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Archive for January, 2006

Air Canada Magazine and Web Technology

As many of you know, I’m in Canada a lot and thereby spend a lot of time on Air Canada jets. Usually, in the course of a month sooner or later I am too tired, wired, or just not in the mood to crank out work while flying, and I pick up and thumb [...]

Happy Birthday

( General )

Mozart of course!
My 8 year old, after listening to some music in school today, used her once-a-month right to select a family movie to pick The Magic Flute, a 1975 Ingmar Bergman film of the famed opera. We were all entranced. What a beautiful piece of music, staging, and a wonderful way [...]

Telcos run five-9 systems that fail 60% of the time

( General )

OK, so the day’s sessions aren’t quite over, but I’m going to go out on a limb and call the best quote of the day (it’s the title of this post if you don’t want to read the development of the concept below).
I have oftened talked about (and written about but I [...]

Clean Definition: Two-Tiered Internet

The two-tiered internet is a very current topic of discussion in many circles. During the last panel, Jack Waters of Level3 offered a clear description that I found useful so I have summarized it below.

The two-tiered internet is about “best effort delivery” vs “better than best effort”. Best effort delivery is of [...]

IP Communications Executive Summit

( VoIP )

The afternoon sessions here at the IP Communications Executive Summit have been great. We’re a group of about 40 - 50, mostly C-level senior people, and generally just one rep from each company. The ground rules are:

Raise your hand to speak (mostly adhered to)
No product pitches!

People have really gotten into the [...]

IP Communications Super Session

( VoIP )

This morning I sat in on a good discussion at Pulver’s IP Communication Summit. Here are some of the highlights. The last question to each panelist was to speak to the single most important factor affecting their business in 2006 – in bold below.
Ofer Gneezy / iBasis : Wholesale telephony rates have [...]