"voip requires less knowledge" These kinds of statements only serve to fracture telephony/communications communities even more (at a time when "unified communications" have been the buzzword for a decade). I take it you've never spent time developing high scale, high availability "voip" systems. Built SS7/SIP internetworking gateways? SIP-I? SIP-T? Debugged ridiculous SIP/SDP/RTP interop issues between the thousands of endpoints, networks, and configurations available in the field? TLS? SRTP? IPV6? Complex codecs operating at multiple sample rates and ptimes, complete with adaptive jitter buffers and forward error correction? I could go on, and on, and on and of course most of us also have to deal with the 8k TDM PSTN (including SS7, IMTs, various DBs, regulatory stuff, etc, etc). Saying "voip requires less knowledge" does nothing more than show how little you know about it. Voip does not require less knowledge - it requires /different/ knowledge. At this point I couldn't patch a 25 pair cable if my life depended on it, that requires expertise different from my own. If you want to talk about any of the technologies above I'd probably be able to contribute quite a bit to the conversation :). On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Robert-iPhone <rhuddleston@gmail.com> wrote:
it wasnt intended as insult - just humorous how voip requires less knowledge
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