http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/ Musing on telecommunications industry and other sundries en-us 2009-03-07T16:41:30-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000373.html Last month Daniel Berninger wrote a guest column expressing the benefits of using high definition codec for voice communication. In that post, Dan argues that widespread use of compatible codecs is critical. Inexplicably I had missed it when it appeared... aswath 2009-03-07T16:41:30-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000372.html Andy points to a story and quotes Chief Marketing Officer John Stratton as saying that Verizon “plans to do away with traditional phone lines within seven years as it moves to carry all calls over the Internet.” According to the... VoIP aswath 2009-01-13T02:54:01-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000371.html The last week or so, there have been flurry of blog posts taking issue on either side of the question “VoIP: Dead or Alive?”. It might have been started by Jonathan Christensen of Skype provocatively declaring that VoIP to be... VoIP aswath 2009-01-02T11:09:31-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000369.html A couple of months back Brough Turner penned a column in TMC arguing that SIP has failed to live upto its expectation that “SIP, as a peer-to-peer protocol, would redefine the very nature of telecommunications. No longer would telephony depend... IP Communications aswath 2008-11-11T21:03:33-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000368.html Earlier in the afternoon I received an invitation from a good friend of mine, Carl Ford, to join a Facebook group called “Freedom2Connect”. In his invitation, Carl asked to “Come help protect VoIP from retroactive regulatory models”. I declined to... aswath 2008-10-24T17:32:32-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000367.html The general perception is that unlike SIP, IAX does not suffer from NAT traversal problem. Claims along this line are routinely made and every time I encounter such a claim I will scratch my head and will do some fact... VoIP aswath 2008-07-05T18:11:46-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000366.html I e submitted EnThinnai for Enterprise 2.0 LaunchPad competition. Please consider voting for me by visiting their site. The pitch is embedded below:... Sundry aswath 2008-05-08T03:28:46-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000365.html Last month, a week before VON there was another conference - ecomm2008. Last week the slides used by the speakers were putup on slideshare.net. I tweeted my thoughts as I reviewed the presentations. The following is a compendium of those... IP Communications aswath 2008-04-15T05:29:19-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000364.html For the past few days I have been tweeting as @aswath. Given its nature, I am finding that I am able to share more thoughts and listen to more people. I hope you will follow me there. But I will... Personal aswath 2008-04-15T05:08:13-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000363.html This morning Alec Saunders talked about the effects of pricing plans in wireless data market. His point was aggressive pricing will induce increased use. In that context he mentioned a term introduced by Mark Anderson. Mark claimed that the chief... IP Communications aswath 2008-03-31T23:28:39-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000362.html I am certain that each one of us have horror stories relating to IVR maze. To ease this, many IVR systems allow look-ahead dialing. But then many administrators ask us to listen to all the choices before selecting one because... Telephony aswath 2008-03-29T14:28:21-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000361.html I posted the following entry at EnThinnai blog. Please visit there to post your comments.... IP Communications aswath 2008-03-29T12:51:14-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000360.html I posted the following at EnThinnai blog. Please post your comments there.... OpenID aswath 2008-03-24T18:42:03-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000359.html Periodically this topic of should we extend legal intercept capability to IP Communications is raised and more often than not the slant of the argument is that IP Communications should be free of any regulatory requirement. Invariably one of the... IP Communications aswath 2008-02-17T22:42:00-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000358.html "I think that the vision of the early SIP founders has been largely unreal in the SIP world. SIP is typically just used for this mundane trunkling application like the one we have or sending calls between two networks and... VoIP aswath 2008-02-06T19:24:33-05:00