Skype and GoRemote collaborate on free calls

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON
CONVERGENCE
10/19/05
Today's focus: Skype and GoRemote collaborate on free calls

Dear networking.world@gmail.com,

In this issue:

* Skype and GoRemote join to offer Skype customers free calls
using GoRemote gear
* Links related to Convergence
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Today's focus: Skype and GoRemote collaborate on free calls

By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick

Earlier this month, GoRemote announced a strategic partnership
with Skype whereby GoRemote's customer base of mobile workers
and teleworkers will get free Skype phone calls using GoRemote's
secure mobile broadband solutions. The arrangement is similar to
a partnership Skype and Fiberlink announced earlier this year
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence8800>.

In a statement issued by both companies, James Bilefield, vice
president of business development at Skype said: "GoRemote's
secure mobile broadband access with Skype calling is a winning
combination for mobile workers. Mobile workers can save money by
using Skype to make free phone calls in the knowledge that the
calls are end-to-end encrypted for superior privacy."

In the same joint statement, Tom Thimot, president and CEO of
GoRemote commented: "By combining GoRemote's global virtual
business network solutions with Skype voice services, we are
enabling business professionals to be more productive without
compromising the security of their networks."

To provide the service, GoRemote will bundle Skype's telephony
software with the GoRemote Mobile Office client software,
offering Skype as a value-added service. The bundle gives
GoRemote's customers "additional security between communicating
hosts and simplified access to the Skype software." The Mobile
Office client provides access to an extensive virtual business
network that includes more than 30,000 wireless broadband access
points in 70 countries.

While the joint offering does provide an added layer of security
to free-of-charge Skype calls over the Internet, we remain
unconvinced that businesses will rely solely on voice over the
Internet unless QoS is also included - although we should note
that Steve and Larry both use Skype and have found that Skype's
voice quality is usually (but not always) as good or better than
the PSTN.

And for those keeping track of Steve and Larry's predictions
about free voice, it looks like another commercial endorsement
of our long-held contention that voice will become "just another
feature" that gets bundled in with broadband access.

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. Cisco finally brings security push to LAN
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence9167>
2. Nortel replaces CEO Bill Owens
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence9168>
3. Help Desk: When the Windows VPN doesn't work
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence9169>
4. Microsoft cuts costs of virtual servers
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence9170>
5. WiMAX just around the corner
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence9171>

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To contact: Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates
and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed
information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter,
connect to Webtorials <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the premier
site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and
market research. Taylor can be reached at
<mailto:taylor@webtorials.com>

Larry Hettick is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of
experience in voice and data. He is Vice President for Telecom
Services and Infrastructure at Current Analysis, the leading
competitive response solutions company. He can be reached at
<mailto:lhettick@currentanalysis.com>
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But what if the danger to your network lurks from within - a
disgruntled employee, misuse of a VPN, 3rd party access,
employee access for personal reasons? In the following report,
Internal Intrusion Prevention, read about this threat and
providing multidimensional protection.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=117632
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