Snom m3 Firmware Now At v1.20 Beta
About a week ago I loaded the v1.19 beta firmware into my m3 system. No obvious problems but I've been traveling since then so I haven't used it a lot. The snom wiki now has instructions on loading the beta…
The VoIP Users Conference October 10, 2008 Was Great!
As is often the case some interesting stuff on the weekly VUC call was recorded in the session after the formal call ends. This weeks post call discussion about conferencing, Talkshoe, the cancellation of Skypecasts and HDVoice was really interesting. Thankfully Randy, our esteemed host, records the post-call chatter and uploads it when it’s useful. You can download it here.
New Wifi SIP Handset From VOIP Supply
VoIP Supply's Garrett Smith has tipped us off to a new Wifi SIP handset. Apparently it's making him rethink his stance on VoWifi hardware. As we are of like mind on this topic this raises my curiosity. Perhaps even enough…
Soft Phone Quest: EyePMedia Communicator
Beyond merely satisfying my curiosity I have a legitimate need for a handful of soft phone licenses. In my day job we have a small group of staff that travel a lot. Some have recently found that soft phones, typically Skype, or X-Lite can be handy and cost-effective of staying in touch with the office or home while on-the-road.
A few of these UK based staffers have even purchased Siemens S685IP SIP/DECT phones for their homes. They use these to connect to our US hosted IP-PBX infrastructure in those cases when then they are providing after hours support to North American customers. The S685IP is nice because it supports wideband audio via G.722. In providing these people soft phones I’d like to leverage G.722 so that their IP calling experience is truly better than using their cell phones as well as cheaper. So I continue to seek out G.722 capable soft phones.
Polycom White Paper On Wideband Voice Codecs
As I prepared for my travels this week I stuffed a bunch of papers into my bag not really noticing what was in the stack. As I am presently on an airplane en route from San Francisco to Seattle I…
Power Over Ethernet @ Asterisk Users Mailing List
There was a recent thread over on the very busy Asterisk Users Mailing List where someone asked for recommendations with respect to network switches that provide power-over-ethernet. There were a number of good replies. One especially caught my attention. Jim…