Alec Saunders SquawkBox

Does Peer-to-Peer (P2P) SIP represent the future of SIP communication? Does it have the possibility to enable the creation of a peer-to-peer communication cloud that could rival Skype but be based on open standards? Where would P2P SIP fit? In an enterprise environment? consumer? What’s the technology behind it all, anyway?

Today’s Squawk Box was a fascinating one for those of us interested in the network level of how VoIP can all work. Today, pretty much all SIP-based telephony is “server-centric”. You have SIP servers to which SIP clients register. The SIP servers, be they IP-PBXs, call managers, whatever… control the overall conversation. But what if you could have SIP in a *serverless* environment? What if SIP endpoints could “self-organize” and create P2P clouds? How would this work? How secure would it be? Who would use it?

Our guest on the call was David Bryan, co-chair of the IETF’s P2PSIP Working Group and also CEO of SIPpeerior Technologies. We dove into all of those questions mentioned above and many more. It was quite an enjoyable and interesting call and we hope you find it helpful to understand this potential new way of organizing SIP communication.

Some links:

• P2PSIP.org
• P2PSIP Research and Reading
• P2PSIP Implementations
• IETF P2PSIP working group
• SIPeerior Technologies

On the call: Dan York (host), Dameon Welch-Abernathy, James Body, Jim Courtney, William Volk, Ian Hood, Sergio Meinardi, Tom O’Connor.

Show notes and links can be found at either:

• http://apps.facebook.com/calliflower/conf/show/34613 (Facebook)
• http://apps.calliflower.com/conf/show/34613

We thank David Bryan for joining us on the show.

 

 Squawk Box - July 9, 2008 - P2PSIP - David Bryan [53:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Do we really want to turn our cars into rolling WiFi hotspots? Will this be a boon to the “always-on” culture or just yet another source of driver distraction? And do we really want wearable computers that involve us answering a phone by sticking a finger in our ear?

On today’s Squawk Box we’ll journey a bit into new technologies coming out in the consumer space. First, in the past few weeks Chrysler has announced that starting with the 2009 models they will introduce “UConnect Web” where the car gets turned into a WiFi hotspot using a 3G cellular connection. Is this a good thing? Or just more distraction? How secure would it be? What kind of capabilities would it have? Who would use it? Some links:

• Wired
• AutoBlog (picture and video)
• Slashgear
• TechDirt (excellent cartoon)

We’ll then touch on some of the new work in “wearable computing”. NTT DoCoMo just put out a news release talking about some of their work - part of it is about new work to track your eye motion - and part of it involves a Bluetooth headset that involves bone conduction through sticking your finger in your ear!  Some of this tech has been around for a while (there are web references to the finger phone as far back as 2000)… here are some more pictures.

On the call: Dan York (host), Jeanette Fisher, James Body, Hudson Barton, Ian Hood and Frank Abrams.

Show notes and links can be found at either:

http://apps.facebook.com/calliflower/conf/show/34611
http://apps.calliflower.com/conf/show/34611

 

 Squawk Box - July 8, 2008 - WiFi in cars and wearable computing [25:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download