Is it the right time to put together a golden oldies album of our public phone system’s greatest app hits?
I think so. Even the FCC is currently scrutinizing carrier comments on sunsetting the copper wires and rusting switches that gave us five 9’s of dial-tone.Continue reading
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Fax over IP … Aculab cloud … AT&T mobile hotpot … Kevin Martin recalls threat to change FCC vote … Sprint’s WiMAX … Startup Camp this evening … the end of POTS in 10 years … open source UC with Asterix and Elastix … Allworx gigabit Ethernet phone … SIP trunking … hosted PBX … cloud-based media processing …
That’s as much as I’ve picked up reading tweets, watching short videos, and dipping into a few blog posts. I’ve not been to a telecom-focused trade show event recently. So it’s reassuring and a sign of industry health (except for, er, fax over IP) that many of the same players, products, and big themes that ruled a few years ago still are making waves at ITExpo 2011.
What’s really new is the rise of powerful data centers —the cloud—and the virtualization technology that makes it all possible.
I was therefore most intrigued by the buzz around the keynote speech on cloud-based VoIP delivered by Aculab’s Alan Pound.
There’s been a long-standing competition between centralization and distribution, two important but opposing ways of designing computer and communications systems. With cloud computing (hosted …
