Funny the things you read when poking around online. From Junction Networks blog there's a reference to Cisco planning to stop development of SIP images for their 79xx series IP phones. This catches me by surprise since they made such…
OK, so this isn’t exactly news. I’ve been using OnSIP with Polycom IP650 & 550 and a few months already. I hadn’t expected them to support wideband at all but was pleasantly surprised to find that their new conference bridge handles it just fine.
Further, if you’re using suitably capable Polycom or snom phones then calls placed through OnSIP will negotiate to G.722 and voila, much clearer calling. They had a blog post about it a short while ago.
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…