Corporate Blog

DiaStar Release 2.0

Jeff Dworkin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:40:00 GMT

For those of you may have missed the press release last week, Release 2. 0 of The DiaStar™ Server is now available for Download at www.projectdiastar.org . This new release brings a variety of video features from the Dialogic® product portfolio...(read more)

Can Internet Video be Free?

Martyn Davies — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:32:00 GMT

Content-owners attitudes to YouTube vary wildly. On the one hand some (like Viacom) have decided on high-stakes legal battles for "massive intentional copyright violations". On the other, some conventional broadcasters (like NBC) have created...(read more)

DiaStar Redux

Martyn Davies — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:11:00 GMT

I've been at the UC Expo in London, where we have a show stand, with one of the major themes being our open source project, DiaStar . We're located close to the Digium Asterisk Pavillion, where there are several Asterisk-related talks going on...(read more)

SIP Trunking and the Enterprise Network Edge

Vince — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:21:00 GMT

I have been a product manager in the enterprise media gateway space for a number of years. Over that time, enterprise media gateways have matured from simple toll bypass devices which enabled cheap long distance calling to elements which enable a wide...(read more)

Cloud Computing – the Terminator Movies had it all right!

Jim Machi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:17:00 GMT

In one of my last blogs, I talked about why the concept of Cloud Computing has taken hold now and what’s involved from a technical and non-technical standpoint. Cloud Computing sounds so easy, so all companies should just do this, right? Wrong....(read more)

Video Conferencing - an Underused Technology

Martyn Davies — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:07:00 GMT

Video-phones used to be the stuff of science-fiction. In the 1960s the movie 2001: a Space Odyssey , one character calls home from a payphone on the way to the Moon. Of course it was a video-phone, and he was able to have a video conference with his daughter...(read more)

The Fire Is Back at the Fira

Jim Machi — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:35:00 GMT

Mobile World Congress, held at the Fira in Barcelona (Catalonian for fairgrounds is what I understand the word to mean), is always an exciting time for me and our company. Everyone is having back-to-back-to-back meetings and you feel the excitement of...(read more)

Snowflakes, Bad Internet, Barcelona & the Video Convergence Forum

Jim Machi — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:45:00 GMT

By the time you read this, I will have been in Barcelona for a week. While I was coming to Barcelona anyway for Mobile World Congress, I came early since the Video Convergence Forum was launched the Thursday before MWC started. Next week, I will report...(read more)

mLearning - the School in Your Pocket

Martyn Davies — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:48:00 GMT

This week the BBC made an interesting announcement about BBC Janala , a service that is using mobile to teach the English language in Bangladesh. Janala (which means "window") is a relatively low-tech solution, using SMS and voice on mobile...(read more)

Cloud Computing - What Factors Make it Viable?

Jim Machi — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:44:00 GMT

In a previous blog , I discussed the early stages of cloud computing, and now I’ll touch on why this concept has taken hold now, or shall we say, why cloud computing is at least more viable now. First of all, we have better technology now than we...(read more)

The "End of Free" - Mobile Video Leads the Way

Bob Logan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:34:00 GMT

Last time , I wrote about some recent announcements (and rumors) about “the end of free” – i.e. media companies that are starting to charge for access to their content on the internet. While this is interesting for folks who are heavy...(read more)

Adding Video to Voice: Crossing the Chasm

jrafferty — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Cloud Computing — Those Clouds Aren't Pure White!

Jim Machi — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:09:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Enjoy "free" while it lasts

Bob Logan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:57:00 GMT

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the 4G Wireless Evolution (4GWE) conference in Miami. This event is produced by my friend Carl Ford and the gang at Crossfire Media , and is held in conjunction with the IT Expo conference and exhibition. I spoke...(read more)

Ah, So Why End POTS and the PSTN?

Jim Machi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)