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Cisco’s web conferencing to support Jabber clients
Continue Reading: Cisco’s web conferencing to support Jabber clientsAs the IM protocol wars continue with AOL, MSN/WLM, Yahoo, etc. all just now starting to actually allow interconnection between their competing IM systems, I have to confess to always having been a personal fan of Jabber and it’s XMPP protocol. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s got an open source side to it. Maybe that it’s XML based. Maybe it’s just that I liked that anyone could set up a server and start using it. In any event, I’ve always been a huge fan (and generally have Psi running with a Jabber ID of dyork@jabber.org).
So with that in mind I was pleased to see the announcement yesterday that Cisco’s Unified MeetingPlace will now support Jabber clients through the Jabber XCP framework. From what I can see of the announcement, Jabber clients will now be able to interoperate with Cisco’s collaboration server. What I’m naturally curious about is to wonder whether this is limited to Jabber’s commercial Jabber Messenger product (through some means) or is XMPP support being baked into Cisco’s product natively, in which case conceiveably any XMPP client could connect to the server. There, are, naturally, many Jabber clients out there (including, interestingly, Google’s GoogleTalk…).
Interesting…
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Rich Tehrani learns the passionate power of Sir Terry Matthews
Continue Reading: Rich Tehrani learns the passionate power of Sir Terry MatthewsRich Tehrani now understands why I and many others continue to work for Mitel. Rich’s post does indeed capture some of the infectious enthusiasm and passion that spreads from Terry Matthews on down into the organization – as well as into the other sister companies. The telcom revolution is well underway… and it’s definitely fun to be a part of an organization that has that vision.
P.S. Rich also wrote about Terry’s other investments in real estate and, yes, Rich, I can understand why you liked the Brookstreet Hotel. When I up visiting Ottawa I often stay there and yes, it is definitely a very nice place to stay.
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Special "Still Secure" podcast episode offers 2006 review and 2007 predictions
Continue Reading: Special "Still Secure" podcast episode offers 2006 review and 2007 predictionsRight before the holidays I had sent in to Alan Shimel a contribution for a special episode 26 of his “Still Secure After All These Years” podcast. In this episode, he asked a number of us in security field to give their thoughts on major issues of 2006 and predictions for 2007. Mine were predictably about VoIP…. but many others ran across the whole field of information security.
Kudos to Alan for pulling it all together and producing the episode. Makes for interesting listening.
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Testing a post from Windows Live Writer
Continue Reading: Testing a post from Windows Live WriterAs I continue the evolution of this blog, I’m experimenting with other offline editors… and so this is posted from Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer.
So far it seems to be an interesting interface. The Web preview capability is interesting because it actually gives a better preview of what it would look like than either LiveJournal directly or Semagic can give. Fascinating.
Any comments about use of Windows Live Writer are certainly welcome. I’m down to WLW or ecto for offline editing… I was leaning toward ecto but I’ve had a few funky issues with switching to HTML mode there, so I’m therefore checking out WLW.
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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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Disruptive Telephony
Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…