I've been trying to focus on my fitness and well-being since late last year. I've made good progress. Nice gains. As the COVID-19 crisis developed around us, there were many things to be concerned...
About Jim O'Brien
Jim O’Brien is the Vice President of Server Engineering for CounterPath and directs his team in architecting, building and supporting server solutions that work closely with CounterPath softphone applications. Jim designed, launched, and supported wholesale and enterprise VoIP networks for GTE, Genuity, and Level(3). Jim joined CounterPath with the acquisition of BridgePort Networks in 2008.
Recent Posts
Awaiting with bated breath for the Finale Of The Decade — the GoT, we too have summed up the 'User-Edge Operations' blog series Finale, by our very own Vice President of Server Engineering,...
Check out this second blog of the series "User-Edge Operations" by Jim O'Brien, the Vice President of Server Engineering, Support and IT, CounterPath,where he shares deeper insights about the...
Last year, at the prestigious SIPNOC 2018, Jim O'Brien, our Vice President of Server Engineering, Support and IT, shared his thoughts on “User-Edge Focused Network Operations: Best Practices for...
I always get excited when we’re ready to launch new software. One of the benefits of what I do at CounterPath is that I get to talk to customers, and blog about the careful thought and hard work our...
The well-known port for SIP is 5060. It’s common knowledge. Convention. You might say it’s the default. To be clear RFC 3261 says: “If the port is absent, the default value depends on the transport....
Now even better, Bria push notifications. I’ve talked about push solutions for our customers quite a bit lately. With that in mind, can anyone guess what I’m going to talk about today?
Calling Rob in Vancouver from a plane 35,000 feet in the air. Many airlines these days are starting to offer Wi-Fi service for free or a small surcharge. That’s great for surfing the Internet, but...
Recently, I wrote Implementing Battery-Saving Push Notifications in Bria covering important changes quickly emerging in mobile VoIP around backgrounding of applications and push server options...
Being Pushy with VoIP—What we learned about push notifications, iterative development, and working with customer partners. Push Notification is a generic term that describes a mechanism used to send...