I.T -Telecommunications

By Brad (Biju) Oommen Originally published in  Technews TMCnet    Review: Kentrox's Q1300 VoIP QoS Solution Convergence (News - Alert) can usher in huge savings on equipment, training and maintenance. But the caveat is that the different services that we converge on our network have different requirements. Yes, the entire gamut of services such as web, games, file transfer, e-mail, IP  Telephony, video conferencing, video streaming, video on demand, virtual classrooms, medical applications, storage area networking etc have varying requirements for reliability, delay, jitter and bandwidth. All these applications contend for bandwidth and for convergence to be successful we have to ensure that the mission critical and vital applications get the required and necessary bandwidth. This is all the more true when the traffic traverses from the LAN to the WAN and the network bandwidth pipe size gets drastically reduced. Let me illustra...

By Brad (Biju) Oommen Originally published in  FUTURE OF WORK NEWS    Amazon AVS Testing: Voicebot-enabled Devices Offer Intuitive and Engaging Experience By  Biju Oommen   December 16, 2019 Within the realm of digital communications, digital voice assistants are gaining momentum, as they permit natural hands-free interactions, allowing us to communicate easily with voice-enabled devices.  The beneficial strategy in a customer-centric functional scenario would be to deploy voice assistants and voice bots (computer programs that handle voice conversations and are driven by natural language processing and artificial intelligence.  Examples of well-known voice assistants are Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana, Samsung’s Bixby, and Apple’s Siri. For the above scenarios, from a developer’s perspective, certified development kits serve a very useful purpose. They can expeditiously and cost effectively set up solutions/a...

By Brad (Biju) Oommen Originally published in  infoTECH Spotlight    September 13, 2019 Digital Ceiling PoE switch Increases Efficiency and Cost Savings for Connected Devices  By  Biju Oommen Fig. A.  Microsemi ( News  -  Alert )  PDS-408G digital ceiling PoE switch In a smart building, smart city scenario and in the Internet of Things (IoT) realm, deploying digital ceiling Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches to deliver network connectivity and PoE to PDs (Powered devices) is beneficial.  The deployment strategy of delivering power and data safely over the same Ethernet cable pairs equates to substantially increased efficiency, cost savings, and ease of installation.  To achieve that, digital ceiling PoE switches support many features and technologies.  Let’s briefly discuss some of them. PoE-BT (IEEE ( News  -  Alert ) 802.3-bt), the latest standard, supports delivery of up to 90W ...

By Brad (Biju) Oommen Originally published in  Internet Telephony Magazine    August 16, 2019 Wi-Fi Controller-less Access Point which is managed on prem or in the cloud…the choice is yours Fig. A Grandstream Networks GWN7630 Wi-Fi Access Point There is one maxim that applies to Wi-Fi access point (AP) network deployments, “deliver reliable and optimal wireless connectivity…which is affordable, easy to deploy and manage”. Nowadays, APs are equipped with an embedded controller. Cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Wi-Fi controller solutions are also available to deploy and manage secure Wi-Fi networks across disparate locations using a web browser and mobile apps. This means with either of the mentioned approaches, you can setup and manage your Wi-Fi networks, clients and APs without any additional or separate on-premise based hardware controller infrastructure. Clients can roam seamlessly and efficiently from AP to AP residing on th...