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June 14, 2004

Monday Morning VoIP BUZZ

Earlier this year, I've started tracking the buzz surrounding VoIP as measured by Google.

This morning there were: 4,480,000 webpage hits on VoIP and 2,970 news stories.

This is an increase of 470,000 website hits since I checked on May 5th.

I expect the VoIP News Buzz to grow this week with the US Senate Hearing focusing on VoIP taking place on Wednesday followed by the commencement of Supercomm 2004 next week.

I expect the VoIP Buzz noise level will reach new heights next week.

Posted by jeff on June 14, 2004 08:11 AM | Permalink

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Comments

Congratulations on a very sucessful VON. I've seen quite a bit of favorable press about the VOIP in the last few days. One thing I find a bit troubling is that all the emphasis in these articles is about saving a few pennies on long-distance calls. Nobody seems to be talking about how much better 8khz ulaw sounds when one does it directly beteen two VOIP phones, instead of sending a low-level analog signal over 1000's of feet of wire. VOIP already can sound better than POTS. The journalists really need to hear how good end-to-end VOIP can sound.

Why not get rid of the harh sounding ulaw encoding and go for 16bit-8khz? Do you think it would be possible to convince the phone makers like Grandstream and Zyxel to include an optional 16-bit 8khz setting?

VOIP could be the the choice of the high-end crowd, where cost ins't as much of an issue as quality. It is unfortunate that all the emphasis is on the other end of the spectrum.

Posted by: Wolfgang Rupprecht at June 14, 2004 01:35 PM