Earlier this month, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the appointment of Henning Schulzrinne as Chief Technology Officer – a major move forward for the FCC and the US communications regulatory environment. This move was made in-part because the FCC has...
Grandstream's Khris Kendrick discusses the GXV3175 as well as the company's other products such as a new cube cameraGrandstream has just released the GXV3175, a multimedia phone which features HD voice and video with the ability to connect the output...
Danny Windham Welcome to AstriCon 2010My team is posting much of the footage from the recent Astricon show - clicking on any of the links below will lead you to the location where you can view them. Is This Line...
Aram Falsafi writes an informative and technical paper on HD voice and the benefits (to HD and non-HD users) as operators enable Tandem Free Operation in their networks. It is quite interesting and a must-read for engineers and others developing...
Much of my team is at Astricon this week and if you want to keep up with all the happenings in the open source communications space you may want to be there as well. Here are the details...
A fascinating bit of reporting from the Wall Street Journal confirms some things that many in the communications industry already knew and some things we didn't. eBay doesn't get Skype - this is as obvious as it gets.The current Skype...
I promised yesterday that we would be devoting great focus to ITEXPO this week and to kick things off I want to ensure you are aware of the TMC University courses which will be offered at the show September 16-18,...
There is a level of excitement in the call center space I haven't witnessed since VoIP began transforming the call center into the contact center. Over the years, we have seen technology after technology change the way contact centers work...
While SIP is an excellent protocol which has made the IP communications market a much better place, there are security challenges with this protocol as it is very open and not inherently secure. It is ironic that the openness of...
Above: NEC's View of IMS NEC is targeting mid-tier providers with its new IMS products. The company's new Service Convergence Integrated Platform or SCI-P is a 'starter' framework for IMS, and bundles carrier-class call processing quality, blade-server architecture, a...
Recently TMC and Ingate teamed up to provide the fourth SIP Trunking educational sessions at an Internet Telephony Conference & Expo. I just saw that Greg Galitzine had a chance to interview Olle Westerberg the CEO of Ingate regarding his...
I was pretty interested to find this article by Mae Kowalke on SIP vs. Radius titled Top Five Reasons SIP is Better Than RADIUS. Radius stands for Remote Authentication Dial In User Service and is an an authentication, authorization and accounting...
In the IMS space perhaps one of the most controversial concepts I hear is IMS in a box. You see, some vendors tell me the whole concept of IMS in a box is counter to the concept of why the...