Last week at the SIPNOC 2012 event in Virginia, I gave a presentation about how the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) can work with IPv6 and what some of the issues are around deployment. I emphasized the fact that SIP works over IPv6 and then took a step back to talk about the basics of IPv6 Read more…
Jul 01
Flying A Foreign Flag – One Day A Year
Today, July 1, here at our home in little old Keene, New Hampshire, USA, we flew a foreign flag from our our front porch. As we have done on every July 1st since 2002… and probably will do for every July 1st in the years ahead. You see, today is Canada Day and our 10-year old daughter was born in Canada during the 5 years that we lived in Ottawa, Ontario. Through the beauty of the great relationship between the USA and Canada, she is both a US and Canadian citizen. So today we proudly flew the Canadian flag to…
Jun 21
June 23 Deadline For Submissions to Invite-Only WebRTC/RTCWEB Congestion Control Workshop
How do we manage network congestion as we move real-time voice, video, chat and data communication into web browsers? How do we make sure browser-based voice/video doesn’t overwhelm the local network? If you’ve been following the excellent work of the…
Jun 21
WebRTC/RTCWEB Congestion Control Workshop on July 28 in Vancouver (Featured Blog)
As we start moving more real-time communications into web browsers with the upcoming WebRTC/RTCWEB offerings, what do we do about congestion control? How do we ensure that all these browser-based communications sessions share the network fairly? With R…
Jun 20
Richard Jimmerson Speaking Today About IPv6 At Digital Home World Summit
Today our Richard Jimmerson will be speaking at the Digital Home World Summit 2012 in London on the topic of “IPv6: Preparing for the Future.” He’ll be discussing: Why the delay in deploying IPv6? Fundamentals of IPv6 and pitfalls of falling behind Activities businesses must undertake to ensure continued success Real-world implementations and case studies Read more…
Jun 20
Facebook Adds "Close Friends" List To Help Sort Through The NewsFeed Overload
Facebook has long known that the "News Feed" can easily drown most folks and it would seem that they are trying yet another attempt at helping people see more relevant info. When I logged into FB today, I was greeted…
Jun 20
Webinar TODAY on IPv6 Security By Researcher Joe Klein
Want to understand the security aspects of IPv6? In about 8 hours, at 4:00pm US Eastern on June 20, 2012, security researcher Joe Klein will be giving a presentation on “IPv6 – Security Threat or Stronger Defenses?” The webinar/webcast/whatever-you-want-to-call-it is part of a series of information security seminars scheduled through BrightTALK. We have no affiliation Read more…
Jun 19
Speaking about IPv6 and SIP (VoIP) Next Week at SIPNOC in Virginia
How well does the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) work with IPv6? How do current VoIP software and systems currently handle IPv6? What does the industry need to do for SIP to thrive in an IPv6 landscape? I’ll be exploring all those questions and much more at the “SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC)” next week in Read more…
Jun 19
Got IPv6? Can You Please Help With This IPv6 Deployment Survey?
Do you have IPv6 deployed within your network? If so, could you please take a moment to participate in the 3rd annual “IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey” on the current and future use of IPv6? The survey is at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GlobalIPv6survey2012 Sponsored by the Number Resource Organization (NRO), the coordinating body for the 5 Regional Internet Registries[1], Read more…
Jun 19
How Well Will Microsoft Surface Tablets Work With Skype?
Over the past 24 hours there has been a huge amount of attention in the tech media sphere about Microsoft’s announcement of its "Surface" line of tablets. The media frenzy continues today with even more analysis and coverage. It is,…
