Listening to the recording of last Friday's Calliflower conference call with Alec Saunders on Skype & SIP peering I must say that I was embarrassed for the host. There's a tremendous amount of background noise in the call recording from…
The folks up at Jazinga in Toronto were nice enough to provide me with a sample of their new embedded Asterisk appliance. It's actually been here for quite a while but other matters have distracted me from giving it the…
A few weeks ago I bought a couple of Polycom IP650 SIP phones from Michael White at E4 Strategies. This company was recommended by Karl Fife, a regular on the weekly Voip User Conference.
e4 had some IP650s listed as “open box” and offered at a discount so I ordered a pair. A day later Michael responded that in fact the open box units were sold out, but he’d honor the price for my small order. That’s great, I thought. And they were delivered quickly, too. All in all an excellent purchase experience.
From a Tweet received this morning I clicked through a few links to find a downloadable video series called TechWiseTV from Cisco. The shows are very polished and cover a variety of topics including VoIP and UC. Looking at the…
Well it has certainly been an unusual week around here. To start with migrating my domain to a new host took longer than I thought. The whole process took about a week. The thing is that it finally happened the very day that Hurricane Ike was to hit the Houston area. So…..I was a little busy…y’dig?
We had the house and office all boarded up and executed what the local authorities call “Shelter In Place.” That protocol, known as “SIP” to some outside the VoIP community was the recommended practice given our location.
Askozia is an embedded Asterisk distribution that I've been following for some time. Michael Iedema, the projects principle author, just posted an announcment that the project has reached its v1.0 release. Congratulations to all involved.