Polycom On The State of VoWifi & Mobile UC
CMPs No Jitter blog as a good interview with Polycom's Ben Guderian, the Vice President for Product Marketing for WLAN voice products.
Digium’s Mark Spencer On FLOSS Weekly
The TWiT guys posted a podcast with Mark Spencer just a couple of days back. Over an hour long. Pretty cool stuff. Mark's such a nice guy to be also such a visionary.
Magic Jack Hacked For Use As An Asterisk Trunk
To me Magic Jack is completely boring on its own. $20/yr for unlimited calling in the US is ok. In fact, that's cheap. But needing to use your PC to run their soft phone client from that USB device is…
Wideband Voice And Free World Dialup
For the past few weeks I’ve been hunting for a soft phone with specific wideband voice capabilities. I’ve found a couple but there arises complications.
Wideband-capable hard phones usually support G.722, G.722.1 or G.722.2 (aka AMR-WB) codecs. There are other codecs out there that support wideband voice coding. Speex is the one most often cited. However, Speex support in hardware is extremely limited. So Speex implemented in a soft phone is not going to help me evaluate interoperability with hard phones.
Hitachi Getting Out Of Wifi SIP Handset Business
The word has come down that Hitachi has stopped making its Wifi SIP handsets and is exiting that line of business. If you liked any of their phones you may still be able to get them from retailers existing inventory, but numbers are expected to be limited.
Snom m3: Selecting VOIP Accounts
There's been an interesting thread on the Asterisk Users Mail List where someone has been seeking a reliable Wifi SIP handset. Lots of user experience with Wifi and DECT devices has been forthcoming. One reader indicates that they think the…