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 […]

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 […]

I am once again dealing with yet another so-called major carrier that when they cannot determine a reason for a call failure they blame the fact that our SIP signaling has two Via Headers.
However, it is my understanding from RFC 3261, that multiple Via headers are allowed and should not even be a […]

David Rowe has an excellent article about Running Asterisk on an FPGA.
From the Article:

Many clever tricks are possible with a FPGA, for example you can just “compile in” a floating point unit, include all your system glue logic on the same FPGA, or provide hardware acceleration for application specific tasks. In this case, FIR […]

In a huge decision handed down late yesterday, the FCC voted to (pdf warning) expand local number portability (LNP) rules to include VoIP services. This provides consumers the explicit right to keep the same, familiar phone number when switching to a new telephone service provider.
The FCC also clarified the regulations, stating that telephone companies […]

Asterisk VoIP News has a great article detailing how Asterisk is taking over the enterprise.
From the article:

“Some of the most compelling data that we collected was simply around the wide variety of applications that Asterisk is now being used to address,” said Terry Atwood, vice president of sales, marketing and customer care at PIKA. “Of […]

Just over a month ago Packet8 issued a press release stating that it had signed an agreement with a service provider that will soon exit the VoIP market. This agreement calls for the exclusive recommendation of Packet8 as the replacement VoIP service for its soon-to-be-orphaned subscribers.
Today I am now seeing reports that NetZero intends to […]

Sipera VIPER Lab has disclosed multiple threat advisories for users of VoIP services and equipment from Vonage, Globe7 and Grandstream.
From the Press Release:

Sipera VIPER Lab determined the Vonage VoIP Motorola Phone Adapter (VT 2142-VD) and Vonage service implementations leave users vulnerable to a form of VoIP identity theft, allowing hackers to take over a user’s […]

Getting into the proper mindset is a very challenging task when it comes to the design of a business quality VoIP PBX. The more time you spend carefully determining the specific features and functions you require, the easier it will be to manage and operate your business telephone system in the long run.
There are […]

Microsoft is locked and loaded to launch a new VoIP Platform on October 16th. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Business Division President Jeff Raikes are set to showcase several products, including OCS 2007, which promises to bring VoIP, presence, instant messaging and conferencing together; the Office Communicator 2007 unified communications client; Office Live Meeting 2007 […]