VoIP Users Conference
By @voipusers
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Podcast Description
This is a weekly live meeting of people all over the world who are interested in sharing knowledge and experiences about telephony over the Internet. Guests include authors, innovators, programmers and Internet personalities. The conference is reached by phoning in using SIP, Skype or a web page widget shown on the main web site http://vuc.me
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CleanFreeswitch Today | Some intense examination of the requirement to tell people you are recording a call with the regulars while waiting for FS bridge to successfully UNmute it self. Note that ZipDX implemented the warning when you connect to the bridge if recording is on. Some reminders about *6 to toggle mute state. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/thething.jpg)The origin of "Look to your skies for a warning! Keep watching the skies! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/)" Naw, I cut that part but I wanted to add the link in this post, because I didn't get more info from FS about what to put here. Great movie, "The Thing from Another World", featuring James Arness ("Gunsmoke") as "The Thing". One of the best science fiction pictures from the fifties, and one that helped define the genre. From yet another world, (the Freeswitch (http://freeswitch.org) bridge), Pacman sounds, and then belched forth the actual meat-space aural personna of the like of Brian West, Michael Collins, Anthony Minessale, Darren Schreiber and a few less-stellar voices... (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fslogo.gif) From their site at Freeswitch.org: "Created in 2006 to fill the void left by proprietary commercial solutions. FreeSWITCH also provides a stable telephony platform on which many telephony applications can be developed using a wide range of free tools. FreeSWITCH was originally designed and implemented by Anthony Minessale with the help of Brian West and Michael Jerris. All 3 are former developers of the popular Asterisk open source PBX. The project was initiated to focus on several design goals including modularity, cross-platform support, scalability and stability. Today, many more developers and users contribute to the project on a daily basis." | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFreeswitch After Hours | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fslogo.gif)The final part of the Freeswitch (http://freeswitch.org) sessions. The ever-efficient Karl Fife wrings yet more tidbits of useful information from whoever was left on the Freeswitch bridge. This would have been in the fourth or fifth hour. Freeswitch book is here (http://www.freeswitch.org/node/276). The official title of the book is FreeSWITCH 1.0.6, however don't let the number fool you. The information applies to both FreeSWITCH 1.0 and 1.2 branches. Dave Michels (http://pindropsoup.com)' son Dustin plays a mean guitar. Here's Dustin Michels video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xunP0LZ7g6A). | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRussell Bryant Q & A (and more) | With everything up in the air, we weren't sure they'd be a session, but I arrived back in time, so I should be there to talk about whatever anyone brings up. By a bit of good luck, Russell Bryant (http://www.russellbryant.net/blog/category/digium/) stopped by and shared a lot of interesting details and answered question about what's new with Asterisk. Russell is Engineering Manager for the Open Source Software team. We later got into talking about the 3G used, unlocked and jailbroken iPhone I bought in the USA and broght back to Europe without knowing how it would work. I was saying that in California, the iPhone showed my location to withjin feet without data or wifi connection, as long as the map was already loaded (using wifi at home). That brought us to GPS and how it works. Here in France, the location it finds is much less accurate. | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGoing Nowhere Fast | Extended discussion of GPS and how it works. Triangulation or strangulation? | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChris Veazey of Blink Mind On SIP Video Calling | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Blink-Mind-VVX.jpg)This coming Friday, August 13th will be yet another Voip Users Conference (http://vuc.me) double-header. Starting at our usual 12 Noon EDT we have an overview of the Freetalk Connect SMB PBX featuring Skype integration. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/freetalk-connect-skype/) Then immediately following, at 1pm EDT, we have Chris Veazey, VP Engineering of Blink Mind (http://www.blinkmind.com), to discuss the current state of the industry with regard to multi-media phones and SIP-based video calling. Blink Mind (http://www.blinkmind.com) has agreed to provide a video conference bridge (MCU) as part of their appearance. Further, as Blink Mind (http://www.blinkmind.com) are a Polycom partner, Polycom has graciously provided a pair of Polycom VVX-1500 Business Media Phones on loan. One VVX is at Randy's location in California, and the other in my home office. As we aim to explore the capabilities of the VVX-1500 and similar desk phones, the video portion of the Blink Mind (http://www.blinkmind.com) call with be limited to CIF (352 x 240) resolution using H.264 compression. The Blink Mind (http://www.blinkmind.com) bridge will allow compatible connections from a variety of clients. If you have access to a Polycom VVX-1500 or Grandstream GXV series phone you will be able to join the video bridge. Also, many larger video conference systems will drop down to CIF resolution, so they too can join the bridge. If you don't have access to such hardware you may be able to use a compatible soft phone. Rudimentary testing with the Mirial (http://www.mirial.com/products/Mirial_Softphone_HD.html) soft phone last Friday proved successful. Mirial (http://www.mirial.com/products/Mirial_Softphone_HD.html) is available for Windows and OSX. Mirial (http://www.mirial.com/products/Mirial_Softphone_HD.html) is a commercial product, but a 30 day trail download is available. (http://www.mirial.com/products/Mirial_collaterals/MirialSoftphone_download.html) Since we have a relatively low-resolution video stream this time we'll be issuing two kinds of connect details for the Blink Mind (http://www.blinkmind.com/) bridge. Yes, there will be two different SIP URIs for access to the Blink Mind (http://www.blinkmind.com/) bridge: * Some will be able to join in a fashion that allows them to participate in the video stream. * Others will join the bridge using a non-participatory SIP URI that gives them a view of the video stream but does not add their video to the MCU feed. In this manner we will avoid having a 16+ way split where everyone looks like a tiny animated smudge on-screen. If you have a suitable hardware based means of joining the video conference please let me know. While I hate to be arbitrary, there are a limited number of participatory seats available and preference will be given to those who have suitable hardware. The details of the non-participatory connection and the web stream will be announced to the VUC mailing list early in the week before the call. We'll also announce a SIP URI for anyone who needs to test that their end-point is capable of joining the Blink Mind (http://www.blinkmind.com/) video bridge. Of course, we will join the ZipDX (http://www.zipdx.com) wideband audio bridge to the Blink Mind (http://www.blinkmind.com/) video bridge. A recording of the video stream will also be available after the fact, along with the regular podcast. If you don't have a webcam or suitable soft phone you can still view the video stream. Blink Mind (http://www.blinkmind.com/) will be providing a Flash-based streaming feed of the call. Since the stream is post-processed it's a few second delayed from the bridge, but it includes the audio and video. This is a "view only" feed so you will not be able to participate in the call if this is your only means of connection. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSkype to Business with FREETALK Connect | (http://freetalk.me/products/business/)(http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/FreetalkAppl.jpg)Freetalk Connect wants to put Skype on every phone in your office. Designed for offices with between two and 50 users, the FREETALK Connect offers unified communications functionality, including Find Me, Follow Me; a unified voice mailbox; automated attendant and auto call distribution. Intelligent routing capabilities: incoming Skype calls, as well as calls over SIP, the PSTN and IAX2, can be routed by the FREETALK Connect to any local or remote Skype user, SIP endpoint, analog or mobile phone. Set up is simplified, enabling small business users that are not tech savvy to use it quickly and simply, without formal training. Supported telephones are plugged into the company’s network and the device auto-detects and configures them. An on-screen wizard then guides the customer through a few business-related questions that help configure the company’s communication system and enables Skype calling from every supported desktop phone in the office. Adding users and administering the system after installation is just as easy. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanClueCon and 2600hz Project | 2600hz is home to a collection of open-source telephony software that enables the use of the FreeSWITCH, Asterisk and YATE switching libraries. Initially built around the blue.box project, we aim to provide a collection of software to power your GUI, your cloud-based telephony switch and/or your monitoring and maintenance tool set. Video testing - Next week we'll be doing a real video conference, watch the site for more info ClueCon - No one wished to comment. Whatever. | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOpenVBX from Twilio | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/openvbx1.gif)OpenVBX (http://openvbx.org) is a web-based open source phone system for business. With a Twilio account (https://www.twilio.com/try-twilio) and a web server with PHP 5.2+ and MySQL 5, you can build your own "hosted pbx". Build your own custom phone applets with just a little bit of PHP. Rebrand and resell OpenVBX to your customers. Give every user their own phone number and personal conference line. Dial whole departments, share voicemail messages with the team. OpenVBX is for companies and collaboration. Adam Ballai, lead engineer on the OpenVBX project and Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson are our guests. | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDo NOT Call List and much more | Some hard info to be had about the do not call list and a lot of messing around with microphones, AGC and iPhone SIP clients. | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Changing Role of Session Border Controllers | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ingatelogo.gif) Guests: Steven Johnson, President and Product Support Director Scott Beer of Ingate Systems AB (http://www.ingate.com/), a Stockholm, Sweden based high-tech company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets data communications products for trusted Unified Communications. Ingate designed the world’s first Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-capable firewalls and SIParators, (http://www.ingate.com/Products.php) products that enable Unified Communications over the Internet. The Ingate SIParator® is a device that connects to an existing firewall to seamlessly allow the traversal of SIP-based communications. Ingate SIParators are compatible with all existing firewalls and operating systems. The Changing Role of Session Border Controllers: Ingate's SIP-capable E-SBCs protect and enable SIP networks worldwide. E-SBCs used to just serve a primary role of security. We will be discussing the following pooints: - Talk about the security role E-SBCs play. One question many people ask us is, "Why have an E-SBC in a SIP trunk deployment if the service provider is taking on security?" There is an excellent answer to this, one that every end-user needs to know. - Address common security mistakes we see in SIP implementations. - Discuss how E-SBCs enable SIP trunking and other SIP-based applications, like video, citing case studies - Talk about Unified Communications. | 7/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanQuickfuse Apps: Build an IVR in Minutes | Quickfuse (http://quickfuseapps.com/) offers a graphic interface which allows you to drag and drop your way to a full-featured IVR application and have a working prototype in minutes. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/QuickFuseApps.gif) Quickfuse incorporates access to data, logic and branching, instant visual feedback and a free trial account. | 7/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGeons 0.4.0 with Alistair Cunningham | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Integricslogo.gif)Integrics (http://www.integrics.com/) is the creator of Enswitch, a complete highly scalable and redundant integrated solution for commercial telephony services such as hosted PBX, ITSP, SIP trunking, and calling cards. It's also the creator of Geons, a new project for distributed enterprise applications such as distributed PBX. Integrics CEO Alistair Cunningham will be talking about these products, building highly scalable systems using Asterisk and OpenSIPS, and answering your questions. Geons 0.4.0. This is the first version for public release. It comprises geond (the server), the web interface, and the basis of a distributed PBX system. For more details, including links to download and installation instructions, please see this page (http://www.integrics.com/products/geons/). Geons is a suite of software for distributed enterprise applications. Geons applications: * Are highly scalable, supporting millions of users. * Can be geographically distributed across thousands of sites. * Are fault tolerant, including geographical redundancy. * Support disconnected operation, where a site is temporarily disconnected from the rest of the network. * Are highly customizable. All templates can be edited and properties added, changed, or removed. * Are extensible. New templates can be added to create new applications and enhance existing ones. * Can be integrated with other software using an open XML based protocol. * Are secure, with full flexible access control lists (ACLs) for all objects. | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSIPVicious and Adhearsion | Both SIPVicious (http://blog.sipvicious.org/2010/06/how-to-crash-sipvicious-introducing.html) and Adhearsion have announcements to make. Sandro joins us to explain "svcrash", a new addition to the tool kit to stop attacks when they happen: A new tool has been added to SIPVicious - svcrash.py. As the name implies, it crashes something - svwar.py and svcrack.py. This tool is meant to be used by system administrators and organizations that are receiving unauthorized scans on their exposed IP PBX. Ben joins us to give some details about the evolution of Adhearsion (http://www.adhearsion.com) which has had a recent version release: This release marks the continuation of the platform with some major enhancements and bugfixes: * Support for Asterisk 1.6 (continued backward compatibility with Asterisk 1.4) * Added support for ActiveLDAP * ActiveRecord now works properly with Adhearsion components * Daemonizing of Adhearsion no longer truncates log files * Escape commands sent to Asterisk via AGI * Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) events now work when daemonized * Various enhancements for improved Asterisk 1.6 support * Various bugfixes | 6/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSIP Sorcery: A Free SIP Aggregator | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SIP-Sorcery-Icon.png)This Friday we will be joined by Aaron Clauson, the creator of SIP Sorcery (http://www.sipsorcery.com/mainsite). SIP Sorcery (http://www.sipsorcery.com/mainsite) started out life known as My SIP Switch. Aaron describes SIP Sorcery (http://www.sipsorcery.com/mainsite) as a SIP service aggregator. It's a free service that acts on SIP signaling to allow users to combine various SIP service providers and devices without requiring a PBX. Aaron's experience running the service is especially interesting. He started the service using a physical host, then as the service grew he migrated to Amazon's EC2. It's operation on EC2 was less than ideal so he migrated to Microsoft's Azure cloud-based hosting service. My understanding is that he's in the process of making another migration as well as launching a new service called the SIP Sorcery Switchboard (http://www.sipsorcery.com/mainsite/Info). Oh yes, SIP Sorcery (http://www.sipsorcery.com/mainsite) is an open source project. While most users rely upon the host that Aaron provides, the source code is readily available and some user run their own local instance of the software. Aaron will be joining the call from his home in Tasmania, which means that it'll be in the middle of his night! Yep, he's a guy who writes code at night. He should fit right in with the VUC regulars. | 6/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCounterpath Launches Bria for iPhone | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/counterpath-150.png)This week week have another VUC double-header! Starting at 1pm EDT we will be joined by Todd Carothers, VP of Product Management at Counterpath. Following the recent announcement of Bria 3.0 for Linux (http://www.counterpath.com/counterpath-launches-linux-softphone-new-bria-3.0.html), Counterpath are this week celebrating the launch of their Bria soft phone for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The software is already available from Apple's iTunes store, so by Friday all you iPhone-toting Apple-philes should have it loaded and be ready to share your initial experience with the release. Here's a quote from that release about the tech specs: Key features include: • Full SIP compliance, enabling use with any SIP-compliant server and hundreds of ITSPs that currently offer CounterPath-based services. o Appears as another endpoint to service providers or PBX equipment, enabling fast, cost-effective deployments. • Call quality that’s superior to circuit-switched wireline and wireless voice, and based on the G.711, G.729 and GSM codecs. • An intuitive user interface that provides one-touch access to voicemail, call history, speakerphone and other frequently used telephony features such as 4-digit dialing. • Support for DTMF, which lets users enter numbers to access an auto attendant. • Bluetooth support, enabling hands-free calling for convenience, as well as safety while driving. • Multi-call management options, including the ability to switch between, merge and split calls, all in ways that are already familiar to iPhone users so they can start using these features immediately. • Signaling and call encryption via TLS and SRTP, enabling enterprise-class security. • Optional customized branding available for enterprises and telephony providers. | 6/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAcme Packet On Session Border Controllers | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/acme-packet-150.png)Friday June 18th we will be extending our recent trend in discussing matters of VoIP security. This call will feature Ken Kuenzel from Acme Packet (http://www.acmepacket.com/). Acme Packet are the leading provider of "Session Border Controllers," aka SBCs. What's an SBC? What does it do? So glad you asked...as that's just what we aim to find out on Friday! Acme has uploaded a slide presentation (http://vuc.li/acmeslides) to follow while listening. In the mean time, and for the very curious among you, Acme Packet has some great background on the topic amongst their online articles and presentations (http://www.acmepacket.com/html/page.asp?PageID={716C54F6-210A-424B-B082-9F5B0A1B49C3}). Yes, there's homework! Acme products: session border controllers (http://www.acmepacket.com/OS_SBC) (SBC), session-aware load balancers (http://www.acmepacket.com/html/page.asp?PageID=%7B2EEADF05-813A-459D-ABF0-B56DC97B7DA8%7D) (SLB), multiservice security gateways (http://www.acmepacket.com/OS_MSG) (MSG) and session routing proxies (http://www.acmepacket.com/SRP) (SRP)—operate Acme Packet Net-Net OS. | 6/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJune 11, 2010 – Part 2 | Another wide ranging discussion about everything and nothing with the friendliest bunch of VoIP geeks on the planet. | 6/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHD Voice Nova Trial | Dan Berninger (http://danielberninger.com/) joins us for an update on what this is about: HD Voice Enabling Email Addresses Via a SIP VoIP Nova Server Voice enabling the world's two billion email addresses offers a way to end VoIP's unhappy reliance on telephone network interconnection. Building an on-ramp to the PSTN falls far short of the promise motivating my decision to leave Bell Laboratories for VoIP pioneer Vocaltec Communications in 1996. Realizing that original promise requires revisiting the logic making telephone numbers the default address space for VoIP. The Nova concept leverages existing open standards, devices, and off-the-shelf SIP conference servers as a starting point. There will be a need for purpose built Nova server software, devices unburdened by legacy features, and standards if the concept gains traction. The overall approach revolves around removing the proprietary bottlenecks preventing innovation. As the presently dominant and proprietary VoIP offer, Skype represents the new AOL in this context. You can try the system at SiptoSip (http://www.siptosip.net/) and read the white paper. | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAstricon, AMOOCON and Skype for SIP | John Todd gives a preview of Astricon 2010 (http://astricon.net), we chat about AMOOCON (http://amoocon.de) in Rostock next week and about various VoIP trials and tribulations. We have a special VUC discount code for you. Enter code AC10VUC for a significant discount. We've been testing Skype for SIP (http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/sip/overview/) open beta today. This allows you to connect Skype to your commercial PBX, much as Skype for Asterisk allows connection between Skype and Asterisk. Listen to the recording to learn more about the experiences to date. | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNerd Vittles and the Incredible PBX | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/orgasmatronV.jpg)The Incredible PBX (http://nerdvittles.com/?p=677): Free Skype, free worldwide SIP, free U.S./Canada PSTN plus rock-solid Asterisk security using the new Zero Internet Footprint™ design. In addition to all of the Orgasmatron (http://nerdvittles.com/?p=675) magic including free calling in the U.S. and Canada courtesy of Google Voice, you now get some terrific new features: randomly generated passwords for all of your extensions, free Skype support and a new backup module both of which we'll introduce over the next few weeks. And CallerID Superfecta now is preconfigured to work out of the box with support from dozens of providers worldwide. | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSIP Hacks: who should filter what, where? | Among others, Ward Mundy (Nerd Vittles (http://nerdvittles.com), our guest next week) and many of the VUC regulars join in this violent argument civil discussion about who is responsible for filtering, where it should take place and the how and why of their ideas on the subject. If you're into SIP technology, you'll want to hear this discussion about who should protect people from SIP "CallerID stuffing" among Ward Mundy, Fred Posner (VoIP Tech Chat (http://www.voiptechchat.com/)), Tim Panton, Karl Fife, Leif Madsen and the rest of the great gang of VoIP regulars. This is why you need to join us LIVE every Friday! Programmers differ enormously over who should filter incoming data and where. There is no right answer, although the main point is to protect your users against whatever possible attacks might come through your system or pbx. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDan York’s 7 Deadliest UC Attacks | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/6a00d8341bfc6e53ef0120a8310200970b-800wi.png) Dan York's name is certainly familiar to you if you're a fan of VoIP. He has made a video to explain why he wrote this book (http://www.7ducattacks.com/2010/04/video-intro-to-seven-deadliest-unified-communications-attacks.html). Dan's credentials are strong and he's an active community member. You've seen him in airports between conferences, or even at one of those Voxeo events (http://www.voxeo.com/summits/customer). Dan's blog (perhaps we should say one of his many blogs) is Disruptive Telephony (http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/). Dan can be found on Twitter as @DanYork (http://twitter.com/danyork) and he's on Linkedin, Facebook, etc. Finding those links is left as an exercise for the enthusiastic student. :) While I'm not sure what his current role there is, Dan is a part of another effort you should know about, the VoIP Security Alliance aka VOIPSA (http://www.voipsa.org/) where he writes on the VOIPSA blog (http://www.voipsa.org/blog/). | 5/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanKONNECT with Martin Sunstrum | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Konnect-Networks-Inc..gif)Martin Sunstrum, the founder of Aksys Networks joins us for a presentation of the KONNECT line of business VoIP phones. He will give an overview of the KONNECT Business Phones (http://vuc.li/cTpZky) and explore the tight feature integration with Asterisk-based PBX systems. Lastly, he will present the intriguing KONNECT Office Phone System (http://vuc.li/933gUv), a multi-site office phone system that requires no PBX or hosted service. | 5/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Rare Open Session | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Aastra-6739i-2.jpg)Today's VoIP Users Conference call will be a rare open session. With no particular guest to carry the hour we'll be discussing the week's news in VoIP-land, answering questions... occasionally correctly...and generally being a rowdy bunch of telecom geeks. It could be chaos. Please hand your coat & hat to the young people at the door on your way in. It's so much fun to have interns! And please remember to tip the host...ok, not really. I shall try to remain upright for the hour. | 5/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAll About AskoziaPBX v2.0 | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/askoziapbx-300x81.png)This weeks guest will be Michael Iedema (http://twitter.com/michael_iedema), leader of the AskoziaPBX (http://www.askozia.com/) Project. AskoziaPBX (http://www.askozia.com/) is a lightweight embedded Linux + Asterisk distribution with a web GUI layer based upon the m0n0wall (http://m0n0.ch/wall/) framework by Miguel Kasper. It's almost exactly a year since we last discussed AskoziaPBX. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/2009/askozia-pbx/) Earlier this week they celebrated the release of v2.0 after many months of work to migrate from FreeBSD to a Linux core. Michael will be on-hand to discuss their recent efforts, the state of the software, growth of the developer team, project road map, etc. | 5/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMedia5 Corp with Pascal Doré | Pascal Dore will is was our guest Friday, to discuss Media5 Corp and their products, among them, the Media5-fone. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Media5-fone.jpg)For the iPhone platform, a SIP client is a handy thing to have. We discovered Media5-fone (http://media5corp.com/en/mobilitysolutions/media5-fone) in the perenial search for SIP clients that can connect us to ZipDX.com, the VUC wideband server. It happens that OnSIP.com and Sipgate.com also do g722, so we're always happy to see a new addition. There is currently an iPhone (iPod/iPad) version (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=318411479&mt=8) and a Symbian S-60 version (http://media5corp.com/mobilitysolutions/media5-fone/symbian-s60). Media5 was eager to accept our help in testing the g722 app, and I'm happy to say it works well. The newest version with the features we're testing now should be out in a week or two. I hope to use the app from China (but who knows how that wiill work out?) | 4/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPart 2: USB, SBC, NAT | We talk about several topics in part 2 including Skype, USB connections for VoIP, new devices like the Gigaset One (http://www.gigasetone.com), a cellphone gateway. Lots of talk about NAT with Asterisk (http://asterisk.org) and SIP. The usual chatter from friends around the table in our weekly "club". Among the participants Tim @steely_glint (http://twitter.com/steely_glint), Neil from IdeaSIP (http://ideasip.com), Karl @karlfife (http://twitter.com/karlfife), Michael @mjgraves and Graves on SoHo VoIP (http://www.mgraves.org/voip/), David Frankel from ZipDX (http://www.zipdx.com) who furnish our great wideband conference facilities, Dave @DaveMichels (http://twitter.com/davemichels) from Pin Drop Soup (http://www.pindropsoup.com/), Pascal from Media5 (http://media5corp.com). Welcome to a very old friend of mine, Bob from Future Video (http://www.futurevideo.com/). The VUC encourages new people to be a part of our weekly talks. Please join us so you can chime in, ask questions and generally have a great time. | 4/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMedia5-fone Audio Sample | The recording is from part of the ZipDX recording of April 16, 2010. The Media5-fone is a SIP Client (softphone) that enables users to make and receive VoIP calls. VoIP calls are calls established over a Wi-Fi connection using the IP technology of the Media5-fone. | 4/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean“@BeelineBill” Bill Miller | This was a very interesting look into the corporate corridors, where Bill has worked for decades. He traces his humble beginnings to analog computers, tells of few Mark Spencer stories and just plain hangs out with the VUC regulars. