snom m3 DECT Repeater Coming In June
This week I finally received a response to a query I sent to snom about the m3 system. I need a little extra range in some cases so I asked about roaming between fixed bases. They responded that they do…
VOIP Enhanced Customer Service
Here's a neat thing that's about to happen to enhance our customer service approach at work. I work for a UK based firm. We have a small staff in the US, the core of our development and support operations being…
VOIP Projects On The Horizon
Now that the NAB show is over I can reclaim some of my personal life and resume a couple of projects already underway, as well as add some new ideas. Here are some highlights of things to come;
GSM Gateway
My exploration of the Portech MV-370 SIP-GSM gateway will continue. I’ve decided that this will happen in two parts. Part one is a backgrounder exploring factors that could motivate a VOIP user to consider adding wireless gateway capability, what problems they might solve and a market overview of the available devices. This part is almost ready for the publisher and will appear at www.smallnetbuilder.com.
HD-DVD: Life After Death
OK, so Toshiba officially put HD-DVD to sleep a couple of months back. It's a pity but it's a fact. Yet today The Register has a piece on how HD-DVD disk sales remain solid since that time. It's also a…
An afternoons comparative listening to 5 pairs of powered audio monitors
This past weekend a friend and I spent an afternoon listening comparatively to a collection of powered audio monitors. It was by no means a scientific study, just a casual session of listing to music in a focused manner.
We used three Slim Devices Squeezebox 3s as sources, all playing in sync from a music server. The SB3s were running Squeeze Center v7. We setup a playlist of music we both knew well then switched between monitors in pairs.
AT&T Fear-mongering re Intenet Backbone Saturation
Now let me be very clear about this; I despise AT&T. Ars Technica has a great overview on how their recent statements about the internet backbone becoming overtaxed are simply untrue. It's plain, old fashioned fear mongering aimed at allowing…