If I had only known how much noise my Google Jingle/SIP post would make, I would have written it sooner. But then again, you can never really know which posts will get people talking. I had multiple discussions about this subject the day the post was published – on my blog as well as on Twitter. It seems to me that there is something that I missed and I feel it’s necessary to say here: Server-side interworking SUCKS. Interworking? Interworking
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 7th, 2009 | Filed under Standardization, Technology
XMPP lovers out there – it’s time to pack your things and head home. It seems like SIP has won the battle for VoIP dominance. Don’t come complaining to me – Google is to blame. A few weeks ago we were all looking for Skype to step up to the plate, scoop Gizmo5 and save their asses from the patent issues by giving them a SIP infrastructure. Didn’t happen. Instead, we are now dealing with a much bigger issue: Google
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
If you look at SIP today, it is the most widely used protocol for VoIP when it comes to developing telephony services. In a way, it overthrew H.323 in most areas. On the other hand, in the past several weeks I’ve been bumping a bit more into XMPP. To some it may seem as if XMPP is set to overthrow SIP as the VoIP signaling king. XMPP is Becoming a Swiss Army Knife I have already tried comparing XMPP with
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 27th, 2008 | Filed under Technology
