Ellen Muraskin

I assured readers with my first column that my job here is to report on VOIP, not to praise it. Which is why Im just as eager as anyone to get a read on the potential seriousness of the Cisco IOS source code theft and its implications for the reliability of IP-based communications. As reported […]

VoIP Rental, a company that leases voice-over-IP infrastructure elements to carriers and large enterprises, has expanded its range of products to include a new component category and provider: session controllers, supplied by NexTone Communications. The move reflects the growing need among VOIP users to cross network borders, mediating between networks of differing signaling protocols, and […]

Jonathan Rosenberg, PhD, the chief technology officer Dynamicsoft, a telecommunications infrastructure vendor based in Parsippany, NJ, is co-author of the Session Initiation Protocol standard, one of the underpinnings of Voice over Internet Protocol telephony. He was recently named as a member of the Internet Architecture Board, the technical body tasked with providing oversight of the […]

Jim Louderback was laying down the gauntlet and challenging me, his newly minted VOIP/Telecom topic center editor, when he wrote “Security Holes Make VOIP a Risky Business.” But he flings his glove upon some incorrect assumptions. First, he appears to be mixing up the hobbyists early adoption of Voice-over-the-Internet with the more sober, secure, and […]