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The First SIP Call from an Airplane Last month history was made. On May 17, Lufthansa and Boeing successfully launched the first commercial flight with WiFi broadband service, Connexion.There were many "firsts" on that flight, but perhaps the most influential one was the first SIP phone call from 21,000 feet over Bahrain. That call was made by 3Com's Global Strategic Webmaster, Klaus Schultz, to a colleague around the globe in San Jose using his laptop, Xten's softphone and his SIPphone.com account. Today, Lufthansa offers Connexion broadband WiFi service on only one of their flights, but in the coming months and years, it will be come routine to access the Internet from 35,000 feet. Xten is public company XNWK:OB and is considered by many to be the current leader in SIP softphone deployments with over 310,000 registered softphone users. For more info see http://www.xten.com. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |