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Join Me On VUC Today At Noon US EDT To Talk IPv6, IoT, WebRTC and more…
Continue Reading: Join Me On VUC Today At Noon US EDT To Talk IPv6, IoT, WebRTC and more…Today at 12 noon US Eastern (in about 3.5 hours), I’ll be part of a panel on the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) talking about IPv6, WebRTC, the Internet of Things (IoT) and much, much more… you should be able to watch it live at live.vuc.me or embedded here:
VUC host Randy Resnick had a scheduled guest be unable to attend and so he asked a group of us to come on for what he is calling a “VUC Vision” session. I will be on there, as will, I believe, Tim Panton and a number of others. I expect the discussion should range over good variety of topics. It should be a good time… you’re welcome to join in the discussion.
It’s probably best to also join the IRC backchannel where links are shared, questions are answered and other comments occur. You also can visit the Google+ event page for the VUC session today where there may be additional links and info.
If you won’t be at your computer, you can also call in via:
- sip:200901@login.zipdx.com
- +1 (646) 475-2098
- Skype:vuc.me
The session will of course be recorded so you can listen/watch later.
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Talko Looks Very Cool, But Needed A Firewall Change To Work
Continue Reading: Talko Looks Very Cool, But Needed A Firewall Change To WorkThe big telecom story today certainly seems to the be launch of Ray Ozzie’s new “Talko” application for iOS. Tons of attention in the tech media, and many of my friends on social media have been trying it out. There’s a brilliant article posted on Medium about the “Brave New Phone Call” along with a great blog post from Ray Ozzie about how this new app will revolutionize the voice experience.I think Talko has great potential to do so, particularly after using it.
But…
… I had to change my firewall rules in order to make Talko work. 🙁
And I don’t know how long it will continue to work.
Perhaps worse than that… it wasn’t clear initially that I had a firewall problem. Frequent testing partner Jim Courtney sent me a message and after installing the Talko app on my iPhone I tried to talk to him, but all I seemed to be able to do was send him a voice message or a text message.
Subsequently I tried connecting to Tim Panton and again could only send voice messages. It made for a very asynchronous “walkie-talkie” style of communication that clearly seemed to not be what…
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Three Years At The Internet Society
Continue Reading: Three Years At The Internet SocietyToday marks three truly amazing years at the Internet Society. It was September 19, 2011, when I visited the main office in Reston, Virginia, and began this wonderful journey. I wrote back then about why I was taking this job to fight for the open Internet – and in truth the reasons haven’t changed.
If anything, the situation has only gotten worse.
There are now far more threats to what I’ve taken to calling the “Internet of Opportunity” … the kind of Internet we have today where anyone can start any kind of service or publish any kind of information.
Within the Internet Society (or “ISOC” as we are often called) we call this “permissionless innovation“, not needing to ask permission of anyone to innovate. If you have a new idea or a new service or product… you can just do it. You don’t have to plead with a “gatekeeper” or pay someone in order to launch your service out onto the Internet.
But that could change.
Some of the legacy telecommunications companies who have lost out on revenue as everyone has moved away from phone calls would really like their revenue back. Some of the entertainment and traditional media companies…
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Watch Live TODAY (Sept 19) – CITI State of Telecom 2014
Continue Reading: Watch Live TODAY (Sept 19) – CITI State of Telecom 2014What is the future of telecommunications and the Internet? As more entertainment moves to being over the Internet, what are the implications for the media and for the technology?Today, September 19, 2014, there is an interesting set of presentations happening at the Columbia Club in New York City, organized by the Columbia (University) Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) called the “CITI State of Telecom 2014”. Subtitled, “From the Internet of Science to The Internet of Next Generation Entertainment Implications for Content, Technology and Industry Consolidation“, the session description states:
The goal of the early Internet was to connect research institutions. Yet today 71% of all Internet traffic consists of video, games, and music, and that number is growing. This transition raises issues for media content, technology, industry consolidation, business strategy, and regulatory policy. Media companies, academics, policy makers, and technologists must think ahead.
You can watch it all live at:
http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/citisot14
The sessions are being recorded, too, and are available at that address.
The session agenda and list of all the speakers is available on the CITI event page. The quick summary is:
- 9:00am Welcome and Introduction of Topic
- 9:15am Session 1- Technology and business drivers of the transformation of…
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How Do We Define ‘SIP’ For Telecom In 2014?
Continue Reading: How Do We Define ‘SIP’ For Telecom In 2014?“What is a minimum set of specifications that a vendor must implement to be able to say that it is SIP-compliant?”A friend asked me that question and my response was:
It depends.
and even more unfortunately:
I don’t know.
It turns out to be a challenging question to answer… and it led me to ask:
- How do we define what “SIP” is for telecommunications in 2014?
- How do we help vendors move their products/services to be based on SIP?
