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SIP is the future of telecommunications

SIP is the future of telecommunicationsahhh no mention of IAX(2)?IAX(2) is better than SIP... they just want to focus on what they have and not what they should be using.I cisco, but at times like this... it makes me wonder.RE: SIP is the future of telecommunicationsYep, you can buy a...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), IAX2, telecommunications, SIP, Asterisk, IAX

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Voix Phone 1.0.2 (Mac)

Voix Phone Is a multiplatform IAX soft phone, its engine derives from Voix Manager, the powerful Asterisk call manager interface, from wich it inherits stability and robustness. Voix Phone has been thought with simplicity in mind, all feature needed by the user, fast and easy usable, with the minimum configurations,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Phone, Voix Phone, IAX, Telecom & Utilities, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2008-05-27

Voix Phone 1.0.2 (Windows)

Voix Phone Is a multiplatform IAX soft phone, its engine derives from Voix Manager, the powerful Asterisk call manager interface, from wich it inherits stability and robustness. Voix Phone has been thought with simplicity in mind, all feature needed by the user, fast and easy usable, with the minimum configurations,...

Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows, Voix Phone, IAX, Telecom & Utilities, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2007-10-05

The great open source VoIP debate

Two weeks ago at the Internet Telephony Conference & Expo in Miami, I had the pleasure of moderating the open source and telephony roundtable discussion with some of the key players in the business. The panel included Mark Spencer, creator of Asterisk and CEO of Digium; Bill Rich, CEO of...

Tags: SIP, IAX, Asterisk, telephony

Blog posts 2005-03-09

VoIP and open source, the next great frontier

VoIP and open source, the next great frontierYour comments are welcomeHello,This is our new forum section for ZDNet blogs. You are invited comment here.SIP vs. IAXFirst, Jay Batson should mention in his message that he in fact founded the company Pingtel that spawned SIPfoundry.org, and in addition is chairman...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), open source, VoIP, SIP, IAX

Discussion threads 2005-01-11

VoIP and open source, the next great frontier

As the commoditization and open sourcing of operating systems and applications continue to disrupt the software companies, telephony vendors have so far enjoyed a relative calm in the closed and proprietary phone systems market with substantial profit margins. That could now all be turned on its head with the proliferation...

Tags: IAX, Asterisk

Blog posts 2005-01-10

Additional Resources

LoudHush 1.3.21 (Mac)

LoudHush is a softphone application for Mac OS X. It functions as an IAX client for the Asterisk PBX. With LoudHush you can initiate and answer, hold and transfer voice calls using your computer.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Consulting, LoudHush, Outsourcing, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-01

LoudHush 1.3.20 (Mac)

LoudHush is a softphone application for Mac OS X. It functions as an IAX client for the Asterisk PBX. With LoudHush you can initiate and answer, hold and transfer voice calls using your computer.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Consulting, LoudHush, Outsourcing, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-05-31

SwitchVox 4.0: A Lesson in How Voice 2.0 Can Transform the SMB

Digium introduced a new version of it's Asterisk-based, IP PBX, SwitchVox  today. The new release is a great example of the kinds of features that Voice 2.0 makes avaqilable to even the smallest organizations. Through mashups and application integrations, SMBs gain screen pops with mapping and weather infomration, presence status,...

Tags: Phone, Voice, IVR, Small And Medium Business, Switchvox Switchboard, Unified Messaging enhancements-IMAP Integration, Switchvox Notifier-A Windows Desktop Client, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Smb/Sme, Fax, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Voix Manager 1.0.2 (Mac)

Voix manager is a switchboard application with a IAX phone integrated, is able to manage and display information about your Asterisk PBX activity, channels, extensions ecc. in real time. Voix Manager has been thought with simplicity in mind, all feature needed by the attendant, fast and easy usable, with the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Phone, Manager, Voix Manager, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2008-07-03

