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Comcast Begins Rollout of VoIP
rufey writes "Comcast is beginning their rollout of their Internet phone service, according to a press release released today.
It seems that the increased competition has gotten the attention of the baby bells, who "have realigned their attention to target cable's success and plan to invest billions of dollars of their own to upgrade their decaying copper network with speedier fiber-optic lines". With Comcast owning the network that the voice calls will traverse (until it gets to POTS, if needed), will Comcast's VoIP quality be better than their competitors such as Vonage, which relies on third party Internet connections to carry their VoIP?"
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Hey, this is the first post. Pretty cool, I'd say.
'Cause their first implementation is pure shyte.
And it offers schematics for free & firmware for free! This is truly open-source device! Read more about it HERE!
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Why Neuros is releasing the schematics for its device
The manufacturing world has changed dramatically in the nearly ten years since I started Digital Innovations. The tools for creating advanced designs have fallen in price to be accessible to virtually any engineer in his garage. Further, the globalization of the economy has put manufacturing tooling within the affordable range even for individual inventors. We all owe it to ourselves to understand the great entrepreneurial opportunity that this creates for all of us. Back in '95, new tools meant that we could bring the SkipDoctor to market for an amount small enough that it didn't require the involvement of professional investors. Today that would be a fraction even of that amount, and within the reach of personal savings for many individuals. Even if you don't consider yourself an entrepreneur, the new companies and products that these changes enable will create exciting opportunities for everyone that embraces them.
As exciting as these changes are, the real reason we at Neuros are releasing the schematics for our device are the more immediate implications these trends have for our business. In the nearly two years since the release of the Neuros, it's clear to see that what divides the winners from the losers in the audio device market is the details. From the UI to the synchronization to the feel of the buttons, it's the details even more than the features that set apart each device. While many companies eagerly protect their intellectual property, it's only a select few details that really distinguish one device from another. For innovators like Neuros, the standardization of the components that comprise a device allows us to focus on those few details that really distinguish the product.
Of course there are many good commercial software and middleware companies who chose to keep their software proprietary and indeed Neuros has benefited from the use of many of those products. But our experience over the last two years has convinced us that one of the best sources for 3rd party applications and tools is the open source community. As an example, the various forms of embedded Linux available today are mature and robust. Not only are they free from licensing fees, but more importantly they are usable without commercial contracts and the often elaborate negotiations and/or restrictions that go along with them. In fact, the defining open source principles guarantee that we are free to innovate with components, not at all a guarantee with some proprietary software.
By releasing the schematics for our device we hope to attract new developers and engineers and enhance our support for those who are already contributing to our device. In fact, in the two years since the release of the Neuros, we have already received and honored many requests for the schematics and benefited from the resulting modifications from hobbyists and professionals alike. Today's official public release is recognition and expansion of what has already been our practice for some time.
The release of such documentation is a relatively new practice and one that remains quite controversial, much of the concerns similar in nature to the ones raised years ago when open source licenses were new. In the future we believe such practices will become more and more common, particularly for products facing end of life. The restrictions on the use of such documentation will vary greatly as more and more companies experiment under different circumstances. But the overall effect, we believe, will be greater comfort levels over time and the significant advance of products and technology resulting from the more open flow of information.
The schematics can be downloaded from
http://open.neurosaudio.com/extra/NeurosSch
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