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The PSTN is Dead, Long Live the PSTN

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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 [...]

SIP Trunking Gives UC The Edge It Needs

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I messed-up! So last week, in a groundbreaking post, I compared SIP Trunking to lawnmowing. And in it, I did the “extra functionality” SIP can deliver a disservice by making it the humble cup holder. Sure, it made the point that even without these cool new capabilities a SIP Trunking deployment at an enterprise is [...]

Spring Into SIP

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Spring has finally arrived (well, at least here in Colorado) and with it the eternal question: will my ten-year-old lawnmower start? This year, I’ve also been wondering whether I could talk my neighbors into pitching-infor a communal lawnmower. The way I see it, the ‘hood should pitch-in to get a nice, top-of-the-line, riding lawnmower (ice-cold [...]