In the late Nineties, the Telecom business was dominated by big companies who had built their phone network over many years using switching technology. But a massive storm was on the horizon as the same IP technology which helped revolutionize commerce on the world wide web started to be applied to phone-based voice communications. Early…
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…
The recent controversy regarding NSA tracking of phone conversations has elevated concerns about security and privacy for business communications. Enterprises generally want to keep their communications private. Use of techniques such as private networks, firewalls and secured tunnels can help to protect internal communication from eavesdroppers, but there are also many exchanges which entail communication…
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…
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,…