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/BeelineBill.jpg)Bill Miller is a former Vice President of Product Development at Digium. (http://www.voip-news.com/vendors/digium/) Bill was also a senior product manager at 3COM and has decades of network experience. He's worked in VoIP since 1996. I'm sure he's got some great stories to share! Over 25 years in voice and data networking, security and network management. Extensive product management and marketing background, Bill has held successful senior level positions at fortune 500 and multinational companies and with early stage start-ups in marketing, sales, and strategic alliances. IRC LInks for 2010-04-23 | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDialogic Contest, Amazon EC2 FAIL and more | Over 3 hours of random discussion, starting with Jeff Dworkin of Dialogic on the 2nd Annual Dialogic Innovator Challenge (http://www.dialogic.com/den/groups/innovation/default.aspx). (http://www.dialogic.com/den/themes/hubs/soccer/images/header.jpg) Amazon EC2 attacks (http://www.voiptechchat.com/voip/457/amazon-ec2-sip-brute-force-attacks-on-rise/): just a PR damage control post or two, no real action. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/symbian_nokia_n95.png) Media5-fone (http://media5corp.com/en/mobilitysolutions/media5-fone): Next Friday, Pascal Dore of Media5 Corp (http://media5corp.com/) will tell us all about the app I've been testing on the iPod Touch. The big feature to date: g722 wideband for use with ZipDX (http://ZipDX.com). | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTim and David’s Excellent Island Telephony Adventure | Tim Panton and David Burgess describe the project to deploy the first GSM phone system to the small island nation of Niue. The system consists of OpenSource software and (largely) commodity hardware. The project uses OpenBTS, Asterisk and USRP. Tim will try to describe (with help from OpenBTS (http://ecommconf.com/blog/2009/02/david-burgess-on-openbts.html)'s David Burgess) the technical, regulatory and logistical challenges that we faced before we could make the first call. See also David Burgess' presentation at eComm 2009 (http://www.slideshare.net/eCommConf/david-a-burgesss-presentation-at-ecomm-2009). VUC regular contributor Tim Panton (http://babyis60.wordpress.com/) has been a software developer and consultant at Westhawk Ltd (http://www.westhawk.co.uk/) more than 25 years, working on a diverse range of projects, from chemical plant simulation to tourism web sites. He is also a contributor to open source projects, in particular GJTAPI a framework for implementing JTAPI (The Java Telephony API) and Westhawk's Java SNMP stack. In recent years Tim has been predominantly involved in Asterisk development and implementation, working closely with key industry players he has been championing innovative integration of voice technologies . Tim is also the technical director of PhoneFromHere.com (http://phonefromhere.com) Ltd. LINKS from the discussion (http://vuc.li/8Z8Zbn). | 4/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAmazon EC2 Flood Attacks from the Cloud | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cloud.jpg) Part of this article is an edited summary of material from VoipTechChat.com (http://www.voiptechchat.com/voip/457/amazon-ec2-sip-brute-force-attacks-on-rise/) Complaints of rampant SIP Brute Force Attacks coming from servers with Amazon EC2 IP Addresses cause many admins to simply drop all such traffic. Generally, SIP brute force attacks attempt to register various peer names to a system and/or attempt to guess passwords of known/guesses peers or endpoints. The object is theft of resources. The complaints mentioned this weekend show an excessive amount of traffic; with some providers claiming 6GB of traffic dedicated to such attacks. Since we ourselves received an attack from an Amazon hosted server, we also reported and complained to the Amazon NOC/Abuse depts. There are various techniques to assist with minimizing DDoS and Brute Force attacks, such as limiting access via the public internet, using strong passwords, not mapping extension name to peer/endpoint name, limiting simultaneous calls, and aggressively monitoring usage. Automatic blocking of abusive IP’s (fail2ban, blockhosts, etc.) can also assist with minimizing damage. References: EC2 Abuse Report Form (https://www.amazon.com/gp/html-forms-controller/AWSAbuse/) VOIPSA (http://www.voipsa.org/) VUC official position: EC2 abuse costs victims time and money. Amazon is 100% accountable for what their customers do with their resources and must react swiftly to complaints. VUC 60 second rant: This week saw a new feature rolled out, the Voipusers One Minute Issue Talk (VOMIT) where all listeners are encouraged to phone in their VoIP-related rants. Call and leave yours at (518) VUC VOIP or (518) 882-8647. Follow @voipusers (http://twitter.com/voipusers) on Twitter. | 4/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGetVocal’s Teleku with Chris Matthieu | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/teleku31.jpg)Chris Matthieu, Founder & CEO of GetVocal, entered the cloud-based communications market in February, with its launch of Teleku (http://teleku.com). Teleku is a new cloud-based telecom service that allows Web developers to build and host phone applications that answer inbound calls and initiate outbound calls, interact with Web applications, and send/receive SMS text messages! Using simple XML or JSON responses in your HTTP Web pages, you can deliver sophisticated interactive voice response (IVR) telephony applications in as minutes! (http://teleku.com/) | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFreedom Fone with Alberto Escudero-Pascual | Freedom Fone brings services to areas of the world deprived of Internet connectivity and sometimes even electric power | 4/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Ultimate iPad Discussion | For the final time before they ship, a bunch of mostly unconvinced techies talk about how the iPad might do in the market and its effect on content distribution. | 4/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAsterisk Reporting with Sam Reports | SAM Reports is aimed at small businesses using Asterisk. I built it to solve the pain that I had : provide my clients, small businesses, with a reporting solution without the need to make any changes to their Asterisk boxes. | 3/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAllison and the Guys | Some less-heard works by @voicegal Allison Smith and a discussion with the Freeswitch gang. | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanKamailio 3.0, The SIP Router Project | Who might need Kamailio and how and why they use it. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVoIP and SIP Security, Latest Attacks | Two experts in SIP security research and attack prevention discuss how attacks are made and how to prevent them. | 3/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cleanpbx Choices: Hosted vs On Premise | Helping make the decision between on-premise and hosted pbx. | 3/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOpenSIPS 2.0 with Adrian Georgescu, Bogdan Iancu, Flavio Goncalves | An introduction to OpenSIPS 2.0 new design and OpenSIPS Software Foundation. Our guests will be: Adrian Georgescu (CEO of AG Projects (http://www.ag-projects.com/) who make Blink (http://icanblink.com)) Bogdan Iancu (CEO of Voice System (http://www.voice-system.ro/) and founder of OpenSIPS project) Flavio Goncalves (CEO of V.OFFICE and author of "Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS 1.6 (http://www.packtpub.com/building-telephony-systems-with-opensips-1-6/book)" OpenSIPS, its evolution, the new design of 2.0, the effect of new design on the community, availability of more information, the foundation and open source aspect of OpenSIPS. IRC Links (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/irc.txt) | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSqueak, PHP, Perl and Python – Port Knocking | Tim Panton reports in via satellite from Nuie where they were installing an open mobile phone system. Voipathon (http://voipathon.org) plans world domination with a 24 hour live Internet conference. Randal L. Schwartz chats with us about language choices, perl, python, FORTH, PHP, Squeak Smalltalk. "Violent" arguments about port knocking and how to protect SSH by using less obvious ports, etc. | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanProject DiaStar from Dialogic | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ProjectDiaStar.org_.jpg)Antony Martin and Jeff Dworkin will introduce the latest features available from ProjectDiaStar (http://www.projectdiastar.org). They will also discuss the business benefits of implementing Interactive Voice/Video Response Systems and Video-Enabled Contact Centers. Project DiaStar represents the work of dedicated team of engineering and marketing professionals that have been tasked with making certain portions of the Dialogic product portfolio accessible to the open source community. This includes creating new open source projects, providing support and documentation for existing open source projects that utilize Dialogic components, working with other companies in the open source marketplace to get Dialogic products certified within their ecosystems, and promoting and sponsoring events and Dialogic partners that are focused on this growing space. IRC Links Feb 26, 2010 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/IRCFeb26.txt) | 2/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPre-conference buzz: Jabra and Morse Code | Karl Fife struts his Jabra stuff. The group talked about cordless headsets, wideband and performance of same. From the thread of the same name on the asterisk-users mailing list, why is the Morse code channel still included in Asterisk, is Morse ever used? List to this riveting discussion to learn about the rivets that hold these things together. | 2/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTropo Cloud-Based Communications Platform | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/voxeologo.jpg)We welcome Jason Goecke and Dan York back to talk about some of their newest services. When "JSON" talks, ideas become reality! Check out the new Tropo API | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHD Comm Summit and Google Buzz | Various topics: Randall Schwartz and Floss Weekly (http://twit.tv/floss) vs Wikipedia A Visit to HD Communication Summit near Paris (http://hdcomms.com) (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/spellbound1.jpg) Google buzz and the privacy concerns surrounding it General geolocation revelation issues and how location works via wifi Comparing Amazon, Apple customer service and resolution of issues with Orange. All are very large companies, yet the first two manage to resolve most issues with 24 hours for me (Zeeek) whereas Orange didn't in six weeks of repeated phone calls. IRC Links [5:49pm] ChanServ: [#vuc] Welcome to the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) (http://vuc.me/irc). [5:50pm] steely_glint: Down side of Buzz - (NSFW F-bombs in the URL) (http://tinyurl.com/ycc3rmc (http://tinyurl.com/ycc3rmc)) [6:28pm] DFrankel: Conference Agenda: http://dev.hdcomms.com/event-schedule (http://dev.hdcomms.com/event-schedule) [6:32pm] steely_glint: NSFW Irate blog on buzz (http://tinyurl.com/ycc3rmc (http://tinyurl.com/ycc3rmc)) [6:37pm] RandalSchwartz: ... http://www.google.com/profiles/realmerlyn (http://www.google.com/profiles/realmerlyn) [6:49pm] kfife: http://www.pddnet.com/news-miniature-six_axis-robot-at-md-and-m-show-021210/ (http://www.pddnet.com/news-miniature-six_axis-robot-at-md-and-m-show-021210/) [7:24pm] Zeeek: http://www.3cx.com/phone-system/downloadlinks.html (http://www.3cx.com/phone-system/downloadlinks.html) [7:24pm] ricko73: http://www.vertical.com/products-televantage.html (http://www.vertical.com/products-televantage.html ) <--here's the other one [8:13pm] Zeeek: dan_lane: http://www.8774e4voip.com/panasonic_kx_tgp550t04_p/panasonic-kx-tgp550.htm (http://www.8774e4voip.com/panasonic_kx_tgp550t04_p/panasonic-kx-tgp550.htm) [8:15pm] maximCH: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/millions-of-buzz-users-and-improvements.html (http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/millions-of-buzz-users-and-improvements.html) [9:18pm] Zeeek: you should beconme a fan of VUC page: http://facebook.com/voipusers (http://facebook.com/voipusers) [9:55pm] CompleteTech: using http://visualroute.visualware.com (http://visualroute.visualware.com)/ seems ok [9:55pm] maximCH: France Telecom http://www.google.com/finance?q=EPA:FTE (http://www.google.com/finance?q=EPA:FTE) | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBeginning OpenVPN 2.0.9 | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/OpenVPN_2.0.9.png) The VPN topic will be of interest to all on the VUC so we're inviting Markus Feilner (https://www.packtpub.com/author_view_profile/id/76), author of "Beginning OpenVPN 2.0.9". Two copies of this book to give away today The following is from the preface of the book, co-authored by Norbert Graf (https://www.packtpub.com/author_view_profile/id/432): OpenVPN is an outstanding piece of software that was invented by James Yonan in the year 2001 and has steadily been improved since then. No other VPN solution offers a comparable mixture of enterprise-level security, usability, and feature richness. We have been working with OpenVPN for many years now, and it has always proven to be the best solution. This book is intended to introduce OpenVPN software to network specialists and VPN newbies alike. OpenVPN works where most other solutions fail and exists on almost any platform. Thus, it is an ideal solution for problematic setups and an easy approach for the inexperienced. On the other hand, the complexity of classic VPN solutions, especially IPsec, gives the impression that VPN