{"id":103,"date":"2006-09-26T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T09:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimansion.com\/luisbenavides\/index.php?entry=entry060926-051217"},"modified":"2006-09-26T09:12:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T09:12:17","slug":"the-right-transition-in-voip-jajah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/26\/the-right-transition-in-voip-jajah\/","title":{"rendered":"The right transition in VoIP – “Jajah”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since some months I\u2019ve been looking closely to Jajah, and the whole VoIP industry. I\u2019ve talked about ways of how the wireless internet networks could take over the cell phones and wondering how the communications<\/span> would be in some years. I\u2019ve been investigating the evolution of the different paths and I\u2019ve get to the conclusion that \u201ctechnologically\u201d speaking, the world is yet<\/ins> not ready for<\/span> a whole VoIP interconnected communications and<\/span> Jajah has come to a solution for<\/span> it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with two premises:
\nThe trend goes 100% sure toward mobile:<\/span> <\/strong><\/em>The use of fixed phones is decreasing each year. It\u2019s neither economically (operators) nor a preferred option (people). It<\/span> has become unsustainable for<\/span> operators that have struggled to put video and internet on the lines to create more value.
\nWireless technologies WiFi and WiMAX are not ready yet: <\/strong><\/em>Even if it\u2019s the cheapest way of communications, and the<\/span> trend toward deployment and development is growing, some years have to pass in<\/span> order to be a reality.<\/p>\n

WiFi and WiMAX challenges<\/strong>
\nWiFi has two limitations, the coverage and the heterogeneity. To cover an acceptable area of a city,<\/span> there are needed lots of hotspots, economically unsustainable for<\/span> an operator. Approaches such as<\/span> FON where everyone shares the connection solve this issue in the economical matters, but the limitation is that the connection is not reliable as<\/span> there\u2019s not a direct control of the network. The second limitation is the hand over (switch from one access point<\/span> to another), if you move further the coverage of the AP<\/span> you are connected to, you loose your connection until you connect to the next one. There are companies such as<\/span> Cisco which has solved this issue but is a proprietary protocol and there’s no standard<\/span> out there.<\/p>\n

In the other hand, WiMAX limitations are due to the high<\/span> frequency it<\/span> uses. It<\/span> goes over the 3.4Mhz and with this frequencies, an obstacle such as<\/span> a tree or a building could block the signal.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m for<\/span> sure not saying that it’s<\/span> an impossible thing to make any of this technologies work.<\/span> I\u2019m pointing out that in order these technologies to be \u201cready\u201d there’s some work<\/span> to be done, and some years to pass.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jajah\u2019s solution<\/strong>
\nJajah is a neat VoIP platform such as<\/span> Skype, Vonage, among others, that you can find in www.jajah.com<\/a> where you just need to enter your phone number, the number you want to call and voila! They connect both numbers ringing first in<\/span> yours and then in the destination one. The company has today stated that by the end of this year there would be ready a little<\/span> application compatible with 80 different cell phone models, that would permit to start calls without the use of the internet but with the use of this little<\/span> program in you mobile<\/span> phone. It\u2019s like if they had read my article \u201cSomething better than Skype?\u201d<\/a> In this article I<\/span> stated that a big contra of their solution was that if it<\/span> was using neither your computer<\/span> nor your internet connection to talk, why should you actually use them?<\/p>\n

Jajah has also stated today that it<\/span> wanted to become \u201cthe Skype of the mobile<\/span> world\u201d If the future of<\/span> communications<\/span> is going to be mostly mobile,<\/span> then if Jajah manages to become what it<\/span> plans, for<\/span> certain, it<\/span> would become the leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since some months I\u2019ve been looking closely to Jajah, and the whole VoIP industry. I\u2019ve talked about ways of how the wireless internet networks could take over the cell phones and wondering how the communications would be in some years. I\u2019ve been investigating the evolution of the different paths and I\u2019ve get to the conclusion … <\/p>\n

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