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ClueCon 2015: FreeSWITCH, FreeSWITCH Everywhere, and Not A Phone In Sight
That smartphone in your pocket has already replaced your watch, your camera, several volumes of books, whatever music device you may carry, and even in many ways your desktop computer. As technology continues to gobble up and replace legacy devices with ever smaller hardware and ever more capable software, why are we still stuck with a DTMF keypad? As the task of communicating continues to move on to the web and into apps, what will happen to the PSTN. Today…
Find out more »SpeechTEK 2015: Elements of Multichannel Real-Time Communication Applications
The technology that enables us to communicate is developing faster than the applications that would harness it. With access to multiple inexpensive audio, video, and communications technologies, combined with ubiquitous connectivity and pocket-sized devices, the stage is set for a renaissance in the way we communicate in real time. This presentation analyzes real-world examples in terms of the problems they are designed to solve, the unique usability challenges presented, and the opportunities through real-time communication applications to improve them further.…
Find out more »RubyConf Brasil 2015: Ruby, Javascript and Elixir joining forces for WebRTC
This may be RubyConf, but most of us use more than just Ruby to build out our application stack and deliver a compelling product to our users. With WebRTC, this is even more so. We combine a web application, perhaps in Rails, with a rich communications UI (voice and video) in the browser using Javascript and some heavy-lifting on the backend using a range of technologies, including Elixir. In this presentation, we'll talk about why WebRTC is interesting, how it…
Find out more »IIT Real-Time Communications 2015: The Channel of Last Resort: Why the Telephone is Obsolete and Continues to be Essential
For roughly the last 125 years, the telephone has been the dominant form of real-time communication over distance. However, the last major innovation was to make it mobile, which effectively happened 20 years ago. Prior to that, the major innovation was the telephone keypad, circa 1950. It should be no surprise, then, that people are drifting away from Plain-Old-Telephone-Service and moving toward better alternatives for voice communication. Yet, we all still rely on this “least common denominator” channel of communication…
Find out more »IIT Real-Time Communications 2015: Who Are You, and Why Does It Matter? Identity in Communication
Who are you? How do you introduce yourself? Do you use a name, or do you greet a friend by the last 4 digits of his social security number? Assuming you don’t, why are we content to associate our identity with 10 random digits assigned by our phone company? Identity is an issue that affects everyone, but as individuals we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it. This talk is about the impact of technology on identity. Should…
Find out more »AstriDevCon 2015: The Future of Asterisk
AstriDevCon is an annual event, held alongside AstriCon - it includes an in-depth review of progress made in the past year and an open discussion about the future direction of the project. The event is free and open for any active Asterisk community developer to apply for attendance. It's a great opportunity to meet the core development team in person, pitch ideas for new features and functions and coordinate efforts with others. Potential discussion points: • Our view of Asterisk’s…
Find out more »AstriCon 2015: WebRTC: How it Works, and How it Breaks
WebRTC is an exciting new technology, perhaps the most exciting thing to happen to voice communication since the invention of Voice over IP. With WebRTC, we are no longer limited to a disjointed communication experience with poor quality audio on antiquated networks. Now we have the ability to put high-definition audio and video where it will have the most impact: right in line with the business processes that benefit the most from it. This session will present an overview of…
Find out more »Connect.JS 2015: Video Killed the Telephone Star
When you want to talk to someone, where do you turn? Skype? Slack or HipChat? Maybe even an old-fashioned telephone? As great (or not) as these are, they all fail in one important way: Context. As developers, why don’t we enable our users to communicate where they are doing everything else, right inside the browser or mobile app The technology to create contextual communications is evolving quickly with exciting technologies like WebRTC. This talk is about how to use WebRTC…
Find out more »WebRTC Summit 2015: Who Are You, and Why Does It Matter? Issues Around Identity in Communication
Who are you? How do you introduce yourself? Do you use a name, or do you greet a friend by the last 4 digits of his social security number? Assuming you don’t, why are we content to associate our identity with 10 random digits assigned by our phone company? Identity is an issue that affects everyone, but as individuals we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it. This talk is about the impact of technology on identity. Should…
Find out more »TADSummit 2015: Contextual Communications in the Real World
A review of current contextual communication case studies including examples of communications embedded into business processes, games and other applications. What works, what doesn't work and where is contextual communications going. More information here. https://youtu.be/IkAUVLshrFU?t=3m5s
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