US Robotics to untie VoIP from PC
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Like many of its competitors, US Robotics is best known for its routers that bridge the phone cable and the PC. And when you just want to use your VoIP phone application ― and not even check your emails ―, you still need to turn on your mighty computer.
This era’s going to end. USR wants to introduce routers that unbundle those two functions, and let you call without any PC switched on. The first commercial models would hit European markets at first by 2007. All of them would be compatible with Skype, and some of its competitors like Windows Live Messenger.
For what we see, those VoIP routers could give a big relief to softphones. Throughout Europe, broadband customers are using VoIP telephones without knowing it. They use it as part of their triple-play (broadband connexion, IPTV and IP telephony) service from telcos (mostly) and cablecos. But softphones still need to heavily market their softwares.
Aug 7, 2006 | By Nuno
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