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Overheard: Leveraging rich presence — a marketer’s dream
Ignoring the fact that I find the whole concept of “presence management” a solution in search of a problem for most people, there’s the whole technical problem of trying to work within the vario...
Overheard: Telepresence is the new magic word for videoconferencing
I’ve seen videoconferencing vendors trying to upgrade their offerings with high-definition media and larger screens to compete with telepresence technology. You can put wings on a pig and call ...
Overheard: The Great Firewall of China
Depending on how you look at it, the Chinese government’s attempt to rein in the Internet is crude and slapdash or ingenious and well crafted. John Ritter, The Connection Has Been Reset When Ameri...
Overheard: Iron curtain between IT and telecom
“Today, we might have achieved voice and data convergence from a technology standpoint, but convergence from a human resources perspective is still a figment of our imagination (if that). If thi...
Overheard: Verizon using stance towards net neutrality as a gorilla marketing message
“Verizon is kinda sorta using their total lack of filtering as an underground marketing thing already, which is especially effective when coupled with FiOS’s insane speeds.” Matt Buc...
Overheard: Change the default password for crying out loud!
OpenDNS released a free tool today called fixmylinksys.com that lets Linksys users easily change their default password to protect themselves from the [DNS rebinding] hack Kaminsky will demo. Kelly Ja...
Overheard: Measuring VoIP quality of experience
“QoE measurement is about being able to reconstruct the voice signal in a measurement device, and to then run signal processing algorithms to determine the call quality. This type of QoE measure...
Video: Vint Cerf talks about Net neutrality
Net neutrality is the principle that data packets on the Internet should be moved impartially, without regard to content, destination or source....
Video: TCP/IP
An animated explanation about how data is moved around on the Internet....
Overheard: Flow control
The price of memory has decreased to the point where it is now possible to maintain flow state at the input port rather than trying to control flows at the output queue. Larry Roberts as quoted in Jim...
Overheard: Dry Martini pseudowires
One of the earliest drivers for pseudowire standards came from the need to run virtual circuit services such as frame relay and ATM over IP.Tom Nolle, Pseudowires: Reality vs. Hype I need to read mo...
Overheard: Virtualization causes appliance vendors real pain
Virtualization is causing IPS and NAC appliance vendors some real pain in the strategic planning department. I’ve spoken to several product managers of IPS and NAC companies that are having to m...
Overheard: Did Web 2.0 bubble puts national public safety network in jeopardy?
Frontline Wireless, which has made no secret of its desire to bid and win on the D-block spectrum, has a released a statement saying ” Frontline is closed for business at this time. We have no f...