Jajah and Intel have joined forces for the benefit of all computer users who want to keep in touch with their home PCs even from remote locations. The technology developed by Intel is called Remote Wake, and has been implemented into Jajah’s IP-telephony network, allowing PCs to accept incoming calls over the Internet, as well as perform a variety of other tasks, all with low energy consumption.

The Mountain View-based global communication company will be the first to offer this type of remote telephony application for PCs. The innovative technology ‘wakes up’ the PC from sleep mode, allowing it to accept incoming calls, as well as make high quality calls, all for low cost and with one sixth of the normal PC power consumption.

“Intel and Jajah have a common objective to deploy technology building blocks that deliver a richer communication experience for consumers,” said Joe Van De Water, director of Consumer Product Marketing for Intel.

According to Intel, the ability to remotely wake-up computers is a very important development in computer management. Furthermore, the company added, these capabilities have evolved from a simple power-on ability to a complex system interacting with a variety of device and OS power states.

In the initial stages of the Remote Wake technology, the system could be turned on from a standby state by sending a “Magic Packet,” which contained the adapters MAC address repeated 16 times in the data field. This way, the computer was able to react by toggling a signal connected to the computer power control circuitry, which would then activate power, resulting in computer booting the OS.

The latest developments in the field however reveal an entirely new range of possibilities for home PCs, from being able to remotely control them to make calls over the Internet, to downloading different files or data, while keeping a low energy consumption level.

Trevor Healy, Jajah CEO, said in a statement: “Jajah combine with Intel’s Remote Wake capability brings the industry closer to a global IP-based telephony system with simple to use functionality and advanced environmental friendliness.”

Although the idea of the Remote Wake was not initially based on telephony, it seems that the two concepts go together well, by combining three essential elements people are looking for these days: functionality, low power consumption and an eco-friendly technology.

Besides Jajah, Intel has established several other partnerships that evolve around the same Remote Wake up technology. Pando Networks also announced support for the Remote Wake technology, as they revealed their collaboration to provide a simple, elegant, energy efficient delivery solution capable of offering consumers more choice in how they can purchase and download digital media.

The Remote Wake technology was initially created for business environments. The purpose was to enable network managers to remotely wake up computers at night time, in order to receive software updates.

Now Intel is extending the capabilities of Remote Wake, exploring new functionality with partners such as Jajah, Pando, Orb Networks. The first motherboards with Remote Wake support are expected to come out in September.