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- Open source in the post-telephony era
- We are firmly in the post-telephony era. (Image from the BellSystemMemorial.) On buying BellSouth, AT&T executives spoke of selling "bundles" of service, wireless being the most important, and of using ads as a primary revenue stream. They were combining the land lines business as a by-product -- local, long distance,...
- Tags: Trixbox 2.0, open source, 2007 preview, business models, VOIP, Infrastructure, Strategy, Enterprise Policy, Implementations, Applications, General
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
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- 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,...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, open source, Asterisk, FreeSwitch
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- The cheapest way to do VoIP is still analog
- What happens when you want to just want a bunch of phones in your business, hotel, or organization and you don't need a bunch of fancy and complicated features on the phone? It's simple, just get a bunch of cheap analog phones. But how do you build a phone system...
- Tags: Phone, T1, PBX, USB, FXS, FXO, Telephony, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Voice over IP Foundations
- View Available Dates and Locations Gain essential data networking and Voice over IP VoIP knowledge in a single, week-long class. In this course, you will learn how VoIP works, why VoIP works, and how to use VoIP. On the first day, you will configure an IP network...
- Tags: SIP, H.323, IP, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Emerging Technologies
- Training 2008-01-01
- Fonality makes two major moves
- At the IT Expo here in Los Angeles, Asterisk-based open source business phone systems maker Fonality is touting HUD Heads Up Display, its immediately forthcoming $995 call management and display solution free with trixbox Pro Enterprise or Call Center Edition. That's HUD screencap...
- Tags: Fonality, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Can small business count on VoIP?
- Can small business count on VoIP?it's like the freewayThe phrase - "it's like the freeway" - says it all. When the nation was new there were many private road companies who attempted to charge for road use. All went bankrupt in part because those using the toll roads could bypass...
- Tags: Telephony, Benefits, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Clearwire Corp., freeway, common man, VoIP, small business
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Skype is back (for some); damage to reputation is done
- Skype is back for some; damage to reputation is doneMaybe this is just academically?Well, seems to me this is more important on the academic field than the business field I might be totally wrong. Skype I think is a very good example of the Second Media Age products, and the...
- Tags: Telephony, PRODUCTIVITY, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, skype, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Fonality releases free VoIP phone system trixbox Pro
- Big announcements today from open-source business phone systems and solutions developer Fonality.Today marks the official release of trixbox Pro. Fonality is marketing the product as a free business-grade phone system that lets business users with 5 to 500 employees to make free VoIP calls. What this means: more pressure on residential-VoIP providers as they...
- Tags: VoIP, Phone, Fonality, VoIP Phone, Phone System, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Have any favorite open source Windows apps? Tell us!
- Have any favorite open source Windows apps? Tell us!Primo PDF is NOT open sourceIt's not open source, you can't download the code whatsoever. The license even forbids this explicitly. Free != Open SourcePrimo PDFWe have been installing PrimoPDF on all the computers here at work for the users that do...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Operating systems, Paint.net, Microsoft Windows, open source, Hyperic HQ, IM, IM client, server, PRIMO PDF
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- CPT-Master (zip)
- Incorporating the World PSTN Tone Database, CPT-Master provides convenient generation of Call Progress Tones for telephony developers and telco engineers. Simply load a preset setting (about 1,700 records for more than 190 countries), or specify your own custom tone by entering frequency and cadence strings. The trial version is fully...
- Tags: Telephony, Trial Version, String, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Storage, Databases, Networking, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-05-16
- Phone Genie for Asterisk let's you take charge of your Asterisk system
- Today, Nerd Vittles introduced version 1.0 of Phone Genie for Asterisk.This is a freeweb utility that enables you to reconfigure just about everything on your Asterisk system on the fly. The ticket: a bundled-in HTML command language. You can do this via a web browser, or even a cellphone web...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- How open is Asterisk?
- Earlier I wrote about Trixbox, an Asterisk PBX, and a good example of what open source is doing to telephony. Well, a good argument broke out about just this topic at the Dave Farber list recently, one I think is worth discussing. The argument was over how open Asterisk is....
- Tags: Asterisk PBX, telecom, VOIP, Standards, Implementations, Development, Applications, General
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Why have a phone network?
- That's the question that constantly occurs to me when talking with folks like Fonality founder Chris Lyman.Fonality today announced trixbox 2.0, a new version of its open source PBX software, featuring a new Graphical User Interface GUI to make installation and integration easier.The irony here is that Fonality's business model...
- Tags: Fonality, telephone, Lyman
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Enterprise open source VoIP with Asterisk
- Enterprise open source VoIP with AsteriskYou are totally out of control!kidding of courseNow you've got my attention! ;)Among other things, one can flash a Linksys WRT54GS with [url=http://wiki.openwrt.org/]OpenWrt[/url] and install [url=http://mobile.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/09/1727256&tid=104&tid=132&pagenum=1]Asterisk on WRT[/url]Master the possibilities!Nice George. Nice.Two great teaser blogs - loving itThis is great stuff.Asterisk is truly...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Asterisk, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2006-06-29
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