What has led to the success of so voIP entrepreneurs even in a time of "global recession"?
1. The proliferation of broadband, Internet and wireless
2. Open source technologies such as Asterisk, freeSWITCH, Yate, OpenSER (now OpenSIPS)
3. Free or near free calling tools: the Internet Phone of VocalTec in 1995, BuddyPhone, Skype, Gizmo Project, MagicJack
4. The power and magic of SIP
5. Local presence and virtual presence promoted by Virtual Phone Line (2000)
6. The ability for any entrepreneur or company to become a global provider via local international phone numbers that give a local presence to their users from DIDX (2005) (VPL and DIDX, inventions of Rehan Allahwala Ahmed)
7. Codecs G723, G729
8. Jeff Pulver, Vonage and VON and Jeff's insistence on breaking the mold, never be satisfied
9. IP PBX, a.k.a. IP PABX less expensive and more flexible than traditional PBX
10. ITEXPO and TMCnet.com under the modest but innovative leadership of Rich Tehrani
We've not even touched the edge of what's possible. Who knows what mind-blowing, life-improving innovations lurk in the minds of those in remote and rural areas, emerging countries, third world countries, developing countries? A shameless plug for a conference to consider whose discussion will include this very important topic: ITU Telecom World 2009.
... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Typo in Email about Cluecon, Make up with Party!
Suzanne apologizes for the typo on the announcement sent to Super Technologies' DIDX and Virtualphoneline members on May 15, 2009. Please look for a new email with correction this weekend.
Suzanne takes the blame for the typo on the email. She says she will make up for this by sponsoring a party the first night of Cluecon with plenty of pizza, beer and soda. Check your email and call +1-877-742-2583. Give your account number with Super Technologies and mention Suzanne and Rehan sent you. The venue is Aug. 4-6, 2009 at the Wyndham Hotel, Chicago, Ill.
ClueCon - is an annual 3-Day Telephony User and Developer Conference bringing together the entire spectrum of Telephony from TDM circuits to VoIP and everything in between. The presentations and discussions will cover several open source telephony applications such as Asterisk/Callweaver, OpenSIPS/Kamailio (formerly OpenSER), Bayonne, YATE and FreeSWITCH. Other great projects that will be discussed include OPAL and Woomera. DIDXchange is a media partner for Cluecon 2009 and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to participate!
Suzanne takes the blame for the typo on the email. She says she will make up for this by sponsoring a party the first night of Cluecon with plenty of pizza, beer and soda. Check your email and call +1-877-742-2583. Give your account number with Super Technologies and mention Suzanne and Rehan sent you. The venue is Aug. 4-6, 2009 at the Wyndham Hotel, Chicago, Ill.
ClueCon - is an annual 3-Day Telephony User and Developer Conference bringing together the entire spectrum of Telephony from TDM circuits to VoIP and everything in between. The presentations and discussions will cover several open source telephony applications such as Asterisk/Callweaver, OpenSIPS/Kamailio (formerly OpenSER), Bayonne, YATE and FreeSWITCH. Other great projects that will be discussed include OPAL and Woomera. DIDXchange is a media partner for Cluecon 2009 and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to participate!
Monday, January 12, 2009
Interview with Perry Ismangil re:SIPit and Other Cool Topics
BTW, first, I'll be meeting 1000s of my best friends in the unified and converged IP communications and everything in between or that supports any of those at WWW.ITEXPO.COM Feb 2-4, 2009 in Miami Beach, FL. Sign up as soon as you can to join us in fun, real business networking and sharing of brilliant minds and movers and shakers in our industry. Perry is one of them! He's also in my Facebook and Linkedin networks. Lucky me.
For those who believe they are lost in the world of open source and converged and unified communications, and the relation among different acronyms, technologies, platforms, softwares, and protocols...
I interviewed several industry experts and leaders to bring simplicity and understanding. Today's highlighted guru is Perry Ismangil. He will never say he is an expert, but he is.
1. How would you categorize the following terms: PJSIP, SIPit, OpenSer, Asterisk, FreeSwitch, SofaSwitch:
Answer: First a note that OpenSER has now forked (see
http://blog.pjsip.org/2008/08/04/openser-project-is-dead-welcome-to-kamailio-and-opensips/)
PJSIP, OpenSIPS, Kamailio, Asterisk, FreeSwitch, SofaSwitch are all part of the IP communications ecosystem:
- PJSIP will be typically implemented on the client side while OpenSIPS, Kamailio, Asterisk, FreeSwitch, SofaSwitch will be server
side.
- PJSIP implements many protocols needed to participate in IP communications, such as SIP, SDP, RTP and NAT Traversal (including STUN, TURN, and ICE).
- Technically you don't need any servers if you know the direct destinatination, a client can call another client
- But of course in the real world you need a globally recognized 'id' or 'number'. And also interfaces to other communications systems such as the 'legacy' telephone network.