The one thing Asterisk has been missing

The one thing Asterisk has been missingAll well and good......if you don't mind living with potential GUI limitations and the vendor's restriction on access to *.conf and other Linux configuration settings for a 'turn-key' system.If you want the flexibility to configure any way you want (e.g., your hardware, your Linux...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Asterisk

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

Digium: as of this a.m., one million Asterisk downloads this year

Just a quick note this a.m. to mark that Digium The Asterisk Company has just announced its one millionth download in 2007 of its open-source  Internet telephony solution. This has been an upbeat year for Huntsville, Alabama-based Digium.  Four possible quarters this year now marks 24...

Tags: Solution, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Four reasons why: Skype is minor bandwidth hog compared to torrents and file-hosters

Germany-based Internet traffic management systems solutions provider ipoque has found that in much of the world excluding North America: via BusinessWeek Skype accounts for 95 percent of all VoIP traffic, but that in the evening hours, Peer-to-peer accounts for more...

Tags: Bandwidth, Skype Technologies S.A., Internet, Telephony, VOIP, Peer To Peer (P2P), Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Voix Manager 1.0.2 (Windows)

Voix manager is a switchboard application with a IAX phone integrated, is able to manage and display information about your Asterisk PBX activity, channels, extensions ecc. in real time. Voix Manager has been thought with simplicity in mind, all feature needed by the attendant, fast and easy to use, with...

Tags: Phone, Manager, Voix Manager, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-12-06

Worldwide Skype outage

Worldwide Skype outageWell, obviously Marc...... it must be a scalability problem cause by all of the new users generated by your recommendations. IOW, it's your fault. Such is the price of fame. :^)America Offline?I do remember one day back in the '90s when AOL was having servere problems with their...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Skype Technologies S.A., Internet, Marc, denial of service, phone, VoIP

Discussion threads 2007-08-16

Microsoft vs. open source now spreading to VoIP?

Microsoft vs. open source now spreading to VoIP?MS voip playsRussell,i think MS has quietly gone about building a full blown IP comms stack. i think we're about to see a major move by them into this space. heres some more evidence of it in action.http://www.microsoft.com/responsepoint/default.mspxyou combine that with the ICA...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, open source, IP telephony, Microsoft Corp., VoIP, Google Inc., QoS

Discussion threads 2007-05-14

VoIP's "four obstacles" are listed and described

On our sister site TechRepublic, technology consultant Deb Shinder lists four obstacles to implementing VoIP.The four obstacles are reliability concerns, network quality of service, complexity and confusion, and security.Many of you may already be versed in the details for each of these issues. But just in case you are...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, VoIP, Deb Shinder, jargon

Blog posts 2007-05-12

74 Open Source VoIP apps- all in one place

VoIP blogger Linda Goin has taken the time and devoted the patience to gathering a linked list of 74 open source VoIP apps.As she describes it, her list includes SIP, H.323, IAX, and RTP protocols, with clients, libraries, gatekeepers, and any other open source resource available for those specific...

Tags: Software, General

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Idefisk 2 (Windows)

IDEFISK 2.0 Free SIP and IAX / IAX2 phone is a user-friendly softphone, compatible with Asterisk or any other SIP or IAX capable system, offering high-quality VoIP calling experience. NEW features include: SIP + IAX/IAX 2 protocols, STUN support, STUN server per account, Echo cancellation, DTMF tones sending, Support for...

Tags: Asteriskguru, SIP, Cancellation, Microsoft Windows, Audio Device, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2007-04-13

JackenIAX 1.0beta v218:221M (Mac)

A new Soft Phone for Mac OS X 10.4. Make calls over internet, answer your home phone when you travel. Integrated with Address Book for double click dialing. Perfect for connecting to an Asterisk server using the IAX protocol, which makes it easier to get past firewalls compared to the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Protocol, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Internet, Firewalls, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Hardware, Networking

Software downloads 2007-03-28