technology in general is difficult and a topic only for very experienced (network and security) specialists. OpenVPN proves that this can be different, and this book aims to document that. I want to provide both a concise description of OpenVPN's features and an easy-to-understand introduction for the inexperienced. Though there may be many other possible ways to success in the scenarios described, the ones presented have been tested in many setups and have been selected for simplicity reasons. LINKS Next scheduled session (http://vuc.me/next) in your time zone Freenode.net IRC web client (http://vuc.me/irc), just add your pseudo and you're on #vuc VUC Google Group (http://vuc.me/mailinglist) VUC linkedin group (http://vuc.me/linkedin) (business contacts) Links mentioned in IRC Feb 5, 2010 [6:19pm] NerdUno: Here are some good OpenVPN tutorials: http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4856 [6:21pm] steely_glint: ecrist - http://www.phonefromhere.com/vuc/ [6:31pm] ecrist: Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea: http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html [6:32pm] kfife: http://www.packtpub.com/openvpn/book [6:34pm] Zeeek: http://www.linux4afrika.de/vision.html?L=0 [6:40pm] mfeilner: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2009/99/SAFE-CALL [6:41pm] mfeilner: http://www.feilner-it.net [6:42pm] mfeilner: http://www.openvpn.eu [6:43pm] mfeilner: http://www.openvpn.eu/index.php?id=23&L=0 [7:39pm] Skibum: BTW more info on Bria 3 is available at: http://www.counterpath.com/bria.html [8:00pm] mjgraves: http://gigaset.com/chagall/provider/general/chagall223_02.bin [8:21pm] JimCifarelli: http://www.embeddedarm.com/about/resource.php?item=408 Part 2: Bria Tests and more | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCounterpath and Digium Do It! | (http://voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Counterpath.jpg) We will be welcoming Bria Product Director Todd Carothers to the VUC in a second segment on Jan 29th at 1PM EST. From this press release (http://bit.ly/729ZP2): CounterPath (http://www.counterpath.com/) and Digium (http://digium.com)(R) Launch Asterisk-Based Multimedia Softphone Based on open standards, Bria for Asterisk combines Digium's Asterisk, AsteriskNOW and Asterisk Business Edition telephony platforms with Bria Professional, CounterPath's enterprise-class, multimedia softphone. Bria for Asterisk gives users advanced telephony features, yet can be quickly set up and configured with any Asterisk deployment. The VUC is officially testing Bria on Windows and OS X and we hope provide valuable feedback to Counterpath during this launch. Yet another group of geeks discuss the iPad | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPlantronics | (http://voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Plantronics.jpg) Amy Huson, Director of Marketing at Plantronics, focuses on emerging trends in PC audio for the enterprise. She has over 20 years experience in sales and marketing for audio, video and telecommunications products, software and services. She was the co-founder of an audio software start up acquired by Plantronics and had previously worked in the professional audio division of Harman International, holder of over 50 brands of professional and consumer audio equipment. Great call! | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAstlinux | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/astlinuxlogo.png) AstLinux (http://www.astlinux.org) is a custom Linux distribution centered around Asterisk, the Open Source PBX. Although Asterisk remains the core focus, other VoIP applications such as OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH are also available. AstLinux has many features that make it ideal for embedded and commerical Asterisk based solutions. On the call Friday we will discuss the newly released 0.7.0 version of AstLinux and the number of improvements over the 0.6 series of releases. 0.7.0 will be available with either Asterisk 1.4.29 or 1.6.21 (two separate download images). | 1/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHacking VoIP: Himanshu Dwivedi | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/hackingv.gif)Himanshu Dwivedi (http://isecpartners.com), author of Hacking VoIP (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271633), joins us. In addition to attacks on network availability and authentication, administrators must contend with eavesdropping, audio injection, Caller ID spoofing, VoIP phishing, and other unique exploits. All of these security holes can result in the leakage of information and in unreliable phone calls. Hacking VoIP reviews the many possible VoIP attacks, and discusses the best defenses against them for both enterprise and home VoIP solutions. Author Himanshu Dwivedi introduces popular security assessment tools, describes the inherent vulnerabilities of common hardware and software packages, and provides the first ever VoIP security audit program. The book covers common enterprise VoIP protocols such as SIP and RTP as well as unique protocols like H.323 and IAX. No Starch Press (http://nostarch.com), publishers of Hacking VoIP, have generously given us two copies to give away to participants of the VUC. Some of the tools mentioned in the book are on this page (https://www.isecpartners.com/tools.html). | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNexus, Dell Touch book and ZipDX Transcription | Ward Mundy's Nexus experience and much, much more in the second hour of VUC from Jan 15, 2010. Congrats to Maxim and Karl for winning copies of the book Hacking VoIP. I'm looking forward to Dan York's new book about this subject as well, and hope he'll join us when it comes out. | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJan 8th: iNum with Voxbone’s Tim Behrsin | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/inum-192x120.png)Tim Behrsin heads up the iNum division at Voxbone. iNum (which stands for ‘international number’) launched in 2008 and has been busy building interconnect agreements and signing service providers over the last year. More information about iNum can be found in their blog (http://thereallymobileproject.com/2009/12/inum-one-global-phone-number/). | 1/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPast Present and Future of VoIP | Session 1: Andy Abramson (VoIP Watch (http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/)), Tim Panton (PhoneFromHere.com (http://www.phonefromhere.com)), Michael Graves (Graves on SoHo VoIP (http://www.mgraves.org/voip/)), David Frankel (ZipDX.com (http://www.zipdx.com)), Ward Mundy (Nerd Vittles (http://nerdvittles.com/)), Dave Michels (PinDropSoup.com (http://www.pindropsoup.com/)), Randal Schwartz (http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/) , Dave Chan and others discuss the year 2009 and VoIP and the usual digressions. At the end of session one you can hear the New Years Greetings from listeners and participants. Session 2: | 12/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNew Years Greetings for 2010 | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/vuc300-2-300x300.jpg) Congrats to Alex Robar, winner of the Polycom IP 335 from e4Strategies We'll be live on Jan 1, 2010 and you'll hear the greetings sent to us from all over the world. Thanks to everyone who participated from all over the world representing not one, but two species! | 12/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanKamailio, Open SER | Main event, Alex Balashov on Kamailio: Part Zero, pre-conference chat: IRC Transcript 2009-12-18 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/IRC20091218.txt) (http://lolcat.com/pics/halpchair.jpg) Guest Alex Balashov of Evariste Systems (http://evaristesys.com) leads us down the path to enlightenment and understanding of this complex topic, including Kamailio (http://www.kamailio.org/), the role of Asterisk, the role of SER and media gateways, etc. - Relationship of Kamailio to OpenSER project history. - What is Kamailio/OpenSER? - SIP proxy - SIP server (for certain purposes, such as registrar, presence user agent, etc.) - Common uses of Kamailio. - Service delivery platform engineering and Asterisk scaling using Kamailio. - Some discussion of sip-router.org initiative. "But, wait, that's not all!" - Free stuff! (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/PacktOpenSER.jpg)Two electronic copies of Building Telephony Systems with OpenSER (http://www.packtpub.com/building-telephony-systems-with-openser/mid/071209hkjje3?utm_source=voipusersconference.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=mdb_001760) by Flavio E. Goncalves have been offered to us by Packt Publishing (http:// www.PacktPub.com). What you will learn from this book * An introduction to SIP * An overview of SIP Proxies * Compiling and installing OpenSER * SIP Proxy default configuration * Implementing MySQL support for authentication * Installing the user portal (SerWEB) * Connecting to the PSTN using a gateway * Sending a call to voicemail * NAT traversal using mediaproxy * Billing with Freeradius and CDRTool * Troubleshooting tips and tools. | 12/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJabra Discussion | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/jabra.gif)Karl Fife Talks to Scott at Jabra about the GN94nn series headsets (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/PRO9400.gif) | 12/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAccelerated Asterisk: Howler Technologies | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hwlr-top-logo.png)Howler Technologies CTO Jay Fenton joins us from the road. Howler offers optimized codecs to change the transcoding capability your network. We will have a few licenses to give away today, so be there. Some talking points for today, from their site: * 425 Transcoded G.729 calls on a single PCI card. * Floating licenses for multi-server deployments. * Support Howler Technologies has offered to give away 3 packs of 10 g729 licenses in hopes of getting community feedback. Contact them by going to the web site at http://www.HowlerTech.com (http://www.howlertech.com). If you're interested in g729, be sure to listen to this informative discussion. IRC Transcript 2009-12-11 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/IRC20091211.txt) Next week: Kamailio and Open SER with Alex Balashov, Evariste Systems (http://www.voipusersconference.org/about/future-topics/) | 12/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBabyTel, VoIP on Facebook | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/babyTEL.gif)BabyTEL is a Montreal based VoIP service provider, providing both residential and commercial VoIP access throughout the United States and Canada. First launching in May 2004 as a Canada-only operator[1], BabyTEL is now one of Canada's leading VoIP service providers[2]. In February 2007, BabyTEL launched service in the U.S. market. One of BabyTEL's features is its single-line/multiple location capability, giving users the ability to route a single number to two or more phones that can be separated by a few feet or by thousands of miles. BabyTEL is in partnership with TalkSwitch, a small niche business service provider of both VoIP and analog small PBX type systems. BabyTEL is also a pioneer in social-networked VoIP having launched the an early integrated telephone service for the Facebook platform called Telephone. (source wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BabyTEL)) IRC TRanscript 2009-12-04 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/IRC-2009-12-04.txt) | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFreesentral | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/freesentrallogo.gif)FreeSentral is a full IP PBX consisting of a Linux Distribution, an IP PBX and a Web Graphical User Interface for easy configuration. Diana Cionoiu, of the yate project joins us to explain what Freesentral is all about. FreeSentral (http://www.freesentral.com/index.php/Documentation/Installing) is has three components : * The Yate telephony server program. * The Web server that provides the interface. * The database server that stores all information. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Evaristelogo.gif)Also starting this week, we hope to introduce a new feature, possibly monthly, with Alex Balashov of Evariste Systems (http://evaristesys.com/), a consultancy specialising in VoIP service delivery platform engineering, integration, and deployment for enterprises and service providers, including carriers (http://www.evaristesys.com/?block=svc_carrier) and ITSPs (http://www.evaristesys.com/?block=svc_itsp) (Internet Telephony Service Providers). Alex has participated in the past and we've been discussing a feature that would take VoIP FAQ and toss them around for better understanding. IRC Transcript 2009-11-27 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/IRC20091127.txt) | 11/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe UnixDawg on FusionPbx | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/fusionpbx1.png) Thanks to Digium (http://digium.com) andfor allocating more channels of Skype for Asterisk (http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/skypeforasterisk.php) to reach the ZipDX conference bridge and to John Todd for making this happen! We had a lot of live callers, including many on Skype. Unixdawg on FusionPbx (http://fusionpbx.com) | 11/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAllison Smith | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ali-webcam1.jpg)Allison is writing about what she does with her new Voicegal's Blog (http://voicegal.wordpress.com/). Don't forget to follow her on Twitter: @voicegal (http://twitter.com/voicegal). This Friday, Allison chatted with regulars Michael Graves and John Covici about procedures and equipment used to provide the quality work with fast turnaround that make her a renowned figure in the voice-over world. There was also some talk about Skype for Asterisk (http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/skypeforasterisk.php), which PhoneFromHere.com (http://phonefromhere.com) is using to help make it easier to get into the wideband conference bridge. My own experience on the iPod is that the audio is of excellent quality. I've listened on it to several concerts for long durations, it not only sounds good but seems pretty stable, considering that Skype alone is often known for dropped calls. Also discussed: Broadvoice releases codecs into Open Source (http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2009/11/royalty-free-is-the-new-fashion-in-codecs/) | 11/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVillage Telco Project with Steve Song | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mockup-225x300.jpg)Stephen Song of The Shuttleworth Foundation jopined us to discuss The Village Telco Project (http://www.villagetelco.org), an effort to use OSS VoIP hardware and software to supply network & voice services to rural parts of Africa. The project involves hardware designed by Australia's David Rowe (http://www.rowetel.com/ucasterisk/) and manufactured by in China by ATCOM. It runs an embedded Asterisk distribution. Village Telco (http://villagetelco.org) is an initiative to assemble/develop the cheapest, easiest to setup, easiest to manage, scalable, Open Source, standards-based, wireless local do-it-yourself telephone company toolkit in the world. The goal of the project is to render local telephony in developing countries to be so cheap as to be virtually free. Thanks to advances in Open Source telephony software and the dramatic decrease in the cost of wireless broadband technology, we think this is entirely possible. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/meshpotato.jpg) The project consists of three principle elements * Simplified Billing System for Selling Pay-as-you-go Voice Services This element will make a contribution to the excellent A2Billing (http://www.asterisk2billing.org) Open Source project. Work on this project will result in a guided installation wizard for people with limited technical skills and a simple administration and billing interface for business managers. * Mesh Potato – A low-cost wireless mesh device you can plug a regular phone into This is described in the Mesh Potato project page (http://www.villagetelco.org/mesh-potato/). In a nutshell, the Village Telco needs an affordable device to connect customers to the meshed WiFi network. The Mesh Potato will dramatically reduce the cost of a Village Telco startup * Easy-to-use GIS-based Mesh Management Interface We are partnering with the CSIR (http://www.meraka.org.za/)-supported Afrimesh (http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh/)project which is developing a fast, easy-to-use, low-overhead management dashboard which enables mesh network operators to create and sustain a resilient communications network with a minimum of fuss. Part 1: Part 2: IRC Transcript 20091106 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/irc20091106.txt) | 11/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBrian Reynolds on the iBook Voice System | Tim Panton's demo on Wave showed the iBook Voice System. (Yes we're all sick of hearing about wave but the demo was interesting and may be the wave of the future). And the wave for this session is here (https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BSal4q8HcA.1). Brian Reynolds visits to explain his part in the demo. irc transcript 2009-10-30.txt (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/irc20091030.txt) Note: this was a record, 7 hours conference with discussions on many topics, including phones, virtual machines, etc. Will be posting other material soon. Sound bytes, short sessions in stereo: Karl's Jitter Buffer and a million packets to ZipDX OnSIP.com new user portal VUC current theme song: "Log Jam" (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/cloud.voipusersconference.org/LogJam.mp3|) | 10/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMore on Astricon and the Great Wave Experiment | like the title says... Trying to link things together with Google Wave. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/vucwave.png) Astricon: a few critical comments, a few funny stories... IRC Transcript 2009-10-23 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/20091023.txt) Tim Panton's ScreenCast of his Astricon 2009 presentation (http://blip.tv/file/2762980). This used technologies from: phonefromhere.com (http://phonefromhere.com), wave.google.com (http://wave.google.com), voice.ibook.com (http://voice.ibook.com), digium.com (http://digium.com) and skype.com. (http://skype.com) | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAstricon Wrap Up | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/astricon-fall-2010.jpg) Heroic efforts were required to produce this live call and edit it, and it will take patience and strong will to listen to it because of the noise and levels. We post it here because a lot of interesting things were said by participants (in random order) Tim Panton, Darrick Hartmann, Barry Kline, Philippe Lindheimer, Fred Posner, Zoa, David Duffet and whoever else wandered in. All in all, Digium did a great job in organizing the event with compelling content, fun, good food, and a space where people with our shared interests can gather and basically bother Allison Smith for three whole days. IRC TRanscript 20091016 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/20091016.txt) | 10/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVestec’s Kashif Kahn at Astricon | You meet a lot of great people at Astricon, and you learn a lot of interesting new things. One thing that may be of interest to you is the announcement Kashif Kahn, Vestec VP of Biz Dev, made in his presentation on speech recognition here: You can get a full license for one port of their speech recognition for $25. Kashif says specifically that they came up with this offer as a way of reacting to the feedback from our session with Digium/Vestec a few weeks ago (http://www.voipusersconference.org/2009/10/affordable-speech-recognition/). Good news for everyone, you can now afford to evalute the product with an unlimited license, including the API, for the price of a week's worth of coffees at $YourExpensiveCoffeeChain. | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFreepbx 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions with Alex Robar | (https://www.packtpub.com/images/100x123/1847194729.png)Alex Robar has worked in the IT industry for seven years. He is currently the Technical Services Manager for a Canadian Managed Services Provider. He has worked with open source telephony solutions for the past four years, and has collaborated on the development and growth of an international Asterisk-based VoIP peering network. Digium AA50 VoIP Appliance to grab at Astricon Phoenix (http://astricon.net) next week! | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAffordable Speech Recognition | Vestec Speech Engine for Asterisk® Digium has just rolled out a new Asterisk speech recognition tool-kit from a partner company called Vestec. At $99/channel, speech recognition is down to a price point where virtually any application can be speech-enabled. Also, Fax for Asterisk, Skype for Asterisk, Astricon, mobile phones and more on part two. Part 1: Part 2: Transcript IRC-20091002 | 10/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAsterisk 1.4 Professionals Guide | Asterisk 1.4 the Professionals Guide by Colman Carpenter, David Duffett, Nik Middleton, and Ian Plain (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/asterisk14professionalsguide.gif)One or more of the authors of this recent book on Asterisk will be with us to talk about a variety of related topics. This book represents the wisdom and thoughts of front line consultants. The knowledge they impart will prove informative, thought provoking and be of lasting interest to Asterisk professionals. I've had a chance to look through the book, and I'd recommend that anyone who is serious about Asterisk read it as it addresses a lot of areas that have rarely been discussed in a single book. Considerations about connecting to cellular networks, reflections on knowledge needed for running your own consulting business are just a couple of examples a new material I've not seen elsewhere. Grabbing the list from one of the sites about the book, here are some examples of what's to be found there: What you will learn from this book? * Master advanced dial plans, call routing considerations, and speech technologies. * Learn all about AGI, AMI, ENUM, and DUNDi. * Discover how to build an enterprise-scale Asterisk-based solution for mission-critical applications. * Discover the DAHDI framework, and the way it replaces Zaptel. * Understand how to apply localization and customization techniques in different territories. * Learn how to interface Asterisk with analog and digital telephony systems, as well as wireless technologies. * Appreciate what you need to do as an Asterisk professional when assessing customer needs, Quality of Service, pitching for business, and customer support. * Understand best practices through example code and detailed commentary. Great call, thanks to David and Nik! IRC Transcript VUC 2009-09-25 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/vuc2009-09-25.txt) The boys do shine in these quizzes! Note: From http://voip-info.org (http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+Dial) "m: Provide Music on Hold to the calling party until the called channel answers. This is mutually exclusive with option 'r', obviously. Use m(class) to specify a class for the music on hold. " Question: Dial()'m' argument [7:18pm]Ottone: music on hold for dialtone [7:18pm] kfife: music on hold class [7:18pm] ricko73: moh? [7:18pm] ssokol: music class [7:18pm] Ottone: it is for "ringing tone" [7:19pm] J-MN: shouldn't it be the looser gets the book, the winner doesn't need it but the looser does... Port for AMI? [7:23pm] _3vain: 5038 [7:23pm] ssokol: 5038 [7:23pm] ricko73: 42 <- heh [7:23pm] Ottone: 5038 | 9/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPart 2: HD Voice | Thanks to Karl Fife for preparing this! Lineup : * :00 Mobile HD Voice in Moldova * :02 Fiber to the curb * :24 Skypecasting * :28 HDComms * :37 Nobody cares about VoIP But why they should * :47 Graves on SL78H :50 Aastra Hi-Q Haiku * :53 OpenPeak :54 Snom 870 * :56 Phone Hardware musings | 9/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAndy Abramson of VoIP Watch | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/andy.jpg)Andy Abramson (http://andyabramson.blogs.com/) stopped by to talk about subjects in the news. We discussed "Freemium" models like Sipgate and Google Voice, the future of applications like Facebook chat, Video and HD conference services, speech recognition, mobile VoIP and the state of Internet connectivity in the US and elsewhere. GREAT NEWS: Andy is starting a VoIP Watch Podcast (http://tr.im/voipwatch). VUC IRC Transcript Sept 18, 2009 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/20090918.txt) | 9/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWait there’s more! Part three | Part three of the Friday September 11th, 2009 session. mp3 recording download (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-267249.mp3) | 9/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAswath Rao: “Trapezoidal VoIP is Evil” | Part 1mp3 Recording Link (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-263997.mp3) - Part 2 mp3 Recording Link (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-267246.mp3) IRC Transcript 2009-09-11 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/20090911.txt) (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/460052284-aswath-rao-color.jpg)(http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/aswath21.jpg) Official bio: "Aswath Rao has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications field, having worked for leading R&D firms. He has worked on ISDN, Frame Relay, BISDN, wireless and satellite communications. For the past 10 years he has been working on VoIP related issues. Long before intelligence at the end became acceptable, he advocated “functional terminals” in ISDN. His proposal for Inter Connect Function has been incorporated in the TIPHON architecture and currently it is known as Session Border Controller. He has developed ways to offer PSTN subscribers many of the features available to VoIP subscribers." Take a look at the Slides for today's discussion (http://www.slideshare.net/aswath/trapezoidal-voip-is-evil) Articles of interest: On HD Voice (http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000373.html#more), on the supposed Death of VoIP (http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000371.html#more) The En Thinnai project (http://www.enthinnai.com/) and Innovative Communication Devices (http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/006888.html) S675IP and an A58H accessory handset giveaway (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/a58h_bla_bund_tr_1_220x279.jpg) Thanks to Gigaset of North America, we had a new Gigaset wideband-capable SIP/DECT phone to give to a participant. MaximCH was able to identify the singer as Patty Loveless, the song "Waitin' for the Phone to Ring" and the album. Congrats, Maxim! We will have another giveaway within a month. | 9/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSkype for Asterisk, Astricon, SIP for Skype | Direct mp3 link (part 1) (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-256280.mp3) - Direct mp3 link (part 2) (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-264537.mp3) Part 1 Part 2 Lots of talk about Skype for Asterisk, with Tim Panton who has been on the SfA beta for over a year and who will be speaking at Astricon (http://www.astricon.net) in October. IRC Transcript 2009-09-04 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/20090804.txt) | 9/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThanks for all the fish! | California was great, but reality is auto-dialing me. The next VUC that I (randulo/zeeek) will be hosting is at this time (http://permatime.com/America/New_York/2009-09-04/12:00/). At this moment I'm uncertain as to whether there will be one in my absence, but stay tuned for news on that within 24 hours. There is going to be at least one Gigaset giveaway in September so watch this space! | 8/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFree DIDs, how do they work? | MP3 Link (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-256279.mp3) Session Recording: The VUC mailing list is a Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/VOIP-Users-Conference) IRC: #voip-users-conference on Freenode.net irc Transcript 2009-08-21 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/irc20090821.txt) From the discussion on the Asterisk biz list, a quick look at how these things are financed, how to hook them up and whatever else comes up. IPKall.com (http://www.ipkall.com) Sipgate.com (http://www.sipgate.com) (also .co.uk, .de) Google Voice (http://google.com/voice) | 8/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDoug Mohney and HD | MP3 Link (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-256278.mp3) IRC Transcript 2009-08-14 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/vuc20090814.txt) We referred a lot to the HD Connect Now (http://hdconnectnow.org/) site. This week, Doug Mohney (http://dougonipcomm.wordpress.com/about/) joins us. Doug has clocked more than 20 years of experience in the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) arena between working in real world businesses and writing about them. