Buy Data Connectivity and Your Voice Rides for Free?

2005-09-21T08:17:00.000-07:00

Are we getting to the point where there is a fundamental shift in how a company perceives buying voice and data services?

If you are a SOHO, midsize enterprise or even large enterprise you have been accustom to buying cheap access for internet from 1Mb DSL up to 10Gb and more. These are now being sold at very cheap flat rate prices. DS3 (45Mbps) services are going for as cheap as $500.00 per month!

Price per minute if bought wholesale by a SOHO or enterprise customer can either be free if you are lucky enough to peer with whom you call on the same peering fabric or the price per minute of voice is sub 1 cent virtually around the globe.

It is just a matter of getting together with the right company who knows how to navigate through the thousands of VoIP providers out there to see who has the most secure, reliable, and affordable rates. One who understands how to help choose the right approach to either integrate your existing Voice infrastructure (PBX, etc.) or replace it with the right IP based PBX solution.

By analyzing your companies monthy phone bills and working with the right consulting company, if you are spending from $10,000 or more a month you can potentially save more than 50% on voice. Savings that can "fund" the introduction of new technology based on IP and VoIP that can streamline your business and make your company run more efficiently, not to mention save lots of money.

This idea is very exiting! Comments?

Christian

Voice Over Networks - We are moving quickly into the tornado

2005-09-19T15:11:00.000-07:00

As I sit here at VON Fall 2005 http://www.von.com listening to Jeff Pulver talk about how IP communications is now the winner of the telecommunications race, talking about how the traditional TDM Voice and Cellular networks didn't work after Hurricane Katrina but VoIP did, I can't help but remember when my oldest friend Joe Garbus and I were working at Cabletron Systems in New York shoveling shared access 10Mb hubs into Merrill Lynch by the truckload. Financial services seeing the value in high speed networking.

There was one very completely outside of the box opportunity we chased with a guy name Tom Krone who sold a very lucrative chocolate manufacturing business to get into the business of delivering television, voice and data over DSL. This was back in the Fall of 1997 when most of the news about the "Internet" was about how unstable it was. AOL was seeing outages on a daily basis.

The gig required us to deliver video from 25 Broadway from a room with a video server uptown to Trump Tower over a DS3 ATM link to an Ethernet connected set top box. Joe and I had to work with NYNEX field support to get the DS3 link up and running. Joe and I spent more time in the basement of Trump Tower working on getting ready to demonstrate to potential investors the next day. NYNEX really didn't know what was really going on, what the potential was at the time. NYNEX looked at the opportunity to just sell ATM Circuits.

We worked throughout the night and finally after the last jumper was set to set the proper signaling on the Fujisu MUX, all of a sudden we were watching TV being delivered through an Acorn set top box connected to an Ethernet switch that connected to a DSL modem through a DSLAM that connected through ATM to 25 Broadway back to an ATM connected video Server.

Joe turned to me and said "I have seen the future".

Now I sit here today looking at the tornado in front of me to quote Geoffrey A. Moore in Crossing the Chasm. The companies that sit at this point in time get ready to do nothing but "Just Ship" their products.

Christian S. Horner