Wouldn’t it be great if you could connect via video over IP to someone at another company? Or to be able to use a wideband audio codec to have a richer sound to your calls? Sure, you can do this today with Skype… but not with your SIP-based or other IP-based IP-PBX or communications server. We don’t have any easy way of connecting with someone directly across the IP network… instead we wind up placing calls over the standard PSTN – even if both recipients could communicate over IP.

There are several different ideas out there about how to solve this, but one of the more interesting to me is the “VIPR” approach suggested by Cisco Systems and now involving a few other companies. While at ITEXPO last week in Miami, I (Dan York) had a chance to interview Cisco’s Cullen Jennings who has been very involved with the VIPR effort.

Is VIPR, a.k.a.”Verification Involving PSTN Reachability”, as journalist Doug Mohney said, “the big hack to get around the lack of direct SIP peering between Tier 1 service providers“? How does it work? How can you learn more? (Hint: start with this Internet draft: draft-rosenberg-dispatch-vipr-overview) How can you get involved?

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What does today’s announcement about “IPv4 address exhaustion” mean? Will the Internet still work? What is all the hype and buzz about? What does this have to do with IPv6? In this episode host Dan York explains what the “IPv4 address exhaustion” news is all about and what it means to you. (He also wrote a blog post explaining IPv4 address exhaustion.)

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What if small businesses could have an easy way to have the same power to engage with customers that large call centers have? How can customers calling into a company avoid “voice mail jail” and get to the right people? Host Dan York interviews Ringio CEO Sam Aparicio about Ringio’s new service launched on April 19, 2010, at the eComm Conference in San Francisco. Sam talks about the problem Ringio is trying to solve, demos the software, shows the mobile version on an Android phone, explains why Ringio uses Voxeo’s platform and then invites people to try out the service at www.ringio.com/

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What is most interesting about Google Wave? Back in June 2009 at an event happening near the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, MA, I had a chance to sit down with Christopher S. Penn and get his thoughts about the recently-announced Google Wave and how it might be used as a communication tool. As I listened to this recording today, I was struck by how much of it was echoed in a recent blog post I put up about the need for distributed and decentralized systems – we do need that distributed/decentralized approach. I know that while the Wave protocol is published, federation is not yet possible with Wave. Let’s hope it comes soon.

While I know that Chris’ views on Wave may have changed in the 3 months since we recorded this session, I thought the points he makes are great. More info about Chris can be found at:

• http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/
• http://www.christopherspenn.com/
• http://twitter.com/cspenn

Thanks, Chris, for agreeing to do the interview – and should we have the opportunity to do another one, I’ll try to get it up online sooner! My apologies for the delay.

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At ITEXPO East 2009 in Miami, FL, host Dan York caught up with industry analyst Jon Arnold to get his perspective on what he saw at the ITEXPO show and what he is looking forward to seeing at the Emerging Communications (eComm) show coming up in March – http://www.ecommconf.com/

More info about Jon Arnold can be found at http://www.jarnoldassociates.com/

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The whole subject of “billing” is probably, for the majority of us, one of the least exciting and least sexy parts of the entire communications infrastructure. Yet it is probably one of the most *critical* aspects as that is how, ultimately, we all keep the lights on.

In this episode, host Dan York speaks with Jim Dalton, CEO of Transnexus ( http://www.transnexus.com/ ) and one of the leading proponents of the Open Settlement Protocol (OSP), an open standard for service providers and enterprises to exchange billing information among themselves. Jim gave a presentation at IT EXPO East 2009 in Miami and Dan caught up with him after the talk to ask him some questions. More information about OSP can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_settlement_protocol or http://www.etsi.org/

UPDATE: The white paper upon which Jim based his ITEXPO presentation is available online: “Peer to Peer Settlement for Next Generation IP Networks”

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