Put your ear to the railroad track, and you can hear it coming. Bobbin Beam's great article of this week on "HELLO??? WHERE IS MY TELEPHONE CALL GOING" explains so well -- AGAIN-- what many of us have been chronicling for years: the Internet is disrupting the comfortable state-of-affairs for...
This week's webinar featuring popular alternatives ipDTL, SoundStreak, and SourceConnect resurrected the sleeping sibling in this set of options. Close followers of this blog will recall my mentioning yet another ISDN alternative in earlier posts: ConnectionOpen.com See: The Search for ISDN's...
Some might say I'm obsessed with this topic... the one about what happens when ISDN disappears. It will go away...although the reports of its demise are quite likely grossly accelerated. Let's not get into that. Let's just say the first cracks are showing in the monolithic façade of ISDN's...
That is the subheading to an excellent article published just a couple of days ago by Michael LeClair, the Chief Engineer for WBUR (AM/FM) radio in Boston. Michael's cogent analysis of the eventual, and ever more real demise of ISDN makes an excellent summary of the current state of affairs with...
Can the other major TelCo's be far behind? For so long, established studios have pooh-pooh'd early predictions of ISDN's demise. But now, the writing is on the wall. I think it's time to call the undertaker and buy the burial plot. The argument has always gone that the studios -- you know --...
Broadband. ISDN's legacy technology will go away...eventually. Lord knows how much longer the big TelCos will continue to support it. Smart producers, voice actors, audio engineers, and others associated with the business of voice overs are searching RIGHT NOW for the next best thing. It's pretty...
Even though it's been in beta since somewhere back at the end of the last decade, SoundStreak is enjoying a resurgence. Mentions of voice artists testing the product are showing up on plenty of online forums. I blogged about SoundStreak on Feb 13th, excited about the possibilities, only to find...