Cable Telephony Trade Journal Columns
The President of KnowledgeLink, Inc., Justin J. Junkus, has been writing educational columns on telephony since 1995. His Media Center column currently appears in Broadband Library and Broadband Library International. From 1995 through 2008, Mr. Junkus was published in Communications Technology magazine. Archives of articles from January 1, 2000 to December, 2007 may be found at http://www.cable360.net/ct/voice/22468.html For a copy of articles prior to January, 2000, or after December, 2007, please email your request using the email button at the bottom of the page.
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Title |
Topic |
Column Publication Date |
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The Magic of Analog To Digital Conversion |
A/D conversion |
July-97 |
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Data Communications Spotlight |
A/D conversion; OSI model |
April-96 |
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Telecommunications "Killer
Applications" Are Made, Not Born |
Applications |
June-98 |
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What's Digital? |
Applications |
November-00 |
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Where are the Killer Apps |
Applications |
July-01 |
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IP Applications Need A KISS |
Applications |
February-02 |
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Beyond IP Voice |
Applications |
August-06 |
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On The Importance of Customer
Service |
Applications - Customer Service |
November-96 |
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New Frontiers for Cable Telephony? |
Applications - Healthcare |
September-06 |
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Want to Build a World Wide
Voiceweb? |
Applications - Voice Dialing |
July-06 |
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Broadband Telephone - Toy or Tool? |
Broadband Telephony |
October-06 |
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Broadband Telephony's Video
Reincarnation |
Broadband Telephony Revisited |
July-07 |
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Spreadsheeting Telephony: Get to
the Bottom Line |
Business |
March-00 |
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Adapt or Die: Telephony's
Metamorphosis |
Business |
May-00 |
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Hold the Phone? |
Business |
December-02 |
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Where's the Fleet Headed |
Business |
March-05 |
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New SCTE Telephony Certification
Carries Benefits |
Certifications |
June-97 |
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New SCTE Certification Makes a
Telephony Point |
Certifications |
June-02 |
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Telephony Knowledge Benchmarks |
Certifications |
April-06 |
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The Top View Emphasizes Bandwidth |
Chiddix on Telephone |
June-07 |
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Business Telephony Systems |
Commercial services |
December-96 |
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Features are the Key To Telephony
Business Markets |
Commercial services |
August-98 |
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Reach Out to Telecommuters |
Commercial services |
September-98 |
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Welcome to the Real World |
Commercial services |
September-99 |
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Calling All MDUs |
Commercial services |
April-00 |
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Why Aren't We in this Business? |
Commercial services |
September-02 |
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Business Voice Services Finally
arrive |
Commercial services |
August-05 |
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No Shortage in Sight |
Commercial services |
March-07 |
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Finally, a Telephony Killer App |
Commercial services |
August-07 |
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More Ways to Become SMB Heroes |
Commercial services |
September-07 |
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Where Cable Business Telephony
Meets the Customer |
Commercial services |
October-07 |
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SIP Trunking as a Business Service |
Commercial services |
November-07 |
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Everybody Wins When Vendors Think
Like Operators |
Commercial services |
November-04 |
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Telephony Modems Live On! |
CPE |
October-96 |
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What's in an NID? IP Telephony's
Customer Link |
CPE |
August-00 |
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NID: The Hidden Gateway |
CPE - NID Gateway |
June-01 |
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The New Meaning of Phone Selling |
CPE - telephone equipment |
May-06 |
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The Higher You Go, the More You
Need to Know |
CPE - wiring |
February-06 |
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Don't Forget the Wires |
CPE - wiring |
February-05 |
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A Step Past Convergence |
CPE; voice messaging |
January-97 |
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Twisted Pair Is Better than You
Thought |
CPE; wiring |
March-97 |
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Improved Public Service with
Integrated Telecommunications |
Disaster Plans |
February-98 |
