The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been an important part of many Voice over IP (VoIP) implementations for the past several years. But in the world of telecom, protocols tend to have a long life once installed and the last major protocol of the circuit-switched era, Signaling System Seven (SS7...
Back in June, I wrote a blog about mobile commerce and using your phone to pay for services, or using your phone to enable mobile banking. These are all huge growth opportunities for the industry. I wanted to follow that up with some comments about how this works. Some of the payments will be made using...
Service Logic Execution Environments (SLEE) play an important role in the telecommunications network, especially when creating applications that marry the web and mobile experience. Now, you don’t have to use SLEE and you don’t have to use Open Source to create applications that marry the...
Just back from Cluecon in Chicago last week. Kudos to Brian, Michael and the entire team for putting together another successful event. This was my third Cluecon, and I always leave Cluecon with a lot of new ideas to work on as there are always lots of "big brains" at the event to bounce ideas...
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Jeff Dworkin
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08-09-2010
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Filed under: Open Source, Video Conferencing, Sigtran M3UA, SS7, Diastar, Innovator Contest, Asterisk, FREESwitch, videoconferencing, Innovator Challenge, Cluecon
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...
Dialogic is not just the name of the company I work for. It is also some kind of philosophical word relating to reenacting what has come before, and what will come in the future. Whether that is common sense or deep philosophy I do not know, but it probably helps explain why I went into engineering ...
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 -...
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
