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VoIP Wiretaps

Here is a great article on VoIP wiretaps. Here are some excerpts:

According to a statement, the FCC stated that the order strikes a balance between fostering competition and innovation on one hand, and meeting the needs of law enforcement on the other.

"[I]t is critical to our nation's security that VoIP and broadband Internet access providers have CALEA obligations," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a prepared statement. "Although I believe that new technologies and services should operate free of economic regulation, I also believe that law enforcement agencies must have the ability to conduct lawful surveillance over these new technologies."

One commissioner, while pleased with addressing large-scale law enforcement concerns, believes that the FCC still needs to address other CALEA-related issues such as regarding enforcement and cost recovery.

"Because litigation is as inevitable as death and taxes, and because some might not read the statute to permit the extension of CALEA to the broadband Internet access and VoIP services at issue here, I have stated my concern that an approach like the one we adopt today is not without legal risk," Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy said in a prepared statement. "[B]ecause some parties will dispute our conclusions, the application of CALEA to these new services could be stymied for years."

I wonder if products like Skype are going to be used to get around wiretap issues by criminals and others. Every new technology such as pagers and disposable phones seems to be picked up quickly by criminals. I think we need to be focusing not only on wiretapping VoIP service providers but coming up with ways of listening in on p2p VoIP calls.

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Andy on Canadian VoIP CALEA

Well they don’t really call it CALEA in the great white north but Andy has a concise entry on the topic nonetheless.

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Asterisk Scoop

That Tom Keating and his sources. He broke some big Asterisk news about the RedFone foneBRIDGEon his blog. Here is a teaser of what the blog entry is about:

Redfone Communications has a very interesting product coming to market - a solid state, virtual plug-and-play "appliance" used in conjunction with Asterisk which can be used instead of Digium or Sangoma cards. In addition, using the Redfone foneBRIDGE you can create a redundant deployment of Asterisk. As seen by the diagram below, you can configure multiple Asterisk servers - none of which have any TDM (PRI/T1) hardware cards in them. Instead, you use the foneBRIDGE to terminate to PRI or T1 channel banks on the trunk side and Ethernet to connect to the Asterisk boxes.

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Streaming Media

Someday soon I am sure there will be a large number of people that stream TV and Movies to their computers as their primary mechanism for watching television. It is inevitable. How this will fit into the triple-play model (will it compete with triple play providers?) and how companies will make money from streaming television is unclear.

Rumors abound that Google will be a company that streams TV over the internet and personally I see Yahoo! perfectly positioned for doing the same.

One thing is for sure... Streaming media will be huge and it is for this reason that you will find a new streaming media blog on TMCnet which will be written by industry veteran Russell Shaw.

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