Tag Archive
See you at IT Expo
It’s getting a little too cold in DC, so we thought we might take the publication to warmer climes next week. I plan to be down in Miami next week on Thursday and Friday for the IT Expo. I am looking forward checking out all the latest developments in IP communications on the show... »
Asterisk’s Growth Shines at ITEXPO
Asterisk just may be the #1 transforming VoIP company for the now past ’00s “aughts” decade, which is quite appropriate when you consider Asterisk in many respects costs $0 dollars due to being open source. Of course, nothing is truly free in this world. If you download and install Asterisk yourself for your company... »
Avaya Reveals Roadmap for Nortel Enterprise Assets at ITEXPO
Rich Tehrani and I are both excited to hear the future roadmap Avaya has in store for Nortel’s enterprise assets that Avaya recently acquired. Will Avaya slowly phase out these Nortel enterprise products, continue the product line with the Avaya brand, integrate best-of-breed technologies from Avaya and Nortel and offer new SMB products? The... »
Digium Touts Channel Growth
Digium’s director of worldwide channel sales, Jim Butler, is reporting record interest from resellers, even in the face of a gloomy economy.Digium has been beefing up its channel program this year, adding resources and support, in hopes to grow that area of their business. The channel program, formally launched in …(96 words) ... »
Dialogic, Digium team on media gateway interoperability
Dialogic, a provider of media gateways that provide PBX integration between applications on SIP-based media servers and the installed base of TDM and hybrid IP-PBX systems, has just signed an interoperability partnership with Digium. With this interoperability partnership, Dialogic’s 1000 Media Gateway Series and the Dialogic 2000 Media Gateway Series are now certified for compatibility... »
Positron Telecommunication’s Innovative Asterisk-on-a-Card
In the January issue of Internet Telephony Magazine is a TMC Labs review of Positron Telecommunication Systems V114 analog PCI “Asterisk-on-a-card”. They also have an ISDN version and a E1/T1 version. I thought I would share the review here since this is a very innovative product. It is pretty cool to have... »
International contact center provider adds Asterisk to the mix
Altitude Software has announced that it will be using Digium’s Asterisk SIP telephony offerings for its vBox communications platform. Altitude Software is an independent contact center vendor with the Altitude Unified Customer Interaction (Altitude uCI) product line serving around 800 customers of all sizes in about 60 countries worldwide. By partnering with Digium, the Altitude... »
Bolo, Another VoIP Player, Enters Unlimited Global Calling Arena
Bolo from bolostore.com contacted me about their VoIP offering. Bolo explained, “We offer unlimited global calling for $38/month. That is unlimited calling to landlines and cellphones around the world. That is $38.00. We do not add fees and taxes.” Bolo added, “We have set up a store on Amazon (www.BoloStore.com) and we are signing... »
Digium|Asterisk World Expands At ITEXPO
TMC and Digium announced that all exhibit space sold out at their expanded Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled to take place Jan. 20-22, 2010 as part of ITEXPO East in Miami, Florida. Recently, TMC was forced to expand the Digium|Asterisk World exhibit showcase since all 16 spaces originally allocated had been sold. There are... »
DoubleHorn Announces Integrated SIP Trunking
Texas-based communications service provider DoubleHorn Communications has announced integrated SIP Trunking for legacy PBX and key telephone systems, which allow it to operate seamlessly with the hardware of other vendors, such as Toshiba Strata, Panasonic, Nortel Norstar, Avaya and Digium, the company said.“While many companies have welcomed our hosted solution …(128 words) ... »
Citrix Adds Toll-Free Option to GoToMeeting
Citrix Online today announced they have added integrated Toll-Free audio to GoToMeeting Corporate and GoToWebinar. With this addition, meeting participants now have several audio options to choose from, including integrated toll-free, a toll-based number, or VoIP for audio over the Internet. Each participant in the same online meeting can select their own audio option. Customers... »
Digium CEO Danny Windham to Deliver Keynote Address at ITEXPO East 2010 in Miami
Some good internal news at TMC. Technology Marketing Corporation today announced that Digium CEO Danny Windham has accepted its invitation to deliver a Keynote Address at ITEXPO East 2010, taking place Jan. 20-22, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida. Windham’s presentation, which takes place Thursday, Jan. 21 9:45 a.m. EST,... »
eOn Communications launches Linux-based eConn IP-PBX
eOn Communications used this week’s VoiceCon show to debut eConn, an IP-PBX server-based IP communications platform. eConn IP-PBX uses commercial off-the-shelf hardware and the Linux operating system with support for SIP VoIP and TDM voice. The system offers all the services eOn’s Millennium Converged Communications Platform provides and works with eOn’s eNterprise 7000 Series IP Telephones, audio conferencing units, analog sets... »
Ring2Skype Enables Free PSTN-to-Skype calls with Local Numbers
Ring2Skype, a new startup, brings yet another way to have free calling by leveraging both Skype and the PSTN. Ring2Skype allows you to have a free local number (in NYC, London, Madrid, etc.), forwarded to your Skype (wherever you are) — once again for FREE. I should point out that Skype charges you for a... »
Halloween in VoIP Land
Check out Fonality’s “corporate culture” in this pic below. Apparently, things must be financially good in Fonality-land, since they’re pretty relaxed enough that the co-founders (Chris and Samy) wore these outfits to the office for Halloween. Fonality co-founders Chris Lyman (Pink Ape) and Samy Kamchar (Bruno) While we’re on the topic of... »
