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2 Days Left To Comment to FCC About Ham Radio Usage In Emergency Communications

May 16, 2012 | Disruptive Telephony
To all my friends and readers who use amateur (ham) radio, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking comment on the use of Amateur Radio in emergency communications such as disaster...
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Video: What is the role of the IETF? How does it help the Internet and open standards?

May 11, 2012 | Disruptive Telephony
What does the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) do? What role does it play in setting Internet standards? As readers are probably aware, I've been a long-time supporter and advocate of the IETF'...
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Today's VUC Call All About The "FreeSWITCH Cookbook" - Noon US Eastern

April 27, 2012 | Disruptive Telephony
Today at noon US Eastern on the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) Call for Friday, April 27th, the group will discuss the brand new "FreeSWITCH Cookbook "[1] published by PACKT Publishing. The four authors...
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Digium Releases 3 Asterisk Security Advisories

April 25, 2012 | Voice of VOIPSa
This week Digium released three security advisories allowing remote authenticated sessions to either crash an Asterisk server or escalate user privileges.  The advisories are: AST-2012-004 - ...
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Internet Society Launches "Internet Hall of Fame" Celebrating Early Pioneers

April 24, 2012 | Disruptive Telephony
One of the very cool announcements coming out of the Internet Society's Global INET event in Geneva this week was the creation of an "Internet Hall of Fame" that recognizes many of the pioneers who...
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Civic.io - Mark Headd's new site on Civic Hacking and Open Government

April 20, 2012 | Disruptive Telephony
My friend Mark Headd passionately wants to open up government - and to do so through code. I've known him for years as the author of the VoiceInGov / Vox Populi blog where he has been writing about...
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WebRTC (real-time VoIP in web browsers) On April 13th VUC Call - Join In!

April 12, 2012 | Disruptive Telephony
Want to learn about how voice and video calls will take place right in your web browser? WITHOUT a Flash or Java plugin? The "WebRTC" initiative is making this a reality through efforts of the major...
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SegTEL/TVC Stringing Fiber Through Keene, NH - A New Internet Choice?

April 12, 2012 | Disruptive Telephony
When I look out my office window and see a bucket truck driving by with a guy up in the bucket attaching what looks like fiber optic cable to the polls, my reaction as a networking geek was naturally...
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Skype Hits 40 Million Simultaneous Users!

April 10, 2012 | Disruptive Telephony
Congrats to the folks at Skype for hitting over 40 million concurrent users! Today at 2pm US Eastern when I typed "/users" in any Skype chat on my Mac, I got this great message (Windows users should...
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The Big Question On Avaya's Acquisition of Radvision - What About The SIP and H.323 Stacks?

March 15, 2012 | Disruptive Telephony
With today's big news in the VoIP / Unified Communications (UC) / telecom space of Avaya's acquisition of Radvision, pretty much all of the coverage has predictably focused on the video angle. While...
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