32 yrs experience in telecom, teaching, blog & grant writing, biz development, marketing, communications & public relations. My favorite pastimes are spending time w/ family & friends, my career, the industry, running, traveling.
| 1. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition..." Barack Obama .....
2. "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." By Thomas Sowell
Image via Wikipedia Bankrupt one year and purchased the next … that’s CommPartners’ Hosted Services to Momentum Telecom and its carrier side to Point1. Russian mobile giant with subscribers in South Asia, Russia, Africa and Middle East buys a...
Daily, I thank my Facebook and Linkedin networks as well as those I follow and those who follow me on Twitter. Why? So many reasons, but one of them is the fun blog posts they allow me after I get...
Some believe that there is a lack of female business and technical developers in the voice over internet and IP communications industry, but I think it is just that they are quiet. It's my job to find them. Think back...
The regular readers of this blog are used to browsing language that has a marketing flavor. How about a change? Listen and watch Giovanni Maruzzelli share how to connect FreeSWITCH with Skype and the possibilities thereafter. Giovanni has 15 years of IT experience...
Why Cluecon? Bogdan Andrei Iancu discusses the excitment of meeting with developers at Cluecon. Load balancing started as an idea at Cluecon 2008. This year Bogdan spoke on the success of that project in presentation. He summarizes this in the...
Yameen Rasul MIET MEng, Technologist (R&D Engineer), what a likable guy who we met at Cluecon (http://www.cluecon.com). He's working on a project with voIP.Yameen was braver than most at Cluecon in that he asked good questions quite often during conference sessions. He...
Recorded with Pretty May, a customer of Sangoma, and voice with Skype... really enjoyed this interview with David Mandelstam, CEO of Sangoma at DIDX podcasts. We met for the first time at the Digium Asterisk Pavilion at CommunicAsia in Singapore last...
Carol Davids, Director of VoIP Activities and the ITM program at Illinois Institute of Technology, and Warren Bent, co-founder and Vice President of Business Development with InCharge Systems, were my guests this past week on the DIDX podcast channel. Carol shares with the listeners information...
ZRTP is a protocol that does not require prior shared secrets. It doesn't need a public key infrastructure (PKI). What happens instead? Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys are automated at the beginning of each session start. You no longer have to depend...
It was simply a matter of friendship but also the strong interest on the part of several thousand members of DIDX that encouraged me to interview Anthony Minessale and Brian West of FreeSWITCH™ yesterday in podcast format. I didn't realize...
Listen to the exclusive podcast interview with Anthony Minessale, creator of FreeSWITCH™ and Brian West, at didx.net/podcast. On March 31, 2009 the FreeSWITCH™ team announced that FreeSWITCH™ is the first telephony application to support the new SIP 4.1 protocol specification. But hear...
By guest editors, colleagues, and friends of Suzanne: Anne Tredway and Bryan CoburnTodd (the opensource community director for Digium®.) keeps a modest demeanor throughout his presentations and discussions at ISPCON 2009 in San Jose, California despite our industry's recognition that Digium®. is the innovative...
Jorge Rodriguez is the best source I've found of fantastic testimonial as to how empowering ITEXPO is. He has completed the trixbox workshops and now runs Telecomm Managed Networks Inc in which he sets up and hosts 180 call centers in his very...