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- Packet8 shows profitability is achievable in pure-play VoIP
- Arguably, the three highest profile, full-fledged VoIP services to flash across our radar screen in the last year or two have been SunRocket, Vonage, and 8x8' s Packet8 service.SunRocket, of course, is gone. Vonage, which traded yesterday at an all-time-low of $1.86 a share, is a money loser with a...
- Tags: Vonage, Packet 8
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- EXCLUSIVE: Interview with SunRocket preferred provider TeleBlend distribution partner's CEO
- TeleBlend is one of two "preferred" VoIP service providers suggested by Sherwood Partners, which is handling SunRocket's dissolutionWith more than a week since the shutoff, and former SunRocket customers still transitioning to new homes, I thought it might be interesting to check in with someone on the TeleBlend side for...
- Tags: News, Packet 8, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Reader:recommendation by SunRocket like tobacco company suggesting cancer MD
- Re the above-- YA THINK?And the bricks keep on being tossed on the gravestone:Reader Phil from Fairfax County Virginia in the D.C. suburbs writes to tell me briefly considered switching from the deceased SunRocket to either TeleBlend or Packet 8.Yet it was the manner in which SunRocket left its subscribers...
- Tags: Packet 8
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Reader: transferred from SunRocket to TeleBlend and I am still waiting
- Just a few minutes ago, I received an email from a reader who has been attempting to transfer his VoIP service from the now-discontinued SunRocket to TeleBlend.Along with 8x8's Packet8 service, TeleBlend is one of the two "recommended service providers" suggested by SunRocket creditors as a successor service to their...
- Tags: Providers, Packet 8
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- SunRocket creditors announce two preferred providers: Vonage takes big hit
- As has been rumored ever since SunRocket went belly up Monday, their creditors have signed deals with former SR competitors 8x8 and Unified Communications Corp. to be "preferred service providers" for SR's 200,000 orphaned customers.The deal has to be good for 8x8, and its Packet 8 service. Normal start up...
- Tags: Vonage, Predictions and Observations, Packet 8, News
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- So why is SunRocket's site still up? Here's why
- I guess the few remaining SunRocket employees had to pack up and leave so darn quickly on Monday, no one had time to put up a placeholder on the site saying no new orders are being accepted, and as a matter of fact, we're gone.You would have thought that, anyway.But...
- Tags: Predictions and Observations, Packet 8, News
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Here's where many of those orphaned SunRocket users will go
- Now I know why SunRocket instituted their $199 a year plan. Perhaps not so much as a clever competitive marketing strategy but as a desperate move to raise cash.Not enough cash was raised to sustain operations, or even to capture the interest of a lender or buyer.With the shutdown of...
- Tags: Predictions and Observations, Packet 8
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Packet 8 takes leap forward with customized recording services
- In what I view as a promising and useful extension to Packet 8's enterprise-oriented VoIP service tools, the company has started to offer professional voice recording services to business users who subscribe to its 8,000-subscriber, Packet8 Virtual Office hosted iPBX phone service.Message3 on hold and voice production services vendor...
- Tags: Packet 8, Asterisk
- Blog posts 2007-07-14
- I'm finding Forrester correct about VoIP's complexity for non-tech types
- TMCNet reports that A study conducted by Forrester Research entitled "The VoIP Customer Experience: Work in Progress" finds that VoIP setup and related user interfaces are too complicated for many consumers. "Value, trust/security, presentation, and navigation are the key problems identified by this new study," writes...
- Tags: yahoo, Packet 8, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Via smart moves, Packet8 is growing its business sector
- Packet8 maker and marketer 8x8 reports that it now has more than 6,000 U.S.-based business customers.Trend lines seem to point to a diversification of the business beyond increasingly discounted residential service, to higher-margin business service.The lesson, at least to me, is that an appropriate message to business users- backed...
- Tags: General, Packet 8, 8X8, Packet8
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Alexa mashup site alexaholic lets you compare VoIP provider site traffic over time
- Ive been having a little fun with alexaholic, a type of Alexa mash-up that lets you compare estimated page view totals and traffic patterns for several websites over specific lengths of time.Lets compare relative page view rankings for Skype, Vonage, Packet 8, Gizmo Project and SunRocket site views over a...
- Tags: Web site development, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Alexa Internet Inc., mashup
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- Packet 8 CEO: don't confuse us with THEM. Me: OK, but only up to a point
- Bryan Martin, CEO of VoIP company 8x8 (Packet8), is quoted in a press release that appears to take pains to distinguish Packet8 from that big Internet telephony competitor of theirs whose name starts with a "V."Reading this document, it appears to have been precipitated by Martin's concerns that Vonage's legal...
- Tags: Packet 8, Packet8
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
- Packet 8 debuts several new calling features
- VoIP service provider Packet 8 introduced several new calling features today.These include: Voicemail to Email Notification - Receipt of an email each time a voice mail message is left. The email can be forwarded t another email addy. Find Me, Follow Me - Acombined hunting/multi-ringing feature that lets subscribers...
- Tags: Packet 8
- Blog posts 2006-02-02
- Packet 8 says they are bleeding money: I say they oughta sell to ...
- I've just read the 10-Q Quarterly Report from 8x8, Inc., known for its Packet 8 VoIP service. In light of Packet 8's loss of $5.4 million in the second quarter ending June 30, the Management Discussion section of the Report sounds like a major reality check. The Discussion is so...
- Tags: Packet 8
- Blog posts 2005-08-09
- While some VoIP providers scratch their heads, Packet 8 expands E911
- While other VoIP providers are trying to figure out E-911, Packet8 is actually doing something about it. That's because Packet 8 has technology in place that automatically routes emergency calls and provides visual "screen pops" of caller information to emergency personnel stationed at E911 dispatch centers.TMCnet.comreports that Packet8 has just...
- Tags: Packet 8, E911
- Blog posts 2005-02-18
Additional Resources
- Open source in a time of recession
- We face what my late friend Russell Shaw called "a shrinking water hole." Not every company will survive the drought. But open source as a business model will survive, because it's an adaptation that is meant for days like these. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Recession, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- How do I... Use templates to simplify network monitoring with Packet Analyzer?
- Packet Analyzer is one of the finest network traffic monitors available. This application is one of those tools that will quickly become your best friend in your network toolkit. One of the notable features available in Packet Analyzer is the ability to create templates. This is a boon to busy...
- Tags: Network, Network Monitoring, Jack Wallen, Networking
- Download resources 2008-10-06
- Orion VoIP Monitor (zip)
- VoIP Monitor enables you to measure and track performance of voice quality across WAN links. Leveraging Cisco IP SLAs, VoIP Monitor collects and analyzes VoIP performance statistics including MOS, jitter, network latency, packet loss, and other important quality of service QoS metrics. These features enable you to proactively find the...
- Tags: Performance, SolarWinds, VoIP Monitor, Telephony, VOIP, Performance Management, Telecommunications, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2008-10-06
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messagescheaper solutionJust get the logs from NSA, or run a joint operation...viztorThe U.S. does the sameIs there really much difference?Zillions of warrentless wiretaps. Deep packet inspection on the backbones.Getting search records from search companies for U.S citizens.U.S. laws broken repeatedly.Who are we to call the kettle...
- Tags: Tom-Skype, Chinese monitoring, Tom-Skype message, monitoring
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...
- Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
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