Over the past year there has been a building of interest in running Asterisk on cloud infrastructure such as Amazon's EC2. Here's a compilation of sources on the topic: Ronald Lewis' blog The ResVoip Project Voxilla's VoIP In The Cloud:…
Nir Simionovich as nice little post revisiting the Pika Warp Asterisk Appliance now that it uses the Asterisk GUI v2.0. I've always admired Pika's effort in the Asterisk appliance space. It's an interesting platform on which to develop niche IP…
Many thanks to Dave Michels who earlier today passed a link to this blog post from New Zealand’s James Forman about Controlling Applications With Asterisk. James’ project is an excellent example of the sort of thing that sets Asterisk apart from everything else. He used a multi-step process to have DTMF tones issue commands to control a VLC VideoLAN media player.
His approach is very similar to what I had initially envisioned for my home automation project. Where James is dealing with the VLC commands I was going to have the IVR process call AGI scripts that would cause xsend.exe to send predefined commands to various X-10 home automation modules. That was part one of the project.
Have you had the Karl experience? From the VUC mailing list this morning. Allison Smith just created a hysterical parody music on hold Parody. Whatever you were doing, stop, and dial this number to listen to it: 360-519-5689. 2 minutes.…
Just a brief news item from my notes of the December 26 VUC call with Steve Sokol. We learned that Digium is planning support for Polycom’s Siren7 and Siren14 codecs in a future release of Asterisk v1.6. These are also known as G.722.1 and G.722.1 Annex C. They offer wideband calling at bitrates much lower than G.722 calls.
Siren14 supports bitrates of 24, 32 or 48 kbps and 14 khz passband making it equally well suited to music as voice applications. Siren7 supports bitrates of 16, 24 or 32 kbps with 7 khz passband.
The FBI release last Friday about vishing & Asterisk touched off a bit of a fury. It now appears that they have restated their warning acknowledging Digium's original response to the matter in question (AST-2008-003) That being, all current v1.2…