I'm getting ready to attend the International Telecoms Week (ITW) conference in Washington DC early next week. ITW is targeted toward service providers, so it should offer a good chance to take the pulse of the VoIP industry in the aftermath of last year's reduced spending. In the Dialogic booth...
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 voice applications. In the past year, we've...
As the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) continues its migration toward IP, this creates both opportunities and challenges. In principle, the new models for building communication services which use SIP as the session protocol are a major step forward, but what if two SIP-enabled network elements...
One of the rapidly expanding use cases in IP Communications is connecting the various islands of Voice over IP. At this point, the islands might consist of carriers, enterprises and various cloud-based enhanced services. Frequently, the glue which brings these disparate elements together is the Session...
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 enhanced services and then convince subscribers...
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James Rafferty
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07-01-2009
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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
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is becoming the lingua franca of the telecommunications world. It began as a simple peer-to-peer protocol, but has since gone in all kinds of directions and now forms the underpinning for the emerging next generation of telecommunications networks. Many SIP standards...
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 is a new generation of Mobile Switching Centers...
