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PodSnack: Skype

Hey, we just roped in another Hill Instructor to talk to you! Today, Peter is going to give you the low-down on Skype , and then tomorrow he's going to introduce you to another very promising Internet application, from the same people who gave us Read More...

PodSnacks: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

Today, Paul gets back into the mix and talks to us a bit about the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). As the name implies, this TCP/IP protocol is designed to establish sessions between two systems, and to negotiate the parameters of these sessions, in Read More...

PodSnacks: Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Ethernet has become such a critical technology today, any time we can spend on it is time well spent. Today, Ethernet serves as a premises-based network technology that can tie together virtually every piece of communication gear in a corporation or residence. Read More...

VoIP Security Raises Its Ugly Head

For some time we've known that there are issues related to deploying VoIP and IPT systems. One of them is powering the phones. Of course there are solutions for that, most notably Power Over Ethernet ( PoE ). Another issue is E911 support. A great Read More...

PodSnacks: SIP Trunking

Recently, we spent a little time defining the concept of IP trunking , and I promised to talk a bit about a close cousin: SIP trunking . Today's the day. SIP trunking can be thought of as IP trunking plus signaling. One way of thinking of it is by Read More...

PodSnacks: Real-time Transport Protocol

Since we spent a little time talking about the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) yesterday, this seemed like a good time to take a look at another Transport Layer function that is increasingly important today: the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). RTP plays Read More...

PodSnacks: IPT vs. VoIP

The world is abuzz about convergence . Actually, it's been abuzz for quite some time, so we're all a bit dizzy. However, convergence (which is partly about the bringing together of voice, video, and data into common networks, services, applications, Read More...

tHAWT Episode #74: Wal-Mart-ization, is that a word?

In this episode of tHAWT, Mark and Trevor discuss the range of new entrants into what would seem an already very competitive area of VoIP (or is that IP Telephony). In open news there is still speculation on Google’s mobile phone, and IBM is announcing Read More...

PodSnacks: Rating Factor

Now that we have Mean Opinion Score (MOS) under our belts (Friday's PodSnack), might as well look at a related term: rating factor . Once again, we'll ask Paul to explain it to you. As always, you can listen to (or download) today's PodSnack Read More...

PodSnacks: Mean Opinion Score

Another request we received was to say a few words about something called a Mean Opinion Score (MOS). Not sure what that is? Well, the name all but gives it away. It's an average, also known as the "mean." It's an opinion, so we know Read More...

PodSnacks: H.248 and MEGACO

We've received a few requests, so we though we'd tackle a few of them for our faithful listeners. One of those requests take us back into the world of Voice over IP (VoIP). You remember that beast, don't you? Voice running across data networks Read More...

PodSnacks: Skype

Hey, we just roped in another Hill Instructor to talk to you! Today, Peter is going to give you the low-down on Skype , and then tomorrow he's going to introduce you to another very promising Internet application, from the same people who gave us Read More...

PodSnacks: Session Initiation Protocol

Today, Paul gets back into the mix and talks to us a bit about the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). As the name implies, this TCP/IP protocol is designed to establish sessions between two systems, and to negotiate the parameters of these sessions, in Read More...

PodSnacks: Power over Ethernet

Ethernet has become such a critical technology today, any time we can spend on it is time well spent. Today, Ethernet serves as a premises-based network technology that can tie together virtually every piece of communication gear in a corporation or residence. Read More...

It Goes Without Saying - Growth in VoIP in 2006; More in 2007

Everyone knows that VoIP deployment is gaining rapid acceptance and growing accordingly. And as reported in Network World in Dec 2006 , it seems the technology has definitely reached critical mass. Here are some interesting statistics from Keynote Systems Read More...
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