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Send us a textUnlock the secrets of cybersecurity mastery with Sean Gerber as we embark on a journey through Domain 4 of the CISSP exam. Ever wondered how AI could transform the chaotic world of Security Operations Centers (SOCs)? Discover the potential of artificial intelligence to streamline alert management and enhance detection efficiency, a much-needed solution for the 60% of SOC professionals swamped by alert overload. Stay ahead of the curve by understanding the rapid rise of AI startups and the strategic importance of future investments in SOC capabilities.Venture into the realm of Voice over IP (VoIP) and unravel the intricacies of RTP and SRTP protocols that power real-time communication. Learn how these protocols ensure optimal data transmission while safeguarding against common threats like phishing and session hijacking. Dive into the revolutionary shift from traditional PSTN to VoIP, and explore the role of converged protocols like MPLS that simplify network integration. With a focus on security enhancements, this episode offers vital insights into maintaining robust communication systems in the face of evolving threats.Explore advanced networking concepts like Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and network virtualization, which are reshaping data transfer efficiency. Delve into wireless encryption protocols, including the transformative WPA3, and emerging technologies such as Li-Fi and Zigbee. Addressing cellular network encryption challenges with LTE communications, we provide a comprehensive guide to navigating the ever-evolving landscape of wireless standards. Wrap up your cybersecurity education with a spotlight on CISSP Cyber Training resources, designed to support your certification journey and contribute to a meaningful cause.Gain access to 60 FREE CISSP Practice Questions each and every month for the next 6 months by going to FreeCISSPQuestions.com and sign-up to join the team for Free. That is 360 FREE questions to help you study and pass the CISSP Certification. Join Today!

In this episode of YourTechReport on SiriusXM, host Marc Aflalo delves into the world of business communication with Sandeep Panesar, the strategic alliances and channel partnerships lead at Selectcom Telecom. Together, they explore the remarkable journey from the reliance on copper lines to the innovative era of Voice over IP (VoIP). Sandeep provides a comprehensive overview of how Selectcom Telecom is at the forefront of this evolution, offering a fully managed business voice solution that leverages the power of WebEx Calling. This solution not only integrates seamlessly with popular collaboration tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams but also ensures secure and professional communication for businesses of all sizes. The conversation highlights the cost-saving benefits of moving away from traditional phone systems, the importance of uninterrupted communication, and the potential pitfalls of over-reliance on cellular networks. Sandeep emphasizes the reliability and uptime guarantees that Selectcom's solution provides, backed by a Tier 1 provider's infrastructure. Marc and Sandeep also discuss the critical questions businesses should consider when evaluating their communication needs, underscoring the value of a robust and flexible communication system in today's fast-paced business environment. You can learn more about Selectcom Telecom at www.selectcomtelecom.ca Follow Sandeep Panesar on all social platforms @intosandeep. Chapters 00:00 The Evolution of Business Phone Systems 01:25 The Benefits of Voice over IP 03:49 Why Choose a Premium Business Solutions Provider Keywords: Business Communication, Selectcom Telecom, Copper Lines, VoIP, WebEx Calling, Collaboration Tools, Security, Professional Communication, Cost Savings, Uptime Guarantee, Sandeep Panesar, Marc Aflalo, Your Tech Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our modern world of fake news and misinformation, it can be hard to know whether the news story you are reading is real or propaganda designed to influence your opinion. However, thanks to AI we are now close to identifying how trustworthy the news in front of us really is. To discuss this, we are joined by Garry Paxinos, CTO at NetTalk, an easy-to-setup and use, lowest cost voice over IP (VoIP) home phone service. In addition to the work NetTALK is doing, Garry also discusses an app he has helped build called NOOZ.AI, an AI-driven news aggregator that analyzes the news using natural language processing and machine learning to empower readers to uncover bias. In this episode, we cover: How NetTALK began What is the story behind the names NetTALK and NOOZ.AI How NetTALK has branched out into the maritime cruise ship industry How NetTALK differentiates itself from the competition How NOOZ.AI works to spot propaganda styles and “ghost” edits What's next on the horizon for NetTALK and NOOZ.AI Links

