Daily VoIP Links for 2006-04-12
- [Daily Post from my people] Hello? Hello? -- Preparing the Nation's Phone Service for the Next Hurricane Season
"Hurricane Katrina took down power lines across the Southeast and left hundreds of customers without phone service for weeks.”
"VoIP and the Internet are making possible the use of far away call centers to serve the role of order takers for McDonald's drive thrus."
"These two worlds -- applications and telephony -- have largely been separate," Thirumale said. "There are many I.T. managers around the world who want to voice-enable their apps."
"For some time, we have been advocating that the biggest holdback for VoIP was not technology--it was the lack of competition. Market power has long been in the hands of a few service providers, whether for local access, long distance, wireless, Internet service providers (ISPs) or cable."
"Not sure how this block of aluminum would feel in your pocket if you sat on it, but the Silver Wallet #1 has six slots for credit cards, driver’s licenses or IDs and can spit them all out with the push of a button."
Via Ken Camp, "Juniper Networks unveiled today a new security tool, the the Cable Dynamic Threat Mitigation tool, a solution that allows cable multiple systems operators (MSOs) to protect Voice over IP (VoIP) and SIP-based services against network security
Ooooh, how cute! "...Your child’s introduction to the world of digital music and dodging the RIAA will set you back $78."