates the NuFone Network, one of the first commercial providers of IAX VoIP services.
DLS Internet has used the Asterisk platform to offers a bundled wireless data & VoIP offering to several thousand customers throughout the Northwest Chicagoland area.
Let’s discuss further the implications and implementation of VoIP on broadband wireless networks.
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