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- Broadcom goes open source and hell freezes over
- Does this mean...that Broadcom hardware drivers are going to be open source? Great. Just great. If you thought Broadcom network drivers suck bad now, just wait until they get released to the community...Fail to seewhat mechanism would make them "suck more"?If all that changes is that Broadcom...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- HD Telephony: The Next Big Step?
- HD Telephony: The Next Big Step?What's next?HD newspapers? ;-)FreeSWITCH: Awesome HD Voice, Awesome PriceDave,I appreciate you mentioning FreeSWITCH in your post. A lot of people are aware of the buzzwordiness of "HD Voice" and "HD VoIP" and "HD Telephony" - but how many people have gotten their feet wet, especially...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Skype goes enterprise: It's about time
- Skype goes enterprise: It's about timeSip for the enterpriseWhat they really need is SIP for the rest of their users.RE: Skype goes enterprise: It's about timeThanks Skype! Now corporate and enterprise Skype users will find it much easier and faster to use Yugma instant web conferencing services. Yugma is a...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?FreeSWITCH is a great choiceBrian's experience is not an isolated one. FS is starting to gain momentum as people realize just how much it can do and how well it can do it. Prior to the 1.0.0 release we saw a trickle of new users,...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn’t purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Will telcos accept an open source switch?
- Will telcos accept an open source switch?Yeswhen they can call it their own, make loads of money off of it, patent what they can to make their part future payment secure, and piggyback the rest like a free ride.RE: Will telcos accept an open source switch?How does this this product...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- The telecomm revolution will not be televised
- The telecomm revolution will not be televisedOKI've found a "new" columnist I can relate to and look forward to reading.Shrewd analysis and eyes-fully-open observation. Great combination.Keep up the good work, Dana.aloha . . .Lurking Even Bigger Than Asterisk: FreeSWITCHThe open source telephony ecosystem is definitely rocking and rolling. Asterisk...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-21
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- What's Missing from Shoretel's Skype-for-SIP Deal
- FinallyI thought retailers would have jumped at the chance to have a presence on Skype as soon as Skype appeared. I can't believe it has taken so longUmmmm if you want this type of functionality.. use the shoretel softphone.its more of an interconnect than a client.Skype is the reason...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Will new Skype owners deal differently with open source?
- Don?t forget Skype for SIP ;)Skype for SIP also offers interoperability with other communications systems - there's more about how it works on our website:http://www.skype.com/go/sipRE: Will new Skype owners deal differently with open source?An equally important question is, will Skype deal differently with their users? Will they stop treating...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- VOIP reaches end of its proprietary era
- VOIP reaches end of its proprietary eraVoIP was never proprietary, Skype IS.VoIP is not and has not been proprietary since almost the beginning. It is Skype's implementation of VoIP that is proprietary. Both their signaling protocol and their Codecs.Most VoIP systems started out using H.323 standards and then migrated...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- Open Source Softswitch Adds Skype
- Here's an interesting teaser for you Skype aficionados. Later this month, the new release of FreeSWITCH, the first open source softswitch, will enable carriers and enterprise to integrate Skype into their VoIP services and platform. For the first time, developers will have a free, high-performance voice switching...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- HD Telephony: The Next Big Step?
- How much will you pay to sound great on the phone? That's the question Jeff Pulver and crew will need to answer when vendors and customers meet at the upcoming HD VoIP Summit in New York later this month. Sit in on any conversation over...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- R.I.P., 'V.O.I.P.' Long live packet-based telephony.
- R.I.P., 'V.O.I.P.' Long live packet-based telephony.I got one word for you....Vyatta???cisco has all that market cap because they are really the dominant... almost the only player in the access and there is a huge amount of money in access just because of the volume... not because they dominate in the...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-14
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- HD-Telephony: Hip or Hype?
- HD-Telephony: Hip or Hype?Wideband ConferencingTony has done a great job summarizing key aspects of wideband technology.My company ZipDX (zipdx.com) has been delivering a wideband-capable audioconferencing service since last year. The number of wideband endpoints is relatively small, but it is growing quickly. Polycom just announced a couple of new speakerphones...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- HD-Telephony: Hip or Hype?
- I recently interviewed Anthony Minessale, the author of FreeSwitch, the open source, class-5 switch. We got to speaking (actually, IMing) about high-definition telephony and how it fits into FreeSwitch. He had some pretty smart things to say about the area no surprise so I thought you might enjoy hearing about...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Will telcos accept an open source switch?
- Over at Team Think our own David Greenfield right has the intriguing story of an open source "Class 5" switch dubbed FreeSwitch. Â One unasked question is whether telcos will ever embrace this kind of open source and the savings it brings. Based on...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- An Open Source Class-Five Switch
- An Open Source Class-Five SwitchTollFreeGateway + FreeSwitchNot only do we use it for that many minutes a month its already proved to almost perform too well as we have in advertantly overloaded some switches we peer with.FS is definitely worth checking outI've been helping the FS developers for about 9...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- An Open Source Class-Five Switch
- Open source projects have revolutionized operating systems, web servers, web browsers, and so why not carrier switches? The FreeSwitch open source project released its Release Candidate 1 (RC1) yesterday providing and by early accounts the software rocks. “We replaced a cluster of 10 Asterisk servers with...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
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