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/dougmohney.jpg) His resume includes Editor in Chief, Telecom and Digital Media Group for a B2B emedia company and Editor-in-Chief at VON Magazine (the pulvermedia incarnation, not the Virgo one). Publications he’s written for over the past dozen years include Boardwatch, Mobile Radio Technology/Urgent Communications (http://urgentcomm.com/), The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/), and VON Magazine, covering telecommunications, the Internet, and online video. His hands-on/real-world experience includes stints at two high-tech start-up companies, one that went public (DIGEX) and one that didn’t (SkyCache/Cidera). Joining DIGEX as employee number 10 in 1993, Doug had a ring-side seat to the trials and tribulations of a fast growing, VC-funded startup doing the boom growth years of the Internet. Some of Doug's articles (http://www.fiercevoip.com/author/doug). | 8/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRuben Olsen on Mobile VoIP, iPhone and other platforms | Part 1 : IRC transcript (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/20090807.txt) for links etc. Speaking of IRC, please get on #vuc to participate in the conference. If you aren't there to ask to be unmuted, I can't know you need to be heard! Part 2 : (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/rubenolsen.jpg) Some of the topics: What is a client, what is a dialer? - Symbian and iPhone platform differences. - Voice Quality issues - SIP Stacks in use (built in, own made) - Hand out / Hand in - Presence - Chat - Video support and a lot more. I did end up buying and using iPico SIP client on the iPod Touch G2 and works best of the three apps I have tried so far. See the post just below (http://www.voipusersconference.org/2009/08/sip-for-apple-iphone/) this one for details. | 8/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDave Nelsen on Talkshoe, SIP vs Analog | MP3 Link (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-249092.mp3) Part 1: (:http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-249092.mp3) (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/headshot_dave_webtn_rd.jpg) Dave Nelsen, founder and former CEO of Talkshoe to joined us for a long fireside chat. Dave has an extensive background in telecommunications and it was great to get his take on today's situation. He also spoke extensively about Talkshoe's technologies used in PSTN, VoIP and on the web. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/skypelogo.png) Download Part 2 MP3 Is Skype about to become history? Dean Collins (http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/) began a discussion about news he got from an Australian paper about the Ebay/Skype rumors (http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/skype-to-shut-down.html). It seems when they bought Skype, Ebay The Devil didn't purchase the core technology? The Asterisk users list has an interesting thread (http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2009-July/235473.html) where religious convictions opinions about POTS vs SIP (SIP vs Analog lines) are being flung right and left as usual. Since it's a lazy summer, at least speaking for myself on vacation, we can kick this around among us as well. Also, Maxim in Zurich mentioned an interesting site on Twitter: Gizmo Voice (http://gizmovoice.com) where youcan see the tricks needed to get a free Google Voice (http://google.com/voice) phone number and connect it to your Gizmo (http://gizmo5.com) number to make and receive calls to/from USA numbers. You can also use the Gizmo Call (http://gizmocall.com) site to make calls with your Gizmo account using a Flash client on that web page. | 7/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVoxeo, Adhearsion, Tropo | MP3 (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-244093.mp3) (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/voxeo.jpg) Download link 2009-07-24 (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-244093.mp3) (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/voxeo.jpg) (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/adhearsionlogo.jpg) Voxeo Labs' Jason Goecke, Jay Phillips and Dan York join us to talk about the news (http://www.voxeo.com/about/press_reader.jsp?date=072309_tropo_open_source.jsp): Ok, the word is out, Voxeo Labs (http://labs.voxeo.com/) is born! Voxeo, provider of Unified Communications and Self-Service platforms, announced that the Tropo.com cloud telephony service source code will be made available to developers for free under open-source licenses. The new Tropo source release demonstrates that cloud computing vendors can subscribe fully to open-source ideals, and avoid the proprietary lock-in typically found in cloud services. Tropo is the first of several new open-source projects from Voxeo Labs, the innovation and open-source focused organization announced by Voxeo yesterday at OSCON. From TheNextWeb.com : Don’t accept vendor lock ins! (http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/23/voxeo-open-sources-tropo-cloud-based-telephony-service/) More links and Tropo info (http://labs.voxeo.com/tropo/). IRC Transcript 2009 07 24 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/20090724.txt) | 7/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDialplan tips, Freenum.org | MP3 Link (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-244090.mp3) We spoke to Ruben Olsen (http://twitter.com/RubenOlsen) who will be a guest on August 7th to talk about mobile VoIP clients. Freenum.org was an extended discussion. Lots of other stuff. Some interesting talk with Leif Madsen about general dialplan tricks (recipes). First installment: How to read a file (http://leifmadsen.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/howto-read-a-value-from-a-file-and-say-it-back/) in the 1.6 dialplan. | 7/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaset IP phones with Anthony Stankus | mp3 Link (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-235829.mp3) (http://z.hubpages.com/u/315419_f260.jpg) Thanks to Tony for arranging the A580IP giveaway contest (http://www.voipusersconference.org/2009/07/gigaset-a580ip-giveaway-on-voip-users-conference/). Congrats to regular Karl F for winning the phone! Michael Graves (http://www.mgraves.org/voip/) and I have both talked about how we think these phones are a revolution for the SoHo market. How will they be supported? Who will set them up, provision them, get them working with different pbx and SIP providers? Michael's most recent blog post talks about the Gigaset DE380IPR (http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2009/07/gigaset-de380ipr-a-cheaper-truly-wideband-capable-desk-phone/), the inexpensive wideband capable desk phone. Our guest today is Anthony Stankus (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tony-stankus/0/710/98b), Gigaset Communications product Manager for North America. The Gigaset IP DECT products which include: A580IP system (base and handset), S675IP system (base and handset), A58H accessory handset, S67H accessory handset, SL78H high-end accessory handset. Tony will be with us on the ZipDX wideband conference bridge to answer these questions and any others you can collect. More on these phones: Latest mgraves.org on the new Gigaset phones (http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2009/07/gigaset-de380ipr-a-cheaper-truly-wideband-capable-desk-phone/) Graves On SOHO VoIP » Newsworthy: Siemens Gigaset S675IP (http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2009/04/newsworthy-siemens-gigaset-s675ip/) Alan Lord's The Open Sourcerer.com (http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?s=siemens) My own modest consumer review (http://hubpages.com/hub/Siemens-new-DECTVoIP-Phone-Rocks) Siemens Phones - voip-info.org (http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Siemens+Phones) Steven Perich » Blog Archive » Siemens Gigaset IP phones (http://www.stevenperich.com/2009/04/siemens-gigaset-ip-phones/) Siemens Gigaset S685IP VoIP phone (Personal Computer World) (http://www.voipinreview.com/blog/03/siemens-gigaset-s685ip-voip-phone-personal-computer-world/) DECT phones arrive (http://richardappleby.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/dect-phones-arrive/) IRC Transcript (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/20090710.txt) 2009-07-10 | 7/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 3rd: Twilio, Talk to the Cloud | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/twilio.jpg) Thanks to Dave Michels (http://www.pindropsoup.com/), who met him at Glue Con, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson and CTO Evan Cooke join us to discuss their "cloud telephony" offering. You can prepare by getting a free account (http://www.twilio.com/try-twilio) and checking out what can be done with the platform. Note that speech to text (http://www.twilio.com/docs/demos/voicemailtranscribe) (transcription) is a part of it. "Twilio provides an in-cloud API for voice communications that leverages existing web development skills, resources and infrastructure." Twilio are giving away a free netbook book each week to developers that build cool voice applications: http://www.twilio.com/contest/netbook/ (http://www.twilio.com/contest/netbook/) Jeff Lawson will be speaking at OSCon July 20-24th (http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009) later this month about open source, telephony, and Twilio. | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMatt Florell VICIDIAL | Spend an hour and a half with Matt Florell talking about VICIDIAL (http://www.vicidial.com), the Open Source Call Center software, and plenty of other subjects including CentOS, Ubuntu, resource issues, hardware for robust asterisk systems. About VICIDIAL: VICIDIAL is an enterprise class, open source, call center suite in use by many large call centers around the world. VICIDIAL has a full featured predictive dialer. It can also function as an ACD for inbound calls, or closer calls coming from VICIDIAL outbound fronters. It is capable of inbound, outbound, and blended call handling. VICIDIAL even allows you to have agents logged in from remote locations. IRC Transcript 2009-06-26 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/2009-06-26.txt) | 6/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNir Simionovich on EC2 | There is a full text transcript of this hour below. (http://www.voipusersconference.org/2009/06/nir-simionovich-ec2/#more-665) Part 1: (Talkshoe) Part 2 (ZipDX recording served from CloudFront): | 6/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSkype for Asterisk to ZipDX | Talkshoe: ZipDX/CloudFront: Today we talked about the EXPERIMENTAL link using Skype for Asterisk (SfA for short). The more we use SfA, the more the Skype people will see that we the Asterisk community are serious about it. The whole thing began as a phone call made by Tim P. to my Skype number. I almost never have Skype on but the number is forwarded via Gizmo5 to my phone, so when I heard it ring and saw the Skype ID, I realized the call was going through a bunch of servers and trancodings. The quality of that call was striking: total silence when no one was speaking (the equivalent of very black on an LCD display) and very good quality audio with a comfortably small latency. The call lasted at least 30 minutes, too and remaind of good quality. So, we had at least 6 people called in via Skype from the USA, Israel, Barbados and the UK. The quality varied with the number of channels in use and time, but it was pretty good by and large.In fact, the quality when there was no packets dropped sounded good, even though it was g711. IRC Text Transcript 2009-06-12 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/irc-20090612.txt) | 6/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSipgate enters the USA Market | Very good call with Thilo Salmon from Sipgate (http://www.sipgate.com). We've been a member for at least 5 years and I was really excited when I got a response on Twitter from none other the the co-founder and CEO of the company. Transcript IRC 2009-06-05 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/irc-20090605.txt) Open a free Sipgate account and check out what they offer so your questions can be answered and your opinions aired! (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sipgate.gif) Above is the Sipgate user panel. Sipgate offers 200 free minutes to test their system and a free USA phone number. Free calling between Sipgate extensions, of course but you can put several phones on a single account. I did just that and then called myself (from Europe to Europe) and found the lag to be as expected but what a great solution for newbies and people who want to experiment. Sipgate does voicemail as expected but also, Google Voice-like ringing of multiple extensions. Try it out if you dare. | 6/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJim Van Meggelen on Building a solid system without the complexity | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/jimvanm.jpg) Part 1: Part 2: Jim Van Meggelen (http://www.coretel.ca/jb/) is one of the author's of O'Reilly's Asterisk: The Future of Telephony (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510480/), and an old school PBX guy. Jim is probably a bit of a masochist, which would explain why he got into the telecom business in the first place, and why he now loves Asterisk. Jim is pretty friendly, kinda like a puppy that gets your shoes dirty. His enthusiasm is infectious, but also a little bit frightening if you stand too close. Jim is a partner in Core Telecom Innovations (http://www.coretel.ca/), a recognized leader in the Asterisk Telephony Revolution, and iConverged Inc (http://www.iconverged.com/). He lives in Toronto with his wife and three kids, and loves writing, photography, speaking, improv, choral singing, and old shoes. Jim will talk about building an embedded-like system using x86 hardware (Intel Atom Mini-ITX) and a stock Linux distro for well under $1000, including FX cards with hardware echo cancellation -- this is a great way to build a system that's almost like an embedded system, but with much less software complexity or incompatibility. IRC TRanscript 2009-05-29 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/irc2009-05-29.txt) | 5/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanYATE: Yet Another Telephony Engine | Part 2: Yate and g722 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/diana.jpg) YATE (http://yate.null.ro) with Diana Cionoiu, who always shoots from the hip. Yate is an open source