Comments on: Internet Telephony – Could it finally be taking off? http://blog.herlein.com/2009/08/internet-telephony-has-it-been-that-long-could-it-finally-be-taking-off/ - the musings of Greg Herlein Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:41:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: gherlein http://blog.herlein.com/2009/08/internet-telephony-has-it-been-that-long-could-it-finally-be-taking-off/comment-page-1/#comment-8 gherlein Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:19:36 +0000 http://blog.herlein.com/?p=15#comment-8 Jerrold, I've lost touch with you. Drop me an email. gherlein <at> herlein.com. Jerrold, I’ve lost touch with you. Drop me an email. gherlein herlein.com.

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]]> By: Jerrold Horgan http://blog.herlein.com/2009/08/internet-telephony-has-it-been-that-long-could-it-finally-be-taking-off/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Jerrold Horgan Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:40:40 +0000 http://blog.herlein.com/?p=15#comment-6 Hi Greg. As one of your (former) fellow QTI employees, I think part of the biggest problem was marketing/education. Firstly, I don't think, despite our best efforts, that we marketed enough and/or correctly. our product was lightyears beyond anything has done even today in VoIP (IMHO), yet I'm sure you know that just because something is technically superior, it doesn't necessarily sell. The second half of that was the education factor. We could easily show investors our technology and they would "get it" enough to invest, but ultimately I feel we failed to educate the public on the merits of investing $200+ for a card to put in their computer to make "free" phone calls.... Anyhow, just my short $.02 Hi Greg. As one of your (former) fellow QTI employees, I think part of the biggest problem was marketing/education. Firstly, I don’t think, despite our best efforts, that we marketed enough and/or correctly. our product was lightyears beyond anything has done even today in VoIP (IMHO), yet I’m sure you know that just because something is technically superior, it doesn’t necessarily sell. The second half of that was the education factor. We could easily show investors our technology and they would “get it” enough to invest, but ultimately I feel we failed to educate the public on the merits of investing $200+ for a card to put in their computer to make “free” phone calls….

Anyhow, just my short $.02

]]> By: Marc Abrams http://blog.herlein.com/2009/08/internet-telephony-has-it-been-that-long-could-it-finally-be-taking-off/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Marc Abrams Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:03:34 +0000 http://blog.herlein.com/?p=15#comment-3 Greg: the promise of wideband is great, but the main challenge will be that bandwidth costs money. The reason Service Providers use G.729 is that 5:1 compression allows 5x the number of calls in the limited bandwidth the SMB customers' Cable and DSL provides. If the players involved including venders, chipset providers, and especially Service Providers can actually agree on an adaptive wideband codec like AMR-WB or something new, that provides the HD voice experience and can sip-- instead of gulp-- bandwidth when necessary, the the promise of wideband can be realized. marc. Greg:

the promise of wideband is great, but the main challenge will be that bandwidth costs money. The reason Service Providers use G.729 is that 5:1 compression allows 5x the number of calls in the limited bandwidth the SMB customers’ Cable and DSL provides.

If the players involved including venders, chipset providers, and especially Service Providers can actually agree on an adaptive wideband codec like AMR-WB or something new, that provides the HD voice experience and can sip– instead of gulp– bandwidth when necessary, the the promise of wideband can be realized.

marc.

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