Open Source NAT Traversal exposed at ITEXPO East 2009

I will be presenting a session on open source NAT traversal at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (I don't know why they capitalize some of words!) in Miami on Wednesday 4 Feb next week.

I will talk about PJNATH, the open source STUN/TURN/ICE library that is part of pjsip open source SIP library, and how it fits (or not) in the quest for NAT busting.

Read my interview with Rich Tehrani and also an interview with Suzanne Bowen (of Supertec/DIDX), where I shared some of more zany predictions.

The ITEXPO itself starts on Feb 2 2009 and will run until Feb 4 2009. This is my first time going to ITEXPO, seems like lots of IP Communications Experts will be there. Maybe I'll bump into some of them, how exciting!

If you're going there (if not, why not?), let's meet up, either e-mail me or follow my Twitter feed (@ismangil) to know where I am at the show.

Design our logo: enter the competition

We're holding a logo design competition. Non-designers are also welcome to join crowdSPRING and rate the entries.

Not A Good Couple of Weeks for Hosting

Weebly Blog - Blog

We are removing and completely replacing all of the original 15 Seagate hard drives from the affected storage system, and will be following up with the manufacturer with some serious questions.

First, we have the explosion on The Planet data center. Now Weebly, where I am testing out ideas for Teluu website, is affected by a highly unprobable event of multiple hard drives failure.

Either a ship with Improbability Drive is passing by, or maybe the Phoenix Mars Lander found something more than just ice, and they're now probing us with dark matter radio telescopes...

Bootstrapping and Time: Does It Always Have to Take Longer?

The Entrepreneurial Mind: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk to Bootstrapping

could easily have taken a flight to a conference in Chicago, a little more than an hour away by plane. Instead, they drove five and a half hours in a van, saving Fastenal hundreds of dollars.

Teluu is a bootstrapped company. Being "lean" is not a slogan, it is a necessity. But I wonder if you can take things too far. Can the time saving of going by plane be used for something that generates revenue? Maybe close a sale? Make a customer (or more) happy?

This is what they call "opportunity cost". I think executives like in the example above should be good in driving their company, not a van (except if it's a parcel delivery company maybe, but I digress).

To be fair though, if I were in the same situation, I would probably drive as well. The two of them probably talked about the company anyway, coordinating, creating new strategy, away from the pressures of day-to-day management. It's like an executive retreat, a management challenge: how to get two people to Chicago as cheap as possible.

So although I would have quoted the example with a bit more context, not just "saving hundreds of dollars", I totally grok their way of thinking.

What do you think? Do you have examples where the financial savings is not worth the opportunity cost?

Gearing up to launch

As pjsip nears 1.0, we are preparing to launch Teluu products, using pjsip as the core.