http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/ Musing on telecommunications industry and other sundries en-us 2010-08-18T16:02:25-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000379.html At a high level, consumers are at ease when services are offered at a flat rate. Flat rate allows consumers to budget expenses. They do not have to constantly monitor usage lest they are faced with a large bill at... IP Communications aswath 2010-08-18T16:02:25-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000377.html This is cross-posted from EnThinnai Blog. Background: During the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference that took place in Boston, there was a panel called Microsharing: It is All About the Tools. It is Not About the Tools. It was moderated by... Social Networking aswath 2010-07-26T18:05:08-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000376.html I am sure you would have heard by now that Google Voice announced today that they are "excited to open up Google Voice to the public, no invitation required." Apparently even under open enrollment, they will continue to offer all... Telephony aswath 2010-06-22T19:07:06-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000375.html I posted the following at EnThinnai blog. Please post your comments there. To data almost all Presence serving system push a user's Presence status to others. It is widely considered to be an efficient mechanism rather than individuals periodically polling... IP Communications aswath 2010-05-25T16:55:01-05:00 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000374.html I posted the following at EnThinnai blog. Please post your comments there. Over a series of posts in his blog Confused of Calcutta, JP Rangaswami presents his thoughts on how corporate IT department should get inspiration from Facebook to develop... IP Communications aswath 2010-02-10T21:13:18-05:00 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