Month: January 2007
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VoIPUser.org Explains How to Build a VoIP Server Provider Network
Continue Reading: VoIPUser.org Explains How to Build a VoIP Server Provider NetworkDean Elwood over at VoIPUser.org put up a post yesterday entitled "How to Build a VoIP Network" in which he goes into precisely what is needed to set yourself up as a VoIP Service Provider (or "Internet Telephony Service Provider" (ISTP)). Given that Dean’s been involved with this through VoIPuser.org, he’s definitely got some credibility. As he says, he wrote the piece because:
We see a lot of threads on VoIP User from people who want to be the next Niklas Zennstrom (and fair enough, we hope you succeed) asking what is required to build a VoIP network.
Often these questions are from users who have a basic technical understanding of how it all works, but no real experience of building networks, or telcoms experience with the good old PSTN.He goes on to offer these seven rules:
1. if you’re a marketing genius, you have a greater chance of success with your new VoIP company than if you are a technical genius.
2. Using the internet to route calls does not mean that everything in the VoIP world runs on Intel *nix.
3. It is going to break at some point. Ensure you have redundancy.
4. The transition…
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Blue Box Podcast #48 out with our predictions for 2007, VoIP security news, etc. – and the frustrating audio issues in post-production
Continue Reading: Blue Box Podcast #48 out with our predictions for 2007, VoIP security news, etc. – and the frustrating audio issues in post-productionEarlier this week I uploaded Blue Box Podcast #48, where Jonathan and I go beyond just talking about the news to also review the “top VoIP security news stories of 2006” and also get into our predictions for 2007. My prediction #1 will be fairly obvious for anyone who has listened to the show for a while. We also cover the typical range of VoIP security stories, talk about OpenID for caller authentication and many more things.
This was a bit frustrating of a show to post-produce. Post-production is always a somewhat lengthy process, anyway, because I want the enhanced audio that you get from a wideband codec, which means that we use Skype. However, Skype creates its own challenges with voice that will simply fade away or get garbled. It’s fairly routine that we have to disconnect and reconnect a time or two within the space of the hour in which we are recording the show. (That’s actually apparent in this show where Jonathan’s voice is at a lower level and then suddenly is much louder. After the reconnect, he wound up with more volume.) If I could get the audio quality in a softphone without the fade outs,…
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Welcome back, Skype Journal!
Continue Reading: Welcome back, Skype Journal!It’s nice to see Phil Wolff and Jim Courtney are back online at Skype Journal. Phil explains a bit, and Jim gives a bit more detail, but the good news is that they’re back after not having any posts online since December 4th. Good to see them as I’ve definitely enjoyed reading their research and insight into Skype. Welcome back, guys!
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Mark Collier’s “VoIP Security Blog” gets a new makeover…
Continue Reading: Mark Collier’s “VoIP Security Blog” gets a new makeover…As I noted in my Voice of VOIPSA post today, Mark Collier (of hackingvoip.com fame) took some time in December to give www.voipsecurityblog.com a graphical makeover. He’s got a cute new header image and an updated picture of himself. Although, Mark, I really have to say… you are violating the security “code of dress”! Don’t you know that all good security people are supposed to wear black? Preferably a black turtleneck? Come on, now, you’re going against the motif!
Ah, well… in any event, if you haven’t checked out Mark’s blog, it’s a good one… even if he is wearing white. 🙂
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Quoted in VoIP News: “How Secure are your VoIP Calls?”
Continue Reading: Quoted in VoIP News: “How Secure are your VoIP Calls?”As I wrote over at Voice of VOIPSA, I was quoted in an article out today at VoIP News: How Secure Are Your VoIP Calls? The Voice of VOIPSA post has my (generally positive) reaction.
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