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February 26, 2008
Interoperability – May I have it wrong.
I am down here at VON Mexico today, but before I left for the airport the wife had the honey – do lists. On that list was the migration of a printer to the basement for later use for the college bound daughter.
So what does this have to do with interoperability?
Well the reason the daughter gets this new printer is because my wife still has cartridges for the old printer. In other words the lack of inter operable ink cartridges.
Now thanks to drivers almost all computers can talk to almost all printers. Shouldn’t that be enough?
This can be juxtaposed to the problems we have in SIP Standardization, where nearly everyone wants to make nearly everything standard that touches SIP.
So I ask the question…
Should a phone be like a printer’s ink cartridge? Or the printer?
I have been advocating for the use of DIAMETER to be the equivalent of a driver for configuration of almost any phone to almost any service.
If you want to help me make my phone like a printer, I need to hear from you.
Because right now most of my friends are making money developing ink cartridge software. Where is the software? Configuration tools, middleware and signaling tools are where you see this.
And of course CODECs. As we watch video over the Internet the diversity of the codec’s used to broadcast increases. As we make voice calls with a variety of VoIP clients the dream gets more remote.
I will make room in the basement.
Posted by carl at February 26, 2008 08:17 AM
Comments
Sad but true.
Interoperability and SIP are far from being synonyms. As an industry, we have a lot of ground to cover for that to happen.
Anatoli Levine wrote his rants on SIP just last month: http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/2008/01/15/is-sip-inteoperability-state-of-art-part-1/
Posted by: Tsahi Levent-Levi at February 26, 2008 10:37 AM