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Verizon vs. Vonage on patents -- consensus growing on "direct media" issue

Posted by Mark Lindsey

Consensus is growing among some system implementors that Verizon's patents for calling to PSTN and VoIP endpoints is tightly coupled to "direct media". This article discusses the three claims on which Vonage was found infringing and how it relates to other hosted VoIP carriers, like those using MetaSwitch, Sylantro, or BroadSoft. US Patent 6,104,711, Claim 20 talks about making calls directly t...

Is VoIP there yet?

Posted by Mark Lindsey

Voice over IP is obviously big seller these days. Everybody wants to do it. But is VoIP really there yet? I mean, can you depend on it the way you rely on traditional telephony? There are some simple reasons to expect not: The systems are all very new. Joel Spolsky makes strong points that it takes about ten years for software to mature to being truly useful. The feature set is very ric...