Intel motherboards: VoIP inside
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Usually, people who want to use a handset with their PC have to plug an adapter between the phone and the computer. Now, what if… they don’t need to do this anymore? Isn’t it a crazy what-if? No, because Intel has done it.
In fact, it’s not what can be called a motherboard, only an add-in. But, for Intel, providing a simpler way to get VoIP is a beautiful enticement to sell more motherboards (its secondary business activity, far behind chip manufacturing).
Very quickly, you’ll see a bunch of computer enhanced with “Slick Mountain” or the 600SM motherboard add-in. Unexperienced users will have nothing tricky to do. Slick Mountain comes with an Intel installer with drivers and ISP dialers, supports Skype and Counterpath (a SIP voice client), and is suitable for standard traditional phones.
In the short run, Intel indicates it will strike some deals with Vonage, Skype, Packet 8, Delta Three, as reported CRN magazine. Meanwhile, it already created Pipex Wireless, a joint-venture with ISP Pipex, to provide wireless broadband connection for metro areas.
So that’s it, if you escaped to the Centrino WiFi chip, you might end up with a Slick Mountain VoIP computer. It’s Intel inside either way.
Apr 24, 2006 | By Nuno
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