The folks over at VOIP Supply have a nice little contest running in their blog. The post, called 101 things you can do with asterisk, is collecting responses about novel things to do with Asterisk implementations. They amended their original…
The new Siemens cordless phone arrived from the UK this morning, a couple of days earlier than expected. They look really nice. We have one base and three handsets. I can't power them up just yet as they came with…
The coming week promises to be very interesting. It’ll be the first full week spent in my office in a couple of months. Thank goodness. I’m tired of all the travel. Also, I have a bunch of new VOIP hardware either awaiting installation or on its way.
I started writing this blog just over six months ago. It was largely a reaction to the fact that I saw a lot of people in various places asking the same questions over and over again. How do I make the best of VOIP in my home or home office? What is QoS? How do I ensure call quality?
I’ve been involved with VOIP in one fashion or another since 1997. Back then I lived in Toronto and was engaged to my lovely wife, who lived in Texas. Back then dial-up was the primary means of internet access and long distance calling was costly. We used software from Vocaltech to stay in touch over 1800 miles apart.
OK, so maybe I consider myself a Telecom Junky these days. I've been listening to these podcasts from The Voice Report for a while. They're mostly aimed at enterprise concerns beyond SOHO scale but the most recent one on disaster…
In working towards completion of article on the GSM gateway I took some time to rework my Astlinux server. I finally got around to installing Lonnie Abelbeck’s new web interface. It’s really good.