Jeremy McNamara

I am one of many speakers at The Last HOPE conference starting Friday July 18th at the historic Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City.
Blake Cornell and I will be discussing how many foreign governments and ISPs are blocking VoIP services in attempt to protect their monopoly and/or to censor information. We intend to release […]

It was just announced that Asterisk 1.4.21.1 has been released.
This release contains a fix that solves lockup issues discovered in the 1.4.21 release of Asterisk. All users running Asterisk 1.4.21 should upgrade to avoid deadlock issues.

Things are finally changing for the better in both my personal and business lives.
As for the personal side of things I will be getting married to Krystina Patterson on July 26th, 2008 in an outside ceremony here in lovely Northern Michigan. If you happen to be in the neighborhood, feel free to […]

This really grinds my gears™
Apparently the worst provider ever award goes to NuFone… Well, at least according to this blog post.
This is yet another person who has chose to slant his experiences with NuFone in order to promote service from another VoIP Provider. Anyone else see a trend?
For the record, his trouble ticket was […]

Russell Bryant has post details of a new timing API for Asterisk:

Starting with Asterisk 1.6.1, you will no longer need DAHDI installed at all to get proper timing in Asterisk. There is a new timing API, and there are already two implementations. There is a DAHDI timing interface (res_timing_dahdi) and another (res_timing_pthread) that has no […]

Since about 1pm Eastern I have been getting:
http/1.1 Service Unavailable
…back from Amazon.com.
However, my S3 account and EC2 instances are still functioning as expected.

Due to copyright infringements, DAHDI is now the name for the Zaptel channel interface to Asterisk. There was some initial confusion in the Asterisk developer community due to some code being checked in containing ‘DAHDI’ as its name.
Digium has officially announced the zaptel name change to DAHDI.

Like many others, I have been in Las Vegas preparing for the Interop 2008 Conference and Expo.
During the move in tonight, a fork lift took out part of the McAfee booth, which is just across from the iLabs green room. Thankfully nobody was hurt, although the status of two brand new looking flat panel […]

Dialogic announced that it will offer active support for its line of Diva® Media Processing boards for the Asterisk PBX system.
From the Press Release:

“…the Diva board can conference up to 120 active callers without causing load on the CPU. Some of the media features of Diva boards are echo cancellation (up to 256ms), DTMF […]

It seems The Asterisk Development team has been working overtime to really crank out the code. Great work guys!

The Asterisk.org development team has released version 1.6.0 Beta 4.

This release contains the following improvements:

12020, a CLI formatting improvement
11964, added the ability to get the original called number on SS7 calls
11873, Added core API […]