SimpleSignal Brings Call Control Toolbar to Hosted VoIP
Hosted VoIP is making great strides, but there is often one problem – with hosted VoIP you don’t get desktop call control. Well, today SimpleSignal introduced its Call Control Toolbar, which adds advanced business VoIP calling features while leveraging their hosted environment. Personally, I am very computer-centric and hate managing my phone calls... »
IBM and Digium add Asterisk VoIP calling to Smart Cube
At Astricon last week, IBM and Digium announced an Asterisk-based phone system available on IBM’s Smart Cube platform. Smart Cube is IBM’s downloadable business platform aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. The deal with Digium will offer Smart Cube users an IP PBX-based Asterisk business phone and other unified communications services that can be... »
IBM & Digium Join Forces on Asterisk for Smart Cube
In a fascinating deal, IBM and Digium announced today that they are teaming up to offer Asterisk for Smart Cube, a customized version of Asterisk Business Edition. IBM’s Smart Cube is very similar to Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS), a pre-packaged bundle of various IT & business applications – except in this case Smart... »
AstriCon Adds to your Asterisk Arsenal
The 10th Anniversary of the AstriCon 2009 conference is next week in Arizona (October 13-15) and it is shaping up to be a great show. For one, AstriCon is sporting 30% more companies in the Expo Hall than last year’s conference. The AstriCon organizers have even thrown in some cool freebies to add to... »
AstriCon Asterisk Conference Soon
After ITEXPO’s resounding success in Los Angeles (over 6,000 attendees), we can definitively say VoIP hasn’t been as badly affected as other industry sectors within the U.S. economy. In just about 3 weeks, we can confirm this is true with the big AstriCon event held at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa in ... »
Windows market still attracting interest
With the long term future of Microsoft’s Response Point software still unknown one would think that it’s a signal that the Windows Telephony market is dud. And while Microsoft’s attempt to capture a juicy chunk of the massive small business market seems to have hit a snag, it’s not deterring other VoIP industry players... »
Digium targets Latin America, South Africa with sales partnership
Digium, developer of the Asterisk open source telephony platform, announced a partnership with DOW Networks to increase Digium’s business in Latin America and South Africa. DOW Networks offers international enhanced VoIP services to businesses, and the company has offices in the U.S., Jamaica, Costa Rica and South Africa. DOW already offers Asterisk-based IP PBXs... »
AsteriskNOW 1.5.0 Released
AsteriskNOW 1.5.0, which launched as a beta in October 2008, is now available for download at http://www.asterisknow.org/downloads. Of course, existing AsteriskNOW users can simply run “yum update” to update to the latest release. I love ‘yum’ for Linux systems – it’s like Windows Update on steroids, but without the Internet Explorer GUI requirement. According... »
Digium Launches Support Services for Asterisk
Some big news from Digium. Rich Tehrani met with them yesterday to get the inside scoop. Rich takes copious notes on his iPhone, which he sent off to me to try and write up this news. Alas, I’ve been pretty busy myself, but I wanted to share Rich’s notes below, since there are... »
VoIP Defies the Bear Economy like Chuck Norris defies a 700lb Bear
An interesting report by IBISWorld, Inc. just named VoIP as the predicted #1 performer In 2009 – it even beat video games. Yet more proof that VoIP isn’t dead and indeed VoIP is the one shining bright spot in an otherwise dismal bear economy. VoIP is indeed defying the “bears” of the economy.... »
Tweeting VoIP
VoIP and technology blogger Luca Filigheddu has compiled a list of who he considers to be the 30 top VoIP leaders that use Twitter today. He has an interesting mix of those who do — Digium’s Mark Spencer, Dan York of Voxeo and Irv Shapiro of Ifbyphone – and those who pontificate, including Ken... »
Skype Now Means Business, Friends the SIP World
Updated: Skype, a division of beleaguered eBay, is going corporate. The company today announced that it will play nice with corporate PBX systems that use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). According to The Wall Street Journal, the Skype-for-SIP product will be introduced as a beta product and will be tested by a limited number of... »
Top 30 VoIP Leaders On Twitter
Regular readers of this blog should have noticed that in the past few weeks I’ve been covering some topics much less while I’m writing more about other topics. It’s just the result of an analysis of what the readers of my blog are looking for so I’m just behaving accordingly. Makes sense, right? Anyway, since... »
OpenSky vs. SkypeforSIP – It’s On Baby!
It’s on! It’s Gizmo5’s OpenSky vs. Skype. Michael Robertson, the CEO of Gizmo5 has a post up where he compares Gizmo5’s OpenSky to Skype’s SkypeforSIP. It’s interesting how Michael talks about open standards, mentioning .mp3, a standard which Michael was a proponent of when he ran MP3.com and then backslaps Skype upside the head... »
MFC/R2 support added to Asterisk 1.6.2
Asterisk has just added ‘official’ MFC/R2 support for chan_dahdi. Here’s the commit. The modifications to chan_dahdi, and the supporting library, LibOpenR2, were both written by Moises Silva. According to the commit: Many users are using this code, or a variant of it, in Asterisk 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 in Brazil, México and Argentina. An unknown... »