Strings vs' Envelopes A tutorial about Voice over IP

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Strings vs. EnvelopesA tutorial about Voice over
IP

• January 16, 2005
• Carl Ford, Community Developer
• pulver.com
• carl_at_pulver.com
• FWD 15370
• alwaysoncarl on all IMs (_at_hotmail for MSMgr)

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Tin Cans with String
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Modern String Theory?
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A Manual Process
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Why Now? Processing Power!
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The Age of VON
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Are we out of the early adopter stage yet?
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
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VoIP is really Voice over Internet Protocol
Technology.
Applications E-mail, Voice, Video etc.

• Voice is Liberated. (Great navigation for any
  application!)
• Its either an enabling technology
• Or the killer application itself.
• Thanks to Internet Protocol.
• Customers devices do not have to be managed by
  individual service providers.
• Access can be assumed and transport can be
  considered redundant and scalable.
• When we say VoIP are we doing a disservice.
• IP hides the transport copper, fiber or wireless.
• Distributed Network provides the 5 9s.

Internet
Protocol
IP
Infrastructure WiFi Fiber, POTS, etc.
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The Importance of SIP

• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is based on
  e-mail and web protocols combined to provide an
  application layer control (signaling) protocol
  for creating, modifying and terminating sessions
  with one or more participants.
• SIP can invite both persons and "robots," such as
  a media storage service, to participate in a
  call. The result is services can be based on
  servers on the Internet in a web like manner
  rather than hardwired to a specific call.
• Ask yourself what will communications be like if
  it works like the web or e-mail. What is the
  role of carrier then?

Applications
Internet
Protocol
IP
Infrastructure
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Do we know the futures requirements?
We need to build for an Always On generation.
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The Killer App isVoice

• Using Presence, Text, Video, with other Internet
  enabled tools we are not going to do better than
  voice speed when actually in direct
  communication.
• Almost all of the rest of the technology is about
  how to connect when not in direct communication.
• And surprisingly voice is still a better I/O
  method for some of these communications.
• Although a navigational display adds value, too.

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New IP Communications

• Seamless integration with the web
• Mobility
• Multimodal Messaging
• Presence
• Instant Messaging using any/all media
• Caller and called party preferences
• 3rd party call control
• It will be something vastly different than POTS

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Thank You

• Please Make Contact!
• Carl Ford, Community Developer carl_at_pulver.com
• Questions?