8X8 LEAPFROGS IP PHONE, ADDS VIDEO
Multichannel News, August, 1998 by ELLIS, LESLIE
Never mind the fact that equipment for making Internet-protocol phone calls over cable is embryonic, at best. A Santa Clara, Califbased vendor already has a new twist: video IP telephony. The company, 8x8 Inc. -- which already owns a 90 percent silicon-component share of the dial-up videoconferencing-equipment market -- said last week that it will issue a family of video-IP-telephony products, ranging in price from $300 to $600.
by the first quarter of next year. Several cable operators said last week that they're familiar with 8x8's work, and that they view it as an encouraging development that still needs some work, but that definitely fits well into the coming broadband-IP-service mix. Dubbed "ViaIP," mirroring its retail "ViaTV" brand for dial-up...
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