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The Future of Mobile Computing

Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:39 AM by msteinberg :: 0 Comments
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There was a fascinating article in Business Week on how the battle between Apple and Google is shaping up. Here are two companies that together have won the hearts and minds of users in recent years. They have recently imitated each other, and were so Read More...

PodSnacks: Primary Rate Interface (PRI)

Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q3/pri.mp3
The other day, Peter gave us the low-down on the Basic Rate Interface (BRI). This is only one of two ISDN interface options. The other one is the Primary Rate Interface (PRI). In North America, the PRI is provisioned over a T-1 . Like the BRI, the PRI Read More...

PodSnacks: Basic Rate Interface (BRI)

Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q3/bri.mp3
You know, these PodSnacks are something like a stream of consciousness. Our recent discussion of PPP included some references to ISDN , so I thought it might be a good idea to take a look at the two ISDN interface options. For that, we're going to Read More...

PodSnacks: Unified Messaging (UM)

Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q2/unified_messaging.mp3
We hear a lot about convergence , but the discussion is often focused on combining voice and data in a common network. Convergence is about more than the network, though. It's also about the applications. Today, we'll ask Paul to take us through Read More...

PodSnacks: IP Multimedia Subsystem

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q2/ims.mp3
We've had a few podcasts on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), but Paul and I thought a brief podsnack to give a high-level definition might be a good idea. Then, if you are curious, you can go listen to some of the other podcasts we've done on this Read More...

PodSnack: Convergence

Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/convergence.mp3
OK - it's been beaten to death pretty badly, but it's still relevant. In this episode, Mark and Michel discuss the word convergence and its relevance. A model for looking at convergence as a set of layers starting at the transport core and moving Read More...

PodSnacks: Real-time Transport Protocol

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q4/rtp.mp3
Since we spent a little time talking about the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) yesterday, this seemed like a good time to take a look at another Transport Layer function that is increasingly important today: the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). RTP plays Read More...

PodSnacks: MPLS QoS

Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q4/mpls_qos.mp3
The discussion about congestion and packet discard discard continues! Today, Trevor and I chat a bit about the way packet discard is handled in MPLS networks, including how mapping is performed between the various CoS signaling strategies (e.g., DiffServ Read More...

PodSnacks: Electronic Numbering

Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:01 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q3/enum.mp3
A couple of days ago we talked about the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). As we move towards a packet-voice world and protocols like SIP , URIs will become more important. So too will Electronic Numbering (ENUM). This is an approach that promises to Read More...

PodSnacks: Primary Rate Interface

Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:14 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q3/pri.mp3
Yesterday, Peter gave us the low-down on the Basic Rate Interface (BRI). This is only one of two ISDN interface options. The other one is the Primary Rate Interface (PRI). In North America, the PRI is provisioned over a T-1 . Like the BRI, the PRI supports Read More...

PodSnacks: Basic Rate Interface

Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:54 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q3/bri.mp3
You know, these PodSnacks are something like a stream of consciousness. Our discussion of PPP included some references to ISDN , so I thought it might be a good idea to take a look at the two ISDN interface options. For that, we're going to turn back Read More...

PodSnacks: Unified messaging

Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:47 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q2/unified_messaging.mp3
Sorry for a bit of delay in getting some of these snacks out. I've been down with a bronchitis and am just getting back into the saddle. So I'll be back-filling some episodes for the next few days. Today, we'll ask Paul to take us through Read More...

PodSnacks: IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:03 PM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q2/ims.mp3
We've had a few podcasts on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), but Paul and I though a brief podsnack to give a high-level definition might be a good idea. Then, if you are curious, you can go listen to some of the other podcasts we've done on this Read More...

Look Before You Leap!

Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:41 AM by ntodd :: 0 Comments
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'Leap' meaning 'converge' in this case. Mark and I were chatting about unified communications and observed that converging can be rather complex, so we brought in Russ Flewelling from Digital Fairway to tell us a bit about some software Read More...