Category: VoIP
VoN Bloggers Roundtable
Just arrived Boston to participate in the VoIP Bloggers Roundtable at VON. This is my 3rd time in Boston and I really like Boston; No, really … of all the places I being to, Boston is one of the few cities I dont mind to settle down. Back to VON, the panel on Tuesday evening […]
Its all about Numbers
Two news from IDA regarding numbers and numbers :-) 1. Public consultation on Number Portability (pdf) IDA intends to review the implementation for number portability for fixed line and mobile telecommunications services in Singapore. The review is in with IDA’s policy objectives of promoting competition in the infocommunications sector to benefit of consumers and businesses […]
More about Google Talk
I did some packet sniffing and look at how Google Talk works. 1. Google Talk is Jabber (XMPP) compliant. Here is what it send for authentication <stream:stream to=”gmail.com” version=”1.0″ xmlns:stream=”http://etherx.jabber.org/streams” xmlns=”jabber:client”> <stream:features> <starttls xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-tls”/> <mechanisms xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl”> <mechanism>X-GOOGLE-TOKEN</mechanism> </mechanisms> </stream:features> <auth xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl” mechanism=”X-GOOGLE-TOKEN”<(Some hash, presume Google Token)</auth> Then followed by the standard presence information etc. Interestingly, […]
Google Talk
Google just launched their Google Talk! First, I have to eat my own words – I predicted that Google will enter VoIP space focusing on their search capability but instead, they revolve it around their Gmail expanding the communication capability instead. Now, on to the good news, Google embraced Open Standard! Not only the IM […]
Singapore policy framework for IP Telephony
After working on it for almost two years, we finally got our IP Telephony policy framework. In the bid for lower costs, consumers are increasingly using the Internet and other Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks to make local and international voice calls, together with, or as alternatives to traditional fixed-line telephony. To advance Singapore’s development in […]
Skype call
Remember I said I don’t hang my Skype call? nearly 10hours of just background noise and snorings. I can’t imaging doing this on POTS. Oh, did I mention I did this from a hotel in the mountain of China? The voice quality is incredible, much better then I get from my mobile phone. I am […]
Henry Sinnreich joins Pulver
Henry finally announced this, to put the rumours to rest :-) (via Richard Stantsy) I have started last week my new job at Pulver.com in the hope to contribute to SIP not being replaced by Skype and maybe we can also do something to interconnect all the SIP islands using URIs for IP-IP instead of […]
SIP is Dead…Huh?
Okay I admit I have been slow in the catching up with my blog last week. Tomorrow.sg is taking quite a bit of time (which btw, is coming along pretty well). But in my semi-absent last week, SIP was declared dead. Huh? Now, Martin made a lot of good points and I agree with him […]
VoIP Podcast
Stuart and myself did a podcast interview on VoIP two weeks ago. Man, I sound pretty bad in the beginning but if you hear beyond my first 15sec, I think I did okay.