Many folks, including Tom Keating, Garrett Smith and Dave Michels are looking for a next generation consumer electronics device. Over the past while I’ve seen some enthusiasm expressed for the Open Peak’s prototype gadget. I hesitate to call this device a phone although the Open Peak prototypes appear to be a cross between a cordless phone system, a tablet PC and an iPod Touch. I certainly agree that it’s really pretty.
Garrett Smith at VoIP Supply’s VoIP Insider blog has an good post today detailing Five 10 Seat VoIP Phone Systems Under $5,000. It’s interesting to survey the capabilities of low-cost systems.
According to some, like here, this is a really big deal. Frankly, I don’t see it.
As far as I can tell Pingtel is not a significant player in the open source VoIP community. Oh, they’re out there, but I have literally never had anyone talk to me about Pingtel with the kind of enthusiasm that I hear about other projects. In fact, I’ve never had anyone talk to me about Pingtel. Period. I suspect that they exist at some other level, perhaps in enterprise space.
Admittedly, my focus is very SOHO/SMB-centric. From my viewpoint the broader open source VoIP community revolves around OpenSER/OpenSIPS/Kamailio, Asterisk, and more recently Freeswitch. I hear a lot of enthusiam about Freeswitch lately.
Garrett Smith is right on the money in his appraisal of Packet8's new SIP trunking service. I wonder if anyone sees the paradox in this? A year ago when I was shopping around for a hosted IP-PBX I looked at…
Kudos to VOIP Supply's Garrett Smith for plainly explaining the truth about wifi SIP devices, and specifically why Vonage stopped offering them. You can't put it any more plainly than, "They suck." The really curious part is that VOIP Supply…