About Ray Pasquale and Unified Office: Ray has spent the last 20+ years as an entrepreneurial technology professional, he has extensive sales and customer engineering experience along with proven management team leadership in dynamic, emerging technology companies. Recently Ray playeda key leadership role in professional and customer services, business development, pre-sales and technical marketing while at Sonus Networks, a market leader in Voice over IP technologies. Ray was a founding member of Sonus's services organization, recruiting many of its most senior members. From 1996 until 1999 Ray was a key technical leader and sales consultant for Cascade Communications' worldwide sales organization. During his tenure Cascade was purchased by Ascend Communications. Ascend, a leader in remote access technologies for the Internet market, was subsequently absorbed by Lucent in a merger. Prior to 1996, Ray's tenure with Digital Equipment Company included positions as Senior Consultant for Worldwide Network Operations, and Technical Leader and Senior Consultant for the Network Products Group. Ray's commitments to excellence and ideas were recognized by Digital. Mr. Pasquale received a Customer Satisfaction Award, Storage Systems Excellence Award, and Delta Ideas Recognition Award. He attended the University of Maine. Ray brings passion and commitment to every project he works on. He applies an open mind to projects in a way that fosters creativity and innovation. I've known him to be skillful in building a technical team. He is able to identify and mentor bright young engineering talent. In addition to his technical side, Ray has broad experience and a grasp of core business planning and marketing fundamentals. His style is direct and concise. Unified Office, Inc. is a leading provider of SDN-based hybrid cloud managed Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications services to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Unified Office's Total Connect Now℠ service architecture was purpose-built from the ground up to deliver the highest quality of experience and availability, leveraging the latest in extensible business VoIP communications technology and cloud-based infrastructure to enhance SMB workforce productivity. Their cloud-based intelligent network incorporates Unified Office's unique adaptive Highest Quality Routing™ (HQR) for end-to-end service quality, and Business Continuity “shadowing” to ensure high availability operation over one or more redundant broadband links. Over the last 7 or 8 years, Internet of Things (IoT) solutions have generally been marketed to and purchased by large enterprises. There are hundreds of IoT solutions for countless use cases including remote asset tracking, factory automation, fleet services, energy/utilities management, parking management, facilities management, smart vehicle enablement and many others. But what about sales of IoT to the world's 200 million small and medium businesses (SMBs)?

Rolling out a new phone system can be a daunting undertaking for health centers, especially because it involves call center personnel as well as office managers, medical assistants, and IT staff. During the pandemic, this pivot was especially important to support staff who found themselves shifting to remote work or bouncing between their home and office workstation. West County Health Centers made this leap, switching from traditional phone hardware and a reliance on telecom engineers to internet-based phones and a cloud-based system. Its leaders confirm it was a challenging endeavor, but one that was well worth it in the long run.Here's where you can learn more about the people, places, and ideas in this episode: Summer Penn, Director of Clinical Informatics at West County  Health CentersDialpad, an all-in-one voice -over-IP (VoIP) cloud-based platform that provides voice calling, messaging, and meetingsTechnology Hub, a CCI program that helps organizations vet, pilot, evaluate, and spread innovative digital health solutions targeting Medicaid markets and historically underinvested communities.© 2022 Center for Care Innovations. All Rights Reserved.

Audio version of video on YouTube. Commsverse 2022 Sessions Empowering.Cloud Introducing apps in Microsoft Teams Voice over IP (VoIP) calls Changes to Microsoft 365 Apps usage reports API in Microsoft Graph Azure Communication Services UI Library Now Available for iOS and Android Subscribe to all my videos at: https://thoughtstuff.co.uk/video Podcast: https://thoughtstuff.co.uk/itunes, https://thoughtstuff.co.uk/spotify or https://thoughtstuff.co.uk/podcast Blog: https://blog.thoughtstuff.co.uk

