Peoplecall And Cisco Take The Telephony For Internet To The Residential Market

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PeopleCall and LINKSYS have launched a range of services of telephony for Internet without quotas or discharges and with discounts of up to 400 % opposite to the fixed traditional telephony. The solution allows the accomplishment of national and international calls and the sending of short messages to mobile from any place of the world, as well as the free communications between quipments of PeopleCall.

PeopleCall and Linksys, the division of consumption and SOHO of Cisco Systems, have initiated the marketing of a new service of telephony for Internet the one that the client only pays what he consumes opposite to the fixed traditional communications. The service is given on the equipments of VoIP (Voice over IP) of Linksys, which allow the connection of high speed to Internet. PeopleCall provides the service of telephony and offers to the clients a personal number 700, with additional lines, which they can support and use in any place of the world to receive and to realize called fixed and mobile telephones.



The user only needs a connection of broad band (ADSL, Cable, Satellite), a device Linksys with VoIP and the account of telephony for Internet facilitated free by PeopleCall to start realizing and receiving calls and ordering messages to mobile, without need of complex facilities to pay quota of discharge.



PeopleCall and Cisco think that in Spain exists a residential market capable of using their news services of telephony IP of 400.000 clients, which they expect to catch in the approximate space of two years.



About PeopleCall

Founded in 1999 in order to offer services of communications and telephony IP in the whole world, PeopleCall has turned into one of the groups with major international projection. The company possesses half a million users, commercializes her products in 43 countries and is in conversations with the principal operators of the continent with a view to the offer of a Flat European Tariff.

PeopleCall has been the unique European company of voice IP chosen for pulver.com, in 2004, to form a part of The Pulver100, the list that, every year, elaborates the group of telecommunications with hundred companies most distinguished from the market of Voice IP.



About Linksys

Linksys is a division of Cisco Systems specializing in networks of high quality and products for the market SOHO (small office/home office).



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This looks suspiciously like a press release.....

[k2]

no kidding, voip is already available to a lot of people. there's like 5 companies i could choose from in my area.

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there's like 5 companies i could choose from in my area.
That's kinda funny... considering that VOIP is location independent for the most part. :)
I've got Vonage right now and have been pretty happy with it. My girlfriend's family is from Germany and the international rates are sweet.

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hehe my city's wan is pretty unique. we have cable and fiber local loops; so 1 service provider = all local isps; etc. + bell + other companies that have local hardware.

theoritically we have a 100mbit wan for gaming. the co's are so backwards that they don't really see the potential of the wan.

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You have FTTP (fiber to the premise)? Cool. Verizon is rolling that out here in the DFW area. I'd like to have it but in my neighborhood I'm limited to Charter Cable 3M down/256K up.

Local infrastructure is typically shared. The ILEC's (SBC, Verizon, Bell South, etc.) control the infamous "Last Mile" to an end customer.... so it really doesn't matter who your service provider... your circuit will ride the ILEC's assets to one extent or another.

the co's are so backwards that they don't really see the potential of the wan.

I assume you are talking about the Central Offices? Everyone wants to save money and so traffic tends be aggregated at the C.O. and sent out over a less than optimal (to the customer anyway) pipe. 100 customers with 100 megabit service connected to the rest of the world through a DS1..... ha!

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yeah i know how the networks work, i used to be a noc tech for an isp. our setup is a little different because we have local loops in place for fiber/cable and even dsl in the core of the city because 1 isp is also a telco with lines in the area.

the cable / fiber is resold like it should be ... but the local loop allows it to potentially act as a wan; which the co's (companies) will not allow. they could create a private subnet :(

the priv subnet would create issues for routing and ip assignment; but it'd rock.

anyways, we're not talking about a ds1 line for the city; oc192 hardware and multiple ds3 lines from multiple backbone providers to various isps PLUS the local fiber wan and local wlan that goes for something like 20km/2.

cable is sourced from 1 company to the others thru the local loop switches. it's kinda neat. my office building has fiber/dsl/cable into 1 switch room. the boys beside me have a 512Kb/downstream while i have a 2Mb unmetered fiber feed :) [have 5Mb cable at home - costs $40cad, prices/service usually mirror rogers which is not available here]

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this reminded me of something that happened 2yrs ago .. our wan was targeted for a ddos (about 60MB/s). the wan handled it fine, but the isps didn't like it and at&t nulled my ips for a few days because i was in the targeted range. it sucked.

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anyways, we're not talking about a ds1 line for the city
Joking about the DS1... used to do capacity management for awhile....
oc192 hardware and multiple ds3 lines
Typical for Tier 1 markets.
but the local loop allows it to potentially act as a wan
Who is your provider? I've been out of the network business for about a year. I'm curious as to the product type you are talking about. Is it some form of shared switched gigabit ethernet over fiber (1000BaseSX or LX)?
at&t nulled my ips
Bad things....

The U.S. is way behind when it comes to broadband. I have a friend in Seoul, Korea that has a 100 Mbit connection in his apartment.

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well, the pipe to the fiber network comes from at&t, but the fiber local loop is owned/operated by the local hydro company (fiber child = gsti). you can get fiber wired into your home for the install fee, then it's roughly $100/per unmetered Mb + local loop fee.

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i'm not actually sure what kind of switches are used, i quit the isp job just as gsti happened and i'm not physically allowed in the switch room in my office's building.

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1000BaseLX I'd bet.
http://www.gstinetworks.com/solutions/Transparent_LANs_or_LAN_extensions/Transparent_LANs_or_LAN_extensions.asp
Pretty standard stuff. I wonder if they're using dedicated fiber or mapping gig-E circuits over SONET. I built a ring for Nokia in Dallas-Fort Worth using Cisco 15454 OC-48 and gig-E mappers.

It's cool that you can get that kind of service. The last company I was working for did an overbuild of the Fort Worth, TX CBD (central business district) fiber ring with 576 count cable and the last I heard it was still all dark. After five fooking years.

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I wonder if they're using dedicated fiber or mapping gig-E circuits over SONET.
Nevermind. They're using dedicated fiber or CWDM/DWDM. SONET is too expensive and you either have to build STS-12 or STS-24 connections for gig-E over SONET which means that you'd only get four 600 Mbit gig-E circuits/OC-48 system with full SONET protection best case. Without SONET protection you could map 8 circuits. For a local loop SONET really isn't cost effective.

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they're using dedicated fiber. a physical line is run for any install. a brilliant use of tax dollars went to giving a small community (500-1000 people) about an hour outside of the city fiber into every home. stupid decisions are made constantly.

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Wow... Greater Sudbury has a population of ~155,000 and you have that kind of infrastructure? Wow.