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Latest blog posts from Aswath Rao Weblog

Measuring EnThinnai against Â"facebook ManifestoÂ"
I posted the following at EnThinnai blog. Please post your comments there. Over a series of posts in his blog Confused of Calcutta, JP Rangaswami presents his thoughts on how corporate IT department should get inspiration from Facebook to develop and deploy software infrastructure that emerging...
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Published a month ago

HD Voice is Simpler to realize
Last month Daniel Berninger wrote a guest column expressing the benefits of using high definition codec for voice communication. In that post, Dan argues that widespread use of compatible codecs is critical. Inexplicably I had missed it when it appeared and a tweet brought it to my attention. For...
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Published a year ago

Can Verizon Go All VoIP?
Andy points to a story and quotes Chief Marketing Officer John Stratton as saying that Verizon Â"plans to do away with traditional phone lines within seven years as it moves to carry all calls over the Internet.Â" According to the published story Verizon will offer phone service to its FiOS...
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Published a year ago

Know Thy VoIP before Taking Pulse
The last week or so, there have been flurry of blog posts taking issue on either side of the question Â"VoIP: Dead or Alive?Â". It might have been started by Jonathan Christensen of Skype provocatively declaring that VoIP to be dead. Subsequently most of the leading VoIP bloggers have shared...
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Published a year ago

Now You can be Youe Own Phone Company
A couple of months back Brough Turner penned a column in TMC arguing that SIP has failed to live upto its expectation that Â"SIP, as a peer-to-peer protocol, would redefine the very nature of telecommunications. No longer would telephony depend upon a central agency Â- the Â"phone company.Â" It...
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Published a year ago

Why did I Decline to Join Freedom2Connect Facebook Group?
Earlier in the afternoon I received an invitation from a good friend of mine, Carl Ford, to join a Facebook group called Â"Freedom2ConnectÂ". In his invitation, Carl asked to Â"Come help protect VoIP from retroactive regulatory modelsÂ". I declined to join the group. Facebook did not give me an...
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Published a year ago

Why IAX is Immune to NAT Traversal Problem?
The general perception is that unlike SIP, IAX does not suffer from NAT traversal problem. Claims along this line are routinely made and every time I encounter such a claim I will scratch my head and will do some fact checking to confirm my understanding is correct. The latest example of such a...
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Published 2 years ago

EnThinnai at LaunchPad
I e submitted EnThinnai for Enterprise 2.0 LaunchPad competition. Please consider voting for me by visiting their site. The pitch is embedded below:
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Published 2 years ago

Comments on ecomm2008
Last month, a week before VON there was another conference - ecomm2008. Last week the slides used by the speakers were putup on slideshare.net. I tweeted my thoughts as I reviewed the presentations. The following is a compendium of those tweets. Reviewing eComm presentations;so few End...
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Published 2 years ago

Now Tweeting as @aswath
For the past few days I have been tweeting as @aswath. Given its nature, I am finding that I am able to share more thoughts and listen to more people. I hope you will follow me there. But I will continue to post here at my historic rate.
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Published 2 years ago

What Comes After AORTA
This morning Alec Saunders talked about the effects of pricing plans in wireless data market. His point was aggressive pricing will induce increased use. In that context he mentioned a term introduced by Mark Anderson. Mark claimed that the chief benefit of broadband internet is Always On Real...
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Published 2 years ago

Replacing IVR Systems
I am certain that each one of us have horror stories relating to IVR maze. To ease this, many IVR systems allow look-ahead dialing. But then many administrators ask us to listen to all the choices before selecting one because thy have changed recently. Of course they do not say how recently the...
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Published 2 years ago