To act as a complete UCaaS solution, Microsoft Teams needs access to the Microsoft Teams Phone. There is some confusion between technology and service (not to be confused with Microsoft calling plans “MS Calling Plans”). Microsoft Teams Phone is a Microsoft technology or product that enables call control and certain typical capabilities of a PBX in…
are those built for each OS using the specific framework of the environment. This means that an application needs to be developed for each of the environments. The bright side is that the application can interact directly with the device operating system meaning you gain a better experience and optimized application at the cost of…
The meaning of independence in the ICT sector When it comes to the procurement of information and communication technology, many companies tend to choose one of the major vendors. They go with the seemingly safest option, living up to the old phrase “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”. Nowadays, this saying might not apply…
Firstly, we participated in the definition of SIP version to be used over Websocket (RFC7118), with also two Spanish. Websocket enables bidirectional communication form the Web browser which makes it suitable for a protocol like SIP which requires bi-directional (client -> server, server -> client) and asynchronous communication. We initially developed a JS SIPoWS stack,…
MCU the veteran and the most efficient in terms of bandwidth MCUs have been used for a long time, since the former H.323 era. Basically, it receives a stream from each participant and, after decoding, composes them into a new stream to be submitted to all the participants. So users send one stream and receive…
SIP interconnection is still challenging today, and emerging UCaaS solutions as MS Teams put this challenge in the core of digital transformation of communication infrastructures. Despite the protocol being designed in 1996 and standardized in 1999, it’s not direct to connect different vendor PBXs and softswitches. Based on Session Border Controller and other interconnection elements, Quobis has been…
As you probably know, WebRTC is a technology which allows voice, video and collaboration directly from the browser, with no need to install anything there. WebRTC stands for web-based Real Time Communication. Despite the technology having been around for some time (Quobis started to use it in 2012), its popularity is growing. Popular tools like MS Teams, Zoom…
Small devices (embedded things, etc.) might take advantage of WebRTC as it provides a communication channel for real time communication, not only for video calls. Websockets provide a way to exchange traffic (data) in real time, with the characteristics of technology like security by default (both signalling and media are ciphered), low-latency and network efficiency….
Don’t get this wrong, mainstream access to video calling from a big screen is hardly new. Besides Skype there have been (and are) a few options for using the TV and the living room as a spot for having personal video calls and traditionally, the common option would be to hook a device to the…
Another high cost that was not mentioned before are the compliance costs, these translate mainly into auditing costs and administrative procedures of complex regulation. It is true that these costs do not affect all actors the same way as the level of compliance depends on the number of annual transactions, from level 1 (over 6…