Author Archives: Rob

About Rob

Rob is a reformed software engineer who has spent much of his life developing computer networking applications and infrastructure. His career started in the 1980s with hands on development of the Internet TCP/IP protocol stack through a spell as a development manager at 3Com in the 1990s before founding ipcortex where he is currently our CEO.

Out with the old and in with the new Polycom VVX-500

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Rob

I work for a communications company so I should have a really good phone on my desk right? Well not exactly, I tend to get whatever I can scrounge from the dev or demo pool. We support over 80 different … Continue reading →

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Digium announces closed handsets

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Rob

I did a serious double take when I read the PR this week about the plans that Digium, the original developer of Asterisk, has to enter the handset market with 3 devices in Q2 this year. Yet another SIP handset … Continue reading →

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Has e-mail had its day

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Rob

This interview with Thierry Breton about his zero internal e-mail plan for ATOS caught my eye a few weeks ago.  Actually M. Bretton’s pronouncement isn’t new, he first made it in Feb this year, but the BBC interview comes at … Continue reading →

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New features and Fridays hangout

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Rob

It happened again, I ran a technical hangout on Friday and we quickly hit the 10 attendee Google+ hangouts with extras capacity. I’m sorry if you were one of the folks that couldn’t get on because of this. The main … Continue reading →

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Do SIP trunks give good audio quality?

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Rob

We’ve started doing regular google+ hangouts with our reseller community and one of our partners dropped in yesterday to give me a grilling on our recommendations over SIP vs ISDN trunks. His question went something like this “My colleague has … Continue reading →

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Being a UK Technology Vendor

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Rob

The technology world transcends national and cultural boundaries, so there is nothing special about being a UK based technology developer right? Having spent a good bit of my life before founding ipcortex working with teams of software developers in the US, … Continue reading →

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Every Business should have a Call Centre

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Rob

This is a hard proposition to sell as, lets face it, the phrase “call centre” has an awful lot of negative connotations. These often stem from the experience we all get as consumers when large businesses use the technology badly … Continue reading →

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Presentation Style

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Rob

Like most people, I’ve been using tools like Powerpoint for more years than I care to remember. The end effect is that when I start thinking about presenting an idea I subconsciously drift into structuring this as slides in my … Continue reading →

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Why I Wrote the Whitepaper

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Rob

We’ve just published a Whitepaper I wrote called Six Strategic Decisions for UC and the Cloud. UC is nothing new and readers of my previous post will be well aware that I consider Cloud to be a term which is … Continue reading →

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Demo World

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Rob

There is a land called “demo world” where solutions only have to ever run in small, pre-tested configurations, in ways that make them shine brighter than their competition. Applications in demo world only have to communicate with themselves and even … Continue reading →

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