March 8, 2012 archive

Mar 08

IPv6-Kongress Happening May 10-11 in Frankfurt am Main

IPv6 Kongress2012If you can get to Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on Thursday and Friday, May 10-11, 2012, there looks to be a fantastic set of sessions going on at the 2012 IPv6 Kongress. More information is available at:

www.ipv6-kongress.de

The packed agenda includes a wide range of sessions including deep tutorials, best practices, security topics, networking, routing and more. I see a number of prominent names from within the IPv6 community and also some involvement from the Internet Society’s German chapter. World IPv6 Launch will be very close – and this will be a great time to learn more before the big day! I’ll note that “early bird” registration is still available right now.

Mar 08

WebRTC + Phono SDK = Browser Phone Calls WITHOUT A Plugin

Calling people using your browser - but without a Flash or Java plugin? That's been the mission of the WebRTC initiative for some time now with efforts underway in both the IETF and the W3C to standardize the work so that it can be broadly implemented.

I was very pleased to see the team at Voxeo Labs announce that the Phono SDK can now support WebRTC with the developer build of the Google Chrome browser. They outlined their work in a blog post and produced a video demonstrating the technology and also received a very nice writeup on TheNextWeb:

This is very cool as it has the potential once WebRTC is baked into more browsers to provide us with a very solid browser-based platform for building and deploying real-time communication apps. Kudos to the Voxeo Labs team for what they've done so far!

P.S. Some interesting comments about this topic over on Hacker News...

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