FIR #695 – 3/18/13 – For Immediate Release

Steve Rubel interview forthcoming; Civility book review is up, discounts to FIR listeners for March conference; Quick News: the technologies that matter from SxSW according to Altimeter Group, study reveals growing comfort with smartphones worldwide, b…

Deploy360@IETF86: Day 5 – MIF, LISP, IPv6 Maintenance… and we’re done!

And so we reach Friday… the final day of the 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)  where it’s a short day that ends early and for us within the Deploy360 Programme only hits two of our topics:  IPv6 and Routing Resiliency/Security. General information about participating remotely can be found on the Remote Participation Read more…

Deploy360@IETF86: Day 4 – IPv6, DNSSEC and Routing, Oh, My!

Day 4 of the 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)  hits all of our Deploy360 topics – IPv6, DNSSEC and Routing Resiliency/Security. General information about participating remotely can be found on the Remote Participation page as well as the IETF86 agenda – specific info for the groups we are following is included below. Read more…

Deploy360@IETF86: Day 3 – Lots of IPv6 with a bit of Routing

For us within the Deploy360 Programme, Day 3 of the 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)  is all about IPv6, IPv6 and more IPv6, with a tiny bit of routing thrown in for something different.  Two of the “big” working groups related to IPv6 meet today.  The Sunset4 working group is looking Read more…

The Long Days of IETF86 – And Why I Love It!

The Long Days of IETF86 – And Why I Love It! by Dan York

Deploy360@IETF86: Day 2 – Routing (SIDR, KARP, GROW) and NAT (PCP, BEHAVE)

For the Deploy360 team, Day 2 of the 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) yields an IETF86 agenda that primarily focuses for us on routing issue and network address translation. We’ll start the day off looking at routing in embedded networks then return into secure routing between networks.  We’ll then look at Read more…

Watch/Listen Live – FCC CTO Henning Schulzrinne on "The End of Plain Old Telephone System (POTS)" at 5:30pm EDT Tonight at IETF86

In about 15 minutes, at 5:30pm US Eastern At around 6:00pm US EDT, Henning Schulzrinne, CTO of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be speaking on "The End of Plain Old Telephone System (POTS): Transitioning the PSTN to IP"…

Deploy360@IETF86: Day 1 – SIDR, Softwires and V6Ops

As today’s 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) begins, here are the sessions from the IETF86 agenda that we on the Deploy360 team will be attending (all times US Eastern).  General information about participating remotely can be found on the Remote Participation page – specific info for the groups we are following Read more…

FIR #694 – 3/11/13 – For Immediate Release

Shel on the road, Neville recording solo, new PR podcast The Echo Chamber, new voices in this episode; Quick News: Cision University Programme for PR professionals, Pew study on Twitter, Pizza Hut and 140-second job interviews, Facebook updates seen by…

VUC Today: The Jitsi VoIP Softphone – Join The Call To Learn More!

What is new with the Jitsi softphone these days? What new capabilities does it have as it continues to expand its support of SIP, XMPP and other protocols? I’ve long been a fan and user of Jitsi, in part because…