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Making SIP Phone Calls Over IPv6 Using Linphone on MacOS X, Windows, Linux
Continue Reading: Making SIP Phone Calls Over IPv6 Using Linphone on MacOS X, Windows, LinuxWant a softphone that can make calls on IPv6 using the SIP protocol? I was… and kept striking out until I discovered that Linphone: a) ran on more than just Linux (it also supports MacOS X and Windows); and b) worked beautifully with IPv6. I wrote up my findings in this post and included some screenshots:How To Make SIP Calls Over IPv6 Using Linphone (on Mac, Windows, Linux)
It’s quite simple to use (assuming you have IPv6 connectivity) and worked very well in my testing. A big benefit to me was that Linphone lets you do direct computer-to-computer SIP calls, without requiring you to register with a SIP server or other IP-PBX. This gets around the need to have an IP-PBX that is IPv6-connected, which could be a different challenge.
As I noted in the blog post, I am definitely interested in any info people have about other softphones that support IPv6. Jitsi (the renamed “SIP Communicator”) indicates that it has IPv6 support, but it requires registration with a SIP server, and I don’t have one of those running on IPv6. If you have info about other softphones (or other VoIP endpoints), please do leave comments either here or…
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Reminder: Free Training on IPv6 and Communications Apps (including SIP) on Thursday, May 5, 2011
Continue Reading: Reminder: Free Training on IPv6 and Communications Apps (including SIP) on Thursday, May 5, 2011As I mentioned last week, I’m speaking in a “Developer Jam Session” on this Thursday, May 5, 2011 on the topic of:IPv6 and How It Impacts Communication Applications
I’ll briefly cover IPv6 basics, talk about how it impacts building communication applications and the SIP protocol and then have some demonstrations of SIP-over-IPv6. You can learn more about the session and register on the Jam Session web page.
It’s free to attend the session – and it will be archived for later viewing if you can’t get there live during the session.
It should be an educational session and I expect I’ll be writing a good bit more about IPv6 in the weeks and months ahead. (You can see some of my writing over on Voxeo’s blog at http://blogs.voxeo.com/speakingofstandards/tag/IPv6/ and here on this blog at /2012/05/17/ipv6/)
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Mitel Reorganizes – President Leaves, Business Units Simplified, More Changes
Continue Reading: Mitel Reorganizes – President Leaves, Business Units Simplified, More ChangesMitel today announced a series of organizational changes, including the departure of Paul Butcher, Mitel’s President and Chief Operating Officer. The news release indicates they are merging together various sales organizations and simplifying the business units into three:- Mitel Communications Solutions: responsible for delivering unified communications and collaboration products and services to businesses.
- Mitel NetSolutions: responsible for network and hosted services, mobile services, and broadband connectivity.
- Mitel DataNet: responsible for the distribution of third-party products to partners and customers.
It also briefly mentions the departure of Paul Butcher as of Saturday. From a product point-of-view, there were two statements I found interesting:
- “a re-direction of our R&D investment to products serving the high-growth market of 100 to 2,500 user organizations.” Which makes sense, given that this area is one in which Mitel has traditionally done well.
- “we intend to exploit our significant market leadership in voice virtualization.” i.e. continuing their partnership with VMware. Again this also makes sense given that people are looking for solutions to deploy more applications with less hardware… and looking at virtualization as one of the potential solutions.
To me, all of this is naturally to be expected after Mitel appointed Richard McBee the new CEO…
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Watch the Royal Wedding? Or talk about XMPP? Join VUC on April 29th for an XMPP-fest
Continue Reading: Watch the Royal Wedding? Or talk about XMPP? Join VUC on April 29th for an XMPP-festSo which would you rather do? Watch the Royal Wedding? Or talk about all things XMPP with a bunch of VoIP and telephony geeks?If you’d prefer the latter, then join the VUC conf call at 12 noon US Eastern on Friday, April 29, for a lengthy dive into all things XMPP. (XMPP being the “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol” originally known as the Jabber protocol.)
As noted on the show page the session will feature Emil Ivov of Jitsi.org (formerly SIP Communicator) and Thiago Rocha Camargo (of Nimbuzz) and is going to cover a whole range of topics:
- What is XMPP/Jabber
- How does one do telephony with XMPP
- How does XMPP/Jingle compare to SIP and (why) is it better.
- Who supports it
- Facebook and their XMPP gateway
- Google Talk
- Nimbuzz – one of the biggest VoIP providers using XMPP as their primary protocol
- NAT traversal
- How does one do it with XMPP
- Again, how is this part different from what we have with SIP
- Media relaying with TURN and Jingle Nodes
I am a big fan of XMPP on the IM/messaging side so I’m very much looking forward to this conversation.
You can join the live call via SIP,…
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Interested in IPv6 and SIP? I’ll be speaking in a free webinar on May 5th…
Continue Reading: Interested in IPv6 and SIP? I’ll be speaking in a free webinar on May 5th…Are you interested in understanding how IPv6 affects SIP and other VoIP protocols? If so, you may be interested in a free webinar I’m giving on Thursday, May 5, 2011. The topic is:IPv6 and How It Impacts Communication Applications
It’s part of Voxeo’s “Developer Jam Session” webinar series and is targeted at a technical audience. I’ll briefly cover IPv6 basics, talk about how it impacts SIP and then have some demonstrations of SIP-over-IPv6. You can learn more about the session and register on the Jam Session web page.