- As we talk about “turning off the PSTN” and “moving all telecom to IP”, how can we make it easier for companies to switch to using SIP?
The reality is that being “SIP-compliant” does turn out to depend upon where in the larger SIP interconnection ecosystem the vendor is located.
Is the vendor:
- a SIP client, in terms of a “hard” phone, a softphone, or other application that is seeking to connect to a SIP server?
- a SIP server seeking to connect to a SIP “service provider” to have connectivity out to the PSTN and other SIP networks?
- a SIP service provider seeking to interconnect with other SIP service providers and to the PSTN?
- a middlebox such as a firewall…
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Walk-Through: Skype 5.4 For iPhone Lets You Host Audio Conference Calls
Continue Reading: Walk-Through: Skype 5.4 For iPhone Lets You Host Audio Conference CallsSkype released a new version 5.4 of it’s iPhone app that includes an interesting ability to host “group audio calls”. In a post on Skype’s “Garage & Updates” blog today, Skype’s Gary Wong writes that the goal of this release is “to make it easy for you to host a group audio call with just one tap.” They did that… and I’ll show that below in a series of images walking through the process.A couple of caveats and thoughts from the testing:
- As Gary Wong noted in his blog post this first release is limited to four people in a group audio call.
- It seems from the testing described below that the “group audio call” is limited to Skype users. I couldn’t find a way to add in a call to an external phone number.
- It also seems to be limited to the iPhone and is not yet available on the iPad.
- Image sharing isn’t seamless between Skype for iPhone users and Skype desktop users.
- The user interface was a bit troubling when switching between parts of the group call.
With that in mind, here are more details…
An Architecture Change For Audio Conferencing
What’s interesting is that this…
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Why Is Skype Forcing A Software Upgrade On All Of Us? (Plus The Community Outrage)
Continue Reading: Why Is Skype Forcing A Software Upgrade On All Of Us? (Plus The Community Outrage)Today when I opened up my laptop and switched to Skype, I found that I had been logged out:
The text in that image says:
We’ve signed you out because you’re using an outdated version of Skype. Download the latest version now.
Now, to be clear, I wasn’t using an ancient version of Skype. My laptop had version 6.3.0.602 from sometime in, say, March 2013 – so yes, it was over a year old, but the thing with Skype is that it has had a history of always “just working”, which perhaps we as users have gotten used to. The upgrade went fine on my MacBook Pro that is still running Mountain Lion (10.8) and I’m now using Skype version “6.15 (334)”.
Community Outrage
In a Skype public chat in which I participate a number of other users said they’d been logged out – and looking in the Windows Skype community and Mac Skype community web forums I see MANY messages from people who are experiencing problems over the past week. The frustration is even visible in the Linux Skype community (a community Skype has often ignored), where a staff moderator posted last Friday, August 1, this message:
From today,…
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What is “5G” Wireless Technology? Watch LIVE in 2 hours to learn more…
Continue Reading: What is “5G” Wireless Technology? Watch LIVE in 2 hours to learn more…What is “fifth-generation” (5G) wireless technology? In about 2 hours at 12noon EDT (16:00 UTC) today, July 24, 2014, there will be a live video stream of a presentation happening at IETF 90 in Toronto, Canada. You can watch the live video on the IETF Google+ Page and also embedded in this blog post below (but check the Google+ page for any updates). The session description is:Discussions on fifth generation (5g) wireless access has rapidly intensified during the latest two years. 5G wireless access is seen as the long-term enabler of the overall networked society, not only providing enhanced mobile broadband access but being a tool to provide wireless connectivity for any kind of application.
This speech will provide an overview of the state of 5G efforts around the world. We will discuss the specific requirements and challenges being identified for 5G wireless access and the different technology components and alternatives being considered. We will also outline possible time schedule for 5G in ITU and 3GPP.
Given that so many people are getting their Internet access through mobile networks (and increasingly will be doing so in the future), I think it’s extremely important to understand where these mobile technologies…
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Live In 2 Hours – Today’s VUC Call About The Future of Video With Bernard Aboba and Emil Ivov
Continue Reading: Live In 2 Hours – Today’s VUC Call About The Future of Video With Bernard Aboba and Emil IvovIn just about 2 hours at 12 noon US Eastern time the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) should have an extremely interesting session about “The Future of Video” featuring Bernard Aboba and Emil Ivov. Bernard works for Microsoft on their Lync products and has also been extremely involved in the IETF, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and other efforts. Emil is the had of the Jitsi project and has been doing amazing things with video conferencing.You can watch today’s call on the Google+ Page or directly on YouTube:
It’s probably best to also join the IRC backchannel where links are shared, questions are answered and other comments occur.
If you won’t be at your computer, you can also call in via:
- sip:200901@login.zipdx.com
- +1 (646) 475-2098
- Skype:vuc.me
The session will of course be recorded so you can listen/watch later.
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Disruptive Telephony
Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…