VoIP Spear Blog: News & Noise

Jul 26, 2016

Lots of New VoIP Spear Features Coming

Jul 26, 2016

In the coming weeks and months, we're going to be releasing a whole raft of new features. You're going to see a whole new look for VoIP Spear, additional reports, additional ways to test your voice quality, and more.

Take a look at some of what we have planned.

More Monitoring

Our most important new feature is going to involve higher frequency testing. This means we will be able to report on more of the issues you are experiencing.

A New Look

We have a whole new look for VoIP Spear that you're going to love.

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Nov 1, 2015

Cloud Hosted VoIP: Where's The Market

Nov 1, 2015

The cloud-hosted VoIP market is nothing less than amazing. It is one of the fastest growing technology markets in North America and the rest of the world, particularly with small-to-medium-size businesses. More and more service providers are getting into the picture, wanting a piece of the lucrative and burgeoning market.

You may come to wonder: Is there really a big market for VoIP service providers? Where is the industry headed? What are the opportunities for new service providers?

Impressive Numbers

The industry impresses when you look at numbers alone. A report by Frost & Sullivan shows the astonishing growth of the hosted VoIP industry in the last few years. A 5% growth each year is a minimum.

The year 2013 ended with users at a high 5 million. This represents a 30.5 percent increase from 2012's number of users. That's an increase of more than a million cloud VoIP users.

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Apr 27, 2015

New VoIP Spear Servers in Brazil and Canada

Apr 27, 2015

Today, we're excited to announce two new VoIP Spear servers. One is located in São Paolo, Brazil, and the other in Vancouver, Canada.

We now have 16 VoIP Spear public testing servers as well as dozens of private servers VoIP Spear customers have set up. These public testing servers are located in major cities in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. A complete list is below.

Region Country City
North America USA San Francisco
North America USA New York City
North America USA Chicago
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Mar 1, 2015

VoIP Security and VoIP Monitoring by VoIP Spear

Mar 1, 2015

There is no technology without vulnerabilities and without malicious entities wanting to take advantage of it. That's a reality.

Of today's technologies, VoIP is one of the most vulnerable mainly because of lack of awareness. There is a prevalent disregard for VoIP security. Businesses are up in arms protecting data, its systems and flow – but not voice data. And this is a big gap that needs to be addressed.

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Jan 18, 2015

Looking Back and Moving Forward: VoIP Spear Leads the Way

Jan 18, 2015

We had a great year here at VoIP Spear. Our service has been instrumental in the phenomenal growth of the industry. And the new year is looking like another great one for VoIP and VoIP monitoring!

As a leading global provider of VoIP performance testing services, we play a crucial role in ensuring consistent VoIP service quality. Individuals and businesses – those that provide telecommunications services and those who rely on them – are always better off when they have our monitoring services set up. Performance inconsistencies and possible problem scenarios can be logged and addressed swiftly.

Helping Businesses and Individuals

For businesses and individuals, this was the year when VoIP became a truly reliable alternative to wireline telephony. In the past, it has always been the more affordable choice while still dodging questions about reliability. This changed as the technology improved immensely. Alongside VoIP Spear's monitoring service, there is now the guarantee of communications services that can provide for the demanding requirements of businesses, big and small.

Here are some articles where business VoIP and VoIP Spear take center stage:

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