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January 2018

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The End (and Beginning) of a Good Thing

January 9, 2018




After approximately 13 years and over 650 Tuesday morning blogs for Dialogic (and actually one last Thursday and this past Sunday), this is my last one (for Dialogic).  I was writing monthly articles for Internet Telephony for years prior to my blogging and then I switched to also writing blogs around that time and posting them on tmcnet.com.  Everyone told me to get to a consistent posting pattern to have the best chance of your blog getting more readers.  Of course writing about interesting topics might help. 


STP's Just Keep Going

January 7, 2018

 

When I’m meeting with customers, usually I do a brief overview of our product line.  While we have all the cool software and NFV and AWS based network infrastructure, we also have some more traditional products.   And when our customers find out we sell Signaling Transfer Points (STP) and other SS7 products, they sometimes are astounded these nodes are still being sold.

The Evolution of the Software Media Server

January 4, 2018



As part of Intel in the late 1990’s the Dialogic division saw a window into the incredible processing power of the forthcoming Intel CPUs and decided to port the media processing DSP functions such as echo cancel, play/record, codec creation, conferencing and speech processing, to name a few, to the Intel processor.   In those New Jersey labs on Route 10, the software media server was born.  These functions were running on a host based server and our incredible marketing department at the time came up with the term Host Media Processing (HMP).   It stuck.

Considerations for Cloud Based SBC's Part 2

January 2, 2018

 

As Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) takes hold, which means there are key communications infrastructure nodes running your business that are now out of your physical control because they are running in the cloud, the ability to understand how these nodes are performing is more critical than ever. 

In the December 19th blog, I explored the importance of the ability for an SBC to scale in a cloud environment.

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