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
It’s funny how things work out. I remember a few years ago, while working on our H.323 stack, that SIP was starting to make some noise. Cool people started talking about it as if it was the best thing out there – way better than that old and clucky H.323 thingy. The sad truth of the evolution of protocols The Dark Ages Well, guess what? Both protocols started at about the same time, which some people regard as “the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 26th, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
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
It seems like everywhere you go, checking for standards, there are at least two for the price of one: PAL and NTSC, DVD-HD and Blu-ray. H.323 and SIP. SIMPLE and XMPP. Why can’t we just get along and decide on a single protocol for each task? One ring to rule them all? They used to call it “convergence”. In the distant past, when people were looking for a nicer word for “VoIP”. It meant all types of devices talking
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 1st, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
