Category: VoIP
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VOIPSA best practices mailing list growing fast…
Continue Reading: VOIPSA best practices mailing list growing fast…(Originally posted at http://dyork.livejournal.com/250011.html)
Publicity helps, of course. Start talking about something and the people start signing up. Overnight the VOIPSA “best practices” mailing list has grown from 26 to 65 subscribers, with more subscription notices coming in each time I look at my email. This certainly reflects the way I distributed the word… I’m sure many people, myself included, route the VOIPSEC mailing list into a folder where they read it when they can. Or at least they read other messages before that of a “mailing list”. So I expect I’ll continue to see subscriptions coming in over the next couple of days.
As the mailing list administrator, I naturally receive the subscription notifications and I have to say that there are some pretty impressive people and companies among those who have subscribed. I think we now have one or more representatives of basically all of the major IP-PBX vendors, a good number of security vendors, univerisites, US government agencies, a few financial institutions (good to have, given the natural security paranoia of banks)… plus a whole host of people that are using various Gmail, Yahoomail, etc. addresses that give nothing away about their identity. (I would… -
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VOIPSA “VoIP Security Best Practices” project to launch this week
Continue Reading: VOIPSA “VoIP Security Best Practices” project to launch this week(Originally posted to http://dyork.livejournal.com/249531.html)
Cross-posting from Voice of VOIPSA where I posted this earlier today:
I am pleased to announce that the VOIPSA Best Practices project will be kicking off this week. As noted in the project description, the goal is to gather into one document the core set of “best common practices” that can be used to address the threats to VoIP that were outlined in the VoIP Security Threat Taxonomy project. I’m still making some changes to the wiki in advance of the formal project kickoff, but right now you can subscribe to the best practices email list if you would like to assist in the project. All are welcome, regardless of experience level. If you don’t want to join a mailing list, updates will be posted here on this blog from time to time.
I went into a bit more detail in a subsequent post to the VOIPSEC mailing list, mentioning, for instance, that people who think they will be interested in editing/commenting on the actual text should make sure they are registered in the VOIPSA wiki.
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The intersection of VoIP and grocery stores? In Peru?
Continue Reading: The intersection of VoIP and grocery stores? In Peru?(Originally posted at http://dyork.livejournal.com/249301.html)
Progressive Grocer doesn’t immediately leap to my mind as a place that would be writing about VoIP, but here they were writing about Peru’s Number 2 supermarket chain deploying VoIP. On second thought, though, it makes sense that “progressive” food retailers would look at VoIP as a way to enhance/improve their operations. In any event, kudos to Mitel’s partner in Peru, Data Voice, as well as our South American team, for winning the business. Our press release has more information (obviously from a Mitel perspective).
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Hosted VoIP application provider Natural Convergence announces $10M in funding
Continue Reading: Hosted VoIP application provider Natural Convergence announces $10M in funding(Originally posted at http://dyork.livejournal.com/248589.html)
Kudos to David Cork and his team over at Natural Convergence Inc(NCI) for their announcement of $10 million USD in funding. Given that they are a sister company[1], I’ve met a good number of their folks over the years and have been quite impressed with both their staff and their technology.[2]
Their approach to the SMB space is a very interesting one in that the application they provide allows service providers to have an offering that allows small businesses to replace their aging key systems with new VoIP systems… without having to take on the administration of an IP PBX. The SMB gets the advantages of VoIP, such as new apps or being able to have an extension basically anywhere in the world that there is an IP address (from the simple case of the owners’ homes to cases like remote office or workers), without having to invest in any on-premise equipment or having to manage the software. So a service provider that wants to roll out a VoIP offering to small businesses can just buy the NCI solution and start rolling it out.
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Click-to-Call, Google Maps, security – and the fundamental disruption to the carrier telephony space
Continue Reading: Click-to-Call, Google Maps, security – and the fundamental disruption to the carrier telephony space(Originally posted at http://dyork.livejournal.com/247741.html)Over on “Voice of VOIPSA“, Dustin Trammel wrote a long post called “Click-to-Harrass” that discusses “click-to-call” services and specifically the new Google Maps click to call capability. I wrote a comment that inadvertantly wound up being almost as long as Dustin’s article. Given that it had been a topic I was thinking about writing about here anyway, I decided to cross-post my comment here as well. Dustin,
Nice piece. TechCrunch also had a post yesterday speculating that Google had pulled Click-To-Call because of harrassment issues, although it seems to have just been a temporary service outage as the service is back running today (used it myself this morning).
The interesting thing, though, is that you can see the immense value to the consumer for this type of service. Over the past few days I’ve been testing it myself with calling various local businesses here in Vermont. I have to say it has worked great. Find them in Google Maps, click the “call” button, wait for the ring of my phone, press the “Talk” button on my wireless handset and… ta da… I’m connecting to the business. It is a little…