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You Can Now Call Into Google+ From Regular Phones – Google Connects Google Voice To Hangouts
Continue Reading: You Can Now Call Into Google+ From Regular Phones – Google Connects Google Voice To HangoutsWant to hear the sound of Google further disrupting the world of telecom? If you have a Google Voice number and also use Google+ (as I do) with the Hangouts feature enabled, you’ll soon be hearing this new sound if you haven’t already.
UPDATE: I have written a follow-up post responding to several comments and expanding on several points.An Unexpected Ringing
Yesterday a random PR person called the phone number in the sidebar of this blog to pitch me on why I should write about her client. This phone number is through Google Voice and I knew by the fact that my cell phone and Skype both started ringing simultaneously that someone was calling that number.
But as I was deciding whether or not to actually answer the call, I realized that there was another “ringing” sound coming from my computer that I had not heard before. Flipping quickly through my browser windows I found my Google+ window where this box appeared at the top of the “Hangouts” sidebar on the right:
Now, of course, I HAD to answer the call, even though I knew from experience that most calls to that number are PR pitches. I clicked…
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At SIPNOC 2013 This Week Talking About VoIP And IPv6, DNSSEC … and Security, Of Course
Continue Reading: At SIPNOC 2013 This Week Talking About VoIP And IPv6, DNSSEC … and Security, Of CourseOne of the conferences I’ve found most interesting each year is the SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC) produced by the SIP Forum, a nonprofit industry association. Part of my interest is that it is only an educational conference, i.e. there’s no massive exhibit floor or anything… it’s all about education. It also brings together pretty much all the major players in the “IP communications” space – certainly within North America but also from around the world.
I’ll be there this week in Herndon, Virginia, talking about how VoIP can work over IPv6 and how DNSSEC can make VoIP more secure. The sessions I am directly involved with include:
- Panel Discussion: Anatomy of a VoIP DMZ
- VoIP Security BOF
- Panel Discussion: IPv6 and SIP – Myth or Reality?
- Who Are You Really Calling? How DNSSEC Can Help
There are quite a range of other topics on the SIPNOC 2013 agenda, including a number of other talks related to security.
It should be quite a good show and I’m very much looking forward to it. I’m particularly looking forward to my “DNSSEC and VoIP” talk on Thursday as that is a topic I’ve not presented on before… but I think…
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Heading to Beijing For ICANN 46
Continue Reading: Heading to Beijing For ICANN 46Tomorrow morning I’m starting a trip to Beijing for the 46th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a.k.a. “ICANN”. ICANN is the organization at the heart of the Domain Name System (DNS) and I’ll be there specifically to take part in several DNSSEC workshops related to how to better secure DNS. I’ll also attend an IPv6 workshop and some of the many other meetings scheduled for the week-long event.
These are very good technical meetings in the midst of all the other business-related meetings at an ICANN event. You can participate remotely if you are interested to do so (details are in those links).
Some colleagues of mine prepared the “Internet Society’s Rough Guide to ICANN 46’s Hot Topics” which gives a sense of what those of us from the Internet Society will be doing there at ICANN.
ICANN meetings are always crazy-busy and I’m looking forward to meeting up with people I know from a variety of contexts. We’ve got an outstanding program lined up for the DNSSEC workshop, so that will be a great event.
I’ve never been to China, so this should be an interesting experience. I…
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Video Interview: Emil Ivov about how the Jitsi softphone works with IPv6 and DNSSEC
Continue Reading: Video Interview: Emil Ivov about how the Jitsi softphone works with IPv6 and DNSSECHow does the Jitsi softphone work with IPv6? And what role could DNSSEC play with VoIP? At IETF86 earlier this month, I sat down with Emil Ivov, project leader of the Jitsi Project to talk about a wide range of topics including how Jitsi got started and why it does so much with IPv6 (interesting reason!), what they are looking to do with Jitsi now, the role of DNSSEC and why they added that support to Jitsi… and much, much more… I quite enjoyed talking to Emil and the Jitsi project is certainly one that I will continue to watch – and use!If you found this post interesting or useful, please consider either:
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Watch/Listen Live – FCC CTO Henning Schulzrinne on “The End of Plain Old Telephone System (POTS)” at 5:30pm EDT Tonight at IETF86
Continue Reading: Watch/Listen Live – FCC CTO Henning Schulzrinne on “The End of Plain Old Telephone System (POTS)” at 5:30pm EDT Tonight at IETF86In about 15 minutes, at 5:30pm US Eastern At around 6:00pm US EDT, Henning Schulzrinne, CTO of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be speaking on “The End of Plain Old Telephone System (POTS): Transitioning the PSTN to IP” at the technical plenary of the 86th IETF meeting happening this week in Orlando, Florida. You can listen or watch here:
- Audio stream – either Caribbean 3 or Caribbean 4
- Jabber chat: plenary@jabber.ietf.org
- Meetecho conferencing (webinar)
Henning’s slides are also available for download.
It should be quite an interesting session!
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VUC Today: The Jitsi VoIP Softphone – Join The Call To Learn More!
Continue Reading: VUC Today: The Jitsi VoIP Softphone – Join The Call To Learn More!What is new with the Jitsi softphone these days? What new capabilities does it have as it continues to expand its support of SIP, XMPP and other protocols?
