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ITEXPO: PacStar 5500 Deployable IP communications solution

October 11, 2006

Check out the PacStar 5500 deployable IP communications solution at ITEXPO. Powered by Sphere CSE.

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ITEXPO: Pam Shapiro Smiling at the Cantata Booth

October 11, 2006

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ITEXPO: Catching up with Good Friends

October 11, 2006

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ITEXPO: ABP and Adtran

October 11, 2006

ABP and Adtran have a buzz going on in their booth.

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ITEXPO: VPF

October 11, 2006

Shrihari Pandit and Jinci Liu from the VPF.

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ITEXPO: GlobalTouch Telecom Booth

October 11, 2006

Just a random booth to give you some show flavor. More to come.

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ITEXPO: Norman Stout from Inter-Tel

October 11, 2006

Norman Stout from Inter-Tel is doing a nice job. His keynote is interactive and engaging.

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ITEXPO Kicks Off

October 11, 2006

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ITEXPO: Mark Spencer Larger than Life

October 11, 2006

Mark Spencer from Asterisk is larger than life at ITEXPO.

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ITEXPO: Mark Spencer from Asterisk Speaks

October 11, 2006

Mark is doing a great job speaking about how companies are building their businesses around Asterisk. He mentioned how you can empower you channel allowing them to get things done for you. This has allowed Digium/Asterisk to compete with PBX vendors that are 100 years old.

There is more but shouldn't you be here by now? :-)

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VoIP Ad Scolding

October 11, 2006

Great news for those of us waiting for VoIP to go mainstream. Take a look at this. Apparently VoIP is getting so popular a competing VoIP vendor just got in trouble for running a misleading ad in the UK. BT objected to the ad and the gory details are in this article. It is tough to believe people make a living figuring out whether the minutia of advertising passes muster. Apparently in England you can have vinegar with your chips but no grains of salt with your ads.

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Skype Plug-ins

October 11, 2006

Tom has a blog entry discussing news from ITEXPO this week and the announcement about Skype 3.0 beta having plug-in support was very exciting to me. Sure it won't have the same sort of plug-in support of say Firefox but it will allow you to have a tab with the some of the best third party add-ons on the market. Nice feature -- smart move for Skype.

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AudioCodes Allows IP Communications Developers to Explore New Worlds

October 11, 2006

When designing telecom applications you have to be part clairvoyant. The reason of course is you need to try to figure out what coders you need to support your customer. It is tough to know sometimes who your customer will be before you start down the road of designing system.

The telecom world is rife with coding standards such as G.711, G.726, iLBC, GSM-FR, GSM-EFR, AMR and many others. So imagine designing the killer application for the wired world of telecom only to have a mobile service provider come knocking on your door with a huge order you just can't fulfill. Sure you can redesign your application but seriously, there has to be an easier way. One that costs less in money while taking less time and resources.

Wouldn't it be great to have a plug and play universal translator like they had on Star Trek so when communicating with alien coders you could easily strike up a conversation with no latency? Wouldn't this be an ideal scenario as communications developers explore alien coders (worlds)?

It just so happens I had a chance to catch up with Alan Percy Director of Business Development of AudioCodes at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo taking place this week in San Diego, CA where he told me about how his company is solving the universal translator challenges in the communications galaxy. Now Alan didn't actually make the Star Trek reference -- I take responsibility for this -- but I couldn't help thinking this is exactly the role the company's new Transcoding Resource Blade (TRB) fills in our world.

So while there are other companies such as Ditech Networks who make transcoding equipment in larger systems, what separates the AudiCodes TRB from others is ability to be based on a blade and thus fit into systems seamlessly. As you might imagine the TRB supports G.711, G.726, G.727, G.723.1, G.729.a, iLBC, GSM-FR, GSM-EFR, AMR and can also support encryption/decryption as well as fax to T.38 conversion.

So you could use the TRB to convert from an encrypted stream to an unencrypted one. You can also go in reverse if you like as well as going from one encrypted key to another. These are perfect functions which can be used in situations where various service providers are peering. As you can imagine as voice peering gains in popularity so too does the need for products like the TRB.

Other interesting attributes of the blade are the ability to pull DTMF digits out of let's say a G.711 stream. Alan tells me there are a few ways to access the card such as SIP, MGCP and the AudioCodes proprietary API.

Finally Alan tells me you can think of this blade as a DSP accelerator card allowing you to convert from one coder to another very rapidly and efficiently. For example from an efficiency standpoint blades allow increased density without the need for huge number of black boxes with duplicate power supplies, etc.

In case you wondering about the form factor of the blade and I know you are -- for now you have to settle for PCI and cPCI and ATCA is coming soon. Pricing has been set but is based on how many channels you need and the complexity of the coders needed. For example wireless to wireless transcoding is currently most expensive and as Alan says has the most value in the industry.

In short at least in telecom the universal translator is now online and we can expect it to solve many problems in the telecom family of coders. The question now is can it get men from Mars communicating more effectively with Women from Venus.

See AudioCodes at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo this week in San Diego where you can also explore the world of IMS, voice peering and all other important parts of IP communications.

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ITEXPO: Bruce Nash of Ixia

October 11, 2006

Bruce was speaking at lunch on day2 to to a packed room!

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ITEXPO: VoIP Security Session

October 11, 2006

I spied this standing room only session with Seamus Hourihan of Acme Packet. This while IMS EXPO keynotes and over half a dozen sessions were in progress! ITEXPO is really the Ultimate IP Communications Experience.

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ITEXPO: Scott Petrack Speaks

October 11, 2006

Scott has been in VoIP since 1991 - not a typo he was working at IBM Research at the time. He joked now that in 1996 when he joined VocalTec he thought all the Interesting applications had been discovered. He had a great collaboration centric talk.

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Talk About the Ultimate IP Communications Experience

October 11, 2006

As I sit here at ITEXPO in a session I am moderating titled how to make money selling VoIP with a number of resellers from around the world there is an IMS EXPO keynote session kicking off while conference sessions take place nearby.

There is also a SIP trunking session taking place down the hall.

In short it is unfathomable how much is going on at ITEXPO and the content offering is probably 80-90% greater than any prior show. Thankfully conference and show registration is way up as well so it is apparent that this market is growing very nicely.

I have heard talk of other events that have peaked and this sort of talk scares someone like me who is in the event business. My take is events where people come to learn -- events that are truly worthwhile will grow as long as they fulfill a need in the marketplace.

That is as long as new technologies continue to grow and certainly areas like triple-play and IMS are crucial money-makers for service providers and neither is scheduled to slow at any time in the future.

The excitement at this event continues on and I can't wait for the exhibit hall to open later today. I have had numerous comments about how big the hall has become and this is thanks to all of you who are participating in this event. I hope to greet you personally soon.

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ITEXPO: Tony Rybcynski of Nortel Speaks

October 11, 2006

Tony is a frequent columnist at TMC and is one of the most knowledgeable people I know in IP communications. He also made the Top 100 Voices of IP Communications in this Month's Internet Telephony Magazine. He is doing a great job. Mobility is one of the themes he is focusing on. This is a recurring keynote theme.

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ITEXPO Chris Gravett Keynote: Aculab

October 11, 2006

Here is a photo of Chris speaking as we'll as a test to see if photo blogging bugs have ben fixed.

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Aculab's Chris Gravett Speaks at ITEXPO

October 11, 2006

Chris kicked off the keynotes this morning to a packed house of conferees 40% of whom cam from outside the US. Conferees played the how far did you fly here from game with the moderator yours truly. Norway was the winner followed by Germany and the UK.

So far the show is going amazingly well. Thanks for being here!

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