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Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy, CISSP, a.k.a. “PhoneBoy,” has provided aid and assistance to countless IT professionals since 1996. Best known as the author of two books on Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 as well as creator of a well-visited FAQ site on the Check Point products, Welch-Abernathy currently works in the Security Support Services Product Line Support team in Nokia’s Software & Services division. In addition to assisting customers with Nokia’s line of network security product, he is Editor in Chief of the Support Knowledge Base on the Nokia Support Web.

On this blog, Welch-Abernathy writes on the subjects of VoIP, Telecom, and Technology, as well as the occasional Nokia-related item.

Disclaimer: Yes, he works for Nokia, but don’t confuse the views expressed herein with those of Nokia or any other employer he has had or may have in the future. The views here may not even be his!

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Feel free to email him directly at dwelch AT phoneboy DOT com, contact me using Sitofono (calls you, then calls me directly), or connect to me with video via SightSpeed.

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Ever since the Internet became commercial in the mid-90’s, the term “Unified Communications” has been tossed around as if it is some form of “holy grail” for a communications offering.PhoneBoyDameon Welch-Abernathy finds the term somewhat overhyped in his recent post “Unified Communications Is A Pipe Dream”: Anyone who understands the technology knows that unified communications is a pipe dream. Perhaps within a small subset of the
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Ever since the Internet became commercial in the mid-90’s, the term “Unified Communications” has been tossed around as if it is some form of “holy grail” for a communications offering.PhoneBoyDameon Welch-Abernathy finds the term somewhat overhyped in his recent post “Unified Communications Is A Pipe Dream”: Anyone who understands the technology knows that unified communications is a pipe dream. Perhaps within a small subset of the
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questions from SMS Text News. Although intimately acquainted with Nokia (Dameon’s day job is with Nokia’s Software and Services division in the Security Support Services Product Line Support team - this is the kind of things he works with — seeAbout PhoneBoyfor more), he writes regularly at http://www.phoneboy.com about all kinds of matters relating to VOIP, wireless and technology. If you find yourself kicking your firewall for not behaving regularly, chances are you
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So considerable investment is going to be required in the backbones of the ISP’s and wireless carriers networks to cope with the explosion in bandwidth. The problem becomes how do the carriers fund this investment based on failing ARPU’s.Phoneboycommented on Pat Phelan’s blog with how he thinks it could happen. Let’s assume that in some parallel universe, a carrier decides to ditch all the expense and overhead of trying to “shape” traffic or provide actual content and focuses on