I’ve long been a fan and user of Jitsi, in part because it supports IPv6 and is the only VoIP softphone I know of right now that supports DNSSEC, something I’m continuing to experiment with, so I’m looking forward to today’s “VoIP Users Conference (VUC) call at 12 noon US Eastern – about 2.5 hours from now.
You can watch it live via a Google+ Hangout On Air, or call in (potentially using Jitsi!) via:
- sip:200901@login.zipdx.com
- +1 (646) 475-2098
- Skype:vuc.me
There’s also an IRC backchannel where links are shared, questions are answered and other comments occur.
And for those of you using Google+, there is a Google+ Event you can join.
It should be a good show! (And yes, you can watch it / listen to it later…)
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“Catching Up With Dan York” On The VUC Call Tomorrow At Noon US Eastern – Please Join Us!
Continue Reading: “Catching Up With Dan York” On The VUC Call Tomorrow At Noon US Eastern – Please Join Us!Want to learn more about what I’m doing these days? Both with my work with the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme as well as other various projects? And what any of that has to do with VoIP and real-time communications these days?If so, join us tomorrow, Friday, March 1, at 12 noon US Eastern on the “VoIP Users Conference (VUC)”. You can join a Google+ Hangout, or call in via:
- sip:200901@login.zipdx.com
- +1 (646) 475-2098
- Skype:vuc.me
There’s also an IRC backchannel where links are shared, questions are answered and other comments occur.
As long time readers know, I’ve been a huge fan of – and participant in, when I’ve been able to – the VUC calls and community that Randy Resnick has been spearheading since March 2007.
I don’t remember when precisely I first started joining in… maybe sometime in 2007 or 2008. In those early days (and still today) it was a great place to discuss open source telephony solutions like Asterisk, Freeswitch and others. The VUC became a place where many of us gathered weekly to learn about the latest technologies from various projects or vendors… and just to chat about various topics relating to VoIP, Unified Communications, SIP…
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WebRTC Passes Huge Milestone In Rewiring The Web – Video Calls Between Chrome and Firefox
Continue Reading: WebRTC Passes Huge Milestone In Rewiring The Web – Video Calls Between Chrome and FirefoxThis week the WebRTC/RTCWEB initiative passed a HUGE milestone in adding a real-time communications layer to the Web with achieving interoperability between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Google and Mozilla celebrated with a pair of blog posts:They also published the video I’ve embedded below. On the surface, the video doesn’t appear terribly exciting: two guys having a basic conversation over video. But consider this:
- The video conversation was initiated from within web browsers.
- There were NO plugins used… no Flash, Java or anything else.
- The entire conversation was securely encrypted.
- The call used “wideband audio” (also called “HD audio”) to provide a much richer experience that far exceeds any kind of conversation you can have on traditional telecom and mobile networks.
- The call did not have to involve any external telecom networks or services and could have been initiated directly from one browser to the other. (I don’t know exactly how they set up this call.)
And perhaps most importantly:
Any web developer can now create this kind of real-time communication using a few lines of JavaScript and other web programming languages.
As I’m said before, WebRTC will…
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Oracle Buys Acme Packet For $2 Billion To Gain SIP Session Border Controllers (SBCs) And More
Continue Reading: Oracle Buys Acme Packet For $2 Billion To Gain SIP Session Border Controllers (SBCs) And MoreFascinating news today out of Oracle that they have purchased Acme Packet in a transaction estimated to be around $2 billion US. For those of you not really tracking the VoIP security space, Acme Packet is probably the world’s largest vendor of “session border controllers (SBCs)“, devices that are used to securely and reliable interconnect VoIP networks. SBCs also provide a very important role in helping with interoperability of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling between the SIP products and networks of different vendors.As Andy Abramson writes, the fascinating aspect of this acquisition is this:
This is an interesting grab by one of the tech world’s true giants because it sqaurly puts Oracle into a game where they begin to compete with the giants of telecom, many of whom run Oracle software to drive things including SBC’s, media gateways and firewall technology that’s sold.
This acquisition does put Oracle VERY firmly into the telecom sector at a carrier / large enterprise level, as Acme Packet’s products are widely used within that tier of companies. As the news release notes:
“The company’s solutions are deployed by more than 1,900 service providers and enterprises globally, including 89 of world’s top 100…
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Next SIPit Test Event Feb 18-22 – Deadline of Feb 4 For Registration
Continue Reading: Next SIPit Test Event Feb 18-22 – Deadline of Feb 4 For RegistrationAre you a vendor of SIP-based products and services? Do you have software or hardware (or cloud-based products) that use SIP? If so, are you planning to attend the next SIPit test event planned for February 18-22, 2013, in Raleigh, North Carolina?
The SIPit events are an outstanding place to test your SIP implementations. Where else will you have so many other vendors also testing their equipment? It’s a great place to go, test… and iterate your code even while you are there so that you can test again.
The registration deadline is Feb 4, 2013 for SIPit 30, so you need to act soon if you want to attend.
Olle Johansson posted a great set of slides about why you should go to SIPit: Participate in SIPit from Olle E Johansson
And reaching back to 2009, here’s a video interview I did with Robert Sparks about the SIPit test events:
If you are a vendor of SIP products or services, I would strongly encourage you to consider attending the next SIPit. It’s a great way to make sure your SIP works as best as it can.
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Disruptive Telephony
Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…
