Wal-Mart selling pre-paid Skype calling cards; How to power VoIP phones

Opinion
May 23, 20071 min

Latest VoIP news.

Wal-Mart selling pre-paid Skype calling cards, 05/21/07:  Skype last week announced that customers will be able to buy Skype-certified headsets, Webcams, and handsets, plus pre-paid Skype calling cards at 1,800 Wal-Mart stores across the United States.

Apposite, Shunra optimize testing tools for VoIP, Gigabit nets, 05/22/07:  WAN-emulation vendors this week will unveil updates to their testing tools that promise to give network managers more insight into how applications will perform under real-world conditions across the wide area.

Help Desk: How to power VoIP phones, 05/21/07:  We are looking at replacing our current legacy PBX with a VoIP based phone system. One of the things that we are deciding on is how to power the phones – power supply, Cisco proprietary or 802.3af. If we go with either of the two latter choices, we are looking at significant costs to replace our current network equipment with switches that can support VoIP phones. What would you suggest?