CounterPath Corporate Blog

It is particularly fitting that as our team prepares for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year that I take a look both back and forward at a mission that our amazing team at CounterPath has been focused on some time now. Our mission is simple: knockdown, breakthrough and eliminate operational challenges that our carrier, [...]

Generally the word rancid doesn’t impart an idea of good things. The RANCID we’re talking about certainly doesn’t match the definition of the word. For those amongst us who appreciated a nicely manufactured acronym, Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ (RANCID), rates quite high on the creativity scale. For those running networks of any size [...]

I attended Cluecon this week in Chicago. Check out the CounterPath twitter feed to review comments and photos. I arrived on Monday morning before the show started. My original plan was to spend the day in our Chicago office, but that didn’t work out since I was able to attend a training class on OpenSIPS. [...]

CounterPath has recently been adding new services and devices to our Boston Pop Infrastructure. We have had some situations where we exceeded the number of physical interfaces with respect to the number of bonded [protected] interfaces we would like to deploy on an individual server. This led us down the path to review, and improve [...]

The topic from this post comes from the experience  I had while focusing some time on hardening and growing CounterPath’s infrastructure in Boston. As those of you who work with CounterPath know, we run a “near-production” grade facility in Downtown Boston. We are located in the neutral Collocation room of the top carrier hotel facility [...]

There have been more than a few large themes in telecom over the past 10 years.  Some have come and gone with little impact on the way we communicate.  Others have changed the communications landscape.  Today I wanted to pick on two of the themes that I think are really driving the evolution of communications: [...]