Blogs

ComunIP is now part of Takenet!

Balena — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:23:30 +0000

After almost three months of negotiations, Takenet announced the acquisition of ComunIP. Takenet is a pioneer in Value Added Services market in Brazil, which provides integration services, content delivery, creation and management of mobile portals and mobile marketing.

"The market experience, knowledge and productive capacity of ComunIP will turn Takenet ideas of services into solutions beyond the telco world and the current business.”, said Erik Cavalcante Magela, COO of the company.

The Challenge to Peer-to-Peer Internet Communication

Balena — Fri, 07 May 2010 05:16:30 +0000

In an ideal world, all internet devices would be able to communicate with each other without restriction. The only intermediaries you would have in end to end communication would be routers. Each device would have a routable IP address giving it a publicly reachable Internet identity. Unfortunately, this isn't an ideal world or an ideal Internet. It is an Internet connected to private intranets with private IP (not publicly routable IP) addresses.

ComunIP prototyped a Session Border Controller

Balena — Fri, 07 May 2010 05:01:05 +0000

ComunIP customers started to claim for a better and cheaper solution for their carrier-class session border controllers. A Session Border Controller is a solution that increases service providers’ peering and interconnection experience between edges of VoIP network. Using SBC, IP-based voice and multimedia services can be managed and, securely, delivered to end-users and corporate customers.

GlusterFS usage in ComunIP VoIP clusters

Balena — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:39:54 +0000

GlusterFS is an open source clustered file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients. GlusterFS clusters together storage building blocks, aggregating disk and memory resources and managing data in a single global namespace.

A key advantage is the GlusterFS modular architecture that allows modules to be stacked to match user requirements. You can use GlusterFS to quickly configure a standalone server system and later expand the system as your needs grow. GlusterFS includes a configuration utility to handle standard workloads.