Témoignages sur la VOIP (Voix sur IP) :
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802.11b le 24 novembre "To extrapolate only slightly, once Voice over IP (VOIP) phones are cheaply available to work over any Wi-Fi network in the next two years (or maybe next few months), and with embeded Jabber instant-messaging clients in the same device, we stop having to rely on cell data networks except for ubiquity and, perhaps, a predictable cost. (Cell companies aren't stupid: they certainly are testing the practicality of such devices now, as it would allow them to shift traffic off overloaded cell towers.)" 
Gammatron Vonage DigitalVoice : "Unlimited voice over IP, $40/month, you supply the broadband. I think I'm going to go ahead and get this, given their 30-day trial period, but I'm not 100% enthusiastic about it. It sounds awesome, you can take your VoIP router anywhere, and your phone just works, you can get your voicemail on the web, it works with Caller ID, call waiting, etc, and they've got generally good reviews on the broadband reports forums [qv]... but when I called the toll-free support number for questions, nobody answered. Not even a recorded message/phone menu system... it just rang and rang. Bad omen - if they can't provide service to people who want to sign up, how much service are they giving to customers who are already paying and have ditched their RBOC /ILEC service?" 
(21 nov 2002) Chronopolis NY essaye de le faire fonctionner avec un Tivo ! "Nick Denton had an interesting post the other day. I had checked out Vonage a while back. For whatever reason, I moved on. But I'm back, and curious. I would have the same problem Nick mentioned: TiVo. So, I figured I'd find out if indeed they were incompatible. I emailed Vonage customer service. 24 hours later, no response. Frustrated, I figured out the email address of Jeffrey Citron, the CEO, and blasted a pretty nasty message to him, at about midnight. Seven minutes later, he responded. Wow. You know he gets it. Rather than take offense, he apologized and made me feel better. I responded, and got a message back from him at 6:00 A.M. That's good service! And the reason I'll check them out again. BTW, Jeffrey tells me TiVo & Vonage do work together. MORE...
(30 nov 2002) Or, Maybe Not... Update to the Vonage story from a few days ago. I finally got a response to my original email that I sent on 11.19. On 11.23 the response that I got back from their support group read:"
"Dear David,
="/">Tivo is not compatible for the Vonage service. It will not dial out correctly."Well, there you have it. And oddly, I did not receive a response from their CEO when I forwarded the email to him. Hmmm..
tuesday, november 19Clash of the ultra gadgets
You may have noticed I've been on a gadget binge recently. Here's one of the costs, beside the damage to my financial balance. So I subscribed to Vonage, and plugged the box into my home network. I'm still a fan: good voice quality, cheap, and cuts down on the number of wires in the apartment. And, then, final component of the digital lifestyle, a TiVo box. I'm tired of missing West Wing and Six Feet Under, and I've never had the patience for VCRs. Only problem is TiVo needs to dial out to get program information, and Vonage doesn't allow modem calls. Drat. So it's back to Circuit City, if I can face the place again, to return the TiVo. And, I'm thinking, an HP Media Center PC in its place. According to my inhouse gadget consultant, Pete Rojas, they're selling well. And, then, that's it: no more gizmos for a while.
Everything isn't Under Control "Residential Voice over IP? Vonage.com is offering phone service over broadband connection with unlimited nationwide long distance for $40 a month. They're using a Cisco VoIP router which looks pretty cool - it can use a normal phone/cordless phone and it seems to have encryption capabilities. Without unlimited long distance its $25 a month and they toss in 500 unlimited minutes. Sounds great if it works. Now the question is can I plug a modem into it and dial up? [link] Hmm, 30 days free? Maybe I'll give it a try soon."
Sur Boing Boing (testimonial de Clay Shirky un invité sur la colonne de droite - "Clay Shirky is a hell of a P2Pundit, an educator, and a great provocateur. He's promised to fill the guestblog with groovy old rants from the dawn of the Web. He sez: "I write about the Internet. I'm currently working on figuring out new forms of social software." ) :
VoIP: Its Now
I have been experimenting with Voice over IP, and to my surprise, its just about ready for to prime time. I have been testing Vonage's VoIP service, and it comes close to the critical mix of simple, useful, and cheap. The key difference between Vonage and previous "You computer is your phone!" models is that now your phone can be your phone, thanks to Cisco's Analog Telephone Adapter, a box that takes a phone cable in the front and ethernet in the back and does pretty much exactly what you would expect a box that takes phone cable in the front and ethernet in the back would do.
The voice quality is good (though doing big file uploads in the background can make things get choppy, which takes some getting used to if you are in the habit of making calls while during long up/downloads.) Getting voice mail on the web is cool, being able to get a 415 number while living in 203 is cool, etc, but price is the killer app: $40/mo for an unlimited number of unlimited length calls in the US. Flat rate telephony at last.
The phone companies don't realize how close consumers are to treating voice as just another application on a data network.
posted by Clay Shirky at 2:13 PM
Mise à jour Mai 2003 : Après plus de 4 mois d'étude, une offre internationale mise au point à Paris (Ylang Telecom) pourrait voir le jour sous peu... Seriez-vous prêt à la tester ? Ecrivez-moi
