VoIP: Dead or Alive? (7)
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For past days, the VoIP community has been indulging in a bit of soul searching. The debate — is VoIP dead? To pragmatists such as Alec Saunders the answer is yes. In his well reasoned polemic, 2008: the year VoIP died, Alec succinctly writes, “Voice over IP is just a transport and signaling technology. It’s plumbing.” Harsh, but true! Of course, on the other side of debate are folks such as Jeff Pulver and Jon ...
2008: The Year that VoIP died (4)
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It seems highly likely to me that at some point in the future we’ll all look back and say that 2008 was the year that the VoIP industry finally died. With all due respect to my very good friends Jon Arnold, and Andy Abramson, it’s about time. Voice over IP is just a transport and signalling technology. It’s plumbing. It may come as a surprise to some of you to know that in the late ...
Jeff Pulver “Gets” Lucky (1)
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I didn’t plan to do this interview. I didn’t know who Jeff Pulver was. I met his eccentric friend Geo Geller at a Webgrrrls party I sneaked into to meet my camera person Adrienne. I don’t know what Geo was doing there but he and Adrienne were chatting and drinking it up and became pretty insistent that I interview Jeff. They KNEW, even if I didn’t, that Jeff was the real deal, and I needed ...
