Merry Christmas Everyone!

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a very merry holiday season. May 2006 be 100 times better to you and yours.

-Adam "voiploser" Uzelac

Episode#7 - voiploser and friends podcast

Interview with Acme Packet's CTO and co-founder Patrick Melampy. Topics: SBCs, SIP, federations and security - also some bold predictions by Pat for 2006! Have a listen.

Adam "voiploser" Uzelac

'all things to all people' is BAD!

While working through some of the concept/design activities for initiatives I will be involved with in the upcoming year, I have been pondering some very key and basic questions....How complex, how simple? Just involve 3 features, or shoot for the moon? It would seem that the question can is obvious, but the magic is in the minutia, as they say.

I made some KISS references in a blog entry a couple weeks ago. I stumbled across another stat yesterday that reafirms the notion that success is not about trying to be all things to all people, but rather focus on key features for a specific market. PDAs are the context in the internetnew.com article.

"PDAs have to be less all things to all people, and targeted more at specific market segments."

I think it important to note that it's not only the feature, or application that has to be well targeted and relatively simple to use, but also the delivery of that feature/application. There are too many "Rube Goldberg" solutions out there.

Adam "voiploser" Uzelac

Barbie USB Drive for X-mas please!

For those of you wondering what I want for Christmas this year, I will tell you. It's a must have for all sicko techno geeks, and I find myself without one! Take note - in the event that you can't find the brunette barbie, I won't mind getting the blond. ;)

-Adam "voiploser" Uzelac


PS - good podcast in the works, should be out very soon.

Telcos getting upset with fraud

From the, "make-them-fix-it" whining department comes this one:

"A group of six mid-size telcos have filed a proposal to the FCC urging it to curb what they see as a growing problem of “phantom traffic,” or unbillable minutes riding on their network.

Though the coalition isn’t proposing specific rules, its’ filing asks the FCC the require all carriers to transmit accurate and unaltered billing information, forward unaltered identifying information, route traffic based on the Local Exchange Routing Guide and comply with related enforcement provisions."

I just _must_ try to understand if they are thinking that all Vonage calls originating from a 212 area code are REALLY originating from NYC? I know of at least 4 people off the top of my head that have a 212 DIDs and the phone resides in London, UK. It's time to give up. There's no more life to breathe into the PSTN. It's dying. Let it die. Though I do like the "phantom traffic" moniker. ;)

Adam "voiploser" Uzelac

Timely reminder - KISS!

Adam "voiploser" Uzelac

Alec Saunders blogged about a gentleman that he was recently speaking with who started up his own blog. Albert Lai is his name, and his first post - "Simplicity is the New Black" - is a timely reminder for me in my current 2006 planning exercises!

Albert summarizes thusly...

"As my initial post in the blogosphere, it's my hope that the running theme of simplicity within this blog will remind me of the historical lessons of simplicity that I need to be mindful of -- that our entire industry should revisit now and again."

Thanks Alec and Albert for the reminder - indeed "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." as Leonardo put it!

It's high time that I reread RFC3439 -Some Internet Architectural Guidelines and Philosophy - Specifically Section 2.2. :

2.2 Non-linearity and Network Complexity

"Complex architectures and designs have been (and continue to be)
among the most significant and challenging barriers to building
cost-effective large scale IP networks."

Adam "voiploser" Uzelac

Free World Dialup (FWD) using iotum Relevance Engine

This is very interesting and great news for those of us looking for more interesting twists with IP telephony. I blogged about this technology as soon as I heard about it. (obligatory self plug) The application is uni-directional, but benefits all parties involved when communicating. Congrats to Alec and now I have a compelling reason to use FWD!

Adam "voiploser" Uzelac

'Google effect' and Open Source in 2006

I don't put too much merit into predictions outside of my own ;) - but there's this growing sense out in the marketplace that Google and Open Source are going to be more and more disruptive...

Article
"IDC predicted that global spending on IT would grow by 5.5 percent in 2006. Coming on the back of 6 percent growth in 2005, this will force more technology companies into offering IT as a service, predicted Frank Gens, senior vice-president of research at IDC."

"A critical new ingredient we'll see [in 2006] is the acceleration of disruptive business models; 'open innovation' in IT product and service development--the open source effect--and online delivery of IT as a service--the Google effect," said Gens in a statement. "These disruptive shifts will force most vendors to perform a strategic gut check as they enter the year."

I believe the "open innovation' that is being referred to here will be bolstered with Ernie-like initiatives that Tom Howe is pushing. GO TOM (ERNIE)!!

Adam "voiploser" Uzelac