A new fascination is starting to pick up with me - digital telephony, or what some people may have heard as Voice over IP (or VoIP). My contracting company did some work for a company in southern California that optimizes network traffic and wanted to extend their service to VoIP; and ever since then I've known about the technology and knew I had an interest in it, but never really started researching it in the broader sense until now (you know how it is, someone presents you with a particular problem and you solve it, but you can still totally miss the big picture). I'm learning everything I can about the field at the moment, going into "chew mode" - chewing up as much information as possible. As a side-effect, I'm adding a new category to this blog to specifically address this fascination....