About PhoneBoy

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 as a Strategic Alliance Manager for Check Point Software Technologies. Prior to that, Welch-Abernathy spent 10 years in Nokia’s Security Appliance Business, which was acquired by Check Point Software Technologies in April 2009.

On this blog, Welch-Abernathy writes on the subjects of VoIP, Telecom, Network Security, Gadgets and Technology, as well as the occasional Nokia or Check Point-related item.

Disclaimer: Don’t confuse the views expressed herein with those of Check Point Software Technologies, Nokia, or any other employer Welch-Abernathy has had or may have in the future. The views here may not even be his!

Contact Information:

dwelch AT phoneboy DOT com (PGP Key)
+1 650 963 4805
Skype: phoneboy.com
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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
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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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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