Daily VoIP Links for 2006-06-05
- [Daily Post from my people] Keep it Simple
"It's strange that many VoIP companies continue to sling technical jargon every chance they get, while they develop products that are complex and often difficult to set up for those who aren't gadget aficionados."
"A few years ago we had a great deal of controversy in the Pulver Report when we
were discussing the threat of feature interaction when managing call control. A noted IETF friend was of the opinion, that the world wide web model was an accurate portrayal of the future. That call control would find its way to the appropriate application server (by proxy ;<) ). From there features and functions would be available."
"I recently put a paper online in the VoIP community that was sort of a survey document of some of the thoughts and opinions on the whole issue of net Neutrality. As yet, I've not come out with a strong opinion either way."
"There's a lot of buzz on the 'Net yesterday and today about the FCC's current thinking on the Universal Service Fund and VoIP. While id doesn't impact enterprise business directly, VoIP service providers have a clear interest in what comes of this."
"The world of the 'stupid network' HTTP-based Web is rather different from the 'stupid network' faux-circuit SIP-based VoIP."
"Ok, kidding aside, in all seriousness, what is Kevin Martin thinking? VoIP is an application that runs over IP networks, including the Internet. If you're going to start taxing Voice over IP, why not tax email over IP (as Bill Gates once suggested), instant messaging over IP, or web traffic over IP, or any other application that rides on the Internet."
"At this point it is beyond ludicrous to have VoIP providers pay into the USF. VoIP is just an application. It makes much more sense to have broadband providers pay into the USF."
"Godell believes this technology gap will protect the mobile carriers until at least 2008 or 2009. Before that, the capacity of radio networks will be insufficient to pose a threat, and the number of VoIP-enabled terminals will be limited."
"Spies have long transmitted encrypted codes over shortwave radios as a way to send secret messages. Now it appears that VoIP may be replacing shortwave as the transmission medium of choice for spooks."
"Thankfully, those who don't know all the ins and outs about VoIP are in safe hands. Over the next few weeks this site is going to fill in all the blanks and show you exactly why the industry is buzzing about VoIP and IP convergence."