software developed with reliability, scalability and flexibility in mind for tomorrow's telephony networks. I guarantee an interesting call this week, but then we always have interesting calls, right? Otherwise, why would they last up to four hours like today's call?Here is a link to Diana's presentation at Asterisk Tag 2008 (http://www.asterisk-tag.org/wiki/Programm_26.05.2008_(English_Track)#11:15_-_12:00_Uhr:_Diana_Cionoiu_.28Yate.29). She was also at AMOOCON 2009, here's the page for her presentation (http://amoocon.de/talks/32). (Almost all the presentations are now available on the AMOOCON site. Nice work, Stefan!) Acting upon the suggestion of our group, here is the IRC transcript of the call which again lasted over 4 hours. IRC Transcript 2009-05-22 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2009-05-22.txt) Part 2: Yate and g722 (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-227343.mp3) | 5/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAskozia PBX with Michael Iedema | Askozia PBX (http://askozia.com) is an embedded PBX solution which eases system upgrades, backups and provisioning. Currently running under FreeBSD, they are in the process of porting it to linux, which is also worthy of discussion. (File under trials and tribulations!) I met Michael at AMOOCON and invited him to join us after he told me a funny story: someone had sent him to a VUC session recording that had a laugh track sounding after a mention of Askozia (or was it FreeBSD?). Anyway, I do recall that the laughs were for our friend Rich, not Askozia. We would never make fun of an Asterisk-based project in that way. Except if Rich is behind it :-). Just kidding, Rich! Watch the AMOOCON video of Michael's presentation (http://www.amoocon.de/talks/22) is available here thanks to Stefan Wintermeyer (http://www.anooma.de)'s quick work. I apologize for mis-pronouncing Michael's name throughout the discussion, it's pronounced "eeee-demah"-, not "Eyedemah". Part 2: Part 1 MP3 DOWNLOAD LINK (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-219548.mp3) Part 2 MP3 DOWNLOAD LINK (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-224860.mp3) IRC Transcript 2009-05-15 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2009-05-15.txt) | 5/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAMOOCON Debriefing | A great time was had by all, John Todd and I hash over some of the highlights. Part two: Diana and Paul from YATE. MP3 DOWNLOAD PART 1 (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-219547.mp3) MP3 OWNLOAD PART 2 (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-222070.mp3) IRC TRanscript 2009-05-08 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2009-05-08.txt) | 5/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGeneral Discussion at AMOOCON | Although I managed to herd a great group of people into the speakers' lounge and record a wide-ranging discussion, the first part was lost due to a software glitch on the recorder. It seems that the low battery level shut things down and ditched the file. The part posted here is only the second hour (heh) but there are some interesting things to hear. Topics covered include codecs, video, Skype for Asterisk, teleconference robots, "robot Mark", presence, stereo codecs, and lots more. One side (Zoa, Diana Cionoiu etc) rags on the iPhone, the other side says "get used to it". MP3 DOWNLOAD LINK (http://voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/amoocondiscussion.mp3) | 5/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanInterview with Nir Simionovich | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/asterisk-image-243x300.jpg) I had the pleasure of meeting one of the more vibrant and outgoing characters (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNir_Simionovich&ei=j_8CSrP3Ls_MjAeyvL3rBw&usg=AFQjCNEJNfjKkFP8Diwmdgx7Q7qb5birAw&sig2=cN_IPmkxutrXieskRNSRPA) at the conference and recorded this interview about his latest PHP AGI book. I only wish I could have shared the stories, jokes and general mirth happening in the traditional German restaurant when Tim Panton, (http://babyis60.wordpress.com/) Jason Goeke (http://adhearsion.com/), Nir and I shared a meal. Nir's presentation at AMOOCON was about running Asterisk under EC2 and I hope to get him to talk about this some day as he has an actual large-scale case he deployed in this way rather than just a theoretical one. Nir's book, Asterisk Gateway Interface 1.4 and 1.6 Programming (http://www.packtpub.com/asterisk-gateway-interface-programming/book/mid/140509cq5fvb) is a great introduction to serious programming using the AGI and PHP. The book takes you through some good solid advice for truly professional programmers on how to do stable programming in the Asterisk AGI environment. This is the book you need if you are trying to do anything serious with Asterisk in PHP. | 5/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHome Automation and Control and VoIP | We talk about home automation and random asterisk and telephony news, including the possible final demise of Nufone. On the home automation front, it seems every product uses proprietary systems so little progress has been made with anything standard. We were lucky enough to rope in an expert on the subject so listen to what Tony has to say on the recording of Part 1. X10, ZigBee and many other systems are discussed by people with hands-on experience. http://delicious.com/voipusersconference (http://delicious.com/voipusersconference) for all the links discussed. A lot of names were mentioned so check the links. IRC Transcript 2009-05-01 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2009-05-01.txt) | 4/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDan Berninger on Wide Band “HD” Audio | (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/danberninger.jpg) Daniel Berninger (http://danielberninger.com) - Washington, DC based independent technolgy analyst. Expert in technical and regulatory aspects of Internet enabled disruptive communications. Active in VoIP since 1995. Daniel worked on the original assessment of VoIP at Bell Laboratories and led early gateway deployments at Verizon , HP, and NASA after joining VocalTec Communications. He won the 1999 VON Pioneer Award as co-founder of the VON Coalition and worked on the founding of ITXC , Vonage , and Free World Dialup . Daniel gets quoted frequently on regulatory, antitrust, and VoIP matters. Dan's last visit on September 14, 2007 is here (http://www.voipusersconference.org/2007/09/fwd-rebirth-their-facebook-app-astricon-looms/). Here are a few articles about wideband: Wideband Audio Codecs Gaining Steam, (http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2006/100906-tech-update-voip.html) Wideband Audio Boosts VoIP Quality (http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2006/100906-tech-update-voip.html) G.722 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.722), WideBand Audio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_Audio) Download: Part 1 (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-211606.mp3) Part 2 (http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-217581.mp3) IRC Transcript 2009-04-24 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2009-04-24.txt) | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDigium Support for Asterisk Open Source Edition | Randal Schwartz (FLOSS Weekly (http://twit.tv/floss)) chatted with us about paid support for Open Source software. Steve Sokol joined us to talk about what this means to the community and to small, medium and large busines installations. With Digium's support subscriptions for open source Asterisk, enterprise developers and systems administrators can call on the expertise of the company that created Asterisk. Digium's technical support team offers professional assistance with installation, configuration, and systems operation issues. Digium's blog (http://blogs.digium.com/2009/03/31/digium-launches-support-for-open-source-asterisk/) has a post about this, and that sends you to the product page (http://www.digium.com/en/supportcenter/asterisk.php). A lot more happened including discussion of Digium's new free FAX channel that replaces drop in solutions such as SpanDSP and the eternal questions about SfA (Skype for Asterisk). Note the name siptosis, unlike the similar word "halitosis" is pro-nounced "SIP 2 SIS". These calls are educational! IRC Transcript 2009-04-17 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2009-04-17.txt) | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMore on Google Voice, a winner for the e4strategies Polycom Contest | Part I: IRC Transcript 2009-04-10 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2009-04-10.txt) If you're into telephony whether for business or pleasure, you need to know more about the service Google finally rolled out (http://google.com/voice). I've been testing it for the past few weeks (along with Gizmo5 (http://www.gizmo5.com)) and I hope others will bring their input, too. The current version features groups, with separate vmail announcement messages for each group (and even for each person). It can screen calls, send you an email transcript, record calls, allow you to listen to incoming vmails, send an SMS alert, etc. Your incoming calls on your lifetime number can be routed to any number of phones, cells, Gizmo accounts and even... GTalk. Part II: Try the web click 2 call. Enter a name and your phone number: The name will be read to me if I'm listening in. Or, try to leave a message and let's see what the transcription looks like! We also talked about a call I was on where a deaf person spoke with several people by using sign language to an interpreter through his webcam and the interpreter skpoke the words to us on Talkshoe. Amazing! He was using viable.net (http://www.viable.net)which is apparently a free service. Check out the voipusersconference Delicious bookmarks page (http://delicious.com/voipusersconference) for more related to each session. | 4/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGizmo5 and OpenSky with Michael Robertson | IRC Transcript 2009-04-03 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2009-04-03.txt) I've been testing all the ways I can find to connect between phones and Skype. I happened to be testing OpenSky (http://gizmo5.com/opensky) when I saw some posts from Michael Robertson (http://michaelrobertson.com) on the asterisk-users mailing list. As I exchanged a few emails with Michael, I realized he had been a founder of Mp3.com and well as Gizmo5 (http://www.gizmo5.com). He was generous enough with his time to spend a full hour (on a cellphone!) answering questions and sharing thoughts about the various SIP to Skype solutions, including Digium's Skype for Asterisk, Gizmo's OpenSky and Skype's SIP for Skype which Michael calls vaporware. Post conference chat, aka "Cognac" The post conference has discussions about the expectation that all services should be free with David Frankel of ZipDX.com (http://www.zipdx.com) Randal Schwartz from FLOSS Weekly (http://twit.tv/FLOSS) and the regular gang. Due to some problems with Talkshoe, various audio sources are used so you can hear what different phones sound like. | 4/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSIP Hacking, Security, AMOOCON and AGI | (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/2551933784_3ab06caeae_m.jpg) Image by Thomas Hawk (http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035555243@N01/2551933784) via Flickr IRC Transcript 2009-03-27 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/2009-03-27.txt) SIP hacking has escalated and there was a wave of it in recent times. John Todd published a simple common sense set of rules (http://tr.im/sipsecurity)that are worth reading. One of the main risk areas is using user names and secrets that are too easy to guess (such as extension 200, username=2000,password=wakeme). More on SIP for Skype etc. That looks like it will be an ongiung discussion. See the session with Michael Robertson above. We briefly reviewed a new book called Asterisk Gateway Interface 1.4 and 1.6 Programming (http://www.packtpub.com/article/asterisk-gateway-interface-programming-table-of-contents). John Todd and /me have both been looking at it and we both think it looks good. Since the discussion, I've read more of it and I will talk more about it in a future session. Amazon link (beer money!) Asterisk Gateway Interface 1.4 and 1.6 Programming (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/184719446X?ie=UTF8&tag=resmo&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=184719446X)(http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=resmo&l=as2&o=1&a=184719446X) We also mentioned AMOOCON (http://www.amoocon.de) where we can meet up for those of you who will be in Europe or are already there. I will be presenting two papers, one on VoicePHP (http://voicephp.com/) and one on the VoIP community and various social networking tools. (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=79fb93d7-56f5-4631-b746-eb5e933efa85) | 3/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOpenBTS with David A. Burgess | IRC Transcript 2009-03-20 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/2009-03-20.txt) OpenBTS (http://ecommconf.com/blog/2009/02/david-burgess-on-openbts.html) is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones. It is the first free software implementation of the industry-standard GSM protocol stack. David and John Todd also discusssed the licensing issues for frequency use and possible costs of building an OpenBTS system. More here:Basics of OpenBTS (http://openbts.blogspot.com/) and Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS) | 3/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCounterpath and eyebeam with Jason Fichl | (http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0003/5406/35406v1-max-450x450.png) Image via CrunchBase (http://www.crunchbase.com) IRC Transcript 2009-02-20 (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/2009-02-20.txt) Jason Fischl (http://people.forbes.com/profile/jason-fischl/23609) from Counterpath (http://www.counterpath.net) joins us to talk about their SIP clients and more. (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=f5a0442c-71c9-4561-8362-b3ac91c4e3ce) | 2/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAllison Smith | Allison Smith (http://www.theivrvoice.com/), aka "the voice of asterisk" is always a fun guest to talk to but her contributions to the Asterisk community are ongoing. We talked among other things about her new site, The Asterisk Voice (http://asteriskvoice.com/). Membership on TheAsteriskVoice.com (http://theasteriskvoice.com) is growing steadily, and is proving to be the ultimate clearing house for Asterisk stock