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Network & Acoustic Echo Issues in VOP Telephony

whitepaper This paper discusses how echo contributes to poor audio quality in VoP telephony, and examines how other factors that is specific to IP networks, such as delay, jitter and packet loss, increase echo problems.

Tags: telephony systems - pbx, packet, echo, voice

[10 Apr 2008]

Acoustic Echo Cancellation in IP Phones

whitepaper Global IP Sound selected five commercially available hands-free-capable IP phones to perform a series of subjective evaluations of the overall and specific aspects of quality related to acoustic echo cancellation.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, voip, perform, phones

[10 Apr 2008]

Photos: Tech unlocks secrets of ancient Mummy

Photo But the Ultra-short Echo Time measuring technique used here offers a snapshot of dry tissues, such as proteins and bones as shown here, that were previously impossible to image using MRT. A millennium after his death this boy from Peru, pictured...

Tags: science, history, laboratory, technique

[28 Feb 2008]

Live Webcast: Top Trends Impacting Two-Factor Authentication

whitepaper Regulatory legislation and agencies such as FFIEC, HIPPA, GLB also echo this perspective. 2008 brings with it new IT security challenges and issues that network and systems administrators should be aware of.

Tags: network security, authentication, professionals, factor authentication

[04 Feb 2008]

Developing a Real-Time IP-Based G3 Facsimile Relay Solution

whitepaper The company wanted to develop and implement a real-time IP-based G3 facsimile relay and voice solution for a satellite network as well as optimize and implement VoIP codecs, Line Echo Canceller, and the T.38 packetization protocol.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[14 Jan 2008]

Matching TCP Packets and Its Application to the Detection of Long Connection Chains on the Internet

whitepaper An algorithm to match a "Send" packet with its corresponding "Echo" packet is presented in this paper. Network attackers usually use long connection chains to hide their identity. One way to stop such attacks is to prevent the attackers from using...

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Improving the Performance of Interactive TCP Applications Using Service Differentiation

whitepaper First, it look into application-based marking, and show how the protection of Telnet traffic against loss can eliminate large echo delays caused by retransmit timeouts, and how, by limiting packet loss for Web page downloads, their delays can be...

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Commons' committee calls for reckless-data-loss laws

News Its calls echo silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign for legislation which would require organisations that suffer security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach has put individual's sensitive personal data at risk.

Tags: data loss, government, security, law

[03 Jan 2008]

Matching TCP/IP Packets to Detect Stepping-Stone Intrusion

whitepaper The key point to compute the round trip time of a connection chain is to match a Send and its corresponding Echo packet. This paper proposes a "Step-Function" method to detect network attackers from using a long connection chain to hide their...

Tags: tcp - ip

[05 Dec 2007]

VoIP Hacks: Sound Like Darth Vader While You VoIP

whitepaper Gold Software's nifty voice-changing tool, Audio Voice Cloak, lets the user tweak the speaking voice, adding pitch shifting, EQ, echo, and other sound effects in real time. If the user has Windows, he or she is in luck (Mac folks, see the sidebar).

Tags: voip - ip telephony, controls, input, voice

[24 Oct 2007]

Doubletalk Detection Using Real Time Recurrent Learning

whitepaper The third detector determines the relative level of near-end speech vs.far-end echo in the microphone signal. This paper presents a new system for doubletalk detection that uses multiple signal detectors/discriminators based on recurrent networks.

Tags: voice recognition, signal, microphone, detector

[19 Jul 2007]

Editor's Blog: Should everybody be a security company?

Comment Schneier's words echo those of Lord Broers, the chair of the House of Lords science and technology committee. silicon.com editor-at-large Will Sturgeon is blogging from the InfoSecurity show at London Olympia.

Tags: iss, ibm, security, bruce schneier

[25 Apr 2007]

Gangs groom kids for cyber crime

News Organised crime gangs, sometimes posing as legitimate employers, are using tactics which echo those employed by the KGB to recruit operatives at the height of the cold war, the McAfee report reveals. Internet-savvy teens as young as 14 are...

Tags: recruiters, cyber criminals, kids, recruitment

[08 Dec 2006]

Blair-Hitler ID card ad 'not offensive'

News The photograph of Blair had been retouched to make it look like a 1930s portrait and the layout was designed to echo the Nazi era. The ad for the No2ID non-partisan anti-ID card lobby group showed a close-up photograph of Blair with a barcode on...

Tags: id cards on trial, tony blair, id cards

[30 Nov 2006]

Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

whitepaper For communications, it supports echo cancellation as well as array microphone voice acquisition. Windows Vista introduces new advanced audio and communication functionality that enhances the high-fidelity music and movie audio experience and...

Tags: windows vista, vista, functionality, audio

[14 Nov 2006]

Leader: Are the kids really 'all that'?

Leader Schmidt's words echo those of silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane who recently said the IT knowledge being acquired by teenagers will spell the end of the IT department within years. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has joined the growing ranks of tech...

[19 Oct 2006]

Characterizing Backhaul Traffic in 3G Networks Using Real-World Speech

whitepaper The bandwidth utilization over the UMTS Iub/Iur link layers is studied, taking into account not only voice activity statistics of the speakers from the corpus, but also the effects of background noise, echo, and signaling traffic, as well as...

Tags: bandwidth issues, bandwidth, link, voice

[18 Oct 2006]

Leader: ID cards face identity crisis

Leader Our campaign has always had the backing of senior figures in the political and IT community - but this is the first time we've heard top figures inside the project making comments that echo our concerns.silicon.com's objections to ID cards haven't...

Tags: id cards on trial

[10 Jul 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Man vs machine - who's smarter?

Comment It is already alive with viruses and other forms of parasite that echo the much earlier history of carbon life. Throughout my professional career it seems that nothing much has upset people more than the threat of a machine that outsmarts them.

Tags: artificial intelligence, peter cochrane, machine, cochrane

[19 Jun 2006]

Commitment to IT Best Practice

whitepaper The existing application did not echo the ITIL processes and, with no ability to hand off support cases between specialist analysts, did not allow for a division of labour between different tiers of support.

Tags: help desk, school, financial times, business school

[26 May 2006]

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