by Gary Audin COVID-19 has caused the explosion of remote workers and the use of online collaboration sessions more than 460% since January 2020. Meeting quality (bad calls) increased to 29% for cloud and 6% for on premises UCaaS from January through May 2020. Call abandonment (connection failures) topped 150% in March. Meeting sizes have expanded with groups of 50 or more participants doubling since January. This stimulated the significant growth in Microsoft Teams adoption. Tim Armstrong, VP Product Marketing at Nectar www.nectarcorp.com and Gary Audin recorded this EDUcast to provide insights into testing and evaluating Microsoft Teams for collaboration sessions. Tim covers what makes Teams attractive. He points out that cloud providers like Microsoft Teams have made it clear that the responsibility for end-user experience remains with the enterprise including the networks and endpoints. Tim continues with: Analytics as applied to voice and video sessions The support of PSTN calls through SBCs and SIP trunks What tools are necessary to manage Teams for better CX Compares Microsoft’s Call Quality Dashboard (CDQ) does and does not do The value of customized reports What you will learn in this EDUcast: User Experience Management in the Cloud Conferencing Growth Real World Analytics Exploding Meeting Sizes Microsoft Teams SBC Health Monitoring Session Health Diagnostics Nectar 10 is the industry’s most powerful and easy-to-use multi-vendor reporting, monitoring and diagnostics tools. Purpose-built for voice, video and real-time collaboration, Nectar 10 is designed for the cloud era with best-in-breed support for hybrid, premise and cloud-based environments. Nectar Services www.nectarcorp.com has been committed to delivering market-leading software solutions that empower our partners and customers to dramatically improve management, visibility, and service delivery across global and enterprise converged Voice-over-IP (VoIP), SIP and MPLS networks.

Transport Layer Security (TLS), and its now-deprecated predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),[1] are cryptographic protocols designed to provide communications security over a computer network.[2] Several versions of the protocols find widespread use in applications such as web browsing, email, instant messaging, and voice over IP (VoIP). Websites can use TLS to secure all communications between their servers and web browsers.

En esta entrega de Transformación Digital el invitado es Alejandro Peláez y Ricardo Villegas conduce el episodio 19 del podcast. Durante la conversación exploramos de una manera detallada el paso de la voz sobre IP (VoIP) a la telefonía IP establecemos sus diferentes y contamos algunos apartes de la historia de la telefonía tradicional mostrando el camino evolutivo de la voz sobre ip (VoIP) hasta llegar a la conexión con los sistemas de telefonía IP. Como parte de la historia tocamos aspectos técnicos detallando como se transmite la voz por internet y la relación que tiene hoy con la telefonía IP. Algunos otros aspectos que desarrollamos a través de la conversación son: Diferencias entre dos tecnologías: telefonía tradicional y la telefonía IP Razones por las cuales las compañías instalan telefonía IP Infraestructura de telefonía para mejorar y potenciar un negocio Fabricantes de sistemas de telefonía IP Explicamos que es un Private Branch Exhange PBX Diferencias entre líneas telefónicas y troncales telefónicas Aspectos operativos de los servicios de call center y contact center Experiencias en el montaje de los sistemas de telefonía IP Telefonía en la nube Comparte este podcast, deja tus comentarios y escríbenos que temas quisieras escuchar en este espacio de Transformación Digital. Conduce: Ricardo Villegas Londoño email: r_villegas@hotmail.com Invitado: Alejandro Peláez Rodríguez email: alejandropelaezr@gmail.com Producido por: Alejandro Pelaez Rodriguez Web site: https://www.apelaez.com/podcasts/transformacion-digitalBlog: https://www.apelaez.com/blogemail: alejandropelaezr@gmail.com Redes SocialesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alejandropelaezrYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/alejandropelaezrTwitter: https://twitter.com/apelaezFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/alejandropelaezr CreditosMusic by: Fontanez / Doug Maxwell - Urban LullabyFotografia: Juan Jose Alvarez Calle https://www.kreafoto.com

