I’m not sure if you noticed, but 2020 hasn’t turned out how we expected. A global pandemic has killed 130,000 people (and counting) in the USA. We have all been hunkered down avoiding each other (to avoid COVID) leading to record levels of unemployment and economic collapse. The killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and… Continue Reading
Dynamic Peer Routing in the Perimeta SBC
Perimeta has a feature named dynamic peer routing which allows the Perimeta to automatically select the correct adjacency for an outbound call based on the destination IP address. Before this existed, you needed to update the call policy set every time you add a new PBX / SIP trunk, which could become tiresome really quickly…. Continue Reading
Microsoft buys Metaswitch: the best case for telcos
It’s been just over a week since Microsoft announced that they were in the process of acquiring Metaswitch. During that time there’s been little/no new information from the parties involved, but there’s been plenty of discussion in the industry about possible outcomes. Absent any concrete information, in this article I’d like to lay out one… Continue Reading
Microsoft is buying Metaswitch
This morning Microsoft announced that they had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Metaswitch. Metaswitch CEO Martin Lund has also shared an announcement about the deal. There’s very little information available at this stage, and – to be clear – the deal has not yet closed, but I have some initial analysis. Why is… Continue Reading
Nationwide Number Portability – why should I care?
Local Number Portability (LNP) was mandated by Congress in the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and even though we’ve had 24 years to get used to the idea, LNP still creates many interesting challenges for those building switch translations. The idea of Nationwide Number Portability (NNP) has been around almost as long, but is gathering momentum, and… Continue Reading
STIR/SHAKEN and Robocalling in 5 minutes
In this video I’ll give a summary of everything you need to know about STIR/SHAKEN and Robocalling in about 5 minutes. I’ll cover: What is STIR/SHAKEN? Does it stop robocalls? (Answer “no, but it helps”.) If this only works for SIP trunks, what do we do for TDM? What is the FCC doing, and what… Continue Reading