VoIP / Convergence
Replay of CVOICE - Digital Voice Ports Webcast
A couple of weeks ago, I posted the replay of a CVOICE Read more
Looks like new Nokia phones will include Lync Mobile app
Nokia today showed off its first Windows Phone handsets, the Lumia 800 and 710, although neither will be available in the U.S. until early 2012, missing the holiday season here. Both devices will first roll out in Europe in November and December. Read more
A conversation with the CEO of Ixia, Atul Bhatnagar
I have started our CEO conversations back up again after a short break. Today we are going to talk to the CEO of Ixia Atul Bhatnagar.
What is the state of the appliance testing market and do you still see growth? Read more
Skype Exploits: I know where you are, what you are sharing, and how to best stalk you
While lurking at Wilders Security Forum, I ran across a link to a research paper filled with terrible news for the half-billion registered Skype users. Security researchers have uncovered some really serious security and privacy flaws in Skype that could reveal the identities, locations over time, digital files, and even P2P activity of hundreds of millions of Skype users. In fact it's bad news for users of any Internet-based phone systems or P2P file sharing services. Read more
CAPPS Video #6
Continuing in our series of Cisco CAPPS training videos, this video demonstrates how to configure Cisco Unity Connection to screen calls, using a call handler.
Replay of CVOICE - Analog Voice Ports Webcast
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If you're someone just getting into voice over IP (Vo Read more
With Skype, Microsoft gains about 50 communications patents
So Microsoft has officially spent $8.5 billion on Skype and announced that the deal closed today. This is another "Hotmail" type acquisition in that it didn't seem to need the technology. All it gained was users. Or did it? With Skype, Microsoft added about 50 patents covering networking, speech recognition, user interface, too. Hmm. Read more
CAPPS Video #5
This Cisco CAPPS training video demonstrates how to configure a direct routing rule in Cisco Unity Connection, such that if Cisco Unity Connection receives a call from a phone with a specific directory number, the call is divered to a directory call handler.
CAPPS Video #4
This Cisco CAPPS training video demonstrates the creation of a user (and a corresponding voice mailbox for that user) in Cisco Unity Connection.
CAPPS Video #3
Building on the first two CAPPS training videos (which showed how to Integrate Cisco Unity Connection with Cisco Unified Communications Manager using SCCP and SIP), this video demonstrates how a mask can be set in a voice mail profile to change the caller ID of a phone calling into Cisco Unity Connection.
An Open Letter To The Information Security Industry: We Live In Amazing Times
I apologize that this post is not about open source, however I think it was important enough to post up here. Read more
A new 15.1(2)T IOS feature that should be considered when upgrading
One of the first things to make sure when an H.323 gateway will not work with Cisco Unified Communication Manager (CUCM) is the IP address configuration. This is a common mistake where engineers would configure the gateway in CUCM using its voice interface IP address and would have no problem calling out from IP phones to the PSTN, but would fail on the inbound calls. The reason is that the gateway was using a different IP address (than the one configured on the voice vlan) to contact CUCM and CUCM would reject the call setup packet. Read more
Couchbase Scores 14m In New Funding
Couchbase the company formed through the merger of Membase and CouchOne (developers of the open source CouchDB)announced that they have raised 14m in new venture capital. This was their "C" round and was led by new investor Ignition Partners, as well as being joined by their existing VCs. A very impressive raise for the NoSQL, Big Data solution used by companies such as Zynga (which is also an investor), AOL and others. Read more
TVOICE Video #4
One of the most common troubleshooting issues when working with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) is call privileges, which is usually configured with partitions and calling search spaces.
This video takes a look at a call privileges troubleshooting issue.
Google's VP8 Getting Help From An Unlikely Source
Google received support this week for its embattled WebM video format from an unlikely source. Skype announced that it has adopted VP8 the codec in WebM as its default solution for video conferencing for both one on one and group video calls. Of course with Skype now serving their corporate overlords in Redmond, this means that Microsoft is at least tacitly endorsing and supporting the format. I guess video codecs make for strange bedfellows. Read more
How is the Cisco 76% off Nexus sale going over with customers? Not well.
Over the last week I have received many emails about a story on the net. The story is all about Cisco giving Purdue University a 76% discount on the Nexus Product line. How they got to that number was a combination of Cisco math (discount, trade in on obsolete Cisco Switches) of which every customer by now is used to. The comments vary a great deal, I have listed them below and removed names.
"What does this say about Cisco list pricing if they give 76% off to a customer" Read more
SysAdmin wanted to star in a Hollywood film
Happy SysAdmin Day. In honor of that, business video provider Qumu is inviting real life system administrators to enter a contest in which the winner will star in a short film, as part of series of short films. Qumu commissioned “Gears of War” video art director and filmmaker Jerry O'Flaherty to create a science-fiction short film with the SysAdmin as the hero. The first one is out now and is somewhere between cute and funny. Read more
Cisco exec: "Demand for Cius is higher than we expected."
Cisco won't have a 3G-capable Cius until the fall, when it will be released for Verizon customers. Yet Cisco execs say that are already wowed by early orders of the WiFi-only tablet/IP phone combo.
"Demand for Cius is higher than we expected," said Barry O'Sullivan, senior VP of Cisco's Collaboration and Communication Group to a group of of journalists at Cisco Live. O'Sullivan wouldn't reveal details, except to say volume has been "lots." Read more
Grandson Of Browser Wars: Open Source Is Not Enough
It seems for as long as there has been an Internet, there has been a browser war. Lynx, Mosaic, Netscape Navigator are names that conjure up browsing the web in a simpler time. I still remember well Microsoft coming out with IE and knocking the high flying Netscape off its perch. Many of us were thrilled when Mozilla Firefox rose from the ashes of AOL owned Netscape and became a hipper, cooler way of browsing. Read more
Apple Exposes Limitations of the Cloud
Apple announced that it will allow customers to download the next release of Mac OS X, codenamed “Lion,” at its Apple stores. This move comes as a result of customer concern that bandwidth limitations or caps will limit their ability to download Lion through the Apple Mac store. Read more
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