Archives for May 2012

HTML, SIP and the Missing Link (WebRTC)

Tsahi Levent-Levi • VoIP • May 31, 2012

SIP has finally come to the browser! You can now run VoIP using SIP inside your browser by using HTML5 JavaScript tools. And we have WebRTC to thank for that to some extent.

Users Don’t Care About Security

Tsahi Levent-Levi • Tips for developers • May 28, 2012

Users don’t care about security although they should. Someone should do it for them and that is the role of developers and product managers – now more than ever.

WebRTC’s Fat Lady Hasn’t Finished Her Song Yet

Tsahi Levent-Levi • VoIP • May 24, 2012

while I am an advocate of WebRTC, it still have a way to go until it matures enough. Until then, most of the things you will see with it are demos and hype. Where is it still lacking and what needs to be done to improve it?

Net Neutrality is Like…

Tsahi Levent-Levi • Miscellaneous • May 21, 2012

Net neutrality is like a lot of things. Mainly because its exact definition is somewhat elusive. Here are a few comparisons of net neutrality to other “things” that I found on the net.

The 3 Schools of Reliable Service Development

Tsahi Levent-Levi • Miscellaneous • May 17, 2012

There are a lot of ways in which services can be launched these days: from stitching a bunch of existing web services to building everything on a dedicated data center. How do these compare to each other?

Android: Fragmentation vs. Iteration

Tsahi Levent-Levi • Mobile market • May 14, 2012

There is no fragmentation problem in Android. There is an iteration issue that needs to be improved. Once improved, this is going to threaten Apple in a real way.

WebRTC and the Mobile Web

Tsahi Levent-Levi • Mobile market, VoIP • May 10, 2012

WebRTC will affect the mobile web as well. It will disrupt wireless telephony as well as the way we think about native and web apps.

SIP has no video or audio quality

Tsahi Levent-Levi • VoIP • May 7, 2012

People often mistake the signaling protocol with the ability to achieve better media quality. I think it is time to put things straight: SIP or any other signaling protocol has nothing to do with media quality.

6 Reasons Why WebRTC is Here to Stay

Tsahi Levent-Levi • VoIP • May 3, 2012

WebRTC is a new technology, which means a valid question to ask is will it still be here a few years from now? The immediate answer is yes – and for some very good reasons.