Icheb’s blog

Yesterday (well, actually the day before yesterday), I went to the VON Europe expo in Berlin for one day. It was quite interesting, as all kinds of new VOIP related stuff and products were shown.
The flight

Well, just one day, so I had to get out of bed at 3 am (more like the time I usually GO to sleep), and go to Rotterdam, after arriving there at 5 am, I had a ride to Schiphol, after which the 3 of us, had to check in and board the airplane. First time for me aboard an airplane, strange experience. But beautiful sunrise, above the clouds, also, that was the last time I saw the sun that day.

After arriving exactly on time, I suddenly remembered why I hated the German language. But heh, I was there with some people that had quite some experience with the language.

The expo

This was the first time I ever saw a pile of abbreviations this big. Hard time to get into everything. But when thinking back, I’ve seen quite some interesting new technologies. Like a new mobile phone that can switch between SIP (over WIFI) and the normal GSM network. And some cool video over ip phones. Furthermore, it seemed VOIP technology is cursed by the label ‘internet telephony’, and the fact people like to think of bad quality as something how VOIP is noticed. So the main theme was QOS detection and measurement. Quite some interesting examples and implementations.

Note that I’m only writing this blog entry because I said I’d do it before going to catch some sleep, so it’s a bit shorter than it should be. When I’m into a better mood, I’ll write some more details .
Transavia.com

Well, it was very nice to experience this, however, Transavia, some people are longer than 1.80 m!!

I’m longer than 2 m, so it was even less comfortable than the usual public transportation (which I thought was a disaster, because it just doesn’t fit, my legs are just longer than the available space).