En esta entrega de Transformación Digital el invitado es Alejandro Peláez y Ricardo Villegas conduce el episodio 19 del podcast. Durante la conversación exploramos de una manera detallada el paso de la voz sobre IP (VoIP) a la telefonía IP establecemos sus diferentes y contamos algunos apartes de la historia de la telefonía tradicional mostrando el camino evolutivo de la voz sobre ip (VoIP) hasta llegar a la conexión con los sistemas de telefonía IP. Como parte de la historia tocamos aspectos técnicos detallando como se transmite la voz por internet y la relación que tiene hoy con la telefonía IP. Algunos otros aspectos que desarrollamos a través de la conversación son: Diferencias entre dos tecnologías: telefonía tradicional y la telefonía IP Razones por las cuales las compañías instalan telefonía IP Infraestructura de telefonía para mejorar y potenciar un negocio Fabricantes de sistemas de telefonía IP Explicamos que es un Private Branch Exhange PBX Diferencias entre líneas telefónicas y troncales telefónicas Aspectos operativos de los servicios de call center y contact center Experiencias en el montaje de los sistemas de telefonía IP Telefonía en la nube Comparte este podcast, deja tus comentarios y escríbenos que temas quisieras escuchar en este espacio de Transformación Digital. Conduce: Ricardo Villegas Londoño email: r_villegas@hotmail.comInvitado: Alejandro Peláez Rodríguez email: alejandropelaezr@gmail.com  Music by: Fontanez / Doug Maxwell - Urban Lullaby Fotografía: https://www.juanjalvarez.comProducido por: Alejandro Peláez RodríguezPodcast URL: https://apelaez.podbean.com/Web site: https://www.avenetsa.comemail: alejandropelaezr@gmail.com

Penguin & Termite realized a very influential technology often gets taken for granted. We are going to put it in the spotlight of this week's episode of 80 Bit Podsmash. We talk about voice chat in video games. Where did it start? What's it look like today? We even dabble in a little PC vs Console territory. Do you use any chat services online when you play games? Music:Ozzed - No Fight But Coolhttp://ozzed.net http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

It's not just during emergencies, as more and more agencies move to voice over IP (VOIP) and other technologies like instant messaging or texting that depend on the cloud and security making secure communications become even more important.

In an industry that changes as fast as internet technology, time is a blessing and a curse. No one knows that better than Scott Seltzer, founder and CEO of ConnectMe, LLC. As a hosted voice over IP (VoIP) and unified communications service provider, business has boomed in the last decade as reliable internet and better routers have become more affordable – and more commonplace – among ConnectMe’s target audience. But as the market continues to grow, Scott finds himself lying awake at night worrying about staying ahead. For more, listen to the podcast! For more information on the Birthing of Giants Fellowship program, click here to visit the program's website.