prompts. Take those stock prompts a step further, and enlist Allison's help in customizing and personalizing your company-specific messages. (http://www.theasteriskvoice.com/) | 2/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPolycom Applications with Mike Seto | (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/321436629_abd6b155e7_m.jpg) Image by dpiddy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/20275330@N00/321436629) via Flickr Michael Seto is vice president of market and business development for Polycom’s voice communications division. Seto brings with him more than 25 years of marketing and product management experience within the communications industry. As head of business development for Polycom (http://www.polycom.com/) voice products, he is responsible for identifying emerging markets and products, developing relationships and overseeing integration efforts with key IP telephony partners including IP PBX and softswitch vendors. Previously, Seto served as vice president of product management for the voice communications division at Polycom (http://www.polycom.com/). Seto also held key management positions at Brooktrout Technology, Lucent Technologies, Voysys Corp. Earlier in his career, Seto held senior marketing and product management positions in computer and data networking companies. Related articles by Zemanta Polycom launches the first business media phone (http://businessmedia.co.uk/2009/03/13/polycom-business-media-phone/) (businessmedia.co.uk) (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=1deceeaa-3eb4-4428-94f8-9ce5b6ec289a) | 2/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDesigining the Phone of the Future | Will fixed phones ever catch up with the iPhone? What services need to be put in the clients as opposed to the pbx? | 1/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGuest: Randal Schwartz on Open Source | (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/Derrick-schwartz.jpg/200px-Derrick-schwartz.jpg) Image via Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Derrick-schwartz.jpg) Randal is the well-known host of FLOSS weekly (http://twit.tv/FLOSS) and active in many areas of Open Source Software and various aspects of computing. We'll talk about all this with him and other callers. (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=97fdf482-30f2-4bdf-babc-9281398add64) | 1/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Telephony “Food Chain”, carriers, service providers, etc | We'll be talking about all the main actors in the Emmy-award winning VoIP production "Your Call is Impotent to Us" | 1/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVoicePHP – Better than VoiceXML? | (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3054/2945743355_20c5c45783_m.jpg)Image by VoIPman (http://www.flickr.com/photos/47502209@N00/2945743355) via Flickr We'll be talking to TringMe (http://tringme.com) about their new VoicePHP which allows applications to "talk". Also a call for papers from AMOOCON (http://www.amoocon.de) Related articles by Zemanta A closer look at VoicePHP (http://saunderslog.com/2009/01/07/a-closer-look-at-voicephp/) (saunderslog.com) TringMe Finds A Way To Make VoIP Calls from Microsoft Silverlight (http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/02/03/tringme-finds-a-way-to-make-voip-calls-from-microsoft-silverlight/) (techcrunchit.com) (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=88508ab0-e6ea-4ef5-83f3-f055fa7b1d28) | 1/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSkype for Asterisk with Steve Sokol | (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/279414177_02f779df60_m.jpg) Image by alexmuse (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93504305@N00/279414177) via Flickr Skype for Asterisk with Steve Sokol, Digium product manager. Also a general talk about life, the universe and everything such as the high points of VoIP in 2008. Related articles by Zemanta Digium Offers Subscription Support Plans for Asterisk (http://ostatic.com/blog/digium-offers-subscription-support-plans-for-asterisk) (ostatic.com) Skype for SIP == Skype for Asterisk DOA? (http://skypejournal.com/2009/03/skype-for-sip-skype-for-asterisk-doa.html) (skypejournal.com) Top 30 VoIP Leaders On Twitter (http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2009/03/top-30-voip-leaders-on-twitter.html) (lucafiligheddu.com) (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=d8d09582-548e-4c8f-84af-16b412194d69) | 12/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHD Voice with ZipDX.com | (http://zipdx.com) ZipDX is a wideband (g722) conference server. We talk about the possibilities. This turned into a long term thing. To join the VUC weekly calls in g722, call 200901@login.zipdx.com | 11/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSources of Asterisk Knowledge | How can asterisk users get up to speed? Let us count the ways. The books, chats, podcasts, mailing lists, forums and other resources available to make it easier for you to master Asterisk and VoIP. Foremost link: Voip-Info.org (http://voip-info.org) | 10/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCellphone SIP via wifi and 3G, Astricon last minute | It's down to the wire for Astricon, a few days. We talked to a few people who have experienced Nokia phones SIP stack. Other more general stuff, and the dCap certification process. | 9/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRecent Voip News & Commentary with Michael Graves | Recent Voip News & Commentary, Digium partners with FreePBX, SIP/DECT vs ATA+DECT for cordless phones, Karle Fife on the new Rhino failover BRI/PRI card, John Todd on "The Proxifier", Darrick Hartman announced Astlinux 0.6 expected next week, includes Asterisk GUI 2.0 Digital Opsys draw for Astricon 08 exhibitors pass Many thanks to Michael Graves (http://mgraves.org) for stepping in! | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSIP: Past, Present and Future | SIP, "Today's Hottest Protocol comes of age" says Ubiquity white paper. True? What more is there to say about SIP? We found plenty! | 7/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAsterisk Scaling with Clusters | J.R. Richardson joins us for an extended talk about using multiple instances of asterisk for scaling. Jeremy from Nufone also had some great input on virtualization. | 6/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAsterisk Large Installations with Mike Trest | After many requests, we finally have someone to talk on large scale implementation of VoIP systems with asterisk. Using a farm of Asterisk and Digium cards, tens of thousands of simultaneous calls can be made and Mike Trest (http://mike.trest.com/) has offered to take it all apart for us to look inside. | 5/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanClick 2 Call Apps and Widgets | TringMe.com (http://tringme.com) PhoneFromHere.com (http://phonefromhere.com) and 1ezphone.com to name a few. We discuss the technology, the point and the current state of the art. Some iPhone talk as well. | 5/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAsterisk 3rd Party Licensing | The purpose of this call is to discuss the community's feelings about an Asterisk 3rd party developed commercial software sales licensing platform. The plan is that some form of documented published schema be implemented that will allow for 3rd party software developers to sell their software applications using a common licensing model similar to the way G729 licenses are sold by Digium. | 5/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAsterisk and Fax | Part 1 Faxing with Asterisk Part 2 | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDruid and Voiceroute | Druid has matured quite a bit in the past 2 years. Since then, we have taken a focus on unified communications (UC) and open sourced our code with a more community based approach. Druid OSE (Open Source Edition) is now available for download at http://www.voiceroute.org (http://www.voiceroute.org) We believe in "Open Source Unified Communications" that is defined by a community of users and developers, and Asterisk is an important part of Druid OSE. (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=e9060224-f584-492a-ae0b-d68c6578c2f6) | 3/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMichael Graves Snom M3 Evaluation | Michael already published his notes on his blog (start here (http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2008/01/the-snom-m3s-are-in-the-house/)), but we were able to grill him a little more on his experiences. This is a very interesting device and may be the shape of things to come. | 3/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGuest: Aastra on SIP and SIP-DECT Phones | Well known for high-quality SIP phones this presentation will be an overview of their SIP phones and explanation of their new SIP-DECT enterprise scale cordless technology. | 2/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJunction Networks Onsip.com | (http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0002/1432/21432v1-max-450x450.png) Image via CrunchBase (http://www.crunchbase.com) Junction Networks (http://junctionnetworks.com) CEO Mick Oeth will present OnSIP (http://www.onsip.com), a "completely customizable sip network for hosted pbx, virtual pbx or any business communication need. OnSIP takes SIP to the next level, with free domain hosting, support for any SIP device, no user fees or seat licenses". (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=483c7e97-9be8-4e14-8426-f255c8ff3f06) | 1/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMark Spencer, Creator of Asterisk | (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/100344793_c2c766fbeb_m.jpg)Image by jimgris (http://www.flickr.com/photos/80887578@N00/100344793) via Flickr Does Mark need an introduction? I think not. He'll be live to answer questions and talk about what's going on with all things asterisk (which is a registered trademark of Digium) Related articles by Zemanta The future of open source (http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/24/52FE-open-source-future_1.html&a=2388719&rid=c8c5286e-4860-4f86-8a37-68e338449365&e=92f72164944c1d7acee45437e5cb8d68) (infoworld.com) Top 30 VoIP Leaders On Twitter (http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2009/03/top-30-voip-leaders-on-twitter.html) (lucafiligheddu.com) (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=c8c5286e-4860-4f86-8a37-68e338449365) | 1/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAsterisk Calling… Web API (curl, wget) and SMS | How to talk to any web application on the Internet. How to control asterisk via SMS | 10/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanENUM and e164 | Here's a chance to learn more about ENUM (native lookup function in asterisk), what it is, how it works and why you might care about it. It's free, so why not give it a try? | 9/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCaller ID, Providers | Callerid, a short report about Astricon and 1.6 news - more next week. IPKall, what it's about and where it's going. | 9/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFWD rebirth, their Facebook app, Astricon Looms | The buzz of Astricon is getting louder, it's almost here! Also, Dan Berninger tells us about the "rebirth" of FWD (Free World Dialup) and the new Facebook app. FWD brought a lot of people into the asterisk fold. RusselB talks about Astricon. DaemonSwitch for FreeBSD. | 9/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVoicepulse + Trixbox | We talk to the Voicepulse co-founders live about their service offers to the asterisk community. Also, more Trixbox, discount coupons, etc. | 8/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAsterisk 1.4, CentOS 5 | We expect Kerry and Andrew from Fonality today on the conference with new about the new beta. Also, a long discussion about QOS | 7/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNew Asterisk Book by Stefan Wintermeyer | Stefan and his translator Stephen Bosch will be with us to talk about this new book, already a best-seller in German and soon to appear in English. Stefan produced Asterisk Tag in 2008 now called AMOOCON in 2009 (http://www.amoocon.de). | 6/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSpeech Recognition with Lumenvox | Lots to learn about this area of asterisk and Lumenvox is working with Digium to make it possible to use the technology with even very small businesses. An interesting hour! | 5/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJay Phillips of Adhearsion | The interview with Jay was not properly recorded because of a glitch on the system, so I called him a few days later and he was kind enough to answer questions about Adhearsion and what it is all about. | 4/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMark Spencer on the Appliance | Mark talks about the asterisk appliance, asterisk in Japanese, development efforts and a lot of other interesting tidbits. | 4/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cleanfeaturemap.conf, vonage lawsuit | featurmap and applicationmap, their uses. Ok, we were all over the map this time but some interesting stuff about iotum, CRM, encryption, verizon/vonage suit, etc. | 4/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHardware phones, TTS, NAT | Hardware phones, Text to Speech and Network Address Translation | 4/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 136 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Tech Geek Original
This is a live interactive podcast where you can call in on an ordinary telephone (or using Skype or other free software) and join the discussion. For three years running, the VUC has welcomed guests from many countries. Beginners are welcome as are companies with products and services to offer. This is a unique opportunity to give feedback to some of the programmers and companies that offer these products.
Guests on the VUC have included Mark Spencer, father of Asterisk, which pretty much started the VoIP "movement", and many other CTO and CTO of outstanding companies in this field. During guest sequences, the discussion will frequently pause for questions or comments. Discussions are not interrupted by commercials.
Other technologies are often discussed, too, such as home automation, computer hardware and software of all kinds, e-book readers, etc. I have only missed a single episode live in the three years this podcast has been on.
Exceptional
Professionally done with intelligent discussions and brilliant guests that discuss a wide range of subjects that often stray far outside of VoIP but always proves to be an insightful listen. My week isn't complete without it.
- Voip Chat Voipcast
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