I’m 41. My Dad was really into technology and computers, so I grew up in a home where personal computers were always present. I learnt to code in BASIC on a Sinclair QL. We got dial-up internet when I was in high-school. I got my first cell phone when I was 20, and my first… Continue Reading
SHAKEN Out-of-Band PASSporT Transmission
On July 15, the ATIS Non-IP Call Authentication Task Force published two standards that could potentially solve the issue of STIR/SHAKEN in TDM networks. In our previous article we looked at one of the options – STIR/SHAKEN over TDM – which finds ways to signal attestation information (one small but important part of STIR/SHAKEN) via… Continue Reading
STIR/SHAKEN over TDM
We’ve spent the last several years figuring out how to implement STIR/SHAKEN on IP networks, all while knowing that there was no agreement in place for how to do the same thing on TDM networks… a rather significant flaw in the plan. The FCC’s position on this problem has been that service providers could have… Continue Reading
Never ask the same question twice
When I was twenty years old I got a summer internship at a little software company named Data Connection, where I worked on their “MeetingServer” product. This basically had the same features as Zoom but 20 years earlier, and with more of an emphasis on collaboration (screen-sharing and whiteboards) rather than video chat. Data Connection… Continue Reading
How redundant should our network be?
The telecoms network has high standards in terms of availability. For years we’ve talked about “five nines” reliability, meaning that service is available 99.999% of the time – equivalent to about 5 minutes of downtime per year. I wish my internet service was that good. The only way to attain such a high standard of… Continue Reading
Robocall Mitigation and STIR/SHAKEN Last-Minute Checklist
It’s less than two weeks until the FCC’s STIR/SHAKEN deadline on June 30. If you have any lingering doubts about the requirements, then we’ve prepared this checklist to help make sure you didn’t miss anything. (Be warned: We are not lawyers, this is not legal advice, it’s possible we missed something.) #1: Do you qualify… Continue Reading