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Disaster Planning is Not Just for
the Other Guy |
Disaster Plans |
November-05 |
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Home Networking: It's Closer Than
You Think |
Home Networks |
November-99 |
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How Networks Join the Mainstream |
Home Networks |
April-01 |
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Home is Where the Heart (and
Future) Is |
Home Networks |
November-01 |
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What is TCOM Talk? |
Introduction to column |
December-95 |
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Leveraging the Consumer to Drive
Technology |
muniutil |
July-03 |
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What is a Central Office |
Network |
May-96 |
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Job Description of a
Telecommunications Switch |
Network |
July-96 |
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In a Local Telephony Switch, The
Money Is In The Features |
Network |
July-98 |
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In the Cable Telephony Game, Place
Your Bets on Circuit Switched |
Network |
January-99 |
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Cable Telephony Comes of Age |
Network |
December-00 |
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In Telephony Architecture, Switch
Losses are CMTS Gain |
Network |
July-02 |
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And Now--The Rest of the Story on
IP Telephony Solutions |
Network |
August-02 |
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Does Your Network Speak My VoIP? |
Network |
January-05 |
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It's Not Your Father's Headend |
Network |
October-05 |
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Time to Sync Up |
Network - synchronization |
April-07 |
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Everybody Wins When Vendors Think
Like Operators |
Network - wholesale cms |
November-02 |
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Local Phone Number Portability |
Number portability |
February-97 |
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Local Number Portability Depends
on New Network Architecture |
Number portability |
January-98 |
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Whatever Happened To Portable
Phone Numbers |
Number portability |
December-98 |
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Network Management Provides a
Lesson in Convergence |
OSS |
November-98 |
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Solving IP Telephony's Data
Management Challenge |
OSS |
October-99 |
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Operations Systems: The Quiet Part
of Telephony |
OSS |
January-00 |
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Installer Tools for Turning Up IP
Telephony Service |
OSS |
September-00 |
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The Key to IP Services
Implementation |
OSS |
October-00 |
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Cable Telephony Operations Support
Systems: Trick or Treat? |
OSS |
October-03 |
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Learn to Talk to Your Equipment |
OSS - CLI |
April-02 |
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Getting More From the Telephone
Industry |
OSS - NGOSS |
January-06 |
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Growth and Competition Broaden
Operator Telephony Choices |
Products - 01 |
February-01 |
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New Offerings Make Cable Telephony
an Inventor's Playground |
Products - 06 |
June-06 |
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ISDN Isn't "I Still Don't
Know" |
Protocols |
June-96 |
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ATM: Telephony's Version of the
Money Machine |
Protocols |
September-97 |
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Internet Protocol Tidbits |
Protocols |
October-98 |
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New Rules for New Times |
protocols |
April-04 |
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New Protocols "Sneak"
into Telephony's Future |
Protocols - MPLS & RTR |
March-02 |
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SIP Primer for Cable |
Protocols - SIP |
August-04 |
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Cleanup Time |
Quality Issues |
January-07 |
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Regulatory and Legal Concerns |
Regulatory |
April-98 |
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Lessons in Reliability |
Reliability |
January-96 |
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Carrier-Grade Criteria For
Powering Systems |
Reliability |
February-00 |
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"Carrier Grade:" More
Than Just Reliability |
Reliability |
June-00 |
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Technology on Parade -- Fast Pace |
Review - 2005 annual |
December-05 |
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A Year of Progress |
Review - 2004 annual |
December-04 |
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VoIP Is Only Part of a Strategy |
Review - Cablevision |
September-04 |
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Get Your Money's Worth From
Consultants |
Review - how to manage consultants |
June-99 |
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How to Spend Your Trade Show Time |
Review - How to view tradeshows |
May-01 |
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The Pulse of Cable Telephony |
Review - industry status panel 03 |
May-03 |
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The Coming Year for Cable Voice
