[VoiceOps] The peer of my peer is my peer?

[Kristian Kielhofner]

  I love the idea of enabling intelligent endpoints to determine their
compatible media formats automatically IF that is what I signed up
for.

  In the UK BT runs a VoIP peering fabric that is very feature rich:

- Video (H.264, others)
- Audio (compressed/narrowband/wideband - iLBC, G.722, G.722.1, etc, etc, etc)
- Probably plenty more

  They also offer a more vanilla PSTN orig/term service that is
limited to the standards we're used to seeing (G711a, etc).  You
purchase, configure, and signal to these groups separately.

  If I want "traditional PSTN" I want it to be with the parameters
specified, regardless of where it goes (on-net, peer, etc).  If I want
"intelligent" VoIP peering I'll configure my routing, trunking, etc
accordingly and use it when and where I want to.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Mark R Lindsey <lindsey at e-c-group.com> wrote:
> The great thing about the vocalized approach is that it maintains the
> telephony application passed down to us by AT&T.
>
> But the tragedy is great, too. We're all working so hard to limit ourselves
> to the telephony of 1990:
>
> -- No video.
>
> -- No better-than-g711u audio.
>
> -- No distributed presence.
>
> -- No simple file transfer (which means you're stuck supporting fax
> machines).
>
> -- No easy conference control (moderation, floor control, remote mute, etc).
>
> -- No location conveyance ("Bring me a large pepperoni pizza. Goodbye.").
>
> -- No simple authentication.
>
> -- No encryption.
>
> -- No easy relocation of handsets.
>
>
>
>
> Geoff, anorexicpoodle, and Paul are all arguing for a sober approach: "The
> job of the network is to ensure people can carry on voice conversations, so
> the network should do anything necessary to ensure this occurs." So we
> centralize all our control into a few central, core devices that act a lot
> like the 1ESS of 1965.
>
>
> But we're all using technology designed by an entirely different mindset.
> All through the VoIP RFCs, you get the idea that the job of the network is
> to allow endpoints to interconnect however they want. Only by pushing
> intelligence to the leaf nodes of the network can you have scalable
> distributed applications.
>
> We are selling the services that customers know they want. But please don't
> pretend that that the network we're building is the final answer for
> IP-based telecommunications, or even the most interesting realization of
> VoIP technologies.
>
>
>

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Kristian Kielhofner
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