yonah
09-08-2003, 11:34 AM
Wow, I get the first post in this forum!
So here is my question, I have Vonage at home. Vonage is a consumer oriented VoIP service that offers phone service over broaband. Essentially they own pops all over the country, and terminate calls there. Any calls coming into the system get routed over the Internet.
They ship you this Cisco ATA box, which you plug into the Internet and a regular phone. It registers itself with them, and essentially converts your phone to an IP phone. What is cool about it is that you can take the box anywhere and plug it in. As long as you are on the net, your calls will find you - i.e. You can get a New York phone number and put it online in London if you want.
The downside is, that to travel with it, you need to take this wired-only box, a regular phone, power, etc. In theory, Cisco's ATA box contains the guts of an IP phone. I am just wondering if there is a wi-fi phone that can do this - so that all you need is a phone and a wi-fi connection!
Any thoughts?
So here is my question, I have Vonage at home. Vonage is a consumer oriented VoIP service that offers phone service over broaband. Essentially they own pops all over the country, and terminate calls there. Any calls coming into the system get routed over the Internet.
They ship you this Cisco ATA box, which you plug into the Internet and a regular phone. It registers itself with them, and essentially converts your phone to an IP phone. What is cool about it is that you can take the box anywhere and plug it in. As long as you are on the net, your calls will find you - i.e. You can get a New York phone number and put it online in London if you want.
The downside is, that to travel with it, you need to take this wired-only box, a regular phone, power, etc. In theory, Cisco's ATA box contains the guts of an IP phone. I am just wondering if there is a wi-fi phone that can do this - so that all you need is a phone and a wi-fi connection!
Any thoughts?