About James Rafferty

James Rafferty is the President of Human Communications, a consulting firm which advises clients on emerging telecommunications and network technologies and helps clients plan and design highly competitive products and services and create innovative marketing content. The firm specializes in Voice over IP, WebRTC, Voice over LTE and facsimile communications technology. It helps clients with the integration…

Secure IP Fax – Now Standard

Last fall, I blogged about a pending standard for securing facsimile communications over IP networks here and I spoke about this progress at the SIPNOC conference. Since that time, the standard, known as RFC 7345 has been approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force. The availability of a standard is very good news. There’s a common…

WebRTC – New Communications Paradigm?

About two years ago, Google brought a new communications initiative called WebRTC to the two best known Internet standards organizations.  WebRTC is short for Web Real Time Communications and the intent is to enable complex real time communications of voice, video and data using web clients, web servers and related applications.  Google has been advancing the work…

Communications Advisor: Starting Up

I’ve decided to begin a new blog to talk about trends in communications technology.  During the nineties, my company Human Communications offered innovative advice, consulting services, a newsletter and training to a broad roster of clients around the world.  I also wrote, edited and managed communication standards in several standards groups including the Internet Engineering Task Force,…