Services |
Review - Predictions 07 |
December-06 |
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Which Way Does Cable Telephony
Point? |
Review - Predictions2001 |
January-01 |
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Stop, Look, Listen: Lessons for
Cable's Future |
Review - Premillenium history
lesson |
December-99 |
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SuperComm Highlights IP Telephony |
Review - tradeshow - Supercomm99 |
August-99 |
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Hot Convergence Topics For A
Changing Industry |
Review - tradeshow NCF |
April-97 |
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Telephony's Conference Confirms
Cable's Direction |
Review - tradeshow NCF01 |
January-02 |
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SuperComm 2001 Shows Convergence
in Issues, Divergence in Markets |
Review - tradeshow Supercomm01 |
August-01 |
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Everything You Needed To Know
About Telephone Signals |
Signal processing |
March-96 |
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Multiplexing Fits 24 Pounds of Talk
into a 1-Pound Bag |
Signal Processing |
August-96 |
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IP Telephony Meets The Signaling
Network |
Signal processing |
May-99 |
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Intelligence Isn't Just For People |
Signal processing; CCS7 |
September-96 |
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Cable Telephony's Roadmap |
Standards - Packetcable |
March-01 |
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Telephony's Standards Looking for
a New Home |
Standards - TM Forum and IPDS |
December-07 |
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The Possible Dream |
Systems Integration |
October-02 |
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Building IP Telephony Isn't Just
"Plug and Play" |
Systems Integration - IP |
December-01 |
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T-1: Dodo Bird or Phoenix? |
T-1 |
March-06 |
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Another Route to Telephony |
Telephony - non-VoIP |
December-97 |
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Fiber to the Curb |
Telephony - non-VoIP |
February-99 |
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(Circuit) Switched Telephony's Interfaces
to the Network |
Telephony - non-VoIP |
March-99 |
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Cable's Diversity is Its Telephony
Strength |
Telephony offerings |
May-98 |
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The Telephony Return Solution |
Telephony return for data |
March-98 |
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How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck
Chuck? |
traffic engineering |
February-96 |
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Telecommunications Plumbing
Problems |
Traffic engineering |
August-97 |
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Concentration: A Topic for Serious
Thinkers |
traffic engineering |
July-99 |
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Traffic Engineering Basics for IP
Telephony |
Traffic engineering |
July-00 |
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Training for Personal Gain |
Training |
October-97 |
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Create Your Telephony Traininbg
Checklist |
Training |
February-07 |
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The Internet Isn't Just Data |
VoIP |
November-97 |
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The Convergence of Switched and IP
Telephony |
VoIP |
April-99 |
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Why It Takes So Long to Get to IP
Telephony |
VoIP |
May-02 |
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Alarming Facts About VoIP |
VoIP - Alarms |
July-05 |
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Part of the VoIP Game is Learning
from Others |
VoIP - business |
October-04 |
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Reapplying the PSTN to Data
Services |
VoIP and Others over 50 |
May-04 |
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Sorting Through the VoIP Maze |
VoIP flavors 2 |
January-04 |
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A Case History of Telephony
Installation |
VoIP Install |
September-05 |
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Installing VoIP |
VoIP Installation |
June-04 |
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VoIP Network Interconnection |
VoIP Interconnect Solutions |
July-04 |
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Measuring Voice Quality in a
Packet Network |
VoIP Quality Msmt |
April-03 |
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Cable VoIP Doesn't Spit in the
Wind --or Anywhere Else |
VoIP Spam Spit |
May-05 |
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VoIP Testing - More than Meets the
Ear? |
VoIP Testing Update |
April-05 |
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Untethered Telephony - Continued |
Wireless |
October-01 |
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Untethered Enthusiasm - How to
Make the Cellular Play |
Wireless - cellular |
June-05 |
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Cable's Recipe for the Quad Play
is no Piece of Cake |
Wireless - cellular |
November-06 |
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Untethered Telephony |
Wireless - fixed |
September-01 |
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Clearing Some Fog and Noise |
Wireless - Fixed/mobile
convergence |
May-07 |
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The ABCs of Wireless Telephony |
Wireless; cellular |
May-97 |