Pharmacy Marketing Simplified podcast host Nicolle McClure interviews VP of Pharmacy Automation Travis Smith with Smart Solutions IVR Technology.  Smart Solutions has provided affordable, innovative IVR services to the pharmacy industry since 1995. SMART has successfully pioneered and developed superior IVR solutions that are "best of breed" within the industry and offer the utmost in flexibility and reliability to the pharmacy community. Most recently, Smart has developed a Speech Recognition Voice Response (IVR) module that is very cost effective and which is the industry's leading state-of-the-art pharmacy voice application. Smart also has the ability to work with Voice over IP (VoIP) applications. Smart's IVR products are flexible and can be customized and tailored to the pharmacy without specific application engineering (which can add thousands of dollars to the application cost) with such features as Mail Order and Delivery being a standard offering in the feature menu. Enterprise applications is another area of our expertise. Our experience with thousands of chain store locations, large hospital clinical organizations, Mail Order and Independents in the U.S. and Canada has given us the experience to understand the solutions needed by both large and small pharmacy enterprises. Smart Solutions has been providing pharmacy workflow applications to the industry since year 2000. Smart's workflow applications can be utilized in whole, or in part, on a modular format, based on individual chain, institutional, mail order or independent pharmacy need. Smart has the ability to fill the gaps in practice management systems, providing any workflow application to augment where needed for pharmacy full workflow functionality. Smart's Digital Workflow Modules include Prescription Verification, Will Call Bin Management and Electronic Signature Capture. Within these applications Pill Images, Original Prescription Images and Customer Identification Images can be captured and stored for long term archiving. Smart's Bin Management modules can be adapted to existing pharmacy formats, or in its most sophisticated form can provide light activated bins that absolutely do away with storage confusion and lost prescriptions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ideally, no call goes to voicemail. But it happens. Ideally you are alert, 100% focused, perky, welcoming and clear to all callers that call you and answer with enthusiasm and respect. That doesn’t happen. Unless you have NO tasks, NO proposals, NO presentations, quotes, marketing timeline items you are working on, you will not be able to answer every call. If you can answer every single call to your landline, mobile and video chat requests, you need more business and someone guiding you to do more than wait by the phone. Chances are at that point, you are broke, hungry and most likely unemployed. Voicemail, answering services, phone trees have been part of business going back to the 1920s with switchboards in big companies. You see them in old movies - the ladies in a small room with perfect make-up while on a headset plucking one cord, and taking that cord and connecting it somewhere else - the transfer. The switchboard operator was the first greeter many businesses had. From there, the calls might go to the executive assistant who will decide who gets through to the target or will be sluffed off to the “take a message” status. Fast forward to today - the age of voice over IP - VOIP. Calls from anywhere and any device can be routed with the same flexibility - anywhere on any device, or multiple devices, this includes video calls. This has allowed us to further customize that initial journey of the first time or repeated caller. We even have the ability to block callers from specific numbers so we never know they tried to reach us. We can send them directly to voicemail with a canned text message letting them know you are unavailable at the moment and will call them back right away. We have become our own switchboard operators and executive assistants. You would have hired a professional in the past for those positions. Back in switchboard days, you hired entry level people. Why would you do that now? There is too much competition for everyone’s business and attention. Make it count if they call you. Make them feel welcomed after they’ve bothered to click on the phone number on your website to “call 800-555-1212?”. After they’ve bothered to go to your contact page, read your overstuffed business card - another topic - and actually put the digits in their device to start a conversation with you. Now, you popular people, those with high up positions, those well-connected are most likely inundated with “strangers” calling you - sapping your time, interrupting your day. AND? Do you remember when you were hungry? Do you remember how it felt to have to make those cold calls? How it felt to reach out to someone you met briefly at some crowded event - in person or online? That is still a human. A human earning a living for their families. Give them some dignity rather than disdain. I fully admit to being annoyed when I get an obvious boiler room call. They are spam, junk, unsolicited solicitation without any goal other than gaining access to my computer, scaring me into thinking I need their service to save me from a virus or donate to some unreputable charity. When I’ve had my coffee, and a decent night’s rest, I can stay composed, polite and quickly end the conversation without being rude. But what about those callers we WANT calling us? We are on the other line, the call goes to voicemail, unless you have a phone tree set up with a live person answering for you as your executive assistant. You want that message to be SHORT, clean, warm, welcoming. The goal is to get them to LEAVE the message so you can call them RIGHT BACK. They don’t need you telling them what day it is, unless you are at a conference and it will affect your response time. At that point, give them another way to reach someone who can help them fast. When was the last time you called you? Try it. Do you like the experience? Is the message even current. Don’t you hate it when you call someone you’ve been waiting on to return from a conference, and Tuesday of the following week their message still says, “Hi, this is Heather, it’s Thursday and I’m at DreamForce through Sunday….” At that point you stop listening and most likely hangup since Heather doesn’t have her act together. First impressions, or even second chance first impressions. Some ideas for the incoming phone call journey: A HUMAN ALWAYS ANSWERS FIRST rather than a phone tree digital switchboard. They route the call to your personal number. You see the call, you answer or… You are on the phone and it goes to voicemail or If you don’t answer will it go back to the receptionist with a different moniker so they know it’s a call that came back to them after transferring - this would be handled with more urgency than new calls coming in as they have already spent time calling you, being routed, not reached you and routed back. Second tree option: Calls go right to phone tree. Is your last name easy to spell? How about your first name? Make sure if you have that type of “dial by name” system in place, you are in there by FIRST and LAST name. If your names are always difficult for people to spell, consider routing by department or a “say the name”. But if people can’t spell your name, they may not be able to SAY your name. Back to call journey 1. Third tree option: All calls go directly to you - your direct line from LinkedIn, your bio on the company site. You answer with the attitude this could be “the one” - smile, welcome them, make sure you are in a place you can hear them, even if they have a heavy accent and are in their cars. Here are some tips for recording your voicemail message: Sound upbeat in your message. Don’t rush Avoid background noise. Rehearse or write down your message before recording it. Blitz Sales Software reminds us to: Share basic information: If you’re out of the office: - BUT change it when this isn’t true. Be courteous of your customers’ time: Give them a realistic expectation: Catch their attention: Prove your attentiveness to voicemail:

Customers like Twilio, AudioCodes, and Vonage power their voice, video and messaging services using AWS's global infrastructure. In this session, we walk through the core AWS features and partner products that enable carrier-grade Voice-over-IP (VoIP), WebRTC, and IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) solutions. You'll walk away with best practices and lessons learned from our customers' experience. We address the requirements for low latency, high availability, and scalability, critical to communication workloads. To do so, we use a combination of advanced Amazon EC2 networking, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing, Route 53, Direct Connect, and AWS Marketplace–provided options.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential component of the Internet, a virtual phone book of names and numbers, but we rarely think about it until something goes wrong. DNS also serves as the backbone for other services critical to organizations including email, external web access, file sharing and voice over IP (VoIP). There are steps, however, that network administrators can take to ensure the security and resilience of their DNS infrastructure and avoid security pitfalls. In this podcast, Mark Langston discusses best practices for designing a secure, reliable DNS infrastructure. Listen on Apple Podcasts.

En este capítulo de Tecno Gerente Al Día (http://www.tecnogerente.com/) analizamos la Telefonía IP y la Voz sobre IP VoIP, sus repercusiones en las empresas y por qué es buena idea contar con este servicio. Información completa en http://www.tecnogerente.com/tecno-gerente-al-dia-miercoles-febrero-24-de-2016-ventajas-de-la-telefonia-ip-vs-telefonia-tradicional/

