Paul E. Jones
I spend much of my time working in the IP Multimedia Communications
(▲IPMC) area, including ▲VoIP,
▲videoconferencing, ▲instant messaging, and presence
software engineering based on
ITU
I have been actively involved in work related to IPMC (a.k.a.,
"▲IP telephony" or "▲VoIP" or "unified
communications") since 1996 and I really enjoy it. As part of my
work, I have attended meetings or participated in discussions with
groups such as the
ITU SG16 IPMC is a very promising area, allowing a convergence of ▲PSTN, mobile systems, and packet-based communication, with a clear and definite objective of replacing the lecagy PSTN systems with ▲IP-based technologies. IPMC is opening the door for the broader area of multimedia communications options that were simply impossible on the PSTN. Prior to joining doing a work on ▲VoIP, I did work in the multipoint data conferencing area, focusing primarily on the ITU-T standard ▲T.120. It is clear to me that we still have a lot of work to do, because today's VoIP systems and data conferencing systems are too rigid, challenging to use, limit one's mobility, not well integrated, and are generally not delivered in such as way as to be a natural part of our lives. Any next-generation system must address these issues. Most recently, I started research on ▲H.325, which is destined to be the next generation multimedia system. This is still extremely early in development and is not likely to be ready for a few years, but that depends on industry interest. In any case, most experts in the real-time communication industry recognize that there is a need for something revolutionary. H.323 and SIP are not it: they merely took us from TDM to IP. Now it is time to take full advantage of the IP network. H.325 will enable, not only voice and video, but also file sharing, application sharing, "screen sharing", video gaming, etc. Today, these technologies operate as isolated functions, but H.325 will tie them all together quite naturally. Life will be a whole lot simpler with H.325.
I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to speak at
a number of industry events, including ones sponsored by the
IMTC
Outside of multimedia communications, I enjoy taking walks
through cities in various countries I visit. So far, I've had the
opportunity to visit
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