In yet another "green" effort, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has recently announced a new technology, Remote Wake that allows your computer to wake up from an energy efficient sleep mode (Sleeping, hibernating or soft off, i.e. ACPI state G1 or G2) to receive calls and allow remote media access. Jajah, funded by Intel Capital, is the first company to explore the technology to make VoIP more accessible and energy efficient. You can read the press release here. Intel, however, has made the SDK available for other providers to exploit the remote wake technology.
What does it mean for you? Now you can make better use of the PC based IP phones! You do not have to keep your computers switched on to receive calls on those VoIP handsets connected to your computer.
Is this revolutionary? I am not quite sure about this. This is not a radically new technological feat.If you are familiar with Wake-on-LAN, you know what I am talking about.Application to VoIP is interesting, useful, but, probably not revolutionary.
Will this change the way people use VoIP? Once again, I would hesitate to answer this in the affirmative. As a means to access VoIP, computer based IP phones are not the most convenient thing. People using VoIP extensively would be advised to use ATAs or IP phones and those not using VoIP enough would rather use the traditional headsets. I do not see a huge market in this segment. Maybe, the technology will attract some of the users from rival camps (those using ATAs, IP phones and headsets).
Having said that, I am still quite excited about Intel launching this technology. It is an acknowledgment that VoIP is getting some serious attention. I think the bigger use of this technology would be in the voice application space. Maybe, that is where Jajah would be spending its efforts. Jajah is increasingly getting serious about the enterprise segment and this might give a good push. In any case, isn’t Jajah more about using VoIP without the computer?
What does it mean for you? Now you can make better use of the PC based IP phones! You do not have to keep your computers switched on to receive calls on those VoIP handsets connected to your computer.
Is this revolutionary? I am not quite sure about this. This is not a radically new technological feat.If you are familiar with Wake-on-LAN, you know what I am talking about.Application to VoIP is interesting, useful, but, probably not revolutionary.
Will this change the way people use VoIP? Once again, I would hesitate to answer this in the affirmative. As a means to access VoIP, computer based IP phones are not the most convenient thing. People using VoIP extensively would be advised to use ATAs or IP phones and those not using VoIP enough would rather use the traditional headsets. I do not see a huge market in this segment. Maybe, the technology will attract some of the users from rival camps (those using ATAs, IP phones and headsets).
Having said that, I am still quite excited about Intel launching this technology. It is an acknowledgment that VoIP is getting some serious attention. I think the bigger use of this technology would be in the voice application space. Maybe, that is where Jajah would be spending its efforts. Jajah is increasingly getting serious about the enterprise segment and this might give a good push. In any case, isn’t Jajah more about using VoIP without the computer?
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