IP is the workhorse of the Telecom industry.  For those of you not sure with the short hand term of IP, it stands for Internet Protocol. 

Today this is the core communications method that all internet and most home devices communicate over.  In my house I have a number of devices, from the obvious to the not so obvious.  Computers, IPhone, Xbox, Wii, Home Theatre AMP, DVD Library, Blueray Player, Home Automation, Home Alarm, Satellite TV, Pool and Hottub, and video surveillance. Then last but not least My VOIP Phone.  This is just to mention a few.  I am glad that I have Fiber to The Home (FTH) to support my needs. 

I see carrier’s traditional TDM networks being retired in time to accommodate this new trend.  This clearly will not happen all in 2010 but it will be an evolution in infrastructure. 

“Efficiencies and efficiencies of scale are the primary thing providers are looking for. Even when we’re doing some things like TDM-to-IP legacy service migration for them, the faster we can get it to IP the happier they are. They want to push that to the edge as fast as they can,” said Jay Wilson, Adtran’s senior vice president and general manager of its carrier division. “From a carrier perspective, the biggest thing is efficiencies, not necessarily just efficiencies of scale but efficiencies of bandwidth and ease of provisioning, improved visibility.”

I see IP convergence of the three basic services. Data, Voice, and Video over IP.  I don’t see the next big hurtle being the adoption of this change but a change to IP that is almost mandatory to continue this explosion in growth.  I am referring to the long awaited adoption of IPv6, Internet Protocol Version 6 is the next generation protocol for the Internet.

For all of these reasons you are now going to need to identify a carrier that truly understands data.  There are a few out there that do. In fact their business model focuses on data only.  These are the providers of the future.  One of theses such providers is Intelletrace.

AT&T 3G MicroCell
This is a little Nifty device, If you happen to be an ATT customer and in the Charlotte, North Carolina area.  I am sure with the adoption of the Iphone that it will eventualy roll out in other areas. 

My Home is a Deadspot and I have had to be creative.   I use the Google talk number then SIM ring my Cell Phone number and a VOIP number.

You can register up to 10 phones (3G models with AT&T accounts) to work with the device, but it only supports four simultaneous calls or data sessions. It has a roughly 5000 square foot range, and calls originated from it are automatically handed over to AT&T towers once you leave the house/office.

Travelers will be sorry to hear that, as with Sprint and Verizon did with their femtocell units, AT&T’s device has a GPS chip, so it can’t be used out of the country. For that reason it’s recommended to be placed near a window.

You’ll need to have a net connection of at least 1.5Mbps down/256kbps up, and find your ZIP code in the availability checker at the site.

If you have been following me you will find that the blog has moved.  I have placed it here on the Intelletrace servers in wordpress.  I am working on getting back up to speed.  Please comment on topics you may wish for me to blog on or comment on. 

Thank you for all of your support.

For the home user it is telephone service over the internet. One of the most popular examples is Vonage. This type of service you connect an appliance to your home internet connection then you plug in your phone and away you go. The type of service I would like to talk about is SIP Trunk. A SIP trunk is similar to VOIP at home.

Generally the service I am referring to is for business and has multiple trunks. Generally there is no appliance by the SIP provider. The SIP session terminates at the business PBX. The business would use this type of service as their primary connection to the public switched telephone network in place of analog trunks or a PRI.

There are three basic types of SIP Providers.
1. The first type is the best in my opinion, but the most expensive. This type of provider will provide you a dedicated DSL or T1 connecting into their MPLS or direct connection. No other traffic will traverse this link except the Voice Traffic. This is ideal because they have full control of the data going across this connection. Read the rest of this entry »