As I mentioned last week, I’m down outside of Washington, DC, right now at the SIPNOC event… and IPv6 is a topic of discussion tomorrow (Tuesday). Naturally, I’ll be in those sessions. (In fact, I’m now moderating that BOF…)
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Where Was I in the Summer of 2010? My iPhone Tells Me! (Courtesy of iPhoneTracker)
Continue Reading: Where Was I in the Summer of 2010? My iPhone Tells Me! (Courtesy of iPhoneTracker)Where did I travel with my iPhone? Given all the recent kerfuffle over the logging of location data on an iPhone, I naturally had to try it out. First stop was getting the Mac OS X app at:http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/
The app itself is super simple… simply launch the app and it goes off and finds your iPhone backups, extracts the location data and shows you a map.
In my case, the Mac I ran the app on only had data from my iPhone 3G and only for the period of time from when I updated it to iOS 4 in July 2010 through when I stopped using it in September 2010 (because I replaced it with an iPhone 4). Still, the data is kind of fun to see. Here’s what it looked like overall:
During that time period, I traveled down to Voxeo’s corporate office in Orlando, went to a SIPit test event over on the New Hampshire seacoast, and spent a chunk of time in New York City attending SpeechTEK 2010.
Diving into the data a bit more, here’s a close-up of the northeast. It’s amusing to see the train trip I took down to NYC (for SpeechTEK) as…
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Speaking at SIPNOC Next Week on SIP Interoperability and Security (and Joining an IPv6 BOF)
Continue Reading: Speaking at SIPNOC Next Week on SIP Interoperability and Security (and Joining an IPv6 BOF)Next week in the DC area (Herndon, VA) there will be a unique event taking place – SIPNOC: The SIP Network Operators Conference. This event is organized by the SIP Forum and will bring together a great collection of service providers and carriers to share and learn from each other about the realities behind providing SIP-based services today. It will be a great place for those providing real-time communications over IP networks to look at how we can continue to expand and improve the services.There’s a packed agenda at the event that includes many great sessions I’m looking forward to attending. I’ll be there speaking about SIP interoperability and some of the lessons we’ve learned at Voxeo as we’ve interconnected our SIP cloud to that of so many carriers. I’ll also be donning my VOIP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) hat to participate on a panel about security.
And naturally given my intense interest in IPv6 these days (and all my writing about IPv6, I’ll of course be joining in to the “IPv6 Readiness” BOF planned for Tuesday, April 26.
I’m very much looking forward to this first SIPNOC event… if you are already planning to be there please do say…
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Today’s VUC Call: InPhonex Talking About Televate
Continue Reading: Today’s VUC Call: InPhonex Talking About TelevateToday’s VUC conf call at 12 noon US Eastern will feature guests from Inphonex speaking about their new “Televate” system. From the abstract:InPhonex recently launched Televate, a cloud-based telephony system that combines the business-communications capabilities of a hosted PBX, hosted IVR and hosted CRM. Televate, to be sold through channel partners, is designed to help SMBs appear larger than they actually are and ramp up productivity to compete more effectively. The service works anywhere inside or outside the office, enabling SMBs to support global operations and customer bases.
I am not familiar with the product myself, so I’ll be joining in to listen and learn.
You can join the live call via SIP, Skype or the regular old PSTN. There is also an IRC backchannel that gets heavy usage during the call. It will be recorded so you can always listen later.
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Want To Learn Best Practices in Multi-Channel App Creation? (Voice, SMS, IM, Twitter, etc.)
Continue Reading: Want To Learn Best Practices in Multi-Channel App Creation? (Voice, SMS, IM, Twitter, etc.)Want to know industry best practices in creating apps that work across voice, text messaging/SMS, IM and social channels like Twitter? Would you like to know some of the latest research on what channels customers are using to communicate with companies?Next Tuesday, April 19, at 11am US Eastern time, I will be joining an industry analyst in a webinar called “Best Practices in Multi-Channel Customer Interaction“. We’ll be covering topics such as:
- what communication channels customers are choosing for interacting with businesses
- best practices you can implement for each channel
- where customer interaction is heading, with particular focus on social and mobile channels
- how you can create applications that interact with customers across multiple channels
- best practices in cross-channel analytics and integration into business intelligence systems
I think you’ll find it quite educational if you’re wondering how to expand your customer interaction beyond simply voice or web. The session will have some solid quantitative data and will take a look at what’s ahead in terms of customer interaction.
Registration is free and simple and is open to anyone. We’ll also be recording the session and it will be available for listening after the fact if you can’t attend…
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Comparing Skype 5.x For Mac And Windows – Jim Courtney Makes Some Recommendations
Continue Reading: Comparing Skype 5.x For Mac And Windows – Jim Courtney Makes Some RecommendationsWhat did Skype do right in Skype 5.x for Windows that they need to bring across over into Skype 5.x for Mac OS X?That’s essentially the question that Jim Courtney has taken on in two new posts building off his initial post I wrote about last week. He continues the series with:
- Skype for Mac 5: Returning to Ecstasy – Step 1 – Consistency
- Skype for Mac 5: Returning to Ecstasy – Step 2 – The Conversation Pane
No longer having any Windows machines in my life, I hadn’t ever seen the Skype 5.x client for Windows so it was useful to see Jim’s comparison. The “Compact View” he describes in Step 1 would go very far to addressing my greatest issue with Skype 5.x for Mac, namely the ability to have multiple chats open in separate Windows.
I applaud Jim for writing this series of articles and I do hope Skype is listening…
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