Polycom On The State of VoWifi & Mobile UC
CMPs No Jitter blog as a good interview with Polycom's Ben Guderian, the Vice President for Product Marketing for WLAN voice products.
Strange Days Ahead
The next few days may be a little strange around here. I'm hoping to move this site from Wordpress.com to a commercial host. Hopefully I won't mess up the transition too much.
Example Of Using The XML Browser On A Polycom Phone
A short while I go I wrote a lament about how the better IP phones with large LCD displays are woefully underused. Specifically, they provide XHTML browsers that allow the phone to interact with online data sources.
Poking around online I found a company in Colorado that develops apps to leverage these features. Further, they make available a public example that you can access for your Polycom phone.
Digium’s Mark Spencer On FLOSS Weekly
The TWiT guys posted a podcast with Mark Spencer just a couple of days back. Over an hour long. Pretty cool stuff. Mark's such a nice guy to be also such a visionary.
Magic Jack Hacked For Use As An Asterisk Trunk
To me Magic Jack is completely boring on its own. $20/yr for unlimited calling in the US is ok. In fact, that's cheap. But needing to use your PC to run their soft phone client from that USB device is…
Wideband Voice And Free World Dialup
For the past few weeks I’ve been hunting for a soft phone with specific wideband voice capabilities. I’ve found a couple but there arises complications.
Wideband-capable hard phones usually support G.722, G.722.1 or G.722.2 (aka AMR-WB) codecs. There are other codecs out there that support wideband voice coding. Speex is the one most often cited. However, Speex support in hardware is extremely limited. So Speex implemented in a soft phone is not going to help me evaluate interoperability with hard phones.