It’s been very frustrating dealing with the utility companies with respect to restoring service in the post-Ike period. At issue is their inability to get and redistribute information about who’s on, who’s not, and routine progress reports. Today for a short while my focus turned to Comcast as our cable tv and cable modem service remains down.
This past Sunday I just happened to see that snom had released firmware v1.16 for the m3 SIP/DECT phone. I took some time to have the phone update itself from snom's provisioning server. The process appeared to stall for quite…
Digium and Skype have partnered to provide a formal means of integrating the Skype and Asterisk worlds. It's possibly very exciting although it's early days yet, with a limited beta program just about to start. It seems to me that…
OK, so this is kinda funny. Clicking randomly around someone's site, as I occasionally do, I stumbled upon Big Web Phone who offers some insight into selecting VoIP services for the absolute beginner. One bit was a little humorous as…
For about the past week I’ve been making a lot of use of the Polycom C100 in conjunction with a copy of Eyebeam provided by ZipDX. The C100 is a great little USB speakerphone device. It was one of the first devices from Polycom the supported wideband audio, providing that you have a similarly capable soft phone client.
I must admit that mine is the C100S model which is designed to work with the Skype client, although there are models that are not client specific. As a practical matter the only functions that are client specific involve the use of the five buttons on the device. The buttons support volume up, volume down, place a call, bring the soft phone client to the foreground and mic mute.
Chris Heinrich over at VoIP Supply's VoIP Insider blog has a nice little post about selecting headsets for IP phones. They've faced the common problem of not knowing what type of connection each phone provides, making it difficult to know…