We are ever-so-pleased to report the presence of Baltimore Gas & Electric (BG&E) crews working at either end of our street as of 11:30am today. Word from the crew boss is that power could be restored later today or tomorrow…
Listening to the recording of last Friday's Calliflower conference call with Alec Saunders on Skype & SIP peering I must say that I was embarrassed for the host. There's a tremendous amount of background noise in the call recording from…
Over the past week Skype has been making some waves, starting with a speech at ITXPO where they declared “VOIP is Dead.” Then Michael Robertson of Gizmo5 fired back in response to their petition to the FCC arguing for more open wireless networks (aka cellular.) What folly, a closed network operator (Skype) preaching open networks to other closed network operators (cellular carriers.)
Dan York has collected up the actions & reactions, as well as the Calliflower conference call on the matter from last Friday. Michael Robertson was on that call. It’s definitely worth a listen.
The folks up at Jazinga in Toronto were nice enough to provide me with a sample of their new embedded Asterisk appliance. It's actually been here for quite a while but other matters have distracted me from giving it the…
A few weeks ago I bought a couple of Polycom IP650 SIP phones from Michael White at E4 Strategies. This company was recommended by Karl Fife, a regular on the weekly Voip User Conference.
e4 had some IP650s listed as “open box” and offered at a discount so I ordered a pair. A day later Michael responded that in fact the open box units were sold out, but he’d honor the price for my small order. That’s great, I thought. And they were delivered quickly, too. All in all an excellent purchase experience.
A couple of weeks ago I penned a post about my search for a wideband capable soft phone. A short while later I was contacted by David Frankel of ZipDX. His company offers a standards compatible wideband conference service. It seems that he’s been down the path of wideband telephony a fair distance.