I realized I haven't blogged about the developers' meeting in Prague!It was a great success! We both had the scheduled meeting on Monday with presentations, and due to time-constraints we had another developers' workshop on Wednesday (this was during the IETF meeting and many people were in town). Some even came back to Prague to participate and we were 15 people where most of … [Read more...] about Prague developers’ meeting
VoIP vs SIP
Too many people think that SIP = VoIP. Then some say: hey, what about video?! But most people stop there. So, the consequence is that the blog world on VoIP now is starting to question whether the steam has run out of VoIP. Thomas Anglero blogs about this in Telecom's Tsunami. However, as I wrote to him in a private email: "I have been looking forward to this. Let the … [Read more...] about VoIP vs SIP
Competing eco-systems, IMS, SER, Asterisk, who will win?
I have wanted to write this post for a while. For a long time I have been concerned about the competitiveness of the SER/OpenSER eco-system in the larger SIP picture.Let's look at the big picture: SIP has been established as the preferred signalling protocol for real-time sessions like voice and media. It bears the characteristics of other open technology systems like TCP/IP … [Read more...] about Competing eco-systems, IMS, SER, Asterisk, who will win?
Scalability and failover with SER
Two of the important things missing from SER have been simple ways of creating a scalable and redundant SIP infrastructure using only SER as software components. Why? Because such features are important elements of any SIP infrastructure.There has been resistance from many: "This should be up to each system administrator, as each has own preferences", "we shouldn't push network … [Read more...] about Scalability and failover with SER
Who is SER for, episode II
There's currently a very interesting thread going on on the serdev mailing list: Dragos, one of the OpenIMScore developers, picked up one of my previous posts and wrote a long post about his experiences using SER for his project. Dragos' post has spawned a long discussion in multiple threads (split by me) that covers the complexity of ser.cfg, development of SER modules, as … [Read more...] about Who is SER for, episode II
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