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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Since the Asterisk Development Team strongly encourages everyone to migrate to Asterisk 1.4, I decided it was time I moved to Asterisk 1.4 at both my home and work.
I have been testing Asterisk 1.4 for quite some time now. Being a member of the Interop iLabs VoIP Team, I have been able to play with […]

Today at the Interop 2007 Las Vegas Hot Stage event we discovered a strange, but explainable behavior with OpenSER.
If you start OpenSER using fork=no, TCP and TLS support will not get started even though the messages printed out makes it seem like they should be working. Unspin on IRC pointed out the fact that in […]

At 0532 Eastern Time today I turned 31. Another year has passed me by. Last year was a very crazy year for me.
Lets quickly recap.
Last April my little ‘company’ was humming along very nicely with nearly 5,000 active customers, when my business partner had a nervous break down or […]

OpenSER is a flexible, mature and stable SIP communications server. However unlike Asterisk, OpenSER requires extensive knowledge of the SIP Protocol and presumes nothing about your configuration or method of deployment.
I am basing this configuration on OpenSER v1.1.1 which is currently considered the most ’stable’ version. Although v1.2 has been released, I am going […]

Deploying your first Asterisk system can be a frustrating task, espcially if you attempt to utilize the more advanced features and functions of Asterisk without having a solid foundation of the basic concepts. This article will walk you through the process of downloading, compiling and configuring your first instance of Asterisk that will allow […]

On Feb 22nd, 2007 subscribers of the OpenSER users mailing list were informed that a SER/OpenSER Configuration generator is now available.
This is an excellent tool for those looking to quickly configure OpenSER v1.1.1 for their own VoIP Services. Currently his configuration generator supports basic routing, far-end NAT traversal using either rtpproxy or mediaproxy and […]