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…
Snom m3: Selecting VOIP Accounts
There's been an interesting thread on the Asterisk Users Mail List where someone has been seeking a reliable Wifi SIP handset. Lots of user experience with Wifi and DECT devices has been forthcoming. One reader indicates that they think the…
A Suggestion To Asterisk Appliance Developers
I’ve made it very clear over the months writing this blog that I like the appliance approach to Asterisk, or any PBX, especially for SOHO/SMB applications. It’s just a good sensible approach. Over the past year there have emerged some really good product offerings in this area.
By combining the flexibility of Asterisk or Freeswitch with a well conceived user interface solution a vendor can offer a product that addresses a wide range of possible user cases. By leveraging some Web 2.0 technologies that GUI can be very intuitive.
Pika Working To Create a Developer Community Around Their WARP Asterisk Appliance
Earlier today I had a comment from Dave Clark of Pika Technologies. He pointed me to WARP Xtra, a new web site that they have launched with the express intent of developing a user/developer community around their new WARP Asterisk…
Astlinux Approaching New Release
I've been running Asterisk since Dec 2002. Much of that time I've been running the Astlinux embedded distribution. That distro has been sitting at release 0.48 for quite along time. This has been something of a problem since that version…
Asterisk In Amazon’s Corner Of The Cloud
Ronald Lewis has recently posted to the Asterisk Users List an announcment with respect to a preview of a guide for using Asterisk on the Amazon EC2 service. This is extemely interesting. It gives a new dimension to the concept…