It looks like Jeff has sprung another one on the Phone industry. By linking Asterisk servers he has created what looks to me to be a IAX clearing house. Not sure where the P2P is here apart from the servers being linked by Bellster.

“The Bellster challenge for 2005 is to find out whether or not there are still people in the world who would let total strangers place noncommercial phone calls for free in exchange for the ability to do the same thing themselves,” Pulver said in an e-mail.

This sounds a little reminiscent of the MicroTelco concept introduced by many including Quicknet and others several years ago. At any rate it’s always good to see disruptive technology put to good use 🙂

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Well I guess it was inevitable, Google has seemingly alluded to its plans to get into VoIP and IP communications.

It would make perfect sense for the big G to build and IM client with VoIP, Video and Presence. Their massive appeal could amount to tens of millions of end points will little effort. Another competitor for Skype, let’s hope they choose to go with open standards!

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Belkin Partners with Xten Networks to Implement callEverywhere Broadband Phone Service SoftPhone

COMPTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 19, 2005–Belkin Corporation, in conjunction with iNuntius, a provider of VoIP technology, announce their collaborative partnership with Xten (OTCBB:XNWK), a provider of Advanced VoIP, Video, Instant Messaging and Presence SIP softphone SDKs (Software Development Kits). Belkin and iNuntius, codevelopers of callEverywhere(TM) Broadband Phone Service, have licensed a private-label version of Xten’s X-PRO SIP softphone SDK for integration and deployment with Belkin’s recently announced callEverywhere SoftPhone. The callEverywhere SoftPhone is software that allows users to make calls with just their broadband Internet connection, PC microphone, and PC speaker.

“We are excited to be working with Belkin to further expand their callEverywhere service,” comments Erik Lagerway, President and CEO of Xten Networks, Inc. “Belkin’s vast distribution channels reach into the largest retail chains, which will give them the edge in the broadband telephony market.”