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In a recent post I wrote called Dial SIP in an Emergency , I talked about new I3 standards emerging from the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) which will change the way that we interact with emergency services personnel and which may offer several more communications options. In this post...
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Several years ago, I read an excellent book on SIP entitled SIP Beyond VoIP . One of the things I liked about the book was that it wasn't simply talking about SIP for voice communications, but delved into a variety of different services which could be enhanced as SIP matured. Fast forward to 2011...
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Infonetics Research recently announced the results of their market surveys in a press release entitled: 42% jump in session border controllers (SBCs) boosts 2010 carrier VoIP market. It's always interesting to hear how the Voice over IP market is progressing and Infonetics Research provides comprehensive...
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02-24-2011
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Filed under: Gateways, SIP, Voice over IP, Dialogic, SBC, media server, Application Servers, Carrier VoIP, Infonetics Research, James Rafferty, Diane Myers
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Cloud Computing is a hot topic in the computer and the communications industry these days. At Dialogic, we’ve seen many application software vendors who want to take advantage of this trend and offer hosted telecommunications services that reside in the cloud. For example, a conferencing vendor...
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02-09-2011
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Filed under: VoIP, Gateways, IVR, SIP, Cloud Computing, Voice over IP, IMG 1010, contact centers, conferencing, voice services, Load Balancing, DNS Servers, Application Servers, DNS SRV Records
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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...
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SIP Trunking has been a hot topic for a while now. Many of the analysts are predicting rapid growth over the next several years. I was recently at the VoiceCon event in Orlando and they had an entire panel discussion on SIP Trunking. In talking with people at VoiceCon and other recent industry events...
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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 variety of solutions within the hybrid network infrastructure...
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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...
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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 wholesale carrier, and Michael Khalilian of IMG -...
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Emerging SIP-based services offer enormous potential for service differentiation and revenue generation, but relying on SIP also presents significant challenges. Although carriers now use Session Border Controllers (SBCs) for signaling translation and security, many SBCs do not fully address handling...
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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...
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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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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
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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...
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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...
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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 we've spend a lot of time talking with Tier...
