Notes from the Watertower

The ITSPA – Awards and Membership

The Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (or just ITSPA) is the Trade association for Internet Telephony in the UK.

This December (2008) saw it’s 3rd anniversary and their first awards ceremony, and as I wrote earlier, I entered my DSX-10 into the ceremony under the Best VoIP Hardware category, and although it was short-listed for the award, sadly, it didn’t win. However coming in the same group as the winner, Cisco, isn’t too bad in my books!

The good thing is that we traveled up from deepest darkest Devon to London for the awards, and it was amazing to see so-many people in the room. 150 people from many different companies involved in Internet Telephony in one way or another. If anyone needed proof that there is a future in Internet telephony it was there in that room last Thursday night with representatives from many major companies (eg. Cisco and BT) as well as many of the smaller companies providing services to business and end-users.

So what now? Well, Drogon Systems has applied to join ITSPA and plans so sign up to their newly proposed “Quality Mark” (They tried to call it a kite-mark, but it seems another organisation already has that one!)

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