A couple of weeks ago we published a survey to our email subscribers and on LinkedIn that aimed to get a high-level understanding of how service providers felt about hosted voice platforms. In particular, we wanted to understand whether telcos were interested in retiring their class 5 switch and moving all their subscribers to a… Continue Reading
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The price of SS7 links is going through the roof
I imagine most ILECs reading this still have a significant TDM infrastructure – consisting of a pair of SS7 A-links on 56K/64K circuits, plus a variety of ISUP trunk groups to tandems or other local telcos. I wrote an article 6 years ago that looked at how we might move away from TDM networks –… Continue Reading
Don’t get punched in the face
Mike Tyson famously said “Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth”, and this quote has been on my mind recently as I’ve been reading General Stanley McChrystal’s book “Team of Teams“. In General McChrystal’s case, the metaphorical “punch in the mouth” was the surprisingly successful effort of Al Qaeda in Iraq… Continue Reading
Subscriber Reports and Queries on a Metaswitch
I recently qualified as a US Soccer Referee. Which sounds very official, but in practice means that completed some online training and participated in 3 hours of in-person training. So I’ve done the training, but my practical experience is minimal. However the local soccer league is very keen to put me to work regardless, because… Continue Reading
What can we learn from the monkey business?
This summer my family and I spent a week in Panama City, Panama. [Beware: there’s a Panama City in Florida, which is not the same as Panama City in the country of Panama – I came close to making an embarrassing mistake when booking tickets…] The highlight of our vacation (at least for the kids)… Continue Reading
Microsoft won’t support old, insecure SIP phones
We’ve had quite a few questions this past week because Microsoft/Metaswitch announced that EAS V9.7 will only support TLS v1.2 and above – which effectively prevents the use of a variety of older SIP phone models. If you’re not sure what this all means, you’ve come to the right place – because we don’t either!… Continue Reading