Well it certainly was a pity that today’s VOIP Users Conference call didn’t happen. Randulo, our host, was just about to start the call when he lost IP connectivity with the world. As such he lost control of the Talkshoe conference bridge. People could call in, but he could not unmute anyone.
Judging from irc channel and the Talkshoe web app there were a number of people trying to be on the call. However, the conference bridge kept us all muted. Too bad.
Kyle Brocious over at the VOIP Insider blog wrote a good post describing as he puts it, “How To: Upload Firmware to a Polycom Unit.”
It’s a solid example of setting up a TFTP server to load new firmware to a Polycom SoundPoint SIP phone. I’ve been doing this for years.
It’s not quite a complete example of provisioning the phone as it doesn’t address loading the phones configuration from XML files on the server.
Earlier today I had a comment from Dave Clark of Pika Technologies. He pointed me to WARP Xtra, a new web site that they have launched with the express intent of developing a user/developer community around their new WARP Asterisk…
I've been running Asterisk since Dec 2002. Much of that time I've been running the Astlinux embedded distribution. That distro has been sitting at release 0.48 for quite along time. This has been something of a problem since that version…
Carl Weinschenk over at The IT-Finance Connection has expressed an interesting perspective in a post entitled, “The View from Here: The Case Against VoIP.” It’s got a few people stirring. He cites posts from Ike Elliot, Garrett Smith & Jon Arnold in making his argument. He makes a good case.
Ronald Lewis has recently posted to the Asterisk Users List an announcment with respect to a preview of a guide for using Asterisk on the Amazon EC2 service. This is extemely interesting. It gives a new dimension to the concept…