Put your ear to the railroad track, and you can hear it coming. Bobbin Beam's great article of this week on "HELLO??? WHERE IS MY TELEPHONE CALL GOING" explains so well -- AGAIN-- what many of us have been chronicling for years: the Internet is disrupting the comfortable state-of-affairs for...
Well, I hadn't either...so if you're like me, then you're about to learn something more about the demise of ISDN. You may or may not know that throughout most of Europe, ISDN had an earlier stronghold, was more widespread, and more a part of the hard-wire phone system than it EVER was in the...
This week's webinar featuring popular alternatives ipDTL, SoundStreak, and SourceConnect resurrected the sleeping sibling in this set of options. Close followers of this blog will recall my mentioning yet another ISDN alternative in earlier posts: ConnectionOpen.com See: The Search for ISDN's...
My ISDN lines were installed 5 years ago. I was giddy when my Telos XStream codec arrived. When I have a session, I'm grateful for the technology, but honestly...I'm starting to see ISDN as a ball 'n' chain. You know me...I like cutting edge. When I see something waning into oblivion...I want...
Free-market forces are having a heyday in anticipation of ISDN's eventual downfall. If you've spent any time at all on the pages of this blog, you know that I've been following this trail closely. There doesn't have to be just ONE successor to the throne of the twisted copper wires. There may be...
We've talked about this. All the best laid plans of ipDTL, and Source-Connect NOW, and SoundStreak, and even Skype will be for naught as long as the big guns decide they're gonna hang on to their ISDN until the TelCos come over and rip the copper wires out of their wall. It's not that they're...
Let's recap. ISDN is dying. IP-based technologies are scrabbling to fill the void ISDN will leave behind. Top contenders in this space are: ipDTL Source-Connect NOW SoundStreak Skype Another possibility that hasn't done much with their patented technology is ConnectionOpen. That's about it. Just...
No other question dominates discussions about the recent spate of ISDN-replacement technologies: How much will it cost? Kevin Leach at ipDTL has tinkered with his subscription fee a little since the first release. SoundStreak offered their service at no cost for the longest time. Now that it's...
We raised a few eyebrows in the VO community when WoVO came out with its Emancipation from ISDN Proclamation, but it's looking more and more like we read the tea leaves right. Plumbing the waters on ANYTHING developing in our business is best done in online community groups and forums. Lately,...
All the churning in online forums lately about new remote recording solutions is getting serious. It's also raising plenty of disclaimers that (again) the rumors of ISDN's demise are greatly exaggerated. World-Voices Organization recently took a bold stand encouraging people on both sides of the...