Mike Intro: December 19. 2007: Broadband the AT&T and Qwest WayIn this podcast we discuss AT&T and Qwests Fiber to the Node projects. Mike: Gordon, can you give us a little background on what AT&T is doing?Project Lightspeed was announced as a 6 billion dollar project by AT&T in June 2004 and involves running optical fiber out to a remote terminal, or node and providing the last portion of the connection over copper wire. The project was ambitious from the start with initial plans to reach close to 19 million homes by the end of 2008. AT&T has given the product the name U-verse and at the TelcoTV conference last October, VP of converged services at AT&T Labs Research Peter Hill gave the keynote address featuring the product. Here's a few quotes from an October 26 CED Magazine post: AT&T’s roll out of its IPTV video services has been slower than it originally anticipated, but with more than 126,000 current subscribers, the company feels as though it’s on the right track. AT&T started the year with 3,000 video subscribers, then grew that base to 16,000 and 60,000, respectively, in the first and second quarters. “We’re past the point of last year where the question was, ‘Will IPTV scale?’,? said Peter Hill, VP of converged services at AT&T Labs Research, during the first keynote address Wednesday morning at TelcoTV. “You can’t get to that number (126,000 subscribers) without significant flow through and automation. We do have a competitive service and we can do it to scale.? Mike: There's always been concerns about bandwidth, especially when compated to products like the Verizon Fiber to the Home, or FiOS project. How is AT&T doing with U-verse?Bandwidth has been a major concern, with Hill commenting on the H.264 compression standard:“The encoding rates for H.264 have come down faster than we projected,? Hill said. “We’ll be able to do more channels in the same amount of bandwidth.?Mike: What other services will be available?Hill says the company will be adding home DVRs that allow satellite set-top boxes to show video downloaded to the DVR box. Hill also said the company will be adding to the current 30 high-definition channels next year along with photo-sharing and a Voice over IP (VoIP) service. Here's more interesting quotes from the CED Magazine piece:While cable executives have said there is no compelling reason to move to an IP infrastructure to deliver video services, Hill contends that IPTV is “very different from cable and satellite? because the nature of IP allows for easier integration among services while also allowing it to take advantage of Internet partners such as Amazon....... One of those features is “Cinema Center? that allows movies to be purchased from Amazon with one click. The movie portal content would be dynamic and would allow subscribers to view trailers prior to making their purchases. “We don’t have to create this stuff in IP because it reaches out to Web devices and incorporates them into IPTV,? Hill said. Hill demonstrated how an iPhone could be used to remotely program a home TV and how multiple cameras at live events could be selected by the viewer. He also demonstrated a feature that used an i-Phone to remotely configure channel favorites on a home TV. The application would give four different i-Phone users the ability to program their favorite shows on their household TVs. Also discussed was a Web cam feature that would let viewers in different locations view a live performance of a sporting event or dance concert based on IP technology that uses switched digital video. Mike: I know they had problems with the original set top box - any updates? Also, according to CED Magazine: During the question-and-answer segment, Hill said AT&T would continue to rely on the Motorola set-top box with the Sigma Designs processor as its main workhorse, although it’s also working with Scientific Atlanta on a box with the same signature. Hill expected new set-top boxes with second-generation chipsets from Sigma and Broadcom to be available in 2009. Mike: How is it selling?The U-verse product website lists:Subscribers: 126,000 U-verse TV and Internet subscribers in service (as of end of 3Q07) Homes Passed: Approximately 5.5 million living units (as of end of 3Q07) Deployment: Plans to pass approximately 8 million living units by the end of 2007Another interesting roll out to watch in 2008. Schedule: AT&T expects to reach nearly 18 million households as part of its initial deployment by the end of 2008. Mike: Speaking about FTTN - I know you recently blogged on Qwest and FTTN effort. Can you give us an update?Qwest is based in Denver and provides services to 14 states in the western part of the U.S.Earlier this week, Broadband Reports posted an interesting summary of a conference call with new (he started in August) Qwest CEO Ed Mueller. Here's a summary from the Broadband Reports post:Qwest will spend $300 million over the next two years to bring 20Mbps VDSL to around 1.5 million customers.- $70-100 million will be spent on FTTN this year and another $200 million next year. Qwest hopes to see a FTTN/VDSL penetration rate of 40% by 2010. Upgrades are going to cost the company around $175 per home. Qwest will focus on portions of around twenty un-mentioned markets.The Denver Post also published an article yesterday outlining the call and indicated the company will not focus on IP video delivery, stating "the $300 million fiber-to-the-node project is not intended as a deployment of IPTV." Qwest currently has a video agreement with DirectTV and it looks like that agreement will stay in place.The Post article gave a little more detail on deployment, stating the rollout "will focus on 20 markets with the project, 10 of its largest and 10 others." Also according to the article, Qwest has started to upgrade their network in Denver and Colorado Springs.Second generation VDSL (Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line), referred to as VDSL2, provides up to 100Mbps over standard copper telephone wires.These will be  exciting products to watch in 2008.

The VoIP Security Essentials presentation will introduce the audience to voice over IP (VoIP) technology. The practical uses of VoIP will be discussed along with the advantages and disadvantages of VoIP technology as it is today. Key implementation issues will be addressed to ensure product selection for VoIP technology will integrate into the organization’s current infrastructure. The presentation will look at some of the latest VoIP security issues that have surfaced and the vendor/industry responses to those issues. Jeff Waldron, CISSP, ISSAP, SCSA has over 15 years of IT experience-over 10 of those years are IT Security specific. Has supported both Commercial, State, Federal and DoD IT security environments. Extensive knowledge of Host and Network-Based Intrusion Detection/Prevention tools and technologies along with UNIX-based security configurations. Has presented at Black Hat USA 04 and a facility member with The Institute for Applied Network Security."

"The VoIP Security Essentials presentation will introduce the audience to voice over IP (VoIP) technology. The practical uses of VoIP will be discussed along with the advantages and disadvantages of VoIP technology as it is today. Key implementation issues will be addressed to ensure product selection for VoIP technology will integrate into the organization’s current infrastructure. The presentation will look at some of the latest VoIP security issues that have surfaced and the vendor/industry responses to those issues. Jeff Waldron, CISSP, ISSAP, SCSA has over 15 years of IT experience-over 10 of those years are IT Security specific. Has supported both Commercial, State, Federal and DoD IT security environments. Extensive knowledge of Host and Network-Based Intrusion Detection/Prevention tools and technologies along with UNIX-based security configurations. Has presented at Black Hat USA 04 and a facility member with The Institute for Applied Network Security."