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December 17, 2007
You have to Fight for your Right to be Auto Discovered.
One of the pleasures of working at pulvermedia for the last ten years is the ability to make contacts with a variety of people. The variety includes the brillantly technical and the solidly sales oriented people. So, when I suggested that I could blend these worlds on the issue of DIAMETER configuration, I got a yawn from both sides.
But I feel I am right to want to focus on this and I want to tell you why.
If you buy a POTS phone, it is generic and you plug it into any carriers service. Event the VoBB players support your use of POTS phones with Analog Telephone Adapters [ATA]. But if you want to buy a VoIP phone. You rapidly discover you have entered a no mans land of configuration woes. I think this hurts us. And I can think of a few strategies that would change this, but at a base level I think we need the ability to have a dialogue between the End Users SIP phone and some registry capability in the network.
My carrier friends are not in total agreement with this. Some of my cable buddies like the truck roll to splice out the ILECs network connection. It gives them a feeling of security. Other folks recognize the pricing power of an ATA vs a SIP phone.
But to me, this is a cause celib. If I want to chose my phone, I want to any old RJ41 to work like any old RJ11 does. Its that simple. I am starting us off with DIAMETER for fear that to much legacy exists to reach any consensus on other strategies.
So if you are into configuration management I am interested in talking with you and having you join this discussion.
Posted by carl at December 17, 2007 08:02 AM