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Heading out to ClueCon 2008, Telephony Developer Conference, this week..
Continue Reading: Heading out to ClueCon 2008, Telephony Developer Conference, this week..This afternoon I’ll be heading to the airport to fly out to Chicago to be part of ClueCon this week. Haven’t heard of ClueCon before? Here’s the quick summary:ClueCon – is an annual 3-Day Telephony User and Developer Conference bringing together the entire spectrum of Telephony from TDM circuits to VoIP and everything in between. The presentations and discussions will cover several open source telephony applications such as Asterisk/Callweaver, Kamailio (formerly OpenSER), Bayonne, YATE and FreeSWITCH.
Billed as the “Telephony Developer Conference” it primarily focuses on the whole world of open source telephony.
I’ll be there as part of two panels. First, tomorrow I’ll be joining fellow VoIP bloggers Andy Abramson and Thomas Howe on a “VoIP Roundtable” to talk about current industry themes and trends. Then on Thursday I’ll be part of a “VoIP Security Roundtable” talking about… gee… can you guess?
It should be a fun event… I’m looking forward to catching up with Andy, Thomas, Moshe Yudkowsky, Jon Todd and several others. There are also some folks on the schedule with whom I have corresponded but never physically me, so that will be nice as well. If any of you reading this will also be…
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Pushing voice applications “into the cloud”… a new article series I’m starting…
Continue Reading: Pushing voice applications “into the cloud”… a new article series I’m starting…So what are the steps of pushing your voice applications out “into the cloud”? Where do you begin?As you all probably know and as I mentioned over on Voxeo’s ‘Voxeo Talks’ blog, I have a fascination with network clouds (and cloud computing), and in the latest sign of that, I’ve kicked off a 4-part series over on the TMCnet IVR Community that Voxeo is sponsoring. In the first article in the series, titled “Pushing IVR Into The Cloud, Part 1: Why Make The Move?“, I talk about why you might want to consider moving your voice application out into “the cloud”. Here’s part of the intro:
In this four-part series, I’m going to explore what we are calling cloud computing and how you can push your IVR applications out into the network cloud. First, in this article, I’ll look at what cloud computing is and why people should think about it for IVR. Second, I’ll look at the security issues and what questions you need to be asking when considering a vendor for pushing your application into the cloud. After that I’ll discuss the key role that open standards play in allowing you to avoid vendor lock-in and…
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Want to understand Peer-to-Peer SIP (P2PSIP)? Listen to this podcast…
Continue Reading: Want to understand Peer-to-Peer SIP (P2PSIP)? Listen to this podcast…What if we could design SIP-based VOIP systems… but without any servers? What if we could have SIP endpoints just communicate with each other and “self-organize” into networks? What if we could essentially build an open standards-based version of Skype? How would it work? Who would use it? How would we secure it?Those are all questions we discussed in the Squawk Box podcast / interview I did with David Bryan on July 10th. David is the co-chair of the IETF’s P2PSIP Working Group and also the CEO of SIPeerior Technologies. It was a great interview where we covered all these questions and much, much more.
P2PSIP, to me, represents one of the most exciting new directions for SIP research and is something I’m definitely following closely. I wrote about my interest in P2PSIP clouds (and connecting them to larger clouds) at some length over on Voxeo’s Speaking of Standards blog… it’s all about clouds of SIP communication… and how we weave them all together. It’s a fascinating time.
If you’d like to understand what P2PSIP is all about, please do definitely check out the Squawk Box podcast… and then, if you are so inclined, head over to P2PSIP.org to…
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FYI – I’ll be out at OSCON next week in Portland talking about voice mashups…
Continue Reading: FYI – I’ll be out at OSCON next week in Portland talking about voice mashups…If any of you reading this will be out at O’Reilly’s OSCON Open Source Convention next week (July 21-25) in Portland, Oregon, I (Dan York) will be there giving a talk on Wednesday on “Mashing Up Voice and the Web Through Open Source and XML“. Here’s the abstract:With over 4.5 billion mobile and fixed phones out there as of November 2007, the phone represents the most ubiquitous user interface out there. As “mashups” on the Web let us quickly and easily access information from multiple data sources, how do we extend those mashups to the world of the phone? How do we bring the old world of voice and telephony into the new world of the Web, social networks, and social media? And how do we do that using open source tools and open standards? In this session, Dan York will introduce participants to the world of “voice mashups” and how applications can be quickly built on top of open source and open standards. Topics covered will include:
- The technology and architecture behind voice mashups
- The open standards in voice of VoiceXML, Call Control XML (CCXML), the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and new standards emerging from the Internet…
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Sangoma acquires Paraxip… open source-focused hardware meets enterprise software
Continue Reading: Sangoma acquires Paraxip… open source-focused hardware meets enterprise softwareEarlier this week there was the announcement that Sangoma was acquiring Montreal-based startup Paraxip for $4.8 million which was interesting to me on a couple of levels. First, I’ve known David Mandelstam from Sangoma for now around 8 years since way back when I was part of the open source startup e-smith up in Ottawa. David and I have continued to meet at trade shows over all these years and he’s a great guy. So I’m pleased for him that Sangoma is growing.It’s also an intriguing transaction because it moves Sangoma is a different direction from its past… they have primarily been a provider of PSTN-connection hardware with a heavy focus in recent years on Asterisk and open source. Now, with Paraxip, they move into Windows-based enterprise software! As Jon Arnold points out, the two companies already announced last September the integration of their products, so that part of an acquisition has already been done.
