There are a lot of kiosk around in Japan – you know, the kind where you can pay bills, buy tickets. Most of this kiosk already have Internet connection and usually comes with a handset beside it (so you can pick up the phone and get help). I suppose it does not take a genius […]
Tag: VoIP
Perspective change
Believe it or not, I once argued on a mailing list (back in 96/97) that “Why do I want to run my voice over IP over modem over voice line?” and “if VoIP is good enough to the entreprise, why haven’t CIOs drop their phone network”. Now, it is not as if I don’t have […]
Juniper bought Kagoor
The latest news is Juniper snaped Kagoor up for 64.5M. See articles on Red Herring and Forbes. Actually 64.5M might be considered cheap considering the potential of Kagoor of its session border controller. But what could this means? Is it because Juniper starting to see Kagoor making headways with the Tier-1 carriers (ie, their customers) […]
Naked DSL dilemma
I have been thinking about Naked DSL ever since the story about FCC is about to grant Bellsouth naked DSL petition broke a few days ago. And of course, the subsequent suspension of various states decision by FCC. Most propongates of IP Telephony considered Naked DSL as absolutely neccessary to get VoIP adoption. Afterall, why […]
VoIP Job Posting
I been using feedster to montior keyword voip and I notice a there are more and more job postings on voip like this. I am very happy to see jobs created by voip (hey “voip engineer” could be the new job position in your company) and I am equally impressed that people are using blog […]
Doomdays for VoIP
Advanced IP Pipeline said “Cinderella Story Is Over For VoIP“. For starters, there’s the revelation from AT&T (reported here by the Newark Star-Ledger) that its massive Olympic promotion of its promotion of its CallVantage VoIP service netted just 53,000 customers — a flop off the balance beam. Woosh, hold on – CallAdvantage actually targets business, […]
VoIP QoS Bullshit
I don’t believe in Quality-of-Service (QoS). I don’t buy all the vendors FUDs about “oh..you need QoS or else the world is going to end so buy my this special QoS-enabled box! now!”. It is not that I don’t believe in quality for voice – I do – but I don’t think we need special […]
Blink
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (the author of The Tipping Point) Absolutely love the book. And I can relate to the many stories cited by Malcolm especially about intuition – sometimes people asked me how I know what technology to focus – I don’t know how but I just […]
Reflections on VON
Finally, today is the last day of VON. So many things happened here that I can hardly catch my breath. It is time to sit down and reflect what I learn about VON. 1. This is the largest VON ever – 6,000+ people! (congz to pulver.com). This huge turn out means VoIP is no longer […]
VON Blogger Panel
I have a lot of fun at the VoIP Blogger session with Andy Abramson, Dan Brekke, Jeff Pulver, Om Malik, Aswath Rao and Tom Keating. I am also pretty amazed at the numbers of people in the audience who read blogs and also blog themselves. Particularly, it is quite clear that most people read our […]