- SER, OpenSIPS, Kamailio is classed as 'SIP Proxy' and provides many functions including registration.
- Asterisk, FreeSwitch, SofaSwitch is the equivalent of PBX in the analog world. They are so called IP-PBX.
- SIPit (SIP Interoperability Test) is where all the SIP development community (some of software above attends) meet up and try to interconnect and interoperate to each other. It is a twice yearly event. So far we've been to the last three SIPit across three continents: China, USA, and France. The next one will be in Japan.
2. The completeness of ... http://www.pjsip.org/links.htm
Answer: I can't claim it is complete, but I guess it's a fair representation of
what's out there. Although that probably needs updating now, we haven't looked to much for recent stuff.
3. Tell us about your path to where you are now in business geekery. ;-)
Answer: I started as a university lecturer but very soon, with a University friend, was also co-founding one the first open source business in Indonesia, building Linux-based products. I was purely the tech guy back then. However I recall I already had 'marketing' ideas, such as the original company name was shortened to be more catchy.
Then I moved to the UK, and became a full time 'corporate software developer', where you're part of a huge team. That was fun, because it was a 100% Microsoft shop, so I learned a lot, especially on being a software toolsmith.
Then I met another friend from University days, this time it was the other way around. He got the product, it was open source, and was looking for a biz guy. So it was onto my 2nd open source startup. I had to ramp up very quickly on the basics of biz, like accounting, sales, and marketing. Luckily the open source project is a good lead generation tool so I can learn on the job.
Also because I have been on the Internet for a long time, it was quite natural for me to learn marketing and sales on the Internet, as a result I went straight to doing Internet marketing and closing sales over email -- two of the hottest thing at the moment!
The biz is now run 100% on hosted web apps (see http://l.teluu.com/bizviaweb for what I currently use).
For those who believe they are lost in the world of open source and converged and unified communications, and the relation among different acronyms, technologies, platforms, softwares, and protocols...
I interviewed several industry experts and leaders to bring simplicity and understanding. Today's highlighted guru is Perry Ismangil. He will never say he is an expert, but he is.
1. How would you categorize the following terms: PJSIP, SIPit, OpenSer, Asterisk, FreeSwitch, SofaSwitch:
Answer: First a note that OpenSER has now forked (see
http://blog.pjsip.org/2008/08/04/openser-project-is-dead-welcome-to-kamailio-and-opensips/)
PJSIP, OpenSIPS, Kamailio, Asterisk, FreeSwitch, SofaSwitch are all part of the IP communications ecosystem:
- PJSIP will be typically implemented on the client side while OpenSIPS, Kamailio, Asterisk, FreeSwitch, SofaSwitch will be server
side.
- PJSIP implements many protocols needed to participate in IP communications, such as SIP, SDP, RTP and NAT Traversal (including STUN, TURN, and ICE).
- Technically you don't need any servers if you know the direct destinatination, a client can call another client
- But of course in the real world you need a globally recognized 'id' or 'number'. And also interfaces to other communications systems such as the 'legacy' telephone network.
- SER, OpenSIPS, Kamailio is classed as 'SIP Proxy' and provides many functions including registration.
- Asterisk, FreeSwitch, SofaSwitch is the equivalent of PBX in the analog world. They are so called IP-PBX.
- SIPit (SIP Interoperability Test) is where all the SIP development community (some of software above attends) meet up and try to interconnect and interoperate to each other. It is a twice yearly event. So far we've been to the last three SIPit across three continents: China, USA, and France. The next one will be in Japan.
2. The completeness of ... http://www.pjsip.org/links.htm
Answer: I can't claim it is complete, but I guess it's a fair representation of
what's out there. Although that probably needs updating now, we haven't looked to much for recent stuff.
3. Tell us about your path to where you are now in business geekery. ;-)
Answer: I started as a university lecturer but very soon, with a University friend, was also co-founding one the first open source business in Indonesia, building Linux-based products. I was purely the tech guy back then. However I recall I already had 'marketing' ideas, such as the original company name was shortened to be more catchy.
Then I moved to the UK, and became a full time 'corporate software developer', where you're part of a huge team. That was fun, because it was a 100% Microsoft shop, so I learned a lot, especially on being a software toolsmith.
Then I met another friend from University days, this time it was the other way around. He got the product, it was open source, and was looking for a biz guy. So it was onto my 2nd open source startup. I had to ramp up very quickly on the basics of biz, like accounting, sales, and marketing. Luckily the open source project is a good lead generation tool so I can learn on the job.
Also because I have been on the Internet for a long time, it was quite natural for me to learn marketing and sales on the Internet, as a result I went straight to doing Internet marketing and closing sales over email -- two of the hottest thing at the moment!
The biz is now run 100% on hosted web apps (see http://l.teluu.com/bizviaweb for what I currently use).
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