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.
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…
For about the past week I’ve been making a lot of use of the Polycom C100 in conjunction with a copy of Eyebeam provided by ZipDX. The C100 is a great little USB speakerphone device. It was one of the first devices from Polycom the supported wideband audio, providing that you have a similarly capable soft phone client.
I must admit that mine is the C100S model which is designed to work with the Skype client, although there are models that are not client specific. As a practical matter the only functions that are client specific involve the use of the five buttons on the device. The buttons support volume up, volume down, place a call, bring the soft phone client to the foreground and mic mute.
Chris Heinrich over at VoIP Supply's VoIP Insider blog has a nice little post about selecting headsets for IP phones. They've faced the common problem of not knowing what type of connection each phone provides, making it difficult to know…