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Telephone System Channel
August 6, 2007
If you aren’t aware, TMC has built with its partners, the largest collection of business to business online communities in the communications and technology space. Channels are micro communities which live on the left navigation of TMCnet menus. Global Online Communities are in yellow and live in the top navigation area of TMCnet’s home and other pages.
The latest channel/micro community we have built is in partnership with IPitomy and is called obviously enough the Telephone System Channel. On this channel you will find all the information on telephone systems you could ever want.
For example, here is an article which discusses research firm ABI’s thoughts on SIP and how it is transforming telephone systems today. For more on the telephone systems market be sure to bookmark the site and come back often.
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Unified Communications Magazine Debuts
August 6, 2007
Here is the unveiling of the first issue of Unified Communications Magazine (PDF). It has not been through final proofing but I have been so excited to share this new publication with the word I just had to post the magazine today.This publication is different from every other magazine you may have every read. Why? It is the first (or one of the first – I haven’t found another) horizontally designed magazine that is printed and also available via PDF.
The magazine is formatted for computer screens. Even if you like to read your magazines on paper you may want to reference it via PDF.
With other publications you need to zoom and unzoom, scroll up and down. With UC-MAG you do none of this. You just read. The way nature intended. :-)
Some topics of interest are as follows:
- Mitel interview with Simon Gwatkin
- Shimano goes Unified Communications
- Jonathon Rosenberg on SIP
- Lots of great articles from Zippy Grigonis
- Avaya interview with Eileen Rudden
There are a record 43 thousand subscribers to this new publication and the pass-along of most TMC publications has been surveyed to be 3 times. This means a readership of 172 thousand per issue. We will be surveying the readership soon to verify these numbers. I believe since this magazine is so easy to forward, the pass-along will be much higher than we predict.
Hopefully you will enjoy the first issue of UC Magazine and forward it to many many others. It still hasn’t been through final proofing by the way so consider it in “Beta. Here is the Unified Communications home page so you can bookmark it and visit it often. If you want to commit it to memory it is www.uc-mag.com.
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VoIP/IP Communications Stories August 6, 2007
August 6, 2007
In case you are behind on your reading or perhaps were away and want to catch up quickly; I have assembled some of the top stories from last week and today. Topics of interest include Cisco’s purchase of an equity stake in VMware, Inter-Tel’s small business push and the article on VoIP call recording.
- Inter-Tel 3000 for Small Offices
- Phone Systems in Today's Business
- Zeacom Launches Communications Center 4.1
- Quintum Achieves Hardware Certification as Microsoft Partner
- Cisco Acquires Equity Stake in VMware
- Ideacom Members Offer Wide Selection of Converged Solutions
- LumenVox Joins Avaya DeveloperConnection Program
- Inter-Tel Shareholders Approve Mitel Deal
- 8x8 Announces On-Site Installation, Technical Support for SMBs
- SIP PBX Provider Zultys Launches VAR Advisory Council to Drive Business Success
- ZAP, Advanced Battery Technologies Team on Electric Car Batteries
- VoIP Call Recording
- Storm Attacks from Bots Hit 1.7 Million in June and July
- Report: Appian a Leader in Human-Centric BPM for Java Platforms
- PBXpress Adds CRM Operator Ease to VoIP PBX
- ONEMAX to Use Verso for Converged Services in Dominican Republic
- Comstar Completes Acquisition of Sochitelecomservice
- IMS Forum Announces Third Plugfest
- Alliance Atlantis, Maven Networks Team on IPTV
- Unity Wireless Wins $1.1 Million Order from Mobile Service Brand
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WiFi not Secure – Clarified
August 6, 2007
I just received this e-mail from Francois Doremieux, Senior Program Manager, Product Group: Customer Experience in response to my WiFi is Insecure post from last week. I thought it worth sharing.
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Hello Rich
It was a pleasure meeting you in Redmond last month.
I just read your "WiFi is not secure" article and I wanted to add a brief comment.
As we discussed in Redmond, the notion of security and quality at the network layer is only one way to look at it. I agree that it’s possible to snoop and intercept the packets over WiFi. Therefore, one cannot trust the network layer alone for security (as we had discussed in Redmond that it is not possible to trust the network layer alone for management of quality). That is why the approach we have taken with Microsoft UC is to provide security at the application layer, with strong authentication, non repudiation, signaling and media encryption (in the same way we did it for quality with the adaptive media stack).
Transport is a very important element of the stack, but it can’t solve all issues (and its solutions tend to not have the flexibility software brings to the application layer). Applications such as OCS can overcome the transport flaws and provide software based security and quality, in conjunction with or even as a substitute to the network depending on the specific circumstances.
Best regards
Francois
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Thank you Francois for the e-mail as your letter helps clarify this entry. The problem I referred to is with Web 2.0 applications, especially those where the Session ID and cookies are hijacked and cloned. As you mention, applications such as OCS and others with strong encryption can (thankfully) overcome transport flaws.
The point is when you are in an area where you are using WiFi, your packets can be hijacked and used to recreate your account. This is especially the case with Web 2.0 applications which loosely refers to hosted software as well.
Use of products like Citrix, Remote Desktop and OCS should significantly minimize if not eliminate the risk of identity hijacking.
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