Level 3 Communications Blog
My wife and I have been lucky to be blessed with three healthy children. We knew we wanted to start a family when we got married and planned well for them. But, despite the fact that we knew what we were getting into, time and again I am surprised at how much different parenting reality [...]
With 2012 quickly approaching, I figured I’d dust-off the old crystal ball and make a few predictions regarding the world of voice telephony over the coming year. 1. Mayan long-count calendar will be re-set to 2018 To the dismay of the hoards who had anticipated the final day next year (as preliminarily predicted by the Maya), [...]
One of my wife and my favorite hobbies is to look at new homes. We always find it fun to see what the latest design trends are and how quickly the features in new homes seem to improve. One of the downsides is the inevitable comparisons that we make to our existing home. After touring [...]
Well that’s a bold statement! QoS (Quality of Service) encompasses a range of techniques to prioritise important packets travelling through an IP network. The intent is to ensure that those important packets get through even when the IP network is busy. This technology has also been talked about in relation to the whole Net Neutrality [...]
Voice telephony has been around for a hundred years. Like nails scratching a chalkboard, these words tend to put my hair on end. While technically an understatement (voice telephony has actually been around for over a hundred and thirty years), this statement is also misleading. It implies there is nothing new or interesting about voice [...]
When talking with customers about the benefits of a converged network, I’m frequently surprised by the extent to which the focus remains on cost. Cost reduction is a given when collapsing a network, as the removal of multiple access circuits eliminates one of the largest cost drivers and the use of dynamic bandwidth allocation greatly [...]
