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Intel connection gives Jajah a leg up
August 14, 2008
Mountain View based Jajah describes itself rather grandly as “the world’s most innovative communications company.” With a little help from its friends at Intel, it may yet live up to the billing.
Intel Capital emerged as the lead investor in a $20m funding round for Jajah completed in May last year pumping in $15m to help Jajah in its bid to replace Skype as the mass-market VoIP provider of choice.
Jajah still has some way to go, but could get a big boost from the announcement today that it will be the first VoIP telephony application to use Intel’s ‘Remote Wake’ technology baked into a new generation of desktop motherboards that will be available next month.
As the name implies, Intel’s technology enables a PC to ‘wake-up’ from an energy efficient sleep state to accept incoming phone calls and undertake other tasks – a PC typically uses about a sixth of its normal energy consumption in sleep mode enabling both Jajah and Intel to claim it as an tree-hugging eco-friendly development.
In order to support the technology, Jajah has built Remote Wake capability into its core telephony infrastructure – something other VoIP providers are also expected to do over time, but the Intel relationship gave Jajah a jump on the competition.
Outside the VoIP field, Cyberlink, Orb Networks and Pando Networks also announced applications and services today that will also take advantage of the Remote Wake technology.
