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Cleanin’ Out My Closet

I am here to inform you, the reader, of a few facts that you are either unaware of or have been surreptitiously misled to believe otherwise.
Firstly, I feel I have wasted the past 8 years of my life.
After all of my blood, sweat and tears I have nothing legitimate to show for it. Sure, I [...]

Using The Nokia E61i

Over the next couple weeks I intend to detail the configuration and usage of the Nokia E61i phone. I have been using the E61i for a few months now. I was also lucky enough to use E61 for quite a while, so will also document some of the differences and will tell you if [...]

OpenSER and Asterisk Training

I have been asked to participate in an advanced OpenSER and Asterisk integration training program. The primary goal of this project is to provide the necessary details allowing you to deploy and manage a highly scalable VoIP service using open source technologies.
We are just now starting to get organized, so at this point I [...]

OpenSER and Asterisk Training Questionnaire

I am involved in a project to create a series of carrier and enterprise level OpenSER and Asterisk integration training programs. I have been asked to participate due to my direct experience with both OpenSER and Asterisk in many different real-world deployment situations.
However, in order to make this training material [...]

Asterisk Takes Hold in The Enterprise

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 [...]

WTF Digium? Awarding a Scammer for Innovation?

Today is a very sad day. Word has it that Digium has awarded an innovation award to DIDx, a company that has scammed VoIP providers into thinking their telephone numbers are being utilized by an end-user, where in reality Mr. Allahwala is reselling those services without bothering to inform the provider(s) of the actual usage [...]

Astricon 2007 CodeZone Plans

I have started a wish list of items that either need testing or developed. I am going to make an attempt to at the very least provide further debug and/or testing data, but I would like to see the following issues get solved and commited to the Asterisk svn tree.
SIP Spiral is a situation when [...]

Come Play With Asterisk at The Astricon CodeZone

I am planning on spending another year up in the CodeZone at Astricon 2007. Last year was very much unorganized and I spent most of the time doing testing specifically for NuFone and a couple clients that were local to Dallas.
This year I would like make an attempt to be a slight bit more [...]

Open Source: Better Than Free?

I recently came across Better than free? How Digium adds value to open source from Digium’s recently launched blog — Welcome to the Blogosphere, Digium.
While I agree with the points that Roderick makes about adding value to a ‘free’ software package, I believe Digium hasn’t gone far enough with Asterisk Business Edition. [...]

VoIP Blog

If you are just getting started with VoIP, you have found the right blog. I am committed to providing relevant content to anyone that finds it.
I have an on going series called How To Configure Asterisk. This first article in this series walks you through a typical first installation [...]

Skype Is DOWN Until Perhaps Friday

I just noticed that pcworld has stated that Skype has gone dark. Sure enough when I fired up my Skype client it looks like I can login, but nobody is online.
I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but I want to point at at every single person that has ever complained [...]

New WordPress Themes Being Tested / Site Being Optimized for Search Engine Love

I figure it is about time to upgrade the theme of my blog. I will be testing out various different themes. I also intend to change the linking structure for SEO purposes. I have been examining the various different techniques to encourage more love from the search engines. In [...]

Run Your Own SIP Server, Today!

With the recent growing popularity of VoIP, it has gotten far easier for you to run your own SIP server. There are many different open-source software packages that you can download and run at your home or office.
Today I am going to discuss two solutions that you can download and have your own SIP Server [...]

How To Configure Asterisk: A Typical Home Asterisk PBX Setup

Now that Asterisk has gone mainstream, more and more Asterisk installations are happening in home environments.
Asterisk is perfect to power a residential phone system, as the cost of entry is now very obtainable, unlike in years past. In fact, you can even run Asterisk on a Linksys WRT54G, along with many many other Linux based [...]

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