In any event, I’m pleased for them all that this has worked out and I wish them all the best. Here is some good analysis of the deal:
- Garrett Smith: Sangoma Broaden’s Their Horizons With Paraxip Deal
- Jon Arnold: Sangoma Acquires Paraxip – More…
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Congrats to my Canadian friends on Rogers dropping iPhone and RIM charges…
Continue Reading: Congrats to my Canadian friends on Rogers dropping iPhone and RIM charges…Having lived in Canada for 5 years and dealt with Rogers Communications being really the only GSM game in town, I understood the jubilation yesterday of Canadians like Jim Courtney when Rogers dropped their prices for iPhone plans. Faced with a lot of negative publicity in advance of tomorrow’s iPhone launch in Canada… faced with 60,000 people signing an online petition… and facing Apple redirecting some iPhones away from Canada over to Europe… Rogers caved and dropped it’s prices.Even better for Canadians, the price drop is also in effect for Blackberry users!
Jim’s post has all the details and pointers.
Go, Canada! (You, too, can now join in iPhone mania… 🙂
Technorati Tags: iphone, apple, rim, blackberry, canada, rogers
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Preview of today’s Squawk Box (July 8) – WiFi in cars, answering phones with fingers in your ear…
Continue Reading: Preview of today’s Squawk Box (July 8) – WiFi in cars, answering phones with fingers in your ear…Is the fact that Chrysler is turning some of their 2009 cars into WiFi hotspots a good thing? And would you really want to answer a phone call by sticking your finger in your ear?
Those are some of the topics we’re going to be discussing on today’s Squawk Box conference call/podcast at 11am US Eastern time. You can see the links to the articles and join the conversation through either:
- http://apps.facebook.com/calliflower/conf/show/34611 (if you have a Facebook account)
- http://apps.calliflower.com/conf/show/34611 (if you want to use the non-Facebook web interface)
Here’s my video preview of the show:
I realized today that I haven’t really been posting these previews here, but should… so I’ll be doing more of that. I look forward to our 11am US Eastern conversation…
Technorati Tags: squawk box, dan york, chrysler, wifi, wearable computing, NTT DoCoMo
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Is voicemail dead? Our Squawk Box discussion…
Continue Reading: Is voicemail dead? Our Squawk Box discussion…On yesterday’s Squawk Box podcast, we had a lively and enjoyable conversation on the subject of “Is Voicemail Dead?” – building off of Michael Arrington’s recent TechCrunch post and Andy Abramson’s followup post. It was a fun conversation with different perspectives that definitely highlights that the way in which we are using voice messaging is definitely changing. You can listen to the show from the Saunderslog page or in iTunes. The Calliflower show notes page also has more links and a transcript of the live chat during the call.Technorati Tags: squawk box, voicemail, telephony, phone, dan york, telecommunications, voice messaging
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Skype 4.0 beta discussion on Squawk Box podcast now available
Continue Reading: Skype 4.0 beta discussion on Squawk Box podcast now availableI realized today that although I wrote that Skype’s Mark Bartlett would be joining a Squawk Box conf call back on Friday, June 20th, I never followed up with the link to the show.That discussion about the Skype 4.0 beta is available from Saunderslog.com. I could not participate in the actual call, but it sounded interesting. I’m still not thrilled by Skype’s cross-platform “answer”, but it is what it is. Jim Courtney over at Skype Journal has a longer writeup about the call which covers some of the main points of the call.
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Squawk Box conf call/podcast calls this week – please join us!
Continue Reading: Squawk Box conf call/podcast calls this week – please join us!With Alec Saunders away on vacation, I agreed to step in to host our daily “Squawk Box” conference calls this week and next. I’m working on lining up some interesting guests and in the meantime we’ll also have our regular tech conversations that have always seemed to go well. (FYI, if you or someone you know would like to be a special guest either this week or next, please do let me know.) I’m particular excited about our show on Tuesday, July 1st, where we’ll have author and researcher Jonathan Zittrain on our show. I’ve started reading his new book, “The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It“, and I have to say that so far it strikes at the core of what we’ve talked about frequently on the show… the move from “walled gardens” to open networks and now the frightening potential re-emergence of walled gardens and proprietary “lock-in” business models. More information about the book – and video of Jonathan Zittrain – can be found on: http://futureoftheinternet.org/ As has been the practice, here are the URLs for the shows this week – I’m looking forward to seeing many of you on the calls: MONDAY…
Disruptive Telephony
Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…