http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/ Musing on telecommunications industry and other sundries en-us 2012-01-11T17:48:49-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000395.html In this blogpost, I note down my experiences as I integrate POTS line, Google Voice account and Obi110 and finish it off with some ideas on enhancing products like Obi110. But I want to clarify upfront that this is not... Telephony aswath 2012-01-11T17:48:49-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000394.html Evidently I seem to hold a contrarian position on whether Broadband access bandwidth consumption should be capped or not. My position is that ISPs are in the business of offering service at the Network Layer and they should be free... IP Communications aswath 2011-12-28T13:13:31-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000393.html A couple of days back, my Twitter stream saw a few mentions about a story that suggested potential privacy issue due to a flaw in Skype. A quick tracing of the origin of the story pointed to a research paper... VoIP aswath 2011-12-03T10:18:07-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000392.html This is cross posted from EnThinnai Blog. Please post your comment at the original location. Thanks. A couple of days back, New York Times had a story on a recent research paper that was presented at Usenix Workshop on Hot... Social Networking aswath 2011-11-28T13:16:23-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000391.html This is cross posted from EnThinnai Blog. Please post your comment at the original location. Thanks. As part of his "5 Myths of Social Software", Jon Mell dispels a myth that one needs "lots of people for social tools to... Social Networking aswath 2011-06-08T10:29:59-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000390.html Yesterday during D9 interview, Eric Schmidt is quoted to have stated, “It’s the first generally available way of disambiguating identity. Historically, on the Internet such a fundamental service wouldn’t be owned by a single company. I think the industry would... OpenID aswath 2011-06-01T16:43:20-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000389.html Recently, the market segment that interconnects PBX to PSTN using SIP/VoIP technology, called SIP Trunking has seen dramatic growth. It is generally agreed that low costs associated with SIP Trunks and increased deployments of IP-PBX have contributed to this success.... VoIP aswath 2011-06-01T15:46:24-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000388.html This is cross posted from EnThinnai Blog. Please post your comment at the original location. Thanks. Smartphones and tablets have thus far dominated the discussion on the topic of post-PC devices. These devices are expensive, mobility focused and mainly facilitates... Sundry aswath 2011-04-27T16:02:23-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000387.html A few days back there was a heightened level of excitement among VoIPers as news spread that Google Voice accepted calls on a SIP interface. This meant that SIP end points can originate SIP-based sessions by identifying the Google Voice... VoIP aswath 2011-03-25T10:28:26-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000386.html Yesterday @desarls mentioned about a blog post titled "How the FCC Killed VoIP" by Alex Goldman. This post is a rebuttal where I argue that during the past decade the VoIP industry acted less a revolutionary segment (though it talked... VoIP aswath 2011-02-07T15:49:35-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000385.html Recently two Googlers came up with a service that lets people call a phone number and leave a message, then posts a link to the message to Twitter. The service called Speak2Tweet that was developed over a weekend allowed people... IP Communications aswath 2011-02-07T09:36:08-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000384.html Two days back there was a post in OnSip blog describing a technique to scale stateful SIP Proxy servers. I am interested in this topic and have developed an untested design. So I wanted to study the post in detail.... VoIP aswath 2010-12-16T01:24:16-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000383.html Recently a new VoIP related product called Obi110 was launched. I have not personally evaluated this product but Phoneboy and Tom Keating have reviewed it. Based on their review I am disappointed that the industry has once again failed to... VoIP aswath 2010-12-14T07:40:40-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000382.html Last week a new iPhone app called Viber was introduced. In this initial version, the app can establish voice calls between two Viber users using 3G data or wifi connection. These calls are free of “in application” charges. But the... VoIP aswath 2010-12-07T08:23:20-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000381.html This is cross-posted from EnThinnai Blog. There is a report that EU will be funding a research effort into Cloud Storage Technologies to the tune of $21.4 M. This project will be spearheaded by IBM’s research team in Haifa and... OpenID aswath 2010-11-15T06:13:37-05:00