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This consumer reports on the idea of running a VoIP phone without a computer, communicating with the Internet via router instead. While routers have many of the resources necessary to provide VoIP, they don't have all the resources necessary. But maybe Linksys is listening??

In an interview with Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom published by Mathaba on March 29, 2005, Niclas said,

“The telephone is becoming a computer. See my telephone, I have Skype on a mobile phone with a 200 MHz processor and an operating system, and it's connected to the Internet with different types of radio access, whether its GPRS, WiFi, 3G or WiMax, it uses different radio technologies. Then telephony becomes a software application that just lives on the network. Skype is that software application, there will certainly be others...”

It just so happens that 200 MHz is the processor speed of my Linksys Router! Talk about Skype “just living on the network”. Now my cordless portable phone will connect to my Linksys router running Skype. My computer can be turned off and I can be always on. A dream? Nope. A 2005 possibility.

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