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George Ou on ITEXPO

ZDNET’s George Ou was nice enough to moderate one of the sessions at ITEXPO a few weeks back titled The Great Open Source VoIP Debate. His open source VoIP article details the session. The panel included Mark Spencer, creator of Asterisk and CEO of Digium; Bill Rich, CEO of Pingtel; and Alan Hawrylyshen, CTO of Jasomi Networks. As George points out, these are some of the key players in the industry.

I attended a dinner with Digium’s founder Mark Spencer where he mentioned IAX is a much simpler protocol than SIP allowing the signaling and payload in a single packet. George mentions IAX in his column and goes into some detail. It is worth reading as this new protocol was responsible for some interesting dinner conversation. Mark says the protocol is better than SIP. Others say we don't need a new protocol.

Overall George did a great job detailing the session and I would like to send him special thanks for speaking a mere two days before his baby was born Congratulations George and we are looking forward to inviting you back to future TMC events.

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Verizon Wireless

Is it too much to ask for a Blackberry with bluetooth access? Today I read Tom's blog and I see that T-Mobile devices are improving at lightning speed. The new Blackberry 7290 in fact is an amazing device because it has a brighter screen, has bluetooth and works in 175 countries.

The best Verizon offers is the 7750 which is a good device but it is slow and has no bluetooth. It needs better battery life, a brighter screen and bluetooth that isn't crippled by Verizon. I recently switched to Verizon because their wireless network is superb. I don't understand why this company consistently has the worst devices on the market? What do shareholders think about this? I guarantee they would have greater market share if their devices were just on par with other companies.

The problem could lie in the fact that they don't support GSM and manufacturers get better economies of scale by focusing primarily on GSM devices. I don't know the answer but I can tell you being on the Verizon Wireless network with today's devices is like driving on the Autobahn in a Chevy Chevette.

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