Technology, Innovation & Telecomm

So yesterday was a mixed bag. The morning looked very hopeful, with the topic of two classes seeming to be right up our ally. The first one seemed to be introductory by its description and the second one seemed to be more in-depth…wrong. Both were introductory and not very helpful. So, that shot the morning…

The afternoon was another story for me!

The first class of the afternoon was a panel discussion about XML accelleration via hardware. I have long wondered whether something like this would make its way to the surface…it has. There are now dedicated XML processing chips (ASICs and FPGAs as well as dedicated processors) and these things can reduce the parse and search aspect of certain XML messages up to 400%. That said, it appears that they focus on:

a) Rapid parsing
b) Fast tag location
c) Hardware Schema validation
d) Compression/Decompression
e) Encryption/decryption
f) Starting to do transformation

There was also a discussion about “Binary XML” — which to me seems to make XML *not* XML but what I know about all that is absolutely minimal and so I need to learn more before I begin critique too much.

The last class was a very good description of the SIP signalling stack and protocol. Very cool stuff. I’m glad I took it because it helps to explain a lot. Gotta be looking more into it!

So it was the best day of the conference so far… Spent more time on the show floor and got more very helpful contacts.

Today’s the last day of the conference. I’m a little bummed but I’m also ready to be home.

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