Vonage and Motorola today announced the release of a new wireless router that will make it easy for customers to use fax, telephone and Internet services at the same time.
Motorola’s VT2542 enables Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony and includes a 4-port wired and 802.11 b/g wireless access point. This new device is available at Vonage for $59.99 after a $40 instant rebate ($99.00 -$40.00 =$59.99) and a $29.99 activation fee is charged).
It can connect up to two Vonage lines, including telephone and fax, through a high-speed Cable or DSL Internet connection. It also contains four Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN) ports and an 802.11b/g Wireless port for additional computers.
Voice-over-data prioritization, which allows users to talk on the phone while using the Internet with no reduction in voice quality, is one of the features of the Motorola VT2542. Other features include Virtual Private Network (VPN) pass-through support, a secure web based user interface and full support of standard Vonage features, such as conference calling, call forwarding, call transfer, and call waiting.
In other news, Digi International today announced that its EV-DO Rev A ConnectPort is now certified by Sprint. It provides local WiFi connections, using cellular’s EVDO Rev A to provide the backbone connection.
The commercial-grade cellular router is now certified by two of the three major U.S. carriers. It provides a secure, high-speed cellular connection for reliable primary and backup network connectivity to remote sites and devices. The ConnectPort WAN VPN is network independent and upgradeable, making it easier for customers to quickly migrate to future advanced platforms as networks evolve.
The EV-DO Rev A version of the ConnectPort WAN VPN is available now.
“The utopian vision is to bypass the mobile network operators. I don’t think that’s going to work”, says Joe Laszlo at Jupiter Research. “It’s not in their interest, they’re not going to allow VoIP on the mobile handsets they subsidize. VoIP players need to make their service somehow attractive to the mobile operators.”
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