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Disruptive TelephonyDan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony...
2 Days Left To Comment to FCC About Ham Radio Usage In Emergency Communications2012-05-16T09:24:50-04:00
To all my friends and readers who use amateur (ham) radio, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking comment on the use of Amateur Radio in emergency communications such as disaster response. THE DEADLINE FOR COMMENT IS TOMORROW -...
Video: What is the role of the IETF? How does it help the Internet and open standards?2012-05-11T07:33:43-04:00
What does the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) do? What role does it play in setting Internet standards? As readers are probably aware, I've been a long-time supporter and advocate of the IETF's work on open standards, writing about it...
Today at noon US Eastern on the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) Call for Friday, April 27th, the group will discuss the brand new "FreeSWITCH Cookbook "[1] published by PACKT Publishing. The four authors of the book, who are also leaders...
Internet Society Launches "Internet Hall of Fame" Celebrating Early Pioneers2012-04-24T17:05:41-04:00
One of the very cool announcements coming out of the Internet Society's Global INET event in Geneva this week was the creation of an "Internet Hall of Fame" that recognizes many of the pioneers who started this amazing journey we've...
My friend Mark Headd passionately wants to open up government - and to do so through code. I've known him for years as the author of the VoiceInGov / Vox Populi blog where he has been writing about mashups and...
Want to learn about how voice and video calls will take place right in your web browser? WITHOUT a Flash or Java plugin? The "WebRTC" initiative is making this a reality through efforts of the major browser vendors, VoIP industry...
When I look out my office window and see a bucket truck driving by with a guy up in the bucket attaching what looks like fiber optic cable to the polls, my reaction as a networking geek was naturally: who...
Congrats to the folks at Skype for hitting over 40 million concurrent users! Today at 2pm US Eastern when I typed "/users" in any Skype chat on my Mac, I got this great message (Windows users should see the count...
The Big Question On Avaya's Acquisition of Radvision - What About The SIP and H.323 Stacks?2012-03-15T22:26:47-04:00
With today's big news in the VoIP / Unified Communications (UC) / telecom space of Avaya's acquisition of Radvision, pretty much all of the coverage has predictably focused on the video angle. While that's certainly important, I have a far...
As much as I may criticize Skype at times, I continue to be impressed by the technology they create and the powerful ways in which Skype enables us to communicate. Yesterday Jim Courtney called me to test out the "upgraded"...
