Articles and Quotes

Written By James Rafferty

James wrote an article for Internet Telephony in August 2006 on two of the hottest trends in Voice over IP communications, entitled: "Culture Clash:  IMS vs. Peer To Peer for Voice over IP".  Click here for this provocative article.     

James wrote a white paper in early 2005 which describes ways in which IP media services can be brought to converged networks.   It features the TR2500 Voice over IP board product with SIP support for which James is the product manager.  

James wrote an article for Internet Telephony in early 2004 on one of his favorite topics, real time Fax over IP.   Click here for the article.  

James wrote an article for Embedded Control Europe on the Status Quo and Outlook for Voice over IP in Fall, 2003.  It was reprinted in the Brooktrout Upstream newsletter, which you can find here.   

James has co-authored an article on "A  building-block approach to media gateway development" in Compact PCI Systems November 2002 issue.   This was based in part on a presentation that James had prepared for VON Europe 2002 in Helsinki.    Earlier in 2002, he wrote an article on new standards trends in service transparency when handling different kinds of media sessions, based on developments from meetings of ITU-T Study Group 16, as published in Communication Systems Design.   In the article, James also introduces the topic of Modem over IP, which is now being standardized by the ITU-T.  

James has written an article for Network World tech update on the Megaco (Media Gateway Control Protocol) from the ITU and IETF.    Click here to read the article.

James has written an article for Messaging Magazine, published by the EMA, on aspects of messaging integration especially involving the Internet. The series covers the following topics:

• July-August: Status of standards efforts to integrate voice, fax, and Internet mail
• September-October: Status of standards work on conducting real-time voice and fax communications via the Internet
• November-December (1997): An overview of efforts by the IETF Drums working group to explain and refine the core Internet Mail standards
• January-February (1998): A review of four customer messaging problems that can be addressed by emerging standards

Click here to go to the on-line verson of EMA's Messaging Magazine.

Where James Is Quoted

• James provided some background information on new trends in fax (yes, there are new trends!) during an interview with Richard Grigonis that was summarized in a recent issue of Communications Convergence.  James was not directly quoted, but the article is good reading if you want to know about higher speed and color fax trends.    
• James is quoted in an article by Wayne Walley of Global Telephony on the utility of IP PBX and hosted IP services
•        Bridget Mintz Testa did some great articles on the standards process for Telephony in 1999-2000.  Here are excerpts from an extended interview with James about the ITU and IETF standards processes.  

• The January 1998 issue of Inc.has an article on an Internet fax service where James is quoted on what it will take for Internet fax to be useful for small businesses. (Take me to the article Online!)

• The July issue of BTA Solutions from the Business Technology Association has an article on Internet Fax 101, where James and other industry leaders are quoted on the state of standards and related products.

• "Fax Gets A Face Lift" - This is an article written by Dave Andrews of BYTE. He reviews the status of Binary File Transfer via facsimile, including a good overview of BFT and quotes from James and other vendors.

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