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Adding Video to Voice: Crossing the Chasm

I just returned from a trip to visit several different countries while attending the IT Expo trade show and participating in a variety of internal meetings. In my travels, I found a lot of gathering interest in the question of how video can be added to...

Published 02-05-2010 2:40 PM by jrafferty

Filed under: Video, Gateways, Voice over IP, SIP-I, IMG 1010, Vision CX, H.324M

Cloud Computing — Those Clouds Aren't Pure White!

Most people in the industry today talk about cloud computing as a fait accompli, as something already done and deployed. I saw a lot of this kind of “breathing your own fumes” thinking with regard to VoIP around the year 2000. We were all...

Published 02-03-2010 11:09 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Cloud Computing, Voice over IP

Ah, So Why End POTS and the PSTN?

Last week , I discussed reading the report AT&T sent to the FCC explaining why they support an orderly end of the POTS and PSTN network. One point they made is about transitioning funds that would normally support universal telephony service to support...

Published 01-27-2010 11:05 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Voice over IP, broadband, PSTN

VoIP is Alive and Well

In my last post , I talked about a planned speaking engagement at Internet Telephony Expo on the topic of "Is VoIP Dead? Where does it Stand?" The other panelists besides myself were Scott Navratil, VP of Sales and Marketing for Vitelity, a...

Published 09-24-2009 11:34 AM by jrafferty

Filed under: Video, VoIP, Media Gateways, SIP, Voice over IP, SS7, Internet Telephony Expo

Open Your HD Voice!!

While I was writing this blog, I realized today’s date, the 9 th day of the 9 th month of year 9 is somehow significant. How? Well, today is the last day of single digits in a date format (9/9/9) for 1001 years! I don’t know exactly what happened...

Published 09-09-2009 8:57 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Voice over IP, HD Voice, Microsoft Office Communications Server, Mobile HD

Speaking at Internet Telephony Expo

Next week, I'm at Internet Telephony Expo in downtown Los Angeles. The conference starts on Tuesday, September 1 and I'm speaking on Thursday morning, September 3. Here's an overview on my panel: Is VoIP Dead? Where do we Stand? (IP-01) -...

Published 08-27-2009 2:09 PM by jrafferty

Filed under: VoIP, Voice over IP, Dialogic, Conference, Internet Telephony Expo

Achieving Success with VoIP Services

Here is an example of how a carrier is using Voice over IP to attract new customers. Recently, Alastair Slattery, Manager of Wholesale and Business Development at Symbio Networks, talked about why Symbio has had such great success as a provider of VoIP...

Published 08-17-2009 1:40 PM by jrafferty

Filed under: Voice over IP, IMG 1010, Symbio, Dialogic View, Wholesale VoIP, Dialogic

The SIP Effect on Media Gateway Use Cases

Industry analysts tend to focus on the trunking gateway use cases when measuring activity in the Carrier VoIP marketplace. However, the imperative for operators today is to generate more revenues per subscriber and this drives the need to create additional...

Published 07-01-2009 11:23 AM by jrafferty

Filed under: VoIP, Gateways, SIP, service provider, Voice over IP, IMG, SIP-I, IMG 1010, Any to Any Signaling, CAS, Sigtran M3UA, H.323, SS7, ISDN, Enhanced Services

New Frontiers in VoIP to Mobile Network Connectivity – SIP to SIP-I

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been a major success story for the deployment of Voice over IP networks and related enhanced services. Until recently, there has not been much use of SIP in wireless networks, but this is starting to change. There...

Published 05-13-2009 3:07 PM by jrafferty

Filed under: SIP, Voice over IP, Standards, Multimedia Border Element, Mobile IP, SIP Mediation, SIP-I, ISUP

Standards Build Innovation and Lasting Value

I've just read the article written by Steve Crocker commemorating the 40 th anniversary of the first RFC (RFC 1), for which he was the author. You can find this New York Times article here . Steve coined the term "Request for Comments" which...

Published 04-09-2009 3:00 PM by jrafferty

Filed under: Innovation, Fax, Voice over IP, IETF, Standards, RFC, Internet Fax, ITU

Old School Virtues for Voice over IP Gateways

I've been a product manager of Voice over IP gateway products for about nine years, but I continue to learn about customer needs and expectations. During the past 3 years, I've managed the Dialogic® IMG Integrated Media Gateway products and...

Published 02-20-2009 2:00 PM by jrafferty

Filed under: SIP, Voice over IP, network edge, Old School, High Availability, IMG, Redundancy

Beginnings - Blogging on the Network Edge

One of the interesting things I've observed in the last year is how my hobby activities of social networking and blogging are in the process of crossing over into the mainstream of business activities. In turn, we are starting to see the early stages...

Published 02-05-2009 1:52 PM by jrafferty

Filed under: VoIP, Web 2.0, telecom, Voice over IP, network edge

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