p2p news / p2pnet: VoIP is a killer app and it’s going to be a, "competitive revolution" not only for wireline providers, "but for wireless guys as well".

That’s a 2004 quote from then Federal Communications Commission boss Michael Powell.

And he was right. The move towards online telephony is picking up pace with Vonage firmly established and Skype an eBay property.

Now P2P Innovative, based in Jersey in the Channel Islands, has joined the small band of entrepreneurs who are pushing VoIP to the next level.

Its iPhox 1.2 is solid p2p — person to person communication between PCs and traditional phones, and it comes without spyware, adware, "or other hidden software," promises the company.

Where traditional SIP software will fail to connect, iPhox can operate in virtually any network environment, says P2P Innovative, going on, "A system of media relays positioned in data centers around the world assures that call traffic that isn’t peer to peer retains a high quality by reducing latency."

Available for Macintosh, Microsoft Windows and Linux computers, iPhox uses technology from Michael Robinson’s SIPphone to ensure compatibility with the SIP open protocol and the ability to communicate with other networks.

iPhox also means Gizmo and Google Talk users will be able to exchange instant messages and voice calls with each other.

Charging one cent for calls to regular phones, against Skype and Yahoo’s two-cents, iPhox can instantly communicate with an expanding SIP hardware product line that allows analog phones, Wi-Fi VoIP SIP phones and Bluetooth headsets to plug right into any network, says P2P Innovative.

Free calls can be placed and received to any PC running iPhox or any other SIP based software, even over dialup network connections.

"Unlike Skype, users’ computers and bandwidth are never used to route third party calls, which makes iPhox suitable for corporate, government and university environments," says P2P Innovative.

"Users of iPhox enjoy the largest SIP based network currently in deployment. More than 20 networks and many major universities such as UCSD, UCLA, BYU, UCI, UCSC, University of Indiana, Oklahoma University and MIT are linked to the SIPphone network for free calling."

Download it here.

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